A93085:264
Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances, and appointments, the best means to preserve…
Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances, and appointments, the best means to preserve our liberty. Together with a treatise of ineffectual hearing the word; how we may know whether we have heard the same effectually: and by what means it may be come effectual unto us. With some remarkable passages of his life. By Tho. Shepherd, late pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge in New-England. Now published by Mr. Jonathan Michel pastor of the said church in New England.Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances, and appointments, the best means to preserve our liberty. Together with a treatise of ineffectual hearing the word; how we may know whether we have heard the same effectually: and by what means it may be come effectual unto us. With some remarkable passages of his life. By Tho. Shephard, late pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge in New-England. Now published by Mr. Jonathan Michell pastor of the said church in New England.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1652
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3. When servants cast off all subjection to their Governors. Families being the ⟨p. 132⟩members and foundations of Townes, and so of Common-wealths. When they are not obedient;1 but answer again; if they they be let alone, then idle; if rebuked and curbed, then stubborn and proud, and worse for chiding, and find fault with their wages, and victuals, and lodging; weary, and vex out the heart of Master and Mistress, and make them weary of their lives, and their God also almost sometimes; and that by such professing Religion, and all that they might be from under the yoke.
3. When servants cast off all subjection to their Governours. Families being the ⟨p. 132⟩members and foundations of Townes, and so of Common-wealths. When they are not obedient;1 but answer again; if they they be let alone, then idle; if rebuked and curb'd, then stubborne and proud, and worse for chiding, and finde fault with their wages, and victuals, and lodging; weary, and vex out the heart of Master and Mistresse, and make them weary of their lives, and their God also almost sometimes; and that by such professing Religion, and all that they might be from under the yoke.
And here I cannot but set a mark upon servants broke loose from their Masters, and got out of their time, that are under no Family nor Church-government;