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Postscript.
LEst any should think, that I am against Government in the Church of God, and that I am against the Ordination of Ministers, or the like: let me tell them that so think, that they are mistaken: for God hath ordained a Government, and I know we must submit to them that labour among us, and are OVER us in the Lord, and esteem them very highly for their works sake, 1 Thess. 5.12, 13. 1 Tim. 5.17. The elders that rule well are worthy of double honour.
And whereas some passages herein contained, do relate to somewhat that was spoken by Mr. Willes at his House when I was with him in private; for the Reader's further satisfaction therein, touching the Truth thereof, if he please to call at my House in Red-Cross-street, I shall direct him to those who can sufficiently inform him of the truth thereof, being there present at the same time.
And whereas Mr. Willes did tell the people, that none could lawfully preach but those that were ordained, unless it were such as were put upon that work by necessity, where such Ordination could not be had; I thereupon went to his House with some Friends, and did desire him in love to prove himself a Minister of Christ, either by Ordination from a lawful Succession, or else that he was put upon it by any necessity: and this I pressed upon him for an hour and half together, and he refused (as divers can witness) to prove himself a Minister either one way or other. And I fur∣ther desired him, that he would dispute those things in publick that he had so publickly asserted; but this he utterly refused, though I promised him to dispute, according to the known Laws of Dispu∣tation.
Vale.