The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

To open this point, we must consider there be sundry kinds or degrees of Servants, or Service.

1. There is the ingenious Servant, who in love and beneficence doth voluntarily make himself a servant to others, that he might do them good. The beneficent man is willing to be serviceable, 1 Cor. 9.19. though I be free from all men yet have I made my self a Servant unto all, that I might gain the more, not the more money, but the more men, the more Souls, for he fished for Souls. Paul laboured to win and gain Souls, in which Service he is an under-worker to Jesus Christ, for all the doings and Sufferings of Jesus Chri t were to gain and save Souls. Such a Servant Jesus Christ made himself, Luk. 22.27. I am among you as one that serveth, I take no state upon my self, I only endeavour to do good. This is a commanded Gospel duty, Gal. 5.13. in love to serve each other, though we are called to Liberty. Thus walked the famous Thessalonians, 1 Thes. 1.3. your labour of love. So did Jesus Christ, yea, he purposely did an act of Service, Joh. 13.4. the Service of a waiter at the Table, and here behold Jesus Christ in the form of a Servant, it was a point of civil entertainment in those days to wash their feet, Luk. 7.38, the penitent woman washed the feet of Jesus Christ with her tears of repentance, and ver. 44. &c, see Jesus Christ his discourse upon it, and Joh. 13.13, 14, 15, 16. Christ •is explication of that example of his doth teach, that they that will be the Disciples of Jesus Christ must be willing Servants of each other, in love, yea, we must be ready to do good to all, especially to the household of Faith: This is an honourable noble & generous kind of Service. and in this kind of Service the more serviceable any be, the more honourable they be,