434 (,:hap. 31. f1n Expofïrion r:poir the !'ieoke ef Jo S. Verf.14, had fayd, WhenGod who is the Great Superintendent over all the families in the world,fhall come tovifit mine,and toer quire how I have dealt with my fervants if I have wronged them, or not done them right againit thofe who would what j?rall lan- ir 3itto01171 freer ? Surely I fhall have never a word to fay, I (hail not b.a a- ievrú. 7n vi o- hie to frame an anfwer my felfe,nor can any Advocate among the rations ejua ; Ions of men draw up one for me, which will hold water in the cum iple in nu day ofthat vifitation. When he vifsreth, what ¡hall 1anfreer ? animadverrer. Hence obferve. Firft eAgodly man remembers, howmuchfeever he is above others on earth, thatyet God in heaven is abovehim. He confiders, there is one whowill rife up and vifit for him that is oppreffed; 7c -b looked upon himfelfe not only as he was a Lord and Matter, but as having or as being under a Lord and Matter. There are few fo highon earth, who have not fome on earth higher then they ; but there are none on earth fo high, whohave not one higher then they. The proud Affyrian Prince fapd in hid heart (Ifa. 14. r 3, a 4.) I will afcend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the Starrs ofGod, I will afeend above the bights of the el reds, Iwill be like the moff high ; yet how un. like he was to the moil High, and how low the molt High layd him, notwithftanding all his pride and pompe , we reade at the 15th verle of the fameChapter Thou Adsbe brought downe to k 1, eo thefides ofthe pit. 'Tis good for all that are inplace above others, to thinke often ofthis, left they provoke the moti high God, who bath fey them on high, to lay them low, yea lower then the !oweft. One of the Ancients reproving the extreame and unlimited feverityof Matters towards their fervants, or of Princes towards their fub eas, gives them this fchooling; You 24;,,,g,K,-p, doe not acknowledgeyour Lord god, or God to be' your Lard while dominurn doomyou exercifefuckLordfhip over men. It is reported ofTrajane the tuum, "4' 6' Emperour, that he gave Free leave to his fub;ects to implead him . exercens ipfe in open Court, and his chiefe Glorywas this, That inLaw- fuits n his Exchequer was often cafe; Which ( faith the fameAuthor). trat. contra never bath had caufe, but under agood Prince. Nations and fa- Demerro milves are happy, when Magiftrates andMatters remember there k?raripka tna is aMailer over them and act as men accountable to a higher ,Muria eft, fapi- ats rncirurf#( power. lob knew there was one who would rife up and vifit him,
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