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A01088	The seruants dutie. Or The calling and condition of seruants Seruing for the instruction, not only of seruants, but of masters and mistresses. By Thomas Fosset, preacher of the Word of God.	Fosset, Thomas.	1613 (1613)	STC 11200; ESTC S118032	23,029	62

the disciple if hee be as his Master is It hath euer beene the manner of good and louing scholers to like of and to affect those things which they saw in there Masters yea many times their Masters very deformities as it is written of Aristotles scholers the Peripatetickes that because their Master had a hooked nose and a crooked back therfore it was a glory a credit among thē to haue the same markes which their Master had how much more then ought we Christians to loue delight in and to imitate the vertues the patience and obedience of our Lord and Master Iesus Christ at the least not to disdaine and abhor that whereof hee liked and made his choice And therefore as he said vnto the Apostles after hee had washed their feete If I beeing your Lord and Master haue washed your feete yee ought also to wash the feete one of an other for I did it to giue you an example So say I to al seruants that beleeue and feare God and make any conscience of their waies if Christ being your Lord and Master did not only like of but choose a painefull and laborious life how much more doth it become you to indure that with patience which he suffered with ioy for hee did it to teach you to giue you a samplar how that by wel-doing yee should indeuor to fulfil al righteousnes Christ hath taught you this lesson two waies by his word and by his deed also for he began as S. Luke saith facere docere to doe and to Act. 1. 1. teach to do that thereby he might teach vs to doe indeed that is the best and the most powerfull kind of teaching to teach not with words only but also with workes and deeds so to say and so to do and they that so teach and instruct other men to righteousnesse shal be happy and blessed for as the Prophet saith They Dan. 12. 3. shal shine like stars in the firmament for euer and euer The second thing whereunto a seruant is called is to suffer what must he suffer al those euils and iniuries which his seruice and seruitude doth bring with it Why so for hereunto he is called and Christ suffered for vs leauing vs an example that wee should follow his steppes but what and how did he suffer why saith Peter when he was reuiled he reuiled not againe when hee suffered he threatned not but committed all to him that iudgeth iustly when he was reuiled when they told him that he was a Samaritan and had a deuil that hee was a glutton and a wine-bibber a friend of Publicans and sinners c. hee reuiled them not railed not vpon them But as a sheepe before the Shearer so opened hee not his mouth when the souldiers buffeted him spit on him and strooke him on the head hee threatned not to bee Isa 53. 7 reuenged but with silence and patience hee referred and committed all to him to whom it doth iustly belong to punish and take vengeance So saith this blessed Apostle Peter you and all seruants must doe if yee bee reuiled and wronged yee must bee silent committ and commend your causes and cases your bodies and soules to your faithfull God and creator who hath a care ouer you and in his word hath promised that not one haire of your head shall perish that is not the least euill which may bee shall happen vnto you without his prouidence your good if yee be still patient and expect the Lords leasure And here as the Apostle doth teach so hee doth reprooue many proud stubborne and disobedient seruants of this time who in the pride of their hearts take scorne disdaine that their Masters should speake vnto them sharply and roughly much more that they should giue them a blow though they deserue it neuer so much such refractary and stubborne fellowes forget God and themselues they forget wherevnto they bee called how and what Christ suffered for vs and for them that it was to giue them an example to follow him in humilitie meekenesse patience and obedience they forget I say the samplar and patterne which was shewed them in the mount Let such seruants read the story of Agar Saraes handmaiden and seruant which Agar because Sara her dame or Gen. 16. mistresse seeing her selfe despised in her eyes dealt roughly with her fled away from her in to the wildernesse But the Angell of the Lord found her out and because she was in misery comforted her and aduised her to returne vnto her mistris and to humble her selfe vnto her teaching thereby all seruants that if they be dealt with after the same manner that is hardly and roughly yet they must not run away deny and detract from their maisters their seruice duty and obedience as the maner and practise of many proud and stubborne seruants is to doe who when they be weary of their seruice and cannot be set at liberty at their own pleasures and desires then they take their heeles and runne away To which Seruants I say thus that albeit their maisters doe not well to deale hardly and euilly with them neither can they be excused for so doing yet if the mallice and peruersenes of their maisters be such they notwithstanding being seruants must not shake off the yoake set themselues at liberty and depart when they list first because they haue not power of their owne selues they couenanted with their maisters tyed and bound themselues to serue them so long and in such sort And therefore to breake those bonds couenants and promises is a thing neither good honest nor lawfull by the lawes of God or men for it is plaine perfidia falshood vnfaithfulnesse and euill dealing and such Seruants may be called as the Carthaginians were foedifragi couenant and promise-breakers starters aside and runagates a disobedient and stubborn generation a generation whose Gen 16. 9. heart is not set aright whose spirit is not faithfull to God nor to man and such are reprooued by the words of the Angell Psal 78. 8. vnto Agar Gen. 16. 9. Secondly they must not doe so because it is against their calling I mean the calling of a seruant which is as I haue sayd to labour and to suffer it is against the example of Iesus Christ our Lord consequently against his holy will his mind and meaning The seruant that is in afliction as Agar was hath none so good and perfect a remedy to helpe and relecue himself as according to the Angels counsel to humble himselfe vnder the hands of his Master and with industry labor patience to get and recouer his Masters fauor and so to win his Master with wel-doing with doing good for euil and as blessed Rom. 12. 21 Paul doth counsel vs all to ouercome euil with good Moreouer concerning your sufferings and that yee are called to suffer yee must in any wise looke into 1. Pet. 4. 15 the cause for which

