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pavement uneven, the window^s broken, or some, 

 part or other of the wall mouldering, and dropping 

 away : so in the spiritual, either the light is not 

 good, or the walking is not answerable ; 'tis well 

 if the foundation stands firm and sinks not; but 

 the superstructions, most commonly, want some- 

 thing that must be supplied. And therefore, 

 methinks, the inference is strong. There is need 

 of a bishop in every church, that must * learn his 

 office in his name, and look about him, be"OAof 

 o(p3-aA|(xo?, (as Isidore Peleusiote appositely) ; and, 

 like a wise master builder, have a careful eye, 

 ever awake, upon all parts, to see what is want- 

 ing, and to supply it. That is the first. 



But secondly, To correct what is amiss; things 

 that are faulty and defective, and want something, 

 (sc, of their due rectitude and conformity to the 

 rule;) for so perhaps the Ta XitTrovroc may signify 

 Ta iXXiirYi, and Hesychiusf shall warrant me that 

 gloss. Or else Ta x&nroroi.yLlhroc, things that leave 

 their rank, and start out of their place ; and so to 

 be reduced and set in order again. And of this 

 sort also there was but too much in Crete. For, 

 to say nothing of the evil beasts with the nimble 

 tongues, and J slow bellies, we find also in this 

 chapter Jewish leaven to be purged out, and as 



* Isid. Pelus. lib. i. Ep. 149. ^Eiria-noiitiv otvTov xv^f 'f? °^»'> 



t Hesych. A#<7rei' to t^^«TlJ ov. Lege htiirov, et eA^jTgf. 

 X Tit. 1. 10. 



