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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.
THE Duties of CHILDREN To their Parents.
DEUT. XXVII.14, 16. The Levites shall speak, and shall say unto all the Men of Israel, with a loud voice: Cursed is he that setteth Light, by his Father or his Mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
I Am going to Entertain you with a Discourse, that cannot have a fitter preface, than those words, in Psal. 34.11. Come, ye Children, Hearken unto me, I will teach you the Fear of the Lord. The Children of my Neighbours, ⟨p. 39⟩are now appearing among us; Yea. Our Little Ones are no Little part of the Assembly. And very many of these, are the Children of pious Parents, the Children whose Piety has therefore been fervently desired and required by their Parents. Come, ye Children, Hearken to me; I will tell you, what you shall do, that your Parents may be Happy in you, and that your own Happiness may be secured and increased.
I Am going to Entertain you with a Discourse, that cannot have a fitter praeface, than those words, in Psal. 34.11. Come, ye Children, Hearken unto me, I will teach you the Fear of the Lord. The Children of my Neighbours, ⟨p. 39⟩