A30242:1379
The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole…
The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole third chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians to which is annexed The godly and the natural mans choice, upon Psal. 4, vers. 6, 7, 8 / by Anthony Burgess ...The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole third chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians to which is annexed The godly and the natural mans choice, upon Psal. 4, vers. 6, 7, 8 / by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for T.U., 1659
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Even the seven wise men of Greece, were but seven fools if they be brought to the Scripture. Aristotle with all his syllogistical arguments, speaking of so many fallacies, yet all his learning was but a fallacy. Here was no true and solid wisdom, which might make them happy. Therefore the Apostle tells us of the oppositions of science falsely so called. 1 Tim. 6. They were not Philosophi (though Pythagoras out of humility assumed that name, acknowledging God only to be [Greek or Hebrew],) lovers of wisdom, but of vanity. All that knowledge was a cloud, a shadow; and they were as if an hungry man should open his mouth wide, thinking to feed himself with air, and had no true food at all.
Even the seven wise men of Greece, were but seven fools if they be brought to the Scripture. Aristotle with all his syllogistical arguments, speaking of so many fallacies, yet all his learning was but a fallacy. Here was no true and solid wisdome, which might make them happy. Therefore the Apostle tels us of the oppositions of science falsly so called. 1 Tim. 6. They were not Philosophi (though Pythagoras out of humility assumed that name, acknowledging God onely to be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,) lovers of wisdome, but of vanity. All that knowledge was a cloud, a shadow; and they were as if an hungry man should open his mouth wide, thinking to feed himself with air, and had no true food at all.