PROV.
23.
VER.
23.
Buy
the
truth
but
sell
it
not
.
IT
were
as
fruitlesse
a
diligence
for
a
Divine
in
writing
of
this
nature
,
as
this
excellent
book
of
Prouerbs
is
,
to
enquire
out
methodicall
connexions
of
sentences
,
as
it
were
for
an
artist
to
study
the
coherences
of
Bedes
axiomes
:
Not
therefore
to
trouble
you
with
anxious
prefaces
this
way
let
it
suffice
you
(
men
,
fathers
,
and
brethren
)
that
our
royall
Preacher
doth
in
this
verse
commend
to
his
studious
hearers
,
a
commodity
fittest
for
humane
nature
to
desire
and
enioy
,
Truth
:
concerning
which
,
his
advice
hath
two
branches
,
one
in
tearmes
affirmatiue
,
it
is
to
bee
bought
,
the
other
in
negatiue
,
it
is
not
to
be
folde
;
of
the
first
whereof
hopeing
that
the
God
of
truth
will
assist
me
,
and
presuming
that
your
loue
of
truth
will
accompany
me
,
I
purpose
for
to
speake
.
Where
first
I
must
with
Solomon
take
it
for
granted
,
that
there
is
a
truth
,
and
that
it
may
bee
bought
.
Si
nihil
omnino
scias
,
id
ipsum
nihil
possesciri
,
tolletur
:
if
no
truth
may
be
knowen
,
why
would
they
haue
that
passe
for
truth
that
nothing
can
be
knowne
Nay
whereas
it
is
their
ambition
to
confute
the
opinions
of
all
other
men
as
false
,
how
can
this
be
without
a
secret
profession
of
some
truth
,
for
what
can
giue
the
foile
to
falshood
but
truth
?
Besides
whereas
they
allow
some
verisimilitude
,
herein
they
confesse
a
truth
,
vnlesse
which
Austen
laughes
at
,
This
ancient
fancy
hath
not
yet
giuen
vp
the
ghost
euen
in
our
daies
;
nor
will
,
as
long
as
there
remaines
in
the
world
,
so
much
ignorance
,
lazines
;
iealousie
,
pride
,
prophanes
for
each
of
these
lend
somewhat
to
this
opinion
:
an
ignorant
man
lead
by
the
examples
of
those
many
things
which
he
is
not
able
to
comprehend
,
concludes
in
hast
that
nothing
may
be
comprehended
;
as
if
nothing
were
to
be
bought
,
because
through
his
blindnesse
hee
sees
nothing
in
the
market
.
The
lazy
one
,
quickly
weary
of
the
search
of
truth
,
impatient
of
any
longer
labour
,
rests
contented
with
the
first
appearances
of
things
,
and
giues
vp
the
verdict
to
his
shallow
iudgement
that
there
is
in
euery
point
well
nigh
equall
probability
,
but
no
pressing
certainty
.
The
iealous
person
casts
his
eye
vpon
the
dissenting
varieties
of
Doctrines
that
are
in
the
world
,
and
yet
all
eagerly
defended
by
learned
Patrons
:
hee
obserues
that
what
one
cries
vp
for
an
holy
truth
,
an
other
cries
downe
for
blasphemous
error
,
that
both
sides
with
confident
asseueration
produce
and
plead
their
euidences
,
and
withall
,
that
princes
and
rulers
of
the
earth
doe
equally
serue
their
turnes
,
with
either
doctrines
to
manage
their
affaires
,
herevpon
he
is
suspitious
that
there
is
no
constant
verity
in
whatsoeuer
is
proposed
,
but
that
it
is
for
politique
ends
only
,
that
men
haue
auouched
this
or
that
for
truth
:
or
it
may
bee
,
because
he
findes
by
some
experience
that
those
vpon
whose
iudgments
he
hath
relyed
,
haue
sometimes
deceiued
him
(
though
this
were
his
owne
fault
to
take
things
soe
ouerhastily
vpon
trust
)
yet
to
ease
himselfe
,
he
will
vnaduisedly
complaine
of
that
great
vncertainty
that
is
in
all
things
,
thinking
it
best
for
the
time
to
come
rather
to
suspend
his
assent
,
then
venture
a
new
cosening
:
the
vpshot
of
all
is
this
,
that
he
will
be
so
bablish
,
as
because
there
is
much
deceit
and
sophistication
in
wares
therefore
he
will
conculde
no
wares
are
good
,
or
therefore
he
will
buy
none
:
The
contentious
man
,
who
in
the
pride
of
his
wit
glories
that
he
is
able
to
gainesay
whatsoeuer
any
shall
averre
for
true
,
shall
spring
out
of
the
earth
also
as
Dauid
sings
,
many
shall
runne
too
and
fro
,
and
knowledge
(
knowledge
not
meere
opinion
)
shall
bee
increased
)
as
speaketh
Daniell
.
But
this
will
better
appeare
when
I
shall
somewhat
open
the
kinde
&
nature
of
that
truth
whereof
our
author
here
treateth
.
Solomon
who
wrote
so
many
bookes
euen
to
wearinesse
of
flesh
giues
this
as
the
Epitome
of
all
,
Feare
God
and
keepe
his
commandements
,
whole
duty
of
man
,
may
well
be
thought
the
chiefe
scope
of
those
writings
wherein
he
hath
preached
to
posterity
:
more
particularly
,
for
this
booke
of
his
parables
,
hee
salutes
his
reader
in
the
very
entrance
with
a
discouery
of
his
full
drift
,
which
is
,
that
men
should
know
wisdome
and
instruction
,
and
that
they
should
perceiue
the
words
of
vnderstanding
,
now
the
vnderstanding
he
promiseth
,
is
not
(
as
we
may
well
suppose
)
only
of
earthly
and
worldly
things
,
which
wee
can
all
well
and
soone
enough
finde
out
without
the
helpe
of
so
great
a
teacher
,
but
of
those
better
,
higher
matters
,
belonging
to
the
seruice
of
God
the
tranquillity
of
soules
,
and
the
wellfare
of
all
societies
,
in
that
great
house
of
God
,
the
world
.
It
remains
then
that
the
truth
here
spoken
of
,
should
finde
an
interpretation
agreeable
to
the
maine
scope
of
the
author
and
consequently
import
the
true
knowledge
,
which
appertaineth
to
the
true
worship
of
the
most
true
God
,
in
whose
right
service
,
stands
the
whole
duty
and
felicity
of
man
;
Following
then
this
sense
,
as
knowing
none
other
to
follow
,
I
must
a
little
resume
my
former
obseruation
,
that
Solomon
supposeth
there
is
such
a
true
knowledge
in
diuine
matters
,
and
that
we
may
bee
possessors
thereof
,
for
why
should
we
be
set
to
buy
that
which
is
not
,
and
to
what
purpose
is
it
,
if
it
may
not
be
bought
?
herein
wee
haue
the
more
sober
scepticks
of
our
age
somewhat
yealding
and
plyant
.
now
a
sonne
honoureth
his
father
,
and
a
seruant
his
Lord
,
as
the
Prophet
Malachy
,
but
not
only
by
the
spirit
of
prophecy
(
as
I
take
it
)
but
following
herein
the
very
light
of
nature
well
inferres
.
For
there
cannot
be
a
closer
sequence
then
of
these
termes
:
pater
,
filius
,
obsequium
,
dominus
,
servus
,
hominium
,
obedience
is
due
from
the
sonne
to
the
father
,
homage
from
the
tenant
to
his
Lord
.
If
then
at
the
very
instant
of
our
being
,
that
bill
was
drawne
whereby
we
stand
obliged
to
God
,
it
is
necessarily
requisite
,
that
there
should
be
some
certaine
rule
of
that
worship
which
wee
owe
to
him
,
and
that
we
should
be
acquainted
with
it
.
Our
very
nature
confirmes
vs
in
the
acknowledgement
that
such
a
truth
is
likewise
to
bee
found
.
The
phrase
of
buying
,
here
vsed
,
somewhat
directs
vs
in
our
inquiry
:
for
the
law
of
this
action
is
,
that
wee
consider
of
the
wares
that
are
tendred
vnto
vs
.
Hee
that
would
haue
vs
take
things
because
offered
,
doth
not
fell
but
impose
and
tirannize
.
A
man
may
safely
suspect
his
dealing
that
would
haue
vs
choose
and
winke
,
or
buy
in
the
darke
.
The
basenesse
of
falshood
shuns
the
light
,
but
truth
as
Tertullian
speaketh
,
nihil
erubescit
nisi
solummodo
abscondi
,
is
ashamed
of
nothing
but
to
be
hid
:
it
calles
for
all
eyes
,
and
feareth
not
the
seuerest
tryall
;
if
it
were
onely
guilded
ouer
,
it
might
forbid
touching
or
scraping
,
but
being
massy
&
solid
gold
throughout
,
the
more
you
handle
and
examine
it
the
brighter
it
will
appeare
.
It
cannot
therefore
be
but
a*
Turcisme
in
the
Church
of
Rome
,
[
*
](A15075-e11300-b)
*
Acts
17.23
.
Altar
to
the
vnknown
God
.
To
remedy
all
these
inconueniences
,
let
vs
embrace
the
allowance
of
the
blessed
Apostles
,
vs
to
try
all
things
and
hold
that
which
is
good
:
not
to
beleiue
every
spirit
but
try
them
whether
they
are
of
God
:
that
wee
be
ready
alwaies
to
giue
an
answere
to
euery
man
that
asketh
a
reason
of
the
hope
that
is
in
vs
.
This
that
wee
may
be
able
to
doe
,
let
vs
goe
on
and
shew
the
best
meanes
whereby
wee
may
discerne
truth
from
falshood
in
matter
of
religion
.
Where
first
it
is
no
reason
why
it
should
not
easily
be
granted
,
that
that
is
truth
which
beares
conformity
to
the
minde
of
the
first
truth
,
God
:
for
our
vnderstanding
is
no
otherwise
true
,
then
as
it
is
euen
and
adequate
to
things
themselues
,
considering
them
as
they
are
,
nor
are
those
Entitles
true
but
as
they
are
agreeable
to
diuine
vnderstanding
,
which
is
not
only
the
measure
but
the
cause
of
all
things
,
but
if
in
any
thing
certainely
in
religion
that
is
most
true
,
that
beares
correspondency
with
Gods
minde
and
will
:
for
who
should
prescribe
what
belongs
to
his
honour
but
himselfe
?
Shall
man
who
knowes
so
little
in
and
about
himselfe
?
(
especially
since
his
vnderstanding
grew
crazie
by
his
fall
)
attempt
to
define
how
his
maker
shall
bee
serued
?
