present but the disciples, shall none then but ministers receive?

8. There is all the reason you should believe your minister, unless you have studied divinity as well as he, or more than he.

9. It is a foolish thing to say ministers must not meddle with secular matters, because his own profession will take up the whole man; may he not eat, or drink, or walk, or learn to sing? The meaning of that is, he must seriously attend his calling.

10. Ministers with the Papists, that is, their priests, have much respect; with the Puritans they have much, and that upon the same ground, they pretend both of them to come immediately from Christ; but with the Protestants they have very little; the reason whereof is, in the beginning of the Reformation, they were glad to get such to take livings as they could procure by any invitations, things of pitiful condition. The nobility and gentry would not suffer their sons or kindred to meddle with the church, and therefore at this day, when they see a parson, they think him to be such a thing still, and there they will keep him, and use him accordingly; if he be a gentleman, that is singled out, and he is used the more respectfully.

11. The protestant minister is least regarded, appears by the old story of the keeper of the clink. He had priests of several sorts sent unto him; as they came in, he asked them who they were. Who are you? to the first. I am a priest of the church of Rome. You are welcome, quoth the keeper, there are those will take care of you. And who are you? A silenced minister. You are welcome too, I shall fare the better for you. And who are you? A minister of the church of England. O God help me, quoth the keeper, I shall get nothing by you, I am sure; you may lie and starve, and rot, before any body will look after you.

12. Methinks it is an ignorant thing for a churchman to call himself the minister of Christ, because St. Paul, or the apostles, called themselves so. If one of them had a voice from heaven, as St. Paul had, I will grant he is a minister of Christ, I will call him so too. Must they take upon them as the apostles did? Can they do as the apostles could? The apostles had a mark to be known by, spake tongues, cured diseases, trod upon serpents, &c. Can they do this? If a gentleman tells me, he will send his man to me, and I did not know his man, but he gave me this mark to know him

by, he should bring in his hand a rich jewel; if a fellow came to me with a pebble-stone, had I any reason to believe he was the gentleman's man?

MONEY.

1. MONEY makes a man laugh. A blind fiddler playing to a company, and playing but scurvily, the company laughed at him. His boy that led him, perceiving it, cried, Father, let us be gone, they do nothing but laugh at you. Hold thy peace, boy, said the fiddler, we shall have their money presently, and then we will laugh at them.

2. Euclid was beaten in Boccaline*, for teaching his scholars a mathematical figure in his school, whereby he showed, that all the lives both of princes and private men tended to one centre, con gentilezza, handsomely to get money out of other men's pockets, and it into their own.

3. The pope used heretofore to send the princes of Christendom to fight against the Turk; but prince and pope finely juggled together; the monies were raised, and some men went out to the holy war; but commonly

* See the Ragguaglia di Parnasso.

after they had got the money, the Turk was pretty quiet, and the prince and the pope shared it between them.

4. In all times the princes in England have done something illegal to get money. But then came a parliament, and all was well; the people and the prince kissed and were friends, and so things were quiet for a while; afterwards there was another trick found out to get money, and after they had got it, another parliament was called to set all right, &c. But now they have so outrun the constable

MORAL HONESTY.

THEY that cry down moral honesty, cry down that which is a great part of religion, my duty towards God, and my duty towards man. What care I to see a man run after a sermon, if he cozen and cheat as soon as he comes home. On the other side morality must not be without religion; for if so, it may change, as I see convenience. Religion must govern it. He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff dog; so long as you stroke him and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be; he is a very good

by, he should bring in his hand a rich jewel; if a fellow came to me with a pebble-stone, had I any reason to believe he was the gentleman's man?

MONEY.

1. MONEY makes a man laugh. A blind fiddler playing to a company, and playing but scurvily, the company laughed at him. His boy that led him, perceiving it, cried, Father, let us be gone, they do nothing but laugh at you. Hold thy peace, boy, said the fiddler, we shall have their money presently, and then we will laugh at them.

2. Euclid was beaten in Boccaline*, for teaching his scholars a mathematical figure in his school, whereby he showed, that all the lives both of princes and private men tended to one centre, con gentilezza, handsomely to get money out of other men's pockets, and it into their own.

3. The pope used heretofore to send the princes of Christendom to fight against the Turk; but prince and pope finely juggled together; the monies were raised, and some men went out to the holy war; but commonly

* See the Ragguaglia di Parnasso.