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The well-ordered family
The well-ordered family: wherein the duties of it's [sic] various members are described and urged. A small, but very comprehensive piece, suitable to be in the hand of every householder [sic]; and may be especially seasonable in the present day. / By that eminently pious and learned divine, Mr. Isaac Ambrose, Minister of the Gospel at Preston. ; [Two lines from John]The well-ordered family: wherein the duties of it's [sic] various members are described and urged. A small, but very comprehensive piece, suitable to be in the hand of every housholder [sic]; and may be especially seasonable in the present day. / By that eminently pious and learned divine, Mr. Isaac Ambrose, Minister of the Gospel at Preston. ; [Two lines from John]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland, 1762
The Well-Ordered Family. › Section 5: Of the Duties of the Husband and Wife.
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.
1. That she be in Submission to her Husband. 2. That she be an Helper to him all her Days.
1. Wives must he in subjection to their own Husbands: Sarah obeyed Abraham, and called him Lord: Gen. 3.16. Eph. 5.22. 1 Pet. 3.16. But here is a Case of Conscience,—
1. What if her Husband be a Son of Belial, an Enemy to Christ? Must she then yield Subjection?— Yes: because in his Office her Husband is as in Christ Stead: The Church is compared to a Lilly among Thorns, she remains Lilly-like; white, soft, pleasant, and amiable, tho' she be joined with Thorns, which are prickly and sharp: So a Wife must be meek, mild, gentle, obedient, tho' she be matched with a crooked, perverse, profane and wicked Husband: She must in this Case remove her Eyes from the Disposition of her Husband's Person, to the Condition of his Place; and by Virtue thereof (seeing he beareth Christ's Image) be subject unto him as unto Christ.
1. What if her Husband be a Son of Belial, an Enemy to Christ? Must she then yield Subjection?— Yes: because in his Office her Husband is as in Christ Stead: The Church is compared to a Lilly among Thorns, she remains Lilly-like; white, soft, pleasant, and amiable, tho' she be join'd with Thorns, which are prickly and sharp: So a Wife must be meek, mild, gentle, obedient, tho' she be matched with a crooked, perverse, prophane and wicked Husband: She must in this Cale remove her Eyes from the Disposition of her Husband's Person, to the Condition of his Place; and by Vertue thereof (seeing he beareth Christ's Image) be subject unto him as unto Christ.