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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.
An Address, Ad Fratres in Eremo.
Sirs!
Syrs!
A Little Book to assist, The Education of Children, is now in your Hands. But can they be well Educated, if their Parents never send them to SCHOOL? This is a point, that seems now to call for some Inculcation.
A Good School deserves to be called, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it: And the Pastors of every Town, (who are▪ Sal Terrae,) are under peculiar obligations, to make this a part of their Pastoral Care, That they may have a Good School, in their Neighbourhood. A woeful putrefaction threatens the Rising Generation; Barbarous Ignorance, and the unavoidable consequence of it, Outrageous Wickedness will make the Rising Generation Loathsome, if it have not Schools to preserve it. But Schools, wherein tho Youth may by able Masters be Taught the Things t•at are necessary to quali•y them for future Serviceableness, and have their Manners therewithal well formed under a Laudable Discipline, & be over & above Wl-Catechised in the principles of Religion, Those would be a Glory of our