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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.
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.
3. To set their House in order for the Service of God, to offer Prayers & Praises to the Lord Morning and Evening. To this Purpose, Pray continually (saith the Apostle) 1 Thes. 5.17. which we must not understand of uninterrupted and incessant pouring out of Prayers, as the Mussalians or Euchitae did; but of Morning and Evening Prayers; the Apostle here speaking in Reference and in Analogy to the continual, or daily Sacrifices. This was David's Practice, Evening and Morning, and at Noon will I pray and cry aloud, and he shall hear my Voice, Psal. 55.17. And this was Job's Practice, who sent for, and sanctified his Sons and Daughters; and rose up early in the Morning, and offered Burnt-offerings according to the Number of them all:—Thus did Job continually, Job 1.5. And this was Abraham's Practice wherever he came, to build an Altar to God, where God should be worshipped jointly by turn and his Family: Gen. 12.7