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Ephefian.r,Chap,6.
VE
R.5.
workefor which
they
arc hired,
who
arc
fo
felfe-
conceited,
that
they
love
to
follow their owne minds,
like thefe
forward lapwings that
will
rune
on
a
head, when the :hell
is
not off their head,
and before
they be their trades mailers,
love
to goe with
their owne
dire
lion;
hence
biddendoe
a
thing thus,they
will tell
you
of
this way,
and
that,
of
fotne
other
thing, forgetting that
God
did
not
file
their
tongues
to
talke,
but boars their
cares,
that they might
heare and obey. And he
that
is
a fervantmull not doe
his
owne will, but
his
mailers whom
he
ferveth.
For
reproofe, they
will give
word for word, for
blower
they will
take
none,ruletheir Mailershands,if they
cannot
his
tongue,
elfe
they
will fhew
a
paireof
heeles,
as
Hagar did runne away from
her
miflrefle.
For their
allowance, force
fo
manchet mouthed, that
if
their bread be
a
little
courfer,they
will
grumble
at
it:
and foin
the reft,
if
their
mindes be
not
all
out pleafed,
in ftead
of
being
dutiful', they
are altogether
rebellious
:
but
we
that
are
the
fervants
of
Chrift,
muff
lay
up
this fentence,
obey
par
lira/lers
in
all things,
we mull count it
our glory
to
be ruled
in all
things,
and make
their wills
ours
:
yea
to
bite
in the
lip
with
patience,
though they be too
(trait and
deale
crookedly
with
us.
Tani cwtafiers.] Obferve
then, that
whofoever are
in
place
of
our
ma-
rs,
they
moll
have
obedience
from
us :
he
doth not
fay ro the good
mailer
or
wealthy, but to thofe that
arc
your mailers,
for
it
is
not
goodne&and
greatneffe
which doth
chiefely bind
us
to
obedience,
for
then,weihould
be fervants
to
all
that
are
of
authoritie
and
that
aregood:
this therefore
is
truth, that
if
he be a mailer, though evill,
he
mutt
-be
obeyed,
a
Pet:
z.
a
S.
and
thus
laced
how obediently
did he
live
to
Labia,
Iofeph,to Potiphar
,
David toSauk
If
he be
a
good ma-
iler,
there
is
a doublecord to
tye
thee to obedience,
both
as
a
mailer
and
as
a
goodmatter,
a
Tim.
5.17.
Let
them
be
counted worthy
doable
honor.
Now
we
muftknow that
not
onely the Matter, but the
Miflreffe
is
hereto
be
under(tood, yea any whom
the mailer doth let
over
us,
as
C-
`eíat.i4. the ileward,that
is
fet
over the matters houle
in
his
abfence,
for
he
is
a
mailer Paramount
as
we
fay,
andiff
he come not againft
the
expreffe will
of
his
mailer,
muff be
obeyed
as
the mailer, for the ma.
hers
authoritie wherefoever, though
in a
fellow
-
fervant, mull have
fubjeáion to it,
as the
Kings
authoritie
in
the
Confiable mutt not
be
refitted.
Which
doârinedoth
rebuke
Inch
who
excuk
their
unferviceable-
ncretomaters,
becaufe
they
arc evill,
unjui,not
qualified
as
others;
are
they
ry
tuxmaftene
if
they
be,
though
no better then
Laban
or
Sul,
obey, it is the more
praifeworthy
in
thee,
and
who
knowetb whether
thy
datifulnefle
may not gaine
theme
howfoever woe to
thee,
if
thy
lade
of
dutie thould
put
a
fumbling
blocke before the blind. And
fuchfàtvants,
who though they
can floope
to
their matters, yet
they
will
not
vaile,
if
he
leave
in
his abfence a fellow
-
fervant,
they
are as
goodas he,
and will
be no
man
of
his
though
man
to
his
matter.
The