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muring, or answering again or resisting, Tit. ii. 9. For if you do not submit to the powers that be ordained of God, or if you resist them, Rom. xiii. 2; you rebel against God, and resist the ordinance of God: which whoso doth, shall receive to himself damnation or judgment. But if you, not only for wrath, but chiefly for conscience to God, Rom. xiii. 5, do submit yourselves to every ordinance of man, 1 Peter ii. 13, 14, doing therein the will of God from the heart, Eph. vi. 6 - 8, then, whether men requite you or not, you shall be sure of the Lord to receive the reward of the inheritance, Col. iii. 24, for thus obeying men, you serve the Lord Christ.

SECT. 3. CONCERNING BODILY REFRESHMENT AND RECREATIONS.

The constitution of man's soul and body is such that they cannot long endure to be employed, and stand bent with earnestness upon any thing, without relaxation and convenient refreshment.

(1.) The whole man is refreshed by eating and drinking: in which you must be, first, holy, secondly, just, thirdly, temperate.

1. It was their sin, who fed themselves without all fear of God, Jude 12. Meats and drinks are not sanctified to a man, if he be not pure and holy, Tit. i. 15, 1 Tim. iv. 4, 5; and if they be not received with prayer and thanksgiving.

2. You must not eat bread of deceit, Prov. xx. 17, 2 Thess. iii. 12, nor ill-gotten food: every man must eat his own bread. God would have no man to eat the bread of wickedness, nor yet drink the wine of violence, Prov. iv. 17.

3. Moreover, you must not eat and drink for gluttony and drunkenness, Rom. xiii. 13, Prov. xxiii. 20, 21, to please the palate, and to gorge the appetite; but for health and strength, Eccles. x. 17.

(2.) A man when he is weary may be refreshed likewise by variety and interchange of the duties of his