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A01088 The seruants dutie. Or The calling and condition of seruants Seruing for the instruction, not only of seruants, but of masters and mistresses. By Thomas Fosset, preacher of the Word of God. Fosset, Thomas. 1613 (1613) STC 11200; ESTC S118032 23,029 62

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THE SERVANTS DVTIE OR THE CALLING AND CONDITION OF SERVANTS Seruing for the instruction not only of Seruants but of Masters and Mistresses By THOMAS FOSSET Preacher of the Word of GOD. GEN. 16. 9. Returne to thy Dame and humble thy selfe vnder her hands LONDON Imprinted by G. Eld. 1613. TO THE THRICE WORTHY AND WORSHIPFVL GENTLEMAN AND BOVNTIful hous-keeper Master THOMAS SPENSER of Clardon in the County of Warwicke Esquire Thomas Fosset wisheth the felicity of this life and of that to come IT is written of one Periander who for his great wisdome was reputed of many to bee one of the seuen Sages and wisemen of Greece that among other lawes and ordinances which hee made for the Corinthians ouer whom hee ruled this was one that whosoeuer was proued vnthankful for a good turne receiued should bee put to death to shew as I take it what an vnnaturall and execrable sinne vnthankefulnesse is and that hee is vnworthy to liue who is vngratefull and vnkind to him by whom hee liueth Wherefore Right worshipfull fearing least I may seeme to haue incurred and runne already into that odious and capitall crime of vnthankfulnesse for the good turne and kindnesse which your worship bestowed vpon me now almost twenty yeeres since I gladly laied hold of this occasion that hereby I might acknowledge and confesse vnto the world how much loue and duty Iowe vnto you howsoeuer by reason of my poore and obscure estate I haue not bin able al this while to manifest the same Moreouer I supposed that this little peece of worke conteyning the calling and duties of seruants could to no man more fitly be exhibited then to him who is and hath beene a long time so great an house-holder and Master of many seruants many laborours and hirelings and had experience no doubt both of the good and euill and so found that true by proofe and practise which wee finde written and prescribed in the sacred and euerlasting word of God Wherefore good Sir pardon I beseech you this my boldnesse whereunto necessity hath as it were vrged me and let not the greatnesse of your worship and worth despise this little and slender gift but giue it leaue like an Orphan to couer and hide it selfe vnder the shadow of your excellent dignity that it may the better creepe into the hands of them it concerneth most and for whose sake I wrote it If it doe good to any honour be to God and thankes to your worship for concurring to the same For all the good that I haue receiued from you I haue in my power but one thing that I can doe and that by Gods leaue I will performe all the daies of my life I will pray to God aboue the author and giuer of all good things long to blesse keepe and preserue you aliue that you may be more and more blessed vpon the earth that you may liue as you haue don along time in much peace and prosperity and honor and credit to your house a great peace-maker in your coūtry ful of good works as Dorcas Act. 9. 39. to cloath the naked to feed the hungry to comfort the comfortlesse That when the day of your dissolution shal be at hand and that you must needs enter into the way of all the world you may sweetly and ioyfully in a good old age fall a sleepe in the Lord and all those good deeds which you haue done follow you as witnesse of your faith euen to the Tribunal seat of Christ where GOD will crowne in you his own workes Your worships humble and poore Orator THOMAS FOSSET Minister at Ladbrooke To the Reader FOr three things saith the wise man the earth is Pro. 30. 21 mooued for the fourth it cannot sustaine it selfe first for a seruant when he raigneth c. as if he had sayd when a seruant raigneth that is despiseth his maisters gouernment and followeth his owne will and his owne wayes it is a thing so euill and disorderly that it maketh the earth to be mooued the whole house yea somtimes the whole towne or citty to be disquieted many be the disorders of seruants in these our dayes and much is the troble disquietnes which commeth thereby and the cause of all is this as I am perswaded that seruants do not know their duties neither consider the state and condition of life wherevnto they be called In tender pitty and consideration whereof and hoping of the good acceptance of my late published treatise of the yong man in the Gospel good Christian Reader I was the bolder and willinger to diuulge this little treatise and short sermon which doth containe and discouer the duty calling and condition of a seruant not for any worthinesse or excellency that is in it but to doe good if it may be to the euill to teach the inorant to reprooue the stubborne and to let all seruants see and vnderstand what is required of them whervnto they be called and the rather for that this doctrine being so needful so little or nothing to my knowledge hath beene of late written therof although of many good matters many good men haue written many good bookes spent many good houres to the honour of God and edification of his church for all which blessed bee the name of the Lord from this time forth for euermore Amen Thomas Fosset THE CALLING AND CONdition of Seruants for the instruction of Seruants and Masters 1. PET. 2. 21. For hereunto yee are called for Christ also suffered for vs leauing vs an example that yee should follow his steps WHen the Lord commanded Moses to build the Tabernacle and to make all things belonging thereunto namely the Arke the propitiatory or mercy-seat the table the candlesticks and the snuffers for the forme and fashion of all these he gaue him this charge See said hee that thou make all things according to the patterne Exo. 25. 40 Hebr. 8 5 that was shewed thee in the mounte for while Moses was in the mount with him the Lord had shewed him certaine formes imaginary formes and samplers of all these things which he would haue him to make expressing thereby both the matter whereof and the fashion how hee would haue them made and here now againe Exod. 25. 40. hee putteth him in minde thereof and chargeth him that they be all made exactly and precisely according to those formes and patternes So wee Christians in the building of our spiritual Tabernacles in building of our saluation vpon the Rocke Iesus Christ in framing and leading our liues according to Gods holy will and his word must do al things frame out all our actions and workes according to that sampler which Iesus Christ our Lord Master did shew vs in the mount of Caluary where hee was crucified for vs that is according to the passion of Christ we must alwaies haue the bloudy passion of Christ in our minds as a frontlet betwixt our eyes as a ring vpon our fingers and as a