The family monitor, or, A help to domestic happinessA guide to family life with seven chapters, three of which have to do with the duties of husbands and wives to each other, and the other four concern parents, children, masters and servants. |
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Page vii
... passeth understanding ; let them , when they become a father and a mother , bring up their children in the fear of God ; and as a master and a mistress , be diligent and successful in instructing their servants vii .
... passeth understanding ; let them , when they become a father and a mother , bring up their children in the fear of God ; and as a master and a mistress , be diligent and successful in instructing their servants vii .
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... Father , Son , and Brother , first were known . Far be it that I should write thee , sin or blame , Or think thee unbefitting holiest place , Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets ! " MILTON . A FAMILY ! How delightful the associations ...
... Father , Son , and Brother , first were known . Far be it that I should write thee , sin or blame , Or think thee unbefitting holiest place , Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets ! " MILTON . A FAMILY ! How delightful the associations ...
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... father , and within the little family circle , that the son becomes a good citizen ; it is by the fire side and upon the family hearth , that loyalty and patrio- tism and every public virtue grows ; as it is in disordered families ...
... father , and within the little family circle , that the son becomes a good citizen ; it is by the fire side and upon the family hearth , that loyalty and patrio- tism and every public virtue grows ; as it is in disordered families ...
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... father and the mother are destitute of true religion . Oh , how many interest- ing households are to be found , where all the mere social virtues are cultivated with assiduity , where the domestic charities all flourish , and public ...
... father and the mother are destitute of true religion . Oh , how many interest- ing households are to be found , where all the mere social virtues are cultivated with assiduity , where the domestic charities all flourish , and public ...
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... Father and fountain of lights . Many men under the idea of delicacy to their wives , keep all their difficulties to themselves , which only prepares them to feel the stroke the heavier when it does come . And then , as the wife should ...
... Father and fountain of lights . Many men under the idea of delicacy to their wives , keep all their difficulties to themselves , which only prepares them to feel the stroke the heavier when it does come . And then , as the wife should ...
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Page 28 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself; for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Page 37 - The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy ; He will rest in His love, He -will joy over thee with singing.
Page 38 - The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Page 84 - One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Page 241 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel ; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Page 50 - But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed then Eve. And Adam was not deceived ; but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression ; notwithstanding she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness with sobriety.
Page 51 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church ; and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Page 127 - Withhold not correction from the child : for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Page 95 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shall teach them diligently unto thy children, and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 23 - He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward ; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.