Of t!J~ Mil'tiflerial F zmflio11. 3 ·3~ · dotes mali. Like people, Jq<e priefls, ·will tl:ill be a proverb of a general truth. . But, if the negligence and mifcarriage c;>f a Mi– nifter cloth hazard the fo.uls of others, it doth certainly ruin his own; whic,h lnade St. ChryJOflom fay, Eqttidem ex ecclejite mi1ti flris' .non · arbitror multos ftrvari; words fo terrible, that I trcn1ble to put them into Englijh: and yet, if a man ihould fpeak fire, blood, and fmoke, if flan1es could come ·out of his n1outh inflead of words, if he had a voice like thunder, and an eye like lightening, pe coulrl not fufficiently repre.. fent the dreadful account that an unfaithful paftor ihall make. What horror and con– fuGon J.hall it cail: then1 into at the lafr day, to ·.hear the biocd of the Son of God plead againfr the1n; to hear our great,nJ~fier f.1y, It was the purhafe of n1y blood which ye did ,neglecr; God died for thefe fouls, of\lhotnye took fo litt{e pains: think not therefore to be faved bv that blood which ye have defpifed, or to e"fca.pe the tor– n1ents whereunto n1any others are plunged 1 through your faults! By this time I hope it doth appear, that the wor1{ of the mini– ftry is of great weight and importance; that n1uch cloth depend on the right difcharg- . .F f 2 ing
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