And indeede those that feede their flockes faithfully according to the commaundement of God, doe see what a great wisedome and mercy of God it is to appoynt euery flocke his pastor, & euery pastor his flocke. They can tell of a wonderfull loue, that God worketh in them towardes theyr flockes, and in their flockes towardes them. A greate encoragment vnto them, and as it were a pricke to sturre vp their dulnesse it is, when they see the blessing of God vpon their labours, and thereof a maruelous care, and thought to turne all such things away, as shoulde hinder the encrease of that blessing, which they can not haue any feeling or experience of, which are not conuersant with their flockes, besides a familiaritie betwene the pastor and the flocke is profitable to this, that eue∣ri〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 one maye be emboldened to come and demaunde to be satisfyed of those things they doubte of, which they will neuer do vnto those, whome they are not by continuall conuersation acquainted with.
How can you tell? you haue no such experience, for you neuer had flocke: or what boasting pastor hath so bragged of himself? Peraduenture bicause some troublesome persons delighted with contentions and straunge opinions made much of him, & the rest gaue him some countenance, he thought they loued him, when as peraduenture it was nothing so. But be it true of those, whom you meane: I doubt not but there be flockes that haue that loue towardes their Pastors, and Pastors that haue that loue to∣wards their flockes (though they do not continually remaine with them) which ought to be in the Children of God, and which neuer will be remoned, deface you them as much as you can.