N00618:53
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.
Holy Apostles, have counted it their matchless Honour, to be styled, The Servants of the Lord Jesus Christ; Yea, mighty Emperors, have worn that style, as their Crown, The Vassals of the Lord Jesus Christ. Yea, the Brightest, and Highest ⟨p. 27⟩Angels in Heaven, are the Servants of that Lord. And, will you, ye mean Servants among the worms of the Dust, be loth to come into so glorious a Service? Behold, the way to it. Give the Consent of your Souls, unto the Covenant of Grace; and according to the Terms of that Covenant, as Hezekiah speaks, yield your selves unto the Lord.
Holy Apostles, have counted it their matchless Honour, to be styled, The Servants of the Lord Jesus Christ; Yea, mighty Emperours, have worn that style, as their Crown, The Vassals of the Lord Jesus Christ. Yea, the Brightest, and Highest ⟨p. 27⟩Angels in Heaven, are the Servants of that Lord. And, will you, ye mean Servants among the worms of the Dust, be loth to come into so glorious a Service? Behold, the way to it. Give the Consent of your Souls, unto the Covenant of Grace; and according to the Terms of that Covenant, as Hezekiah speaks, yield your selves unto the Lord.
There is the Tender of a New Covenant, made unto you; and even unto the Meanest, & Vilest, and most abject Slave among you all; unto the Proposals whereof, Let this be the Answer of your Conquered, and Converted Souls.
Thou Ever-blessed God; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I am Willing to abandon all the Corrupt Interests of this present Evil World, and Return to Thee, Converse with Thee, Delight in Thee, as my best Good, and my last End for ever. I am Willing that the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Mediator, should as a Priest, a Prophet, and a king, so all that for me, which he does for all his chosen, in bringing them home unto Thy self. I am Willing, in Gratitude unto the Lord Jesus Christ, for my Salvation freely Purchased and Applied by him, to Serve him, in Constant Endeavours to Glorify him according to the Rules of his Gospel […]