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VERSE
5,
DOE
Rphefian,r,
Ghap.6.
V
E
R.
5.
liberty, but mutt
do
that
which
is
proportionable to educating
three
wayes.
r.
They
muff be
humble
themfelves under
this
want which
is
the want
of
a
temporali
blefling
;
and take occafion by
it
offurther repentance, fo
making
a
Chriftian venue
of
their
neceflity.
a.
Fathers
muff
not
revell
with their
fubffance , nor mothers
live
like
idle perlons and
bufre
bodies for want
of
this
em-
ployment,
but they
muff fave
the matter of their
efface
and depute fome
as
adopted children
, and be hclpfull
in
educatingothers.
3.
They
muff
whether married
or
unmarried,
being exemp-
ted
from
there
troubles,
double their devotions toward
God,
1
Cor.7.35.
Thus
much concerning the duties
of
the
fecond
rank
belonging to
the man and wife.
VERSE
5.
Servants
be
obedient
onto them
that
be
your
matters
ac-
cording
to
the
flefh,
with feare and trembling,
in finglenetfe
of
jour hearts,
,ts unto
Cbrifl.
Thus
we are come
to
the
Tait
parcel!,
his
particular exhortations,
concerning fervants,and Matters
:
which
rcfpe
t
came
in
betide
na-
ture,
and
is
letfe ancient
then the former.
The
Apoflle fetteth downe
the duty
of
the
fervant
to the
ninth
verge;
then
of
the Matters.
In the
fervants duty
two things.
a.
The
thing to
be
done.
z.
The
reafons.
The
thing reacheth to the
end
of
the
feventh verfe, and hath
in it
two
principall members.
r.
The
obedience it
felfe.
z. The
manner,
in
three points.
1.
With
feare and
trembling.
z.
With
fingleneffe.
3.
With
readineffe
ofminde.
He beginnethwith theduty,
and
1.
Setteth downe
the perlons
that
owe it, Servants.
2.
The
duty they owe,
be
obedient.
3.
The
per
fins
to whom they do owe
it,
to
the
n
wafters,
whore
authority
is
limited from the
fubjeEl
of
it,
viz,
that
they
are
Mailers
according
to the
flelh,
or outward man.
The
firft
thing
to
be marked
is
,
That
ferments
fiand
charged
from
God,vlth dutiful!
obedience.
Two
things
muff be
opened.
r.
What
we meane
by
fervants.
a.
What
we infold
in
this,
that
they mutt obey.
For the
firff,fervice
is a
fine
of
fubjeétion
,
grounded partly
in
the
curie
of
God for
fin
;
partly
in
Civil! conflitution
:
for though
it bee
not
a liinfull
condition, yet
it is
a
miferable condition
,
which
entreth
through