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2 There is an use of following, and this word follow is often in the Scriptures. We must¹ follow with choice, judgement and limitation. The wise man saith, it is the property of a fool to follow universally, that, whatsoever he seeth others do, he must needs do the same That eye is very weak that cannot look on a blear eye, but it must be bleared; and Seneca saith in his book ^*of the blessed life: We follow the drove like the beasts of the field; when we think we go to the pasture, it is very like we should go to the shambles. S. James vouchsafeth not to compare us to living creatures, but to the froth of the sea, which is carried up and down with the water; so we be carried and go not. The reason why we do³ thus is, because it is an hard matter to judge, but an easy matter to give credit. We believe, how we should live we judge not. We may see what their judgement is by the Logic, ⟨p. 667⟩which they use: they rest only in examples and similes, which how weak arguments they be, every man knoweth, no man will admit them in disputation. Yet when we come to examples, see what judgement we show, we take them by tale and number them not, we never weigh them, as he said. No man would so receive his groats, as we do examples, we⁴ ought not therefore to follow without choice. We must not plead simplicity, and say we came but behind: for if we consent, it is enough, though we be not the foremen, Rom. 1. 31.⁵ we must not only eschew those that do evil, but those also, that consent to evil, and Ephes 5. 7. we are charged not to be companions with them. And how is that? David telleth you, Psal 50. 18. thou seest a thief, and dost run with him.