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A86580	Wisdome's judgment of folly. Delivered in a sermon at the spital, in the solemn assembly of the city, on Munday in Easter-week, April XI. A.D. MDCLIII. By Thomas Horton D.D.	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1653 (1653)	Wing H2884; Thomason E691_4; ESTC R206965	45,879	67

wil believe no more than they can fathom and comprehend with their own understanding which would make the Truths of God stoop to their capacities and bring the strait line to the crooked Log 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to speak further in the Language of Saint Paul 1 Cor 1.20 Where is now the VVise Where is the Disputer of this world How little do such as these understand or at least consider with themselves that the wisdom of the world is in this respect foolishnesse with God who looks upon it as very shallow and inferior to his Divine truth Yea so far from leading them to it as indeed rather in some kind of persons i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 C●rys in 1 Tim. 1.19 as in those Gentiles drawing them from it There are many Truths in Religion there are many Mysteries in Providence which our Reason staggers at where it must be sufficient for us that God himself tenders them to us to be received and entertained by us whom it is the Highest Reason to believe even then when the Things themselves which we believe are Riddles and Paradoxes with us And yet we do not hereby take away mens Reason from them The qualification nor the use of it even in Religion it self It concerns us to see upon what grounds we do entertain the Gospel and Christianity in the Profession of it that we do not take it up onely upon trust because it is offered to us by men but that we discern some excellency in it and receive it as that which is propounded by God himself Yet that we should be able to search into the Intrinsecal reason of the Doctrines and Mysteries themselves by the strength of our wit and parts and natural understanding this is not to be expected by us or agreeable to us which the Apostle here signifies to us by this expression in the Text in calling the wisdome of the world foolishnesse Which it is in order to this effect among other things to wit of bringing men to God and salvation And so you have the first Explication The wisdome of the world is foolishnesse with God namely because he counts it so II. The wisedome of the world foolishnesse in Gods Dispose it is so according to his opinion and estimation of it The second is Because he makes it so It is so according to his disposal and ordering of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Every one that counts any thing foolishness cannot presently make it so but God can make it so He hath made foolish the wisdome of this world as it is in Chap. 1. of this Epist v. 20. But how does he come to do so As we may conceive it too manner of wayes First by way of Frustration and Disappointment He spoiles the world of those Ends and Purposes which it propounds to it self Secondly By way of Confusion and Contrary improvement He turns their very Counsels and Devises against themselves In each of these wayes does he infatuate them First 1. In a way of Frustration By Frustration and Disappointment God makes the wisdome of the world foolishness thus In that he does often cross it of its expected success Thus Psal 35.10 The Lord bringeth the counsell of the Heathen to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect So Job 5.12 He disappointeth the devices of the Crafty so that their hand cannot perform their Enterprize And Job 12.17 He leads away Counsellors spoiled and maketh the Judges fools This is that which God many times does with your worldly wise men he over-turns their greatest Designes and breaks them in the purposes of them There are many whom God sometimes le ts go on in their vain and frivolous projects and when they are full of expectation for the ripening and perfecting of them he does then restrain them in them The Aegyptians were never more fools than when they said Come on let us deal wisely Exod. 1.10 We have a notable place for this purpose Isa 19.11 12 13. c. Surely the Princes of Zoan are become fools the counsel of the wise Counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish Where are they Where are thy wise men c. Let them tell thee now and let them know what the Lord hath purposed upon Aegypt The Lord does by these expressions signifie how far he frustrates the Counsels of the wise and prudent of the world and as he did sometimes with Achitophel turns them into foolishnesse 2. Sam. 15 31 and 17 14. Secondly 2. In a way of Confusion As God makes the wisdome of the world foolishness in a way of Frustration so also in a way of Confusion in that he turns it against it self For so also he does as we have it in the latter part of this 19th verse proved by a Testimony out of Job Ch. 5. v. 13. He taketh the wise in their own craftinesse and the counsel of the froward is carryed headlong This is that which God does with his Enemies and wicked men Psal 7.16 Exod. 18.11 He brings their own mischief upon their own head and in the thing wherein they deal proudly he is above them Thus ye see the truth of the Point in the full proof and Explication of it That the wisdome of the world is foolishness with God First Because he counts it so And secondly Because he makes it so Would we now have some good account and reason given us of it whence this comes to be so The Ground of the point It is very easie for us to have it and that is this Because that deals so with him as much as it can do The wisdome of God that is foolishness with the world and therefore the wisdome of the world that 's foolishness also with God k Sapientia munda stultitia est apud D●um hoc est rationibus caret apud Doum quatenus est Author super naturalium Nam stultum est quod fine ratione est C●jetan So he is but even and quit with them for it As it is said there Zach. 11.8 My soul loathed them and their soul abhorred me Just so it is here The world that thinks scornfully of God his Truth and Waies and Ordinances and Children and Ministers and he thinks as basely of Them their Counsels and Projects and Designes and Practices and the things which they take up to themselves What does all this now teach us by way of improvement to our selves The Vse of all threefold 1. To be of the mind of God First let us from hence learn to be of the mind of God himself Let us think as he think in this particular If worldly wisdome be indeed foolishness with God let it not then be wisdome with us Let not us then so much dote and rely upon it There 's a great Argument in it from the Person who is here exhibited to us which is much to be considered by us The passing of any censure or verdict is