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people might have of their preaching, yet he 

 "vsrould vouch for them, that they were good 

 preachers, and workmen that needed not to be 

 ashamed." 



As to personal residence upon their cures, 

 which was a topic he never omitted, " He de- 

 clared to them he did not see how they could 

 satisfy their consciences without it, unless there 

 was some very urgent or reasonable cause to 

 excuse them. He knew not how they could so 

 solemnly take the cure of souls upon themselves 

 (as they did at their institution), and afterwards 

 put all this charge to be executed by a deputy. 

 If they thus did their duty by proxy, it were 

 well if they had not their reward in the other world 

 in the same way. Wherefore he besought them, 

 never to think of leaving their benefices, but to 

 live among their people, and set them good 

 examples." 



As to their being punctual in catechising, 

 administering the sacraments, and visiting the 

 sick, and observing rules and orders according 

 to the rubrics and canons, he laid his solemn 

 injunction upon them ; but withal '' desired 

 they would take in good part his freedom, and 

 plainness wherewith he delivered himself, de- 

 claring it was not a humour of talking magiste- 

 rially that put him upon it, but a sense of his 

 own duty, and a hearty good will to them ; that 



