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Why is there more variety of Green then of other Colours?
It is becauſe it is the figure of Youth wherin nature wuld provide as many green, as youth hath affections; and ſo preſent a Sea-green for profuſe waſters in voyages; a Graſſe-green for ſudden new men enobled from Graſiers; and a Gooſe-greene for ſuch Polititians as pretend to preſerve the Capitol. Or elſe Prophetically foreſeeing an age, wherein they ſhall all hunt. And for ſuch as miſdemeane themſelves a Willow-greene; For Magiſtrates muſt aſwell have Faſces born before them to chaſtize the ſmall offences, as Secures to cut off the great.
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Why doe young Lay-men ſo much ſtudy Divinity.
Is it becauſe others tending buſily Churches preferment neglect ſtudy? Or had the Church of Rome ſhut up all our wayes, till the Lutherans broke downe their uttermoſt ſtubborne doores, and the Calviniſts picked their inwardeſt and ſubtleſt lockes? Surely the Devill cannot be ſuch a Foole to hope that he ſhall make this ſtudy contemptible, by making it common. Nor that as the Dwellers by the River Origus are ſaid (by drawing infinite ditches to ſprinkle their barren Country) to have exhauſted and intercepted their maine channell, and ſo loſt their more profitable courſe to the ſea; ſo we, by providing every ones ſelfe, divinity enough for his own uſe, ſhould neglect our Teachers and Fathers. Hee cannot hope for better hereſies then hee hath had, nor was his Kingdome ever ſo much [46] ]advanced by debating Religion (though with ſome aſperſions of Error) as by a dull and ſtupid ſecurity, in which many groſe things are ſwallowed. Poſſible out of ſuch an ambition as we have now, to ſpeake plainely and fellow-like with Lords and Kings, wee thinke alſo to acquaint our ſelves with Gods ſecrets: Or perchance when we ſtudy it by mingling humane reſpects, It is not Divinity.