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The well-ordered family
The well-ordered family: wherein the duties of it's [sic] various members are described and urged. A small, but very comprehensive piece, suitable to be in the hand of every householder [sic]; and may be especially seasonable in the present day. / By that eminently pious and learned divine, Mr. Isaac Ambrose, Minister of the Gospel at Preston. ; [Two lines from John]The well-ordered family: wherein the duties of it's [sic] various members are described and urged. A small, but very comprehensive piece, suitable to be in the hand of every housholder [sic]; and may be especially seasonable in the present day. / By that eminently pious and learned divine, Mr. Isaac Ambrose, Minister of the Gospel at Preston. ; [Two lines from John]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland, 1762
The Well-Ordered Family. › Section 7: Of the Duties of Servants to their Masters.
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.
SECTION VII. Of the Duties of Servants to their Masters.
Duties of Servants to their Masters, are either inward, as Fear, outward, as Reverence, Obedience.
DUties of Servants to their Masters, are either inward, as Fear, outward, as Reverence, Obedience.
1. The inward Duty is Fear: Servants be subject to your Masters with all Fear, and account them worthy of all Honour: So proper is this Fear to a Servant, as where it is wanting, there is a plain denial of his Master's Place and Power: If I be a Master, where is my Fear? said God. Observe, I mean not an excessive slavish Fear; as when a Servant fears nothing but the revenging Power of his Master (such was the Fear of that unprofitable Servant, who could say to his Master, I knew that thou wert an hard Man, and I was afraid) but I mean an awful Fear of Provoking his Master's Wrath, so as it makes him cast every Way, how he may please his Master, and such a Fear draws him on cheerfully to perform his Duty.
1. The inward Duty is Fear: Servants be subject to your Masters with all Fear, and account them worthy of all Honour: So proper is this Fear to a Servant, as where it is wanting, there is a plain denial of his Master's Place and Power: If I be a Master, where is my Fear? said God. Observe, I mean not an excessive slavish Fear; as when a Servant fears nothing but the revenging Power of his Master (such was the Fear of that unprofitable Servant, who could say to his Master, I knew that thou wert an hard Man, and I was afraid) but I mean an awful Fear of Provoking his Master's Wrath, so as it makes him cast every Way, how he may please his Master, and such a Fear draws him on chearfully to perform his Duty.