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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-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

when there seemed to be but a step between us and ruin which I write not to puff us up with Pride nor Himself whose not the least Praise is that he delights not in the hearing of his own Praise but to make us thankful and to stir us up to pray heartily to God for him that he would keep his Mind in him for evermore and confirm his love to him for ever Bless Lord his substance and accept the work of his Hands for thy Church and People smite through the Loyns of those that rise up against him and of them that hate him that they rise no more which is Moses's Prayer for Levi. Deut. 33. 11. See David's Prayer 1 Chron. 29. 18. O Lord God of Abraham Isaac and Israel our Fathers keep this for ever in the Imagination of the Thoughts of the Heart of thy People and prepare their Heart unto thee that at length our Eyes may behold that joyful sight That Mercy and Truth are met together that Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other Psal 85. 10. as the Psalmist speaks and the full Accomplishment of that Evangelical Promise Violence shall be no more heard in thy Land Wasting nor Destruction within thy Borders that Men may call our Walls Salvation and our Gates Praise Isa 60. 18. that when he rests from his Labours his Works may follow him My next Address is to you my Reverend Brethren of the Ministry of the New Testament to you in a special manner is the Word of his Salvation sent Acts 13. 26. as the Apostle speaks to the Church of Corinth being by nature as hateful to God and hating one another Tit. 3. 3. as those that are embodied with you Let the Peace of God rule in your Hearts into which ye are called not only in one Body Mystical as all Christians are but also into one Body Ecclesiastical and be ye thankful that ye be all of one Mind 1 Cor. 1. 10. We are Embassadors for Christ the Prince of Peace the King of Peace upon whom the Chastisement of our Peace was laid Isa 53. 5. That came and preached Peace to you that were afar off and to them that were near saith the Apostle Eph. 2. 17. and hath left us a Legacy of Peace and hath committed unto us the Ministry of Reconciliation 2 Cor. 5. 19. the Gospel of Peace Rom. 10. 15. O that it might be said of us under the New Testament as he speaks of Levi in the Old He walked with me in Peace and Equity and did turn many from Iniquity Mal. 2. 6. Let us be diligent in our Master's work like faithful and wise Stewards whom our Lord hath made Rulers over his Houshold to give them their portion of meat in their due season Blessed are those Servants whom our Lord when he cometh shall find so doing of a Truth I say unto you that he will make them Rulers of all that he hath Luk. 12. 42 43 44. That we may recover poor Sinners out of the Snare of the Devil who are taken Captives by him at his Will 2 Tim. 2. 25. That when the chief Shepherd shall appear we may be found of him in Peace without spot and blameless and receive a Crown of Glory that fadeth not away 1 Pet. 5. 4. 2 Pet. 3. 14. That being Teachers sent of God to teach the way of God in Truth may shine as the brightness of the Firmament and by turning many to Righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever as the Prophet Daniel speaks Dan. 12. 3. Now since God by this Text as by the tenor of the whole Book of God calls us to Peace how many of our Profession are counted the greatest Enemies to it in the whole Kingdom as being neither Peace-makers nor Peace-keepers with our Neighbours but by Austerity and Severity exacting our dues to the utmost Farthing with such rigour as the Sons of Eli did use that were Sons of Belial and knew not the Lord 1 Sam. 2. 12. contrary to that Spirit of the Gospel which Christ's own Disciples were ignorant of when they would have consumed the Samaritans with Fire from Heaven as Elijah did the Guards of Ahaziah Luk. 9. 55. and putting their Parishioners into the Court often for very small matters as if they sought not them but theirs so contrary to the Apostle as if Destruction and Misery were in their ways and the way of Peace they had not known as the Apostle speaks of the Gentiles Rom. 3. 17. Hence it is in the first place that Men prosper not under the means of Grace as thinking it impossible that the same Fountain should at the same place or spring-head send forth sweet Water and bitter as St. James speaks Jam. 3. 11. And that Men abhor the Offerings of the Lord as if all soughe their own and not the things which are Jesus Christs Phil. 2. 21. which the Israelites are recorded to have done of old for the vileness of their Priests that with Force and Cruelty ruled over them and many depart from them with Indignation to more peaceable Assemblies of Christians without any purpose to return because their Shepherds have caused them to go astray as the Prophet Jeremiah speaks ch 50. 6. And since our Liturgy that we read daily is so full of good Prayers Collects and Requests for Peace that God who is the Author of Peace and lover of Concord would give to all Nations Unity Peace and Concord Let this Charity begin at home and let us with our Apostle follow after the things that make most for Peace and the things wherewith we may edifie one another Rom. 14. 17 19. and ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord Men shall call you the Ministers of our God ye shall eat the Riches of the Gentiles and in their Glory shall ye boast your selves as the Evangelical Prophet speaks Isa 61. 6. lest the Lord divide us in Jacob and scatter us in Israel as he did Simeon and Levi that were Brethren in Evil but not in any good to their perpetual in famy remembring always that he that soweth Discord among Brethren is one of the seven things that are an Abomination to the Lord as Solomon speaks Prov. 6. 16. Again our Brethren that profess the same Faith of Christ crucified with us yet dissent from us in some Externals and Circumstances about Religion lay to our charge that we hang all our Religion and Ministration upon certain stinted Forms and Canonical Offices upon Persons and Places Times Canonical Hours Vestures Postures and Gestures c. and that under the Fig-leaves of Formality in the worship of God we cover all Iniquity as the Church of Rome doth whose whole Religion is nothing else but a Congeries of such insipid stuff And that of late we were ready upon the advance of Popery to turn Papists rather than part with our Livings perceiving some to be turned aside already after Satan like fallen Stars and others with Demas to forsake us

