Five disputations of church-government and worship

§. 29. 3. No Itinerant Minister can (of himself) exclude another from his Province, and appropriate it to himself, and say, Here I will work alone, or here I have greater Authority then you: nay it was usual for these Ministers to go by companies, or more then one (as Paul and Barnabas, Paul and Silas, Paul and Timothy, Titus, &c.) so that it was no mans Province or Diocese where they came. For they that Convert Souls to Christ and not to themselves, and Baptize into his name and not in their own, do know the greatness of the work and burden, and therefore are glad of all the assistance they can get: when those that do nothing, are the men that thrust others out of the Vineyard, and say, This is my Diocese or Province; you have nothing to do to labour here.]

§. 29. 3. No Itinerant Minister can (of himself) exclude another from his Province, and appropriate it to himself, and say, Here I will work alone, or here I have greater Authority then you: nay it was usual for these Ministers to go by companies, or more then one (as Paul and Barnabas, Paul and Silas, Paul and Timothy, Titus, &c.) so that it was no mans Province or Diocess where they came. For they that Convert Souls to Christ and not to themselves, and Baptize into his name and not in their own, do know the greatness of the work and burden, and therefore are glad of all the assistance they can get: when those that do nothing, are the men that thrust others out of the Vineyard, and say, This is my Diocess or Province; you have nothing to do to labour here.]

§. 30. 4. Yet may there lawfully and fitly be a Prudential distribution or division of their Provinces among such unfixed Converting Ministers: for to be all together and go one way, must needs be a neglecting of most of the world, and so not a wise or faithful performance of the work of Christ. And therefore some should go one way, and some another, a• may most promote the work.