On I Peter 5:2 --
"If a sitting hen should go much from her nest to seek food for her self, the eggs could not but chill: If Ministers should not be maintained, how could they go on in this great work? Contrarily, how many purloin from their Minister? How many endeavor to get their Tythes at an under-rate, &c? Doth their minister feed them carefully, and should not they allow him to the utmost? Should not they be as careful of him, as he is or ought to be of them? How else shall he maintain himself and his family? How else keep hospitality, and be helpful to the poor? How else succor poor Christians, Schollars, and Strangers that resort to him for succor? A good Minister had need be a Treasurer helping to so many good uses."
-- John Rogers, 621.
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