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Show of W~tr and ·Pl~Ge · over a · fervant gives the Mafler a donie· Hick J urifdid:ion,butfuJ:h as mufl: be exer· cifed with the fame religipus"care, a$ the .. pubHck is exercifed. Th\s-was Seneca's J. Dt Cltm. 1 o. h h [: · d J · b a . · EtJift. 47• meaning w en · e hal , n .ah on mb.an. ts • to he 'confidered, not ow 'f'HUC may e Jn·. jlifled on hi~ tmpun.ely , but horr~ much e. quity permtts, whtch commands Hs to ~ [pare even Captives and tho[e whom. we L. 3· de bene[. hAve boAght with money. And agam , ~.,·}~~ . ·what matter u it, un~er what command onr is, ~f tt be the htg_h~ft? Wher~ he compares a· fubje~ to a iervant~~nd fatth, under ·a div.ers tttle the fame 1s lawful over them: ·which in refpeet of taking a- . z .• :i. ! _ way the life and of what is pertairi.ing to it is moft true. 0Hr A nceftors, falthtbe Epift. 43· fa~e Seneca, judgd ot-tr"f!oufe to be a little' Conir:»Qnwealth : and Pliny , .The h~ufe is untr/fervttnt s a c8r~ ain Com ,non~ wealth ' and tU it were a·City. CatoCen. ·~" ·' {prius,;s P!utar.ch relates, if a~y fer~ant feemedrto ha.ve committed a ca p!tal en me, ... ~ .-.~ . ~ did :not punHh him, till after _he wa~ con· _ ,(, r i >') :~i ) demned by, 'the judgment a·~io of b1s fcl· , • ~~ "· ·,..11 low-fervants. Wherewith m2y be com- ···i- par'dthewords~fJob, 31· 13 . &c.A· ·;·. bout the l'effer punifrunents coo , ~amely ·, flripes ~nd beating of fe:vants,eqUJty,yea P'ide Mofom de and clemency is to' be uted. Thou Jhalt not ~oto:d pr.tcept. ·opprrfl him , thou (halt not rt~.,/e hardly JUh~•f1• 184~- over him faith the Divine Law of an He· J7f· 7 • t.:r ' c f . h eollat. leg. MD· brew fervant , which, the rorce 0 netg • /is& R.oman. bourhood beiPg now enlarged>oughc co tit. 3. be 7 he t!Jirti Part. 62 5 be extended to all fervants : Deut. I 5. I 7, 45, 53· Upon which place Philo : Ser-Ph'lode'fpe- 1Mnts are indeed itiferior in fortune, hut in cial.J_egib. z. nature equal to their tM.ajlers : now , to Cyp·Jan. ad th e cD t·~ tne. L aw t ha t 1·1 t h e rule o.Jr: JU ft.. tee, aDgneom(ceut rm. j{Nero n not w/uch agrees to fortune hut to nature. dominM»J DeUfti 'fherefore it hecomes not Majlers to ufe tt1um, cr~m .~c their power over Jervants frowardly,nor totxerce.u 1p[e,,_ "'''<L e t·t matter t. h · ·d d . ,r, 1 hommem dotm- 1or t etr pn e an tnJ ~ ence ,tztum. and cruelty. For thcfc are Jignes of an ill : difpofed and tyrannical mind. Seneca:what is more foolijh than to be furiom againft men, and yet ufe dogs .and hor(es gently? · Hence in the Hebrerv Law, to a iervant Exod. u. 'l-6, man or maid, not for an eye only, but a ;1·. p' h'l tbot*h .m J.U n' ou ny {1.r ue k our , l1'b e rty was neVmld dc ia:o I loa-- due • Moreover, work is co be exa&ed co. of them moderately\and a human refpe& Exod. 1.o. ro. isto be had to the health of iervams. 2.3. 1 z. . ·, Which very thing, be fide o·ther, the He- !'5 eut. 1 0 •. ~ 4· bre·w L aw prov1'd es rco r, m. t he m. 1n1.t uu.o n en. epar. 47 • Non um-of the Sabbath : vh. that [orne brea- quam bQminithing fpace might be allowed Labourers. b/14 ,ft_d·tan-• Seneca obferves in the word, 'P aterfami- qutz"! Jumentu · l' h h · f h . m abuumur. 1as, t e umamty o t e antienrs • .L/O -you Of the Athe· not fee, how our Elders have takfn off aLl nians lenity to en'II'J from A1ttfter.s, all contumely from their fervams, {ervants?. They named the c_M.aft6r the See Xenoph. Father of the family ' th& Jervant fa_ dE' ~ell:pub.Athen. 'li * Tl I'k . J ' PI . 47' m1 Ars • 1e. 1 e ptety hath Ser- *Epicurus, ' . friends. $ett •. !pJ~ •• ro1.~ion ~ru( optimum rrgem defcribens; Vomim tiDflltJI. 'f'to '" hom~nts llberos non u(urpat,ut & in {it7.1Ds to ab{lineat. Tertullian: Gr•tiiU .eft_,,,men piett~tu qttam pott{lat~. Hieronym. ad Colandam: Bemgmwe potilll tjuarn foveriwe exige rermcnti•m. Sf vim t |
