how many years have I serv'd you, without having ever disobey'd your orders? and yet you never bestow'd a kid upon me, to make merry with my friends:

for David, after he had serv'd in his time the designs of providence, died and was buryed with his fathers, and was subject to corruption.

how I have serv'd the Lord with all resignation, with tears, and trials occasion'd by the insidious practices of the Jews:

you know he has stood the test, and has serv'd with me in the gospel, as a son serves with his father.