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A33474	Vox corvi, or, The voice of a raven that thrice spoke these words distinctly, Look into Colossians the 3d and 15th : the text it self look'd into and opened in a sermon preached at Wigmore in the county of Hereford : to which is added serious addresses to the people of this kingdome, shewing the use we ought to make of this voice from heaven / by Alex. Clogie.	Clogie, Alexander, 1614-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing C4724; ESTC R26607	70,214	178

those committed to their Trust at the great Day 2. If the Peace of God rule in the Heart of the Children into which they are called in one Parental and Domestick Body then they will be always ready and careful to honour their Father and Mother according to the tenor of the Fifth Commandment which the Ap●st●e calls the first Commandment with promise Eph. 6. 2 which some expound of the second Table Others take it that that hath a special promise It is absolutely the first hath a Promise for that concerning God's shewing Mercy to Th●usands of them that fear him and keep his Commandments is not a promise but a part of the Desc●iption of God's Nature and Inclination as Exod. 34. 6 7. They will shew love to their Parents and love to one another by which all Men may know that they are Christ's Disciples as our Lord speaks Joh. 13. 35. The Apostle tells us we had Fathers of our Flesh which corrected us and we gave them Reverence Heb. 12. 9. that is their due with Obedience and Thankfulness in nourishing and maintaining them as Joseph did his Father and all his Family in Egypt seventeen Years Gen. 47. 12. David was careful of his aged Parents when he knew not how to secure himself from the Violence of Saul 1 Sam. 22. 3. Children must beg their Parents Blessing at all times as Jacob and Esau Joseph's and Jacob's Children Gen. 27. 4. especially at their departing this Life Children must not be Stubborn and Rebellious or Incorrigible in taking ill Courses there is a very severe punishment appointed for this horrible Sin And they shall say unto the Elders of this City this our Son is Stubborn and Rebellious he will not obey our Voice he is a Glutton and a Drunkard and all the Men of the City shall stone him with stones that he dye so shalt thou put evil away from among you and all Israel shall hear and fear Deut. 21. 20 21. They must nor do as the Prodigal Son that wasted his Substance with riotous Living Luk. 15. 13. and brought himself to want all things They must not hate one another in their Heart Lev. 19. 17. as wicked Cain did his Righteous Brother Abel that never did him wrong Gen. 27. 41. as Esau did his Brother Jacob that resolved to kill him after his Father's Death Gen. 37. 4. or as the Patriarchs did Joseph who moved with Envy sold him into Egypt saith St. Stephen Act. 7. 9. They improve their Union in the Flesh to their Communion in Grace and Glory as Children of their Heavenly Father as the Seed that the Lord hath bless'd 5. Masters and Servants IF the Peace of God rule in the Hearts of Master and Servant into which they are called in Body Domestick and despotical to live under one Roof and eat of the same Family Provision then both Master and Mistress Man-Servant and Maid-Servant will carry themselves towards one another in this Relation as the Servants of Jesus Christ For saith the Apostle He that is called in the Lord being a Servant is the Lord's free-man likewise also he that is called being free is the Lord's Servant 1 Cor. 7. 22. Then Masters will give unto their Servants that which is just and equal as the Apostle exhorts Col. 4. 1. paying their wages when it is due The keeping the Wages of the Hireling is a crying Sin Jam. 5. 4. The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all Night until the Morning saith Moses Lev. 19. 13. At his day thou shalt give him his hire neither shall the Sun go down upon it for he is poor and setteth his Heart upon it lifteth his Soul unto it lest he cry against thee unto the Lord and it be Sin unto thee Deut. 24. 15. Not turning them out of Doors when they are sick without any further regard of them which is a hiding our Eyes from our own Flesh Isa 58. 7. The Centurion did not so that came to our Lord Jesus Christ the great Physitian for cure for his sick Servant that lay at home Matth. 8. 6. Masters must not be extream in the Government and Usage of their Servants knowing that ye also have a Masten in Heaven Col. 4. 1. saith the Apostle The Egyptians were ill Masters that made the Israelites serve with Rigor and Blows when they were Pharoah's Bond-men Exod. 1. 