16. Be not wanting in abilities, watchfulness and
diligence, to resist Seducers by the evidence of truth;
that there may be no need of other weapons: And quench
the sparks among the people, before they break out into
flames.
17. Be not strange to the poet ones of your flocks;
but impartial to all; and the servants of all: Mind
not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.
18. Spend and be spent for your peoples good, Do all
the good that you are able for their bodies, as well as for
their souls. And think nothing that you have too dear
to win them, that they may see that you are truely fa∣thers
to them; and that their welfare is your chiefest care.
19. Keep up the reverence of the ancient and expe∣rienced
sort of Christians; and teach the younger what
honour they owe to them that are their Elders in age and
grace: For whilest the Elder who are usually sober
and peaceable, are duly reverenced, the heat of rash
and giddy youth, will be the better kept in order.
20. Neither neglect your interest in the Religious
persons of your charge, lest you lose your power to do
them good; Nor yet be so tender of it, as to depart
from sober principles or wayes to please them: Make
them not your Rulers; nor follow them into any exorbi∣tancies,
to get their love, or to escape any of their censures.
21. Let not the Pastors contend among themselves:
especially through envy against any whom the people
most esteem. A reproof of ignorant, pievish, backbiting,
quarrelsome Ministers.
22. Study our great pattern of Love and tenderness,
meekness and patience: and all those texts which com∣mend
these virtues; till they are digested into a nature
in you, that healing virtue may go from you, as wast∣ing
fire proceedeth from the incendiaries. The Texts
recited.