The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…

11 We must learn a Logic of the holy Ghost, Exod. •3. 2. to answer the topics of the world, which defend their doings by; Others do so, and learnedner and wiser than you have d••• it. And indeed we must not only forsake a multitude, but we must also add this to dissent from the traditions of the elders. It cometh all to one end: for it differeth not, whether we say many, or one great one as many for if one thing be equivalent to a multitude, we may say as the Hebrew and the Greek do, that they are all one; ten shillings and an angel¹ are all one. There be that think it is of more force many smite like hail stones, but great men like great thunderbolts. And if we consider it well, if one be slavish, the multitude is as a wasp, the great man like a Lyon with bloody •eeth, and therefore of greater² force. If we urge the multitude, a man may caution against them▪ they are but sculls without brains: authority is a great scholar, if such a Rabbi be of the opinion, it is not like they should be out of the way. Men commonly say, that there are but the great matters of the Church and common-wealth to be cared for, other matters are but rattles for children to play with: But David prayeth as well for the little hills as for the great mountains; and Christ saith, we must be faithful in little, and if we cannot better one talent, the Lord should do justice if he should put no moe into our hands. Elihu supposeth, that in the Rabbins must needs be wisdom, yet after he perceiveth that the greatest is not the wisest, but the inspiration of the Almighty giveth wisdom. Kimchi writeth, that in their colleges they suffered the younger scholars to speak first, & to show their opinions, that they might not be oppressed with the authority of the elders, and then afterwards the Rabbins; and this order³ is kept in divers Universities until this day. Many will say, I had rather err with Plato than speak truth with another, a most profane sentence. And mark how these men going thus against the holy Ghost do even destroy Logic it self. For what argument is this? such a one saith it, therefore I may do it? It is not against reason? And to do that which is nought, and then to affirm it by authority, young scholars have learned to hiss