John Trapp on Luke 16:1

CHAP. XVI.

Verse 1. A [illegible: 1 word] rich man which had a Steward] MAsters had need look well 1. To the chusing of their servants. (Salomon saw Jeroboam that he was industrious, and therefore without any respect at all to his Religion, he made him [illegible: 1 word] over all the charge of the house of Joseph; but to his [illegible: 1 word] disadvantage. [illegible: 1 word]. King 11. 28. with chapt. 12. 3.) 2. To the using of them: Most men make no other use of their servants then they doe of their beasts: whiles they may have their bodyes to doe their service, they care not if their soules serve the Devill. Hence they so [illegible: 1 word] prove false and [illegible: 1 word].