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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 5: Of the Duties of the Husband and Wife.
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 V. Of the Duties of the Husband and Wife.
THE Duties which the chief Governor and his Helper owe to one another, are either
THE Duties which the chief Governour and his Helper owe to one another, are either
Common and mutual; or proper and peculiar to each severally:
1. The common mutual Duties betwixt Man and Wife, are either
Of Necessity to the being of Marriage; as Matrimonial Unity; or Matrimonial Chastity:
Of Honesty to the well-being of Marriage; as a loving Affection of one another; Provident Care for one another.