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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
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 II. Of the Duties of Governors in general.
SECTION II. Of the Duties of Governours in general.
IN the Proceedings of these Family Duties, we are to consider the Duties, 1. Of the Governors. 2. Of the Governed.
IN the Proceedings of these Family Duties, we are to consider the Duties, 1. Of the Governours. 2. Of the Governed.
1. The Governors; if (as it is in Marriage) there be more than one; as first, the chief Governor, viz. the Husband: secondly, the Helper, viz. the Wife; both these owe Duties to their Families, and Duties to one another.
1. The Governours; if (as it is in Marriage) there be more than one; as first, the chief Governour, viz. the Husband: secondly, the Helper, viz. the Wife; both these owe Duties to their Families, and Duties to one another.
1. The Duties they owe to their Families, are either, In general to the whole; or, in particular, according to their several Relations.