Vf Mr. Henry Scougal. · 409 which ·would be their great bufinefs when they were entered into the holy function; and that this would not be fo .n1uch the ma... naging of controverfies .and -debates of re– ·ligion;as the guiding mens fouls.to eternity; the refcuing thevicious fron1 their.fins and vices, .and prevailing upon them by all ,pru-. dent n1ethods; and directing the ferious to the :true practice and exercife c;jf religion, and the mofi proper 1n.eans for the praB:ic~ ofgoodnefs, and the avoiding and rcfifiing .of temptations, and -how they ought to behave thcmfelves in all circumfiances of life. He thought it fufficient that -theyunderftood the fiate and importance of thofe controvcr!ics and differences whieh wet:e t.he grounds -of the divifion.s -of Chriiterrd'on1 . for their own.inHruB:ion., a·nd thofe whG., ftood .in need -of.it under t.heir care; but the other he looked .upon as their .n1a.in bufinefs. And therefore, accordingly .af– ter he had guardc;d them againft the conY– moo artifices of ·the· ·R oman n1ifEonaries in their making profdytes, and cleared -the .· 1nofl: important difficult ies in the gofpels; ( -he prof ·ofed two .ddigns as the fubjea of all his publick -.exercifes. The one, d~ ·cura pajloraf.:, p ropofing to con11d t, r the in– ;f{irution and dignity, the weight and dif: M m fic ulty
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