13 14. in so much that when Moses and Aaron were sent unto them to comfort and support them and to preach the Gospel the glad Tydings of their Deliverance from their sad Condition but they hearkned not unto Moses for Anguish of Spirit for straitness or shortness of Breath and for cruel Bondage Exod. 6. 9. Even Mother Sarah is recorded to have dealt hardly with her Handmaid Hagar when she had laid in her Husband's Bosom so as to make her flee from her Face Gen. 16. 6. that was ready to flee in her Face with Threats and Frowardness Correction given in Anger hath usually more of Rigour than of Right Nabal's Servants complain to their Mistress Abigail of their Master's Untowardness and Crossness towards them and of his Incivility towards David's Servants that had been very civil and peaceful towards him That their Master was such a Son of Belial that a Man cannot speak to him 1 Sam. 25. 17. And ye Masters saith St. Paul do the same thing unto them that ye would have done to you if ye were in their stead forbearing Threatnings knowing that your Master also is in Heaven neither is there respect of persons with him Masters are required to deal bountifully with suchas serve them well and long And when thou sendest him out free from thee thou shalt not let him go away empty of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him Deut. 15. 13 14. 2. If the Peace of God rule in the Hearts of Servants into which they are called into one Family or private Corporation Then they will be subject to their ow Masters without fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward as St. Peter exhorts 1 Pet. 2. 18. And St. Paul also Servants obey in all things your Masters according to the Flesh not with eye-service as Men-pleasers but in singleness of Heart fearing God And whatsoever ye do do it heartily as to the Lord and not unto Men knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the Inheritance for ye serve the Lord Jesus Christ Col. 3. 22 23 24. To the same effect doth the Apostle direct his Speech to Servants in the sixth Chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians almost the same verbatim v. 6 7 8. They must not obey unlawful Commands from whatsoever Master Saul gave a bloody Command to his Life-Gua●l that stood about him Turn and slay the Priests of the Lord but the Servants of the King would not put forth their Hand to fall upon the Priests of the Lord 1 Sam. 22. 17. But as our

upon their Consciences by Jotham to the mutual destruction of them and Abimelech whom they had advanced over them upon th● ruins of the 70 Sons of Jerubb●al For saith Jotham My Father fought for you and adventured his Life for you and delivered you out of the hand of Midian and ye are risen up against my Father's House this day and have slain his Sons threescore and ten persons upon one Stone and have made Abimelech the Son of his Maid-Servant King over the Men of Sechem because he is your brother c. Judg. 9. 17. Then God sent an evil Spirit between the men of Sechem and Abimelech to punish their cruel ingratitude v. 23. Which is the Substance of that whole Chapter of Judges 9. And after they had destroyed one another that sad History as any in the Book of God is concluded thus Thus God rendred the wickedness of Abimelech which he did unto his Father in staying his seventy brethren and all the evil of the men of Sechem did God render upon their heads and upon them came the curse of Jotham the Son of Jerubbaal v. 56 57. So that now you see this horrible sin of Ingratitude that is punished by God in so high a degree must needs be an accursed and destructive thing Another said instance of the like sin and punishment we have recorded concerning Joash King of Judah who was marvelously preserved in the Massacre of the Royal Family from Athaliah's bloody Fingers by Jehoiada the High Priest and his Wife Jehoshabea and kept safe in the House of the Lord six Years under the tyrannous Usurpation of that wicked Idolatress 2 Chron. 22. 