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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.
4. In the Quality of his Love: Christ's Love is an holy, pure, and chaste Love; as he himself is, so is his Love; such must be the love of Husbands, an holy, pure, and chaste Love. Away with all intemperate, excessive, or any Ways exorbitant Pollutions of the Marriage-Bed! from which, if the fear of God, imitation of Christ, love of Purity, awfulness of God's all-seeing Eye cannot draw, yet that slavish Horror, lest God should punish such a Couple with no Children, or with misshapen Children, or with Idiots, or with prodigious wicked Children, or with some other heavy Cross; one would think should be able to affright them.
4. In the Quality of his Love: Christ's Love is an holy, pure, and chaste Love; as he himself is, so is his Love; such must be the love of Husbands, an holy, pure, and chaste Love. Away with all intemperate, excessive, or any Ways exorbitant Pollutions of the Marriage-Bed! from which, if the fear of God, imitation of Christ, love of Purity, awfulness of God's all-seeing Eye cannot draw, yet that flavish Horror, lest God should punish such a Couple with no Children, or with mishapen Children, or with Idiots, or with prodigious wicked Children, or with some other heavy Cross; one would think should be able to affright them.
5. In the Continuance of Christ's Love? Having loved his own, he loved them to the End. His Love is a constant Love, an everlasting Love. No Provocation or Transgressions could ever make him forget his Love. Thou hast played the Harlot with many Lovers, yet return unto me. Jer. 3.1. Such must be the Love of Husbands, affirm ⟨p. 19⟩Love, an inviolable Love: The Ground of it must be God's Ordinance, and the Support of it must be an inviolable Resolution, that no Provocation shall ever change or alter it. Husbands must pass by all Infirmities, endeavouring in Love to redress them, if possibly they can; or if not, to bear with them.