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But yet, when God has sufficiently shown men the insufficiency of human wisdom and learning for the purposes of religion ▪ and when the appointed time comes for that glorious […] of the Spirit of God, when he will himself by his own immediate influence ⟨p. 237⟩enlighten mens minds; then may we hope that God will make use of the great increase of learning as an handmaid to religion, as a means of the glorious advancement of the kingdom of his Son. Then shall human learning be subservient to the understanding of the scriptures, and to a clear explanation and a glorious defence of the doctrines of christianity. There is no doubt to be made of it, that God in his providence has of late given the world the art of printing, and such a great increase of learning, to prepare for what be designs to accomplish for his church in the approaching day of its prosperity. Thus the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just▪ agreeable to Prov. xiii.22.

But yet, when God has sufficiently shown men the insuffic•ency of human wisdom and learning for the purposes of religio• ▪ and when the appointed time comes for that glorious 〈…〉 of the Spirit of God, when he will himself by his own immediate influence ⟨p. 237⟩enlighten mens minds; then may we hope that God will make use of the great increase of learning as an handmaid to religion, as a means of the glorious advancement of the •i•gdom of his Son. Then shall human learning be subservient to the understanding of the scriptures, and to a clear explanation and a glorious defence of the doctrines of christianity. There is no doubt to be made of it, that God in his providence has of late given the world the art of printing, and such a great increase of learning, to prepare for what be designs to accomplish for his church in the approaching day of its prosperity. Thus the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just agreeable to