In the. 125. page to the Admonition desiring that these may be remoued and the eldership e∣stablished according to gods order, M. Doctor answereth, that that were to place in stead of wise, and discreete men, vnlearned, ignorant and vnapt to rule. Let M. Doctor take heede, lest in allo∣wing so well of the popish ceremonies, not onely as tollerable, but as fitte, and then acquainting himselfe with the papists manner of speaking, in saying that the people be ignorant and vnlearned, he fall or euer he be aware into some worse thing. Moses in Deuteronomy, and Salomon in hys* 1.1 Prouerbs, place the principall wisedome in keeping Gods commaundements and in fearing God.* 1.2 And Dauid sayth, that the secrets and the priute councell of the Lord, is knowen to those whiche* 1.3 feare him, and I haue shewed out of S. Paule, that he giueth to the spirituall man great discreti∣on* 1.4 and iudgement of things. If therefore there be in euery Church whiche feare God and keepe his commaundements, there are both wise and learned and discreete 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉en, and therefore not to be spoken of so contemptuously as M. Doctor speaketh. And God be praysed there are numbers in the Church, that are able to be teachers vnto most of the Chauncellours, in any matter perteyning to the Church, and are able to giue a riper iudgement in any ecclesiasticall matter, than the moste part of them can.
Who knoweth not that the people for the most part be ignorant, vnlearned, and* 1.5 vnapt to gouerne? you know what Chrysostome sayth of them Hom. 2. in Ioh. And yet I do not take from them sufficient knowledge in things perteyning to their sal∣uation, nor that wisedome that Salomon or Dauid speaketh of: nor yet the discreti∣on that S. Paule meaneth. 1. Cor. 2. But is euery man that shall be saued, apt to rule