[98J quence of fucharguing, as taketh this up as the laft defence, that [ thofe people that vifibly live in Senfuality, Drunkennefs Fornication, Cove- teoufnefs, Pride, Vngodlynefs or Grofs ignorance, are indeed in a Cafe condition for falvation, and therefore that Preaching which fhould bring them to repentance is not neceffary 5 But that its rafer to continue Ignorant and ungodly, than to joyn with the Religious; for fear of Sehifm For we cannot deny that they that have no o- ther Medium to defend their AfTertion, that [the lefelefs unskilful Alinifiry of Novices, which maketh very few ferioufly Religious, cloth more good than the contrary,which loath contraryfuccefs,if it be by men forbidden] do too plainly perfwade us from our Chriftianity it felt', that is, from the chiefeft evidence of its truth and glory : For if there were no better Chriftians in the world, than filch unholy peribns before defcribed and ifChrift had not a holy peculiar people, of hea- venly minds and lives, and zealous of good works, we could never prove (or believe) him to be the Chrift that came to fave his people fcom their fins. He is not the Phyfician whom we can truft, that doth not cure men. And if they will refblve the cafe into the queftion of fad, whetherfilch efferent .71inifters have ufually d;fferent fuccefs r and feriotm Chreflianity be not much more rare under Reading Novices, and unexperienced lifelefs men, than under skilful fe- rioas godly Faftot s, we are unable to doubt ofir, againit all experience. LXI. OW. 5. But if every man that is proud and heretical may fer tip as a Preacher when he will, and when any people will chisfe him, Rai- ; aion 4)
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