attain to it.  For, indeed, it is not knowledge, but imagination.  And so by poring and puzzling himself in it, he loses that wisdom he had, and becomes distracted and mad.  If the passion of joy predominate, then he is merry, and sings, and laughs, and is ripe in the expression of his words and will speak strange things:  but all by imagination.  But if the passion of sorrow predominate, then he is heavy and sad, crying out, He is damned; God hath forsaken him, and he must go to Hell when he dies; he cannot make his calling and election sure. And in that distemper many times a man doth hang, kill or drown himself.  So this Divining Doctrine, which you call spiritual and heavenly things, torments people always when they are weak, sickly or under any distemper.  Therefore it cannot be the Doctrine of Christ the Saviour.

“Or, thirdly, This Doctrine is made a cloak of policy by the subtle Elder Brother, to cheat his simpler Younger Brother of the Freedoms of the Earth.  For, saith the Elder Brother, ’The Earth is mine, and not yours, Brother; and you must not work upon it, unless you will hire it of me; and you must not take the fruits of it, unless you will buy them of me, by that which I pay you for your labor.  For if you should do otherwise, God will not love you, and you shall not go to Heaven when you die, but the Devil will have you, and you must be damned in Hell.’

“If the Younger reply, and say—­’The Earth is my Birth-Right as well as yours, and God who made us both is no Respecter of persons.  Therefore there is no reason but I should enjoy the Freedoms of the Earth for my comfortable livelihood, as well as you, Brother.’

“‘I,’ but saith the Elder Brother, ’You must not trust to your own Reason and Understanding, but you must believe what is written and what is told you; and if you will not believe, your Damnation will be the greater.’

“‘I cannot believe,’ saith the Younger Brother, ’that our Righteous Creator should be so partial in his Dispensations of the Earth, seeing our bodies cannot live upon Earth without the use of the Earth.’

     “The Elder Brother replies, ’What, will you be an Atheist, and a
     factious man, will you not believe God?’

     “‘Yes,’ saith the Younger Brother, ’if I knew God said so, I should
     believe, for I desire to serve Him.’

     “‘Why,’ saith the Elder Brother, ’this is His Word, and if you will
     not believe it, you must be damned; but if you will believe it, you
     will go to Heaven.’