A fool may pretend to understanding, and to seek and intermeddle with
the means of it, but, 1. He has no true delight in it; it is only to
please his friends or save his credit; he does not love his book, nor
his business, nor his Bible, nor his prayers; he would rather be
playing the fool with his sports. Those who take no pleasure in
learning or religion will make nothing to purpose of either. No
progress is made in them if they are a task and a drudgery. 2. He has
no good design in it, only that his heart may discover itself, that he
may have something to make a show with, something wherewith to varnish
his folly, that that may pass off the better, because he loves to hear
himself talk.