A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

Quer. 5. Moreover, if you are so uncertain of a Life to come, I would ask you, Whether in all your search and study, you have behaved your selves as Learners, or rather as proud self-conceited men, that think themselves wise enough before they learn, to try and judge their Books and Teachers. If this be your case, no wonder if you be Infidels. If you come with such a disposition to read a Book of Astronomy or Physic, you will never learn. If you go to any Schoolmaster, or to learn any language or science, and think your selves able before you have learnt them, to try and judge your Teacher and all the Books you read, and so will reject all that you do not understand, or agreeth not with you former conceits, you will sooner prove doting fools then Scholars, and sooner be the derision of Rational men, then come to the knowledge •••ch you pretend to seek. Come to Christs School as little children in meekness and humility and a willingness to be taught, and patiently continue in the use of means till Learning can be attained, before you think your selves fit to censure the Truth of God which you are learning, and then tell me whether God doth not resolve you.

Quer. 5. Moreover, if you are so uncertain of a Life to come, I would ask you, Whether in all your search and study, you have behaved your selves as Learners, or rather as proud self-conceited men, that think themselves wise enough before they learn, to try and judge their Books and Teachers. If this be your case, no wonder if you be Infidels. If you come with such a disposition to read a Book of Astronomy or Physick, you will never learn. If you go to any Schoolmaster, or to learn any language or science, and think your selves able before you have learnt them, to try and judge your Teacher and all the Books you read, and so will reject all that you do not understand, or agreeth not with you former conceits, you will sooner prove doting fools then Schollars, and sooner be the derision of Rational men, then come to the knowledge •••ch you pretend to seek. Come to Christs School as little children in meekness and humility and a willingness to be taught, and patiently continue in the use of means till Learning can be attained, before you think your selves fit to censure the Truth of God which you are learning, and then tell me whether God doth not resolve you.