The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…

12. If the Great and Rich be bred up to better utterance, they are very happy persons among them, that are not more worldly, sensual and profane; yea and more ignorant too of the matters of salvation, how knowing soever as to words.

12. If the Great and Rich be bred up to better utterance, they are very happy persons among them, that are not more worldly, sensual and prophane; yea and more ignorant too of the matters of salvation, how knowing soever as to words.

13. That Pastor who preferreth this ungodly sort before the faithful now described, and that gathereth together all the weak expressions of the later, to make them ridiculous to the former; or (if with no such intent) doth proclaim them persons of a foolish Religion, because they cannot talk so wisely as they ought about religion, and this at a time and in a manner, as is likest to harden the sensual in the opinion that their case is the better, and that learning and labouring to be seriously religious, is but a foolish fanciful thing; I say, that Pastor is— Let his conscience hereafter tell him what.

14. When there is no known way, (but by the Schools, or by a Miracle) for the world of the vulgar to come to the higher form of wisdom but by the lover; nor to come to Heaven but by such weak beginnings; And when Grace as well as Nature beginneth with infant unutterable desires and groans, Rom. 8. 26. and with an Abba father, Gal. 4. 6. (which our heart-searching father understandeth, Rom. 8. 27.) And when all Christs Disciples must enter first as little children into the lowest form (