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Jpfe Sermon, 57competency of parts and equality of worth, to anfwerand fuftainc the heat aiid burthen of it, wirh afitfufficicncyof endowments, ability, aaiveneffe,and induftry. There ever ought to be a conv^enientcorrefpondency bet\vecne-=the importance of theplace, gnd the capacity of the party. It is a thoufandpitties to fee in a Church, and Commonvveale,manyplaces full,and yet fo few filled,whenthere is noproportion,n3y a vaft diftance betweencthe heightjor rather the weight of the place, andthcwcakeneflTejWorthlefnefTe, ifnvOt thenororiouswickednelTc ofthat unworthy perfon, who eitherbyagolden violcnce,ortempori{ing bafeneflfeshathmoft impudently thruft himfelfe into it.Secondly, Wif€,fapent men, Such as arcskilfullin the Theory,nature, my ftery and meaning of theplace, and Office into which they are to be preferred.Aman can never happily executcand fucceffefullyanyfunaion,office,or Art, which is not learnedin the fpeculative part, before he defccnd untothe pradicke. Is it fit,thinke you, for a man to pleadattheBarre, before he hath well ftudicd, and profitablypaffcd thorow the courfe^f the Commonlaw1 1f a Phyfitian fliould fallto pradife, beforehebe skilled in Hypocrates and GaUity in the natures,caufeSifignes,fympromes, prognofticks,and remediesof dlfe3fes,he is like enough tokill all beforehim.Proportionable miferics and mifchiefc, maybeexpeded , and enfue, when important places arcpreft into,and undertaken without habituall under-(landing, and fpeculative skill what belongs untothem. It is a pittifuU ^ihing, when a man willneeds