(I6L) fice,the labour founceffant, the people fo unconftant, ungrate- ful and difcouraging;the worldly honoursand riches fo tempting which may br had in a fecular life, with the Rudy and colt that fit- men for the , and rile tneri.ies of our work and us ale fo many and m41uious,ard rimes of perf:cution fo frequent and unwelcome , that ifit were but in the Prelates power to exempt di men at their pleafure, from iïil the trouble and care and danger and lufferings of the Miniftery, they would haveabundance of Solicitors and Suïtor for a diffenfation ? efpecially where the Love of God and his Church were not very thong to prevail againft temptations ( for this would free them from all fear.) Seét 44. 3. If a man and woman may be truly husband and Wife without a folemn Marriage , then a Minifter and People may be truly conjoined in their Relations and Church- State without his folemn Ordination. For there are very neer of a Nature. A privateContract etween themfelvesmay tru- ly make them Husband and Wife : and then the handing Law of Godconveyed: to the man his Power,and obligeth him and the woman to their duties, without any lnfirumental invehi- ture : And yet if therebe opportunity it is not lawful for any to live together in this relation, without the inveftitureof Solemn Matrimony, for Order fake, and to prevent the fornication and baftardy,that could not be avoided if Marriage be notOrdinari- ly publick. Just . fo it is a very great fin to negleti Ordination ordinarily,and where it may be had , and tendeth to thebaftar- dyof the Miniftry , andofChurches , and loonwould molt be illegitimate if that courfe were taken. And yet if Pallor and People go together without Ordination , upon private Con- trae4, in cafe of N;ceffi :y , it ïs lawful : And ifthere be no Ne- cefíity,it is finful, but yet Both not Null the Baptifm,and other Minifterial adminiftrations ofany fuck perfon, to theChurch og Chrih,or the upright tnembers. Sec`k 45. 4. Ifa manmay be a true Chriffion la-thaut'Baptfni, andhave Chrift 'and pardon and JuHification .. and, eternal life without it ; then may a man be a true Minifter .without Ordi° uation4 For no man can reafonably plead that Ordination is more neeeífary to a Minifter then Baptilin toa Chriftian.- Bven the. Papifts that make a Sacrament ofit , and afcribe to an in. delible
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