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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.
THE Great God who Formed all things, and who particularly, Formed the Spirit of man within him, hath Formed Us with a Sociable Disposition; which Disposition to […], Planted by God in our ⟨p. 5⟩Nature, hath Positive Rules given by our God in His Word, for the Regulation of it.
THE Great God who Formed all things, and who particularly, Formed the Spirit of man within him, hath Formed Us with a Sociable Disposition; which Disposition to 〈…〉, Planted by God in our ⟨p. 5⟩Nature, hath Positive Rules given by our God in His Word, for the Regulation of it.
The First Society, which Mankind falls, and indeed Naturally falls into, is Domestical; the Society, that makes a family. Now, by the […] Nature it self, 'tis come to pass, that in such a Society there must be a Superiority, and an Inferiority; there must be some who are to Command, and there must be some who are to Obey. Accordingly, The Domestical Society is of Three Sorts; There is a Conjugal Society, or that between the Husband and the Wife; there is a Parental Society, or that between the Parent and the Child; and there is last, and lowest of all, an •erile Society, or that between the Master and the Servant.
The First Society, which Mankind falls, and indeed Naturally falls into, is Domestical; the Society, that makes a family. Now, by the 〈…〉 Nature it self, 'tis come to pass, that in such a Society there must be a Superiority, and an Inferiority; there must be some who are to Command, and there must be some who are to Obey. Accordingly, The Domestical Society is of Three Sorts; There is a Conjugal Society, or that between the Husband and the Wife; there is a Parental Society, or that between the Parent and the Child; and there is last, and lowest of all, an •erile Society, or that between the Master and the Servant.