the ſame time make uſe of them for the beſt advantage of his Maſter, | | yet the Caſe 15 page ard ys COPE! Lord cn US. 4 _ I2 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is pleaſed God ſo to twiſt the Intereſt of his Glory with our highe bs « ; Good, that no Man can better uſe his Maſters wart for the advan- m_— a who ſhall &v6 you that which is your tage of His Glory, than he who beſt uſeth them for the higheſt good Lee; » ; PER ' profit, and advantage to himſelf : Nor doth any man better uſe them | .. > e queſtioned whether daairewy might not have been tor his own Intereſt, than he who beſt uſeth them for Gods Glory. | 7 ted Foreign, as well as another Mans, for fo Interpreter So as here-the Parable halteth, by reaſon of the diſparity betwixt expound that Phraſe. If you have not been faithful in things that the things that are compared. And tho' the unjuſt Steward could | 7? Km you, which are little, compared with things that are not be commended for the honeſty, but only for the policy of his within us. Yet Riches are indeed properly not ours, we are but the Stewards of them, and part of them are other Mens, and only
Afticn, yet we whc »re Stewards of the Gifts of God, in doing the fied 5 ; ! like, that is, making ute cf our Maſters Goods for our own beſt pro- = ed into our Hands to diſpenſe them according to our Mz fit, and advantage, way ac? not only wiſely, but alſo honeſtly ; | ;*** order. Grace is our own, eſpecially juſtifying and ſandif- and indeed Chritt in this Parabic hlameth men for not doing fo, | 19s Grace z becauſe it is given us cf God ſolely for our own uſe [ The Children of this World (faith he) ae wiſer in their Generation, _ advantage. We uſe to ſay , That thoſe who have been bad than the Children of Light. 7 By the Children of the World, he mean- | 0 04Pr5, ſeldom prove good Maſters. In the truſt of our Rictes, cth ſuch as this Steward was, men who regard not Eternity or the we are but Servants, God will not give out of his ſpecial faving
Grace , to thoſe that abuſe the truſt of his common Gifts and
concerns of their immortal Souls, but only regard the things of this Life, what they ſhall Eat, or Drink, or put on. By the Children of
Light, he meancth ſuch as live under the Light of the Goſpel, and ; .Teceive the common Illumination of the Goſpel : tho' if we yet un- 13 No ſervant can ſerve ewo maſters : for either he
derſtand it more ſtrictly, of thoſe who are Tranſlated out of Darkneſs | will hate the one, and love the other ; or elſe he will hold into marvellnus Light, 1t 1s too true, they are not ſo Wiſe, and Po- | to the @ne :
litick, and Induſtrious for Heaven, as Worldly Men are to obtain and ane roo deſp iſe the other, Ye cannot ferve God their ends in getting the Worid. He faith, The Men of the World are Se the N _
wiſer in their Generation, that is, in their hind, as to thoſe things, e tne Notes on Matth. 6. 24+
about which they exerciſe their Wit, and Policy, than the Children I4 And the Phariſees alſo * who were covetous, heard * Mit of God. all theſe things : and they derided him. ih
| Concerning the Phariſees Covetouſnelſs, we have often heard before
* Mat.6.19. 9 And I fay unto you, * Make to your ſelves and indeed they were fo from this Principle, That none but the
& 19. 21. friends of the | mammon of unrighteouſneſs , that | Rich, were happy, and bleſſed, and that all poor People were cur-