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Sir, I dare not boafl of my Learning*, but you know
as much of me, as I do of you : And the Truth fears no
Strangers, nor feeks no Corners, nor need it be aftiamcd
to appear publickly, whenever there is occafion ; And if
I am bold and confident, it is the Truth makes me fo, for
otherwifc I am timorous enough-, but have experienced
hew the Truth has holpen me in time part, to deal with
as great and as learned Men as Mr. JfmeSy no difparagement
to him : And I am apt to think, I have managed
as many Difputes as ever Mr. James hath done ; and he
that convinceth me of Error, I take to be my bcft Friend.
But (ince Mr. James hath mc in contempt to fo great a
Degree, 1 hope to plcafe him with a greater Scholar, fuch
an one as chat Greek and Hebrew may not found harfti in
his Ears, (li he defires it) and I wi(h their Scholarfhip
keep them in good Order : But if your Qualifications in
Grace, Humility, Meekneff, Sobriety and Moderation,
with all due fubmiiTion to the Truth, when made apparent,
will not keep you in good Order, without Heats and
PaflioriS, I doubt all ycur Art and Skill in Learning will
not : For tb^re be many Learned Men that are haughty,
proud, and imperious j and being Scholars, are lifted up
with Pride, and boaft of tlieir Learning j and thofc thac
will not believe what they Uy to be true, they hold in
Contempt, as not worthy to be difcourfed with. But
alas ! what muft the unlearned, and weak, and fuch as
want Education in Schools of Learning do? Muft they be
flighted and contemned for want qf Art, and Skill, and
Learning in the Tongues of La in, Greek, and Hebrew,
and the like ? furely th s would be very unmerciful and
unreafonable. But God be hlefled, he hath Mercy on
the Ignorant, the Poor and the Weak, that are unskilful
in ^. res, and are not Logicians by Art, nor can fophiftically
feem to be what they are not ;
yet God hath made
them reafonable Souls, and many of them receive the
Truth of the Gofpel, and obey tlie fame, when the Wife
and the Learned hold them in contempt, and rejcft the
Truth, as tke Phalftis and Lawyers Ytje^td the Counfel oj
God againft tbemfelves, bang not baptised oj John, Lu^ey,
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But Mr. Ja:m faith «
j If Mr. Welis have To much leifure,
" and his Zeal be lo grcac as to bring him to Afhjord, and
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