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V
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R.
6.
Ephefanr,
Chap.
6.
OI
me
in. And
this may he profitable to
fuch as likePotipher
,
Gen.
29.
to
lofeph, fo
they
truff all
to the
fervant
fo
far, as
they
take
the next
way to
make him truftleffe
;
for opportunity maketh
a
4heefe
:
lemur
eye be given;
but yet let
us
remember ,
it is
not our
eye
that
kecpeth
fafe,
but Gods
bleffing
with
it,
it
is
not
riling
early, &c. but God that
buildeth
the City
and
who hath
fuch
quick eyes
that
can fee
all
the
water that flideth
by
his mill
t
It
followeth,Nor with
eye-
firvlce
as
men
pleat
rs:
Obferve,
Whence
Deft;
it
commeth
that
men
.
ferve
with
eye-
[irvice,
even hence
, becaufe
they
feekemt
to
pleafe.God,
but
man
;
If
one did
feeke
to pleafe
God
,
hee
would doe inward obedience from
his
heart ,
as
well
as
outward
,
for
God
is
a
Spirit, &c.
Again;
he
fhould have an eye
that
would
reach
him every
where,
and
therefore
fhould
not
hence take
liberty
becaufe
that the eye
is
off
him
:
But
when
one fhooteth
at
this
White onely,to
keepe
the favour
of
men,
he
careth not for further
fervice.
then
that
which
is
neceffary
to
this purpofe. But to conceive this
aright,
you
mutt not thinke
that
all
man pleating
is
here
condemned,
for
wee are
bid,
Rm.!
4.2. Pleafe
one
another;
and fervants are
bid;
t Ti,,.
2.9.
pleafe their
Matter
in
all things.
r.
Seeking
to
have
God
approve us.
2.
Our
confciences
;
weare
in
the
third
place
to
feeke
the godd:ap-
probation
of
our
Governors: but this
is
here
laid
downe
as
a wicked
fin, when fervants doe
onely or principally ayme at
this,
that
their
Mailers be pleated, not caring for any further matters which
is
to
be
condemned
as
hindering our
falvations,Ioh.5.44
Seeing then that
this
is
the
fountaine
of
eye fervice,let
us as
we
de-
Pfc.;
'
fire
to
avoid fuch
hollow
fervice, feeke
not
onely to pleafeman ,
but
principally
to
approve
our
felves
to God
:
and let
Matters
as
they
would
have one that
is
not
an
eye fervant,
fo
feeke
that he be
fuch
an
one
as
hath
a
care
to
pleafe
God;
Andthus it
followeth
, That
a
fingle Dolt.
hearted
fervant
mull
dee
the will
of
God
from
the
Rule. This
is
to
bee
marked
hence,
that
a
Chriffian
fervant mull give the obedience
of
faith ro
Gods
will in
the
bufineffes
which- he doth for
man
:
thus
Is-
feph
fo fcrved
as
fearing
God
:
now
that
maketh
a
man'behave him-
felfeas well
in
one deed
as
other
reverently
toward'God
: and
in
Gem
24.42.5
z.
we may
fee
how
religioufly
that fervant
walked toward.
God
in his
Matterserrand, praying
and giving thanks: and
that
which
S.Peter fpeaketh
of
enduring, mutt
be extended
to
all
the obeying it,
muftbe for
confcience
to God,
if
they will
have
it
commendable
fer-
vice
before
him : for fo it
is
that
wehave
in
every
works injoyned
us
a double command
:
the
onefrom our Matter
in
earth,
hefaíth,
Doe
.
fuch
a
thing:
the
other
from our Matter
in
heaven,
he faith,
Honour
the Father,
fee
you obey your
Mallet
in
every thing
:
now we mutt
principally looke to
the Lords
will.
If
we fhould
ferveinfome Noble
mans
houfe,ifthe Noble
manprefent with hisfleward whom
he fet-
reth over
the
reff
of
his
houfhold ,
if
when the Reward biddeth one
doe
this
, he fhould fpeak
to
him
and
fay
, Sirrah,
fee
you
doe it;
IF
the
fervant
thould conic with
his
fellow fervant,
but
have no regard
Ppp
of