The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child…

Another is, he that is of the seed of Jacob is faithful in the place that God hath set him. Jacob in serving of Laban, Gen. 31.6. though he were churlish, ⟨p. 259⟩he professeth that withal his power he served his father. It is an excellent Text for servants; you would fain have time to seek God, and God forbid, but there should be some time allowed the poorest and meanest servant to seek God alone. But art thou of the seed of Jacob? then be like him in this, to serve with all, thy power, though thou have a froward master or mistress, as Laban was, though they use you hardly, yet show godliness in that relation. And for servants to seem godly, he must go hear, this Sermon, this man, and the other man, and be very earnest: (I blame them not for loving the word and desiring it: but for servants to be earnest in hearing the word, & enjoying the ordinances, and crying out against superstition, and Antichristianism, & yet be sluggish, and unfaithful in their service, and so as to give just offence to their governors, it is a dishonour. Show your godliness in your relation: certainly there is no man or woman godly, but those that are so in the relations ⟨p. 260⟩and places that they are set in: therefore manifest your selves thus to be the seed of Jacob.

Another is, he that is of the seed of Iacob is faithfull in the place that God hath set him. Iacob in serving of Laban, Gen. 31.6. though he were churlish, ⟨p. 259⟩he professeth that withall his power he served his father. It is an excellent Text for servants; you would fain have time to seek God, and God forbid, but there should be some time allowed the poorest and meanest servant to seek God alone. But art thou of the seed of Iacob? then be like him in this, to serve with all, thy power, though thou have a froward master or mistris, as Laban was, though they use you hardly, yet shew godlinesse in that relation. And for servants to seem godly, he must go hear, this Sermon, this man, and the other man, and be very earnest: (I blame them not for loving the word and desiring it: but for servants to be earnest in hearing the word, & injoying the ordinances, and crying out against superstition, and Antichristianisme, & yet be sluggish, and unfaithfull in their service, and so as to give just offence to their governours, it is a dishonour. Shew your godlinesse in your relation: certainly there is no man or woman godly, but those that are so in the relations