Lumen de Lumine

This much we have from these famous, and most Christian Philosophers: Men questionlesse, that have suffer'd much by their own discreet silence, and Solitude. Every Sophister contemns them, because they appeare not to the World, and concludes there is no such Societie, because hee is not a member of it. There is scarce a Reader so just, as to consider upon what Grounds they conceale themselves, and come not to the Stage, when every Fool cries, Enter. No man looks after them but for worldly Ends, and truly if the Art it self did not promise Gold, I am confident it would find but few followers. How many are there in the world, that study Nature to know God? Certainly they study a Receit for their purses, not for their souls, nor in any good sense for their Bodies. It is fit then they should be left to their Ignorance, as to their Cure: It may be the Nullitie of their Expectations will reforme them, but as long as they continue in this Humor, neither God nor Good men will assist them.