3a0 Mini/i ersfarlts caule divi(ions, &c. (elves with that much, as if they iiad made them underfianding Chriflians; and leave them as igno- rant & fentlefs of the importance of thofe words, as they were before ever they learnt them. The ford-ate' unacquaintednefs with the people and their weaknefies, doth make many teachers lofe their labour ; while they meafure the common people by themfelves, and think that they can un- derfland fuch words as they themfelves can un- derfland : When they little know how utterly ignorant abundance are of the matter, when they have learned to ffeák all themortis by rote. Thera fore experience bath oft conflrained me to fay; that after all their fludy and learning in the Unï- ver(ities, fuch Paflors as did never familiarly converfe with the poor and vulgar of the flocks, and try the exercife of perfonal inffru&ion and exhortationupon them, are no more to be regar- ded in many controverfìes about the Pafloral Work and difcip'ïne , than an unexperienced Phy- fcian , or Chyrurgeon , or Soldier or Pilot in many cafes of their profeffions : Which maketh Many learned felfconceiced Doctors, becoint theplagues, while they t kink themfelves the pill.: lars of the Church. There are no parents or mailers but find it prefently in their children, how quickly they will learn a Catechifm, and therein the Creed, Lords Prayer and Decalogue, while they feared underhand the fenfe and matter of any of the piainnef$ words which theyhave uttered : And we find it is jut} fo with too many of the aged allo. And therefore if by other queflions and explications, you put them ot of their rode, and teac4
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