what schools I was bred in: for the title-page of my Book doth pub∣lish it to the world. And doubtlesse these schooles have ever yeel∣ded men as eminent for judgement, as righteous in their life, and as zealous for the truth, as those that you have been bred in, or a∣ny other schooles in Christendome besides. But that which you here first indict me for, is this. [That I abuse rhetoricall termes, as literall sense for proper sense.] And I pray, what Divine doth not as often, or oftner, use literall sense for proper sense, then for the true sense, whether proper or figurative? and what is the mea∣ning of literall sense, in this approved axiome, but a proper sense? For doubtlesse there is no necessity that can compell us to leave the true sense of the scripture, although it may to leave the proper sense. And yet the axiome runnes thus: We must not for∣sake the literall or proper sense, &c. which being rendred (accor∣ding to your acceptation of the word literall) the true or proper sense, what sense will there be in the axiome? Your next censure is, [That I have contra-distinguished metaphoricall sense to figurative sense.] But it had been honest dealing to have shewed the place, or else not to have said so: for an accusation without proofe doth onely declare the plaintiffe a slanderer. Your third complaint is [That I keepe no Logicall canons in arguing.] No Sir, it is not for e∣very one to doe this; it is for such as you are, for such as are scholars; such men will observe a canonicall method in argu∣ing: and make as excellent use of logicall maximes, as you have done pag. 30. of this maxime, [What agreeth unto any man as man, belongeth unto all men.] The last censure is, [That I never learned such interpretation of scripture, in any approved schoole.] Surely the interpretation of scripture, is to be learned from God, and not from man: for that interpretation is most true, and infallible, when the coherence of the text doth point out the sense, or when one scripture doth expound another of the same nature. And yet I goe not alone, but am accompanied with many approved Authors, bred in approved schooles, who have all confessed the same truth that I speake for, and stucke to that proper interpre∣tation of these scriptures, which I follow. For not to speake of the primitive Christians, or of many of the Fathers after them, there have been many approved men for learning in these latter-times, that have been witnesses of this truth, amongst whom, are