The Church Is In Christ, As Eve

God Is No Captious Sophister, Eager To Trip Us Up Whenever We Say Amiss, But A Courteous Tutor, Ready To Amend What, In Our Weakness Or Our Ignorance, We Say Ill, And To Make The Most Of What We Say Aright.

For Men To Be Tied And Led By Authority, As It Were With A Kind Of Captivity Of Judgment, And Though There Be Reason To The Contrary Not To Listen Unto It, But To Follow Like Beasts The First In The Herd, They Know Not, Nor Care Not Whither, This Were Brutish.

Words Must Be Taken According To The Matter Whereof They Are Uttered.

The Reason Why The Simpler Sort Are Moved With Authority, Is The Consciousness Of Their Own Ignorance; Whereby It Cometh To Pass That Having Learned Men In Admiration, They Rather Fear To Dislike Them Than Know Wherefore They Should Allow And Follow Their Judgments. Contrariwise With Them That Are Skilful Authority Is Much More Strong And Forcible; Because They Only Are Able To Discern How Just Cause There Is Why To Some Men's Authority So Much Should Be Attributed.

To Live By One Man's Will Becomes The Cause Of All Misery.