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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.
3. The last Time to which the Duty of Parents extends it self, is the Time of their Departure out of the World; and then they owe to their Children:
Good Direction. Faithful Prayer.
1. For Direction: When Parents observe their Time to draw near, it is their Duty then especially, to commend some wise and wholesome Precepts unto their Children, the better to direct them in their Christian Course; so did Isaac, and Jacob, and David: The Words of a dying Parent are especially regarded, and make a deeper Impression.
1. For Direction: When Parents observe their Time to draw near, it is their Duty then especially, to commend some wise and wholsom Precepts unto their Children, the better to direct them in their Christian Course; so did Isaac, and Jacob, and David: The Words of a dying Parent are especially regarded, and make a deeper Impression.
2. For Prayer: then is the most proper Time for Parents to pray and to bless all their Children. As they ⟨p. 14⟩