a6o Virec` ions forgetting and keeping full Teachers! Wehave many Congregations that do contain three thoufand, five thoufand, or ten thou- fand fouls,that have but one or two Minifters, that cannot poffibly do the tenth part of the Minifterial work ofPrivate overfight; and fo poor fouls mull be negleaed, let Minitiers be never fo able or painful' : We have divers Godly Private Chriftians of fo much underftanding as to be capable of helping us as Officers in our Churches: but they are all fo poor that they are not able to fpare one hour in a day or two from their labour, much lefs to give up them - felves to the work : Howmany a Congregation is in the farce Cafe ? Nothing almoft is wanting to us to have let our Congregations in the order of Chri#t, and done this great work of Reformation which there is fo much talking of,fo much as want of Main- tenance for a Competent Number of Minifters or Elders to attend the work. I am lure in great Con- gregations this is the Cafe, and a fore that noother means will remedy. Was it never in the power ofour Rulers to have helpt us here ? Was nothing fold for other ufes, that was once Devoted and Dedicated toGod, and might have helpt us in this our mifera- ble diftrefs ? Wereour Churches able to maintain their own Officers, our Cafe were more tolerable; but when a Congregation that wants fix, or (even, or ten, is not able tomaintain one, it is hard. z. The fecond thing that i would mind our Rulers of, is, What mortal Enemies thole men are to their fouls, that would perfwade them that they muff not, as Rulers, Do Good to the fouls of men , and to the Church as fuch nor further the Reformation , nor propagate the Gofpel , nor ftablifb Chriftsor- ders
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