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An exposition on the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospel also notes on…An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on…
An exposition on the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospel also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reverend divine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his own hand ...An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reuerend diuine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his owne hand ...
London: printed by H. Lownes and R. Young for John Bartlett, 1630London: printed by H. Lownes and R. Young for Iohn Bartlett, 1630
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2 If masters forbid any thing that is by God expressly commanded, servants must not therefore abstain: So did Daniel, Dan. 6.10. Reason is, we have a good warrant so to do, even of God himself; and if a man have the warrant of the King, what need he fear, although an inferior magistrate do forbid him? Thus if servants be commanded not to give good weight, they must not do it, although they may keep the price which their master sets: so if to break the Sabbath and the like.
2 If masters forbid any thing that is by God expresly commanded, seruants must not therfore abstaine: So did Daniel, Dan. 6.10. Reason is, we haue a good warrant so to doe, euen of God himselfe; and if a man haue the warrant of the King, what need he feare, although an inferiour magistrate doe forbid him? Thus if seruants be commanded not to giue good weight, they must not doe it, although they may keepe the price which their master sets: so if to breake the Sabbath and the like.
Only let them be sure and certain, that God hath forbidden that which their master hath commanded.
Onely let them be sure and certaine, that God hath forbidden that which their master hath commanded.
Contrary hereunto is slavishness, and timorousness, ⟨p. 93⟩when they fear their master more than God.
Contrary heereunto is slauishnesse, and timorousnesse,