The
effect
of
this
presumption
,
is
too
well
known
in
the
superstitious
,
who
measuring
God
by
themselues
,
thrust
such
vnseemely
kindnesses
vpon
him
as
are
wholy
vnworthy
of
his
maiesty
:
yea
(
to
speake
the
truth
)
worship
their
owne
fancies
insteed
of
a
deity
:
what
an
ilfauoured
and
mishapen
peece
of
honour
would
it
bee
,
which
a
silly
country
fellow
should
lay
downe
for
the
right
service
of
our
king
,
&
may
we
not
quickly
imagine
,
what
an
vntoward
forme
of
diuine
worship
,
that
would
proue
,
which
poore
ignorant
man
,
a
worme
&
no
man
deviseth
.
No
,
no
,
let
vs
let
God
alone
with
his
owne
honour
:
he
is
best
knowne
how
great
he
is
to
himselfe
,
and
can
surely
tell
vs
what
his
will
is
,
he
cannot
be
deceiued
because
most
wise
,
he
will
not
deceiue
,
because
most
good
.
It
is
by
the
sunne
that
wee
behold
the
sunne
:
it
must
be
by
God
himselfe
that
wee
can
know
God
:
and
therefore
for
this
point
,
wee
may
set
vp
our
resolution
with
Ambrose
in
his
epistle
against
Symmachus
:
coeli
mysteria
doceat
me
Deus
ipse
,
qui
condidit
,
non
homo
qui
seipsum
ignorauit
,
cui
magis
de
Deo
quam
Deo
credam
?
As
for
the
mysteries
of
heauen
,
let
God
teach
vs
who
made
vs
,
not
man
who
knowes
not
himselfe
,
concerning
God
whom
should
we
better
trust
then
God
himselfe
?
That
of
Saint
Hilary
is
of
kinne
to
this
,
knowledge
of
himselfe
,
and
since
he
is
not
known
but
by
himselfe
,
hee
is
fittest
to
be
his
owne
witnesse
;
but
let
vs
with
attentivest
reverence
,
marke
the
seuerity
of
God
himselfe
in
the
prophecy
of
his
seruant
Esay
,
In
vaine
doe
they
worship
me
teaching
for
doctrines
the
commandements
of
men
.
Now
since
the
conceit
of
man
,
is
so
vaine
a
measure
of
diuine
worship
,
and
that
God
must
bee
honoured
after
his
owne
way
,
it
remaines
to
be
but
enquired
where
the
seate
of
his
will
is
*
Saluianus
readily
answeres
vs
,
ip
sum
sacrae
scripturae
oraculum
,
Dei
mens
est
,
the
oracle
of
holy
scripture
is
the
mind
of
God
.
thy
word
O
Father
is
truth
saith
our
Sauiour
.
Behold
the
louing
care
of
God
to
man
;
when
by
reason
of
our
lame
and
blinde
vnderstanding
wee
could
not
soare
vp
to
God
,
to
enter
our selues
into
his
acquaintance
,
hee
hath
descended
downe
to
vs
;
by
those
who
haue
beene
from
euerlasting
in
his
bosome
,
his
deare
sonne
and
spirit
,
he
hath
conveied
vnto
vs
his
counsailes
,
Greg.
mag
.
and
by
the
men
who
spake
and
wrote
as
they
were
inspired
,
hath
sent
vs
(
as
Gregories
phrase
is
)
diverse
epistles
concerning
his
will
:
here
then
may
we
rest
,
that
whatsoeuer
his
word
enioineth
,
is
well-pleasing
,
whatsoeuer
it
forbiddeth
is
vnacceptable
to
him
,
whatsoeuer
is
of
a
middle
nature
,
it
is
vncertaine
whether
it
may
be
wellcome
;
It
is
most
certaine
it
is
not
expected
.
They
are
then
too
daring
that
thrust
vpon
the
people
of
God
,
as
necessary
to
their
saluation
or
their
makers
worship
,
those
obseruances
,
that
we
are
sure
are
beside
,
they
are
not
sure
are
not
against
this
written
word
.
If
it
were
possible
in
these
contentious
times
,
for
any
one
man
of
an
humble
and
indifferent
spirit
,
no
more
to
heare
of
those
differences
of
religion
,
which
so
much
troubles
the
world
,
then
that
good
poore
man
in
the
story
of*
Alexander
did
of
those
wars
that
had
filled
all
Asia
in
his
time
,
that
the
Scriptures
are
able
to
make
vs
wise
vnto
saluation
as
Saint
Paul
saith
,
and
that
they
are
of
sufficiency
for
all
those
things
,
whereby
the
man
of
God
may
be
perfectly
furnished
to
euery
good
worke
:
men
may
bee
wise
aboue
that
which
is
written
,
but
then
they
are
wise
aboue
sobriety
;
for
it
is
a
luxury
in
religion
to
desire
more
,
then
what
will
instruct
vs
to
every
good
worke
here
and
fit
vs
for
eternall
saluation
hereafter
.
But
here
wee
must
goe
one
step
farther
to
quit
that
obiection
which
good
soules
,
doe
many
times
make
against
their
owne
good
;
for
they
willingly
granting
that
God
hath
made
the
scripture
a
perfect
register
of
his
will
,
and
that
it
is
a
great
contentment
to
man
,
that
God
himselfe
is
become
his
teacher
,
by
whom
if
he
bee
deceiued
he
may
say
as
he
of
old
,
Si
erròr
è
Domine
a
te
decepti
sumus
,
if
I
am
in
an
error
thy
word
hath
deceiued
me
;
yet
how
shall
these
writings
bee
vnderstood
by
vs
?
For
wee
heare
many
and
those
none
of
the
meanest
clerkes
,
complaining
of
the
great
obscurity
to
be
found
in
that
booke
,
and
how
shall
wee
Puisnes
and
Pigmes
in
comparison
of
others
reach
to
the
sence
thereof
;
buy
the
truth
we
would
,
but
it
is
somewhat
aboue
the
proportion
of
our
states
and
abilities
:
to
this
I
can
giue
no
better
answere
,
but
doe
yee
with
humble
diligence
and
teachable
affections
read
ouer
this
heauenly
booke
and
you
will
answere
your selues
:
for
doubtlesse
you
shall
finde
many
easy
places
therein
,
and
those
will
incourage
you
to
read
the
rest
.
Euen
this
writing
of
Solomon
though
it
containe
parables
high
enough
for
the
most
reaching
vnderstanding
,
yet
withall
it
certifies
vs
in
the
very*
entrance
that
they
are
framed
to
giue
subtilty
to
the
simple
,
and
to
the
young
man
knowledge
and
discretion
;
and
will
the
spirit
faile
of
the
end
proposed
?
Experience
will
teach
vs
otherwife
,
for
howsoeuer
we
shall
meete
in
scriptures
with
some
of
those
depths
wherein
Eiephants
may
swimme
,
and
if
they
will
bee
too
curiously
and
presumptuously
venturing
,
be
drowned
too
;
yet
we
shall
also
light
vpon
exceeding
many
foords
,
and
those
streaming
likewise
with
the
waters
of
life
,
wherein
those
that
are
yet
but
lambes
may
wade
and
be
refreshed
;
admirable
is
the
temper
of
holy
scriptures
,
as
the
Author
thereof
takes
care
of
all
and
is
rich
to
all
that
call
vpon
him
as
speakes
the
Apostle
,
that
seeing
wee
shall
not
see
,
and
hearing
wee
shall
not
vnderstand
,
that
so
that
of
the
Apostle
may
bee
verified
:
if
the
Gospell
bee
hid
it
is
hid
vnto
them
that
perish
,
in
whom
the
God
of
this
world
hath
blinded
their
mindes
,
that
the
light
of
the
glorious
Gospell
of
Christ
should
not
shine
vnto
them
.
Much
fault
may
bee
in
our selues
,
that
wee
misse
of
so
rich
a
bargaine
as
truth
;
but
came
wee
with
honest
mindes
to
the
word
,
we
should
finde
,
that
though
many
hard
things
therein
surpasse
our
vnderstanding
,
yet
if
we
practise
,
but
so
many
duties
of
piety
,
and
embrace
so
many
articles
of
faith
,
which
wee
may
clearely
vnderstand
,
there
will
remaine
of
easy
lessons
such
store
,
as
shall
serue
to
the
attainment
of
eternall
life
.
Thus
haue
wee
layd
downe
the
prime
and
master
direction
how
to
descerne
falshood
from
that
heauenly
truth
which
we
would
buy
;
shewing
that
nothing
is
to
be
retained
as
necessary
to
the
true
worship
of
God
,
which
beares
not
conformity
to
his
will
,
whereof
the
letters
patents
are
the
holy
scriptures
;
but
further
,
because
in
the
ware
it selfe
,
which
we
would
get
into
our
hand
,
there
are
found
certaine
proper
qualities
or
characters
whereby
it
may
be
distinctly
knowne
from
sophisticate
falshoods
,
it
will
not
be
impertinent
to
admonish
somewhat
herein
.
The
first
innate
property
of
this
truth
,
is
that
it
is
alway
one
and
the
same
,
euen
as
God
himselfe
the
parent
thereof
is
,
in
whom
is
no
variablenesse
or
shadowe
of
turning
saith
St
Iames
,
haeresin
nimium
mirabilis
vanitatis
,
an
heresy
of
a
prodigious
vanity
,
who
held
that
all
heretiques
though
of
neuer
so
different
fancies
,
did
yet
speake
the
truth
,
as
if
any
thing
could
swarue
from
it selfe
and
remaine
it selfe
;
no
,
no
,
truth
is
more
vniforme
and
constant
,
insomuch
that
if
we
suruey
all
the
parcels
of
this
rich
&
beautifull
commodity
,
we
shall
finde
each
seuerall
to
agree
with
the
rest
in
admirable
consent
;
whereas
if
wee
take
into
our
hands
the
infinite
peeces
of
falshood
,
wee
shall
not
onely
perceiue
them
opposite
to
truth
,
but
incoherent
one
to
another
,
nay
in
the
same
cause
or
question
it
will
not
be
hard
to
descry
the
premisses
,
and
the
more
removed
consequences
mutually
to
wound
one
another
and
be
both
false
;
but
truth
cuts
not
her
owne
throat
,
but
rather
each
part
of
her
(
if
of
so
partlesse
a
thing
I
may
so
speake
)
lends
stron
succour
to
the
other
.
