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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 1: Of the Preparatives to Family Duties.
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. In the Governor; whose Duty it is,
1. In the Governour; whose Duty it is,
1. To endeavour in a special Manner for Knowledge in God's Word; and for Holiness of Conversation in a Christian Walking. This would tend much to the Preservation of his Authority; who otherwise will be slighted and disregarded, through an aptness in Inferiors to take Occasion therefrom.
1. To endeavour in a special Manner for Knowledge in God's Word; and for Holiness of Conversation in a Christian Walking. This would tend much to the Preservation of his Authority; who otherwise will be slighted and disregarded, through an aptness in Inferiours to take Occasion therefrom.
2. To marry in the Lord; and then to live chastely in Wedlock, that there may be a holy Seed: Now that he may marry in the Lord, 1. Let Piety be the mover of his Affection; and Personage, Parentage, & Portion, be only as a comfortable accessary, considerable in a ⟨p. 4⟩second Place: Christianity and Grace, is the chief golden Link and noble Tie, which hath the Power and Privilege to make Marriage a lovely and everlasting Bond. 2. Let him ply the Throne of Grace with fervency of Prayer: A good Wife is a more immediate Gift of God. Whence Solomon could say, Houses and Riches are the Inheritance of Fathers; but a prudent Wife is from the Lord: Such a rare and precious Jewel is to be sued and sought for at God's Mercy Seat, with extraordinary Importunity & Zeal; and it she be procured at God's Hand by Prayer, he shall find a thousand Times more Sweetness and Comfort, then if she be cast on him by an ordinary Providence. 3. Let him observe and mark these six Points in his Choice: As, 1. The Report: 2. The Looks: 3. The Speech: 4. The Apparel: 5. The Companions: 6. The Education: These are like the Pulses; that show the fitness and goodliness of any Party with whom he ought to marry.