The Parapetetic Forms of Christianity

The Platonic system, first taken into religion, was thought to have given matter for some early heresies in the church. Christianity itself has very much suffered by being blended up with gentile philosophy. This was the fatal stop to the Greeks in their progress both of arts and arms. And I wish we had no other examples from the like causes, less foreign or ancient than that. For such wisdom as this cannot descend from above, but must be earthly, sensual, devilish, full of confusion and every evil work. Now to God the Father on that.