THE
VINDICATION
OF
THE
COBLER
,
BEING
A
BRIEFE
PVBLICATION
OF
HIS
DOCTRINE
.
OR
Certaine
Tenents
collected
out
of
the
Sermon
of
Samuel
How
a
Cobler
in
Long
Ally
in
Morefields
,
which
Sermon
he
Preacht
in
the
Nags-head
Taverne
neare
Coleman-Street
in
the
presence
of
aboue
a
hundred
people
,
among
which
was
five
Ministers
(
some
of
them
silenc't
ones
)
This
Sermon
being
lately
Printed
,
and
Intituled
,
The
sufficiency
of
the
Spirits
teaching
,
without
Humane
Learning
;
For
the
light
and
information
of
the
Ignorant
.
These
following
Doctrines
are
publisht
in
the
very
same
words
he
there
deliverd
them
;
upon
this
Text
,
2
Peter
3.
16.
In
which
they
that
are
unlearned
,
and
unstable
wrest
as
they
do
all
,
so
the
other
Scriptures
to
their
owne
destruction
.
THat
such
as
are
destitute
of
Human
learning
,
Iesus
Christ
without
Human
learning
.
That
Human
learning
was
never
sanctified
by
GOD
,
States-man
,
a
Physitian
or
a
Lawyer
;
for
to
a
Divine
it
is
as
bad
as
fire
in
the
Roofe
of
a
House
:
Therefore
if
two
men
both
alike
indewed
with
grace
from
GOD
,
the
one
learned
,
the
other
unlearned
,
be
to
be
preferred
to
the
Ministry
,
the
unlearned
is
to
be
preferred
for
these
reasons
.
First
,
Because
GOD
respects
no
persons
,
secondly
,
it
is
suteable
to
the
Gospels
simplicity
:
thirdly
,
GOD
chooseth
the
unlearned
in
opposition
to
the
learned
,
so
must
we
;
for
that
learning
which
is
attained
to
by
labour
,
is
not
fitt
for
Christs
Church
,
but
for
Egypt
,
and
Babylon
it
is
suteable
.
That
if
knowledge
in
Tongues
,
Human
learning
,
as
it
is
noe
helpe
to
stop
the
mouthes
of
gainesayers
,
and
opposers
,
so
it
may
not
be
purchased
with
money
,
for
we
read
that
Simon
Magus
offering
to
buy
it
with
money
,
was
sharply
reproved
for
it
by
Peter
,
as
springing
from
an
evill
root
.
That
we
are
to
be
suspicious
that
such
persons
are
destitute
of
the
Spirit
that
make
any
use
of
Human
learning
to
understand
the
Scripture
,
Human
learning
forsooke
it
;
Moses
forsooke
the
Treasures
of
Egypt
,
of
which
Human
learning
was
the
chiefe
:
The
Ephesians
whom
Paul
converted
Acts
the
19.
wholy
did
abondon
it
,
for
they
burned
their
bookes
of
curious
Arts
:
Therefore
no
words
of
Art
,
or
of
Humane
learning
,
may
be
used
in
Preaching
the
Gospell
for
doubtlesse
Moses
,
Paul
,
and
Apollos
,
contemned
all
such
.
That
seeing
Iesus
Christ
was
destitute
of
Human
learning
,
To
discover
the
great
woe
the
World
lies
under
,
Humane
learning
is
so
far
from
being
a
helpe
to
understand
the
mind
of
GOD
,
that
quite
contrary
instead
of
a
Blessing
it
is
a
Curse
,
instead
of
a
fire
profitable
,
it
is
as
pernitious
fire
in
the
Roofe
of
a
House
:
Therefore
all
Christians
are
to
beware
of
it
,
for
it
is
that
evill
seed
that
causeth
Error
,
and
occasioneth
those
noisome
Lusts
that
drowne
men
in
perdition
,
it
is
the
Dragons
taile
,
and
suteable
for
those
Locusts
that
ascend
out
of
the
Bottomlesse
Pit
,
whose
smoke
Human
learning
is
;
Scribes
,
Pharisees
,
Papists
,
Egyptians
,
Babylonians
,
they
are
the
men
that
highly
esteeme
of
Human
learning
:
And
thus
the
unlearned
Cobler
his
zeale
having
made
him
out-run
his
Last
concluded
.
Let
the
man
of
GOD
fly
Human
learning
.
THis
Sermon
a
Minister
who
was
there
,
and
had
given
him
his
Text
exclaimed
against
,
Affirming
he
had
delivered
Blasphemy
:
the
Cobler
being
stiffe
in
his
opinion
the
Minister
replyed
,
How
had
made
a
Cal●e
,
and
danc't
about
it
,
which
speech
being
reported
abroad
to
his
disgrace
as
if
he
had
made
an
unsound
exposition
,
the
Cobler
to
vindicate
himselfe
and
(
as
he
saith
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Reader
)
the
truth
it selfe
which
he
delivered
,
caused
his
Sermon
to
be
Printed
,
and
in
his
Epistle
undertakes
to
proue
Human
learning
the
Calfe
,
and
the
men
of
that
Throne
(
as
he
calls
the
Ministers
)
those
that
set
it
up
and
themselves
danc't
about
it
:
while
hee
(
the
Cobler
)
to
their
great
griefe
and
discontent
did
cast
it
downe
and
grind
it
to
Powder
,
and
so
blew
it
away
with
the
Word
of
GOD
.
Which
whether
he
did
or
not
,
you
may
partly
judge
by
what
is
here
collected
.