Classic Study - Vol. Method, or right order, exceedingly helpeth understanding, memory, and practice. When two things materially good come together, and both cannot be done, the greater must take place, and the lesser is no duty at that time, but a sin, as preferred before the greater. Therefore it is one of the commonest difficulties among cases of conscience, to know which duty is the greater, and to be preferred.
Divinity is a curious, well-composed frame.
Now it is easy for any man to begin at the chief trunk, and to discern the first divisions, and the next, though not to comprehend the number and order of all the extreme and smaller branches. Yea, it were to be wished, that some teachers of late had learnt so much and orderly themselves.