A family well-ordered. Or An essay to render parents and children happy in one another. Handling two very important cases. I. What are the duties...

"AS the Great God, who at the Beginning said, Let US make man after our Image, hath made man a Sociable Creature, so it is evident, That Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First Combinations of mankind. Well-ordered Families naturally produce a Good Order in other Societies. When Families are under an Ill Discipline, all other Societies being therefore Ill Disciplined, will feel that Error in the First oncoction. To Serve the Families of our Neighbourhood, will be a Service to all our Interests. Every serious Christian is concerned, That he may be Serviceable in the World; And many a serious Christian is concerned, because he sees himself to be furnished with no more Opportunities to be Serviceable. Bu art thou not a Member of some Family? If that Family may by thy means, O Christian,..."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.