Serm. T o. u requiredbetween Man andMan ? 221 prefent aiTre'nentïons of things, but believe that thou wilt have the fame fenfe of things, when they lye heavy upon thee, with the reft of man-kind, and when thou art in their circurr,i}antes, thou wilt defire quarter as they do ; In like manner, that refpedl andobedience which Parents, and Mailers, and M3giflraces, do generally expea ( even the bell and wife(-( of them ) that do thou pay to them ; and though it may have force appearance of rigour, and injuflice, yet believe that when thou come(I to be in the fame relation,thou wilt expedí the fame things they do y inexperience ,and dii anefrom that condition, orfrom paflon and oppofition of intereí +. 3.Conclude, that in cafes betwixt Superiours and Inferiours,thepar- tiality isufually on the Inferiours fide ; and it is rea(onable thus to con- clude,both becaufe Inferiours have feldom had experience of the other condition, as fuperiours ufually have had ; a child bath not been a Pa- rent, or a fervant ordinarily a Mailer, or a fubjea a Magiftrate ; but all Parents have been Children, and moll Mailers have been Servants, and many Magiflrates Subjeas, and fo they have had experience of both conditions; And likewifebecaufe Inferiours cannot fo well fee the con- dition and circumflances of thofe that are above them,as thofe that are abovecan of thofe that are below them, they have the advantage of ground and better opportunities of knowledge. 4. In judging of your prefentcondition and circumflances, alwaies abate force thing for the prefenceof them, and for felf-love, and fell- interefl, and other pallons. He that doth not confider how apt every man is unequally to favour himfelf, loth nor know the litclenefs and narrownefs of humane nature. We. are near to our felves, and our own interefi is near to us, and we fee it in its full proportions, and with all pofl'ible advantages, other men and their interefls are at a di- fiance from us, and feem lefs to us than they are. Now we muff make abatements for rhis,according to that experience which we have had of our own millaltes, which, if we will oblerve, as we pats from one con- dition into another, we may eafily beconvinced how great many times they are. z. For thegroatnds of this. The equity ofthis Rule Rands upon chete foundations. r, All men are equal in many things, and thofe the greateR things. Now I fhould deal equally with him, whom I acknowledge to be mine equal. Have we not all cne Father, hatb not one God created us ? Mal.z.a Are we not all mad: of the fame-materials ? is is net appointed for all H:b 7 men
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