The
second
natiue
note
of
diuine
truth
is
,
that
it
still
reflects
it selfe
vpon
the
glory
of
its
Author
,
and
therefore
she
,
as
wisdome
in
the
booke
of
Proverbs
,
gets
her
to
the
top
of
the
high
places
,
Giue
vnto
the
Lord
O
yee
mighty
,
giue
vnto
the
Lord
Glory
and
strength
,
giue
vnto
the
Lord
the
glory
due
vnto
his
name
:
all
her
cry
is
that
flesh
and
blood
may
be
humbled
,
and
the
Father
of
spirits
glorified
:
she
bids
miserable
man
at
last
know
and
acknowledge
his
misery
,
and
begin
to
confesse
himselfe
altogether
vnworthy
of
the
least
of
his
provoked
makers
mercy
:
she
preaceth
to
him
,
not
to
stand
vpon
the
prerogatiues
of
naturall
goodnesse
,
shee
counselleth
him
to
cast
away
the
insolent
conceit
of
his
owne
merits
and
satisfactions
,
and
rely
onely
vpon
the
free
and
vndeserued
grace
of
God
for
his
saluation
:
shee
commandes
him
to
submit
all
his
owne
wisdome
,
greatnesse
,
power
,
to
the
power
,
greatnesse
,
wisdome
of
God
:
she
inioines
him
not
to
take
in
any
partners
into
his
redeemers
honour
,
but
to
let
him
haue
all
the
glory
of
his
owne
workes
without
a
sharer
:
this
voice
thus
aduancing
our
creator
and
restorer
,
is
high
&
true
;
but
when
I
heare
a
skreaking
,
that
I
am
not
so
poore
but
that
doeing
what
I
may
doe
,
by
my
depraued
nature
,
I
deserue
at
leastwise
in
congruity
,
that
God
should
looke
favourably
vpon
mee
,
&
when
his
fauour
is
receiued
,
I
then
can
doe
those
works
which
by
their
owne
proper
dignity
,
may
merit
heauen
and
bring
God
vnder
a
debt
:
when
I
heare
a
noise
that
I
must
get
mee
some
of
the
ouerflowings
of
other
mens
goodnesse
,
or
pay
some
of
mine
owne
satisfactions
to
helpe
out
the
merits
of
my
saviour
(
as
if
there
were
some
want
in
him
of
whose
fulnsse
wee
may
all
receiue
grace
for
grace
)
when
I
am
sollicited
in
performance
of
religion
,
Thirdly
if
amongst
a
heape
of
fruitlesse
&
comfortlesse
doctrines
that
vsually
lye
vpon
the
stall
,
we
would
finde
out
and
buy
the
truth
,
let
vs
enquire
after
that
which
containes
the
most
certaine
and
safe
method
of
our
reconciliation
with
God
:
for
since
religion
(
as
that
noble
Frenchman
hath
it
)
is
the
art
of
sauing
man
,
[
*
](A15075-e12370-b)
*
Vide
Lactant.
lib.
4.
cap.
28.
&
Aug.
de
civ
.
dei
.
l.
10.
c.
4.
relige
or
binde
together
againe
what
was
vnhappily
disvnited
.
But
be
that
as
Grammarians
can
agree
,
it
will
be
agreed
by
diuines
,
that
all
mankind
,
should
be
vtterly
lost
,
if
being
by
sin
brought
vnto
the
very
margent
of
that
bottomles
hellish
pit
,
there
should
be
no
bridge
appointed
,
to
conveigh
vs
ouer
in
safety
to
the
mercies
of
heauen
,
but
herein
the
grace
of
God
,
(
which
the
scripture
hath
the
honour
to
publish
helps
by
bringing
vs
certaine
newes
of
an
Emmanuella
God-man
,
a
mediatour
,
who
by
his
infinitely
meritorious
sufferings
(
for
what
cannot
the
blood
of
the
son
of
God
obtaine
)
payd
off
all
the
scores
of
his
Fathers
iustice
,
extinquished
all
the
fiery
fiercenesse
of
his
wrath
and
reconciled
vs
to
his
euerlasting
loue
,
wherein
is
euerlasting
life
and
health
:
when
we
were
enimies
saith
the
Apostle
,
wee
were
reconciled
to
God
by
the
death
of
his
sonne
,
and
being
reconciled
,
we
shall
bee
saued
by
his
life
.
This
is
a
true
saying
and
worthy
by
all
meanes
to
bee
receiued
,
because
it
can
onely
giue
assurance
of
peace
to
our
troubled
consciences
,
whereas
all
other
waies
in
the
case
of
mans
reconciliation
with
God
,
are
but
as
thinne
,
rotten
,
short
threads
,
applyed
to
the
bowing
of
a
mighty
Cedar
,
to
a
poore
shrubbe
of
wonderfull
great
distance
from
it
,
euen
tyes
and
bandes
weaker
and
vainer
then
vanity
itselfe
.
Fourthly
,
it
may
passe
for
an
indiuiduall
marke
of
true
religion
,
that
it
is
a
leader
to
true
sanctity
The
wisdome
that
is
from
aboue
,
is
first
pure
?
saith
St
Iames
,
and
in
the
last
verse
of
his
first
chapter
hee
giues
this
character
thereof
,
charity
towards
others
and
cleanesse
in
our selues
.
Not
that
all
professors
of
the
truth
,
are
presently
possessed
with
sanctity
,
not
that
the
sanctity
which
is
in
the
best
,
is
in
this
life
perfectly
squared
to
the
exact
rule
of
truth
;
but
our
meaning
is
,
that
what
is
diuinely
true
doth
in
its
owne
nature
necessarily
tend
to
the
purging
of
our
soules
from
corruption
,
and
the
introducing
of
holy
innocency
,
charity
and
euery
other
vertue
:
It
must
needs
bee
so
,
since
truth
is
the
daughter
of
God
,
the
Holy
of
holies
;
when
therefore
we
heare
a
doctrine
that
fauours
our
sensuality
,
that
giues
dispensation
to
carnall
liberty
,
that
lendes
patronage
to
the
fopperies
of
our
time
,
vt
honeste
peccare
videamur
,
that
we
may
seeme
honestly
vaine
;
The
voice
thereof
,
bewraies
the
falshood
of
it
,
nay
it
is
a
very
vnlucky
truth
(
if
any
truth
can
haue
that
misfortune
)
which
when
entertained
moues
no
man
the
more
to
the
loue
of
God
or
practise
of
any
goodnesse
.
In
a
word
since
it
was
wisely
said
,
Summa
religionis
est
imitari
quem
colis
,
it
is
the
abrigement
of
all
religion
to
imitate
him
whom
a
man
worships
:
it
is
but
froth
,
that
is
not
able
to
imprint
in
our
accompts
the
liuely
resemblance
of
that
holinesse
which
is
in
God
.
If
it
cannot
beget
vertue
but
serues
only
to
make
vs
hide
our
badnesse
,
it
hath
but
the
force
of
an
humane
law
;
if
it
doe
but
onely
pare
off
,
but
not
root
vp
vices
,
it
is
but
a
lecture
of
heathennish
philosophy
:
if
instead
of
crossing
,
it
gratifies
the
ill
humours
of
the
flesh
,
and
world
,
it
is
the
doctrine
of
divells
;
but
if
it
bee
fitted
to
the
rendring
of
a
man
,
not
onely
a
full
renouncer
of
his
owne
lusts
but
a
sincere
imitator
of
his
makers
holinesse
,
this
is
the
truth
,
that
is
fallen
downe
from
heauen
,
to
bring
vs
vp
thither
.
Fiftly
I
must
adioiyne
this
,
as
a
cognisance
of
the
best
religion
,
that
it
calls
especially
for
the
inward
man
:
for
nothing
can
be
more
agreeable
to
a
spirituall
and
inuisible
nature
,
then
a
spirituall
service
:
surely
the
Father
seekes
such
worshippers
,
Pharisaicall
Iew
is
busy
in
the
washing
of
his
cupps
,
and
platters
,
blind
heathen
playes
the
Antique
in
gesture
before
his
God
,
Lastly
I
may
not
omit
without
wronging
my
wares
,
that
the
truth
which
must
be
bought
,
will
be
knowen
by
her
antiquity
and
lastingnesse
,
because
it
is
the
of
spring
of
him
that
was
,
and
is
,
and
is
to
come
:
heere
those
of
the
Church
of
Rome
will
bee
ready
to
pleade
a
purchase
,
nameing
vs
Popes
and
auncestors
for
many
yeares
,
in
whose
hands
their
doctrine
hath
bin
kept
,
wee
deny
it
not
to
bee
too
olde
,
and
yet
wee
graunt
it
not
to
be
olde
inough
:
for
antiquity
hath
its
degrees
;
we
yeeld
the
second
,
but
the
first
is
the
best
,
and
that
is
ours
,
wee
say
not
this
or
that
Pope
but
with
Ignatius
Christ
is
our
antiquity
;
Cyprians
Apologie
,
doe
wee
so
much
attende
,
what
any
others
before
vs
,
haue
done
or
taught
,
[
*
](A15075-e12830-b)
*
Epi.
63.
sed
quid
,
qui
ante
omnes
est
Christus
prior
fecerit
,
what
Christ
who
was
before
them
all
did
,
and
commanded
to
be
taught
and
done
;
and
this
truth
which
in
the
Primitiue
times
was
cleerely
professed
and
in
the
darker
daies
of
Antichristianisme
preserued
,
both
in
the
Oracles
of
the
vncorrupted
word
,
and
in
the
hearts
of
persecuted
witnesses
,
our
eyes
(
eyes
blessed
if
thankfull
)
behold
it
,
not
new
but
renewed
,
and
vindicated
from
the
tirannie
of
former
times
,
if
it
had
stood
onely
vpon
humane
props
;
fraudes
and
forces
might
by
this
time
haue
vndermined
it
,
but
by
a
higher
hand
,
it
hath
hitherto
miraculously
continued
,
and
no
doubt
will
to
the
end
of
all
things
;
since
there
is
no
reason
why
God
who
is
if
I
may
so
speake
as
wise
at
first
as
at
last
,
and
as
strong
at
last
as
at
first
,
should
either
change
his
minde
or
not
afford
his
support
.
Hauing
thus
shewed
where
truth
is
shopt
,
and
how
it
may
be
discouered
the
onely
labour
that
is
left
mee
,
is
,
to
stirre
you
vp
to
bee
so
affected
that
it
may
be
possessed
by
you
:
where
not
to
bee
so
arrogant
as
to
chalke
you
out
a
way
of
study
in
arts
and
sciences
,
and
languages
,
and
such
like
helps
,
to
the
inquisition
euen
of
divine
truths
,
this
I
leaue
to
the
Gamaliels
&
maisters
of
the
Israell
at
whose
feet
I
wish
I
might
haue
longer
sate
.
