330 Confciellce to he Examined - =--- Cap.2..j.. feen. We tan difcourfe and difput;hetter than our Fathers; they could and did liye better. Liberty ~th like Reuben climbed up ·· into his Mother Cen{cience's bed,Jfid there bath defiled it, therefore lofeth thePrehemi– nenceandBirth-1·ight, and jbalJ not excell. And as for Purity, Charity, Tendernef!e, lnqffen– jiveneffi, Si~cerity, and the like, we havefent them afar off, as Abrahamdid the Children oftheConcubine/. But ifthefe things were in \JS, and did abound, We fhould not be fo barrep; and frigid, and unfruitfull in the kpowledge of Chrifl as we are, whereas for laclc of thefe things men are blind, and do– ting about quefiions to noprofit, but·to the corrupting of tile Speaker, and fubverting ofthe Hearers. As we arc wont to fay of aScholler going ~i pr~ficit to the Vniverfitie, ifhedo not as well pro... in Docti~~t. fit in his Ethicks ( in his Behaviour andMo– & ~1:;;'~"' rals) as he cloth in his Logick, or in Arts ;::;tit [et' and Tongues, he cloth not profit .but ~.ofe: leftcit. So maywe well fay of the Profcffor, 1f he profit not as much in Confcience as inbare Science and Opinions, his Proficiency is put a Deficiency. , · Who doth not look upou theToadas a hatefull creature, although it have a Pearle in h~s head, becaufe it is full ofPoyfon with.. in, andall fpeckled without? what is that ~an to be valued, who hath a PearJe of ¥nowledge in his brain, if anot~er had it, ~ut his inward parts arevery wickedneffe,hc {\vels with poyfonous Pride within, and his life fpotted abro.ad? But
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