Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity,…

5. When you talk most in a bold asserting or a Teaching way, as if you were Oracles to be heard and reverenced, and not in a humble enquiring way, with that necessary doubting which beseemeth Learners; except ye become as Little Children in teachable humility, you are not fit for the School of Christ, Matth. 18.3. Even he that is a Teacher must be a Learner still; as conscious of his remaining ignorance, and not think himself above it, nor set himself to ⟨p. 188⟩dispute against all that he understands not, but continue humbly to search and try. 6. When those Reasons of your own seem good and cogent, which are sufficiently confuted, and you cannot see it, or which men of the most approved Learning & fitness to judg do judg to be but folly; & when other mens soundest reasons seem light to you, because you judg by a proud and selfish understanding, confident and tenacious of all that is your own, and contemning that which is against you.

5. When you talk most in a bold asserting or a Teaching way, as if you were Oracles to be heard and reverenced, and not in a humble enquiring way, with that necessary doubting which beseemeth Learners; except ye become as Little Children in teachable humility, you are not fit for the School of Christ, Matth. 18.3. Even he that is a Teacher must be a Learner still; as conscious of his remaining ignorance, and not think himself above it, nor set himself to ⟨p. 188⟩dispute against all that he understands not, but continue humbly to search and trie. 6. When those Reasons of your own seem good and cogent, which are sufficiently confuted, and you cannot see it, or which men of the most approved Learning & fitness to judg do judg to be but folly; & when other mens soundest reasons seem light to you, because you judg by a proud and selfish understanding, confident and tenacious of all that is your own, and contemning that which is against you.