They are confuted.

"Was all my Word abstruse and hard?"

Prov. 14:6.
Isa. 35:8.
Hos. 8:12.

the Judge then answeréd;

"It did contain much Truth so plain

you might have run and read.

But what was hard you never car'd

to know, or studiéd;

And things that were most plain and clear

you never practiséd.