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EphefialMr
Chap,6.
V
E
R.
9,
yie a.
!.
Vanaa
9.
Which
fhould
incourage
fervants,
for they
have
the Lords word
pawned
to them, who
can raife
from the dunghils to kingdomes,
his
word
I
fay,
that they
fhall
be recompenced
;
Say
thy Mailer
were
a
Laban, and would
goe
as
ncere
the winde
as
he, and
feeke
every way
tolkecp
thee failing, yet
God
hath undertaken to
pay thee
thy
wages,
for
Prov.z7.18.
He
that
keepeth
a
fig
tree
fhall ease
the fruire;
and an
obfervant
fervant
fhall
be honoured. Looke
and
you may
fee
,
fome
have given up their occupying
to their fervants,
fome have found
great
help from
(rangers,
fome have
thriven, though their
Matters
have
done
their utmoo to
hold them downe
,
all
which doe thew by
experience
the truth
of
this
promife.
Let
us
learnc hence
to
be
afraid
who
have beene lewd
fervants,
and
repent
us
of
it
;
for
if
that which
is
confcionably be bleffed, then
this
is
accurfed
:
that
fuch may fears
God
will
blow
upon their
fub-
tance,
and make them meet with
fuch like fervants
as
themfelves
were
in
their
time; if
bee forbeare thee,
that yet
it
is
not thus, let
his
goodneffe
and patience call thee
to
repentance.
This
doth
let
us
fee,
how
no
fcrvice
to himfelfe
Chaff
be left
un-
rewarded
:
if
that
we doe
to
our fellow- fervants thall have recom-
pcnfe,
how much
more
the
fcrvice
we doe to
hime
Let
us
not there-
fore
fay as
(.3/4/.s. It
is
in vaine
to
ferve
the Lord
:
If
we be wife,it
is
for
our
felves,
if
righteous,for our owne good.
Thusmuch
touching
the
duty
of
fervants.
VERSE
9.
vt
nd
ye
Makers
doe
thefame
things
smta
them,
putting
away
threatningr
and
know
that
evenyour
otafier
alto
is
in heaven,
nei-
ther it
there reJpelï
of
perfins with
him.
Now
followed) the duty
of
Matters.
s. Theduty.
2.
The
reafon:
r.
The
duty
is
laid
downe,
r.
Generally.
2.
Particularly.
In
ge-
atera!l
doe
the'
-fame
things
s
that
is
,
doe you
likewife confcionably
wi+hacduty
foevcr you
owe about your fervants. a.
Without
threat
-
ning, which
is a
negative precept forbidding
all
crooked and
cruel!
dealing
toward thé,the
cruelty
of
words molt
ufual
put for
thewhole,
and onthe contrarycommanding
all
equal! and
gentle
ufage
of
them.
a.
The
reafon is, becaufe
we
have
a
Maler
in
Heaven, who
is
by
way
of
preventiondcfcribed from this
property,
that
he
es
no
reßeeler
of
perfan,; for Matters might think,
though God
is
above us, yet
hee
doth
make
more
account
of
us
then our fervants.
Now
two
things mutt be opened.
r.
That
we mutt confcionably performe all duty about
our fer-
vants,
as
they theirs to
us.
2.
That
we mutt avoid
all
crabbed cruell
dealing
with them. For
opening
the
firft, we
mutt
confider
the dutiesthat Matters
(land char-
ged
with, which may be
molt
fitly called
to
thefe
two heads.
To
our choofing
of
them
:
And,
Thole which
we
mutt do
having made choice while we enjoy
them.
Now