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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.
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.
But, Let as many Servants, as are under the Yoke, now hearken, with a very great Attention, ⟨p. 21⟩that the counsels which the words of the Ever living God, shall set before them. It was said, in Psal. 123. 2. behold, as the Eyes of Servants Look into the Hand of the Masters, and as the Eye of a Maiden to the Hand of her Mistress, so our Eyes wait upon its Lord our God. Thus, Let you that are Servants and Maidens, give a greater Attention unto the words of the Lord your God this Day, than ever you gave unto any Master, or Mistress what soever.