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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.
III. But having Chosen your Servants, and endeavoured that they may be Choice Ones, You are now, Thirdly, to attend unto some further Counsels, about the well treating of them.
III. But having Chosen your Servants, and endeavoured that they may be Choice Ones, You are now, Thirdly, to attend unto some further Counsils, about the well treating of them.
And here, there are Three things that you owe, yea, there are four things, that me not be denied unto them.
And here, there are Three things that you owe, yea, there are four things, that me not be denyed unto them.
Even, the Moral Philosophy, of the Heathen, pronounced, Three Things to be due from a Master, unto a Servant; namely, Work, and Good, and Discipline; [Nam Cibus sine Opere facit Servum Porcum; Opus sine Cibo, Asinum; Castigain sine utroque Canem] and, I am sure, our Christian Theology, will not Release you, from any of •he Debts which thus Lie upon you. Masters indeed should be Fathers unto their Servants. It was a most suitable word, which a Celebrated Master once had from those that were under him, in 2 King. 5. 13. His Servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My Father. Thus, you should give your Servants reason to testify concerning you, That man has been a Father to me, as long as I have Lived with him. Now, that it may be so,
Even, the Moral Philosophy, of the Heathen, ••onounced, Three Things to be due from a Master, unto a Servant; namely, Work, and Good, and Discipline; [Nam Cibus sine Opere facit Servum Porcum; Opus sine Cibo, Asinum; Castigain sine utroque Canem] and, I am sure, our Christian Theology, will not Release you, from any of he Debts which thus Ly upon you. Masters indeed should be Fathers unto their Servants. It was a most suitable word, which a Celebrated Master once had from those that were under him, in