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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 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,
1. When Children begin to read, let them read the holy Scriptures: so was Timothy trained up from a Child; and thus will Children suck in Religion with learning.