N00618:55
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.
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 […] ⟨p. 28⟩Unto all of This I am Willing, and it is […] Sovereign Grace that hath made me willing. May I now be kept and […] by the […] of that Grace, in all Thankful Obedience before the Lord.
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 〈…〉 ⟨p. 28⟩Unto all of This I am Willing, and it is 〈…〉 Sovereign Grace that hath made me willing. May I now be kept and 〈…〉 by the 〈…〉 of that Grace, in all Thankful Obedience before the Lord.