( 34- ) 1 know 4 3. And then it is known that the English Epifcopacy deny Biíhn ufb'r` eth to the Presbyters all power ofExcommunication and A bfo- in his papers lution,, ur lefs to prononuce it as from the Bifhopwhen he bath: to clot!, fay t',at> paft it : And theydeny him allo all power fo much as of cal- by the Order linga firmer toopenRepentance, which they called Impofing oFthe Church penance : and alto theydenied all power ofdenying the Lords of Eu 1v ,a11 Supper to any without the Bifhops cenfure, except in a fudden Presbyters are cafe and then they mull profecute it after at the Bifhops Court; elaro-ed ( in y P P , the torn of and there render the Reafon of that fufpenfion : So that the Ordering of trouble, danger, labour, time would be to great that would be i>rie ts) to f nt in it that fcarce one Minifter ofa hundred did venture on , admin;tier the it nce in (even and leven ears except only to deny the Sacra. Difcipline of y + P 5 y Chr;ft : But ment to a man that would not kneel , and that they might do the Bifhops eafilyand fafely. underPood 4. And then Confider further that if the Minifter fhould be' zheironly liíh- one of an hundred, and fo diligent as to accule and profecute ingt!,eir all the open fcandalous offendors of his Parifh, before the Bi- Cenfures. For shops Court, that fo be might procure that aft of Government no filchAd- from them, which he may not perform himfelf, it would take ministration.: u all his time,and perhaps all would not ferve for half thework ,gas knowta, confidering how far he mufti: ride,how frequentlyhe muff attend, '.. allowed:sNue &c. And then all the ref}, or molt ofthe Pafloral work mull be would they negleéîed, to the danger ofthe whole Congregation. fuf er men to 5, It is a great penalty town innocent man to travail fo far ftf the Clem to the trial of hisC:aufe. But the fpecial thing that I note is this, ehe Sa- p g 9 crament,as the that k is Naturally Impofíible, for the Bifhopto hear,cry and Rubrick in judge all thefe caufes, yea or the fifth or hundredth ofthem, or the Common in fomeplaces oneof five; hundred. Can onetnan hear fo many Ctjüire[ ook, hundred as in a day muff bebefore him,if this difcipline be faith- folly executed 3 By that time that he bathheard two or three Caatfes, and examinedWitneffes , and fullydebated all, thereft can have no hearing ; and thus unavoidably the work mull be undone. It is as if you let a Schoolmafer to teach ten or -twenty thoufand Schollara ? Muft they not be needs untaught ? Or as ifyou let one Shepherd to look to two or three hundred feveral flocks of Sheep, that are every one of them three ,_ or four miles afunder, and force of them fourty miles front, force of the refl. Is, it any wonder, then if many of them be 'oft But:.
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