The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom &…

But yet I will allow you to be moderately suspicious ⟨p. 16⟩where you see that there is any great bait of carnal interest to tempt men: A Popedom, a Cardinalship, (I must name no more) may make the Roman Heathen say, I will turn Christian, if you will make me Bishop of Rome, &c. But will you suspect that a good man, yea, and all such good men, should be Partial where they put themselves on the greatest self-denial? Where they have no profit, no preferment, no man-pleasing, no worldly honour to invite them? Yea, where it is like to diminish their gain, to hinder them from preferment, to make them hated by most on whom their discipline is exercised? If a few out of a pang of Factious or Fanatic zeal, may cast themselves on such a self-denying life, it is not like that this will be the ordinary Case, of Learned, sober, godly men. If it be, with whom shall the ignorant trust the conduct of their souls, that will not make merchandise of them? Would you be partial and false to the Truth of Christ your self, if you were the Pastor of a Church? Is the Office so malignant to infect all that undertake it? If it be, how can our Religion be good? If not, why should you think that others will not be as just and impartial as you would be? Do you consider what excellent persons in all respects for Wisdom, and Piety, and Integrity, were Melanchthon, Bucholtzer, Sohnius, Kimedontius, Olevian, Ursinus, Zanchius, Paraeus, and those English men you named, and many hundreds more; who more unlikely through Ignorance or partiality to betray the truth?

But yet I will allow you to be moderately suspicious ⟨p. 16⟩where you see that there is any great bait of carnal interest to tempt men: A Popedome, a Cardinalship, (I must name no more) may make the Roman Heathen say, I will turn Christian, if you will make me Bishop of Rome, &c. But will you suspect that a good man, yea, and all such good men, should be Partial where they put themselves on the greatest self-denyal? Where they have no profit, no preterment, no man-pleasing, no worldly honour to invite them? Yea, where it is like to diminish their gain, to hinder them from preferment, to make them hated by most on whom their discipline is exercised? If a few out of a pang of Factious or Phanatick zeal, may cast themselves on such a self-denying life, it is not like that this will be the ordinary Case, of Learned, sober, godly men. If it be, with whom shall the ignorant trust the conduct of their souls, that will not make merchandize of them? Would you be partial and false to the Truth of Christ your self, if you were the Pastor of a Church? Is the Office so malignant to infect all that undertake it? If it be, how can our Religion be good? If not, why should you think that others will not be as just and impartial as you would be? Do you consider what excellent persons in all respects for Wisdom, and Piety, and Integrity, were Melanchthon, Bucholtzer, Sohnius, Kimedontius, Olevian, Ursinus, Zanchius, Paraeus, and those English men you named, and many hundreds more; who more unlikely through Ignorance or partiality to betray the truth?