of the Spirit they had learnt that foundation of foundations, to which all saving truths are reduced, and from which they are deduced. But to proceed. It might so happen, that a person to whom has been given but a scanty portion of knowledge, may nevertheless be firm in faith, even to martyrdom, but then it does not follow, that faith is better described by ignorance, than by knowledge: or that those do well, who cherish ignorance amongst the people, as the mother of faith and devotion, contrary