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]

Title: 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]

Author: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.

Collection: Evans Early American Imprint Collection

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you are sometimes Proudly Enough concerned, may be, that your Clothes are no finer, and you affect an unsuitable Gayety and Gallan|try. But i you would have Ornaments indeed upon you, Then, as the Apostle speaks, you must be Clothed with Humility; that is, Wear Humility, as a Badge, of your being Servants, unto that Blessed Lord, who once took on Himself the Form of a Servant. Now one Dis|covery of your Humility, is to be, in a Reve|rent or a Respectful Demeanour towards those, whom God hath made your Masters. It was said, in Mal. 1. 6. If I be a Master, where is y Fear? You ought alwayes to Observe your Masters, with a Fear of Disobliging them; and you ought alwayes to Obeserve in your Masters,n Ordinance of God, which calls for your submissive, your Conceding, your Complying Disposition, towards them.If your Masters are those that have the Fearf God in them, You then have not the Less,ut the more cause to Fear Them, with your most Awful Regards. The more of God there in them, the more Fear you should have o Displease them. Methinks, It should be a pleasant Thing, to Serve, a Servant of God!ea, though your selves may be as well as they, in the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom here is neither Bond nor Free; though your lves may have the same God, and the same race, and the same Hope, with your Masters,nd may sit at the same Table of the Lord; 0