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APPENDIX.
Numb.
VI.
IX.
It
is
not
another Man's laying, [That
much preaching
er praying
id
not needful
to
me,]
that
will make
or prove it
fo,
or
excuse me
from ir. And there
is
fo
vast
a
difference between
a
found,
skilful,
and experienced
lively
Teacher,
and one
that
is
ignorant, heretical, a meer artift, dead or
dull,
that readeth
a
Canto
as a
Boy
'faith
his
Leffon,
that no Man
can
make
it
my
Duty
ro
commit
the Pafloral Care
of
my
Soul
to
the latter,
when the former
may be had
without
a
greater
hurt
than
the
benefit
will
compenfate.
Nor
will other
Mens Croffes, Opinions, or Appetite
herein,
fuffice
to
fatisfre
me
againft my Stole, Reafon
, and
my
own
and
other
MensExperience.
X.
Yet a
tolerable leß
muffbe
born rather than publick
Order
violated.
And
fac-
ing our
Laws and
ChurchCanons
allowany Man when
he will
to
change
his
Bi-
shop
or Pallor or
Congregation,
if
he
will
butchange
his
Dwelling, the
loiles
of
this mutt
rather
be
born, than any greater
real den
iment to oui
Souls
or
to
the
Publick Good. But
Wives,
Children, and
-tome others,
cannot remove their Ha-
bitations.
XI.
An
Infant
or
Child in minority in
his
Parents Houle,
as
he
is
not
to. be fup-
poled to underhand the
Laws,
fo ceterisparibus
he feemeth to me to
be
more obli-
ged
to
hear the
Teacher that
his
Parents
choofe for him, than
one that
is
chofenby
the
Magiftrates.
As
in
his
Diet,
and the choice
of
a Phyfician when
he
is
fielt,
fìr
here.
The
Magiítrate
h
an Officer
of
Power, Wifdem,
and Love, hut principally
of
Power.
The
Pallor
is
an
Officer
of
Power, Wisdom,
and
Love,
but
eminently of
Wtfdom.
The
Parent
is
anOfficer
of
Power,
Wifdom,
and
Love,
but eminently
of
Love
:
And the
works
of
Love to
his
Children eminently
belong to
his
Care
and Go.
vernment.
XII. Yet when Children
have
the true
life
of
Reafon, to diRern what
God and
Man
command them, theymuff obey neither Parentsnor Princesagainft God,
XIII. In the
circa Cara
or Circumftantials
of
Religion
,
fo
much
as
fhould
be
commonly
agreed
on
by all
or molt
Churches
for
the
Common
Good,
the Prince
by the
Counsel
of
the
Pallors,
is
the Judge
of
,
and
is
to be obeyed before
the
Bi-
shops;
unlefs
he
leave
it only to the Paltors own Confent
,
and then their Confent
in
Synods
mutt
be
much
regarded (
of
which Gratin,
de
Imperia Sum. Potebï.
bath
written
excellently, notwithftanding Bithop
BrumbaUs
difcommendation).
But
in
theCircumitances that
are not to
be universally agreed
on, but belongto the
Pallo-
rat Office to vary
pro re
nark,
the pìefent
officiating
Pallor
is
the Judge,
and to be
followed.
XIV. Rulesare
to be
obeyed in
all
lawful things belonging to their Office to
command: butall
lawful
things belong not to their
Office.
Whether
I
¡hall
eat
once or
twice
a
day,
or
once in
two days? what Meat
I
¡hall ear, andhow
much?
what
Horfe I
¡hall
ride on? what Wife
I ¡hall
marry? what
Phyfician,
or Teacher
I
(hall
troll,
and what Medicine! ¡lall
taker
cl,v.
belongeth more
to
my
felt,
as
is
Paid.
XV.
Intolerable Minißers ;ugly forbidden to preach are bound
to obey,
and
the
People forbidden to hear them,
Ihould
forbear:
But
it no
more follows
that the
Cafe
is
the
fame
to
all
others, than
that
a
true Man
may
be hang'd becaufe
aThief
may
t If
we
be
untidily
forbidden
to Preach while Ability and Mens need continu.
eth,
wemuff
neither
obey,
nor
rebel.
XVI:
A
Man may go
further in obeying the Civil Power that only
fers
up Pak.
lick Teachers
or
Catechizers,
if
they
be
unworthy,than
thofe
that
fet up
Church
Palters,
to
whom we mull commit the palloral Care
of
our
Souls
,
if
they
be
unfit) and
receive
the Sacraments from sheet
:
Of
which
Mr.
Philip Nye's
Papers now
printed
may
fàtisfie
you.
XVII.
On
Tome
occafions
it
is
lawful
to hearan unmeet
Miniller;
And
his Sa-
cramental Adminißrations may not
be Nullities,
or invalid to
the Innocent Recei-
ver
:
We
lofe
not our right, when
he lofeth
his
reward
:
But it
is
not
lawful to
en-
courage
any intolerable Perfon
in
his
chirping
of
the Miniftry, either
by
ordinary
attending