but performeth the Church fervice in fuch a gefure, Cereittonyand chaleti, that all thematters of the Church may benothing elfe. than certaine vaineand pompous fhewes fo that ifone of the- dpoffles were there, be wouldnever fo much as ¿reame that this were the Epifeopal. feeding of the Lords floel¿. Thus the Bilhop doing once or twice a year cloth . Suffciently perforate his Office, what e- ver he do the refl. of the time. The ordination of Minifers and other things `accountedEcclefrafficeal, he commit-teth partly to his fuffiragane, and partly to ` his Vicar, or Chancellor. The officeof Teaching he committeth to fame Doelor ` or Moak, fofworne; as. that he (hall not dare tofpeake aword (or hiífe) be- ' fides.. what isprefcribedhim:in-theformes -of Larves,. Thus far I confefs he fpeakes of the Popifh Bithops : But who would believehe meant not ours that had feen them ? And how little do they .differ ? Well you íhá11 next hear him fpeakof Proteftant Bithops. ` Pag. 425 , [ Let oes now come to other Miniffers, Pa(for.rand BJhops, ` vers from_thefe,- who .donothing in the Church ofCbrift but Preachand teach ` They. havecertain: dales of the reeeke, on which they Preach : And that is well. :. . They ,Preach. only' out ofthe holy Scriptures.: And that well too. But this is Ihefe arenot' not well, that very many of them fpeakformally, and coldly , and not from our bafhops.' the-heart ; fo that what Seneca fomewhere faith, agr eth to them ; Animum `npn.faciunt, quia animùm non habent. 'They make not men hearty (or ' fedoras) becaufe they arenot. fo thenafélves : And that of the Roman Orator, ` thou wouldf never tall¿;yhoes, if thou fpeakeff.from the heart : Nor do they ` accommodate the wordof God to the Hearers, by pertinent and profitable di- `ffribution, but they think they have well performed their office, of they have ` any how f oken out the hour. In the mean time, they obferve -not the peoples. ` mind¢, and lives, match hffe do they reforme them : Nor do they take care `how the people grow in the knowledgeofGod, the faith of Chri(f and in true ` Godlinefs : They. apply not themfelves to the f udy of the Scriptures, nor. per- fwade the people to read then in their houls ; they neither take care of thepoor `andffrangers nor vifit thefick., as little caringhowand with whatfaith they de- ` par:: And thus they difcharge their Minifiry neither faithfully, prudently nor profitably. It is indeed of"great moment that they bring not grange DoEt- `tine into the Church ; but teach the Scripture Dorrine; and that they rife not fuperf itious. rites, but are not content with ,Gargle adrrtinilration of the Sacra `'meats, according to the enfronte of the Primitive Church. But in this they, 'are tube blamed,. that they do things right. and profitable, not from the hearts, ` but fleightly, as on the by, and what is accordingly to be elfe done by a faith- ' ful Minifer they:wholly neglell. While they thus Minilfer, they do not indeed _ 'bringErroer andfuperffitions into the Churches, as in the.foregoing ages was ' done. But in the mean time, inclining to the. other extreme., they take the. ' courfewhicbby degrees willbring the people into. that indifferency in Religions 'which is the moff peffilent, and.to drink in Epicurifm thereafterand extniguifher ' of all religion. WhereforeI befeechthem in the Lord, that they.fully performs. 'and difcharge their. Miniffry, and not thus by the halves] Thus far he clef.:. ribeihAur ordinary .bettex.foxt.of the.Clergié,,but not our.Bi(hops... . 'And-
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