I
shall
onely
accompt
it
my
duty
,
to
admonish
you
and
my selfe
in
a
few
words
of
the
chiefest
qualities
wherewith
wee
should
bee
inuested
,
who
are
inioyned
to
buy
the
truth
.
And
here
let
a
high
loue
and
esteeme
of
this
ware
be
first
wrought
in
vs
:
for
doubtlesse
here
is
a
thing
of
rich
value
before
vs
,
since
the
holy
ghost
doth
so
sollicite
vs
to
the
purchasing
thereof
,
wee
may
well
giue
it
out
,
that
this
is
that
one
pearle
of
great
price
mentioned
in
the
Gospell
,
which
caused
the
wise
merchant
to
goe
and
sell
all
that
he
had
and
buy
it
,
for
if
it
be
an
excellency
,
drawing
toward
Angellicall
perfection
,
to
consider
of
things
as
indeed
they
are
:
if
it
be
so
sweet
a
food
to
the
soule
of
man
to
contemplate
of
those
matters
whereof
she
is
capable
without
mistakeing
:
if
it
bee
the
noblest
schollership
to
coppy
out
into
our
vnderstandings
,
that
which
is
originally
&
eternally
in
Gods
:
if
God
bee
so
iealous
of
his
honour
,
and
so
vnlike
those
so
ciable
Gods
of
the
heathen
,
that
one
only
prescribed
worship
can
content
him
;
how
should
wee
bee
rauished
with
truth
in
which
all
this
is
found
,
wee
cannot
but
long
to
buy
it
,
if
wee
once
bee
thus
perswaded
of
the
worth
of
it
.
Therefore
I
hope
the
next
thing
will
bee
heeded
by
vs
,
which
is
,
as
heartily
to
be
affected
with
the
excellency
of
scriptures
,
aboue
all
other
writings
,
since
in
that
holy
paper
is
vnquestionably
wrapt
vp
this
heauenly
ware
;
Timothy
in
knowing
the
sacred
letters
,
and
not
suffer
our selues
to
bee
so
bewitched
with
the
name
of
humane
polite
literature
,
that
Philosophers
,
Historians
,
Poets
,
yea
and
those
Diuines
too
,
with
whom
Aristotle
is
more
frequent
then
Paule
,
should
take
vp
our
solemnest
,
and
devoutest
studies
,
and
the
Bible
bee
onely
read
at
some
by
houres
,
rather
because
we
would
not
bee
altogether
ignorant
,
than
that
we
would
be
very
skil
full
in
it
:
surely
they
are
worthy
to
bee
deceiued
in
diuine
matters
,
who
are
infected
with
the
humour
of
Angelus
Palitianus
who
would
not
vouchsafe
the
reading
of
scriptures
,
Criticismes
and
quainter
phrases
.
St
Austen
bewailes
this
vanity
of
his
,
Now
as
we
loue
truth
and
the
records
of
it
,
so
if
we
would
store
our selues
therewith
,
I
know
nothing
more
necessary
then
to
come
with
honest
and
purged
affections
:
for
a
minde
blurred
with
sensuall
vanities
,
worldly
corruptions
,
diuelish
wickednesse
,
can
hardly
take
the
faire
impressions
of
truth
.
Into
a
malicious
soule
wisdome
(
as
it
is
in
the
booke
of
Wisdome
)
shall
not
enter
nor
dwell
in
the
body
that
is
a
subiect
vnto
sinne
,
If
pride
be
the
domineering
sinne
in
vs
,
waters
of
strife
to
drinke
,
Lord
,
how
hard
wee
study
,
yet
not
to
buy
but
disgrace
a
truth
:
if
it
hath
bin
our
ill
lucke
to
haue
vented
an
errour
,
wee
take
it
our
credit
to
defend
it
,
and
though
wee
are
conscious
of
the
falshood
yet
wee
must
not
seeme
to
erre
:
In
our
conferences
which
should
serue
to
put
vp
truth
before
vs
,
it
is
victory
that
is
onely
aimed
at
.
A
modest
man
dares
scarce
speake
what
is
true
for
feare
of
putting
vs
into
the
contrary
error
:
and
as
the
leauen
of
pride
is
so
soure
,
so
is
it
wonderfully
swelling
,
as
if
plaine
and
certaine
truths
were
occupata
materia
,
a
matter
already
taken
vp
by
others
of
low
and
vulgar
wits
,
and
vnfit
for
the
sublimity
of
our
spirits
:
we
range
after
curious
speculations
that
still
will
runne
away
from
vs
,
or
if
caught
will
bee
of
no
vse
:
wee
peremptorily
determine
where
wee
should
onely
religiously
admire
,
againe
,
if
this
spirit
haunt
vs
,
a
new
error
pleaseth
vs
better
then
an
auncient
established
truth
,
thinking
it
a
brauer
act
to
be
the
maister
of
a
young
vanity
,
then
the
disciple
of
an
aged
truth
,
no
wonder
then
if
some
,
now
and
then
,
picke
out
of
their
authors
such
a
point
for
their
venting
,
which
others
saw
as
well
as
they
,
and
could
haue
bought
it
;
but
being
but
a
toy
and
not
worth
the
expence
,
haue
wisely
scorned
it
,
these
marketings
can
hardly
bee
avoided
by
men
of
pride
,
humility
is
more
thirsty
and
still
on
the
getting
hand
;
because
indeed
blessed
bee
him
,
who
as
hee
frustrats
proud
wits
,
that
the
humble
he
will
teach
his
way
.
Now
as
the
fate
of
pride
is
,
so
is
that
of
worldlings
,
so
is
that
of
sensuality
,
so
is
that
of
enuy
,
sois
that
of
vncharitablenesse
;
all
these
hang
plummets
vpon
the
soule
,
&
suffer
her
not
to
ascend
vp
to
many
truths
;
nay
though
our
vnderstandings
be
sometimes
of
their
owne
naturall
vigour
soaring
,
yet
as
the
very
Eagles
made
for
stight
,
can
onely
flutter
,
not
mount
when
weighty
stones
are
tyed
to
their
feet
;
so
these
base
and
vnworthy
affections
cannot
choose
but
clogge
and
presse
vs
,
when
wee
are
to
raise
vp
our
spirits
to
any
high
point
:
but
did
wee
carry
in
our
breasts
,
contented
,
chast
,
moderate
peaceable
affections
,
indeavouring
nothing
more
then
,
to
be
holy
as
God
is
holy
,
If
any
man
will
doe
the
will
of
my
father
,
he
shall
knowe
of
the
doctrine
whether
it
be
of
God
.
Much
here
might
bee
added
concerning
those
many
preiudices
whereof
wee
should
also
rid
our selues
,
before
we
can
entertaine
truth
;
it
is
true
it
is
true
,
is
the
cry
of
many
,
but
why
,
it
is
attended
with
signes
:
false
prophets
shall
doe
wonders
euen
to
the
deceiuing
of
the
elect
themselues
,
if
that
were
possible
:
it
is
confirmed
by
the
sufferings
of
the
professors
:
paine
but
the
cause
that
maketh
a
martyr
:
it
is
accompanied
with
prosperity
:
yea
but
the
Apostles
&
that
church
wherein
the
faith
was
most
purely
kept
,
destitute
,
afflicted
,
tormented
:
it
is
followed
by
multiudes
,
yea
but
it
was
neuer
so
well
with
the
world
that
the
best
thing
should
please
the
most
:
broad
way
heares
ill
:
it
is
bequeathed
by
our
auncestors
:
but
walke
not
in
the
statutes
of
your
fathers
,
Lord
saith
God
sometimes
by
his
prophets
:
it
were
ill
with
truth
if
a
long
custome
could
prescribe
against
it
:
it
is
taught
by
great
Rabbies
:
but
they
list
not
to
be
men
,
nor
euer
could
produce
any
character
that
exempts
them
from
ignorance
:
it
is
deliuered
by
those
of
reputed
sanctity
:
yea
but
our
sauiour
mentioneth
false
prophets
that
shall
come
in
sheepes
clothing
:
if
they
bring
things
contrary
to
what
hath
bin
receiued
from
Christ
.
I
wonder
at
our
sottishnesse
that
can
bee
patient
to
haue
our
vnderstanding
giued
by
these
weake
preiudices
:
that
we
may
breake
them
,
let
vs
be
perswaded
of
this
easy
truth
:
euery
man
is
a
lyar
,
To
auoide
all
these
impediments
to
the
procuring
of
truth
,
let
vs
in
the
last
place
commend
prayer
vnto
you
:
by
which
holy
men
haue
confessed
that
they
haue
more
profited
then
by
reading
,
hearing
,
there
is
a
spirit
in
man
,
but
it
is
the
inspiration
of
the
Lord
that
giueth
vnderstanding
:
and
it
being
most
true
what
our
sauiour
hath
,
that
his
Father
will
giue
the
spirit
to
those
that
aske
him
;
Thus
haue
I
(
reuerent
Fathers
and
bretheren
)
brought
you
what
I
haue
conceiued
in
this
argument
.
I
am
not
much
acquainted
with
your
eares
and
therefore
know
not
how
to
fit
them
:
onely
I
thought
that
a
discourse
of
truth
,
and
the
purchase
of
it
,
might
not
be
vnsutable
to
that
place
wherein
is
held
so
famous
a
Mart
of
truth
:
or
did
the
considerations
of
mine
owne
meannesse
deterre
mee
,
since
I
knew
I
came
amongst
the
wise
,
with
whom
as
Prospers
phrase
is
,
truth
is
not
then
onely
great
,
when
great
ones
teach
it
.
But
if
you
will
except
,
FINIS
.
IAMES
I.
VER.
16.
Doe
not
erre
my
beloued
brethren
.
IF
error
were
only
the
disease
of
the
ignorant
,
it
might
reasonably
bee
said
vnto
me
,
Physition
heale
thine
owne
country
flocke
,
&
come
not
hither
where
various
learning
hath
provided
sufficient
preseruatiues
against
this
euill
,
or
if
this
malady
of
the
soule
,
might
be
cured
by
a
bare
information
of
the
vnderstanding
the
matter
more
conueniently
might
bee
left
to
your
publicke
schooles
,
or
priuate
studies
,
then
brought
vp
into
your
pulpit
,
but
since
experience
abundantly
teacheth
,
that
the
most
dangerous
,
and
troublesome
errors
haue
had
their
birth
;
and
breeding
amidst
the
tongues
,
and
pens
,
of
men
famed
for
their
wit
&
learning
;
and
since
the
affections
,
(
which
many
times
are
as
inordinate
in
the
greatest
clerks
,
as
the
simplest
Idiots
)
doe
(
though
very
irregularly
I
confesse
)
too
too
oft
lead
the
vnderstanding
:
I
could
not
take
it
so
misbeseeming
a
worke
for
a
preacher
,
who
hath
so
much
to
doe
with
the
ordering
of
mens
affections
,
to
take
in
hand
this
subiect
in
this
place
,
let
mee
then
once
more
(
Reuerent
Fathers
&
beloued
brethren
)
venture
vpon
your
patience
,
and
as
heretofore
I
haue
from
that
wise
king
invited
you
to
buy
the
truth
,
holy
Apostle
advise
you
to
fly
error
.
