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Yea were it only men that understand not Hebrew, Greek, Latin or any Language save one, and were Skilful in that one, we might have some hope of ending this blind War. But it is kept up by our unskilfulness in the English tongue, as well as of the Greek and Hebrew. Men have not brains and diligence to exclude Equivocals, or to distinguish of their sense; or to state the sense of their ⟨image 11⟩terms before they dispute. Nor to understand each others meaning, but fight in confusion in the dark like the Physicians that let the Patient die, because they could not agree whether he should take succinum, Carabes, Electrum or Amber.

Yea were it only men that understand not Hebrew, Greek, Latin or any Language save one, and were Skilful in that one, we might have some hope of ending this blind War. But it is kept up by our unskilfulness in the English tongue, as well as of the Greek and Hebrew. Men have not brains and diligence to exclude Equivocals, or to distinguish of their sense; or to state the sence of their ⟨image 11⟩terms before they dispute. Nor to understand each others meaning, but fight in confusion in the dark like the Physicians that let the Patient die, because they could not agree whether he should take succinum, Carabes, Electrum or Amber.

§ 5 Whither need we to go for an instance of this unhappiness, but to our controversies about Justification? How many Books, Sermons, Disputings, and Back-biting Revilings, are employed about words neither explained nor understood! Rash folly and confident rage beseem not holy things, that should be managed by Reverence and Discretion.