Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied…

I will venture, though I know it will displease the impenitent to say, that I will pity that Minister more than a poor Publican or Drunkard, who will justify, 1. All our Canons. 2. And all the Laws made as for Uniformity and against Nonconformists, and their Execution to the silencing of about two thousand such Ministers, and the Death of many of them in and by imprisonment, and the ruin of the Estates of them and many more thousand Godly People, 3. And the present state of the Parish Churches, where the alterations of the Liturgy show that the Incumbents must not be called Pastors, and such as Dr. Fuller Dean of Lincoln are allowed to publish, that [Inauditus erat Parochorum Pastoratus ante hujus seculi & antecedentis delirium] The Pastor-ship of Parish Priests was never heard of before the Dotage (or Madness) of this and the foregoing Age. And so there is but one Pastor and Church in a Diocese. Either Mr. Clerkson's book unanswered of the Primitive Episcopacy, or this and such other Doctors are impudent beyond the degree of humane pravity.

I will venture, though I know it will displease the impenitent to say, that I will pitty that Minister more than a poor Publican or Drunkard, who will justifie, 1. All our Canons. 2. And all the Laws made as for Uniformity and against Nonconformists, and their Execution to the silencing of about two thousand such Ministers, and the Death of many of them in and by imprisonment, and the ruine of the Estates of them and many more thousand Godly People, 3. And the present state of the Parish Churches, where the alterations of the Liturgy shew that the Incumbents must not be called Pastors, and such as Dr. Fuller Dean of Lincoln are allowed to publish, that [Inauditus erat Parochorum Pastoratus ante hujus seculi & antecedentis delirium] The Pastor-ship of Parish Priests was never heard of before the Dotage (or Madness) of this and the foregoing Age. And so there is but one Pastor and Church in a Diocess. Either Mr. Clerksons book unanswered of the Primitive Episcopacy, or this and such other Doctors are impudent beyond the degree of humane pravity.

And whereas they that yet delay to answer my English Nonconformity Stated, take up usually with the reproaching one question in it, what Church the 800 were of, that one Doctor Printeth that he cured of the French Pox, should I tell them of the quality and far greater number of persons that Doctor Lower hath thrice together affirmed to have that Disease, that with the commoner Whoredom, Drunkenness, Swearing, Self-damning, scorning Godliness, yea and Gods Word it self, may warrant a man that hath any love to the Church and Souls, to entreat the Curates though they be not Pastors to bethink them, 1. Whether they know who are the Members of their Churches?