35á Chap.5. The Thtties'ofMafers and Sèrvants. Corn. 5. againfìPotiphar,but again(' Gold. And therefore David'scondi [ions with his fervants were, that they that were to be his fervants muli lead agodly life, and walltin a per_ fist way. This is to be c:;aferved, for we fee, that in the wodhip of God, the fourth psalm rot. 9. Commandment require obedience horn the Mailer as well as the Servant ; Thole and thyfervant, it make .:hem pares in this, the fervant hath an interest as well as the Mailer, and the Ma =et no priviledgenot exemption in Gods woribip above the fervant. Though the ,e fubordinate, and under one another in the Civil Society, yet in refpeét of that hefE4.44 iseiVitr, that Heavenly Common - wealth, they are bothequal. 2. Their Commandments mull not only be lawful, but poilible too. A thing may be lawful, yet not poffìble for a fervant roeffeft. Thecommand ofAbraham to his fervant to get a Wife for his Son, was lawful, but the fervant wit ly objeC3ed to Gen. 24. 5. his Matter, how ifme will not came? and therefore Abraham in that : íe acquits him 8. in there words ; If the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then than /halt be clew ofibisOath. a Sam11.31i5, 3, Theircommands ought to be profitable or ufeful, not vain and impertinent. It is 17 laid, that David being in War againft the Phililfims, longed for water in Bethlehem, and it could not beobtained, but by breaking through the Holt of his enemies. Now there were three of his HMI fo ready upon this bare intimation of his delire (which they took for akind ofCommand) that they ventured through the Enemies Camp, and brought him water ; but he confidering what an unprofitable thing he had commanded, and how dangerous alibi becaufe there was no profit in it, and yet it was gotten with the price of bloud, would not drink it, but poured it out before the Lord, acknowledging thereby, that it had been better he had been difobeyed. 4. They mutt be proportionable; that nothing becommanded above his fervants firength, above that whichthey are able todo ; norany thing that is prejudicial to Fxod. 5. 7. their.health, or at unfeafonable times. It was a great fault in Pharaoh and his Task-. mallets, to enjoin the Ifraelites their tale of bricks, ( which was hard enough ofit felf, for theywere opprelt with that) but a greater it was, to force them to per- form that, andyet they muff find ffraw themlelves, which was wont to bebrought to them. The fervants Duty anfwerable to this, conffts of two parts. t . Fide, in faithor fidelity: 2. Prudencia, diferetion. Both thefe Vertuesare joined together, by our Sa- viour, in that queftion, who io afaithful andwife fervant, whom his Mailer may matte Match. 24.45. Ruler over his Houlhold, &c? r. The command of the Mailer is to be performed faithfully, the fervant mutt frame hitufelf thereto. TheHeathenman could fay, that he which is a Servant is totesalterius, wholly his whom heferveih. Whatfoever he is able to do, he mulldo it for his Mailers good.. The Fathers upon rife words of our Saviour [ No man can ferve two Mailers a give this for one reasonof that fpeech , Quia fervi officinal Muth. 6.24. s. fi infinitum, becaufe the f rvants duty it infinite. It is as much as he can do to ferve oneMailer, as he fhould ; and he is touts heri, wholy that Mailers whom he firers; alto his time, all his firength is his Mailers, and hecannot divide it to another. He He (hall work all day in the field, and at night his fervice is not ended : the Mailer faith not to the Servant, gird thy fell, and drefs thine own Supper, but gird thyfeÿ L Ow áy ,8.: and make ready my Supper, and ferve me ; according to the example of Abraham" fervant, who though he had travelled far, and had meat fet before him, yet he oca. 24.33. would not eat till hehad done his Mailers bulinefs. Opposite to this faithfulneft ire a fervant are two ill qualities : r. Purloyning, 2. Lying. For which fervantshear ill in theComedian. r. Saint Bernard faith, De Domini fublfantia neexeant a te, fed tranfeant per te, ate aliquid bereat indigisit : Let not thy Mslferr goods pats from, but by thee, left Tit a ao fom c. ethingJIich, to thy fingers. This purloining is utterly condemned by the Apotil And fo is wafting of that which is committed to a fervants charge, and the Lukek-6. t. ordinary means of it is let downby our Saviour, eating, drinking, and keeping ill t4stth. 24.4. . company. :. a:: The other oppofite is Lying. We fee that the falle fuggeilice ofZiba was v& sot. 16.1. 'ry prejudicial told; Mailer Irlephibo/hetb; and though the firti lie cf Gebazi, which he r
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