The sectaries downfall: or, A treatise of the calling of ministers. Wherein the orthodox clergie are approved to be the onely true and lawfull pastors of the Church of God. That all others besides them, (pretend what they please) for their usurping the ministry, without any lawfull call, are but thieves and robbers, and seducers of the people. By William Harvey, minister of the Gospell of Iesus Christ.

TO THE READER.

GEntle and Christian Reader;

J have in briefe only touched these Foure heads, having scarce time to lick them to a forme. If J been somewhat free in Speech and incurr'd thy censure, I cannot help it, the cause required it. Nettles must bee crushed hard, and Here∣tiques handled roughly. In reproving of Sin, a Minister of all other men, must not be mealy-mouth'd or remisse. Nihil in Sacerdote tam periculosum apud Deum, tam turpe apud homines, quàm quid sen∣tiat veritatem, non liberè pronunciare; (saith Ambrose) Nothing in a Priest is so dangerous with God, or so base with men, as not to declare that freely which he thinks to be Truth. And thus have J cast in my poore Mite; I may (God willing) if occasion serve, put in more; In the mean time I desire thy acceptance, and beseech

Almighty GOD to keepe thee from the Apostasy of the Times •• Remembring that to the Angell of the Church of Philadel∣phia:—Behold I come quickly; hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take away thy Crowne, Revel. 3.11.

Thine in the Lord Jesus Christ, W. HARVEY.