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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.
[…] But having thus fairly and fully bespoke the regards […] your Masters for you, and shown […] how concerned I am, that you may have […] Masters, […] to you, O Servants, that the most of our Exhortations are to be directed. […] although you have your Duties, most sufficiently represented, in those Express Edict, from the King of Heaven, wherein you may read Him speaking of you; yet it will not be miss to fetch out from those Heavenly Edicts, the particular Duties which are Incumbent on you.
〈…〉 But having thus fairly and fully bespoke the regards 〈…〉 your Masters for you, and shown 〈…〉 how concern'd I am, that you may have 〈…〉 Masters, 〈…〉 to you, O Servants, that the most of our Exhortations are to be directed. 〈…〉 although you have your Duties, most sufficiently represented, in those Express Edict, from the King of Herven, wherein you may read Him speaking of you; yet it will not be miss to fetch out from those Heavenly Edicts, the particular Duties which are Incumbent on you.
There are several sorts of Servants now together, in this Congregation. A Servant, according to the Apostolical Description, […] 1 Tim. […] One that is under the Yoke; that is, One that is under the Domestical and the Despotical Disposal of another, by Other Bonds beside those […] Nature. Some of you, are under the Yoke of Servitude, by a perpetual […], to those who have by Sword or Price purchased a Dominion over you. Others of you are under the Yoke of Servitude, by a Temporary Agreement, which you have made with some, to be subject unto them for a while upon such and such Considerations. And there are of both Sexes, both Men and […], under both of these Yokes.
There are several sorts of Servants now together, in this Congregation. A Servant, according to the Apostolical Description, 〈…〉 1 Tim. One that is under the Yoke; that is, One that is under the Domestical and the Despotical Disposal of another, by Other Bonds beside those Nature. Some of you, are under the Yoke of Servitude, by a perpetual , to those who have by Sword or Price purchased a Dominion over you. Others of you are under the Yoke of Servitude, by a Temporary Agreement, which you have made with some, to be subject unto them for a while upon such and such Considerations. And there are of both Sexes, both Men and , under both of these Yokes.