of a Lay-man, and what Arguments can be produc'd for the Prefervation of the Unity of the Church, and to keep us from Eternal Schifms and Separations from Her? Your long Silence in not afferting and defending the Dig nity of your Office, and the unalienable Nature of those Sacraments which Chrift has infeparably annex'd thereto, tho' it may have proceeded from a Notion of Humility and Modefty, that you might not be thought to preach up your felves, but Chrift Fefus the Lord; yet (with fubmiffion be it spoken) seems to have been the occafion of much Ignorance among the Laity, of the Nature of Schifm, and their Duty to you, and confequently of encouraging the Enemies of } the Clergy and of their great Master in Heaven, to blafpheme him, and trample the Authority you have from him, under their Feet. Atheism, Deism, Prophaneness, Blafphemy, and Sacrilege, are now grown Impudent and Bare-fac'd, Bold and Rampant; they fcorn any longer to dwell in Obfcurity and Darkness, when they are become the fashionable Accomplishments of our pretended great Wits, and Men of diftinguished Senfe and Judgment. They have a grand Defign in hand, (and their Emiffaries have profecuted it but with too much fuccefs) to represent your Office every-where, and to all forts of Men, as Tyranny,Imposture, and Ufurpation; to wreft the Sacraments out of your Hands, that you may become useless and infignificant; to make the giddy Multitude believe, that all you do is nothing but

Prieft

Prieftcraft, to bring and keep them under a worfe than Egyptian Bondage; to expose you to the Rage and Fury of an ungovernable Mob, and fo at laft to his you, and all Reveal'd Religion, off of the Stage of this World. What elfe mean their feveral execrable Books and Pamphlets that are now industrioufly publish'd, of fet Purpose to decry your Office, and redicule your Ministrations? How fhall the Ignorant be defended from their Infection, but by the Antidote, which fome of you, both by Books and Sermons, have already begun to apply, couragiously following the Example of the great St. Paul, who magnified his Office, and thereby the Authority of Jefus Chrift who fent him? God be praised for these happy Beginnings, these first noble Performances in maintaining your Office, and in defence of the True Rights of the Chriftian Church, depofited in your Hands by the great Author of our most Holy Religion: And may he, by the bleffed Influences of his Spirit, ftir up many MORE OF YOU to Cry aloud and Spare not, to lift up your Voices like a Trumpet, to shew the People their Tranfgreffion, and those who strive with the Prieft their Sin,Ifa. lviii. 1. Hof. iv. 4. and Rom. ii. 8. That they may learn to KNOW and fubmit to, thofe who are over them, (in the Lord) and who watch for their Souls,Heb. xiii. 17. That they may esteem them VERY HIGHLY in love for their WORKS fake, 1 Theff. v. 13. Becaufe they are the Minifters of Chrift, and

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Stewards of the MYSTERIES of God, I Cor. iv. 1. That fo the People may effectually be enabled to mark and avoid thofe, who tho' they come to us in Sheeps-Cloathing, and tranfform themselves into the Appearance of Apoftles of Chrift, and Ministers of Righteousness, are yet inwardly but ravening Wolves, falfe Apostles, deceitful Workers, and Minifters of Satan, in St. Paul's Language; for they caufe Divifions and Offences contrary to the Doctrines which we have learn'd; nay, contrary to the very Principles, or Foundations of the Doctrine of Christ, of Baptifms, and of Laying on of Hands; and therefore fhould be avoided, that we may keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace: Which that we may all learn to do, and by your confentient CONSTANT WARNINGS be preferv'd from the dreadful Sin of hating found Doctrine, and heaping to our felves Teacher's deftitute of the Divine Commiffion, who ferve not our Lord Jefus Chrift, but their own Bellies May God of his Infinite Mercy grant, through Jefus Chrift; to whom be Glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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