N00618:60
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.
[…] Let your Service unto the Matters [and Mistresses] of the Families, where you are Servants, be such, that the Lord Jesus Christ may thereby be Glorified.
〈…〉 Let your Service unto the Matters [and Mistresses] of the Families, where you are Servants, be such, that the Lord Jesus Christ may thereby be Glorified.
It has been among the Wretchednesses of Mankind, that Servants have ordinarily been so had, as to bring a Discredit upon the very Names, which were once innocently and agreeably used, for all that rank of people. Some Names, that formerly signified no more than Servants, now carry all the Dishonesties of Knavery and Villainy in their signification, because that Servants have so often been Dishonest. But now may God help you, Our Servants, instead of bringing a Blemish upon your own poor Names, to bring a Glory unto the Name of that Lord, whose Name indeed is Exalted far above all Blessing and Praise.
It has been among the Wretchednesses of Mankind, that Servants have ordinarily been so had, as to bring a Discredit upon the very Names, which were once innocently and agreeably used, for all that rank of people. Some Names, that formerly signified no more than Servants, now carry all the Dishonesties of Knavery and Villa•y in their signification, because that Servants have so often been Dishonest. But now may God help you, Our Servants, instead of bringing a Blemish upon your own poor Names, to bring a Glory unto the Name of that Lord, whose Name indeed is Exalted far above all Blessing and Praise.