A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

2. The thing is further proved by the common experience of mankind, which it ⟨p. 94⟩amazeth me to think a man that liveth among men in the world, awake and in his senses, can be ignorant of? Enemies know it: Friends know it; not only that there are Ignorant and Injudicious Christians, but that the far greatest part are such though not in a damning, yet in a sad and troublesome degree! And that the far greatest part of those that we hope are truly godly, remain so lamentably ignorant of abundance of things, that should be known, and continue in such an infancy of understanding, as is a great advantage to the Tempter, and many ways calamitous to themselves, and to the Church: It is the lamentation of all experienced Ministers. Alas, how ignorant even honest people remain; And how slowly they come on in knowledge?

2. The thing is further proved by the common experience of mankind, which it ⟨p. 94⟩amazeth me to think a man that liveth among men in the world, awake and in his senses, can be ignorant of? Enemies know it: Friends know it; not only that there are Ignorant and Injudicious Christians, but that the far greatest part are such though not in a damning, yet in a sad and troublesome degree! And that the far greatest part of those that we hope are truly godly, remain so lamentably ignorant of abundance of things, that should be known, and continue in such an infancy of understanding, as is a great advantage to the Tempter, and many waies calamitous to themselves, and to the Church: It is the lamentation of all experienced Ministers. Alas, how ignorant even honest people remain; And how slowly they come on in knowledge?

3. If God have made it one half the work of the Pastors of the Churches, to labour all their days to heal the Ignorance of good people, then, such Ignorant ones there are: But the antecedent is plain in Scripture; and believed by most Ministers, as their daily Sermons tell you.