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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. A daily reading of the Scriptures in their hearing, directing them to mark and to make Use of them: So Timothy was trained up by his Parents, and that from his Childhood, 1 Tim. 3.15.
3. A careful endeavouring that they may profit by the public Ministry: To this end: 1 They must prepare them to hear the Word, by considering God's Ordinances, Promises, and their own Necessities. 2. They must remember them to look in the Word for a Christ, and for Communion with him. 3. They must examine them after the Ordinances, what they have learned, and what Use they make of it: Thus Christ, after he had preached a Parable to his Disciples, he said unto them, Know you not this Parable, and how then will you know all Parables? and then he expounds the Parable to them. Mark 4.13.
3. A careful endeavouring that they may profit by the publick Ministry: To this end: 1 They must prepare them to hear the Word, by considering God's Ordinances, Promises, and their own Necessities. 2. They must remember them to look in the Word for a Christ, and for Communion with him. 3. They must examine them after the Ordinances, what they have learned, and what Use they make of it: Thus Christ, after he had preached a Parable to his Disciples, he said unto them, Know you not this Parable, and how then will you know all Parables? and then he expounds the Parable to them. Mark 4.13.
2. The Duties they are to require of the Family, are both carefully to frequent the public Ministry, and diligently to be conversant in the private Worship of God, and constantly to practice all holy and Christian Duties comprised briefly in the Commandments of God; and they are to require these Things, not only by telling them, calling on them, catechizing them, admonishing them; but if they be negligent, by correcting them.