a choiceandaprecisasfpirit. have we to doe with others , who are blindand ignorant r thoughtherewere never f:) turfy thoufands o them, they can addenothingatalt to thecan le, 2 Let the judgements ofmen be ta- ken when they al emoft ferious, when theyare bell able to judge ; doe not take themwhen they arc in paffion , when their luftsareup, but when their fpirits arecalmed,and in thebell temper,when eonfcence bath the molt liberty to peak indeed what it thinks; and offuch men , in loch times , we (hail have the molt on our fide; and therefore furely i. is not a humour of fingularity, that ads them in the wayof godlir}cife. Seventhly It is not finguiarity , for wehave the Prophets, Apofiles, Mar- tyrs, SaintsofGod beforeus,clouds of witnefles thoufand rhoufinds ofthem, and every one ofthem worth ten thou- fands of others , asS. Chryfaftore hath anexprt Pion in oreofhis Sermons , to thepeopleofAntioch,It is better to have one precious ftone , then tohave many half pennies; fo onegodly man isbet- ter theti multitudes ofothers. And S. C'yprian hath the like expreon inone L 3 of 349 NIT!ad¡xoa atiltet quirl judicentftut- ti, quid ho- munculi tiaxt. Laâ. Divin. In- flit. ip. c.s. CbryC born. z6 ad pop. Antioch.
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