'" !GC) be fo wicked, as to labour, yet thau muLl not pu~him to.it ~ norfufferhhn,receiue not hisgaine/or it is thegaineof wic~ kedncffe,and therefore accurfed: better beewithout jt then haue ic. ButI hope I may let mycattle bee imploied: Nay, (faith the Lord) nor thi11e Oxe,tbine.Affe,nfJr thJ cattle, muLl doeanyworke. Nor becaufe the dumbe creaturescan fan .. lHfie the Sabbath, _but becaufe their labour cannot be vfed, · butfome man muH attend vpon them, and looke to them, _2nd-therefore Godwould preuent all occafio.nsofhindring mans refl: wherein G 0 D alfo vndedland$ all fuch other liueldfe things, a5 cannot be fet aworke, vnlefle the hand of man bee ioyned to them, as aMill, or to boate or fuch like. · Thenheaddes, thej/rttttger, meaning one·ofanother na– tion,coun.trieand re1ig}on; whom,though wecannot eom .. pell to come to the Church: yet the MagHlnitemay and znufl forbid,to breakeandpollute theSabbath,by any pub– lique Iabour,ifhe come in fuch places where hehathautho– ritie. Hf:'re·then wee fee,that God chargeth the Matler ofthe familie,with all in the farnilic. Hee faithnot, You feruants, andyouchildren, fee that you,breake not the Sabbath; but you ·Parents andMallers labour not your felues, nor breake the Sabbath, neither fuffer your cht1dren or feruants fo to doe. Hence we maygather this inflrucHoo, That it belong~ to all gouernours,to fee tha~t theirchildren,feruants,and in- · feriours,vvhatfoeuer,keepe the Lordsday. · . 7>oElr. And this teflimonieGod himfelfegiueth of.A!Jraham, I Gcn••_B, Jp knowhim, that he will comman·d his feruancs;and children, to k.eepe the way -ofthe Lord. God knewAbraham.rminde, that ifthe cafe fl:eod fo, that either fome vvorke of his mull bee negJeCted, or fome feruice ofGodvndone,_.Ahraham had rather that all his bufindfe !hould Hay,thenany pa~tof Gods feruice tbould bee omitted._Ai1d great rcafon whya Chriflian iliould be ofthis mindc: for ifhe doe indced(ashe profdfeth)Ioue God aboue al,oughi he not ihen to be more· carefull ofGods glorie, then ofl:lis ownc commoditie?and more to care for Gods feruict", then his ovvne gaine? Now . wee know, that Maflers fuftcr not their ferua~us to bee id~ ypon.
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