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R.
9.
Epbefiana,
Chap.6.
Now
for
government
many
faile
, letting fervants
know
no
duty,
but
be hayle fellows well met.
s.
For
directions and
imploymcnt, many
keeping fuch
as
live like
idle droanes
by them
:
for
it
is a
vice
of
the times , they doe multiply
fcrvants,
that the
one
doth
make
the
other
idle.
3. For
direElion, efpecially
by example, we
faile, we
would
have
them
painefull,
but
follow
our pleafures, them fober,
and
our
felves
feaft
it.
4.
For love,we prize them not,
care not for them, further then to
ferve our felves by
them,
thinking
all
too
much, but what for lhame
mull, that
is
beftowed
on them.
S.
If
ficke, we
areas
kinde
as
the Amalekite ,
t
Sam.
30.13. who
left
his
man on
the
plaine field, fo wee call
them
off
as
burdens
and
hinderances rather then otherwife.
6. For
juflice,we pay them their
dues
dodgingly,we help them not
when
weleave
them
with free kindneffes
:
Nay,
many
would
breake
the
necks
of them
in
the
rifing
,
left themfelves fhould have
l.ffe do-
ings,
that
the want
of
the
wife choice
of
religious education,
prudent
government, exemplary
direólion,
love,juftice
in us
that
are
Mailers,
is
the
caufe
of
fuch
a
naughty
race
of
fervants
as
ptfter
every place.
And let
us
looke to thefe
things,to their
Religion
:
when one
.4tcban
might trouble
a
whole
Nation,
may
not
one fervant
a
whole family
to
poore
friendleffe ones,
if
they be
like
to prove
ferviceablc.
Let
us
looke
to their
foules, fending
them forth
on the
weeke day
fo
many
as
may be fpared,it would not hinder
us,
but further
us;
as in
the Gofpel,
after
a
Sermon, though before they
had fifhedand taken
nothing, yet
after Chrifts preaching,the net
was full.
Let
us
for
their outward man,
keep
them
in
awe,imploy them with direótion,fhewlove,and do
that
which
is
juft
to them.
Now
followeth the fecond,viZ. that we
muff avoid all
crabbed and
cruell
dealing
in
our Calling over them
:
for the
currithneffe
in
fpeech
is
here named, becaufe men breake the
molt
into it,and thinke
the
leaft
of
it,
for
words
are
winde, and when they
have faid
their
minds
they
have done;
this therefore being frequent and not much flood on
is
na-
med
for
al
the
reft,Lev.z 5.43.Thou
(halt
not
raigne over
thy brother
cruelly,
like as
the Egyptians
made
the
Ifraelites
ferve,
Exact. 1.
14.
God
would have
all
power
tempered
with mercy
:
Husbands arc
the
heads, yet Cal.3.ao.
they
muff
love, and not be bitter ; Parents
are
over their children, yet they mutt
not exafperatethem
;
Matters have
power, butthey
muff weild
it without rigour,
and
too much aufterity,
laying
afide
threatnings
;
and
the Apoftle
had need to call for
it,
Ma-
fters having power
of
life and
death
and
ready
to
execute fervants
for
trifling defaults,
as Faille
would
have done
his
for breaking
a
glalfe
,
which
occafioned
the
remarkable ftory
of
..
Aagkflus
Cxfar
,
who
brakethem
all left
they fhould give occafion
to
fuch rafh
enterpife.
And
if
that
dominion fhould not be mixed with
clemency, it would
degenerate
to
hurtful!
tyranny. Yea,Nature
hath prints
of
this
truth,
the.
707
----._
Vfe.
je.