d whence they are derived."

"Wisdom in life is a bad thing, but folly is good."

"Why should Jesus, when an infant, be carried into Egypt, lest he
should be murdered? God should not fear being put to death."

"You say that God was sent to sinners: but why not to those who
are free from sin? What harm is it not to have sinned?

"You encourage sinners, because you are not able to persuade any
really good men: therefore you open the doors to the most wicked
and abandoned."

"Some of them say 'do not examine, but believe, and thy faith
shall gave thee.'"

"These are our institutions, say they, let not any man of learning
come here, nor any wise man, nor any man of prudence: for these
things are reckoned evil by us. But whoever is unlearned, ignorant,
and silly, let him come without fear! Thus they own that they can
gain only the foolish, the vulgar, the stupid slaves, women, and
children."

"At first, when they were but few, they agreed. But when they
became a multitude, they were rent, again and again, and each will
have their own factions: for factious spirits they had from the
beginning."

"All wise men are excluded from the doctrine of their faith; they
call to it only fools, and men of a servile spirit."

"The preachers of their divine word only attempt to persuade silly,
mean, senseless persons, slaves, women, and children. What harm
is there in being well-informed; and both in being, and appearing a
man of knowledge? What obstacle can this be to the knowledge of
God? Must it not be an advantage?"

"We see these Itinerants shewing readily their tricks to the vulgar,
but not approaching the assemblies of wise men, nor daring there
to show themselves. But wherever they see boys, a crowd of
slaves, and ignorant men, there they thrust in themselves, and show
off their doctrine."

"You may see weavers, tailors, and fullers, illiterate and rustic
men, not daring to utter a word before persons of age, experience,
and respectability; but when they get hold of boys privately, and
silly women, they recount wonderful things; that they must not
mind their fathers, or their tutors, but obey them; as their fathers,
or guardians are quite ignorant, and in the dark; but themselves
alone have the true wisdom. And if the children obey them, they
pronounce them happy, and direct them to leave their fathers, and
tutors, and go with the women, and their play-fellows, into the
chambers of the females, or into a tailor's, o