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‘A hireling is not the one who performs the office or duty of a Minister for hire or reward (for the Apostle, or rather our blessed Lord himself says—The labourer is worthy of his hire, or reward, 1Tim. 5.18; Luke 10.7.); but the hireling is the one who endeavours to make a gain from godliness,’ etc. Brewster, quoted in Bishop Mant’s Prayer Book. ‘It is not the hireling, who faithfully feeding the flock, is maintained by his Ministry: but he to whom the “filthy lucre” is the great object or inducement.’ Scott in loco. To say the least, pluralities have (with some disinterested, and some necessary exceptions) a plausible connexion with this hateful character.