Excel in Goofiefs a'a well a Knowleage. 329 tier ofthe Prince ofdarknefs, who is a malicious adverftry of Light. This is that, brand of the Ro man iniquity, the hindering men from theread- ing ofthe Scriptures, and magnifying ignorance, which maketh men fo commonly think them to be the Ecclefa analignantium and the Antic hri- flian brood. ThusCardinal woirey declaimed am ,gaintl the Art of Printing, as that which would take down the honour and profit of the Prieít- hood, by making the people as wife as they. It is not by keeping them down, or envying their a bilities, that we mutt keep our diftance from the people ; but by rifing higher our felves, and ex- celling them in all minifterial gifts. Elfe why (hould we be thought any fitter to be their Teachers and Guides, than they to be ours ? Yea though we excel them in all thefe abil ties, it will not ferve turn to the ends ofour Mi- nit{ery , unlefs we alto excel them in holinefs and every Chriftian vertue. The Devil knometh more than Minifters : Anp if he have a tongue to speak he wantethnet utterance. He is the moll excellent and honourable, who is likeft to God, and bath molt of his image. And God hathmore propofed himfelf to mans imitation in Goodxefs, than in Greatneft : He bath not faid, Be Great, for the Lord your God ù great : but [ walk in the Light, as he is in the Light, t rob. it. 7. and Be holy for the Lordyour God äe holy. 1 Pet, t. 16. Lev. 20.7. & 19. 2. 6 21. 8. To be Great and Bad is to be able to do mifchief : To be Learned ingenious and Bad , is to be wire to do evil, and a crafty and fubtle intlrument ofthe de- vil, ter. 4. z a. It was no laudable defcription of
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