Certain sermons, first preached, and after published at several times, by M. Thomas Gataker…Certaine sermons, first preached, and after published at severall times, by M. Thomas Gataker…

Reason 2 Yea in regard of grace and goodness, it is instar codicis depravati, as a book blurred and blotted, or depraved and misprinted, that must have much razed and done out, ere it can be well corrected, or that written into it, that it ought to have.

Reason 2 Yea in regard of grace and goodnesse, it is instar codicis depravati, as a booke blurred and blotted, or depraved and misprinted, that must have much rased and done out, ere it can be well corrected, or that written into it, that it ought to have.

It is^l instar agri inculti, as an untilled ground, wherein^* weeds of all sorts come up of themselves naturally, but no good thing will grow without mucking and manuring, without much travel and toil: it is a mother (as^a he said of the Earth sometime) to the one, it is but a stepdame to the other.

It is^l instar agri inculti, as an untilled ground, wherein^* weeds of all sorts come up of themselves naturally, but no good thing will grow without mucking and manuring, without much travell and toyle: it is a mother (as^a he said of the Earth sometime) to the one, it is but a stepdame to the other.

1. lUt ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest: sic sine doctrina animus. Cic. Tusc. l. 2. Cultura animi philosophia est, quae extrahit vitia radicitus; & praeparat animos ad satius accipiendos; eaque mandat his & serit, quae adulia fructus uberrimos ferant. Ibid.