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Fifthly, it is a mere jest, though a bitter one, to say, that we leave our ministries: when we do all that our consciences will suffer us to do, for the holding of our places: and when we have done all that, depart against our wills with sorrow. Non discedit a statione, qui cedit invitus. See M. Parker, p. 1. c. 4. s. 14.

Fiftly, it is a meere jest, though a bitter one, to say, that we leave our ministeries: when we doe all that our consciences will suffer us to doe, for the holding of our places: and when we have done all that, depart against our wills with sorrow. Non discedit a statione, qui cedit invitus. See M. Parker, p. 1. c. 4. s. 14.

But the Defendant undertaketh to prove, that the cause of silencing is not in the Bishops that suspend and deprive us, but in our selves. He is as it seemeth, a great adventurer: For he cometh forth upon this piece of service with flying colours: Know you well what you s•y (saith he) when you lay the cause of your silencing upon the Bishops? Yes surely, very well. For a cause is that which bringeth force or virtue to the being of another thing.

But the Defendant undertaketh to prove, that the cause of silencing is not in the Bishops that suspend and deprive us, but in our selves. He is as it seemeth, a great adventurer: For he commeth forth upon this peece of service with flying colours: Know you well what you s•y (sayth hee) when you lay the cause of your silencing upon the Bishops? Yes surely, very well. For a cause is that which bringeth force or vertue to the being of another thing.

Now the first virtue (or rather vice) which tendeth to silencing of Ministers in this case, is in the Bishops canons: they therefore are the first cause. The second virtue is in the Bishops and their officers, which are executioners of those unconscionable canons: they therefore are the secondary cause. Non-conformity hath no