A
thing
(
if
yet
I
can
entitle
it
to
entity
)
well
worth
our
speediest
flying
from
it
,
or
chasing
it
from
vs
.
which
is
sooner
defined
then
finished
said
Licentius
,
what
is
it
but
a
pittifull
deformity
,
&
incongruity
betwixt
our
vnderstanding
,
and
the
things
which
God
and
nature
haue
established
?
For
as
it
is
the
iustice
of
truth
to
consider
euery
thing
as
indeed
it
is
,
herein
nobly
doing
right
to
the
first
truth
,
God
(
the
fountaine
of
that
setled
being
which
things
haue
)
so
on
the
contrary
iniurious
error
is
a
false
witnes-bearer
against
God
,
reporting
otherwise
of
things
,
then
God
made
them
,
or
then
hee
would
haue
them
to
bee
apprehended
by
vs
;
either
fastning
vpon
things
what
belongs
not
to
them
,
or
denying
to
them
what
doth
.
Alas
how
haue
we
lost
God
,
and
the
tracks
of
things
as
he
hath
left
them
to
vs
,
yea
how
haue
wee
lost
our selues
,
and
the
indowments
wherewith
wee
were
trusted
!
For
whereas
reason
was
bestowed
vpon
vs
,
to
be
a
lamp
whereby
we
might
discerne
betwixt
truth
,
and
that
which
is
the
shadow
thereof
,
error
hath
put
out
this
light
,
and
so
deprived
vs
of
that
which
is
the
soule
of
the
soule
to
vse
Philo
his
words
euen
as
the
apple
is
the
eye
of
the
eye
.
But
then
is
an
admonition
in
this
kinde
,
so
much
the
more
to
be
heeded
,
the
fouler
the
error
is
concerning
which
the
warning
is
giuen
.
Such
a
one
is
this
which
Saint
Iames
meanes
;
for
if
you
will
surveigh
the
verses
bordering
vpon
my
text
,
you
shall
finde
him
labouring
to
root
that
impiously
absurd
conceit
out
of
mens
minds
that
God
is
a
sollicitor
and
temptor
to
sinne
,
The
diuell
greedy
after
the
destruction
of
soules
,
was
it
seems
impatient
of
any
long
delay
,
ere
hee
wrought
his
feates
,
and
therefore
not
tarrying
vntill
the
Gospell
of
our
Sauiour
were
generally
planted
and
strongly
rooted
in
mens
hearts
by
the
preaching
of
the
apostles
,
hee
very
early
began
to
sow
his
tares
,
where
the
Lords
first
husband
men
had
cast
in
their
good
seed
.
Nay
so
diligent
was
the
malice
of
Satan
,
in
his
hireling
Simon
Magus
,
the
Patriarch
of
hereticks
,
that
the
Apostles
were
prevented
,
the
creator
was
author
of
the
euills
,
euen
of
sinne
;
an
impiety
which
wanted
not
abettors
in
all
ages
;
For
besides
Simon
,
Cerdon
,
Marcion
,
Florinus
in
the
first
times
,
and
the
Manichees
,
with
the
Priscillianists
,
afterwards
,
euen
our
present
age
hath
afforded
that
impure
sect
of
the
Libertines
fouly
guilty
that
way
.
It
is
probable
that
some
in
the
Apostles
time
had
drunk
of
Simons
cuppe
,
which
might
moue
Saint
Iames
to
giue
caveats
to
his
schollers
,
that
they
erre
not
in
this
point
:
Howsoeuer
we
deeme
of
the
occasion
,
moving
him
to
write
,
his
admonition
,
is
so
much
the
waightier
,
the
more
grieuous
the
error
which
hee
speakes
of
,
is
:
an
error
primae
magnitudinis
of
the
biggest
size
.
For
if
God
be
an
author
of
,
or
a
tempter
to
sinfull
euill
;
if
wee
cannot
bee
content
to
say
that
he
permits
offences
,
but
will
haue
him
to
necessitate
them
;
if
wee
cannot
rest
satisfied
with
that
truth
,
that
God
doth
in
his
infinit
wisdome
make
vse
of
the
wicked
wills
of
his
creatures
,
to
his
owne
glory
,
but
wee
will
further
say
that
hee
makes
their
wills
so
wicked
;
if
when
men
are
read
to
be
hardned
by
God
,
wee
will
pronounce
that
hee
doth
it
,
not
only
by
witholding
grace
,
but
infusing
mallice
:
if
when
wee
speake
of
Gods
concurring
,
with
euery
worke
of
his
creature
,
wee
will
not
distinguish
the
action
it selfe
from
the
obliquity
,
but
promiscuously
entitle
God
to
both
:
Lord
what
confusion
will
there
be
in
all
things
,
let
the
pale
betwixt
iust
and
vniust
,
holy
and
prophane
be
pull'd
downe
!
For
if
God
solicit
and
impell
men
to
evill
,
when
I
sinne
I
sin
not
,
for
why
should
it
be
my
fault
to
bee
lead
by
God
,
nay
this
confounds
God
and
the
diuell
makeing
them
all
one
;
then
which
what
more
horrid
blasphemy
can
be
conceaued
.
And
as
for
the
attributes
of
God
,
which
are
indeed
himselfe
,
not
one
of
them
can
stand
with
any
honor
,
if
this
error
bee
not
demolished
;
for
how
is
he
goodnesse
it selfe
if
such
streames
of
euill
doe
flow
from
him
,
how
is
he
all
power
when
he
is
the
parent
of
defects
,
and
impotencies
?
What
iustice
is
it
to
punish
those
crimes
which
he
himselfe
makes
,
and
plague
in
another
his
owne
fault
;
and
if
he
encline
,
yea
driue
a
man
to
sinne
,
that
so
afterwards
he
may
shew
his
mercy
in
remitting
it
,
maleuolent
good
will
to
make
any
one
miserable
to
appeare
himselfe
mercifull
.
A
more
sacrilegious
indignity
against
God
cannot
bee
offered
,
then
by
this
abominable
error
;
not
is
there
any
more
pernitious
to
humane
society
.
For
it
erects
a
prophane
sanctuary
for
all
offenders
,
euery
one
sheltring
his
iniquity
,
vnder
the
authority
&
patronage
of
God
himselfe
.
There
is
in
man
a
naturall
humour
not
to
owne
his
offences
,
and
he
is
glad
if
he
can
translate
them
vpon
another
;
this
error
affords
the
boldest
shift
,
when
it
proposeth
God
the
author
of
and
mouer
to
sinns
,
none
if
this
doctrine
were
currant
,
but
would
freely
and
riotously
offend
when
they
haue
not
fault
,
but
necessity
,
yea
diuine
authority
to
charge
in
whatsoeuer
they
doe
.
This
I
speake
to
discouer
the
waight
of
the
Apostles
admonition
,
who
giues
warning
in
a
matter
of
great
importance
,
this
error
not
only
grating
vpon
,
but
casting
downe
the
very
foundation
of
all
religion
.
But
although
our
Apostle
hath
especiall
reference
to
this
one
particular
most
impious
error
,
yet
there
is
no
doubt
,
Erre
not
my
beloued
brethren
.
Let
me
then
(
taking
my
text
in
its
iust
latitude
)
enter
into
that
,
wherevnto
I
haue
destinated
my
meditations
,
for
this
place
and
time
;
which
is
to
lay
downe
a
course
how
wee
may
recouer
others
and
preserue
our selues
form
errors
in
religion
,
that
so
this
monitory
speech
of
out
Apostle
may
take
effect
among
vs
.
And
of
this
,
as
God
,
the
hower
,
and
your
patience
will
permit
.
Concerning
our
recouery
of
others
faln
into
error
,
though
herein
much
may
bee
said
,
yet
in
this
scantnesse
of
time
,
it
will
be
thriftiest
for
me
,
to
obserue
only
our
Apostles
method
herein
,
first
wee
must
haue
a
care
as
well
to
instruct
them
,
as
condemne
them
,
so
doth
Saint
Iames
;
who
together
with
his
cry
Nolite
errare
,
vseth
very
powerfull
arguments
,
drawne
from
the
nature
of
God
,
and
the
true
causes
of
sinne
;
whereby
hee
proues
that
God
cannot
be
a
tempter
to
euill
,
as
reading
the
chapter
you
shall
perceiue
.
And
indeed
it
cannot
be
but
a
fruitlesse
imperiousnesse
to
command
a
man
not
to
erre
&
not
teach
him
with
all
the
folly
of
his
error
,
&
what
reasons
there
are
to
withstand
it
;
and
here
I
cannot
but
dislike
the
course
taken
vp
by
some
of
our
calling
,
who
sometimes
in
the
pulpet
doe
with
greater
eagernes
of
passion
,
inveigh
against
popish
errors
,
then
soundnesse
of
iudgement
,
and
choice
of
arguments
refute
them
;
this
rather
advantageth
then
reformeth
falshood
;
putting
this
frump
into
our
aduersaries
mouths
;
wee
see
a
will
rather
then
a
power
in
our
opposits
to
convince
vs
of
error
,
for
we
heare
much
noise
,
little
reason
;
and
who
are
they
that
we
should
credit
them
,
vpon
their
bare
words
,
and
weake
assertion
only
:
but
this
is
a
fault
most
seene
in
the
country
,
and
therefore
not
to
bee
insisted
on
in
this
place
.
A
second
direction
is
afforded
from
the
curteous
language
of
Saint
Iames
in
our
text
;
the
matter
which
he
confutes
,
comes
not
short
of
blasphemy
,
yet
the
Apostle
abstaines
from
that
harsher
terme
,
and
molifies
that
had
opinion
into
the
gentler
name
of
error
and
now
hee
calls
from
this
error
he
salutes
his
schollers
after
a
milde
&
louing
manner
,
Erre
not
beloued
brethren
.
If
we
could
doe
any
good
vpon
others
errors
,
this
behauiour
is
of
all
others
the
most
winning
;
to
come
to
the
handling
of
our
brethrens
sores
,
with
brotherly
minds
,
full
of
loue
and
compassion
.
