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LXV. The second proof, out of S. Peter.
TO Paul let us add Peter as a fit com∣panion: his words are these; Honour * 1.1 the King: Servants be subject to your Masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrong∣fully. For what glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it pa∣tiently? but if when ye do well, and suf∣fer for it, ye take it patiently: this is ac∣ceptable * 1.2 with God. And when he con∣firmes this by the example of Christ. The same sense also is expressed in Clement's Constitutions in these words: Let a ser∣vant fearing God bear a good affection to his Master, though ungodly, though un∣just. Two things are to be noted here. First, that the subjection due to masters, even to the froward, is also to be referd to Kings: for that which followes, built on the same foundation, respects no less the office of subjects than of servants. Second, the subjection requir'd of us is such as carries with it patience of inju∣ries. So is it usually said of parents:
* 1.3 A gentle parent's dear: Yet the ungentle bear.And a youth that had long frequented Zeno's school being asked, What he had learned there, answerd, To bear my Fa∣thers