Again, Their individual imperfections being great, they are moreover enlarged by their aggregation; and being erroneous in their single numbers, once hudled together, they will be Error it self. For being a confusion of knaves and fools, and a farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages; it is but natural if their determinations be monstrous, and many wayes inconsistent with Truth. And therefore wise men have alwaies applauded their own judgment, in the contradiction of that of the people; and their soberest adversaries, have ever afforded them the stile of fools and mad men; and, to speak impartially, their actions have made good these _Epithets_. Had _Orestes_ been Judge, he would not have acquitted that _Lystrian_ rabble of madness, who, upon a visible miracle, falling into so high a conceit of _Paul_ and _Barnabas_, that they termed the one _Jupiter_, the other _Mercurius_; that they brought Oxen and Garlands, and were hardly restrained from sacrificing unto them; did notwithstanding suddenly after fall upon _Paul_, and having stoned him drew him for dead out of the City. It might have hazarded the sides of _Democritus_, had he been present at that tumult of _Demetrius_; when the people flocking together in great numbers, some crying one thing, and some another, and the assembly was confused, and the most part knew not wherefore they were come together; notwithstanding, all with one voice for the space of two hours cried out, Great is _Diana_ of the _Ephesians_. It had overcome the patience of _Job_, as it did the meekness of _Moses_, and would surely have mastered any, but the longanimity, and lasting sufferance of God; had they beheld the Mutiny in the wilderness, when, after ten great Miracles in _Egypt_, and some in the same place, they melted down their stoln ear-rings into a Calf, and monstrously cryed out; _These are thy Gods_, O Israel, _that brought thee out of the land_ of Egypt. It much accuseth the impatience of _Peter_, who could not endure the staves of the multitude, and is the greatest example of lenity in our Saviour, when he desired of God forgiveness unto those, who having one day brought him into the City in triumph, did presently after, act all dishonour upon him, and nothing could be heard but, _Crucifige_, in their Courts. Certainly he that considereth these things in God's peculiar people will easily discern how little of truth there is in the wayes of the Multitude; and though sometimes they are flattered with that _Aphorism_, will hardly believe, The voice of the people to be the voice of God.