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VE
R.9.
Epbefians,
Chap.6.
709
will
give leave,
we
make our felves equal! with
them,
and he
that
can
carry
this behavior wifely
(hall
be
twice
as
much feared,
if
he frowne,
as
any
other
looking and fpeaking,
as Boaz
did, bidding
his
fervants
God fpeed. a.
Hearing them
as
Nauman, and
lob
31. 14.
feting that
they
receive
no
meafurc
but good from
our
hands, nor from others
that
are
under
us.
Yet
we muff take
heede
that
we doe
not through
folly runne
out
of
one extreame into
another,
for we may kill
all
with
kindneffc,
as
Apes with hugging,
Prow.
29.
He that bringeth
a
fervant
up
daintily,
(hall
have enough
of it, the
excellent direeter
is
wifedome.
This doth
let
us
gather
an
argument that
our
God
wil
be
a
good Mr,
(hewing
all
equine to
us,for
he will
not
bid
us
be one
thing,
and him
felfe
another,My
yoake
is
cafre,
All
my wages
are equal',
this
God
profef-
fethof
himfelfe,Efay43.23.
Pfal. 103. He
cloth
not
love
chiding:
he
is
and
will
be found for ever
a
good matter
to
us.
The
Reafoe followeth,becaufe
We
have
a
c.3tafter,
bc.
who
is
de-
fcribed from
his
not
accepting
of
perfons,
to
prevent the deceitefull
thoughts which we
might
fancie
with our
(elves.
r.
Then
we fee,
what
is
an
excellent
eon
/deration
to
beate
down
all
proud
cruelty,
to bet
hinke
us of
our
mailer
is
heaven,
that
can call us
to
reckoning, pride
is
the mother
of
cruelty,
and
there
is
not
a
better
cooler
for them
both then to
looke at
God.
Gen.
19. when Abraham
faw the
Lord,
you
fee
how
he did
abaft
himfelfe,
as
low
as duff
and
afhes,
and
Gen.
29.
6. when
lefepbs
brethren
feared left
het
would
deale cruelly with them,
lefeph
a(firreth
them that this
is
farre
from
him;
w
bye becaufe he was under
the
fame
God with them,
and
lob 31.
14. this
confideration
of
the Matter
in
heaven, made
lob
he
durit not
deale
rigoroufly with
his
fervant;
and nothing
can containe
us
in
our
duty
like
to this. For
one fervant will fall
off
fmitiag
another,
if he
fee
his
malter,
andwill reckon with him for it.
This therefore
cloth
(hew
that
fuch
have not
God
in
their fight
who
breake out
to
fuch
cruel!
intreatie
of
others
:
but let
fuch
know
they
have
a
Matter who
will keepe an
Audit with them,and
pay
them their
due;
he
that hath
beene mercileffe,
dull
have
judgement without
mercy.
The
laff
thing to
be marked is, that
our
God
le
no
accepter
of
Perfent:
the
meaning
of
which
is
not that
God doth
deale alike
with
chofe
that
arc
equalls,
for
in
matters
of
favour
God
may,
and
doth,
deale di-
verily withmen
all
alike. z.
It
is
not meant
that God
hath notregard
of
the being
and exiftence
of
fome before other
:
for
he
taketh fome
andrejeleth
other fome: but
[Perfon]
doth
fignifle
all
outward
circumftances
which
men
ufe
to
regard,power, wealth, kindred, &c.
and
the
meaning is,
God
is a
God that
will
not
for
any
by-
refpeá
got
a
haires
breadth from
juftíce, Deut.
To.
I
am
...firm
Gad,
&c. that
ac-
cepts not
perfons,
lob
34.14.
a
worthy
place,
Ails
to.
34.
of
a
truth
i
perceive
God
is
no
accepter
of
perfons
:
for God that
will
not allow this
inman, Deal
.1.17.
will himfelfe
be
fame
from it.
And
we
fee
that
heathen
Doit,
Yfe.
Doll,