Aseruant
of
the
Lords
,
especially
he
that
doth
the
Lords
service
in
freeing
mens
soules
from
error
,
gentle
to
all
men
,
apt
to
teach
,
patient
,
in
meeknesse
instructing
those
that
oppose
themselues
,
if
God
peraduenture
will
giue
them
repentance
,
to
the
acknowledging
of
the
truth
;
and
surely
great
reason
we
haue
to
shew
humanity
to
humane
errors
;
remembring
how
difficult
a
matter
it
is
for
poore
ignorant
men
,
so
euery
way
beset
with
the
snares
of
error
,
to
escape
all
danger
,
yea
not
forgetting
that
wee
our selues
are
but
men
,
and
may
possibly
haue
as
great
staines
,
in
our
iudgement
,
as
those
wee
would
expunge
in
others
;
how
soeuer
,
by
dealing
with
our
brethren
after
a
faire
,
&
mild
demenaour
,
wee
shall
render
them
more
docile
,
and
tractable
,
it
being
the
nature
of
many
to
lend
a
more
patient
eare
to
those
of
whom
they
haue
an
opinion
that
they
proceed
in
loue
:
the
mind
delights
rather
to
follow
then
to
be
lead
,
and
rather
to
be
lead
,
then
drawne
,
violence
making
it
the
more
contumatious
:
it
fares
with
him
that
hath
put
on
error
,
as
it
did
with
him
in
the
Apoloag
whom
the
sunne
fairely
and
serenely
shining
vpon
,
might
haue
woode
to
cast
off
his
cloake
,
which
the
blustering
winde
made
him
to
keepe
closer
on
;
and
surely
there
are
some
that
if
gently
admonished
will
both
reuerence
their
instructer
,
and
embrace
his
advice
,
but
if
ouer
roughly
and
smartingly
handled
,
facti
sunt
ingesta
acrius
veritate
peiores
;
they
are
made
worse
by
a
truth
too
too
eagerly
put
vpon
them
.
They
seeme
then
smally
acquainted
with
the
discretion
of
admonishers
,
or
condition
of
humane
nature
,
who
fly
into
the
face
of
their
erring
brethren
,
with
biting
inuectiues
,
and
rigorous
punishments
,
as
if
it
were
all
one
to
raile
and
convince
,
condemne
and
teach
,
or
as
if
it
were
a
brauer
thing
for
Christians
to
imploy
power
then
loue
,
in
the
correcting
of
their
brethren
;
I
speake
not
against
the
due
punishment
of
men
obstinate
and
irreclaimable
,
but
that
they
may
not
bee
so
,
I
would
haue
all
louing
meanes
first
tryed
to
recall
them
;
yea
and
when
a
severe
stroke
is
giuen
I
would
haue
it
inflicted
with
demonstration
of
vnfained
sorrow
and
loue
,
as
the
primitiue
Church
did
her
censures
with
much
mourning
;
as
may
bee
gatherered
by
St
Paules
epistles
with
whom
to
correct
&
lament
are
symonimas
as
the
iuditious
writer
of
the
Trent
counsells
history
hath
noted
,
Histor
,
Confil.
Trident.
who
obserues
farther
,
that
in
those
times
the
excesse
of
charity
in
correcting
did
make
the
corrector
feele
greater
paine
then
the
corrected
;
the
proceedings
of
latter
times
,
haue
bin
so
harsh
and
feirce
,
that
it
may
bee
thought
that
some
haue
beene
so
far
from
greiving
at
the
errors
of
others
,
that
rather
they
haue
beene
glad
of
them
,
especially
if
they
bee
such
,
the
sedulous
discouery
&
punishment
whereof
would
as
they
hoped
insinuate
them
into
the
fauours
of
the
great
ones
,
of
the
world
,
men
thus
being
more
beholding
to
the
errors
of
others
,
then
their
owne
vertues
for
their
preferments
,
or
if
this
humour
hath
not
tooke
them
,
it
is
to
be
feared
another
hath
,
full
of
malignant
vaineglory
;
while
they
somewhat
reioiceat
the
daily
outbursting
of
error
,
that
so
they
might
haue
worke
,
if
not
for
their
authority
to
vse
the
rod
,
yet
for
their
learning
to
imploy
the
pen
or
tongue
in
confuting
them
.
I
thinke
it
a
worthy
worke
to
convince
erronious
doctrines
,
and
I
hope
this
place
will
neuer
want
those
,
that
shall
performe
it
readily
and
solidly
,
but
to
desire
errors
to
make
ostentation
of
this
skill
,
is
a
perverseambition
,
voide
of
all
brotherly
charity
,
Austen
,
to
the
end
we
may
teach
the
world
what
wee
know
,
wee
may
not
wish
for
the
ignorance
or
error
of
another
.
But
so
much
shall
suffice
for
the
course
intimated
in
our
Apostles
proceeding
,
fit
for
vs
to
take
in
the
recouering
of
others
from
their
errors
;
how
wee
shall
preserue
our selues
,
it
remaines
to
the
prescribed
.
Error
is
a
sicknesse
of
the
soule
:
and
the
chiefe
part
,
at
least
the
first
degree
of
the
cure
,
is
to
know
and
stop
the
fountaine
of
the
disease
.
The
causes
of
error
are
many
;
I
will
not
touch
vpon
those
which
may
craue
the
mercy
of
our
excuse
and
pitty
,
and
which
are
now
so
incident
to
our
nature
,
that
they
are
past
our
avoidance
;
for
it
is
mischife
sufficiently
knowne
and
felt
,
that
our
first
parent
his
inordinat
and
ambitious
desire
of
ouerwide
knowledge
,
brought
himselfe
,
and
his
vnhappy
posterity
into
the
darke
prison
of
ignorance
;
where
lying
,
and
God
as
Dauid
sets
it
forth
,
looking
downe
from
heauen
vpon
the
children
of
men
,
to
see
if
there
were
any
that
would
vnderstand
,
he
findes
not
one
they
are
all
corrupt
as
in
their
wills
so
in
their
vnderstandings
:
hee
that
readeth
the
third
to
the
Romans
where
this
passage
of
Dauid
is
alleaged
shall
perceaue
,
that
before
he
went
into
the
sanctuary
,
the
schoole
of
God
,
he
was
foolish
and
ignorant
,
and
euen
brutish
before
God
.
The
truth
is
(
for
an
Apostle
hath
taught
it
)
that
in
this
life
,
we
know
but
in
part
,
and
no
wonder
is
it
,
if
this
penurious
and
incompleat
knowledge
leaue
vs
in
the
hands
of
diuers
errors
.
But
this
naturall
seeblenesse
of
the
vnderstanding
(
although
questionlesse
it
be
the
parent
of
sundry
mistakes
,
I
come
to
pitty
not
to
lash
;
especially
where
there
is
a
care
to
heale
and
strengthen
such
weaknesse
of
the
minde
,
by
those
wholsome
remedies
which
God
hath
prescribed
;
and
there
be
no
willing
fomentation
of
,
but
all
manly
resitance
against
erroneous
fancies
;
and
if
also
since
wee
want
the
happinesse
of
being
free
from
error
and
ignorance
,
wee
want
not
the
wisdome
to
bee
forry
for
our
defects
,
andto
pray
for
their
forgiuenesse
and
couering
in
Christ
.
The
leaders
into
errors
against
which
my
discourse
is
specially
bent
,
come
forth
not
so
much
from
the
coasts
of
a
naturally
weake
vnderstanding
,
as
of
some
morally
bad
affections
,
which
must
be
subdued
or
error
will
bee
victorious
.
For
that
the
affections
are
of
great
force
,
to
sway
the
iudgement
,
wee
need
not
marvaile
,
since
the
will
is
the
most
imperious
faculty
of
the
soule
,
&
makes
vse
of
the
vnderstanding
but
as
a
councellor
;
now
as
when
a
prince
is
strongly
let
vpon
a
thing
,
and
is
resolued
to
haue
his
owne
way
,
the
councellors
many
times
what
for
feare
,
what
for
loue
;
or
very
flattery
are
plyant
inough
to
his
purpose
,
and
willingly
suffer
themselues
,
to
be
corrupted
,
that
they
may
appeare
serviceable
;
so
when
once
the
will
is
in
ordinately
affected
and
mainely
bent
to
that
ill
vpon
which
the
affection
is
placed
,
it
giues
little
leasure
and
no
leaue
to
the
vnderstanding
to
dissent
from
it
,
yea
it
dimns
the
eye
of
the
sould
,
that
it
cannot
discerne
the
truth
,
or
fashions
the
sight
to
its
owne
wrong
guise
,
last
perilo
us
times
shewes
that
men
shall
bee
selfe
amorous
,
&
afterwardes
declares
that
of
this
rotten
timber
should
teachers
of
falshood
be
made
deceiuing
,
&
being
deceiued
,
resisting
the
truth
,
as
Iannes
and
Iambres
did
Moses
:
nor
can
I
thinke
that
alwaies
the
heresies
of
these
men
did
produce
their
vitiousnesse
,
but
rather
that
the
vitiousnesse
of
these
men
did
thrust
them
vpon
their
heresies
.
They
were
first
men
of
corrupt
mindes
and
then
reprobate
concerning
the
faith
,
as
the
Apostle
orders
his
description
:
and
surely
if
wee
take
a
list
,
of
the
present
errors
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
which
wee
most
condemne
,
it
were
no
hard
matter
to
finde
out
their
genealogy
and
shew
that
the
greatest
part
of
their
false
doctrines
,
and
bad
practises
,
come
as
it
were
out
of
the
loines
of
couetousnesse
,
or
ambition
,
or
licentiousnesse
.
If
then
we
would
not
fall
backe
into
the
same
,
or
plunge
our selues
into
as
bad
errors
,
wee
must
take
heed
of
certaine
vitious
humors
&
affections
,
the
accustomed
originalls
of
false
opinions
in
matters
of
religion
,
the
chiefe
whereof
I
shall
name
vnto
you
.
