A75287:1338
Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The…
Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and public, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and publike, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.
London: printed by John Field for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham, 1649London: printed by John Field for Nathanaell Webb and William Grantham, 1649
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SECT. 8. Of the Duties of Servants to their Masters.
Duties of Servants to their Masters, are either inward, as Fear. outward, as Reverence. Obedience.
DƲties of Servants to their Masters, are either inward, as Fear. outward, as Reverence. Obedience.
1. The inward Duty is Fear: Servants, 1be subject to your masters with all fear, and account them worthy of all honour: 2So proper is this fear to a Servant, as where it is wanting, there is a plain denial of his Masters place and power: If I be a master, ⟨p. 218⟩3where is my fear? said God: observe, I mean not an excessive, slavish fear; as when a servant fears nothing but the revenging power of his Master (such was the fear of that unprofitable servant,4 who could say to his Master, I knew that thou wert an hard man,—and I was afraid) but I mean an awful fear of provoking his Masters wrath, so as it makes him cast every way, how he may please his master, and such a fear draws him on cheerfully to perform his Duty.