![]() laid it all aside as losse and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Iesus his Lord. who though hee profited in the Iewish Religion above many others, yet when the Sonne of God was revealed in him, Phil. setteth no other price upon all his Athenian learning (wherein hee greatly excelled) but onely this, that hee had something of worth, to esteeme as nothing in comparison of Christ herein imitating the example of S. And Gregory Nazianzen, that famous Divine, Orata. without any bias or partiality towards sects) he affirmeth, that the heate of this his delight, was by this onely reason abated, because there was not in that booke to bee found the Name of Christ without which Name, nothing, though otherwise never so polite and elaborate, could wholly possesse those affections, which had beene trained to a nobler studie. IT was the devout profession which Saint Austin once made of himselfe, when speaking of the great delight which hee tooke in Ciceroes Hortensius (as containing a most liberall exhortation to the love of wisdome, Confess.
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