(3 ,0) all the County (hall have but one Phyfician withhis Apothe ,caries ? Or if every School had a Schoolmafter in your fore- fathers dayes, will you fay, there fhali bebut one in your dayes, in a whole County ? Do you thus think to honour Phyfitians and Schoolmafters, to the ruine of the people and the Schools ? So do you in your advancement of Bifhóps. 'Uponmy certain ex- perience I dare affirm it, that every Parifh of four or five thoufand fouls, yea of a thoufand fouls, bath need of fuch a Presbyterie for their Overfight. And is not he that batha Coun- ty on his hands, like to do lefs for this Town or Parifh, then if be had no more then this ? If your Bees fwarm, you will not keep themall Rill in an hive, nor think of enlarging the hive to that end : but you will help the fwarm to an hive of their own. If your Children marry, you will rather fettle them in Families of their own, then retain all them and all their Children in the Family with your fclves. So if aBifhop of oneChurchdhould Convert all theCountrey, he fhould rather fettle them in feve rai Churches, proportionable to their numbers and diflanees,then to call them all leis own Church. g. 13. Object. 3. But by this means the Church would be pefleredwithBifhops. What a number of Bops ;would you haw, if every Parifh- Priefl were a Bi sp ? We read not of fuchnun36ers as this wouldprocure, in the ancient times. g. t.q.. An/w. i. I find whereChrifi commandethus to pray the Lord of the harrefl to fend forth Labourers ( that is, more Labourers) into the harveft, becaufe of the greatnefs of the harvefl. But I find not where he once requireth us toprayor with that there may not be too many, for fear of peftering the Church,ordiminifhing thehonour of tie Clergy. Mens purfes, I warrant you, will hinder the over abounding of them ; and Gods providence doth not enrich too many with abilities and .willingnefs for the work. Doyou undertake that they null not be toobad ; and Ldare undertake they will not be toomany. g. 15. And 2. Is it not the felicity andgloryof the Church which you object as an inconvenienceor reproach ? O bleffed time and place that bath but enow that are able and faithful! I But I never knew, nor heard, nor read of the age that had too many that were good and faithful! in the work. Wouldyou not have a chief Schoolmafter in every School, or Town, for fear
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