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Their Cardinal Cusaen faith, that Obedientia irrationalis est consummata obedientia & perfectissima, &c. Ignorant obedience, wanting reason, is the most absolute and perfect obedience. Chrysostom gives the reason, why they so oppose themselves against reason, ^gHaeretici sacerdotes Claudunt januas veritatis, &c. Heretical Priests shut up the gates of Truth: For they know that upon the manifestation of the Truth, their Church would be soon forsaken. If the light which maketh all things plain, should shine out, ^hTunc hi qui prius decipiebant: nequaqua• ad populum accodere valebunt, post quam se senserint intellectos: then they who before cozened the people, could preserve their credits no longer, being now smelt out and espied. Hence the people aim at Christ, but either short or gone, and not with a just Jevell. But ⁱNemo de Christo credat nisi quod Chr•stus de se credi voluit. Let no man believe other thing of Christ then what Christ would have believed of himselfe. Non minus est Deum fingere, quam negare, saith Hilary. It is no less sin to feign a new God, then to deny the true God. The Priests call the people Swine, and therefore must not have those precious pearls. And so the people (^k Amant ignorare, malunt nescire, quod jam oderunt,) had rather continue ignorant, as not loving to know those things, which they cannot love, because they know not. But alas, Ignorance is so far from sanity and sanctity, ⟨p. 35⟩that it is a spilling and killing sickness. Men are urged to read the Scriptures, that never emptied Treasur-house of knowledge: they answer, ^lNon sum. Monachus, uxorem habeo, & curam domus, I am no Priest, I have a wife, and a domesticall charge to look to. This is that Pestilence (no ordinary sickness) that infects to death many souls; to think that knowledge belongs only to Priests. ^m