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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 4: Of the Duties of Masters to Servants.
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 IV. Of the Duties of Masters to Servants.
THE Duty of Masters to their Servants is either to their Bodies, or to their Souls.
1. The Duty of Masters to the Bodies of their Servants, consists in these Particulars; viz. In a due Provision of Food for them, Prov. 31.15. and 27.27. In a wise Care for their Clothing, Prov. 31.21. In a well-ordering of their Labour, so as they may be able to undergo it: In their Ease, Rest, and Intermission from Labour at seasonable Times: In paying them sufficient Wages, Deut. 24.14. In a careful preserving of their Health, and using Means for their Recovery in Case of Sickness, Mat. 8.6. and that not of the Servants Wages, but of the Master's own Charge, otherwise they undo not the heavy Burden, but rather lay Burden upon Burden.
1. The Duty of Masters to the Bodies of their Servants, consists in these Particulars; viz. In a due Provision of Food for them, Prov. 31.15. and 27.27. In a wise Care for their Cloathing, Prov. 31.21. In a well-ordering of their Labour, so as they may be able to undergo it: In their Ease, Rest, and Intermission from Labour at seasonable Times: In paying them sufficient Wages,