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BEda maketh mention of one returning out of England to Aidanus a Religious Bishop in Scotland,* 1.1 complaining that the people little profited by his preaching, to whom Aidanus answered, that it was perhaps because he did not after the man∣ner of the Apostles, give them milk first, i. e. principle them well in the foundation
of Christian Religion: And it is most true, that super structures must needs down where the ground-sills are not well laid,* 1.2 that the onely way to encrease knowledge is by knowledge of the Principles of Religion, being thus grounded there will be an ability to judge of truth and false doctrine, so that men will not so easily be carry∣ed about with every wind of doctrine, as the prophane and ignorant multitude be, such as are tiling the house, when they should be laying fast the foundation, such as think they move in a circle of all divine knowledge, when (God knows) they know little or nothing at all.
Hist. Anglorum ••b. 3. cap. 5.
Rich. Bernard Serm. of Cate∣chism.