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contradict, but that there may be some substitution 

 for such a time. But the general case of necessity is 

 the case of pluralities ; the want of pastors and in 

 sufficiency of livings considered, &quot; posito,&quot; that a man 

 doth faithfully and incessantly divide his labours 

 between two cures ; which kind of necessity I come 

 now to speak of in the handling of pluralities. 



For pluralities, in case the number of able minis 

 ters were sufficient, and the value of benefices were 

 sufficient, then pluralities were in no sort tolerable. 

 But we must take heed, we desire not contraries. 

 For to desire that every parish should be furnished 

 with a sufficient preacher, and to desire that plura 

 lities be forthwith taken away, is to desire things 

 contrary ; considering, &quot; de facto,&quot; there are not 

 sufficient preachers for every parish : whereunto add 

 likewise, that there is not sufficient living and main 

 tenance in many parishes to maintain a preacher ; 

 and it maketh the impossibility yet much the 

 greater. The remedies &quot; in rerum natura&quot; are but 

 three ; union, permutation, and supply. Union of 

 such benefices as have the living too small, and the 

 parish not too great, and are adjacent. Permuta 

 tion, to make benefices more compatible, though men 

 be over-ruled to some loss in changing a better for a 

 nearer. Supply, by stipendiary preachers, to be 

 rewarded with some liberal stipends, to supply, as 

 they may, such places which are unfurnished of suf 

 ficient pastors : as queen Elizabeth, amongst other 

 her gracious acts, did erect certain of them in Lan- 



