then, as were we, and conversant with his Church, as now he is, but send for the Elders of the Church, and bids them take heed unto themselves, and all the ••lock, over whom the holy Ghost had made them overseers, to feed the Church of God which he had purchased with his own blood, yea, bids them watch, and remem∣ber, that by the space of three years, he ceased not to warn every one of them, night and day with teares, yea, that no man may pretend Christs service for his carelesness, and think therein, he acts according to the mind and will of Christ: we will produce Christs speaking to the Church of Ephesus, to whom Paul spake before, I know thy works, and thy labor, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them that are evil: an•• t••ou hast tried them, which say, they are Apostles, and are not, and hast found them lyars: when he was in the flesh, he told us, that while men slept, the enemy came and sowed tears among the wheat, and went his way; and we think, that charge doth in a special manner belong to us, that Paul (in a manner) concludeth his Epistle to the Corinthians with watch ye, stand ye fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong; and that which he gave unto Ti∣mothy, when he was ready to be offered up, and the time of his departure was at hand, Preach the word, be in∣stant, in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long suffering and Doctrine; for the time will come, when they will not indure sound Doctrine, but after their own lusts, shall they heap unto themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables: yea, that of Jude, who wrote a great while after Paul, who thought it needful, that he should write unto them, and ex∣hort them, that they should earnestly contend for the faith,