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Ans. Surely these who have laboured in the Word and Doctrine, and spent their strength in painful preaching, and now, in old age, rule well, cannot in reason be thought worthy of less honour and wages, then preaching Elders, but above them, as emeriti milites are not to be degraded: and if they have never laboured in the Word and Doctrine, they being Bishops, by office, must be dumb dogs, and worthy of no honour at all. 2. They cannot rule well, as Pastors, and yet be dumb, and not labour in the word. 3. The Text speaketh not of Elders, aetate, by age, but of Elders, Officio, by office, who labour, as work-men in a vineyard, v. 18.
Ans. Surely these who have laboured in the Word and Doctrine, and spent their strength in painefull preaching, and now, in old age, rule well, cannot in reason bee thought worthy of lesse honour and wages, then preaching Elders, but above them, as emeriti milites are not to be degraded: and if they have never laboured in the Word and Doctrine, they being Bishops, by office, must be dumb dogs, and worthy of no honour at all. 2. They cannot rule well, as Pastors, and yet be dumbe, and not labour in the word. 3. The Text speaketh not of Elders, aetate, by age, but of Elders, Officio, by office, who labour, as work-men in a vineyard, v. 18.
