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understood this, twice within two verses of my 

 text, requires it a qualification in a bishop, that 

 he be blameless, * dviyyiKvirog, one that cannot be 

 accused, which yet innocence itself, you know, 

 may be ; nay, but a bishop must be void of sus- 

 picion too, as well as crime. Aye, that's the way 

 to set all right indeed : for so fair a copy, placed 

 in so good a light, teacheth itself; and every one 

 that runs by vv^ill read it, and strive to write after 

 it. 



2. But secondly, Dodiijia; hy speaking the things 

 that become sound docti^ine. f For a bishop must be 

 able both :j:to exhort and to convince the gain- 

 sayers : § In doctrine showing uncorruptness, 

 gravity, sincerity, sound speech that cannot be 

 condemned, that he, that is of the contrary part, 

 may be ashamed, &c. 



3. Censura, That must not be forgotten, as being 

 chief in the eyes of the text. No ; the garden of 

 God must be weeded sometimes, or, like the 

 sluggard's vineyard, || it will soon be overgrown 

 with nettles and thorns. Even Christ's vine 

 must be pruned too, or it will run out, and spend 

 itself in fruitless luxury. The Lamps of the Tem- 

 ple will burn faint and dim, if they be not trim- 

 med, and dressed, and snuffed now and then. 

 And, therefore, though the Tables of the Law, and 

 the Pot of Manna be in the Ark, yet it is not a 



* Inaccusabilis : Cajetan. t Ch. ii. 1. 



X Ch. i. 9. § Ch. ii. 7, 8. 



II Prov. xxiv. 30, 3J. 



