Agayne it can not be sayd iustly, that they haue taken these reading ministers, vntil such tyme as better may be gotten, for if the Churche could procure able ministers, & shoulde desire that they myght be ordeyned ouer them, they can not obteyne that, considering that these reading ministers haue a free holde, and an estate for terme of their lyues in those Churches, of the whyche they are suche ministers: so that by this meanes the sheepe are not onely committed to an Idoll shepheard. I might say a wolfe, and speake no otherwyse than Augustine speaketh, in that a not preachyng minister hath entraunce into the Church, but the doore also is shut vpon hym, and sparred agaynst any able minister that might happily be founde out.
And would you so gladly intrude your selues into some of their roomes? surely I beléeue it, & it is not vnknowē but that some of you haue labored to do it: Wel, I hau〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 before tolde you the iudgement of the reformed Churches touching such ministers as be not able to preach, béeing otherwise vertuous and godly. I haue also set downe the opinion of diuers learned and godly men, concerning ministers admitted to minister