-.-..Y - :.`-`<::- .,-_....__.- .. _ _>,._ fora time ofL iberty. the thing, gives more content than the punifhment. 3. When fervants call off all fubjedion to their .Go- 3. veruours. Families being the members and foundati- ons of Towns, and fo of Common-wealths. When they Tit. 2.9, i o. are nor obedient; but anfwer again; ifthey be let alone, r Pet. 3.18. then idle; if rebuked and curb'd, then ftubborn and proud, Eph.6.5. and worfe foc chiding, and find fault with their wages, and vivtuals, and lodging ; weary, and vexout the heart ofMafter and Miftref e, and make them weary of their lives, and their God a!fo almoft fometimes ; and that by fuch profe{lîng Religion, and all that they might be from under the yoke. And hers I cannot but fet a mark upon fervants broke lode from their Mailers, and got out of their time, that are under no Family nor Church-government ; nor de- I Per.3. r g. firing out, or preparing for it; but their reigns are on Tit.2.9,io. their necks. I confeffe, if under heathen Matters, then Eph.6.5 defire liberty rather; but when men will live as they lift, without any over them, and unfit to rule themfelyes ; I much doubt-, whether this be according to God. I . Hence they come to live idly, and workwhen they r lift. 2. Hence men ofpublick ufe, can have little ufe but 2: when they pleafe of them. 3. When they be with them, they have nopower to 3, correa or examine, and call them to account, in regard offpirituall matters. 4. Hence they lye in wait to oppreffe men that mull: 4. havehelp from them, and fo will do what they lift. 5, Hence they break out to drunkennefs, whoring, 5. and look company. 6. Hence they make other fervants unruly, and to de- 6. fire liberty. Now examine and try there things : Is the Kingdome of Chrift come intous ? that though there be a law in our members warring, yet there is a law of the mind war- ring againft it, and delighting in the will of Chrift, and fctting him up as chief. Are we under the Kingdome of Chriii in his Church and Common-wealth; foal the foul is willing in the day of the Lords power,though there be, and have been tome pangs of refiftance againft perfons and againft Ordinances; fo as 'tis thy liberty robe fubjea to Chrift in his Ordinances, in his fervants and 'cis thy bondage to be otherwife, and thou longeft for that day, that ?5
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