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Numb,
II,
fes
we are bound to do
thus ;
much more in theft
fo
great.
If
a
Man
be like
to
petith through Hunger, or
Nakednefs, he
that
is
no
Taylor
muff make him Cloaths
if
he can
;
and he
that
is
no
Baker
mutt
make him
Bread
:
Or
if
a
Man come into
a
Country
infe
&ed
with
the Plague,
or
other Epidemical
Difeafe,
which
he hash,
Skill
in Curing,
he
is
:a
Murderer if he
will
not do
it, though he
be
no Physician,
while there
is
no
Phyfician
there that
can. Every Man
that
is
able
h
a lawful
Phy-
fician in
cafe
of
desperate Neceflity.
If
thefe Inftanees terve
not,
we may gohigh-
er
:
In
cafe
of
an unexpeeted Onflaught
of the
Enemy when the Commandersare
afleep,
every Souldier
may
do
hisOffice
:
In
cafe a
General
be Hain
in the
Field,
or
a
Collonel,
or a Captain,
the next Officer may take
his
Place
;
yea,a common
Soul-
dier maydo
it in Neceffrty
:
Or
if the Commander turn Traytor,
the next Officer
may take
bis
Place, and command
the
Souldiers againft him. Salta
opuli
fnpremd
les
eto,
is
God's
own Law.
And.
Salts Ecclefu
firprema
Len
ego, is
no
lelhis,
and un
-.
changable,
as
to
allChurch
Works
(1ä1l
looking at his Glory herein,
as
the highest
abfolutely).
He that
Ihould
fay,
I
would cure
these
Sick
Men, but that
I
am not
in
Office
a
Physician; or I
would
do
this or
that Work to
fave
the City, or
the
Army,
but it
is
not my
Office,
or
I
have
no Commiffion, were not
ettbufable:
Yet
far more than he that
would fay,
I
would Preach
Chrift to
these
People, and
Baptize
them,
and acquaint
them
with
his
Laws, to
fave
them from Damnation,
but that
I
am
not Ordained
:
Durli you
warrant that Man from beingcondemned
for
his
Negle&
?
Nay,
davit you encourage him to
negle&
it
?
Nay,
durft you
adventure
to
negle&
it
your
felt? What
should
the People
in
New-Eq./awl
do,
if
there were not Ministers among the
Indians
?
If
there were Protellants cart into
Cbina,and had
theOpportunity
as
the
Jefuits
have,what
should
they
do?
To
forbear
the Minifterial Work till they had
a lawful
Ordination,
were no
lets
than
Soul-
murder
:
It
would in probability never be had
;
for
if they
travail'd for
it
to thofe
parts of the
World where
it might
be
had, there were no great probability
of
their
Return.
If
you fay, they
may teach and baptize
as
private Men
:
I
anfwer,
If
they do but what private Men here
are alloweddo,
viz.
to
Teach
but privately
and
occasionally,
it
would be
Rill
unnatural, bloody
Soul-
murder
:
To
fpeak
the Do-
&rine
of
Redemption
to
two or three in
a
House, when they
might 'peak to Mal.
titudes, and to teach
now and then
occafionally,
when theymightdo
it
ordinarily,
is
cruel deftroying
of
the molt. And
to Baptize
is
no private Man's Work.
If
you
would
have
them
Teach
both
publickly
and ordinarily, and
Baptize, then you
would
have
them be Minifters under the
Name
of
Private
Men;
yea,
to
do
the
Work
of
Apostles
or
Evangelilts.
Certainly the Law
of
Nature
is
God's
Law, and
Evangelical Ceremonies, and
points
of
meer
Order
do give
Place
to
it,
as
well
as
either
Mofaical
or
Secular.
God
bath
as
ftreightly commanded Obedience to
Secular
Power
as
to Ecclefiallical:
If
therefore
Matter
of
Order
in
Secular
Things'mull hoop to
Matters
of
Substance
and Neceffïty, and the
Law
of
Corporations to theLaw
of
Nature,
fo
it
muff
do
here.
The
Gofpel Croffeth not,
nor
obliterateth Natural Principles
:
And to
love
our
Neighbours
as
our
felf,
and do him good,
efpecially
to
the Everlafting
Saving
of
his Soul,
are too deep
in
Nature to
be
queftioned, or to hoop to
a
Point
dime;
Older.
If
you
fay,
That the
fame
God that
requires
us
to
do it,
doth require
that
we do it
in
his
order
and way. I anfiver,
No
doubt
of
it
;
where that
Order
may
be obferved
:
But where it cannot, God's way revealed to Nature
is
to do
it
without,
as
bath been
chewed.
And
Scripturefeconds
Nature in
this
; Chrift
tells
us, That
this
is
the
leeredgreat
Commandment,
Thou
fhalt
love tby Neighbour as thy
feelf,
and
on
this, with
the Love
of
God, bang
ail
the
Law,
and
the
Prophets.
To
do good
to
our
utmost Power,
is
a
Charge
laid
on
all,
Pfal.;4.
14.
and
S7.
27.
Gal.
6.
no.
Eccl.
9. so.
As
every
Man bath
received
the Gift,
fo
mutt
he
as
a
good Steward
of
God's
manifold Grace adminifter
it,
a
Pet.
4.
to.
The
Manifeflation
of
the
Spirit
re
given
to
every
man
to profit
withal, I
Cor.
Is.
7.
AA Members
of
the
Body
mug have the
fame
care
one
of
another, verse 25. And
if
one
Member fuffer, the
refb
mu(t fuffer
with
it,
verfe 26.
and
Ergo,
do their bell to
relieve them. Every good
Man
is
a
pub
-
lick
Good;
ci'
bonumgeo
communion es
melon.
God's Gifts are
fo
many Talents that
mull
be accounted for
Matrb.
as.
and he that
bath belt
improved them for
his
Lord,
will have
the
molt comfortableReckoning. Thefe Generals tying Men to
do
all
the Good
thtÿ
can, doth rye them that
have Abilities and Opportunities for
the Miniltry to
use
them wherethere
is
need, and
that
in
Order,
as
being ordained
thereto,
where it may
be
had,
and
out
of
Order
where
it
may not,
and there
is
necefluy
:
even
as
Paulbids
Timothy
Preach
out
of
Seafon
you
will acknowledge
that
they that have
Abilities,
where the Church
is
in
necetìty,
may, and mutt leek
a