And
first
omitting
to
charge
that
natuall
flatnes
and
dulnesse
of
spirit
in
some
(
which
I
had
rather
commiserat
)
there
is
a
voluntary
sluggishnesse
and
affected
lazinesse
of
the
minde
,
which
cannot
but
expose
a
man
to
error
;
for
since
error
easily
followes
an
ignorance
of
the
truth
,
and
since
truth
doth
commonly
keepe
so
much
state
,
as
not
to
reveale
her selfe
to
any
but
those
who
studiously
seeke
her
;
this
slouthfull
,
and
negligent
fort
of
men
must
needs
misse
her
,
and
fall
into
error
,
since
they
will
not
take
the
paines
of
diligent
inquiry
into
things
;
there
is
naturally
in
all
of
vs
a
cloudines
and
foggy
darknesse
of
ignorance
,
and
nothing
will
so
much
thicken
it
,
in
our
breasts
,
as
this
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Apostle
St
Paule
,
proue
all
things
,
and
hold
that
which
is
good
,
or
that
of
St
Iohn
,
try
the
spirits
whether
they
are
of
God
,
it
is
with
them
too
cumbersome
,
and
tedious
a
businesse
;
but
while
they
giue
this
prone
assent
to
assertions
,
and
will
not
take
the
paines
to
examine
them
;
while
they
thus
haue
made
an
absolute
resignation
of
their
iudgements
,
to
the
braines
and
faith
of
others
,
and
thinke
it
reason
inough
to
beleeue
,
their
elders
in
time
,
or
betters
in
place
,
though
they
speake
without
reason
;
Lord
whether
will
these
be
carried
;
into
what
pitte
of
error
may
they
not
quickly
fall
!
Since
it
may
be
their
lucke
,
not
to
meet
,
with
the
best
leaders
,
and
the
leaders
of
these
beare
their
faith
along
with
them
.
To
this
mischiefe
men
are
not
alwaies
subiect
,
whose
capacities
are
not
great
,
or
whose
vnderstanding
is
yet
in
its
minority
;
but
euen
free
and
able
men
put
themselues
into
the
hazard
,
Minutius
Faelix
.
out
of
a
wearinesse
to
search
deepely
into
truth
,
they
had
rather
rashly
I
may
say
basely
fall
into
the
hands
of
any
opinion
,
then
perseueringly
indure
the
paines
,
of
a
thorough
enguiry
.
But
I
dismisse
these
.
The
next
sort
of
men
most
obnoxious
to
error
,
are
of
a
more
elate
and
lofty
spirit
,
Simon
Mangus
consorts
,
that
would
haue
himselfe
thought
to
bee
some
great
one
,
as
it
is
in
the
acts
,
and
all
antiquity
proclaimes
his
pride
,
a
malady
discouered
by
St
Paule
,
in
the
sixt
chapter
of
his
first
epistle
to
Timothy
,
in
the
fase
teachers
,
and
seduced
seducers
of
their
time
,
and
we
may
not
wonder
if
the
man
that
is
possessed
with
the
spirit
of
pride
be
carried
into
errors
,
if
wee
shall
obserue
his
manners
,
and
garbe
a
little
.
For
first
,
whereas
there
is
nothing
that
doth
cast
a
sooner
,
or
thicker
mist
before
the
vnderstanding
,
then
an
opinionate
dotage
vpon
our selues
,
this
arrogant
man
setts
too
high
a
price
vpon
himselfe
,
and
his
owne
abilities
;
and
whether
his
pride
be
conioined
with
ignorance
or
learning
(
as
't
is
hard
to
say
which
is
the
more
vnlucky
coniunction
)
he
is
confident
he
erres
not
,
and
so
indeed
drawes
neerer
to
error
,
the
winde
of
pride
hurting
his
eyesight
,
this
man
casts
a
scorne
vpon
what
so
euer
elder
times
,
or
riper
iudgements
can
shes
him
,
contrary
to
that
which
he
hath
conceited
.
Nectorius
boasted
Saram
scripturam
seprimum
,
&
solum
intelligere
,
he
first
and
alone
vnderstood
the
scriptures
,
and
all
other
Doctors
before
him
meere
Ignaroes
;
hee
deserued
to
erre
,
that
would
be
wise
alone
.
Thus
a
proud
man
,
as
if
all
the
light
were
in
himselfe
,
disdaines
the
soclety
of
other
mens
iudgements
:
of
which
branne
are
those
of
our
times
with
whom
(
saucily
herein
leuelling
God
with
themselues
)
1000
yeares
are
but
as
he
had
the
same
notice
of
God
,
as
God
had
of
himselfe
as
no
odds
were
to
bee
put
betwixt
a
finite
,
and
infinite
knowledge
:
for
as
Lactantius
wisely
saith
:
Nibilinter
deum
hominemque
distaret
,
siconsilia
illa
maie
statis
aeternae
cogitatio
assequeret
ur
humana
,
there
were
no
distance
betwixt
God
&
man
,
if
humane
cogitation
could
attaine
vnto
the
counsailes
of
the
aeternall
maiesty
.
And
indeed
while
we
extoll
the
soueraignty
of
our
reason
,
we
vnawares
debase
the
dignity
of
that
thing
whereof
reason
is
the
teacher
.
For
it
can
be
no
great
matter
which
so
narrow
and
shallow
a
thing
,
as
humane
vnderstanding
lest
to
hyis
owne
forces
,
can
helpe
vs
to
the
knowledge
of
:
nay
it
may
sooner
bee
an
error
then
a
trifle
.
Adde
hereunto
that
whereas
an
ill
carriage
of
our selues
towards
the
scriptures
,
(
the
rule
of
truth
)
is
the
readiset
downefall
into
error
:
the
proud
person
either
vainely
supposeth
it
cannot
bee
Gods
word
which
exceeds
his
wone
witt
;
of
saucily
murmures
that
God
should
challenge
our
assent
,
and
giue
vs
not
alwaies
logicall
demontrations
of
what
he
faith
(
as
if
it
were
not
inough
for
this
supreame
legislator
to
pronounce
a
truth
or
law
vnlesse
he
argue
it
before
the
tribunall
of
our
reason
)
or
else
he
giues
a
faaint
credit
to
whatsoeuer
crosseth
his
affection
,
or
if
he
must
needs
interpret
,
he
hath
a
will
rather
to
wrest
the
scriptures
to
his
opinion
,
then
bend
his
opinion
to
the
scriptures
to
impose
his
sence
vpon
the
word
,
then
fetch
his
sence
from
the
word
,
as
if
he
meant
to
lead
,
and
not
to
follow
the
holy
ghost
;
and
these
interpretations
are
for
the
most
part
made
in
hast
,
for
hee
takes
it
to
bee
a
kinde
of
disparagement
,
to
the
nimblenesse
of
his
witt
to
seeme
to
doubt
,
or
deliberat
long
,
and
whiles
hee
makes
more
care
to
hasten
then
examine
his
opinion
,
he
speedily
pronounceth
and
as
easily
errs
.
for
want
of
mature
deliberation
;
there
is
one
euill
of
pride
more
;
(
making
way
to
error
)
not
to
be
omitted
,
it
is
a
studiousnesse
of
nouelty
;
I
know
not
how
the
witt
of
man
heated
by
pride
,
disdaines
as
a
wretched
thing
,
and
a
matter
of
no
glory
to
tread
in
the
steps
of
others
,
that
haue
gone
before
,
and
thus
while
wee
are
desirous
to
say
what
others
haue
not
hit
vpon
,
the
imagination
hunting
and
ranging
about
;
some
pretty
and
perhaps
probable
strange
opinion
is
started
vp
before
it
,
which
it
runns
away
with
in
very
quick
sent
and
great
delight
,
we
are
marveilously
favorable
to
our
owne
conceits
,
and
although
at
first
wee
giue
not
any
strong
beleife
vnto
them
,
yet
wee
lend
them
many
harty
wishes
that
they
were
true
;
and
with
long
well
wishing
,
in
time
they
come
within
the
consines
of
some
setled
allowance
,
and
at
last
passe
into
our
vnmoueable
assent
;
and
now
when
all
is
done
,
the
thing
will
be
found
to
bee
of
more
finenesse
then
strength
,
of
more
subtilty
then
truth
:
these
are
the
perills
of
pride
,
if
it
bee
ioined
with
learning
,
but
if
the
proud
spirited
man
is
not
conscious
of
much
learnning
,
yet
if
hee
findes
some
falshes
of
goodnesse
,
in
himselfe
,
hee
thinks
that
want
abundantly
supplyed
by
certaine
revelations
of
the
spirit
,
whose
great
acquaintance
he
professeth
himselfe
to
be
,
that
now
he
thinkes
that
he
hath
arriued
to
an
impeccancy
of
iudgement
in
matters
spirituall
:
and
(
as
Vincentius
speakes
of
some
,
indiuiduated
to
them
)
that
hee
is
ordered
by
God
,
that
carried
as
it
were
by
Angells
hands
,
he
can
neuer
dash
his
foot
against
any
stone
of
error
:
but
alas
this
is
the
pronest
way
to
the
wildest
error
,
when
euery
outleaping
&
wantonesse
of
fancy
(
as
it
happeneth
among
fanaticall
enthusiasts
)
shall
be
reputed
an
inspiration
and
reuelation
of
the
spirit
:
nor
doth
pride
by
so
many
waies
lead
into
error
,
but
which
is
worst
,
leaues
the
minde
as
a
finall
pray
to
it
:
for
it
makes
the
vnderstanding
fierce
and
vntractable
:
every
contradiction
,
euery
affront
from
truth
is
reputed
a
contumely
,
the
mishapen
issue
of
the
minde
being
borne
must
now
bee
kept
;
all
retractations
are
basenesse
,
and
dishonour
;
thus
,
that
men
may
not
seeme
to
be
men
,
and
to
haue
erred
they
are
become
hereticks
:
so
contumatious
a
murse
of
error
is
pride
.
To
pride
in
the
thired
place
let
vs
adioine
as
of
neerest
familiarity
with
it
,
the
angry
spirit
of
faction
and
contention
,
to
be
contentious
and
not
to
bee
obedient
to
truth
,
are
things
coupled
together
by
Saint
Paul
,
and
St
Iames
hath
rightly
obserued
as
of
enuy
so
of
strife
,
where
it
is
there
is
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
an
vnsetled
and
tumultuous
confusion
,
and
euery
euill
worke
,
the
obseruation
hath
place
,
if
wee
apply
it
to
the
state
of
the
soule
,
there
cannot
be
but
much
confusion
,
and
entercourse
of
error
,
where
contention
hath
got
in
.
Doe
but
obserue
the
men
who
know
not
how
to
hold
any
thing
without
passion
,
how
oft
they
shame
reason
,
to
gratify
their
pettishnesse
:
if
a
question
bee
moued
,
which
moues
their
choller
with
little
or
no
choice
they
will
crosse
whatsoeuer
you
propose
,
their
humor
carrying
them
not
so
much
to
know
as
oppugne
truth
,
against
which
if
they
can
bee
witty
,
it
is
a
braue
sufficiency
;
&
when
once
in
the
rage
of
pride
and
anger
,
their
error
is
marcht
forth
,
it
is
a
difficult
matter
to
worke
a
retrait
,
and
though
you
may
conunice
them
,
they
will
not
bee
perswaded
;
their
fury
will
proceed
in
the
brable
,
vntill
they
haue
improved
their
brable
into
a
heresy
,
this
pettishnesse
when
it
is
sowred
into
malice
,
hath
often
carried
some
(
who
would
bee
at
the
most
diametral
disagreement
,
with
their
aduersaries
)
not
only
to
dissent
from
their
persons
,
but
their
doctrines
,
even
when
they
haue
beene
most
sound
and
orthodox
.
