..444 Chap. 3r. An Expofition upon the Booke of J o s. Veda1. God. And know that we arenot in our power, or at our choyce (as they were before the dedication oftheir eflates) whether we will dedicate our bodges with all their members, & our foules too with all their faculties unto God or no, but it is as much our dus ty to dedicate them as it is when we doe fo to dedicate them wholy unto God.. Didnot be that made me in the wombe make him.... Secondly, Obferve. god is as much in the making of the meane/fervant , as the great-ell Lord in the world. Yea he bath bellowed as much coil on the out-fide and on the in-fide (as to naturalls) of thole that are low asofchofe that are . highefi in the world. The body and fouleofa fervant is as good . as his Mailers. Yea oftentimes a fervant hath a better body, a more beautiful) and comely body, a body better compacg and conflicuted then his Mailers; yea and not feldome a better foule,, that is, abetter judgementand underftanding, he may be wirer and more judicious then his Mailer. ( Pro. 14. 3 i.. ). He that op- prefeth the poore,,reproachetbhis maker. We may underfland it both wayes ; The oppreffour reproacheth his owne maker, and fo the maker of the poore man coo, becaufe both have but one and the fame maker. We have that fencemore fully (Pre.22.2. ), The richand the poore were together, the Lord is the maker of them .a!!. The rich and poore are at greaten diilance in their outward . eflate, yet in many things they meere. They meete both (as fob fpeakes in the text ).in the wombe; both being conceaved and . falhioned there , and brought forth from thence. They both meere in one common nature, being reafonable creatures, conft- fling of foule and body. They both breath in the fame ayre, and . dwell upon the fame earth. They both meete in the fameMaker, and in the fameMailer; The fame fupreame hand makes one man . rich, and another man poore; The fame alto maketh the man . that is poore and the man that is rich : Yea they both meete irn. this, that the rich man or the Mailer needs the poore man or a fervant as much as the poore man needs the rich or a fervant his Mailer.The one needs worke as much as the other needs wages ;, The rich man Rands in as much need of the poore mans labour, as the poore man doth of the rich mans reliefe. Wh.atfoever dif fercnces,
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