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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 6: Of the Duties of Children to Parents.
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.
SECTION VI. Of the Duties of Children to Parents.
Duties of Children to Parents, are either inward, as Love and Fear; or outward, as Reverence, Obedience, and Recompense.
DUties of Children to Parents, are either inward, as Love and Fear; or outward, as Reverence, Obedience, and Recompence.
1. The inward Duties which Children owe to their Parents, are Love and Fear: Love like Sugar, sweetens Fear, and Fear like Salt, seasons Love; there must be a loving Fear, and a fearing Love. Hence the Fear of a Child is opposed to the Fear of a Slave; for a Child's Fear being mixed with Love, hath respect to the Offence which a Parent may take: But a Slaves Fear, which is ordinarily mixed with Hatred, hath respect to nothing but the Punishment which his Master may inflict upon him. This love-like Fear is so proper to Children, as that the awful Respect which the Saints bear to God, is called a filial Fear; Children have received their Substance, from the very Substance of their Parents, and therefore they are to perform this Duty of Love and Fear to them.
1. The inward Duties which Children owe to their Parents, are Love and Fear: Love like Sugar, sweetens Fear, and Fear like Salt, seasons Love; there must be a loving Fear, and a fearing Love. Hence the Fear of a Child is opposed to the Fear of a Slave; for a Child's Fear being mixt with Love, hath respect to the Offence which a Parent may take: But a Slaves Fear, which is ordinarily mixed with Hatred, hath respect to nothing but the Punishment which his Master may inflict upon him. This love-like Fear is so proper to Children, as that the awful Respect which the Saints bear to God, is called a filial Fear; Children have received their Substance, from the very Substance of their Parents, and therefore they are to perform this Duty of Love and Fear to them.