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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.
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.
1. The Duties of Parents to the Bodies of their Children, are in many Particulars, but may be all comprized 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.
1. The first Age of a Child is his Infancy, and the first Part of its Infancy, is while it remaineth in the Mother's Womb. Here the Duty lies principally upon the Mother, to have a special Care of it, that it may be safely brought forth. Why was the Charge of abstaining from Wine, strong Drink, and unclean Things, given to Manoah's Wife, but because of the Child which she had conceived?