(31 ) ci of Afociatians, &c. whichyoumay call an ArchbiJboprick, it you pleafe. 2. Is it honour that you contend for , or labour and fervice to the Church ? If honour, youmuft get it by being more theta thefervantsof others, and not by being Lords of the Clergy Dr. x, x. or heritage of God. If you are feeking honour of men, and speaks ofche foundingoffices in the Church, by fuch dire &orsas ambition, Primitive Bi- you arenot the men that we can hope for Peaceor Holinefs from, hd s, no Pres- and therefore can have little treaty with you but to lay by badss under your wickednefs. But ifit be fervice that you contend for, in or-them but one der to theChurches good,try firft whether a Parif will not find or more Dea- you work enough.! have tried it,and find that if I were ten men, cons. I could find as much as I am able todo,in thisone Parith:Though I do as muchas I am well able night and day, and have fo many helpers, yet it is.. fo great a trouble to me, that my work and charge is quite too great for me,thac I have been often tempted to defert it, andgo to a fmaller place : And nothing flayes me but this confideration that God requireth nomore then I can do, and that its better do what I can then nothing: and that if I leave them the next is like todo no more. Could I but fpeak with each man in my Parifh by perfonal Inftruttion, once a moneth, or once aquarter, or halfyear, it would put me into high expe&ations ofmaking a very great changeamong there by this means : But when I am not ableto fpeak to them part once a year,or two years,Imufl needs fear left theforceofformer words will be loft before I come again. And yet mull you needs have more wort, and fervice,and morefouls toanfwer for ?' Todeal plainly and faithfully with you, Brethren, impartial Randers by conceive that its, time for you rather to be more dili- gent in a fmaller charge,and to lament your negligence inyour Parifhes, and publickly to bewail that youhave by your idlenefs betrayed fomany fouls:letting them alone in their ignorance and ungodlinefs,and commonly doing little in your charges,but wht.t you do at Church in publick. Overfeers think that moll of you are fitter for fmaller charges rather then for greater. I doubt this will offend many. But youwere better ufe it to your Repen- tance andReformation,then your offence. 4.4.And 3.1 pray you confider how your Pallon and partiali- ty maketh you contrade& your (elves: Do younot ufe to re- proach thePresbyters)that they would all be Bilbops, and they' S f 3 . would.
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