  On these grounds, Fell rails against those who have “set up Schooles of Learning, as they call them; and educated youth up in that darkness, and kept them studying and divining in their brains, till many have studied themselves out of their Wits” (Fell 1667b, 38–39). She encourages suspicion toward human religious authority and urges readers to question their ministers. “Try your Teachers,” she says, and do not “bow to mens wills and worships contrary to the command of Christ Jesus” (Fell 1655, 1; 1660b, 3). If ministers are not in the light, then they do not speak the word of God. Hence, no matter how well-educated or elevated in rank our ministers might be, we must not take their word on trust. “Fear ye not the reproaches of men,” she says, “neither be ye afraid of their revilings” (Fell 1668, 6). On the whole, it is always better for the individual to offend other human beings rather than God himself.