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Epbefiant,
Chap,6.
V
E
R.
9.
the matter
Bee
they
fay
is
the mildeft,
as
which hath
no fling, when
the
other have. For moreparticularexplication,
as
the boyling
in
the heart
of
unjuft difpleafure, fo
the manifeftingofir,
and
t
reaking
forth
in
looke,
word,or workes,
is
forbidden us, thus
Gen.
3z.
2.
La-
ban
when
he
could
not
give
his
fervant
Jacob a
good
looke,
finned in
fuch auftere carriage
in
words:
this
text
is
fufficient,
which
will
not
have
a
threatning
cruel!
language
ufed
:
the
meaning is not that a ma-
fter
may
not
threaten, when
he hath caufe,
by
way
of
caution,
that
he
may
not
be forced
to
fight moderately
:
for
this
God
himfelfe
doth
threaten when he hath caufe,
and it is great mercy
when we
doe it
to
prevent further anger, not
to
difgorge our
choler
:
but
this fixon.like
rating, and
huckfter
like
menacing
of
them on every
occafion,
is
here
forbidden,
as
when
men
cannot
fpeake,
but
knave,varlet,&c.queane,
drab; I
will
let your head
and
wall,
&c.
I
All
fend
fomething at head
of you,
I
will
give you
fomething
(hall flicke
by you,
this worme
which
caufeth raving
fpeech, the
holy Ghoft would
take out
of
the
tongue of you, when
he
faith,
Laying
afide
threatning.
Laftly,
all
rigorous dealing in
worke
is
forbidden.
r..
Bydefault,
as when
wewill
not
heare
them
fpeake, r Kïng.
z
5. 17. Nabal
though
inreverence and wifedome,will
not
give
themany refpite, when God
taketh order that the very
beat
!hall
have his
reft.
By
committing
cruel!
parts
in
corre
&ion, Dent.
25.
2
3.
Thou
(halt
not
beate them
till
vilein
thine eyes,
as
force layingon
like
ftockes,over-loading their
ftrength,
as
.fay
53.
6. there
were
forre who
did over-burden their
fervants,
as
if
they had
beene made
for the
packefaddle, civic.
3.3.
Some
did breakethe bones
of
them.
3.Not
onelyby omitting
and
by
doing cruelly our felves,but
by bol-
ftering
any cruel!
part or arrogant behaviour
of
one fervant againft
anothcr,as
to
allow
a
journey
-man or
fore.man
to deale curri(hlywith
a punie prentice, for
Prov.
30.22.
a
fervant governing
is
intolerable,
though this
doth
not take away prefidencie
of
one fervant above o-
thers,
Gen.
15.
the Steward
in
the Parable. Thefe things therefore,
firft,rebuke
a
greatdeale
of
crooked
unmerciful! courfes
with us,which
we muff reforme
:
what
doe
our
fowre
looker: that which
Laban
did
with
Jacob,
make
a
fervant haveno heart
to
us
:
what doe
our
words
fo
cruen
and batee
it makeththem turne
againft
us as
wormes trod on
will;
(as
we
may
fee
the
fervant often giving
word
for
word) or
elfe it
maketh
them
defpife
us as
barking curres
are,which
we know bite not;
or it doth
awe
them that they
feeme.
befotted by
it; what doth
our
denying
them
fit
liberty
it
maketh them
breake
the Sabbath,
be
as
if
hell were broke
lode,
as
on Shrove
-
tuefday;
what doth
our other ri-
gour
e it
hurteth them,
and layeth loade on
our
confciences
:
how
Thai!
we thinke
of
our eftate
who
arecruell to our brethren,when
a
juft
man
is
merciful!
to
his
beaft!
This
muff teach
us
our dude
that
in
confcionabie obedience
of
Gods
will, weihew
mildneffe and
love:
Col.
{.
T.
Phew
juftice and
cquitie;
equitie
is
fuch a milde courfc in
which fo farra
as
wifedome
will
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