Reason must submit to Faith. [ 497]
VVHen three Ambassadors were sent from Rome,* 1.1 to appease the discord be∣twix Nicomedes and Prusias; vvhereof one vvas troubled vvith a Megrim in his head, another had the Gowt in his Toes, and the third was a Fool; Cato said vvittily, That Ambassage had neither head, nor foot, nor heart: So that man vvhosoe∣ever he be, shall never have a head to conceive the truth, nor a foot to vvalk in the vvayes of obedience, nor a heart to receive the comfortable ••ssurance of salvation, that suffers his Reason, Will, and Affections to usurp upon his faith; Qui se sibi constitui••, slultum habet magistrum. He that goes to school to his own reason, hath a fool to his Schoolmaster; and he that suffers his faith to be over-ruled by his Reason, may have a strong Reason, but a weak faith to rely upon.