A Golden Chain

We are to be admonished to obedience: because every higher power is the ordinance of God, and the obedience which we perform to him, God accepteth it as though it were done to himself and to Christ• Rom. 13.2. Whosoever therefore, resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God, and they that resist, shall receive to themselves judgement. Col. 3.23. And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as unto the Lord, & not unto them. 24. Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. Obedience is to be performed to our superiors with diligence and faithfulness. Gen. 24.2. Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, which had the rule over all that he had: put now thy hand under my thigh, and I will make thee swear by the Lord ⟨p. 69⟩God of heaven, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, amongst whom I dwell. 10. So the servant took ten Camels of his master, and departed. 12. And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I beseech thee send me good speed this day, and show mercy unto my master Abraham. 33. Afterward the meat was set before him, but he said, I will not eat, until I have said my message: And Laban said, Speak on. 56. But he said, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my journey: send me away that I may go to my master. Gen. 31.38. This twenty years have I been with thee, thine ewes and thy goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 39. Whatsoever was torn of beasts, I brought it not unto thee, but made it good my self: of mine hand diddest thou require it, were it stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40. I was in the day consumed with heat, and with frost in the night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

VVe are to be admonished to obedience: because euery higher power is the ordinance of God, and the obedience which we performe to him, God accepteth it as though it were done to himselfe and to Christ•