4°4 of their wif ,dome, with. fmpie followers, but tote!! them, O filch a ore bath dangerous errours, and filch a book is a dangerous book ; and they h,Dld this, and they hold that; and fo to make odious the opinions-or praaifes Of others, which they uncierffand not : And ¡his cloth their burnefs with thefe filly fo.rls,; who hear not what can be fail aainft them, as well as if they were the words of truth and fobernefs. As for the younger and emptier fort of Mini fiers, it is no wonder , if they underl and not that which they had never opportunity to Judy, or have taken but a fuperficial- tafle of: But it were to be wiíhed that they were fo humble as to confef. that they are yet but beardiefs; and that time and loner liudy is needful to make them as wile as thole (who with equal wit and grace) have/had many more yea's of ferious Rudy and greater opportunities to know the truth : and that they have not their wifclorne by fpecial .infpírati= on or revelation ; nor fo far excel the refs' of mankind itì a miraculous wit, as to know that by a few years lazy fludy , which others know not by the laborious humble fearhes of a far longer ume. One 'would think that a little humility .tnrght fere the turn for thus much. But if ignorance get pol' fonof the ancient and grey - headed`, it triumrheth then, and deft. eth little X%wvid, and faith, Give me' a man that I may difpute with him r Or rather, Awaywith the heïetick.: he- is not worthy to "bu difputed with. For wvifrcome groweth not with years : And a courier wit may be poring forty or fifty years, after that which another may fooner un- derihand.
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