10 11 12. Jehoiada set the Crown on his head put down the Usurper restored the Kingdom to their former freedom and raised the Royal Family to their former Splendor and Dignity and left it flourishing in Peace and Plenty But after the death of his 〈◊〉 Tutor Governour Gua 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Protector 't is recorded Th●● this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God and turned 〈◊〉 and Murderer two i●separable Companions and commanded Zachariah the Priest the Son of Jeho●a●a to be stoned even in the Court of the House of the Lord for reproving his Idolatry and saying Because ye have forsaken the Lord He also hath forsaken you Thus Joash the King remembred not the kindness which Jehoiada his Father had done unto him but flew his Son and when he died he said The Lord look upon it and require it Which Prayer of this dying Martyr the Lord heard and recompensed this cruel ingratitude of Joash towards God and Man speedily upon his own head to the ruine of himself and of all his Princes that seduced him and of all his Armies in which he trusted by an inconsiderable party For the Army of the Syrians came with a small company of Men and the Lord delivered a very great Host into their hand because they had forsaken the Lord God of their Fathers so they executed Judgment against Joash And besides all this The Lord smote him with grievous torments in his body by incurable diseases as in the case of Jehoram that murdered his Brothers 2 Chron. 21. 18. And at last to put an end to the miserable life of this godless Wretch his own Servants conspired against him for the Blood of the Sons of Jehoiada the Priest and flew him on his Bed and he died But they buried him not in the Sepulchres of the Kings 2 Chron. 24. 18 20 21 22. an honour that was bestowed upon Jehoiada the High Priest his Preserver and Restorer v. 16. though out of indignation denied him as to Jehoram before him that lived undesired and died unlamented 2 Chron. 21. 20. Thus did God plentifully reward this proud Doer as the Psalmist speaks Measuring to him again with the same measure that he had meted withal a just measure of Wrath pressed down and shaken together and running over into his Bosome as our Lord speaks Luke 6. v. 38. Obj. Some will say My Will is good but I want means and abilitiy to requite any henefit received hy me Answ 1. Profess and acknowledge always the good Turn it is a part of an ingenuous Disposition to profess who hath done thee any pleasure yea half a requital Eph. 5. 20. Secondly Use Prayer to God for their good Estate if thou be poor he is rich to requite and doubtless as the cry of the poor can awake His Justice as Himself speaks For the oppression of the poor for the sighing of the needy now will I arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him Psal 12. 5. So can the joyful Thanksgiving by the mouth of them that are partakers of the benefit and withal their Prayers for the means of it awake His Liberality as Paul undertakes My God shall supply all your necessities according to his Riches in glory by Christ Jesus Phil. 4. 19. Here I cannot but put the Poor in mind of their duty which receiving good at the hands of them that relieve them are very unjust if they give not again this Duty back to them to Pray for them So Ministers which in that very Name as one part of their Ministerial Duty for the whole is the Word and Prayer as the Apostles speak But we will give our selves continually to Prayer and to the Ministry of the Word Acts 6. 4. receive temporal things Lastly Before I close up this place of Thankfulness to Men we must not pass by our Thankfulness to God For if to Men we must be Thankful How much more to GOD And the ground of Unthankfulness to Men is from their Unthankfulness to GOD. There is not any other fault more generally blamed even by those that have but the Light of Nature than ingratitude as I have largely shewed nor any Ingratitude greater than towards God because of none we receive more or greater Benefits than from him to say nothing that it being impossible that we should attain to that degree of Thankfulness which should be in requiting the Benefits we daily and hourly receive of him he is contented to take the Acknowledgement of them for Payment so as it must be the effect of a most Villa●nous Injustice to deny him that For which cause in the Scriptures we have the Invitations of Holy Men to Thankfulness the praise of this Duty and the Precedents of good Men performing it In special the Book of the Psalms hath his name in the Hebrew Tongue as ye would say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Book of Praises not as if the whole Book had nothing else but because it is the chief part and most principally intended And for this cause doth the Church use in the beginning of her solemn Service the 95 Psalm as a means to invite us to that Duty so good and come●● yea so just and necessary as the Psalm for the Sabbath Day begins 'T is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises to thy