Adorning the Doctrine of God

1. Submit in All Things
   

   9a Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters,
    “18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. 19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully” (1 Pet 2:18-19).

2. Please in All Areas
   9b and to please them well in all things…
    “This desire of pleasing must be limited to those things which are proper; as is evident from other passages of a similar nature” (Calvin).

3. Answer Not Again
   9c not answering again…
    “When conscious of a fault, to palliate or stand in justification of it doubles it.” (Matthew Henry).

4. Determine Not to Steal
   10a Not purloining…
    “Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer” (Prov 28:24).

5. Exemplify Faithfulness.
   10b …but shewing all good fidelity…
    “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord” says the master to them (Mt 25:21).

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