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Pastoral Care, chap. iv. Comp. Preface. Nearly to the same purpose he remarks in another place—‘Maintaining arguments for more power than we have, will have no effect unless the world see, that we make a good use of the authority already in our hands. It is with the Clergy as with Princes. The only way to keep the prerogative from being uneasy to their subjects, and from being disputed, is to manage it wholly for their good and advantage. Then all will be for it, when they find it is for them. Let the Clergy live and labour well, and they will feel as much authority will follow, as they will know how to manage well. They will never be secured or recovered from contempt, except by living and labouring as they should.’ Conclusion of the History of his own times. 2Cor. 13.3.