Proverb says If one will not another will Doeg the Edomite did readily obey the word of Command and made no Bones of it to butcher Fourscore and five persons that did wear a Lin●● Ephod and this Obedience tended to the eternal Destruction of the wicked Commander and cursed Obeyer and for shedding so much innocent Blood in the Massacre of their City Nob. They murdered themselves in the overthrow at Mount Gilboa 1 Sam. 31. 4 5. Servants must not run away at every word as Hagar who tells the truth to the Angel that called to her in her flight slayed her course and sent her back again Hagar Sarah's Maid whence comest thou and whether goest thou And she said I flee from the Face of my Mistress Sarah and the Angel of the Lord said unto her Return unto thy Mistress and submit thy self unto her and she did so and tarried with her till she was brought to Bed of her Son Ishmael and many years afterward for her Son was thirteen Years old when he was Circumcised and Isaac but eight Days Gen. 17. 24. Servants must not answer again with lying and swearing as too many do Gehezi sheltered his base Covetous Mind with Lyes to his Master Elisha to enrich himself by the Bounty of Naaman the Syrian but it brought a plague of Leprosie upon him and his Seed for ever and he went out of his Masters presence a Leper as white as Snow 2 Kin. 5. 27. but came in no more to serve him They must not despise their Masters but count their own Masters worthy of all Honour that the Name of God and his Doctrin be not blasphemed as the Apostle speaks to Timothy 1 Tim. 6. 1 2. They must not speak evil of them as wicked Ziba did of his Master Mephibosheth whom he had falsly accused of High Treason to the King For he said to day shall the House of Israel restore me to the Kingdom of my Father 2 Sam. 16. 3. Upon which false Accusation the King doth rashly bestow all his Estate upon his Treacherous accuser but the Holy Ghost testified his Loyalty to the King who rode out to meet the King at his return and having made the whole time of the the King's absence as it were a day of Humiliation and had neither washsed his Feet nor trimmed his Beard nor washed his Cloaths from the day the King departed until the day he came in Peace 2 Sam. 19. 24. and cleared himself to the King in shewing the baseness of his Servants My Lord O King my Servant deceived me 2 Sam. 19. 26. else I had gone along with Your Majesty for all my Lameness and he also hath slandered thy Servant unto my Lord the King And the King mends the matter well I have said thou and Ziba divide the Land And Mephibosheth said unto the King yea let him take all forasmuch as my Lord the King is come again in peace into his own House A most noble Expression of a Loyal Subject concerning one that had betraved his Master and look'd for the forfeiture of his Estate that had justly deserved a shameful Death Servants must not discover Family Secrets unless in such a case as Jonathan discovered to his Friend David his Fathers Indignation and bloody design against him Nor purloin their Goods as the Steward of a certain rich Man did that was accused unto him that he had wasted his Goods Luk. 16. from the first verse to the ninth His Master commends his Policy but not his Honesty that cheated his Master for his future Accommodation But and if that Servant say in his Heart my Master delays his coming and shall begin to beat the men-Men-Servants and Maidens and to eat and drink and to be drunken the Lord of that Servant will come in a day that he looketh not for him and at an hour when he is not aware and cut him in sunder and will appoint him his portion with Hypocrites and Unbelievers Luk. 12. 45 56. saith our Lord. How faithful was Moses in all God's House as a Servant Heb. 3. 5. and Daniel in Darius's House Dan. 6. 3. Joseph in Pharoah's House Mordecay in Ahashuerus's House that discovered the bloody Plot of Treason against his Life Est 2. 21 22. How famous is the History of Eliezer Abraham's Servant that was sent Ambassador to Mesopotamia to the City of Nahor to take a Wife for Isaac How scrupulous is he to undertake so great and so honourable an Embasey How zealous in Prayer to God for his Direction and Blessing How thankful for the return of his Prayer according to his Faith and earnest Desire How Courteous to the Lady that was given in to his Prayer of Faith How careful not to eat nor drink till he had discharged his trust and told his Errand Last of all How resolute to return immediately after he had obtained what he went for His Commission being out he will not stay one day longer but make haste home to his Master that sent him for a Blessing to his Son Isaac all this is very remarkable and imitable by all Servants that fear God and honour their Masters Gen. 24. throughout Gracious and Godly Servants have been and may be Instruments of much good in their Masters House as that little Girl that was taken Prisoner out of the Land of Israel by the Syrians was the occasion of her healing of her foul Leprous Master Naaman the Syrian and of his Conversion also from Idolatry to serve the Lord God of Israel And consequently of his Salvation all she said unto her Mistress was this Would God my Lord were with the Prophet that is in Samaria for he would recover him of his Leprosie He went to him and was healed and converted and made a solemn Protestation that he would cleave to the God of Israel as is recorded by the Holy Ghost 2 Kin. 3 4 5. Sozomen tells us l 2. 6. a like History of the Conversion of the Queen of Iberia by a Captive Christian Maid in the days of Constantine the Great and of the Conversion of the King and Kingdom from Paganism by the same Maid afterward The History is well worth Translating which is thus The Queen being taken with an incurable Disease and miraculously restored to perfect Health at the Invocation of the name of Christ by this Christian Woman devoted her self for ever to Christ her Deliverer The King admiring at the Queen 's so suddain Recovery commands to reward this Captive Damsel with rich Gifts The Queen told him I relate the words of Sozomen that though these things be of great value she regards them no● she cares not for such things the only thing she values is the Worship of her God If therefore we mind to grat●fie her afterwards and live peaceably and happily Let us also worship that powerful God and Saviour for he it is if he please that can make Kings enjoy that degree of Honour in which they are and can easily cast down great