394 Chap.io. The figns andmeans ofright keeping it. Corns. zek.13.4. whom bis Father had prepared them. In Ezekiel it is Paid, the Prophets were like foxes in the dePrt : and fo in the Schools of the Prophets, we find every one like Foxes, hungry and ravening for preferment,as a teflimony of that excellency that is in him. Luke 14, 8, 5. Thus we are ambitious Rill of higher places, forgetting that leffon of our Saviours, 1a. 42. of taking the lowefl solaces. 11 geodSteward ( as he faith,) will give to every one in the houfe 49 0.174.41(v), his portion, and no man ought to expeét more : he that will have more than his atro¡sí,tor, his portion, requires an unjuft thing of the Lords Steward. 7be fifth rule. g. According to the fifth Rule, we are to (peak of the figns of the performance of thefe Duties. .The figns. I.. For Inferiours. T_he figns of their honouring their Superiours may begather- ed from that fpeech of the Heathen ; Nec dillo, nec falla, aut cubit laf, l have not neg- leeledmy duty, either in wordor deed, or by fo much asan ill look: and as for vultut, the common faying of vultu( ape laditur pieta/Am that by a wry countenances aman may break this precept. The figns ( in thenext place ) when Inferiours give honour to their Superiours,, may be thefe ; and a man may behonoured or dilhonoured, Dillo, Fallo,Vultu; for thefe three ways, laditur pietas. r. Fallo. We mull thew our reverence to them by our deeds. Our outward ads /kb, 13. 17. ought tobe fuch, as that they may rejoice and takepleafure in their Goverment, and 5 (gam, 24, , not grief, as the Apoftle fpeaks. Davids heart fmote him, when he had cut off Sauls skirt. He didnot hurt Saul in the Cave, yet his heart taucht him, becaufe he had toucht his garment, and had thereby di(honoured him, by fpoiling his garment. Wemutt not then do the lealt act that may reflect upon our Superiours, but teflifie our honour by all acts ofobedience and Duty; yea by doingmore than we are bound to ; this is a good fign that we do truly honour them,if wedo not barelyour Duty, z car. g. 8, but abound in every good work, by doing more or oftner than Law requires. The A- Yhil. 4.17. poftle fpeaking of a Duty, tells thePhilippians, that it was not fo much the matter of the Duty he efleemed , or weighed, the paying of Tithesor Maintenance , but ds s''taor, the fruit abounding, that (houldbe accounted as anoverplus at the day ofreckon- Gan. 34. 30. ing ; this was it he valued. By thismeans we (hall not be like Simeon andLevi, [bas Efay9. 17. made their Father flink among the inhabitants ofthe Laud, but cart a comfortable fmtll z Kings a 23. thatGod and our Superiours (hall take pleafure and delight in us. 2. Ditto. Honour mutt be (hewn in words, as on thecontrary contempt maybe, (hewn in words, as we fee in the example of the Children that mocked Elijha and were deftroyed by Bears ; and of the Pharafter that derided Chrift, which is elegant Luke 16. 14. in the original, iEsµvna i elCor, nafofufpendebant, they took it in (huff, and expreffed their deribon, by drawing together the nofe; they made nofes at him: Therefore bleffed Próv. 5. is he that fpeaketh to an underftanding Ear; an obedient Ear will be willingwheat Is; 1- s. i 3s, his faults, without deriding or fcoflìng at his Superiour. 3. Lailly, Vultu, for the countenance, Honour as well as Contempt may appear by Gen. 4. 5. the countenance. We fee Cain liking not his Brother, banged hislook, bitcountenance 31.2. fell. Laban upon difpleafuretaken againft Jacob, altered his countenance, it was not to him as before. Saint Jerome upon the 16. verfe ofthe So. Pfalm, faith, there is vultusincrepationis, a chiding countenance; and vultus detraFFationis, a countenance that can detraa ; which is as the wife-man faith, whenone doth harden his face, or put Yrov, 21. 29. on a bold face when he is rebuked, or hath, as David faith, a proudlook, whereby he Bfafm 131.1. doth as much as in him lies vultu ledere, difhonour bim by bis looks. Elifba faith, a Kings 3. 14. that ifhe bad not reverenced the face ofthe King ofJudah, he would not once have look- ed upon Jeroboams intimating, that to Superiours efpecially, being godly, reverence mutt be [hewed, and that it may be (hewn even in the looks. For Superiours, becaufe as they fay, their power is bottomlefi, fo their abnfer are bottomlefs : therefore there are certain fignsofa good Government, Elky 32.3,4 t. The Prophet tells us, that in a good Government, the eyes of them that fee, (hall not need to wink, and the mouthof them that canfpeak, Thall not need to be filent : a man may fpeak the truth freely without danger or controle : a flagitious man (hall not be called Good Sir, and as it is verfe g. the bafe fhall not be called Liberal, nor the char le bountiful. He gives us to underftand, that in an ill Government a man mull fee and not fee, as the Poet faid, uodfait, nefcir. We may fie this in the ex- amples
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