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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.
Let another of your Charges be that in Hag. 1.5, 7. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Consider your Ways. Charge them to set apart a few minutes now and then, for Consideration; and in those minutes, Charge them to Consider, what they have been doing, and what they should have been doing, ever since they came into the World, & if they should immediately go out of the World, what will become of them throughout Eternal Ages. I have Read of a Dying Parent, who laid this Charge upon his wild Son, That he would allow one quarter of an Hour every Day to Consider on something or other, any Thing, as his Fancy led him. The Young man having for some while done so, at last began to consider, why his Dying Parent should lay such a Charge upon him This brought on so many Devout ⟨p. 28⟩Thoughts, that ere long, in the Conversion of the Young man, the Desire of the Dying Parent was accomplished. Oh! If you could Engage your Children to Think upon their Ways, there would be Hopes of their Turning to God.
Let another of your Charges be that in Hag. 1.5, 7. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Consider your Wayes. Charge them to set apart a few minutes now and then, for Consideration; and in those minutes, Charge them to Consider, what they have been doing, and what they should have been doing, ever since they came into the World, & if they should immediately go out of the World, what will become of them throughout Eternal Ages. I have Read of a Dying Parent, who laid this Charge upon his wild Son, That he would allow one quarter of an Hour every Day to Consider on something or other, any Thing, as his Fancy led him. The Young man having for some while done so, at last began to consider, why his Dying Parent should lay such a Charge upon him This brought on so many Devout ⟨p. 28⟩Thoughts, that e're long, in the Conversion of the Young man, the Desire of the Dying Parent was accomplished. Oh! If you could Engage your Children to Think upon their Wayes, there would be Hopes of their Turning to God.