[1441 for all that they Preach, betides fix months imprifonment in the common goals,and poverty difableth City and Countrey to maintain them; and fame with Wives and Children have long lived on little betides brown Rye-Bread and Water; and others, that can Iive oftheir own, expend all in the charges of the places and adjun1s where they Preach for nothing; and force never took any pay, from the firft there 17 years, but patiently ferve God and waft their ftrengrh under mens obloquy and reproach ; yet are there not wanting perfons of the Clergy, who reprefent their greateft and deareft fervices as their greateft fins, and accule them as enemies of the Churches peace,and the leaders of Schilm, and in pulpit and print provoke authority to execute the Laws More feverely on them ; Though the execution hath coft force excellent men their lives already, and they may know that no execution fhort of death or utter difable- ment will make the moft confcionable forfake their duty, and facrilegioufly defert the Office to which they were dedicated and ordained : (As the late cafe of the Hungarian Minifters declareth :) And fuck courles never, ended in the honour of thole of the Clergy that procured them : Yea force as going to the bar of God, have unaerta(en to prove, that it is through pride and coveto.,fnef that the c nform not. And becaufe fume Churches called Independent withdraw not their maintenance from their Paftors, and force few others have maintenance of their own, or friends that vvill not fee them want, they would make firangers believe that the common fort of Nonconformiffis, whole families live in (Airings and
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