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§. 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 ⟨p. 188⟩they can get to believe, that they are masters of some excellent truths which almost all the Christian world is unacquainted with.

§. 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 heretick. 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 ⟨p. 188⟩they can get to believe, that they are masters of some excellent truths which almost all the Christian world is unacquainted with.

§. 7. And even in men otherwise truly pious, there is so much remaining pride as is greatly gratified by singularity: Selfishness and the Old man are but One. And an opinion that is peculiarly their own, is as lovely to them, as their own Children in comparison of others: If they can say, ego primus inveni, it is sweetest: If not, yet to be one of a singular Society, that is supposed wiser, and better and more excellent in their way of worship than all others, is very comfortable to them, that by taking the elect to be fewer than they are, do judge it a good mark to hold what few hold, and do as few do.

§. 8. And there may be a conjunction of good and evil in the cause of these effects.