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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. The first Age of a Child, is his Infancy; and the first Part of it's Infancy, is while it remaineth in the Mother's Womb. Now the Duty of Parents at that Time are these: 1. That they pray for their Children: Thus did Rebeckah, while the Children were quick in her Womb. Those Parents that neglect this Duty to their Children, consider not rightly that they are conceived in Sin: 2. That they make sure (so much as in them lies) that their Children be born under the Promise, or under the Covenant, in respect of the spiritual Part of it: How? by making sure that they be under the Promise or Covenant themselves: If God in Christ be their God, they may have a comfortable Hope, that God will be the God of their Seed, according to the Promise, I will be thy God, and the God of thy Seed, Gen. 17.7.
The next Degree of a Child's Infancy, is when it is born: and the Duty of Parents then is, to give up their Children unto God, casting them into the Hands of his Providence, into the Arms of his Mercy, begging for them a gracious Acceptation with God; and to tender them to the Ordinance, The Sacrament of Baptism, to get the Seal of the Covenant set upon them, to get them marked out for Salvation.
The next Degree of a Child's Infancy, is when it is born: and the Duty of Parents then is, to give up their Children unto God, casting them into the Hands of his Providence, into the Arms of his Mercy, begging for them a gracious Acceptation with God; and to tender them to the Ordinance, The Sacrament of Baptism, to get the Seal of the Covenant set upon them, to get them mark'd out for Salvation.
2. The second Age of a Child, is it's Youth: Now the Duty of Parents to their Children at this Time, is to train them up in true Piety: To bring them up in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord. To this end,