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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 1: Of the Preparatives to Family Duties.
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 I. Of the Preparatives to Family Duties.
NOW that we may more comfortably carry on these Family Duties, observe we, 1. Our Entrance into them, and 2. Our Proceedings in them.
1. For Entrance, we must lay a good Foundation for Tractableness unto Religion in those that belong to the Family.
As, 1. In the Governor. 2. In the Governed.
As, 1. In the Governour. 2. In the Governed.
1. In the Governor; whose Duty it is,
1. In the Governour; whose Duty it is,