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I am Christ the Son of God, yea I am God himself. Now therefore how will you know the true servant, from the false Minister, how will you try the faithful Steward from the unfaithful? Mary, saith S. Paul, if he doth his Masters will and commandment, if he doth all those things faithfully that his Master requireth at his hands, if he this doth, then is he a faithful Minister and a trusty Steward. By this shall you know him, by this token, & none other shall you soon discern, whether he be a faithful Steward, this is the point of a trusty servant. And therefore ⟨image 14⟩God unto Ezekiel his prophet, and so by him to all such as shall become his Stewards & Preachers of his Gospel, saith,¹ I have appointed thee a Watchman over my house of Israel, to cry unto my people, therefore take good heed to the words of my mouth, and give them warning at my commandment: thou shalt hear it at my mouth, saith God, and then shalt thou pronounce it unto my people. So Paul was bold to say,² Quodaccepi à Domino, tradidi vobis, That which I delivered unto you, received I of the Lord: what thing soever I received of the Lord, that have I delivered & showed unto you, without adding any thing thereto, or diminishing any thing therefrom. Even so, Christ himself said,³ Sermo quem audistis non est meus, sed patris mei qui misit me: The doctrine which you hear is not mine, but his that hath sent me: These words that you have heard, are not mine, but my fathers that sent me: I do but my Fathers message, saith Christ, all that I teach, all that I preach unto you, is nothing else but ⟨image 15⟩the will of my Father.⁴ By this therefore (my Brethren) shall you soon try whether they are true servants of God: for if they shall only disclose unto you the will of God, if they shall preach unto you the secrets of Gods Gospel, & the glory of his holy name, then are they true servants, then are they Christs ministers, & faithful dispensers of Gods secrets. But if they teach you not the sincerity of Gods Gospel, if they preach not unto you the mysteries of Gods word, if they disclose not unto you the will of God, if they do not this; then are they not Gods servants, then are they not Christs Ministers, nor Stewards of Gods secrets. And therefore saith S. John in his Epistle,