A discourse concerning meekness and quietness of spirit to which is added, A sermon…

You that are in Inferior Relations, Children, Servants, Scholars, must with all Meekness and Submission receive the Reproofs of your Parents, Masters and Teachers: Their Age supposeth them to have more Understanding than you; however, their Place gives them an Authority over you, to which you are to pay a Deference, and in which you are to acquiesce, else farewell all Order and Peace in Societies. The Angel rebuked Hagar for flying from her Mistress, tho' she dealt hardly with her, and obliged her to return and submit her self under her hands, Gen. 16. 6, 9. If the Spirit of any Ruler rise up against thee, and thou be chidden for a Fault, leave not thy Place, as an Inferior, for yielding pacifies great offences done, and prevents the like, Eccl. 10. 4. If thou hast thought evil, lay thy hand upon thy Mouth, to keep that evil thought from breaking out in any undue and unbecoming Language, Pro. 30. 32. Reproofs are then likely to do us good, when we meekly submit to them; then are they as an Ear-ring of ⟨p. 120⟩Gold, and an Ornament of fine Gold, when an obedient Ear is given to a wise Reprover, Pro. 25. v. 12. Nay, even Superiors are to receive Reproofs from their Inferiors with Meekness, as they would any other Token of Kindness and Goodwill. Naaman when he turned away from the Prophet in a rage, yet hearkened to the Reproof which his own Servants gave him, and was overruled by the Reason of it, 2 Kin. 5. 11, 13, 14. which was no more a disparagement to him, than it was to receive Instruction from his Wife's Maid, to whom to go •or a cure of his Leprosy, v. 2, 3. Meekness teacheth us, when a just Reproof is given, to regard not so much who speaks, as what is spoken.

You that are in Inferior Relations, Children, Servants, Scholars, must with all Meekness and Submission receive the Reproofs of your Parents, Masters and Teachers: Their Age supposeth them to have more Understanding than you; however, their Place gives them an Authority over you, to which you are to pay a Deference, and in which you are to acquiesce, else farewel all Order and Peace in Societies. The Angel rebuked Hagar for flying from her Mistriss, tho' she dealt hardly with her, and obliged her to return and submit her self under her hands,