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authority_n	duty_n	young_a	youth_n	28	3	9.3552	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40658	Two sermons the first, Comfort in calamitie, teaching to live well, the other, The grand assizes, minding to dye well / by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing F2420; Wing F2476; ESTC R210330	100,765	342

have any benefit by them and are so farre from suffering the Poore to gleane that even they themselves gleane from the Poore and speake much like to churlish Nabal 1 Sam. 25. 11. Shall I take my Wheat my Rye and my Barley which I have prepared for my Family and give it to the Poore which I know not whence they be Yea some have so hard hearts that they would leave their Graine to be destroyed by Beasts and Vermine rather then that the Poore should receive any benefit thereby Cruell people which preferre their Hogs before Christs Sheep Mice before Men Crow●s before Christians But withall Poore people must learne this Lesson to know the meaning of these two Pronoun●s Mine and Thine what belongs to their rich Masters and what pertaines to themselves The Sheep which had little spots those were Iacobs Fee so the little spots the loose straggling and scattered Eares those are the Poores but as for the great ones the handfulls the arme-fulls the Sheaves the Shocks the Cocks these are none of theirs but the ●ich Owners and therefore let the Poore take heed how they put forth thei● hand● to their n●igh●ours goods Motive One forcible Motive to perswade the Rich to suffer the Poore to gleane may be this Even the greatest in respect of God is but a gleaner God he is the Master of the Harvest all Gifts and Graces they are his in an infinite measure and every godly man more or lesse gleanes from him Abraha● gleaned a great gleane of Faith Moses of Meeknesse Iosh●ah of Valour Samson of Strength Solomon of Wealth and Wisdome S. Paul of Knowledge and the like Now if we would be glad at our hearts that the Lord would give us free leave and libertie ●or to gleane Graces out of his Harvest let us not grudge and repine that poore people gleane a little gaine from our plentie To conclude when God hath multiplyed our five Loaves that is when of our little Seed he hath given us a great deale of increase let poore people like Ruth in the Text be the twelve Baskets which may take up the fragments of gleanings which are left Vers. 8 9 10. Then said Boaz unto Ru●h Hearest thou my Daughter goe to no ●ther field ●o gather neither goe from hence but abide here by my Maidens Let thy eyes be on the field which they doe reape and goe after the Maidens Have I not charged the servants that they touch thee not Moreover when thou art thirstie go unto the vessels drink of that which the servants have drawn Then she fell on her face and bowed her selfe to the ground and said unto him Why have I found favour in thy eyes that thou shouldst know me since I am a stranger MOthers and Nurses are very carefull tenderly to handle Infants when they are but newly borne So Ruth Christ was newly formed in her a young Convert a fresh Proselyte and therefore Boaz useth her with all kindnesse both in workes and words Hearest thou my Daughter Observation Aged persons may terme younger people their Sonnes and Daughters 1 Sam. 3. 6. And if they were persons in Authoritie though they were well-nigh equall in age they used the same expression Thus Ioseph to his Brother Benjamin Gen. 43. 29. God be mercifull to thee my Sonne Let young people therefore reverently observe their dutie and distance to their Seniors in Age and Superiours in Authoritie Yet I am afraid men keepe not the method of Iacobs Children the eldest sitting downe according to his Age and the youngest according to his Youth but fulfill the Complaint of the Prophet The young presume against the aged and the base against the honourable Let aged persons strive to deserve their respect by demeaning themselves gravely and striving to adde gracious hearts to gray haires otherwise if they discover any lightnesse loosenesse wantonnesse in their carriage young men will hereupon take occasion not onely to slight and neglect but also to contemne and despise their paternall distance and Father-like authoritie Now as for young Ministers they have not this advantage to speake unto young people in the phrase of Boaz Hearest thou my Daughter but must practise S. Pauls Precept 1 Tim. 5. 1. Rebuke not an Elder but exhort him as a Father and the younger men as Brethren the elder women as Mothers the younger as Sisters in all purenesse But abide here by my Maidens Observation Hence we g●ther 't is most decent for women to associate accompanie themselves with those of their owne Sexe Miriam Exod. 15. 20. with a feminine Quire with Timbrels and D●nces answered the men and the Disciples wondred Iohn 4. 27 th●t Ch●ist t●lk●d with a woman sh●wing hereby th●t it w●s not his ordinarie course to converse alone with one of another Sexe For herein the Apostles Precept deserves to take place namely to avoid from all appearance of evill Have I not commanded the servants that they should not touch thee Boaz had just cause to feare lest some of his servants might wrong her to prevent which he gave them strict charge to the contrarie Observation Here we see that servile natures are most prone and proclive to wrong poore strangers Indeed generous spirits disdaine to make those the subjects of their crueltie which rather should be the objects of their pittie but it complyes with a servile disposition to tyrannize and domineere over such poore people as cannot resist them Like pettie Brookes pent within a narrow Channell on every dash of Raine they are readie to overflow and wax angry at the apprehension of the smallest distast The Locusts Revel 9. 10. had tails like Scorpions and stings in their tails which by some is expounded that of those people which are meant by the Scorpions the poorest were the proudest the meanest the most mischiveous the basest the bloodiest And surely he that readeth the story of our English Martyrs shall find that one Alexander a Iaylor and one drunken Warwick an Executioner were most basely and barbarously cruell to Gods poor Saints Secondly From these words observe That it is the part of a good Master not onely to doe no harm himselfe but also to take order that his Servants doe none Gen. 12 20. 26. 11. When Elisha would take nothing of Naaman 2 Kings 5. 20. Gehazi said As the Lord liveth I will run after him and take something of him Thus may base Servants if not prevented with a command to the contrary wrong their most right and upright Masters by taking Gifts and Bribes privately The water though it ariseth out o● a most pure Fountain which runneth through Mine●alls of Lead Copper Brimstone or the like hath with it a strange taste and rellish in the mouth So Justice which should runne downe like a streame though it ariseth out of a pure Fountaine out of the breast of a sincere and incorrupted Judge yet if formerly it hath passed through the Mines of Gold and Silver I meane through bad