The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

It is for the most things unnecessary, as well as uncertain, with which the Philosophers have troubled the World; ⟨p. 237⟩They have lost true wisdom in a Wilderness of fruitless controversies. But Christianity is a Religion to make men holy and happy,¹ and therefore it containeth these necessary substantial Precepts, which conduce hereunto. And it taketh men off unnecessary things, which else would take up their minds, and talk, and time, from things necessary. And so its suited to the generality of men, and not only to a few that have nothing else to do, but wander in a Wilderness of vain Speculations; and it is fitted to Mans best and ultimate end, and not to a fantastical delight.

It is for the most things unnecessary, as well as uncertain, with which the Philosophers have troubled the World; ⟨p. 237⟩They have lost true wisdom in a Wilderness of fruitless controversies. But Christianity is a Religion to make men holy and happy,¹ and therefore it containeth these necessary substantial Precepts, which conduce hereunto. And it taketh men off unnecessary things, which else would take up their mindes, and talk, and time, from things necessary. And so its suited to the generality of men, and not only to a few that have nothing else to do, but wander in a Wilderness of vain Speculations; and it is fitted to Mans best and ultimate end, and not to a phantastical delight.

1. 1Doctrina Spiritus non curiostatem acuit, sed charitatem accendit. Bern. in Can•. O beata regio deliciarum! ad quam suspiro de valle lachrymarum; ubi sapientia sine ignorantia, ubi memoria sine oblivion, intellectus sine error, ratio sine obscuritate fulgeb. t. Bernard.Doctrina Spiritus non curiostatem acuit, sed charitatem accendit. Bern. in Can•. O beata regio deliciarum! ad quam suspiro de valle lachrymarum; ubi sapientia sine ignorantia, ubi memoria sine oblivione, intellectus sine errore, ratio sine obscuritate fulgeb. t. Bernard.