must not shake off the yoake, set themselues at liberty, and depart when they list, first because they haue not pow∣er of their owne selues, they couenanted with their maisters, tyed and bound them∣selues to serue them so long, and in such sort.
And therefore to breake those bonds, couenants and promises, is a thing nei∣ther good, honest, nor lawfull by the lawes of God or men: for it is plaine, per∣fidia, 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 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 vnto Agar Gen. 16. 9. Secondly they must not doe so, because it is against their cal∣ling, 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 ho∣ly will, his mind and meaning.
The seruant that is in afliction as Agar