Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

First, General, when they give milk to them to whom strong meat belongeth, and when they give strong meat to them to whom milk belongeth.

And this second is most failed in, when Ministers preach to ignorant people, and walk as it were in clouds. When they deliver the Word in scholastical terms, this is as it is in the fable, to put meat into a narrow mouthed pot, though the Crane get it out yet the Fox cannot. So though Scholars can pick out the meaning, the plainer ⟨p. 301⟩people cannot; it is the fault of some to preach University Sermons to the people, which they have made for a more learned auditory. It is all one as if a man should come to a fair where there were none but poor people, and bring Jewels to self, he might carry them home again, the people would not buy of them because their purses would not reach the price, or because they know not the use of them; but bring spades and such things as they have use of, and you may sell them: So when they preach these Sermons to the people, though they be pearls, yet they be such as the peoples capacity cannot reach to; but bring plain Doctrine, such as they have use of, and you do them good.

And this second is most failed in, when Ministers preach to ignorant people, and walk as it were in clouds. When they deliver the Word in scholastical terms, this is as it is in the fable, to put meat into a narrow mouth'd pot, though the Crane get it out yet the Fox cannot. So though Schollers can pick out the meaning, the plainer ⟨p. 301⟩people cannot; it is the fault of some to preach University Sermons to the people, which they have made for a more learned auditory. It is all one as if a man should come to a fair where there were none but poor people, and bring Jewels to self, he might carry them home again, the people would not buy of them because their purses would not reach the price, or because they know not the use of them; but bring spades and such things as they have use of, and you may sell them: So when they preach these Sermons to the people, though they be pearls, yet they be such as the peoples capacity cannot reach to; but bring plain Doctrine, such as they have use of, and you do them good.