A survey of the summe of church-discipline. Wherein the vvay of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the vvord, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered : whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice. / By Tho. Hooker, late pastor of the church at Hartford upon Connecticott in N.E.

1 Conclusion.

Its not a matter of liberty or curtesie which may be done or left undone: but it is a duty and a work of justice, unto which the Church is called, and to the performance whereof they are bound in conscience. Provision in this kind is wages and not benevolence. So our Saviour concludes (Matth. 10.10.) touching his disciples, when he sent them to preach: he bids them not to be sollicitous for relief, For the workman is worthy of his wages. And the Apostle de∣termines it by the verdict of all Lawes. Look we at the Law of nature; We must not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the

corn, 1 Cor. 9.9. Look at the Law of Nations; Doth any man go to warre at his own charges, Ver. 7. Look we at the Law of God; he hath ordained that those who preach the Gospell should live of the Gospell. They must not live of their patrimony, but of the Gospell. As instance, They who administred at the Altar, lived of the Altar. He that shall bestow his time and thoughts to pro∣vide bread on the week dayes for his family, how shall he be able to provide bread for the Church upon the Lords day?