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Such as these are the Universities which our Reformers have Condemned, in which there was no true Religion, nor solid Learning taught, but Heathenism & Idolatry, with the Rixations of those called Schoolmen who were much worse than their Master Peter Lombard. Calvin calls their Scholastical Divinity, Diabolicam artem rixandi. Another Reformer says, He that sees a Scholastical Theologue, sees the Seven deadly Sins. It is not to be wondered at if such Men as Weigelius, (whom the Excellently Learned Dr. Arrowsmith, Regius Professor in the University of Cambridge has taken to task) should declare against Colleges, but it is very strange, that any Master of a College should write against all Universities whatsoever, and then produce the Reformers mentioned to Patronize him. Yet this has been done by Mr. Dell the ⟨image ?⟩Quondam Master of Convil & Cajus College in Cambridge, not considering that the Reformation has like Moses's Rod turned those Serpents into a Pastoral Staff, and that Luther, and other Reformers have been strenuous asserters of the usefulness & necessity of such Societies, if duly regulated. It has been by the blessing of God on Protestant Universities that the true Religion has been Continued, and Propagated among the Nations: out of them have risen those who have been the glory of the Places & of the Age in which they lived. In our own Nation how great a blessing have the two Universities of Oxford and Cambridge been in the former Ages? It has been said of them as of Leah & Rachel, which two did build the house of Israel. And out of the three Universities in Scotland, many Men of Renown have issued forth, too many to be enumerated. Nor is the most famous Usher the only famous Man that has had his Education in the College at Dublin. There are five Universities in the Reformed Belgium. How many great Instruments of Good to the Church of God have they produced? So among the Reformed in France, and in Germany, and in Denmark? And some out of the University of Upsal in Sweedland.

Such as these are the Universities which our Reformers have Condemned, in which there was no true Religion, nor solid Learning taught, but Heathenism & Idolatry, with the Rixations of those called Schoolmen who were much worse than their Master Peter Lombard. Calvin calls their Scholastical Divinity, Diabolicam artem rixandi. Another Reformer says, He that sees a Scholastical Theologue, sees the Seven deadly Sins. It is not to be wondred at if such Men as Weigelius, (whom the Excellently Learned Dr. Arrowsmith, Regius Professor in the University of Cambridge has taken to task) should declare against Colleges, but it is very strange, that any Master of a College should write against all Universities whatsoever, and then produce the Reformers mention'd to Patronize him. Yet this has been done by Mr. Dell the