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Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…
Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolittle.Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolitel.
London: printed by R.I. for J. Johnson, 1666
DIRECTIONS how to live after a wasting PLAGUE. › Part 4 › Section 19
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7. They must not only aim at the wages they have from their Masters; that is poor, and low, and sordid to work and labour for such a reward; but, as those that know, if they do their service, (be it never so mean and servile) in obedience to Gods ⟨p. 214⟩command, and for his glory, they shall have a reward in Heaven: God will reward the mean service of a poor servant with an eternal Crown.
7. They must not onely aime at the wages they have from their Masters; that is poor, and low, and sordid to work and labour for such a reward; but, as those that know, if they do their service, (be it never so mean and servile) in obedience to Gods ⟨p. 214⟩command, and for his glory, they shall have a reward in Heaven: God will reward the mean service of a poor servant with an eternal Crown.
8. They must be faithful in their Masters business; they must not purloin, steal, and secretly convey away any thing of their Masters Estate, Money or Goods; or sell it at under-rate to his Masters real prejudice and damage, by private contract between himself and the buyer, to consider him for his cheap Bargain. Tit. 2.9. Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own Masters, and to please them well in all things, not answering again. Vers. 10. Not purloining, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. When thy hand is in thy Masters Box, and thou art pilfering away his Money, to Game, to keep Company, or spend any way without his knowledge, this is Theft; and, God seeth thee, though he do not: and, if thou hast purloined, or stole any thing, thou art bound to restore it, if thou canst, and, to confess thy fault and be humbled, and do so no more.
8. They must be faithful in their Masters business; they must not purloin, steal, and secretly convey away any thing of their Masters Estate, Money or Goods; or sell it at under-rate to his Masters real prejudice and dammage, by private contract between himself and the buyer, to consider him for his cheap Bargain.