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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.
A Good Master well Served
It is Written, in Tit. II. 9, 10.
Exhort Servants to be obedient unto their own Masters, and to please them well in all things, no answering again. Not purloining, but showing all good fidelity, tha• they may adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Exhort Servants to be obedient unto their own Masters, and to please them well in all things, no answering again. Not purloyning, but shewing all good fidelity, tha• they may adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
It is also Written, in 1 Tim. VI. 1, 2.