A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

Secondly, the people for their part, are to use all good helps and means for the removing of this impediment. And first, their care must be to place themselves under sufficient, godly, and faithful Ministers, who will carefully and conscionably break unto them the bread of life. And if in the days of their ignorance, they have seated themselves under blind guides, ignorant & insufficient Ministers, or if such be imposed upon them against their wills in those places where their lands and livings, trades and means do lie, they must not only sigh and mourn under this burden, but also use all lawful means to be freed from it as soon as they can, either by procuring some better means by their care and charge, or by removing their habitation (though with some worldly inconvenience) unto some other place; Esteeming this one thing necessary, to enjoy the means of their salvation, and with the wise Merchant purchasing this pearl ¹and treasure at the highest rate, rather then be without it. For if we would be hired with no worldly gain, to live in such places as afford no food for the nourishment of our bodies; let us be no less wise and careful for our precious souls, and not hazard them to death and destruction, by continuing in those places for our worldly advantage, where there is a continual famine of the Word, but rather then want it, we must wander from sea to sea, and from the North to the East, that ²