ye suffer That none of you suffer as a malefactor a murtherer a theefe or as a busie body in other mens matters take heed that ye suffer not so for such euill causes but if any of you suffer as a Christian let him not bee ashamed but let him glorifie God in that behalfe yea let him reioyce in as much as yee are made thereby partakers of Christs sufferings In all suffereings men must looke into the cause for which they suffer for it is not the paine or punishment which a man suffereth but the cause for which he suffereth that deserueth praise or is thanke-worthy for many men suffer many and great things Traitors suffer theeues and murtherers suffer and that cursed fellow which muthered of late the Noble French King suffered but what Digna factis things worthy of that which they had don these sufferings are so farre from deseruing pitty or commendations that they shal be testimonies against them and brand them with a marke of infamy for euer he that suffereth for righteousnesse sake that is in a iust and good cause or vniustly with patience is happy and blessed for 1. Pet 4. 14 hee suffereth vpon Christs owne crosse and the spirit of glory and of God shall rest vpon him Wherefore let not the Christian seruant murmur nor grudge at this suffering if it be laid vpon him but let him remember that hereunto hee is called this is a burden which the Lord hath imposed vpon him this is the case and the place and the state of life in which hee must serue the LORD his GOD if hee will serue him at all and looke for the recompence of reward Col. 3. 24 the reward of inheritance which is promised to all good and faithfull seruants The third thing whereunto a seruant is called is to serue that is to obey and to be in subiection to haue no will of his owne nor power ouer him selfe but wholly to reseigne himselfe to the will of his Master and this is to obey for what is obedience but as it is defined by the learned Spontaneum rationabite voluntatis propriae sacrificium a voluntarie and reasonable sacrificing of a mans owne will voluntarily freely and without any constraint and reasonably that is according to reason and religion in the obedience and feare of God to deny his owne will his owne affections and to submit himselfe altogether to the will of GOD and his superiours in GOD and that is called propria voluntas a mans owne will which is contrary and not subiect and subordinate vnto the will of GOD as Paul calleth the wisdome Rom. 8. 7 of the flesh which is not neither can bee subiect to the wisdome and law of God Heere then seruants may see and learne how they must serue and obey They must bee obedient at a worde at a call and at a becke as the Seruants of the Centurion were who saith of them if I say vnto one go he goeth and to another come he cometh or to my seruant do this he doth it So must seruants Mat 8. 9. hearken with all willingnes and alacrity of mind they must say and doe as the lad Samuell did who serued vnder Eli the high priest in the temple of the lord when the voyce called him Samuell Samuell he 1. Sam. 3. 5. answered by and by heere I am and ranne quickly to Eli and sayd behold heere I am for thou callest me Where ye may obserue and marke his readines in hearing and his speed in going as soone as hee heard himself called he made answer presently heere I am and then hee ranne it is not sayd that he went but hee ranne this confoundeth the carelesnes or rather the contempt of many vngodly Seruants in these our dayes who will not heare when they be called but will abide many calllngs ' and answer when they list and then not cheerfully and willingly but slowly and grudgingly and when they be dispose to come they doe not make hast and runne as Samuell did but they goe as though they cared not whether they went or not Seruants must performe their seruices and doe their duties willingly and hartily as the Apostle telleth the Collossians and as to the Ephesians he saith they must Col. 3. 23. doe all from the heart with goodwill seruing the Lord and not men where he giueth Eph. 6. 5. them them the reason why they must doe it heartily and willingly because in seruing their maisters they serue God also they serue the Lord Christ and whatsoeuer seruices and duties are done to God to our Lord Iesus Christ must be done ioyfully for God as Paul sayth loueth a willing and a cheerefull giuer and doer in all thinges 2 Cor 9. 7. Wherefore I wish and exhort Seruants as many as feare God and be desirous to know and to doe their partes and duties for to search and read the scriptures and cheefely these two places of the blessed Apostle Paul to the Ephesians and to the Colossians and there they may see how earnestly and zealously he yea rather the spirit of God by him doth mooue and stir vp their minds to these good and Christian duties if they only read the places with consideration And heere now by this time ye may see who is a good seruant he that laboureth he that suffereth and he that obeyeth and and if yee search the scriptures yee shall finde that the praise of such a Seruant is much and the reward exceeding great What saith our Sauiour Christ to the Mat. 25. 21 good Seruant who had laboured in his Masters seruice It is well done thou good and faithfull Seruant because thou hast bin faithfull in a little I wil make thee ruler ouer much enter into thy maisters ioy as if he had sayd because thou hast labored suffered and obeyed therefore thy labour shall not be in vayne But to the euill Seruant that is to him that hath not labored nor suffered nor obeyed but neglecting his maisters wil and commandement carelesly had hid his maisters talent what is sayd Cast therefore the vnprofitable Seruant into vtter darkenesse there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth although indeed these Seruants heere spoken of in this parable mystically are wee Christians and hee is a good Seruant to the LORD our GOD which laboureth in the seruice of God for the honour of God and his owne good not for the bread that perisheth but for that which Ioh. 6. remaineth to life euerlasting Hee that suffereth all the afflictions and contradictions which a Godly and Christian life bringeth with it He that obeyeth the Gospell the will and the word of Iesus Christ in all things and to this Seruant it is said it is wel done thou good and faithful seruant c. Enter into thy Masters ioy into euerlasting life where is fulnesse of ioy and pleasures for euer Now if it like you to walke abroade into the fields and pastures of