( 2t) fhemr are tint éñough to fetch in the Lords lirveft : They are garments more wet f ' Players than for good labourers ---- whatfoever apparel they haveon senleft they will fall to work Chrijt will not know them for Labourers. Pág. o 44. The Chriftians ii: old time, when .they lived under 13rants, andwere dailyput to molt (hameful deaths, and were hatedanddefpifid of all the world, yet never lackedMinijiers to inftruli them. It it therefore mojt lamentablethat Chriftians living under aChri(tian Prince, in the peace and liberty of the Gof- pel fhould lack Learned Miners to teach them, and inffrult them in, the word of God : This is the greateft plague that God sloth fend on any people. Towhich, I addon the by,, that if any fay, we would labour.if the Bithops would give us leave.) Though the chargeaga'inft them thus in timated is grievous (and it were better for that man that offendeth one of Chrifts littleones, much more that hindereth multitudes from their .duty in feeking mens falvation, that a Mill-(lone were hanged about his neck, and he were caft into the depthsof the Sea) yet that this will not excufe men from. the preaching of the Cofpel to the utmoft of their .power,: fee Bifhop .Bilfon himfelf Afferting, viz, that filenc. ed. Minifters fhould not therefore give over preaching, in his Chriftian fsebfell. XI. Yea, read but Cefarsdefcriptionof the HeathenDruides, and tell us, whether their Charafter agree not better with the Prelacy which hath prevailed in the Churches theft feven hundred years at leali, -than Chritts Character, in the Scripture, fave only that it is °Chriflianty which they profefs. Cefat Comment. lib. 6. p.72. [lit Omni Galliä,&c. In all France there aretwo forts of men in Tome number and honour, (for the common people are accounted aln o!t bur as fervants, which of them,. '(elves dare do nothing, nor are ufed in any confultations, molt of them be. prefect with debts, or the greatnefs of tributes, or the injuries of the morepowerful, do:give themfelves in fervitoede to the nobles, who have all _ ` that power over them as Lords over their fervants ; And of theft two `forts, one are Drotides , the Other Knights. The former Are interefied in `Divine affaires, they procure publick andprivate facrifces ; they interpret. ' Religions : To thefe flock abundance of young men for difcipliné.;. and they are with, them in get honour For they determine "äf almoft, all ' controverfies private andpsrblickt And if any crime be-committed, if mur- der be done, if there be any controverfies of inheritalto or bounds, theft b men determine them , and do award rewards and punments. If any ' private perfan, or the people Rand not to theiraward (or decree) theyfor. I bid them the faerifices.. This is with three-the molt, grievous punifhment. 'Thofe that are thus interdiíled are accounted in the. number of the ungod- ly and wicked: 411 men depart from them; and fly from their prefence and: `their (peach, left they get any hurt by the contagion; nor it any light (or '1.4w) afforded them when. they feek it, nor any honour done them. And' E f 3 ovche .
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