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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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(6.) Be very exact and punctual in the Compacts and Agreements you make with your Servants: Do not prevaricate; keep not back any of their Wages, nor deal deceitfully with them, as Laban did with Jacob, changing his Wages, Gen. 31.7. Falseness in Promise is as as bad as False Weights.
(6.) Be very exact and punctual in the Compacts and Agreements you make with your Servants: Do not prevaricate; keep not back any of their Wages, nor deal deceitfully with them, as Laban did with Iacob, changing his Wages, Gen. 31.7. Falseness in Promise is as as bad as False Weights.
(7.) Be careful of your Servants, not only in Health but in Sickness. They have got their Sickness in your Service; use what means you can for their Recovery. Be not like the Amalekite, who forsook his Servant when he was sick, 1 Sam. 30.13. but be as the good Centurion, who kept his sick Servant, and sought to Christ for a Cure, Mat. 8.6. If you have a Beast that falls sick, you will not turn it off, but have it looked to, and pay for its Cure. Will you be kinder to your Horses than your Servants? Thus should Masters (the Fathers of the Family) carry themselves prudently and piously, that they may gain Honour from their Servants, and may give up their Accounts to God with Joy.
(7.) Be careful of your Servants, not only in Health but in Sickness. They have got their Sickness in your Service; use what means you can for their Recovery. Be not like the Amalekite, who forsook his Servant when he was sick, 1 Sam. 30.13. but be as the good Centurion, who kept his sick Servant, and sought to Christ for a Cure,