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V
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R.
28.
Ephefianr,
Chap.
g..
5149
him
labour working
with hù
bands the
thing
which
is
good,
that
he may
have
togive
to
him
that
needeth.
Now
followcth another precept concerning juflice,
and
k
is
laid
downe,t.
Negatively;
Let him tbatflole,fiealeno
more;
z.Affrrmative-
ly,firfl propounded,
but let him
Were
ratber:then expounded,
r. From
the
manner,
working
with
his
hands;
z. from the matter, that
which
b
good
:
which
phrafe
is
tobe marked
as
oppofed
again(}
playing the
bufre
-body,
a Theff.3.1
r.
againft working
7d eeeícpya,
All.
19. 19. A-
gain(}
unlawfullufing
of
lawful}
callings, for he that fo
doth,worketh
not the thingthat
is
good.
3.
from the fruit or end, that
he may
have
to
di
flribute
to
him
that
needeth
:
The
fuinme.
rr
You that
are
in
çhriftmuft
have care to live juffly,
though
you
"have
ftolne, yet
that
being covered
through mercy
and you
rr
received
to grace,know that you
muff
fteale no
more
:
and
«becaufeyou
cannot
avoid ftealing,
if
you be
idle
or
ill occu-
rr
pied
onely, thereforeyou mull labour
and worke
the thing
"
which
is
good, by
which
meane
you
(hall
notbe
in
poverty,
"
which perfwadeth to theft, but
you (hall be inabled to be
rr
helpefull to others.
r.Then
we
fee Pawl
doth
not
rejet }from fellowfhip
with the Church
fuch
as
had beene theeves
:
Whehce Obferve,
The
Gofpell
loth
not
Dora.
except
a
aln any
for that
he
bath
beetle
but
t eth
him
to
re ralne from
The Gote11
evillfer
hereafter.
Luke
3.
r3,rç.
Publitanr,
yfouldiers,
harlots are cal-
=yeas
°hat
led
by the Gofpell. t
Cor.
6. xi.
For what
is
the Church
in
fome
fort,
cheyhave
but
a
company
of
theeves,
raylers,extortioners, fornicateurs,
c.
that
bee
ne.
arenowfant3ified,
through the
calling
of
Chrifte
We
mull:
not then,
becaufe we have
known them
fuch &
fuch,re
jeâ
them,but
fay
as
Paul
!
fe.
doth,Rom.
6.57.
Thankes
be
to Gad
that
ye were the
fervants
of
f:nne,
but
now
e
have
obeyed
from
the
heart,
&c. And
feeing
that
the Gofpell
binds
us
from our old wayes,wc mutt
fay
like
true penitentiaries,/have
done
iniguity,1 will
doe no
more.
Thus
much
in general}.
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In particular,r.
We
fee, That Chriflians
muff
abf
aine
from
all
theft :
1°1'
and for
that
more
groffe
theft,fimple or compound,the
fecret
or
open
ohr;B;a,,,
taking away
of
our neighbours
goods, the joyning
violence
with it,
mot
as in
high way
affaults,
burglaries, this theft it goeth
in
Irons,eve-
``
ry
man will bleffe himfelfe
from it.
We
mull therefore open
a
more
rhereis
a
clofe
kinde
of
theft, which
we muff carefully refraine
that
are
the true
grofr theft'
fcholars
of
Chrifi,
fuch
as
the Law
of
God calleth
theft.
Now
this
is
a deceiving
of
our neighbour
in his
goods
to
our advantage, or
an
A
dofethé&.
unjuft
wronging
of
him with any benefit at all to
us.
It
is
done
two
Andhowcom.
wayes,eitherby doing
it our felves,
or
by
partaking with others.
mitred.
The
I.
is
committed three wayes.
r.
By
hooking
to
us
that our neighbourhath.
2. By with- holding from him
that
he
Ihould
have.
3. By unjuft damnifying
him.
Forthe
firff,
he
that by
any injuftice
getteth
from
his
neighbours,
By
*ad
get.
he
f}ealeth
before
God;
as
if
by unlawfull meanes I
get
any
thing, or
tins
gro
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