Phyfick, and they live in great wealthand acceptance: There are Phyficians and Minifters of the fame judgment, and perhaps dwell together in the fame Houfe ( it was the cafe of Dr. mickiethrait and me.) ThePhyfician is honoured, and the Minifter call'd and ufed as a Rogue, though they were ofthe fame mind. There are force Nonconforming Minifters, that tho' they are Dadors of Phyfick, yet dare not ceafe their Miniftry, but praóice both : Thefe are welcomed to the Sick, but the Healthful banifh them or hunt them away; notwithflanding their acceptance as Phyfici- ans, the hatredof their Preaching being more prevalent. L. SIIre theyPreachfume dangerous Doctrine. M. Not a word of fuch is charged on them, tho' malicious Perfons come to hear them, and inform againft them. Theirwri- tings tell the World their Doérine. Dr. Cliffordwas one ofthem who hath written of the Covenants : Dr. Gilpin is one of them who bath written ofTemptations, driven from .Newcaftle. Some eje1ed Minifters Educate their Sons to Phyfick, and t'no' they be of their Fathers mind, the Sons are highly efteemed and honoured, and the Aged Fathers laid inJay! : This Taft Week old Dr. Greco that is about 8o or 79 years of Age, and almoft Blind, and hath lived there 36 years and more, ( known by forge writings) a Mali of a calm, quiet, fober, peaceable Temper, was fent to the common 3ayl at Coventry for dwelling there, and fotnetime exhorting his old Hearers to fear God ; and he hath here aSon, and a Son-in-Law, Doctors of Phyfick, defervedly honoured, who if they did but Preach the Gofpel might fpeed as ill as he. 'o. Ifan ejedted Minu ter would but teach the Childrenofthe Laity, tho' it were but to read, and tho' there be no other School-mailer near, the people muff rather have their Children untaught, and muft not be fuflered to have fo needful a help. r i. If a Minifler would give over Preaching, yet if his old Hearersdelire his Neighbour-hood, that they may have the bene- fit of his Conference, they mutt not enjoy it, left he whifper Nonconformity to them, but he muft be Banifhed five Miles not only from Corporations, but from every place where-ever he Preached thefe twentyyears. I know fame fuch who have tra- velled muchabroad, who can hardly find a place in that part of England that is not within five Miles of a Corporation or force place
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