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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	abraham_n	lord_n	way_n	1,660	5	5.7908	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

which bought him of the Ismacl●tes Who because his Master loued him and reposed a trust in him therefore he could by no meanes be brought to wrong him but made a conscience to doe or commit any thing against him especially to defile 〈◊〉 marriage bed for when his filthy and adulterous Mistresse did mooue sollicite and importune him thereunto hee answered her How can I doe this great wickednesse Gen. 39. 9. and so sinne against God it is a great wickednesse and sinne against God and against my Master God hath beene my good God and the GOD of my Father Abraham Isaack and Iacob my Master as thou knowest hath committed his house and all that hee hath into mine hands and hath reserued nothing to himselfe but thee onoly which art his wife how then can I doe it How can I doe that which is against the duety which I owe both to God and to my Master and also against this my resisting and reclaming conscience Many a bad seruant if hee meete with a Dame or a Mistresse as bad as his selfe will not say how should I doe this sinne and wickednesse but with the reprobates Come let vs bee pertakers of wantonnesse Wisd ● 9. let vs enioy the pleasures that are present let vs leaue some token of pleasure behind vs in euery place From which wicked resolution and vnlawfull loue there grow and spring many great and grieuous sinnes many thefts and adulteries and murthers The Dame must needs steale from her husband to maintaine her man to feed and nourish in them their vnlawfull lusts their gluttony drunkennesse chambering and wantonesse all which without cheere and charges cannot bee maintained but will wax cold As for soule adulteries filthy lusts and longings one after another and sinne that ceaseth not their eyes are full of them and of nothing else Moreouer by these euil meanes many an honest and innocent man is murthered I meane through the vnlawfull loue of the wife as many lamentable examples both of old and of late yea as the prisons and galloses can testifie and all by the vices of wicked and euill disposed seruants Abraham had good seruants one especially who in the Scriptures is commended Gen. 24. for his fidelity in seeking a wife for his Masters sonne Isaac Yea all his seruants were good and obedient and such as are not now to bee found in all the world For when as the Lord had commanded him to circumcise himselfe his sonne and all the male seruants of his Gen. 17. house whether borne in his house or bought with money that euery one should bee circumcised that is haue the fore-skinne of his flesh cut off round Abraham like a good man full of faith and obedience went home presently and put it in execution out of hand without delay First hee circumcised himselfe being ninty yeeres of age and nine then his young sonne Ismaell but thirteene yeeres old next and immediately all his seruants who as the text faith Euery one without murmuring or resistance obeyed the will of God and their Master Gen. 17. 26 The selfe same day was Abraham circumcised and Ismaell his sonne and all the men of his house And this if yee marke and consider well of it was a verie admirable and strange thing not onely that Abraham should so soone circumcise and cut himselfe and his sonne of whom hee had power but chiefely that his seruants would bee brought so quickly to so great a matter as to haue their skinnes cut in that place and after that manner being a thing not onely exceeding painefull but very strange and neuer before heard of since the world beganne they had no scriptures nor lawes so to command them no examples so to shew them and therefore their obedience was the more maruelous and commendable that they would so speedily conforme and resigne themselues and their wills to the will of God and their maister in a matter of so great importance I thinke if yee seeke all the world now ye shall find no such Seruants nay ye shall scant find any subiects that wil do so much at the commandement of their Prince much lesse shal ye find Christians which wil be so obedient to the will and word of the Lord their God But what was the cause that these Seruants of Abraham were so tractable and willing to be ruled Abraham himselfe was a good maister who had instructed them and trayned them vp to this knowledge of their duty toward God and man as himselfe doth testifie for him I know that Abraham will command Ge. 18. 19. his sonnes and his houshould after him that they keepe the way of the Lotd to doe righteousnesse and iudgement c nothing maketh good seruants so much as the goodnesse of the Masters the better and the wiser maisters bee in gouerning the better wil the seruants be in obeying and seruing as a wise man Seneca sayth melius imperanti melius paretur In like manner the Seruants of the Centurion were so ready and willing that if their maister had sayd but goe or come or do this forth with they hearkned and obeyed How came this to passe hee was a good man and a good maister and esteemed his seruants deare and precious vnto him When Iesus saith Saint Luke entred into Luke 72. Capernaum there was a certaine Centurions Seruant sick which was deare vnto him One cause that there be now so many bad seruants is that there be so many bad maisters which esteeme not neither make any accompt of their Seruants but only to serue their owne turnes as men do of their cattell and not for the good of the seruant but onely for their owne gaine and lucre nay there bee many men which respect not their seruants so much as they doe their dogges I haue knowne some men who when they haue beene all the day abroade swaggering and swearing hunting and whoring when they haue come home at night would aske carefullie what their dogges had and how they had beene serued and what was prouided for them which men I thinke verely in all their liues neuer once inquired of their seruants how they were vsed or what was prouided for their suppers although they had laboured neuer so hard all the day And hence it is that seruants for the most part are so bad and carelesse and such as doe not their worke for loue and for conscience sake as they ought to doe but onely for feare and fashion-sake with seruice to the eye as men-pleasers and to speake the truth seruants many times and in many places are so badly vsed that some of them forsake all seruice giue themselues to idlenesse become vagabonds rogues and theeues Wherefore let Masters in the feare of 2. Tim. 3. 16 God learne to know and performe their parts and duties in this behalfe and to this end let them search the Scriptures which are able not onely to instruct them but to make them perfect