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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 Finally; Devote your selves unto the Service of the Lord Jesus Christ […] We are very much provoked, when our Servants do Delay going where we in […] have sent them. Servants, I must […] unto the Lord Jesus Christ […] and I one with […] the Hast ⟨p. 30⟩imaginable. Your Souls are Damning every Hour, till you have gone to the Saviour of Souls; wherefore I say, Go presently; and as Jonathan said unto his Lad, Make speed, haste, stay not! Our Servants are most of them, yet in their youth; Oh! that they would not let their youth pass, before they become the Servants, of that Lord, who says, They that seek Me early shall find me. It is a Golden Sentence, in Lam. •. 27. It is good for a man to hear the yoke in his youth. Servants, you are under a yoke in your youth; but that so few of you, do while you are Young, affect the Easy yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ, This is a Lamentation, and shall be for a Lamentation. It is the Precept, in Eccl. 12.1. Remember thy Creator in the Days of thy youth; which we may render, In the Days of thy Choice. Come then, young Servants, make your Choice this Day; I say, as he of old, Choose whom you will Serve. Choose wisely; and say not in your Choice, I will serve the Enemies and the Undoers of my Soul; but say, Lord, I will be thy Servant, I will desire to Fear thy Name for ever.
But Finally; Devote your selves unto the Service of the Lord Jesus Christ 〈…〉 We are very much provoked, when our Servants do Delay going where we in 〈…〉 have sent them. Servants, I must 〈…〉 unto the Lord Jesus Christ 〈…〉 and I one with 〈…〉 the Hast ⟨p. 30⟩imaginable. Your Souls are Damning every Hour, till you have gone to the Saviour of Souls; wherefore I say, Go presently; and as Jonathan said unto his Lad, Make speed, haste, stay not! Our Servants are most of them, yet in their youth; Oh! that they would not let their youth pass, before they become the Servants, of that Lord, who says, They that seek Me early shall find me. It is a Golden Sentence, in Lam. . 27. It is good for a man to hear the yoke in his youth. Servants, you are under a yoke in your youth; but that so few of you, do while you are Young, affect the Easy yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ, This is a Lamentation, and shall be for a Lamentation. It is the Precept, in