3'58- Of the17nportance and Difficulty il-1to publick; it is better you be drawn~. tJ1an run. Nazianzen con1plains of fome. in his time, who. with profane hearts and'. unwalhed hands d-id ruih into the ho!J, junction, and, before they -wer:e fit to re– ceive the facran1~nt, would take upon the1n. _ to celebrate it; and though. they be _not. come unto the age of n1en, if they have . learned fon1e pioui words, think themfelves. fit to be ov.erfeers- of others: 0 prtefiBu~ r..am! 0 elatum animum! Sacer etiam a CU- · nabulis Samuel! Sapientes & magiflri ji1mus .' Thjs,_I fay, was the hu1nour of f~1ne. in his day;s; and I an1 afraid the cafe is not much better in ours. But if you be truly. f.enfible of what you are t9 undertake, you would think no time too much to -be fpent _ itLpreparation for it. It ren;}ains yet tl1at I adelrefs myfelf briefly to you, 1rry R.e·verend bre"hren, and Rrght Reverend fathers. We have been. endeavouring to lay before you .the itnpor– tance and difficulty of your en1ployment ;. and ye knO\\C them. mnch better then we can tell you. But thefe things ought not to di!courage you, or"make you faint un~ der 'the weight, but rather to anitnate and· excite your care. As Alexander faid once o£ an 'cn1inei1t hazard he had ·encountered; ,. t!H1ti'
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