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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
The Well-Ordered Family. › Section 3: Of the Duties of Parents to their Children.
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 III. Of the Duties of Parents to their Children.
THE Duties in particular which Governors owe to the Family, according to their Relations, are either
THE Duties in particular which Governours owe to the Family, according to their Relations, are either
As Parents to their Children: Or, as Masters to their Servants.
The Duties of Parents to their Children, are either to their Bodies, or to their Souls.
1. The Duties of Parents to the Bodies of their Children, are in many Particulars, but may be all comprised under this one Head, A provident Care for their temporal Good; and this extendeth it self to all Times, as 1. To their Infancy. 2. To their Youth. 3. To the Time of Parents Departure out of this World.