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4. We also humbly beseech you, that you will go on with the purging, and encouraging of the Ministry: Casting out the Ignorant and Ungodly; and countenancing those that are Able, and Faithful. They deny their ease, and dignity and the riches of the world (which other employments would afford) to encounter with Satan and the worlds corruptions, for the happiness of souls! And therefore the more oppose them and revile them, and unthankfully requite them, the more are you obliged for the sake of Christ, and mens salvation, to assist them. All their enemies contending to surpass the Devil in impudency, accuse them of Covetousness, Idleness and Ambition, as if these were the things that they seek after in the world. If our practice seconding our profession, be not enough to confute these calumnies of malignant men, let this be added to confute them, that we make it our earnest request to your Highness, that all such Ambitious, Idle, Covetous, or otherwise scandalous Ministers may be cast out. You have Commissioners in every County for this work: Require them to do it faithfully: If we desired this much against our Reproachers, they would say we persecuted them: We desire you therefore ⟨image 8⟩but to turn this persecution against our selves. We also desire you, that you will not advance us to Temporal Honours, or Dignities, or Power; nor make us Lord Bishops, nor to abound with the riches of this world: These things agree not with our calling: We only desire food, and raiment, and necessaries to furnish us for our work, and express some charity to the needy that daily expect it from us; and we crave of you that we may be no richer. We also desire you, never to put the sword into our hands, nor enable us to execute any of our private passions upon any, nor yet to touch mens Bodies or Estates; but only to manage the word and Keys of the Kingdom of Christ upon mens Consciences, and Guide his Church according to our office, and let it prevail as God shall bless it. This is all the advancement we desire. We have doubly renounced all the world, as Christians, and as Ministers of Christ; we have given up our selves to a difficult flesh-displeasing work: we crave no more of you but so far to countenance us as Christ commandeth you, and the good of our peoples souls requires.

4. We also humbly beseech you, that you will go on with the purging, and encouraging of the Ministry: Casting out the Ignorant and Ungodly; and countenancing those that are Able, and Faithfull. They deny their ease, and dignity and the riches of the world (which other employments would afford) to encounter with Satan and the worlds corruptions, for the happiness of souls! And therefore the more oppose them and revile them, and unthankfully requite them, the more are you obliged for the sake of Christ, and mens salvation, to assist them. All their enemies contending to surpass the Devil in impudency, accuse them of Covetousness, Idleness and Ambition, as if these were the things that they seek after in the world. If our practice seconding our profession, be not enough to confute these calumnies of malignant men, let this be added to confute them, that we make it our earnest request to your Highness, that all such Ambitious, Idle, Covetous, or otherwise scandalous Ministers may be cast out. You have Commissioners in every County for this work: Require them to do it faithfully: If we desired this much against our Reproachers, they would say we persecuted them: We desire you therefore