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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. He must carefully provide for her: To this purpose he is called her Head, and Saviour, as Christ is ⟨p. 20⟩the Head of his Church, and the Saviour of the Body: The Head (you know) is the Fountain of Motion, Quickening, Life, Sense, and Lightsomeness to the body; so should the Husband be as the Well-spring of Liveliness, Lightsomeness, Light heartedness to his Wife; she hath forsook all for him, and therefore she should receive from him a continual Influence of cheerful Walking, and comfortable enjoying of herself. And a Saviour (you know) both provides for, and protects the saved: Christ thus saved his Church; he is every Way a sufficient Saviour, able perfectly to save, even to the very uttermost; he saves Soul and Body, he saves from all Manner of Misery, from the Wrath of God, the Curse of the Law, the Venom of all outward Crosses, the Tyranny of Satan, the Sting of Death, the Power of the Grave, the Torments of Hell; or, if Sin be the greatest Evil, (as indeed it is) he will save his People from their Sins; Mat. 1.21. I cannot say thus of the Husband; yet an Husband carrieth a Resemblance of Christ, and is after a Manner a Saviour to his Wife, to protect her and to provide for her. David compares her to a Vine, intimating that as a Vine is underpropped and raised by some Tree or Frame near to which it is planted; so is the Wife raised to the Height of Honour by Virtue of her Relation to her Husband; by his Wealth she is enriched; by his Honour she is dignified: he is under God and Christ, all in all to her. In the Family, he is a King, to govern and aid her; a Priest, to pray with her and for her; a Prophet, to teach and instruct her; a Saviour to provide for, and protect her to his utmost, if not to the utmost; which indeed is proper and peculiar to the Lord Jesus Christ.
2. He must carefully provide for her: To this purpose he is called her Head, and Saviour, as Christ is ⟨p. 20⟩the Head of his Church, and the Saviour of the Body: The Head (you know) is the Fountain of Motion, Quick'ning, Life, Sense, and Lightsomeness to the body; so should the Husband be as the Well-spring of Liveliness, Lightsomeness, Light heartedness to his Wife; she hath forsook all for him, and therefore she should receive from him a continual Influence of chearful Walking, and comfortable enjoying of herself. And a Saviour (you know) both provides for, and protects the saved: Christ thus saved his Church; he is every Way a sufficient Saviour, able perfectly to save, even to the very uttermost; he saves Soul and Body, he saves from all Manner of Misery, from the Wrath of God, the Curse of the Law, the Venom of all outward Crosses, the Tyranny of Satan, the Sting of Death, the Power of the Grave, the Torments of Hell; or, if Sin be the greatest Evil, (as indeed it is) he will save his People from their Sins;