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This Verse containeth a second Testimony, which the Apostle allegeth, to prove the foolishness of all earthly wisdom before God; It's taken out of Psal. 94.11. where the Psalmist proving the Providence and Omniscience of God, argueth from his Efficiency of all things, He that made the eye to see, shall not he see? Shall not the cause have more in it than the effect? God framed our hearts, and therefore he must needs understand them. As he that makes a Clock or Watch, must needs understand all the secret motions of them. Now saith the Psalmist, he doth not only know the thoughts of men, but also, how vain, foolish and unprofitable they are. So that the Apostle doth pertinently allege this place, to prove how vain and foolish all mens thoughts are, especially in matters of Religion, though never so wise otherwise. Only here is one thing to be taken notice of, The Psalmist speaks in the general, The thoughts of men, but the Apostle mentioneth a particular, The thoughts of the wise; Doth not the Apostle here wrest the words to his own purpose? No, for if the Psalmists universal be true, the thoughts of man, quâ man, be vain, then of a wise man as well as a fool: Yea, to speak properly, there is no real wise man, but the godly man, whose mind is enlightened by grace, Or,

THis Verse containeth a second Testimony, which the Apostle alleadgeth, to prove the foolishnesse of all earthly wisdome before God; It's taken out of Psal. 94.11. where the Psalmist proving the Providence and Omniscience of God, argueth from his Efficiency of all things, He that made the eye to see, shall not he see? Shall not the cause have more in it than the effect? God framed our hearts, and therefore he must needs understand them. As he that makes a Clock or Watch, must needs understand all the secret motions of them. Now saith the Psalmist, he doth not only know the thoughts of men, but also, how vain, foolish and unprofitable they are. So that the Apostle doth pertinently alledge this place, to prove how vain and foolish all mens thoughts are, especially in matters of Religion, though never so wise otherwise. Only here is one thing to be taken notice of, The Psalmist speaks in the general, The thoughts of men, but the Apostle mentioneth a particular, The thoughts of the wise; Doth not the Apostle here wrest the words to his own purpose? No, for if the Psalmists universal be true, the thoughts of man, quâ man, be vain, then of a wise man as well as a fool: Yea, to speak properly, there is no real wise man, but the godly man, whose mind is enlightned by grace, Or,