( =444) mutt look to every Child, and a (hepherd to every [keep, and a Phyfician to everyPatient. azle s 20. 20, 2S, 3 r. I taughtyou pub1icklyand from knife to hoofe--- Take heed therefore toyourJèlves and to all theflock over which the holy Ghog- bath made joie Overfeers, to feed the Church of God, which he hath purchafed withhis own bioud Therefore watch, and remember that by thefpace of threeyears, 1 ceafed not to warn every one night and day with tears ] D. H. [ Inffrutiing both in the Synagogues, and in private Schools, and inyour feveral houfes whither I alto came Wherefore ye that are Bithops or Governoursofthe leveraiChurches, look to your'felves and the Churches committed to your truff, to rule and order all the faithful Chriftians under you.] ,Col. I. 28. Whomwe preach, warning everyman, outreaching every man inall wifdom, that we mayprefent every man perfeei in Cbri(l _us.] Pleb. 13.17. Obey them that have the rule overyou and fubmit yourfelves, for they watchforyourfouls as: thofe thatmuß give account.] D. H. ,[ Obey thofe that are let to Rule over your feveral Churches, the Whops, whole whole care is fpent among you, as being to give an account ofyour proficiency in the Gofpel. I beforecited Ignatius telling the Bithop that he mutt enquire after every one byname, even fervants and maids. And Dr. Jer. Taylor who faith, Noman canbeaccountablefor them that he knoweth not (or cannot 1Znow.) Now is it potlible for a Bilhgp to do this : To inftru&,overfee, counfel, one ofmany hundreds of the flock? who know him no more than one in ano- ther kingdom ? Is this paftoral teaching ofparticular Souls, tohave an Appa- ritor call one ofa thoufand when he Conformeth not, or offendeth,to'a Chan- cellors Court; How little know they what the work ofa Pallor is that think fo ? .. Bithops mutt teach the flock by their own vifible exa plé; By holy fpeaking and holy living before their flocks. .Heb. 13. 7. [ Remember them which have the rule overyou, who havefpokn toyou the wordofGod, whofefaith follow, . codering the end of their converfations.] D. H. [ Set before your eyes tbe,Bilhops ------ obferve their manner of living. ] If it were the ,Pope at Rome, we might calla conje6ture by the report of that ,great liarfame, Becaufe it is aplace that we hear often from in the Curranto's and Gazets : But no Ga- let tellethusofthe life ,ofour Bithop. Andhow !hall thofe obferve theirmanner of living, who knownot whether they be alive ordead, ,.till aMinifter is to be filenced, or a new Bithop doth fucceed the old? You may aswell bid us ob- Serve how they live in the Weft-Indies. î Pee.1. 5.3. Neither as being Lords over Gods ,Heritage (orhavingdominion averyourçbarges) but being enfamples to the Flock] D. H. [Walking Chri- flianly and exemplarily before them. What ! before them that never faces or heard them ? Before men of another Countrey , that may fwear and not repent with Peter, Weknow not the man? What ! be examples to them that are .our ofthe notice oftheir wordsand, lives ? But ifreally you think that fame is fufficient, i. It mutt be of petfons and things not too far off. z. It mutt.be in
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