A good master well served. A brief discourse on the necessary properties & practices…

If your Masters are those that have the Fear •f God in them, You then have not the Less, •ut the more cause to Fear Them, with your most Awful Regards. The more of God there in them, the more Fear you should have •o Displease them. Methinks, It should be a pleasant Thing, to Serve, a Servant of God! •ea, though your selves may be as well as they, in the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom here is neither Bond nor Free; though your ••lves may have the same God, and the same race, and the same Hope, with your Masters, •nd may sit at the same Table of the Lord; ⟨p. 37⟩Yet, hear what is required in 1 Tim. 6. 2. They that have Believing Masters, let them not Despise them, because they are Brethren; but rather do them Service, because they are Faithful and Beloved, Partakers of the Benefit. Nay, but what if your Masters are without the Fear of God? Still you must not be without the Fear of them. Overlook their Failings; and be as loath to see their Follies, as Japheth and Shem were to see their Fathers Nakedness: but be mindful of the Charge, in 1 Pet. 2 18. Servants he subject unto your Masters, with all Fear; not only to the Good and Gentle, but also to the Froward; Let their base Tricks be never so many. Briefly, you should Think Reverently of your Masters, and Speak Reverently of your Masters; Don't Reproach your Masters, as that wicked Servant Ziba, Slandered his of old. Preserve the Honour of your Masters Abroad, as well as at Home•; and be not a sort of Spies, upon the Houses of your Masters, to carry Tales abroad, whereby They may be Defamed. Instead of That, You are to Imitate your Masters in all their Laudable Properties and Practices What? Have you discerned, that your Masters are Praying Men, Honest Men, Laborious Men, Men that Walk with God, and Men every way Conscientious? Learn of such Masters, or else your Masters will rise up as terrible Witnesses against you, in the Day of Gods pleading with you.