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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.
6. As Children grow in Years, and in the Knowledge of Christ, and of Justification by Christ, let Parents train them up in the Exercise of all Duties, as Prayer, Meditation, Self-Examination, Watchfulness, and all Means public and private: If this be done, the World to come may reap the Benefit of their Education; such Children as you bring up, such Parents will they be (when you are gone) to their Children; and such Children shall they have, who are Parents in the next Generation, &c. You then are the very making or marring of the World: but on the contrary, if this be neglected, the rich Man will rise up against you in the Day of Judgment, and condemn you; for he being in Hell, had a Care of his Father's House, that they might be forewarned; he desired Abraham to send Lazarus to his Brethren, to testify unto them that they came not to that Place of Torment; but you will not admonish your Children, you will not teach them Moses and the Prophets; you will not show them the Danger of God's heavy Displeasure hanging over their Heads; you will not, whilst you live, lead a good Example before them: O you may fear that your Children shall be Furies of Hell to torment you. Now the Lord open your Eyes to foresee, & to fly these Judgments to come.
6. As Children grow in Years, and in the Knowledge of Christ, and of Justification by Christ, let Parents train them up in the Exercise of all Duties, as Prayer, Meditation, Self-Examination, Watchfulness, and all Means publick and private: If this be done, the World to come may reap the Benefit of their Education; such Children as you bring up, such Parents will they be (when you are gone) to their Children; and such Children shall they have, who are Parents in the next Generation, &c. You then are the very making or marring of the World: but on the contrary, if this be neglected, the rich Man will rise up against you in the Day of Judgment, and condemn you; for he being in Hell, had a Care of his Father's House, that they might be forewarned; he desired Abraham to send Lazarus to his Brethren, to testify unto them that they came not to that Place of Torment; but you will not admonish your Children, you will not teach them Moses and the Prophets; you will not shew them the Danger of God's heavy Displeasure hanging over their Heads; you will not, whilest you live, lead a good Example before them: O you may fear that your Children shall be Furies of Hell to torment you. Now the Lord open your Eyes to foresee, & to fly these Judgments to come.