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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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9. They must be frugal for their Masters; that, though they steal nothing from them, yet they may sin, by suffering their Masters Goods to be wasted; as Food to be cast away, and many things to be spent and consumed when there is no need: this is not to show all fidelity to your Masters. So Jacob, Gen. 31.36, 37.38, 39, 40. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it: of my hands ⟨p. 215⟩didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
9. They must be frugal for their Masters; that, though they steal nothing from them, yet they may sin, by suffering their Masters Goods to be wasted; as Food to be cast away, and many things to be spent and consumed when there is no need: this is not to shew all fidelity to your Masters. So Jacob, Gen. 31.36, 37.38, 39, 40. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it: of my hands ⟨p. 215⟩didst thou require it, whether stollen by day, or stollen by night.
10. They must not answer again out of a murmuring spirit, nor give word for word; that, if their Master rebukes them for their sin, they must not speak as fast as he: nay, though a Master should speak Wrathfully, and in unjust Anger, yet they must not Answer Perversely to them again, but with meekness and silence (except they require, or give leave) go about their Employment, committing their cause to God, who will right them, if their Masters wrong them, Col. 3.25. But, he that doth wrong, shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and, there is no respect of Persons. God regards not Mens outward conditions; he regards not the Mistress more than the Maid: nor the Master more than the Man; but judgeth righteously betwixt the greatest and the meanest.