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4. Suppose that some ignorance in the Understanding,¹ be the remote cause of the Sin, yet malice may be the next, and chief cause. As for example: Suppose that a man hath taken up some prejudice against another, through a mistake and error; yet now he hates him, and out of hatred kills him; shall not this murderer be said to kill him out of malice, because the malice was founded upon a mistake, or error? Yes surely: But why is he said to kill him out of malice? Because malice was the next cause of this murder. So that though ignorance be the remote cause of a Sin, yet malice may be the next cause thereof; and being so, he shall be said truly to sin ex malitia, though with some precedent ignorance, as the remote cause thereof.

4. Suppose that some ignorance in the Understanding,¹ be the remote cause of the Sin, yet malice may be the next, and chief cause. As for example: Suppose that a man hath taken up some prejudice against another, through a mistake and error; yet now he hates him, and out of hatred kils him; shal not this murderer be said to kil him out of malice, because the malice was founded upon a mistake, or error? Yes surely: But why is he said to kil him out of malice? Because malice was the next cause of this murder. So that though ignorance be the remote cause of a Sin, yet malice may be the next cause thereof; and being so, he shal be said truly to sin ex malitia, though with some precedent ignorance, as the remote cause thereof.

1. 1Quo ex malitia? an eousque amentiae profilire queant homines ut Dei gloriam oppugnare scientes et volentes non dubitent? Resp. audaciam istam prodire quidem ex cordis caecitate sed in qua malitia exsuperet, ut clarum est hoc loco de Pharisaeis. Lucas Brugensis in Math. 12.