The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

All the Books of Philosophers are sapless and empty, in comparison of the teaching of Jesus Christ; they are but enquiries into the nature of the creatures, and the lowest things, most impertinent to our happiness or duty: Or if they rise up to God, it is but with dark and unpractical conjectures, for the most part of them: and the rest do but grope and fumble in obscurity. And their learning is mostly but useless speculations, and striving about words and sciences falsely so called, which little tend to godly edifying. It is Christ who is made wisdom to us, as being himself the wisdom of God. If you knew but where to hear an Angel, you would all prefer him before Aristotle or Plato, or Cartesius, or Gassendus; how much more the Son himself? He is the true Light, to lighten every man that will not serve the Prince of darkness. Christians were first called Christs Disciples ▪ and therefore to learn of him the true knowledge of God, is the work of every true Believer,