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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Your master) Some copies have both yours and theirs. Very, fitly for the sense, bu• the particle [Greek or Hebrew], Even, doth imply as much. The argument is drawn from the place of the masters subjection, that they have not an absolute authority, but are under the authority of another Master, to whom they must give an account, and therefore to take h•ed, lest if they perform not their own duties, the• provoke this their Master to wrath. Now He is described, 1 By the place where he is: in heaven) Which implies, 1 That he is higher, than the highest, so that all are under him, Eccles. 5.7. Psal 33.15. […] 15.3. that h•e seeth and doth take no•ice o• all▪ […] that h• is an Almighty God, able to execute ven•••nce ⟨p. 106⟩on all such as oppress others, Psalm. 113.4, 5. Deut. 24.14.2. His property: that he is no accepter of persons. The Hebrew word is Face. and so signifieth the Greek, [Greek or Hebrew]. Now the face is out ward, but God doth behold the heart, 1 Sam. 16.15. and by p•rson i• Scripture is meant, the outward quality and condition of men, in regard of greatness, meanness, superiority, or inferiority, &c. as Job 34.19. which things though men respect, yet God doth not. This phrase is taken from such as sit in judgement, who must respect the cause only: for whatsoever is beside it, is called person; and therefore did the Ar•opagitae judge in the dark, &c.