N00618:17
A good master well served. A brief discourse on the necessary properties & practices…
A good master well served. A brief discourse on the necessary properties & practices of a good servant in every-kind of servitude: and of the methods that should be taken by the heads of a family, to obtain such a servant. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines from Joel]
printed by B. Green, 1696
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Servants be obedient to them that are your Master according to the flesh, with fear and trembling in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. ⟨p. 4⟩Not with eye service, as men pleasers, but as the Servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. With good-will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men. Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Servants be obedient to them that are your Master according to the flesh, with fear and trembling in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. ⟨p. 4⟩Not with eye service, as men pleasers, but as the Servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. With goed-will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men. Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
It is likewise Written, in Col. III. 22, 23, 24, 25.
Servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye service, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men. Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. But he that doeth wrong, shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.