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A family well-ordered. Or An essay to render parents and children happy in one…
A family well-ordered. Or An essay to render parents and children happy in one another. Handling two very important cases. I. What are the duties to be done by pious parents, for the promoting of piety in their children. II. What are the duties that must be paid by children to their parents, that they may obtain the blessings of the dutiful. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Three lines from Malachi]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1699
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.
What may be done by Pious Parents, to promote the Piety and Salvation of their Children?
The Case Enquires, What may be done? You'll take it for granted, that the Answer to it, will tell you, What should be done? For you'll readily grant, that in such an Important Case as this, All that may be done, should be done.
The Case Enquires, What may be done? You'l take it for granted, that the Answer to it, will tell you, What should be done? For you'l readily grant, that in such an Important Case as this, All that may be done, should be done.
In the Case, We Enquire after what is to be done, by Pious Parents. Other Parents will take no due Notice, of the Injunctions that God has Laid upon them concerning their Children. Parents, If you don't first become your selves Pious, you'll do nothing to purpose to make your Children so. Except you do your selves walk in the Way of the Lord, you will be very careless about bringing your Children to such a Walk. It is not a Cain, or a Ham, or any Enemy of God; that will do any thing to make his Children become the Children of God. The Psalmist, in Psal. 34.1, 4, 11. could first say, I'll bless the ⟨p. 8⟩Lord, and, I sought the Lord, and then he says, Come ye Children, and I'll teach you the Fear of the Lord. O Parents, In the Name of God, Look after your own miserable Souls; How should those wretched people do any thing for the Souls of their Children, that never did any thing for their own?
In the Case, We Enquire after what is to be done, by Pious Parents. Other Parents will take no due Notice, of the Injunctions that God has Laid upon them concerning their Children. Parents, If you don't first become your selves Pious, you'l do nothing to purpose to make your Children so. Except you do your selves walk in the Way of the Lord, you will be very careless about bringing your Children to such a Walk. It is not a Cain, or a Cham, or any Enemy of God; that will do any thing to make his Children become the Children of God. The Psalmist, in