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A41603 Instructions for masters, traders, labourers, &c. Gother, John, d. 1704. 1699 (1699) Wing G1329IA; ESTC R223706 21,216 72

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Reward they will have from God for this Charity they may Hope to be better serv'd there being nothing that can better sit Servants for being every way Faithful to their Masters than the due Knowledge of their Duties to God The want of this Knowledge being a general Occasion of their failing in many Obligations which belong to their State and running into Disorders SECT V. They are to reprove whatever they observe in them displeasing to God THIS Care again of Masters ought to have another Branch and that is in Reproving whatever they observe in their Servants displeasing to God Hence they are not to Tolerate in them any ill Custom as of Swearing Lying Drinking c. but upon the Knowledge of any such Disorder to labor for its Reformation and if upon sufficient Trial there be no Amendment to remove those that give the Scandal that so Vice may have its due Discouragement and their Corruption may not be Communicated to those of the Family who are as yet Innocent Those Heads of Families who are presently exasperated upon the Ordinary Neglects of Servants in the Business of their Place and yet know them to live in the daily Transgression of God's Commands without any Concern for Correcting their Disorders give Demonstration of their own unhappy State in being so Solicitous for the things of this World and having so little Zeal for the next And tho' this may not touch them at present yet the effect of this Indifferency will fall Heavy at last when they shall be call'd to an Account for all the Sins of their Servants which have been encourag'd by their Silence and grown up under the favor of their Connivance Those then who will escape the weight of this Charge must with a watchful Eye inspect all the Ways of their Servants as to the Method of their Conversation at home and all the Circumstances of their going abroad both as to the Places and Company they frequent and the Hours of their going out and returning home Without this care how shall Masters be able to give an Account of their Servants And what will the Disciplin of a Family be when Youth are left to the Liberty of their own Inclinations without the Apprehension of any to question or controul them Whence I cannot but think those Masters much to Blame whose Servants being early discharg'd every Evening from their Business and Attendance have some Hours left to their own Discretion without being call'd to any Account of their Management For those who Reflect on the Corruption of our Age and the little Confidence that can be had in unexperienc'd Years must see that this is nothing less than putting into the Hands of Youth daily Opportunities of ruining themselves And such Numerous Instances there are of this Liberty abus'd to the Irrecoverable loss of Youth that 't is a subject deserves Tears especially when we consider the sad Disappointment of Parents who after a Pious Education having placed out their Children and being satisfied in the Provision they have made for their Livelihood find them afterwards lost to all that is Good by the Neglect of their Masters and the unreasonable Liberties they have given them The Consequence of this Sin both in the Affliction of Parents and in the Ruin of Youth brings so heavy a Charge after it that I cannot see how Masters will be able to answer it since 't is seldom in their Power to make any Reparation for the Mischiefs they do by such Neglects which have still a greater Aggravation of guilt if observing the Disorders of their Clerks or Apprentices they purposely let them go on that so when out of their Time there may be no probability of their taking Clients or Customers out of their Hands for this has such a Complication of Injustice in it that it would be a Reproach even in a Heathen and therefore not to be reconcil'd with the Principles of the Christian Profession All Heads of Families then who have Thoughts of providing for another World must be watchful that all those under their Care be a daily part of their Care in advising and reproving and cutting off as much as may be all the Opportunities by which the Indiscretion of Youth is industrious in drawing Mischief on it self For without this Care they cannot satisfie the Obligations they have undertaken either to God or Man SECT VI They ought to give them good Example and be Just in paying their Wages ONE Principal part of this Care must be in giving Good Example to their Servants for without this the best Advice cannot be expected to be very successful As to all Family-duties therefore those who are the Heads ought to be most Regular as in Prayer and keeping good Hours c. For since nothing can go on well in any Family where Disciplin is not observ'd this must be a daily part of the Master's Concern to see that good Order be kept and not only that it be kept by others but that he be Punctual as far as Business will permit in leading the way For if he by any Habitual Disorder gives ill Example it must needs make his Advice Ridiculous and it cannot but be fear'd but where there is so much Ignorance and Weakness it will soon have Followers notwithstanding all the Care that can be us'd by others for Authority is more prevalent in Evil than in Good and therefore to think that a Family should be Regular and the Master only Disorderly is a Thought without Experience and can give no more than groundless Hopes I conclude now these Duties of Masters with that of being Just to their Servants in the due Payment of their Wages and of complying with whatever other Conditions were agreed upon at their Enterance for tho' they were made only with Servants yet Justice ought to be as strictly observ'd with them as with others who have both Power and Money to make good their Right God requires this at the Hands of Masters and 't is with the Addition of such Threats to such as fail in it that if from them the guilt be Measur'd the Consequence of no other Sin can more justly be Apprehended than of this Oppression which Cries to Heaven for Vengeance These Rules may serve for Masters as far as concerns their Servants but there being still many other Difficulties which these do not reach to belonging to their State if they are engag'd in any kind of Traffic or Trade therefore I must carry on these Instructions farther so as to give some Light in this way also which a Universal Corruption has cover'd with such great Darkness that the Path of Truth and Justice is scarce to be discern'd by those few who are willing to walk in it Instructions for Traders SECT I. The Danger of their Profession and General Rule for avoiding it TRading is in it self lawful but the eagerness of Gain and Covetousness has mixt it with so many Injustices that what of it self is irreprovable is