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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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3 Of such as make their servants their fellows, and companions to play with them, to drink with them, and the like; whereby they become very presumptuous; for all are ambitious, and, give an Inch, they take an Ell.
3 Of such as make their seruants their fellowes, and companions to play with them, to drinke with them, and the like; whereby they become very presumptuous; for all are ambitious, and, giue an Inch, they take an Ell.
4 Of such as conspire with their servants, to deceive their masters or mistresses of their goods: so to ride abroad & spend, and do other things without their privity; for hereby they make themselves slaves to their servant, snot daring to speak of their servants wickedness, for fear lest they discover their own practices.
4 Of such as conspire with their seruants, to deceiue their masters or mistresses of their goods: so to ride abroad & spend, and do other things without their priuity; for hereby they make themse•ues slaues to their seruant, snot daring to speake of their seruants wickednesse, for feare lest they discouer their owne practices.
5 When masters will suffer themselves to be over-ruled ⟨p. 110⟩in things unjust, unmeet and unlawful: as Zedekiah was by the Princes, Jerem. 38.5. Thus they lose their authority, and their servants become their masters: a thing intolerable, Eccles. 10.7.