The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

2. Hence be informed what piety, and strictness, and watchfulness, is more especially required of those that have the care of others, e.g. Kings and Parents, and Masters, and Magistrates, and Ministers; they should be exemplary in godliness; They have curam animarum, and therefore they should have curam anima; they have care of other mens souls, and therefore they should look well to their own. The want of this was her crime and complaint, Cant. 1.6. They made me the keeper of the Vineyards, but mine own Vineyard have I not kept. Oh those that are keepers of Vineyards had need to have special care of their own Vineyard.

2. Hence bee informed what piety, and strictness, and watchfulness, is more especially required of those that have the care of others, e.g. Kings and Parents, and Masters, and Magistrates, and Ministers; they should bee exemplary in godliness; They have curam animarum, and therefore they should have curam anima; they have care of other mens souls, and therefore they should look well to their own. The want of this was her crime and complaint, Cant. 1.6. They made mee the keeper of the Vineyards, but mine own Vineyard have I not kept. Oh those that are keepers of Vineyards had need to have special care of their own Vineyard.

3. Hence take an account why the wicked of the world do so hate the godly, and reproach and revile them; it is this, They will not be partakers of their sins, they will not commit them, neither will they connive at them; and this is the reason why the world hates them; Ahab hates Michaiah, and himself gives the reason, because he reproved him, 1 King. 22.8. I hate him, he never speaks well of me. Herod hates John Baptist, because he reproves him. No wonder that Ministers of all kind of men in the world are most hated; the case is plain, because they are reprovers. Godly Ministers, are wicked mens reprovers, and wicked men are godly Ministers reproachers,