rrheCiourches Carriage. 81 dienc to him: looke how many a&s of difobedi .. ence~ fo many fi:eps from under thy ili elter into (tthe frorme, from out of the ilia de into the fcor– ching Sun-fbine. All the commandements wee hafe from him, are things, by whi':h our lives are maintained: as fifbes live in the water, fowee in the commandements, for they·at:e-0ur elements: fo as withdrawing thy felfe from the com– mandements a~id going out of them tends to de- ~ftruetioq;and it is as ifa man iliould fee a fi{b go– ing out of the water: every fuch motion tends to aca~l1" If therefol'e a man would confider when heis-about to commit a fin, that this aCl: tends to · death,and that to be fubject to the commandement is my fafety, hee would certainely keepe withip · compaffe~ if the commandements tended to de. fi:ruCl:ion,we ought,to doe them ; for what are we but Gods vaffals ? he hath bought us. As they in the old law might doewhatthe'Jwopld with their fervants they had bought with their money, fo might God, but when every commandement fhal tena to thy good, foas thou canfinotdevife a bet- -' ter way forthy felfe than to obey_ them, wilt not thou mt1ch rather bee fubjec:t? 1o Deut. 13. In · ~the fermer verfes he had fbowne that God had done great things for them, and therefore might 1doe as other mafiers, that command their fer– l vants that ':"hich is for their owne ad~anrage, and t not for their fervants; and fo God m1ghr do, ar:d \ thou oughtelt to be fubie& to him·: but fayes hee in the thirteenth verfe, what doth the Lord r :-– quire of thee, bur to keepe the commandements . Ff 2 of
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