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Show Ilium/m fear God, Men of Truth, hating Covetoufnefs, Bread : For if any Man will not work, neither judging righteoufly between every Man and his {hould he eat. Brother, and the Stranger that is with him, not wrefiing Judgment, or refpeéling Perfons, but hearing the Small as well as the Great :---TheGoverned are commanded to be fubjeél t0: the higher Powers, and that, not only for THUS you fee, from the whole Tenor of Scripture, that Government and Commerce, Wrath, but for Confcience Sake; and though- with it. they are free, they are not to ufe their Liberty Parts of the great univerfal Plan. And nothing can be more injurious to the Intereits of true Religion, than to fuppofe, that thofe Syfiems of Providence, which relate to the good Government of Men's outward Aétions and the right Employment of their Time, as a Cloke of NIalieioufnefs, but behave as the Servants of God. ., They are not to fpeak Evil of the Ruler of the People, but to confider him as a Terror t-o Evil-doers, and for the Praife of them that do well. AND as to Maxims of Commerce, not only the general Duties of Juflice and Honefiy, Punéttiality and Fair-dealing, Temperance and Sobriety, but alfo the more particular Precepts» of Induf‘try and Diligence are frequently and folemnly inculcated. For Example, let every Man labour, working with his own Hands the Thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Be not flothful‘in' Bulinefs. In the Morning fow thy Seed, and in the Even-i There are form though too frequently confidered as diilinél; from Religion, nay indeed as having nothing to do with it, are indeed necefl'arily connected They‘are Parts, neceilary and effential lhould either clafh with, or be independent of, the general Syfiem of the Gofpel. In fhort, if you fuppofe this, the Words of my Text mull be falle; but if you will allow, that all three agree together, and center in one Point, then it is plain by Fact and Experience, as well as by Divine Authority, That Godlinefs is profitable unto all Things, having the Promife of the Life that now is, as well as that which is to come. are Bufybodies :---Now them that are fuch we command and exhort by our Lord JCsta that BUT laflly, though Religion is a Rule of Life, though Government is a Rule for outward Be~ haviour, and Commerce :1 Syftem for the right and ufeful Employment of our Time,-~-yet this with Quietnefs they work and eat their own Is not the whole of our Duty and Obligation; ing withold not thine Hand. which walk diforderly, working not at all, bl" Bread: C 2 and ,4 ,. attitude. .» [ I9 1 l 18 ] |