Againf Mr. WebftersBoo(ca/I'd, The Saints Guid. 301 dome and goodneffe ofthe fpirit ofGod, whomaketh ,all things worktogetherfor the benefit ofthole that love himwho are the called according to hispurpofe. Then which, nothing can be more clear; for that a blind man could hardly have mi f aken it. Thenhe goes on,faying, Behold how he cheats you miftaking theue/1ion; for it is not whether by the help°of humane learning, a man may attain afa- vingknowledge to himfelfe , whether he can fave his ownfoul;but whether he ma,/ not attain to fuch a knowledge as may enable him to holdout the way of falvation unto others; and fo proceeds in the proving of this unto the beginning of the a i »> a p Thepoor creature is Hill accul ng others of that which he is guilty of himfelf; for alas, he cheats himfelfe likea blind man , fhooting he knows not at what mark: for this iefionwas not movednor deniedby me, but in my fecond solution granted, that huinanelearningmay conduce to the gaining ofLitteral and Hiflorical knowledge, and is there {hewed to be an objction not ad idem becaufe it profitteth not, and therefore the man is here arguing nothing, again i heneither knows whom nor what, but thinks it fufficient confutation ofany thing, if hedo but babble forth wind and wordsenough, though theybe altogether betide the Queffion, anl to nopurpofe. I will once again tell him what he fhould have proved ; towit; That M4/I had realn before the Fall, and that humane learning is not thefruit and effect ofthe forbidden tree; but not a wordOf this;It isa morfel toohard for his dige f ing. And
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