(323) fpeed no better. What fide foever they be on, we delre able faithful! men, and delire the ejedion of the infufficient and un. faithful!. Andyouth doth not alway prove infufficiency. Wit nefs Timothy,whofe youth was not tobe defpifed. At what age Origen and many more of oldbegan, is commonly known. Vige. lists was Bifhop at twenty years ofage (the TridentineBifhop) We will promife you that we will have none fo young to be Parifh Presbyters, as Rome bath had force Popes and Cardinals and Archbifhops and Bifhops. Nor (hall any fuch ignorant in- fufliicient men,I hope, be admitted, as were commonly admitted by the Prelates. 4.22.Obje&.5.Bat the Apaflles andEvangelifis had a larger circuit then a Parifh,and therefore fo fhould their Succeffors have? eAnfw. I grant you that they had a larger circuit, and that here; in, and in their ordinary work they have fucceffors : And we confent that you (hall be their Succeffors. Gird up your loins, and travail about as faras you pleafe, and preach the Gofpel to as many as will receiveyou (and lure theApoftles forced none) and convert as many fouls as you can, and dire& them when you have done in the,way of Church- communion, and do all the good that you can in the world,and try whether wewill hin- der you. Have you not liberty to do as the Apoftles did ? Be ye fervants of all, and feek to lave all, and take onyou thus the care of all the Churches,and fee whowill forbidfuch anEpif; copacy as this ? g. 23. Obje&. 6. But. it Teems youwould have none compelled to obey the Bifhops,but they only that are willingfhould do it : and fo men (hall have liberty ofconffience, and anarchyand parityand confufronwill be brought into the Church. Anfw. i . I wouldhave none have liberty for any certain impiety or fin : And yet I would have no fin punifhed beyond the meafure of its defects. And I would not have preachers made no Preachers (unlefs the Church may fpare theus)becaufe their judgementsare againft Di- ocefanBifhops : and therefore I would have none fìlenced or fuf- fpended for this. 2. And what is it that you would have,thats better? Wouldyou have men forced co acknowledge and fub- mit to your Epifcopacy ? And how ? Small .:penalties will nor changemens judgements, nor confciences. Silencing or death .would deprive the Church of their labours: and fo we muff T t z lofe.
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