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Doll.
t.
V
Ephefian.r,Chap..G.
VER.j.I
will be fo peremptorie and fawcie
in
termes
as is
not
tolerable,
letting
light by their
fervice,
twitting them with that
they have done
for
them,
we muff
both be obedient
and
heartily
reverent
that
will bee
Chriflian fervants.
Remember with what
feare we muff ferve
God,
who
muff ferve
earthly mailers with trembling, Mal,
I.
Hrb. r
s. ult.
The
fecond propertie is,that their
obedience muff
be
in
fingleneffe
and
uprightneffe
of
heart,
which
is
amplified
by
3.
circumflances.
t.
The
Perlon to whom
a
fingle
heart looketh
in
obeying,
to
Chrt
fl.
3.
The
worke which
is
fet
downe
by the oppofite,
not
eye
fer-
vice ar
men
pleafers,
but
doing the will
of
God:
that
is,
yeelding obedience
of
faith
inwardly,
as
well
as
doing
that
their mattersbid outwardly.
3.
From the manner,
from the
Saule.
Thus
he
commeth to the third
Qualitie
of
their obedience,which
is
fat
downe
with
the ground
of
ir,
by way
of
prevention, their
fervice
mull
be
with good
will
:
which though
it
be hard,
if
they looke to
man, yer
if
they
lave
not
man
fo
much
as
God
in
man,
it
will
be ea-
fie; and
the rcafon
of
all
followeth from Gods recompenfe. The
fum
then is,
as
if
Paul
had faid,
You
muff
not oncly
b-
reverent, but
muff
doe
whatfoever you do
in
uprightneffe. without diffimulation, looking
at Chriff,not
man
onely,not contenting
your
felves
with the outward
worke which
man
taketh knowledge
of
:
much
leffe
with
fuch fervice
as is
meafured
by
the eye
of
your mailer,
over.
looking you, which
is
the
cuftomeof
men pleafers;
but locking further to doe the
will
of
God,
when you obey the will
of
man, and that
not
formally
in
thew,
but from the foule. You muff
fee
that
you
be
not
onely reverent
and
upright
in
your.ebcying
of
them:
but you
muff
further
lave
them
with heart and
good
will, which
though
it
be hard,
becaufe
mailers
fometime.arc wayward.
and
utrjuff
toward you,
yet it
will be eafie,
if
you
look not at your
maffers,butat
the Lord whom you
ferve
in
them;
and left
you
fhould thinke
that
in thus doing you Mould lofe
your
la-
bour,
affure
your
felves
that God
will pay you
good
wages,
he
will
fce
you recompenfed,
v.
8.
Firft,then we fee,
that
whatfaever
fervice
we
yecld
it
mull
be
jingle
hearted;all
that
a
Chriftian doth
mat
be fo,his
wholecourfe,Pfa.
r
S.I.
Ali.
2.
44. for
this
is
a
thing with which
God
is
delighted,
Pp/.
S
t.
6.
Truth
in
the
reines
thou art delightedwith.
Now
this principally
is
Peen
when we
Rand
not
upon
outward
fhewes in
our fervice to
rhem,noryet
Nerve
them with
any finifter
end,
as
feeking
our
felves,
but
approving
our
felves
principally
to God,
and next
feeking
the good
of
them
every way.
This
therefore
cloth
rebuke
a
great
dude
of
counterfeite
fervice
amongft
us
:_,for
how
many are
there that
ferve
their matters
onely
for their
owneadvantage,
becaufe
they
can make
it
a
fweete fervicet
Now
though
one may have
fome confederation
of
himfelfe,
yet
when