uponme, as a burden too heavy for me tobear , and i knowmy .felf tobe lamentably infufficient for it : yet I mutt profefs, that I am fo proud as to think my felf as able to be the Pallor or Bi- fhopof thisParifh, as moll Bithops in England, yea or any one of them , tobe the Pallor and Governour of a County, or an hundred or two hundred Parifhes.. Were you humble, or did you dwell at home, or take an account of your own abilities when you reproach othersas unab!e to be the Bithops of a Pa- rifh,and think your felves able to be theBífhops ofaDiocefs and contend for it fo eagerly ? §.19. Andz. I further anfwer you: We will leave you not a rag of this Objection to cover your nakednefs. For if anyPa- {forsor Parifh Bithops be more ignorant then others, and unfit to Teach and Rule their flockswithout the afliflance, . teaching or dire&ion ofmore able men, we all agree that its the duty of fuch men to Learnt while they are Teachers, and to be Ruled while they are Rulers, by them that are wifer. FO'r- as is Paid , a Purity in regard of office, doth not deny a diffarity ofpfts and party I And we conftantly hold, that ofmen that are equal in regard of office, the younger and more ignorant fhould learnof the aged that are more able and wife,, and be Ruled by their advice, as far as their infufficiency makes it neceffary.And will not this fuffice g. 20. And 3 If this fuffice not, confider that Affociated Paftors are linked together, and do nothing inany weighty mat- ters of common concernment . (or ofprivate,wherein they necd :. . advice) without the help and dire&ions of the refl. And a youngman may govern aParifhby. the advice of,a Presbyterie andalfoof Affociated able Paflors,as well as fuchBithops as we have had, have governed a Qiocefs. z i . Andyet 4. Ifall this fuffice not, be it known to you that we endeavourr to have the belt that can be got for every Parilh : and Noviceswe will have none, except in cafe ofmeer necetfity ; Andwe have an a& for reie&ing all the infufficient, as well as the fcandalous.and negligent : and any ofyou may beheard that will charge any among us with infufficiency. Sure I amwe are cleanfing the Churchof the infufficient and fcanda- Ions that thePrelates brought in, as fafa a wecan,: if any prove like them, that fince are introduced, we delire that they may fpeed
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