Tropof: Every man in the world is Gods Srcwatd. Proved. r.By what eve- ry one recel. vcth from God. 2, By what God expehs from every 004 The Stewards Summons. The Narration is two -fold. Perfons. Of the Proceedings. Of the Perkins : in the firff verse. A rich man, and his Steward. Of the Proceeding ; in the fecond verfe : the AichMan, upon the information. madeagainft his Steward thathe had wafted hiegoodycalleth him roanaccourrt, Give anaccount of thy Stewardfhip, for thou maee be ïio (anger Steward:' The Steward (in the third and fourthverfes) upon his fummons falleth firft to infult , and after to refolve, as we fhall fee afterward. Inthisverfethen that I have read, you fee here is firft the Summons or warning. Give an account. Secondly, the rcafon of that Summons, for thou mayeJt be no longer Steward. The day is ended,now give an account of thy work,thou Inuit go out of thy office, nowgive an account how thou haft behaved thy Pelf in thy office : thou muff be no longer ffeward,therefore give anaccount of thy (teward/hip. In the firft, the Summons and calling of this Steward to an Account, ye have clearly offered toye thefe two Propofitìons,Conuderations,or Conelufions. Firft, That every man in the World is Gods Steward. Secondly, That every one of Gods Stewards muff be brought to a reckoning. Firft, ( I fay ) Every man in the world is Gods Steward. Ifye ask me who it is , that is called a Steward : The text tells ye, that it is hethat metftgive an account to his Matter. Ifyou ask me who is the Mailer ? It is God. If then God be the Matter, and if every man Inuit give an account and reckoning to God , then every man is the Steward here intended in this Text. That every man muff give a reckoning to God , it appeareth z Cor. S. so. are maaß all appear before the judgement feat of Cbrift , to give an account of the things we have done in this life , whe- ther they be good or evil. All men : That which is here expreffed by the Apoffle in plain terms, All men. Is more parabollically and obi-comfy exprcffed by Chrift in this word Steward. Give anaccount of thy Steward /hip. So that the Conclufion remaineth clear, and is dire&ly gathered from the Text. That every man in the World is Gods Steward. There is noman or woman in the world, but in force refpett or other, is the Steward here, that muff be called to an account. That every man is a Steward, will appear ifwe confider two things. Firft, what every man receiveth from God. Secondly, what God experts from everyman. Man receiveth fromGod, that which a Steward doth from his Lord. God experts from every man, that which a Lordexpels from his Steward. Firff (I fay) man receiveth from God that which a Steward doth from his Maftcr : That is , fuch goods , fuch abilities , as whereby he may be of ufe for fuch a place, asthe Mailer (hall fet him in the family. All the World is but Gods great Family , all the fittings and endowments of men, are the talents, the gifts, that God bath entrufted men with : force have the gifts of the world, riches, and places ofauthority, theft are gifts committed to thofc kind ofStewards : Others haw the gifts of the body, as health and ffrength, their feules, and lives, and the like : thefe are gifts committed to thefe kind ofStewards: others have the gifts of the mind, underffanding, and wifdom, and policy : and to all thefe forcehave fpiritual graces. According as men are furnished with thefe gifts, and according to their feveral qualifications with theft endowments, they all receive them from God as 5rewards. Secondly, ifwe confider what God experts frommen : he experts that which a Lord doth fromhis Steward. Firff,, .
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