afford him the help that he bath at hand, and all becaufe he is not ordained ? Se&. 24. Let this be confidered ofas inany lower cafe.afa man fee another fall down in the lireets, :fhal he re ufe to take him Fit atetem up, becaufe he is no Phyfìcian ? If the Country be infe&ed with rio autper the Plague,and you have a Soveraign medicine ti'at will certain- Learn mcd'an:e 1 cure it with all that will be ruled willyou let them all erifh- &c. amtper Y y P ' 1)eum mediartSe rather then applyit to them, becaufe youarenot a Phyfitian,and fuperioeun au- that when the Phylitians are nor to be had ? If ou lee the.poor thoritate, &c. naked,may no one make them cloaths but aTaylor ?If you fee the Fit rurfusnor.- enemy at the Walls, will you not give the City vt'arning,becaufe tip fagnue e tatie you are not a Watch-man, or on the Guard ? If a Commander lege; quands die in fighr, any man that is next may take his plate in cafeof non altterpof Nece(hty. Will you feethe field loft for a point of Order, beò fet fidel feu caufe you will not do the work of a Commander ? A hundred znviotataefetat filch cafesmaybe put, inwhich it plain,that the fubftance of the vari; ubi ve= work in which men can doa great and neceffary good, is ofthe rum eft Iliad, LawoNature,though the regulati ,gofthem in point oforder is 1'afcefame oft from Pofitive Laws:but the Ceffationoftheobligation ofthe morreruem fi Pofitives about Order, loth not difobli e us from the common non tt, g ®cctdflt. Lawof Nature: For then it fhould allowus today by humanity. Voetits. Se&. zy. To this Come may fay,that [ Its true we maypreach in fetchcafs, but not at Minifers,betas private meet : andwe may baptize as private men in Arecefsity ; but we maydo nothing that is proper to the Miniiry I To this I anfwer. God bathnot made theConfecration of theBread and Wine in the 'Eacharift, nor yet the Governing of the Church, theonly proper as ofthe Miniftry. To preach the word as a confiant fervice, to which we are feparated, or wholly giveup our felves, and to baptize ordinarily,and tocongregate the Difçiples, and to Teach and Lead them in Godsworfhip, are all as!proper to the Minifiryas theother. And there areworks thatmtns eternal'happinefs:lieth on Ifyou would have an able gifted Chrifiian in C hina,Tar- tary, Indojtan,or fuch places, (fuppofing he have opportunity ) to fpeak butoccalonally as private men, and not to fpeak to Affemblies, and wholly give up himfelf to the work, andgather Churches, and fet afoot all Church Ordinances among them, youwould have himunnaturallycruel! to mens fouls. And ifyou would have him give up himfelf to thefe works, and yet not Xz be
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