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

But as long as your Masters (or, Mistresses) do give you no Commands, contrary to those in the Word of the Lord, you are so long to Obey them in the Lord. And you are all most of also do it, when the Commands of your Masters, are he very same that are in the Word of the Lord. If your Masters bid you to Read, and Hear the Word of the Lord, and Live according to the Word, and give them some account of your proficiency by that Word; Obey them Conscientiously. Masters, It they will not Obey you in hose things, Turn them out of Doors.

IV. Let your Diligence in the Service of our Masters (and Mistresses) be such as to render you Profitable and Acceptable Servants. There are many slothful Servants; and Servants, that would willingly Sleep away, or Talk away, if not ⟨p. 41⟩Play away, all their Time: Will you now set the Brand of such a Servant? You shall see it in Mat. 25. 16. Thou Wicked and Slothful Servant. We are told, Cursed will he be who does the Work of the Lord Negligently; and I will venture to say, He who does his Masters Work Negligently, shall not be Blessed. Eliezer had a Good Master; and such was his Diligence, that he would not Eat his Victuals, till he had seen some Dispatch of his Masters Business. Jacob had an hard Master, yet such was his Diligence about the Business of that Church of a Master, that he could say, In the Day the Drought Consumed me, and the Frost by Night, and my Sleep departed from my Eyes. If Servants were thus Diligent, they might even then Serve their Masters, and themselves too, and get a fore hand wonderfully; [Though it must be still with the Allowance of their Masters, if they would honestly Do for Themselves.] It was said, in 2 Thes. 3. 10. This we Commanded you, that if any would not Work, neither should be Eat. There are Servants, of whom they say, —Sunt Omni Tempore Tardi, Sudant quando vorant, frigescunt quando Laborant