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They that are called out to the publick, ought to let all their designs and endeavours run in such a chanel as may flow thi••ther, and not to stream back, or aside, in any other course. It is a sad preferment to be enriched wth the calamity of Church or State, and to build up your own ship with the broken planks of the Kingdomes vessels; or to settle your own inheritance, before the publicks.
But the former Governours were chargeable unto the people,* 1.1 and had taken of their bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver: but so did not I, because of the fear of the Lord; I also continued in the work of the Lord, I also continued in the work of the Lord, neither bought we any land.
Neh. 5.16 17.