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Mr. Baxters rules & directions for family duties showing how every one ought to…Mr. Baxters rules & directions for family duties shewing how every one ought to…
Mr. Baxters rules & directions for family duties showing how every one ought to behave himself in a Christian behaviour, suitable to that relation in which God hath placed him : wherein is set forth the duty of parents (required of God) towards their children, likewise children's duty to their parents, husbands to their wives, and wives to their husbands, masters to their servants, and servants duty to their masters ...Mr. Baxters rules & directions for family duties shewing how every one ought to behave himself in a Christian behaviour, suitable to that relation in which God hath placed him : wherein is set forth the duty of parents (required of God) towards their children, likewise childrens duty to their parents, husbands to their wives, and wives to their husbands, masters to their servants, and servants duty to their masters ...
S.l: printed by H. Brugis for J. Conyers, 1681
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The duty of Masters towards their Servants.
IS to rule them with that gentleness as becometh fellow Christians, and yet with such Authority, as that they be not encouraged to contempt. 2ly. To restrain them from sinning against God. 3ly. To instruct them in the Doctrine of Salvation, and pray with them, and go before them by the example of a sober life. 4ly. To keep them from evil company, and temptations, and opportunity […] sinning. 5ly. To set them upon meet labours, to keep no idle Serving men, nor yet to over-labour them to the injury of their Health, nor command them any unlawful thing. 6ly. To provide them such Food and Lodging as is wholesome and meet for them; and to pay them what Wages is due to them by promise or desert. 7ly. To bear patiently with their daily infirmities, and such frailties as must be expected in mankind, Eph. 6 ch. 9. 10 ver. Col. 4. ch. 12. 3. ver.
IS to rule them with that gentleness as becometh fellow Christians, and yet with such Authority, as that they be not encouraged to contempt. 2ly. To restrain them from sinning against God. 3ly. To instruct them in the Doctrine of Salvation, and pray with them, and go before them by the example of a sober life. 4ly. To keep them from evil company, and temptations, and opportunity 〈…〉 sinning. 5ly. To set them upon meet labours, to keep no idle Serving men, nor yet to over-labour them to the injury of their Health, nor command them any unlawfull thing. 6ly. To provide them such Food and Lodging as is wholesome and meet for them; and to pay them what Wages is due to them by promise or desert. 7ly. To bear patiently with their daily infirmities, and such frailties as must be expected in mankind,