Academic Exercise on the Abstinence of the Early Christians from Reading Profane Books

Th. XII.

There were also those who, having rejected principles sought from reason, attempted to fashion a Christian Philosophy; of whom I shall name only a few. Johannes Amos Comenius fabricated a physical doctrine from the history of creation in his Physics Reformed to Divine Light, who built his system upon the three principles of matter, Spirit, and light f). According to the opinion of Morhof g), Johannes Bajerus followed in his footsteps in The Gate or Atrium of Nature. Lambertus Daneau likewise composed a Christian Physics and Ethics. We deliberately pass over the others who have produced sacred Encyclopedias for us h). Morhof passes such a judgment concerning them: that they do not possess distinct ideas of things, nor is their genius naturally suited to forming concepts of things i). Accordingly, the learned warn that care must be taken lest Theology and Philo—

f) Morhof, in the place cited. g) In the place cited. h) Let the frequently praised Morhof be consulted in the cited places. i) Ibidem.