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Epbefiins,
Chap.6.
V
E
R.
q.
benefited
by them ;
and efpecially it will appeare
if
they
be
ficke,
Mat.
8.6.
4. Laffly, we mutt doe jufllywith them,
01.3.
Matters
do
that
which
is
jufl
toward
them
;
now this
juftice
is
feene ,
both
in
making provifrons,for
Lake
16.
The
labourer
is
worthy
of
his meare;
And
in
giving
them
recompenfe,
both that
which
may be claimed
as
due,
Lev.19.13.
as
force voluntary gratifications to help them for-
ward for them
felves,Deut.
i
6.13.And
thefe
and fuch like
the Apoftle
doth
wrap
up in
this generali fpeecb,
Doc
you that
are
Matters the
fame things.
Yfe.
Now
if
we lay our felves
to
thefe things we
(hall finde
a
great
want
in
Mailers.
For,
r.
Firft, In taking
them
wee looke not
at
thethings
we fhould
:
Many
have no care
of
Religion, but
if
he be
a
fervant
of
quality,
like
to
be
gainefull, then
he
is
intertained, what
ever
his
conditions arc.
Now
fay
he were gainefull, yet
we fhould
be
of
4.../l6rahams
minde, who
would
not
be rich
with the
King
of
Sodoms wealth,
we fhould
not
likethat
a
rakehell fwaggerer fhould inrich us: but
it is
otherwife, for
what
fuch
an
one
getteth
us,
(hall have
a
curfegoing with
it
:
and
if
re-
ceiving
a
traytor
be
dangerous
toa
fubjeéf,
it cannot
but indanger
us
to
receive fuch
who
are open rebels
to the wayes
of
God.
ï:
Againe,
For looking
at
hope
of
fervice. Men looke
now what
friends
of
account
they
fhali make
beholding, what moneyoutright,
or
in
ufe, and thus proceed
:
which maketh them often catch
a
frog
for
a
fib,
get
inftcad
of
a
good fervant,
a
prodigall boy
,
who
will be
their young mafter,and know no fubjecfion: and
if
any
thing be found
faulr,he
can fay,
they had
this
with him,and
his
friends will beare him
out. A
juft whip to
follow
fuch
neglect
of
poore
ones
that
are friend
-
3.
leffe,
who
having knowne hardlhip were
like
to prove
better.
3. Men
take fervants hand
over
head ,
they are
careful]
to
keepe
bodily
infe-
dion
away,but
manners which are
more
contagious they receive any.
In
the
frckneflè
we keepe out fuch
as
come from
infectious places, and
would not
receive
one
to
ferve
us
,
who
came from
a
bode
that
all
were dead out
of: but
we will take
a
fervant, never
aske
him, whence
hecommeth, though
he
hath
lived
where
all are dead
in fin
and tref-
paffes, we care
not,we forget that
a
littleleaven doth
leaven the lump:
which
muff
not be
fo
taken
that if
a
good fervant come
from fuch
company
, he muff
not be rejected:
In
Pharaohs
houfe force feared
God,
and
in
Ca
fars
Court,
heathenifh
Cæfar,
force
loved
Chriff.
Now
for looking
to
their
foules
in
private neglected
, and feeing
that they
fhould fanclifc
the Sabbath
,
many
care
not
for
bringing
them to
Church,
but fewer for examining
whatthey remember;
this
maketh
the
ftreetsfo full
of
fwarms, everywhere openly
breaking
the
Sabbath.
If
we fhould fend
them on our errand,we would
aske
them
what was
faid
to them, though we
fent
them abouta
trifle,foole them
if
they had
forgotten
:
But
when we
fend
them
on an
errand
that
concernes
their falvationand the furtherance
of
our reckonings, we
never
aske
them, nor blame
theta
if
nothing
be
remembred,
Now