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Admonitions for inferiors, to propose an other end of obedience, §2to perform it in better manner to the Prince, & others, whom God hath subjected them unto: namely, more to seek Gods favour, then mans face; and rather to be loyal in heart and deed, for conscience, then counterfeit loyalty in word and show, for commodity. God hath ordained authority so reverently to be regarded and honoured, as that subjects should seriously show themselves subjects, and that with fidelity, and not sportingly play the subjects, as though they acted a part on a stage, in a visor, with fraud, and hypocrisy.

Admonitions for inferiours, to propose an other end of obedience, §2to performe it in better manner to the Prince, & others, whom God hath subiected them vnto: namely, more to seeke Gods fauour, then mans face; and rather to be loyall in heart and deed, for conscience, then counterfeit loyaltie in word and shewe, for commoditie. God hath ordained authoritie so reuerently to be regarded and honoured, as that subiects should seriouslie shewe themselues subiects, and that with fidelitie, and not sportingly play the subiects, as though they acted a part on a stage, in a vizard, with fraude, and hypocrisie.

Verse 7. All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more will his friends depart far from him? Though he be instant in words, yet they will not.

Verse 7. All the brethren of the poore doe hate him: how much more will his friends depart farre from him? Though hee be instant in words, yet they will not.