Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Thevneertainty a fodtaining worldly thing.. 5 $3 worker: or when there is no fuch exceptions to bee taken, they mull bee content to take their wages with great abate ments,,or eccelse for currant filuer, counterfait flippes and copper money:, For fometimes the world and the prince thereofole their feruants as they vie the f lliekndians,cruelly whipping them, when with great fitperflitionthey haue per- formed vnto them their blind deuotions;er as the Egyptians vied the Ifraelites,vmnetcifuily beating them at night,,. when they had tired themfelues with their daies labour. And though when they fet them aworke they promife them -good things, yet when it is finilhed they pay them with mill. For example, theypromife long life,ándcontinu- o mode im- all health; when as oftentimes there follweth. grieuous dif mande,tu mat - eafes,andimmature death; they promife refi,andbeholddif paúta Bjddi quietneffe; they promi Ce them honours, and pay them with. imo fc fai/ax di1graces; they promife riches and abundance, and reward es, ee de/eíïuo- themwith penurie and want; they vndertake that they (hall fu,, vt ques kk their life in alioyes andpleafingdelights,wheta as theyR rou,axe find nothing butgrie(e,trouble,and vexation of fpirit. In a nudosd.mirtary. word, when-they-hire them into their feruice, theypromife &c.ldiotain that ifthey willbee at their command, there (hall no wages Ortbodoxogr, part them,that they (hall leade their life in a golden age, conflict care.. and haue mall things contentment, and their defires fully &animæ.. fatisfied; when as notwith(landing all thefe faire promifes cap.,. they fpend ail their daies in forrow and d-ifconte-nt. Some-. Limes they-delude and abufe them,giuing fhadowes in (lead ofCubllatrces ; and (as it is Paid of force witches) they glue them flirter in (hew,butleaues in decd.Or as cunning iuglers, hauing offered them.fomething which they thinke worth the hauing, when deliuerie is to be made, they nimblic con - uey it away, and chop into their laps Tome bale trifle.Dea- ling herein with their feruants, as Laban with.lacob,who hauing yndertaken feuen yecres painefull feruice for his be.. loved Rachel, receiuedlothed Leah, for the-reward of hisla bour; forafter all that ílaui(h feruicewhich they-perfortne for them,eueuto the hazarding of body andfoule toeter -- nail defiruetion, they haue for their wages either contemp- tible trifl:es,or burthenfome gifts. In which refpeet as Satan and'.