of CONFORMITY. there may not be Times, and Circum- fiances, in which the publick Labours of very good Men may not prove a greater difadvantage to theChriflianChurch, than their f lence in publick, joined with their hearty endeavours to ferve the intereft of Religion in private ; and, if there may be fuch times, and filch Circumflan- ces, N hether it be not, then, the Duty of every good Man to lay afide thepub- lick Exercife ofhis Minifiry. th,- whole matter turn upon this (as it molt apparently doth) then, what lig- nifies it to produce fuchpaffages of Scrip- ture as there; which import nothing but that Chrifl bath appointed Paflours in his Church ; That there is a Duty incumb- ent upon them, 'viz. the feeding of his Flock; that the Reward of fuch as are Good and Faithful, !hall be great, and the punífhment of the flothful and Faith- lets intolerable ; 'or the like ? Who de- nies all this ? or, who ever denied it ? But doth it follow from hence, that a Paflour, for theadvantage oftheChriflian Church, and when there is no necefty for his Publick Performances, may not turn all his thoughts upon more private ways of doing good, without incurring the guilt of
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