Chapr29, 44, Expof:riox Opal. the Bookof J Vrrl; 8. 489 vein, young men hide themfelves , and old men rife up and ho- nour them, as the poor: Indians worfhip the Devils, for fear they fhould doe them : cnifchief ; or at bell only in bare obedi- ence and fubmifilon to the will and ordinance of God, or as the Apoftle Peter dire&s (t Eph. z. r 3.) To the ordinance of man for the Lords fake. VVhich though it be the be[l as to' the perfon ho- nouring, yet 'cis the wort# as co the perfon honoured. The more we honour Magifirates in fubmillion to thewill of God, or for the Lords fake, our adt is the better, but when we honour them only fo,, and not at all for their own fakes, it thews that theyare nor good. For good and righteous Maifarates are reverenced and honoured (as Saints reverence and honour God) becaufe they are good and doe good , they are honoured for the goodnefs that is in them, and for the good that is done by them. When power and piety, Dominion and defect meete together and center (as theydid in fob) in the perfon of a Prince, then the young men (truck with the we of him, modefily hide themfelves, and the aged, filled with love to him, and chankfulnefs to God for him, stile andEland up, Happy are the people that be infacb a cafe ; and how fair an evidence is it that a people (which is the top of" all happinefs) have the Lordfor their God, when they have fuch a God for their Lord. Etrr Jio B.
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