N07105:26
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.
1. The Duties they must perform to them, are—
1. To provide that they may live under the public Ministry; for otherwise how should they be brought ⟨p. 6⟩into the Sheepfold of Christ, if they hear not the Voice of the chief Shepherd speaking unto them by those whom he hath sent?
1. To provide that they may live under the publick Ministry; for otherwise how should they be brought ⟨p. 6⟩into the Sheepfold of Christ, if they hear not the Voice of the chief Shepherd speaking unto them by those whom he hath sent?
2. To oversee the Ways of their Families; that they serve God: and as in all other Duties, so especially in sanctifying the Sabbath: To this the very Words in the fourth Commandment do bind all Masters of Families: Remember, thou and thy Son, and thy Daughter, thy Man-Servant, and thy Maid; — Where the Lord speaks by Name to the Governors, as if he would make them Overseers of this Work of sanctifying his Sabbaths.
2. To oversee the Ways of their Families; that they serve God: and as in all other Duties, so especially in sanctifying the Sabbath: To this the very Words in the fourth Commandment do bind all Masters of Families: Remember, thou and thy Son, and thy Daughter, thy Man-Servant, and thy Maid; — Where the Lord speaks by Name to the Governours, as if he would make them Overseers of this Work of sanctifying his Sabbaths.