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And to avoid the ingratitude of those which have been found unworthily to treat their Pastors, this order shall be observ'd, To pay them aforehand, one Quarters Sallery, of the Pension which has been promis'd them yearly.
Were the Charity of the Christians of this Age as great as was that of the Primitive Christians, those who laboured in composing our Discipline, had not been ob∣liged to have made so many Rules to provide for the Maintenance of Ministers; they would have found a suf∣ficient propensity in the minds of their People to have contributed to their Necessities: But this Charity being abated, and the People being but too much inclined to pay those with ingratitude which labour for their In∣struction, it was expedient to multiply Laws to pro∣cure for them a moderate maintenance, without the which a Minister cannot subsist.