of CONFORMITY:. burs for the Salvation ofMankind; or, confequently, to mock God, when You pray to Him to fend Faithful Labourers into his Vineyard. But I have laid e- nough of this. If your Caufe were to be fupported by filch Arguments as this, You might add a vaft number more to thole You have already offer'd. To conclude this point, Having ma- turely weigh'd the whole matter, and con- fidered every Argument alleged, I can- not apprehend it to be an indafpenfable duty lying upon Tou as Men andMiniflers, either Ly the Obligation of God's Law of Charity, or by the binding force of your own vows atyourfelf dedication to thefervice ofGod in his houfe to continue the Publick Exer- cife of Your Miniflry. I grant indeed, that it is your duty to doyour befl in the exercife of allyour Talents, to feek tofave people's fouls: and it is a good general rule, that every perfon , as well as You, ought to do fo. But for all this, it is as certainly true ( and I believe You will acknowledge it to be fo) that many a Man, who may have a good Talent at Publick preaching, and may do fome good by it, may yet be under E 2, an
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