A second admonition to the parliament

so y• our resignations will not stand with y• word of god / m•ch less will our non residents abide y• trial / both serving §10the covetousness of greedy bellied wolves / the one to fleece without care of feeding / except it be themselves either in some chaplains room / or in some other sty / to spare their labour where they should intend: The other serveth him that ever gapeth for a greater pray / or to make money when other shifts sail. And further / I will not excuse all those that either resign / or suffer them selves to be deprived to avoid further trouble / without consideration of their flock / §20if the same conspire not generally against them / seeing they ought to give their lives for their¹ flock. But this is not thought to be so needful / nor in deed were so needful / if to read the scriptures / the homilies / and the course of our book of common prayers were mough / for then a boy of ten years old may do the ministers office / for the substance of their office is not in the years / but in the reading. And in deed boys and senseless asses are our common ministers §30for the most part / for / but common reason may serve this turn / and do this feat well mough. It is in deed les•• busy then popish priests² service / because the calendar and the rubrics of the book are fewer: and plainer then his portuise and pie were / so that less clerks then popish priests / which had but some blind Latin in their b•lly / may serve for our store / & therefore ⟨p. 21⟩in deed the blindest buzzard of them / if he will keep his conscience to himself / nay he is not so narrowly looked unto / if he will subscribe to our Articles of Christian religion before his ordinary / and blindly read them at his benefices / he shall not only be serving priest (I use their own terms) but he may have one Benefice or moe / and nothing shall / nor may be said against him / and so he provi his quarter sermons