A moral prognostication I. what shall befall the churches on Earth, till their concord

26. As few Teachers have Natural Capacity for Exactness, and a Willingness, and Patience for long Laborious Studies; so many by their Pastoral oversight of Souls, and many by the wants of their Families (especially in times or Persecution, when all their public maintenance is gone, and they must Live (with their Families) on the Charity of People, perhaps Poor and Persecuted as well as ⟨p. 7⟩they) are hindered from those Studies, which else they would undergo.

26. As few Teachers have Natural Capacity for Exactness, and a Willingness, and Patience for long Laborious Studies; so many by their Pastoral oversight of Souls, and many by the wants of their Families (especially in times or Persecution, when all their publike maintenance is gone, and they must Live (with their Families) on the Charity of People, perhaps Poor and Persecuted as well as ⟨p. 7⟩they) are hindred from those Studies, which else they would undergo.

27. It is few that grow to much Exactness of Judgment without much Writing (for themselves or others): For Study, which is to be Exactly ordered and expressed by the Pen, is usually (at last) the exactest Study: As the Lord Bacon saith, [Much Reading maketh a Man full; much conference maketh a Man Ready: and much Writing maketh a Man Exact.] There are few Camero's, Men of clear Judgment, and abhorring to Write. And there are few Divines comparatively that have opportunity to Write much.

28. They that Err in Divinity, do think their falsehoods to be God's Truth; and so will Honour that which he hates, with the pretence of his Authority and Name.