[152] But I mull refer you to a full Treatife which I have writ- ten to juflifie our Preaching , called , An Apology for it : At leaft, I pray you Study there Tests of Scripture, Mat. 5. 13, 14, t 5, 16. and 28. 19, 20. Eph. 4. I O, t0 17. I Tian. 4. 15, 16. I Cor. 4. 1, 2. Mat. 24. 45, 46, 47, 48. 11cí. 4. 19, and 5. 28. I Cor. 9, 14, 16. Oct. 4. 29. 2 Tim. 4. I, 2, 3. t Tin.6. 13, 14. 2 Tim. I. 8, I I, 12, I 3. Tit. 2. 1 5. I Pet. 5. I, 2,3. 2 Tim. 2. 2, 24, 25. Eph. W. 19, .20. Mat. 10.7, 8. 16, 17, &c. and 9. 38. ¡Mk; 9. 62. and Io. 2. L. But why may you not keep away five milesfrom Corporations and places whereyou have Preached f M Did you not fay even now , That fmall Countrey Pa- riches have no need of us ? One Man may ferve for two Hundred or a Thoufand, better than for many Thoufands. 2. The Reafons not our Preaching is Men's real need , and the Churches good : Therefore we are molt obliged, cæteris paribus , where there is molt need , and molt probability of doing good. 3. Chrift bids us , When they perfecute you in one City , fly to another : And the Apoftles firft planted their Churches in Cities. If you know the Reafons of thefe , you know our Reafons. To conclude, whole Service is it , think you, to .perfwade 2000 fuch Miniflers to give over their Preaching and Mini- firy ? whofe intereff requireth it? Did Chrift or his Apoftles ever do or perfwade fuch a thing ? But the way to bring us all to Popery is to difable its chief Adverfaries, and to obli- terate all Religion firft, that Ignorance and Unconfcionablenefs may be receptiveof a new Form. You muff take your Church- Bells, and-break and melt them, if you will raft them anew to bring then to a new found and ufe.. Chap.
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