The Reason Why The Simpler Sort Are

See We Not Plainly That Obedience Of Creatures Unto The Law Of Nature Is The Stay Of The Whole World?

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.

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.

The Reason Why The Simpler Sort Are Moved By Authority Is The Consciousness Of Their Own Ignorance

Even Ministers Of Good Things Are Like Torches, A Light To Others, Waste And Destruction To Themselves.