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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.
2. But what if God and Master should command contrary Things? In such a Case the Apostle sets down an excellent Limitation in these four Phrases, [1. As unto Christ. 2. As the Servants of Christ. 3. Doing the Will of God. 4. As to the Lord.] All these imply, That if Masters command their Servants any Thing contrary to Christ, they may not yield to it: Upon this Ground the Midwives of the Hebrew Women, would not kill the Hebrew Children, They feared God (saith the Text) and did not as the King commanded them, Exod. 1.17. In this Case, Joseph is commended, in not hearkening to his Mistress; and the Servants of Saul are commended, for refusing to slay the Lord's Priests, at their Masters Command. When Masters Command or ⟨p. 27⟩forbid any Thing against God & Christ, they go therein beyond their Commission, and their Authority ceaseth; so that Servants may say, We ought to obey God rather than Men, Act. 5.29.
5. Objct. But some may object, That all Men are alike, and that there is no Difference as betwixt Masters and Servants; nay, it is expressly forbidden to be Servants of Men. 1 Cor. 7.23.
5. Objct. But some may object, That all Men are alike, and that there is no Difference as betwixt Masters and Servants; nay, it is expresly forbidden to be Servants of Men. 1 Cor. 7.23.