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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.
2. The Command of God to this Purpose, Husbands love your Wives, Eph. 5.25. and Wives (or young Women) love your Husbands, Tit. 2.4. Methinks this Charge often remembered, should ever beat back all Heart-rising and Bitterness, all wicked Wishes, that they had never met together, that they had never seen one another's Faces. When the Knot is tied, every Man should think his Wife the fittest for him, and every Wife should think her Husband the fittest for her of any other in the World.
2. The Command of God to this Purpose, Husbands love your Wives, Eph. 5.25. and Wives (or young Women) love your Husbands, Tit. 2.4. Methinks this Charge often remembred, should ever beat back all Heart-rising and Bitterness, all wicked Wishes, that they had never met together, that they had never seen one another's Faces. When the Knot is tied, every Man should think his Wife the fittest for him, and every Wife should think her Husband the fittest for her of any other in the World.
2. A provident Care of one for another; which extends to the Body: No Man hateth his own Flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it: and to the good Name: Joseph was not willing to make Mary a public Example: and to the Goods of this World; in which if there fall out any cross Providence, they are both to join with Job's Spirit, The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken &c. But especially to the Soul; in praying together, for, and with one another: in taking Notice of the Beginning and least Measure of Grace, and approving the same; in conferring about such Things as concern the same, mutually propounding Questions, and giving Answers one to another; in maintaining holy and religious Exercises in the Family, and betwixt their own selves, in stirring up one another to hear the Word, to receive the Sacraments, and conscionably to perform all the Parts of God's public Worship: In case the one prove unconverted, let the other wait, and pray, and expect God's good Time: or in Case the one be a Babe in Christ, or weak in Christianity, let the other deal fairly, lovingly, meekly, and let our Lord Jesus his tender-heartedness to spiritual Younglings, teach us Mercy this Way, who is said to gather the Lambs with his Arms, and to carry them in his Bosom, and gently to lead those that are with young.