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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	egypt_n	lord_n	pharaoh_n	3,360	5	10.2672	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18056	Carters Christian common vvealth; or, Domesticall dutyes deciphered	Carter, Thomas, of London.	1627 (1627)	STC 4698; ESTC S116227	89,281	328

they rather A good servant must not bee defrauded of liberty will vse all meanes though never so vnlawfull to detayne them longer then their prefixed time especially if there may come any profit by their seruice but as for rewarding them for their good seruice doing they are so farre off from that that in stead of inriching them they will impouerish them for if the poore seruant wil haue his liberty how soeuer his right it shall cost him money before hee haue it and especially if he be able but the iust God who seeth these vniust dealings of such maisters to their seruants will himselfe punish the same For he will haue a yeare of Iubile for your seruant as well as there was for you thou shalt not rule ouer him seuerely but shalt Leu. 15. feare the Lord thy God so that he that doth wrong vnto his seruants is voyd of the feare of God you see this is playne but we wil see further what the Lord will haue done then see what he A duty which Maisters should performe but who doth it commanded his chosen people the children of Israell to doe the words 〈◊〉 these If thy brother an Hebrew sell himselfe vnto thee or an Deu. 15. 〈…〉 esse and serue thee sixe yeares e 〈…〉 in the seauenth yeare thou shalt let him goe out from thee thou shalt not let him goe away empty but shalt giue him a liberall reward of thy sheepe and of thy corne and of thy wine thou shalt giue him of that wherewithall the Lord thy God hath blessed thee and remember that thou wast seruant in the land of Egypt and the Lord thy God deliuered thee therefore I cōmand thee this thing this day What say you now to this you cruell and vniust Maisters of whom I haue before spoken wil you like Pharoah still harden your h●rts against them and will not obey then harken what the Lord by his Prophet Ieremiah sayth further vnto these men which haue detayned the● A heauie iudgement pronounced against such Masters which detayne their seruants contrary to right Ier. 34. seruants contrary to his command Because you haue not obeyed me in giuing freedome and liberty euery man vnto his brother and seruant behold I proc 〈…〉 ● liberty for you sayth the Lord to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine I wil make you a terror to al the kingdomes of the earth and I will giue these men which haue broked my couenant into the hands of them that seeke their life and their dead bodies shall be for meate vnto the foules of the ayre to the beasts of the earth Now you see how God himselfe doth take in hand the cause of the wronged seruant and how seuerely he doth punish it therefore you that bee maisters deale you iustly with your Seruants and as Saint Paule sayth Collo 4. Remember that your maister also is in heauen and as it must bee thus with your houshold seruant euen so it must be with the hireling which laboureth for you you must not defraud him of his Leuite 19. due nor put him off from day to day and suffer him to come with cap in hand to intreat for that The labourer must not bee put off for his wages which by his labour hee hath hardly earned but remember that the Lord commandeth that the workemans hire abide not with thee till the next morning Behold the hire of the labourers Iam. 5. which haue reaped your fields which is of you kept backe by fraud crieth and the cryes of them which haue reaped are entred into the eares of the Lord of hoasts sayth Saint Iames and againe the Lord sayth thou shalt not oppresse an hired seruant Deu. 24. that is needy and poore neither of thy bretheren nor of the stranger that is in the land within thy gates thou shalt giue him his hire for his day What a man ought to doe to the hired seruant or day labourer neither shall the sunne goe downe vpon it for he is poore and therewith sustayneth his life least he cry against thee vnto the Lord and it bee sinne vnto thee I neede not amplifie these thinges any farther seeing that the Lord himselfe hath so plainely described it vnto you The 26. Chapter ANd as I haue in this Chapter before shewed vnto you that the Maister ought not to abridge his Seruant of his liberty The Seruants that ru●● into euill by too much liberty the Maister is not onely guilty of but in election of a double punishment if he seeke not for to reforme it whē it is due vnto him euen so also the Master must see that his Seruants runne not into euill by giuing them too much liberty in the time of their seruice for this is an euill which also reyneth in our time and of which the master is not onely guilty but also in danger of a double punishment by it in regard that the redresse therof lyeth in his power and he not onely seeth it but also suffereth it and thereby commeth a chiefe author thereof himselfe The wise man sayth If thou set thy seruant vnto labour thou Eccle. 33. shalt find rest but if thou let him goe idle he shall seeke librety set him to labour that hee goe not idle for idlenesse Idlenesse the ground of much euils bringeth much euill And againe set him to worke for that belongeth vnto him Oh that men would be carefull to follow this counsel of the wise man he saith that labour belongeth vnto the seruant but the great men of our time will take no notise of this or if they doe they will seeke to The want of imployment of seruants the cause of their euills many times excuse it saying I am no base mecanicall person I haue sufficient to to maintayne my seruants to attend me do nothing else I do beleeue it to be so and finde that to be the reason that Cards Dice and Tables are more commō in your houses then Bibles and other good Bookes Abraham was as rich a man as Gen. 13. any of our time the whole land could not beare the substance of him and his nephew both at one time hee was so rich hee was a Kings fellow hee kept a great multitude of seruants hee was able on the suddaine to make 300. and od men fit for warre of his owne houshold and yet wee Abraham and Iobe commended from Gods owne mouth for bringing vp of thrir servants finde not that hee kept any of thē idle but imployed them all in some good exercise or other therefore for the good and vertuous bringing vp of his family hee receiued commendations euen from God himselfe Iob was a mighty man also of wealth exceeding rich the greatest man euen of the whole ●ast country hee kept a multitude of seruants but none of them idle that wee are sure of and therefore from the mouth of God