(x52) with the Bithops is but filch as thefe: Whether the Lord Mayor alone {ball not only overfee all .the Families in the City , but be the Only Gover- nourofthein, fothat Husbands, Patents; and Mailers, t(hail only teach and ex- hort their families, but theLord Mayor alone (hall rule them, as to their daily works, theirfpeeches and their lives. Or whether the City and the wholeDiocefe (hall havebut one Schoolmafler, whó(hall be the foiegovernour of all the Schools in all thofehundred pari(hes, a o, or 4o, or moo miles diflant, and, the Schools (hall have under him only Curate U(bers, who (hail Only teach the boyes as far as they are willing tolearn, and -for all their antra&ablenefs, diföbedience, abfence, and faults, (hall prefent their names to a Chancellors Court, fet up by the foie rulingSchoohna(ler. Or whether all the Colledgesin the Univerlity (hall have no Governour but the Vicechancellor,and the teil be but Tutors to the Voluntiers. Or whether all the Patients in a Diocefe (hall hale but one Phyfician, to go- vetn thePatient by and under himonlyApothecaries to carry about bis medicine ard -drrè s ? m deed ifit were the Phyfìcians work roplay the Soldier, and cut all their throats; i - - e. But healing requireth more ado. And if it were the Bithops or. Chancellors work- to do no more, than to read an accufation, and fay, Do you Repent, and (as forcedo, becaufe they mull be thrice admonifhed,) to fayat once, I admonifhyou, Iadmo- nifbyou, Tadmonifh you, I excommunicateyou ; or CO do as the Pope doth, Inter- djEl wholeKingdoms at once, (as Herod killed all the children in hope that he thould meet with Chri(l among them,) then a few hands might do the work. -But whether it be poflible to exercife the difcipline ofChritl, in their Dioce= fan- way on one of a thoufand, let the impartial judge: Asalfo whether that Church be fitlier faid to be governed or ungoverned where one ofa thoufand is governed indeed, whenas it is the body of thepeople , and not one of a thoufand, that iscalled the - Church. CH A P.
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