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V
E
R.
8.
Ephefianr,
Chap.
6.
703
not
be pleafed
in
any
thing,
arc unjuft, will
recotnpenfe
and
confider
no travaile
:
now how
fhould we be cheerefull
in
ferving fuch,
if
wee
had
not
a
better
Mailer then man
to whom
we
tender our
fetvicee
This
looking
to God doth
change
the
nature
of
things,
fo
that
which
isintolerable and odious
in
man, bccommeth
eafic
and
lovely
as
from
God
:
even
aspoyfon
mixed
in
ones meate and drinke by
the
ill will
or
negligence
of
a
partir
is
murder, but poyfon tempered by the art
of
the Phyfitian
and
given one
is
a
great mercy
:
fo
there unjuft parts
as
they come from the hands
of men ,
they
are irkefome
;
but
as
from
God who
is
the healing
God,
they
are
wholefome for
us
:
there deeds
are like
thofe feathers which thew divers appearances according
to
the
diverfity of light
in
which you hold them.
Wherefore,
if
fervants will
got
through
what
ever
befall with Yfe:'
cheerefull
fervice, this
is
their way, to looke how
juft, wife, faithfull,
mercifull
God
is,
and
his
will
is
,
even
in
charging
us
to obey them,
who defrrvenothing
leffè
then cheerefullobedience, yea how
juft his
will
is
in
charging
us
to indure
that
at
their hands which
in
them
is
moll
injurious.
VERSE
8. And
know
yet
that
what[never
good
thing
any
man
doth,
VERB$
8.
that
fame(hall he receive
of
the Lord, whether
he
be
bond
or
free.
Now
the eighth
verle layeth downe
the reafon
,
and
teacheththus
Doti:
much,
That
God
will
not
fie
cenfcionable
fervice
unreconapezfed;
for the
Lord
doth
give
it
an eternal(
reward
,
when
all
good works
lhall be
rewarded: but
becaufe
prcfentthings
flay
the
flonaach
more,
he
gi.
veal
us
even here
a
reward
of
it in
part
of
payment.
r.
Bringeth
them
that
have beene faithfull
.in
fervice
to have
fubftance
of
their
owne.
2.
Bleffing
them with
fervants
good
and faithfull
for the moft
part
:
for God
doth
raife
the poore frrvant often to
greatetlate;
fome-
time by giving him favour
with
his
governours
,
who
are
able to
ad-
vance him
:
the
Matter finding
the
fatthfulneffe
of
his
fetvant
,
doth
fet
him over all his fubftance
,
and Mordecai, Efiher
2.
keeping his
Porterfhip diligently
came
to
make
difcovery
of
a
treafon
,
which
fterward
made
his
Matter advance him.
But
if God
give
them not
favour
with
thofe
that
owe
it
them
,
yet
he Both let
them
finde it
in
the
eyes
offtrangers:
So
lofeph
his
hopes with Potiphar were dallied,
and the Butler had
forgotten,
but
God brought
him
to
finde favour
in
the
eyes
of
Pharaoh, fo
that
he was made
the
fecond
from himfelfe
in
all
the
kingdome.
3.
If
God let them
finde
no favour with men'
(which
he
doth thatthey
may know him their portion and fuftainer
of
their lot) yet
he
doth by
his
bleffing,
extraordinary
or ordinary,
bring them to
riches,
or
fome
compleate portion.
Though Laban
dodged
with
Jacob, Gen.
31.42.
and turned every
(tone to
keepe him
low,
yet the Lord
bleffed him and faw him
rewarded. Againe, God
giveth
fuch
good
fervants for
the moll
part,
for
what
rneafure wee
make,
we receive
the
fame for
the moll part,
and
Jo(eph
bad
a
ftcwatd
of
great
fecrec)/
and fearing
God,
as he
had
been
both
religious and
faithfull.
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