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§. 4. Therefore Paul saith, that the servant of the Lord must not strive, and oft calleth men from perverse disputings, and striving about words which subvert the hearers, and from such contendings as edify not but tend to more ungodliness, (though the faith may be contended for, and truth defended, when opposition maketh it truly necessary).

§. 4. Therefore Paul saith, that the servant of the Lord must not strive, and oft calleth men from perverse disputings, and striving about words which subvert the hearers, and from such contendings as edifie not but tend to more ungodliness, (though the faith may be contended for, and truth defended, when opposition maketh it truly necessary).

§. 5. When a man seeketh after knowledge as a Learner, he meeteth it with a willing mind; he cometh towards it with an appetite, and so is a capable receiver: But when a man cometh as a disputant, he is engaged already to one side, and if that be false he cometh out to fight against the truth, with a spirit of opposition, hating truth as error, and good as evil, and thinks it his duty and interest to destroy and shame it if he can, and therefore is unapt to think what may be said for it, but studieth all that he can against it. And is this loathing, and opposition and fighting against truth the way to know it?

§. 5. When a man seeketh after knowledge as a Learner, he meeteth it with a willing mind; he cometh towards it with an appetite, and so is a capable receiver: But when a man cometh as a disputant, he is ingaged already to one side, and if that be false he cometh out to fight against the truth, with a spirit of opposition, hating truth as error, and good as evil, and thinks it his duty and interest to destroy and shame it if he can, and therefore is unapt to think what may be said for it, but studyeth all that he can against it. And is this loathing, and opposition and fighting against truth the way to know it?