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( 4 ) to a refined and polite taſte in theſe matters. And the reaſon for this part of his conduct is aſſigned in the text: I determined not to know anything among you ſave Jeſus Chriſt, and him crucified.

which words, two things are obſervable:

1. ſubject matter of Paul's preaching,, Jeſus Chriſtː I determined to know nothing  , ſave Jeſus Chriſt. This ſurely is not to be as if the Apoſtle ſimply condemned all other  but that of Jeſus Chriſt. We find the Holy  recorded it to the honour of Moſes, "that he was  in all the wiſdom of the EgyptainsEgyptians [sic]." Beſides, Paul himſelf had a very liberal education before his converſion, being bred up at the feet of Gamaliel an eminent doctor of the law. Yea, he was not only acquainted with the Jewiſh laws, rites and traditions, but likewiſe with the Heathen poets and philoſophers, as appears by paſſages quoted from them in his writings*. However, he condemns all ſorts of knowledge, in ſo far as they