Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Ver. 18. Let no man deceive himself] Bis desipit, qui sibi sapit. Consilii satis est in me mihi, said she in the poet. (Arachne up. Ovid, Metam.) Nothing so easy as to overly ween.
Let him become a fool] Let him come to the well with an empty pitcher, Intus existens prohibet alienum. Agur (if a man may believe him) is more brutish than any man, Proverbs 30:2,3. See there how he vilifies, yea, nullifies himself before God. So did blessed Bradford, as appears by the subscriptions of many of his letters.