4z8 Chap. 3 r. An Expofition upon the Books of J o a. Verf.13. it be a great honour to a man in Authority, to fee Juftice donein his ovine family as wet as abroad , and that;as he will not (offer his fubec&s, fo not his fervants to oppreffe and wrong one ano- ther. Yet the text doch not favour this interpretation; which without too great a violence done to the Grammaticali con- ftrui Lion cannot be rendred when they contended before me, but with me. And therefore Thirdly (as we render ) This contention was molt probably servir meio h. with himfelfe. As if lob had fayd, When any of my fervants had bens orarionis smatter of complaint about any hon¡boldgrievance, Igave themfree er caofo fes de- liberty to doe it ; they were not afraid to prefent their cafe to me, ftedends pote whom tfe,y alwayes found their 'Patron ae well as their Mafter; f,aremfaciebarn and rurraaey to doe them right, as to expel fervice from them. tffrmtuTry Sometimes fervants complaine that their reward or wages is too am in cos torn. little, fometimes that their worke is toomuch and lyerh too hea- wirrifufpicare- vie upon them. W,hen7obsfervants contended with him about tur,aadafferdi there or any forth matters, he heard them patiently and eyther ones:. olimp. them redreffe, iftheir complaints were right, which many Matters would not, or convinced them by his wifdome and the weight of his reafons, that their complaints were unreafonable, which molt Mofters could not. Idid not defpije the caufe of my man fervant , or if my maid.fervant, when they contended with mer. Hence note. Firft There may be occafions of contending,or differencesarifsrg between Mailed andfervantr, even in well ordered fa- milyer. lob was a jug man, A man thatfearedGodandefchewed evil ; yet he intimates there had been contentions in his family. 'Tis hard ( if not impoffrble) towalke fo evenly inany relation but there may be.occafions ofcomplaint, And as the Matter hath u- fually many occaEons to complaine ofhis fervant, fo the fervant may have Tome to complains of his Matter. The corruptions of men will worke in all relations, nor is any eftate in this life with- out its ;peciall temptations. The Apoltle 'Paul was furely much convincedof this, elfe he had never taken up fo great a part ofhis fhort E pill les to the Cole/ansand epheftans, of thole alto to Ti- mothyand Titus, ingiving fuck exalt and particular rules about abe duties both ofMafters and lervants. Se.
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