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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.
1. To nourish. 2. To nurture their Children.
Under Nourishment, are comprised Food, Apparel, Recreation, Means for Recovery of Health when they are sick: In which, if Parents provide not for their Children, they are worse than Infidels. And under Nurture, are comprised, good Manners, a good Calling, frequent Admonition, Reprehension, Correction, the last Remedy, which may do good when nothing else can. Prov. 19.18. — 23.13, 14.—29.17.
Under Nourishment, are comprized Food, Apparel, Recreation, Means for Recovery of Health when they are sick: In which, if Parents provide not for their Children, they are worse than Infidels. And under Nurture, are comprized, good Manners, a good Calling, frequent Admonition, Reprehension, Correction, the last Remedy, which may do good when nothing else can. Prov. 19.18. — 23.13, 14.—29.17.
3. The last Time to which Parents provident Care extendeth it self, is the Time of their Departure out of the World; and then they are to set their House in Order, and to leave their Estates to their Children.