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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.
Now this Correction must be ministered both in Wisdom and in Patience.
Now this Correction must be ministred both in Wisdom and in Patience.
1. In Wisdom; whose Property it is to find out the right Party that committed the Fault, to consider of what Sort and Nature, the Fault is, to weigh Circumstances of Age, Discretion and Occasions; and ⟨p. 8⟩to look to the Mind of the Doer, whether Negligence or mere Simplicity brought him to it.
1. In Wisdom; whose Property it is to find out the right Party that committed the Fault, to consider of what Sort and Nature, the Fault is, to weigh Circumstances of Age, Discretion and Occasions; and ⟨p. 8⟩to look to the Mind of the Doer, whether Negligence or meer Simplicity brought him to it.
2. In Patience; whose Property it is to make the Fault manifest to the Offender, that his Conscience may be touched therewith; to hear what the Offender can say in his own Defence, and accordingly to allow or disallow; to avoid Bitterness, which sooner will harden the Heart, then reform the Manners of the Offender: These Rules being observed, and the Heart lifted up in Prayer to God for Direction and blessing, this Correction is necessary; as is evident in Gen. 30.2. Prov. 13.24