Objection. IS not Nobility, and Learning, excellent ornaments for a Common-wealth?
Ans. Yea, but when the Nobles will not put* 1.1 their necks to the worke of the Lord, Nehem. 3. 5. and when Learning is spent upon private, and perni∣tious ends, it becommeth the foulest fiend the Devill hath upon earth, and his mightiest Agent to doe mischiefe; for no corrup∣tion is worse then that, which is best, mis-imployed, being of wo∣full consequence, proportionable to its native worth, such men for the most part, having the most worldliest ends; complying exactly with the world, hunting, and aspiring towards it, as their utmost aimes; and so by the abuse, and mis-applying of it, they put their great engine (very powerfull, either for excellency of good, or excesse of ill, as it takes) in the Devils hands, for the in∣larging, and advancing of his Kingdome, and so turneth the edge of it, to the dangerous hurt of others, and so by consequent, and accident, it proves a mighty bar, to keepe Christ and his Kingdome