A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

Again, it holdeth not in Duties of Relations; it is not just that the Father should do that to the Children, which he would have the Children do to him, as to give Honour and Reverence, and the like: So in all Relations between Inferiors and Superiors, it is to be understood if we were in their place, and in the like condition, as if I were a Son, or if I were a Servant; still take the Person of him with whom thou dealest, upon thy self; that Right which you would have others do to you, as you would be kindly dealt with in buying and selling, in pardoning Injuries, forgiving unadvised Wrongs, do you the same to others. This will help us to keep a good Conscience in all our dealings.

7th Rule. Public Good is to be sought as well as private, and in many cases to be preferred before it. No Man is born for himself, and therefore it is Injustice when Men mind only their own things, and are wholly taken up with fulfilling their own Wills and Desires. God hath commanded us to love one another, he hath devolved upon one Man the Respects of all the World in effect, for all Men are bound ⟨p. 87⟩to love thee, and seek thy Good: What's the reason of this? but to engage and oblige us the more to seek the good one of another. Rom. 12.5. We are all Members one of another; the Members seek the good of the Body. The Stomach receives Meat not for it self, but to disperse it for the use of the whole Body. When Men are of a narrow private Spirit, and do not seek the Welfare of others, they sin against Nature and Grace. Man is [Greek or Hebrew], a sociable Creature; if he could live by himself, then he might live to himself. Human Society is founded upon Communion and Commerce, and therefore we are bound to seek the good one of another. There is a great Body, to which all the Members must have respect. As in a Clock all the Wheels move one another, and each part receiveth help one from another; so every one should mind the common Good, and be sensible of the common Evil; 1 Cor. 10.24