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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.
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⟩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.
There was a Solemnity sometimes observed upon the Two Mountains of Ebal, and Gerizzim, in the Land of Israel. On the Top of Mount Ebal, there stood Six of the Israelitish Tribes, and Six on the Top of Mount Gerizzim. Certain Levites with the Ark of God, in the Valley between them, directing themselves unto Mount Ebal, with a Loud Voice, uttered very Distinctly, no less than Twelve terrible Curses; unto which the Tribes on that Mount, made the very Heavens ring, with a dreadful, Amen, unto them. But between each of these Curses, the Levites directed themselves unto Mount Gerizzim, with Blessings directly opposed unto those Curses; and the Tribes