The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

First, You that are the people, you must not lightly forsake a Minister neither; if Ministers are so tied to you in time of danger, as they must venture themselves for your good, surely people are not at liberty to depart from their Ministers, for the tie is a mutual tie. You will say, there is a difference between the Minister and another member: it is true, in regard of use, but if you come to the tie, the tie of another member is as real and strong, as the tie of a minister: As in the body the eye is of more use then the hand, yet sometimes the hand may preserve life more then the eye, and though it be of more use, the hand is as strongly and as truly tied to the body as the eye; yea take all the members conjunctive, and there is a greater tie upon them to their Minister, then upon their Minister to them: the Minister is tied to the whole directly, and they are tied to him by being tied to one another: and if there be liberty for one member of a Church to depart when he will, then there is liberty for another, and so for all, and if liberty for them to depart, then there is liberty for the Minister too: many cry out of the Minister if he leave his people when he list, there is as much cause for a Minister to cry out of his people if they leave him when they list.

First, You that are the people, you must not lightly forsake a Minister neither; if Ministers are so tyed to you in time of danger, as they must venture themselves for your good, surely people are not at liberty to depart from their Ministers, for the tye is a mutual tye. You wil say, there is a difference between the Minister and another member: it is true, in regard of use, but if you come to the tye, the tye of another member is as real and strong, as the tye of a minister: As in the body the eye is of more use then the hand, yet somtimes the hand may preserve life more then the eye, and though it be of more use, the hand is as strongly and as truly tyed to the body as the eye; yea take al the members conjunctive, and there is a greater tye upon them to their Minister, then upon their Minister to them: the Minister is tyed to the whole directly, and they are tyed to him by being tyed to one another: and if there be liberty for one member of a Church to depart when he wil, then there is liberty for another, and so for all, and if liberty for them to depart, then there is liberty for the Minister too: many cry out of the Minister if he leave his people when he list, there is as much cause for a Minister to cry out of his people if they leave him when they list.