Now, why do they do that?
Is their pulpit and their parish not sphere and opportunity enough for them?
Mine is a small parish, said Boston, but then it is mine.

And a small parish may both rear and occupy a truly great divine.
Let those ministers, then, who are defective in ecclesiastical prudence not be too much cast down.

Ecclesiastical prudence is not in every case the highest kind of prudence.

The presbytery, the synod, and the assembly are not any minister's first or best sphere.

Every minister's first and best sphere is his parish.