A good master well served. A brief discourse on the necessary properties & practices…

And you must so Proportion their Work to it that they may not Complain of you, as th• over burdened, over driven Israelites did, of their Egyptian Taskmasters. Don't put them upon Cries and Groans, which God will hear in Heaven His Holy Habitation! There are some whole Countries in the World, against whom the ⟨p. 12⟩[…] the Servant, is dreadfully gone up unto the •ord of Sabaoth. It was the Law in Israel in •ev. 25. 46. Ye shall not Rule •ver one another with •igour. Be a Master, but be not a Tyrant: Let •ot your Servants have their Lives Embittered, […] Healths Impaired, their Bodies Macerated, […] your Tyranny. A David once, when he was himself, would not meddle with a thing, whereby the Blood of a Servant had been Exposed. Yea, 'Twas the Speech of a Generous pagan, Our Servants are as our Poor Friends, and […] in our Houses not merely for Servitude, but for Patronage. But this is not all you have to do, about the Work of your Servants; You are also faithful to Death your Servants the Work of •hat Calling, for the learning whereof, any of •hem are bound unto you. While you use them •or Servants, you must so use them, that in Time •hey may come to be Masters. If Servants are with you, to Learn, any Mystery in your Occupation, t'will be a most Complicated, Cozenage and Robbery in you, to Conceal that Mystery from •hem. Hide not from them any Ingenious or significant Part of your Trade, out of any Covetous, Envious, Undermining purposes. It was Enjoined about a Servant, arriving to the Period of his Prentice-ship, in Deut. 15. 13, 14. Thou shalt not let him go away Empty; thou shalt furnish him Liberally: This was that he might not be under […] Necessity of becoming a Servant again. Those Masters, who by letting their Servants go away ⟨p. 13⟩