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
... leaves of the bible , and is carried in the bosom of religion . The Author knows of no other way to felicity , and therefore does not profess to teach any other . Let the two parties in wedded life , be be- lievers in Christ Jesus , and ...
... leaves of the bible , and is carried in the bosom of religion . The Author knows of no other way to felicity , and therefore does not profess to teach any other . Let the two parties in wedded life , be be- lievers in Christ Jesus , and ...
Page 5
... leaves the circle by death , goes into an eternity of torment or of bliss . Now since all the institutes of God look to another world as their chief and ultimate reference , surely , surely , that institute which is the most power- ful ...
... leaves the circle by death , goes into an eternity of torment or of bliss . Now since all the institutes of God look to another world as their chief and ultimate reference , surely , surely , that institute which is the most power- ful ...
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... leave a few behind him , on whom the best blessings of those days , will certainly descend . Though the heavens be shut up and there be no dew , the little enclosure which he cultivates , like the fleece of Gideon , will discover ...
... leave a few behind him , on whom the best blessings of those days , will certainly descend . Though the heavens be shut up and there be no dew , the little enclosure which he cultivates , like the fleece of Gideon , will discover ...
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John Angell James. of shrinking from the reponsibility of a counsellor , and leaving him to struggle alone with his difficulties and perplexities , should invite him to communicate freely all his anxieties : for if she cannot counsel ...
John Angell James. of shrinking from the reponsibility of a counsellor , and leaving him to struggle alone with his difficulties and perplexities , should invite him to communicate freely all his anxieties : for if she cannot counsel ...
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... leaving the other to labour alone , much less opposing or thwarting what is done . " When the sun shines , the moon disappears , when he sets , she appears and shines ; so when the husband is at home , he leads domestic worship , when ...
... leaving the other to labour alone , much less opposing or thwarting what is done . " When the sun shines , the moon disappears , when he sets , she appears and shines ; so when the husband is at home , he leads domestic worship , when ...
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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.