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

VI. Let it be your Study to be Serviceable unto your Masters (and Mistresses) Really, Thoroughly, Universally Serviceable. There ha's been an old saying sometimes used. Quot Servi […] Hosts, A man hath so many Mischiefs, as he hath Servants. Oh! Confute that Saying, by your Doing, all the Friendly Offices that you can possibly do for your Masters, in all their Many Interests. I cannot but set before you, the Picture of a Servant, worthy to be an Example through all Ages; tis that of Joseph, in Gen. 39. 2,3,4,5. The Lord was with Joseph, and he was ⟨p. 46⟩a Prosperous man, and he was in the House of his Master, the Egyptian; and his Master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his Hand. And Joseph found Grace in his sight, and he Served him, and he made him Overseer over his House, and all that he had he put into his Hand. And the Lord Blessed the Egyptians House for Josephs sake; and the Blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had, in the House, and in the Field. A Servant worth Gold! Oh! make this your daily Prayer and Care, Lord, make me a Blessing to all the Family where I Live! Servants, Have you no Opportunities to Do Good unto your Masters? Ponder and Enquire, what you have. Often put that Question unto your selves, Which way may my Master become the better for me? You may be Serviceable to your Masters on very many Temporal Accounts; Examine, How? But possibly you may be Serviceable to your Masters on Spiritual Accounts also. May not your Masters Children for ever fare the better for you, if you will be continually Teaching of them, and Praying for them? This would be a wondrous Thing indeed, if the Children of those, with whom you dwell, may have cause for ever to say, Blessed be God, for sending such a Servant into my Fathers House; God ha's made that Servant a Father (or a Mother) to my Soul; Had it not been for what I saw and heard of that Servant, I might have been undone Eternally And may not the Other Servants of your Masters be ⟨p. 47⟩brought home to God, by your means, if you do watchfully take Pains with them and for them? There was once a Servant Converted unto God, by happening to over hear his Fellow Servant, Crying to God in Secret for his Conversion Yea, The Souls of your Masters themselves; May not you be Instrumental to Recover them from the Snares of Death?