fear the-Land fhouldbe peftered or overwhelmed with School- matters ? Why how can there be too many, when people will imploy no more then they need? Omiferable Church that bath fuck Bithops, that areafraid Gods vineyard thould be furnifhed with labourers, left their greatnefs and honour íhould be dimi- nifhed ! Do younot fce how many thourand fouls lie Rill inig- norance,prefumption and fecurity for all the number of labourers that we ha.ve_? And fee you not that fix parts ofthe world are Infidels,and much for!want ofTeachers to inftru& them?Andyet are you afraid that there will be too many ? What could the ene- my of the Church fay worfe ? ¢. 16. Obje&. We donot mean too many reachers,but too many Bijl ops; that is,toa many Governours ofthe Church. flnfiv. t .God knoweth no Governours Minifkeriall but teachers : It feems you would have fornewhat that youcall Government ,and leave the la- borer ofreaching to others: As ifyou knewnot that it is they that are efpecially worthy ofthe doable honour that labour in the word and dotlrine, r Tim. 5. 17. Or as ifyou knew not that even the Government ofPallors is wooly by teaching. z . Government and Teachinggo together,and areboth neceffary to the Church; And the diminithing the numberof Governours and ofTeachers is alone : As a Phyfitian dothGovern all his Patienis in order to their cure,and a Schoolmafter all his fchollars in order to their learning.; fo doth a Paftor all his flock, in order to theirfan&i. fication and falvation. And for the Government of the Mini. fiers themfelves, the number (hall be increafed aslittle as may be. Parifh Bithops will Govern but a few ; and therefore they can wrongbut few, by their mil-government. g. i 7.Obje&. 4. Butby this means we.fball have unworthy; raw, and ignorAnt men made Bi/hops : What kindof Bithopsfit eI1 we have , ifevery Parifb Prieff muff bea Bifhop :? Some ofthem areboyes, andfome ofthem empty, filly fouls to make Bifhops of g. 8. Anfw. I (hall lay open the nakednefs ofthis Objedíon a1fo, fo that it fhall be no (better todomineering in theChurch. T. Awake the fparksof humility that are in you,and tell us open- ly, whether you think your felves more able worthy men to Govern a County, or a hundred Parifhes, then fuch as we arc to Governone ? Though I have been many and many a time tempted with Yonas to run away from the charge that iscat T. t upon
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