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And therefore, you servants that are under subjection, especially under carnal Governors, let them see, since you have joined with Gods people, that you are more faithful and obedient then ever before, and that they never had any servant in their lives, so subject, and obedient, and faithful as you are, that did not make that profession that you do. And so wives, carry such respect, and show such humility towards your husbands, though they be naught, that they may say, Since my wife made this profession of Religion, I find it in her carriage; and so children. It is a wonderful shameful thing that any servant or ⟨p. 298⟩child, that is but civil, should go beyond a godly servant or child in diligence, and obedience, and faithfulness; says Jerome, What a shameful thing is ¹it, That faith should not enable to do that, which Infidels are able to do?

And therefore, you servants that are under subjection, especially under carnal Governors, let them see, since you have joyned with Gods people, that you are more faithful and obedient then ever before, and that they never had any servant in their lives, so subject, and obedient, and faithful as you are, that did not make that profession that you do. And so wives, carry such respect, and shew such humility towards your husbands, though they be naught, that they may say, Since my wife made this profession of Religion, I finde it in her carriage; and so children. It is a wonderful shameful thing that any servant or ⟨p. 298⟩childe, that is but civil, should go beyond a godly servant or childe in diligence, and obedience, and faithfulness; says Jerome, What a shameful thing is ¹it, That faith should not enable to do that, which Infidels are able to do?

1. 1Ut non praestet sides, quod praestitit infidelitas.