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§. 5. And O that the Teachers wanted not the sense of their intellectual imperfections, as well as the people! But too many think that when they are all ordained into the same office, the honour of the same office is equally due to them all, and consequently all that honour of Knowledge, Parts and Piety, without which the honour of the office cannot be well kept up. And so when they all walk in the same robes and are called by the same titles, matters which they never understood, must pass according to the major vote, or at least, they must not be contradicted, nor their ignorance made known: And therefore when they have owned or uttered a Doctrine or Sentence, their honour is engaged to make it good; And they find a far easier way to make ostentation of the Knowledge which they have not, by robes, titles and big words, than to macerate their bodies by employing their minds in serious long unwearied studies, till they have received into their minds the well digested frame of sacred truths.

§. 5. And O that the Teachers wanted not the sense of their intellectual imperfections, as well as the people! But too many think that when they are all ordained into the same office, the honour of the same office is equally due to them all, and consequently all that honour of Knowledge, Parts and Piety, without which the honour of the office cannot be well kept up. And so when they all walk in the same robes and are called by the same titles, matters which they never understood, must pass according to the major vote, or at least, they must not be contradicted, nor their ignorance made known: And therefore when they have owned or uttered a Doctrine or Sentence, their honour is engaged to make it good; And they find a far easier way to make ostentation of the Knowledge which they have not, by robes, titles and big words, than to macerate their bodies by imploying their minds in serious long unwearied studies, till they have received into their minds the well digested frame of sacred truths.

§. 6. And if this tribe can keep the major vote (as it must be a strangely happy country where they do not) whoever will be wiser than they, shall be a heretic. But if it fall out better, and they be the weaker part, they will make up their honour by the way of singularity among so many as