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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.
Masters, These poor Negroes will hardly mind what I say; I pray, do you Repeat it unto them.
And now, may the Lord bring us all to that Bliss, where Abraham the Master, and Eliezer, or Lazarus the Servant, are together With the Lord for ever! Amen.
Quamvis hoc nee a Laicis videtur Exceptum, specialiter tamen Sacerdotibus probatur Impositum, ut tales Ministros habeant qui Divinis Regulis non repugnent. Cassiodorus, Super Psal. 100.
FINIS.