Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sense [sic] sound Protestants…Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sence [sic] sound Protestants…

But where Learning is a duty, all Men come to Knowledge by degrees, and things usually appear to them in their probability, before they appear in ascertaining evidence. Therefore here the Question is, Whose judgment I shall take as most probable? (Were the case only, how far we should Preach our Judgment to others, there Rulers must more determine; or if it were, How to manage our Judgment so as to keep Unity and Concord, the Church, or major Vote must over-rule us). But it being the mere Judgment or Opinion that is in question, either we must adhere to the Judgment, 1. Of Rulers as such, 2. Or the major Vote as such, 3. Or to those that are most Excellent in that part of Knowledge: Why should I waste time to give you the Reasons against the two first, which are commonly received? When even the Papists, who go as far as any I know living in ascribing to One Man, and to major Votes, yet all agree, that a few subtle Doctors, yea one in the things in which he excelleth, is to be preferred before Pope or Council: And therefore the Scotists prefer one Scotus, Lychetus, Memisse, Rada, &c. before a Pope or Multitude, and so do the Nominals, one Ockam, Gregory, Gabriel, Hurtado, &c. and so the other Sects. The thing then being▪ such as neither you, nor any Man can deny, the difficulty which you urge, doth press you and all Men: And it is indeed one grand calamity of Mankind, and not the least hinderance of Knowledge in the World; that he that hath it not, knoweth not what another hath, but by ⟨p. 57⟩dark Conjectures. 4. And therefore Parents and Pupils know not who is their best Tutor: The hearers that are to choose a Teacher, hardly know whom to choose; for, as you say truly, he must know much that must judg of a knowing Man. God hath in all Arts and Sciences given some few Men an excellency of Wit and Reach above the generality of their Profession, and they have a more clear and solid Judgment. If all Men could but know who these be, the World would in one Age be more recovered from Ignorance than it hath been in ten. But the power of the Proud, and the confidence of the Ignorant, and the number of all th•se, and the Slanders and Scorn, and peevish Wranglings of the common Pride and Ignorance against those few that know what they know not, is the Devils great means to frustrate their endeavours, and keep the World from having knowledge.

But where Learning is a duty, all Men come to Knowledg by degrees, and things usually appear to them in their probability, before they appear in ascertaining evidence. Therefore here the Question is, Whose judgment I shall take as most probable? (Were the case only, how far we should Preach our Judgment to others, there Rulers must more determine; or if it were, How to manage our Judgment so as to keep Ʋnity and Concord, the Church, or major Vote must over-rule us). But it being the meer Judgment or Opinion that is in question, either we must adhere to the Judgment, 1. Of Rulers as such, 2. Or the major Vote as such, 3. Or to those that are most Excellent in that part of Knowledg: Why should I waste time to give you the Reasons against the two first, which are commonly received? When even the Papists, who go as far as any I know living in ascribing to One Man, and to major Votes, yet all agree, that a few subtile Doctors, yea one in the things in which he excelleth, is to be preferred before Pope or Council: And therefore the Scotists prefer one Scotus, Lychetus, Memisse, Rada, &c. before a Pope or Multitude, and so do the Nominals, one Ockam, Gregory, Gabriel, Hurtado, &c. and so the other Sects. The thing then being such as neither you, nor any Man can deny, the difficulty which you urge, doth press you and all Men: And it is indeed one grand calamity of Mankind, and not the least hinderance of Knowledg in the World; that he that hath it not, knoweth not what another hath, but by