393- backs upon them , as men unwo-thy to be di fputed with in their way. Anfwer not the fool accordingto his folly, á. e. word it not with hill in his footillx way ; left you make him think him- feif worthy to be difputed with. Talk not with him at his rates; And yet anfwer him according to his folly; by .filch convióion and rebukes as is meet for fooles, and as may make him under- Rand his folly , left he be wife in his own eyes, and think that none can fand before him. Secondly, And it iscomrrionly the moll igì rant fort of Miniffers, who are the liberalle[f of their fupercilious contempt of thofe, whofe un- derlfandings and worth are above their cenfures. If a contrbverfie be ffarted , which they either never ífudied , or have only turned over the pa- ges of a few books, to number the (beets, and never (pent one year in the deep and ferious fearchof the tru'h which is in quef}ion; Or if they have clumfe.wkits, that cannot feel fo, fine a shred, nor are capable of mattering the difficul- ties ; None then are (ufual ly) fo ready to lhoot their bolt, and pafs a Maifferial fentence, and gravely and ignorantly tell the ignorant, what er- rours fuch or tuch a one maintaineth ., as thofe that talk of that which they never underífood. For as I have known many unlearned fats, that had no artifice tokeep up the reputation of their learning, than in all companies to cry down filch and fuch (who were wifer than theenf Ives) for no fchollars , but unlearned men ; fo many that are or ihould be confciousof the dulnefs and ig- norance of their fumbling and unfurnished brains., have no way to keep upAthe reputation Ff3 of
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