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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.
I. But the first of those Counsels, which as proper and needful for you is; Oh! see to […] You that are Masters, and have Servants, I E• treat you, see to it, That you be not yourselv• the Servants of the worst Masters in th• World. You do a little bear the Image of Go• in that Government, which you have over you Servants; but God forbid, that you should be• at the same Time, the Image of the Devil, an be under the Government of that Wicked One Very Lamentable was the Curse of Canaan, […] Ger. 9. 25. He shall be a Servant of Servant And how lamentably Cursed then will you […] to make your Servants, if their Master must […] a Servant of the Devil. Poorly sit is that man to Command others, who shall be himself Commanded always by the Devil, and by the Earth Sensual Devilish Inclinations of his own Hear Sirs, Do you first your selves become the Servants ⟨image ?⟩of God, and then you may have Blessings in, you will be Blessings to, those that shall become Servants unto your selves. There is this Lesson divers times in the Bible given you, Know that you have a Master in Heaven. I say then, Learn this Lesson; and let every Master say, The Lord of Heaven shall be my Master. I remember the Servant of Abraham seemed, as it were to value himself, upon the score of his having such a Master; said he, in Gen. 24. 34. I am Abraham's Servant. Indeed, a Master that shall be like Abraham, an Exemplary Believer, and a Religious Householder, will give Servants cause to be ambitious of Living with him. Whereas,
I. But the first of those Counsils, which as proper and needful for you is; Oh! see to 〈…〉 You that are Masters, and have Servants, I E• treat you, see to it, That you be not yourselv• the Servants of the worst Masters in th• World. You do a little bear the Image of Go• in that Government, which you have over you Servants; but God forbid, that you should be at the same Time, the Image of the Devil, an be under the Government of that Wicked One Very Lamentable was the Curse of Canaan, Ger. 9. 25. He shall be a Servant of Servant And how lamentably Cursed then will you to make your Servants, if their Master must a Servant of the Devil. Poorly sit is that man to Command others, who shall be himself Commanded always by the Devil, and by the Earth Sensual Devilish Inclinations of his own Hear Syrs, Do you first your selves become the Servants