And
here
let
me
giue
warning
,
that
in
matter
of
religion
,
wee
vse
no
inordinate
hast
in
binding
our
iudgements
to
the
opinions
of
others
,
whom
either
the
fame
of
learning
,
or
the
greatnesse
of
place
,
or
the
neerenesse
of
blood
,
or
the
likenesse
of
manners
or
the
sweetnesse
of
profit
(
all
which
haue
great
forces
vpon
the
mind
)
hath
wrought
into
our
estimation
;
for
this
casts
vs
into
faction
,
wherein
if
a
man
be
once
imbarked
,
he
will
runne
a
hazard
of
erring
,
because
he
hath
left
the
guidance
of
reason
,
and
is
lead
only
by
certaine
preiudices
,
and
anticipations
borrowed
from
the
persons
of
men
,
which
strongly
sway
which
side
soeuer
bee
taken
.
Lastly
I
must
report
,
as
an
occasioner
of
some
errors
a
too
violent
opposition
of
some
errors
:
for
since
it
cannot
be
denyed
but
that
there
are
dangers
on
either
hand
of
truth
,
and
since
it
must
be
confessed
,
that
truth
hath
not
the
good
hap
alwaies
to
meet
with
well
aduised
champions
,
it
may
possibly
fall
out
,
and
vsually
doth
,
that
while
thy
oppose
some
falshoods
with
an
extreame
,
and
vnlimited
detestation
,
while
they
take
that
to
bee
best
in
religion
,
which
is
at
furthest
distance
from
the
error
they
come
to
oppugne
,
&
while
they
are
ouer
impetuously
carried
to
the
slaughter
of
their
adversaries
opinions
;
in
the
servor
of
contentious
zeale
they
fling
themselues
into
points
euery
way
as
crronious
as
those
which
they
haue
incountred
;
and
so
haue
not
left
but
changed
a
falshood
,
and
it
may
be
to
the
worse
,
and
haue
beene
found
liers
against
God
,
at
least
for
him
which
Iob
blames
.
I
haue
done
with
the
angrier
part
of
the
soule
;
she
hath
her
lustfulnesse
also
,
as
great
an
enimy
to
truth
:
let
me
then
in
the
fourth
place
,
indite
couetousnesse
,
&
ambition
,
who
peruerting
the
iudgement
,
must
needs
induce
error
;
how
many
false
visions
did
couetousnesse
helpe
the
lying
Prophets
too
of
old
?
were
become
shepheards
that
could
not
vnder
stand
for
they
were
as
greedy
as
their
doggs
,
they
looked
to
their
owne
way
,
euery
one
for
his
owne
againe
from
his
quarter
.
Who
were
they
in
the
Apostles
time
,
which
corrupted
,
betrayed
,
forsooke
the
faith
,
but
men
who
supposed
gaine
to
be
Godlinesse
,
and
who
were
spotted
with
filthy
lucre
,
exercised
with
couetous
practises
,
right
Balaamites
;
were
the
men
who
forsooke
the
right
path
and
went
actray
,
Euen
that
famous
Osius
of
Corduba
if
Isidore
charge
him
iustly
,
consented
to
the
Arrian
impiety
,
that
in
his
olde
age
he
might
not
loose
those
riches
which
he
had
got
together
in
his
youth
;
and
certainely
the
feare
of
losing
,
the
hope
of
gaining
these
temporall
things
hath
so
prevailed
with
many
,
that
wee
must
conclude
with
holy
Paul
,
the
loue
of
money
is
the
root
of
all
euill
,
which
while
some
coueted
after
,
they
haue
erred
from
the
faith
,
and
peirced
themselues
(
I
am
sure
the
Church
of
God
)
through
with
diuers
sorrowes
.
And
indeed
I
see
not
how
truth
can
be
thought
vpon
in
the
dust
,
and
noise
,
of
worldly
imployments
,
or
grow
vp
amidst
the
choaking
thornes
of
worldly
cares
:
how
can
the
breasts
of
men
be
wells
of
the
pure
and
liuing
water
of
truth
,
stopt
them
vp
and
filled
them
with
earth
.
A
worldling
already
hath
admitted
,
that
grand
error
into
his
heart
,
that
riches
is
the
soueraigne
good
,
fom
which
idolatry
,
a
man
may
quickly
slip
into
any
heresy
that
will
sort
with
it
,
how
can
ye
beleeue
as
our
sauiour
told
the
Iewes
which
receaue
honour
one
of
another
and
seeke
not
the
honour
which
cometh
from
God
alone
,
seruing
not
the
Lord
but
the
time
,
false
Apostles
in
the
dayes
of
the
truth
,
who
would
haue
blinded
the
religion
of
Christ
with
the
ordinances
of
Moses
and
superadded
circumcision
to
baptisme
perhaps
that
both
Iew
and
Gentile
might
be
pleased
;
such
as
these
I
say
there
are
,
who
to
gaine
good
estimation
with
different
sects
,
giue
faire
quarter
to
all
opinions
;
and
these
commonly
talke
of
reconciling
religions
,
and
composing
of
controversies
,
that
all
may
goe
away
contented
.
I
know
it
is
a
commendable
indeuour
of
Godly
men
,
to
seeke
the
vnion
of
Christian
churches
;
and
let
them
be
detested
,
who
by
needlesse
strifes
&
exasperations
,
make
the
rents
of
the
Church
wider
:
those
I
here
intend
,
who
loue
their
owne
fame
,
more
then
peace
,
and
peace
more
then
truth
:
which
they
care
not
how
they
pare
to
the
quicke
,
that
they
may
gaine
the
applause
of
moderate
and
well
tempered
men
.
In
the
fift
and
last
place
we
are
to
brand
a
licentious
and
dissolute
life
,
corruptor
of
the
faith
,
some
putting
away
a
good
conscience
(
which
inferrs
the
leading
a
bad
life
)
concerning
the
faith
,
haue
made
shipwracke
saith
St
Paul
,
and
St
Peter
repors
of
the
bringers
in
of
damnable
haeresies
that
they
had
their
pernitious
,
lasciuious
waies
,
that
they
walked
after
the
flesh
in
the
lusts
of
vncleanesse
;
that
they
had
eyes
full
of
adultery
and
that
could
not
cease
from
sinne
,
great
promisers
of
liberty
to
others
they
themselues
being
the
servants
of
corruption
,
as
the
Apostle
largely
describes
their
manners
:
Now
such
as
these
hauing
hearts
already
full
of
sensuality
,
there
is
no
roome
for
heauenly
contemplations
of
chast
truth
;
whatsoeuer
vigor
,
and
cleerenesse
and
intentiuenesse
of
the
mind
,
is
requisite
to
the
right
discerning
of
things
,
the
very
strength
of
the
soule
,
is
lost
in
the
armes
of
Dalilah
;
frugality
&
sobriety
(
the
sinewes
of
a
sound
iudgement
)
are
loosed
;
besides
there
are
not
any
of
those
holy
and
seuere
truths
in
Gods
word
but
these
men
wish
and
long
they
were
false
,
and
a
little
matter
will
improue
a
wish
into
a
beleefe
,
quod
volumus
facile
credimus
;
as
on
the
contrary
he
is
apt
to
take
those
doctrines
to
be
true
which
are
indulgent
to
his
dareling
vices
;
he
would
faine
sinne
with
some
warrant
,
that
hee
may
pacify
fame
abroad
,
and
conscience
at
home
if
it
were
possible
;
natur
a
hominis
procliuis
in
vitia
vult
non
modo
cum
veniâ
sed
cum
ratione
peccare
,
and
therefore
he
sedulously
hunts
after
and
would
gladly
finde
out
some
doctrines
vnder
whose
protection
he
may
offend
,
in
this
purfuite
euen
the
passages
of
scriptures
are
serched
into
by
some
,
to
see
what
patronage
they
will
afford
to
their
intemperances
,
that
so
they
may
securely
inioy
the
pleasure
of
ill
deeds
;
making
that
their
poyson
which
is
appointed
to
be
their
medicine
.
Thus
haue
I
(
Fathers
and
brethren
)
as
breifely
as
so
many
particulars
would
permit
,
shewed
that
they
are
our
morrall
evills
to
which
wee
may
lay
most
of
our
errors
in
matters
of
religion
;
that
wherein
I
should
now
enlarge
my selfe
,
but
cannot
(
vnlesse
I
should
trespasse
to
much
vpon
your
patience
)
is
,
that
for
the
avoidance
of
error
wee
would
all
of
vs
study
true
piety
,
which
standing
in
the
feare
of
God
,
must
needs
be
the
beginning
of
sauing
wisdome
,
this
feare
it
being
grounded
in
loue
,
will
make
you
still
haue
an
eye
to
your
fathers
will
:
and
if
a
man
will
doe
the
will
of
my
Father
saith
his
son
he
shall
know
of
the
doctrine
whether
it
bee
of
God
:
now
the
will
of
God
is
,
that
you
bee
industrious
,
humble
,
peaceable
,
moderate
in
your
desires
,
religious
in
your
liues
,
and
euery
way
contrary
to
the
misbehauiored
men
which
I
haue
set
before
you
:
bee
thus
and
the
victory
against
error
may
soonest
be
atchiued
;
sooner
a
great
deale
,
then
by
all
the
provisions
of
naturall
witt
,
or
secular
learning
.
One
of
the
heathens
had
this
speech
,
haue
the
vnction
whereof
St
Iohn
speakes
,
and
shall
know
all
things
,
all
things
meet
for
such
knowledge
,
and
seruice
of
God
here
,
as
shall
make
them
partakers
of
his
sight
and
glory
hereafter
.
David
giues
euery
good
man
great
assurance
when
he
asketh
,
what
man
is
hee
that
feareth
the
Lord
,
and
subioynes
;
him
shall
hee
teach
the
way
that
he
shall
choose
,
&
who
is
lead
by
God
is
out
of
the
road
of
destroying
error
.
O
lord
,
by
thy
word
and
spirit
guide
vs
all
here
present
,
by
thy
sonne
,
who
is
the
truth
,
bring
vs
to
thy
sonne
who
is
the
life
;
and
that
it
may
please
thee
to
bring
into
the
way
of
truth
all
others
that
haue
erred
&
are
deceiued
we
beseech
thee
to
heare
vs
good
Lord
;
FINIS
.