Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

1. First is, That through the Righteous Judgement of God lopping off the top, flowers of the pride of men, it frequently comes to pass, that those who are furnished with the greatest ⟨p. 130⟩Abilities in this kind, do lay them out to a direct contrary End, unto that which is their proper natural tendency and aim, From whom (for the most part) are all the commotions, in the world; the breaking up of bounds, setting the whole frame of nature on fire; is it not from such men as these? Were not men so wise, the world perhaps would be more quiet, when the end of wisdom is to keep it in quietness. This seems to be a curse that God hath spread upon the wisdom of the World in the most in whom it is, that it shall be employed in direct opposition to its proper end.

1. First is, That through the Righteous Judgement of God lopping off the top, flowers of the pride of men, it frequently comes to passe, that those who are furnished with the greatest ⟨p. 130⟩Abilities in this kind, do lay them out to a direct contrary End, unto that which is their proper naturall tendency and ayme, From whom (for the most part) are all the commotions, in the world; the breaking up of bounds, setting the whole frame of nature on fire; is it not from such men as these? Were not men so wise, the world perhaps would be more quiet, when the end of wisedome is to keep it in quietnesse. This seems to be a curse that God hath spread upon the wisedome of the World in the most in whom it is, that it shall be employed in direct opposition to its proper end.

2. That God hath made this a constant path towards the advancement of his own Glory; even to leaven the Wisdom and the counsels of the wisest of the Sons of men, with folly and madness, that they shall in the depth of their policy advise things for the compassing of the ends they do propose, as unsuitable as any thing that could proceed out of the mouth of a