nazi Minifters in the Land, and the profecuting fo many when proof is demanded, will be fu chargeable and take up fò much time, as that it will undo many poor M; iiiters, that have fcarce enough to maintain their families and it will take up the time which they íhould ufe in the neceffary labours for their flocks. 5. The Chancellour is a lay man to whom theymilli be presented: And the iffue will be but a lay, mans omm inicçc¿nor them, if olaftinate ; or abfolving theca : Which is not juitified by the Bithops themfelves. 6. At the Paid Chancellours court things are managed as at a civil judicature : There is not that endeavour to convince fanners by Scripture, and to draw them to true Repentance, by hum - bling evidence, intreáties and prayers for then, as fhould be for the fàving of a íòuí from fin But the charges of the court fees, and the fears of a prifon after excom unication, maketh it an unacceptable and as unlikely means to convert men as the flocks. 7. Therefore for a milaier to prefent all his Farifhioners to Inch .cou,rts, whom he is bound to deny the Sacrament to, were but to make dim Teem their greateff and cruelleft enemy., and to render him rançapable of ever (probably) profiting them by his Miniftry any more ; and .onfequently, greatly to promote their damna- tion and make them almoft hop.elefs as to reco- very. And if by this terrour they tell the Chancellour that they .RTent, how little fatif- facion is that to the 'Mimnu ter,, that never law, himfelf, any figns of their repentance. 8. The doubt is then, whether the ufe ofthis R,ubrick
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