Of the frequency and seasons of Family Worship. 1. Whe-

ther it should be every day, 2. Whether twice a day. 3.

Whether morning and evening

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CHAPTER IV.

General Directions for the Holy Government of Families....

How to keep up authority.

Of skill in Governing .

Of holy willingness.

CHAPTER V.

Special Motives to persuade men to the Holy Government of

90

ibid.

92

94

96

.... 105

Motives and means to further each others' salvation

Further duties

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117

120

123

CHAPTER IX.

The special Duty of Wives to their Husbands

Q. How far may a wife give, without her husband's consent?

Q. Of Wives' propriety

Q. Is a Wife guilty of her Husband's unlawful getting, if

she keep it? And is she bound to reveal it, (as in robbing?)

Q. May a Wife go to hear sermons when her Husband for-

biddeth her?..

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150

151

152

153

Q. Must a woman proceed to admonish a wicked Husband

when it maketh him worse?

154

Q. What she must do in controverted cases of religion, when

her judgment and her Husband's differ.

155

Q. How long, or in what cases may Husbands and Wives be
distant

Q. May the bare commands of princes separate Husbands and

Wives, (as ministers, judges, soldiers?)

156

Q. May Ministers leave their Wives to go abroad to preach

the Gospel?

157

Q. May one leave a Wife to save his life in case of personal

persecution or danger?

158

Q. May Husband and Wife part by consent, if they find it to

be for the good of both ?

Q. May they consent to be divorced, and to marry others? .

Q. Doth Adultery dissolve Marriage?.

Q. Is the injured person bound to divorce the other, or left

free?

Q. Is it the proper privilege of the man to put away an adul-

terous Wife, or is it also in the woman's power to depart

from an adulterous Husband?

ibid.

Q. May there be putting away, or departing without the Ma-

gistrate's divorce or licence?

Q. What if one purposely commit adultery to be separate from

the other?.

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Q. Doth Infidelity dissolve the relation ?

ibid.

Q. Doth the desertion of one party disoblige the other?

Q. Must a woman follow a malignant Husband that goeth

from the means of grace?

ibid.

ibid.

Q. Must she follow him, if it be but to poverty or beggary?

164

Q. What to do in case of known intention of one to murder

Q. Or if there be a fixed hatred of each other?

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Q. What if a man will not suffer his wife to hear, read, or
pray or do beat her so, as to unfit her for duty: or a wo-
man will rail at the Husband in prayer time? &c.
Q. Who may marry after parting or divorce? .

Q. Is it lawful to suffer, yea, or contribute to the known sin

materially of Wife, Child, Servant, or other relations?

Where is opened what is in our power to do against sin, and

what not..

...

Q. If a Gentleman have a great estate by which he may do

much good, and his Wife be so proud, prodigal, and peevish,

that if she may not waste it all in housekeeping and pride,

she will die or grow mad, or give him no quietness, what is

his duty in so sad a case?

166

167

ibid.

173

CHAPTER X.

The Duties of Parents for their Children. Where are twenty
special Directions for their education

CHAPTER XI.

The Duties of Children towards their Parents

175

CHAPTER XII.

The special Duties of Children and Youth towards God ....

CHAPTER XIII.

The Duties of Servants to their Masters

199

203

CHAPTER XIV.

Tit. 1. The Duty of Masters towards their Servants

....

Tit. 2. The Duty of Masters to Slaves in the Plantations ..

Q. 1. Is it lawful for a Christian to buy and use a man as a

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212

......

Slave?

Q. 2. Is it lawful to use a Christian as a Slave?..

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216

....

Q. 3. What difference must we make between a Servant and

a Slave?

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218

Q. 4. What if men buy Negroes, or other Slaves, of such as

we may think did steal them, or buy them of Robbers and

Tyrants, and not by consent?

Q. 5. May I not sell such again and make my money of them? ibid.

Q. 6. May I not return them to him that I bought them of? 219

.....

CHAPTER XV.

The Duties of Children and Fellow Servants to one another?

CHAPTER XVI.

Directions for Holy Conference of Fellow Servants and others

Q. May we speak good when the heart is not affected with it?

Q. Is that the fruit of the Spirit which we force our tongues
to?...

CHAPTER XVII.

Directions for every Member of the Family, how to spend

every ordinary day of the Week..

CHAPTER XVIII.

Tit. 1. Directions for the Holy Spending of the Lord's day in

Families

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224

225

ibid.

230

240

Whether the whole day should be kept holy?

....

Tit. 2. More particular Directions for the order of holy duties

on that day...

CHAPTER XIX.

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248

Directions for profitable Hearing God's Word preached

Tit. 1. Directions for Understanding the Word which you

hear.

251

ibid.

254

Tit. 2. Directions for Remembering what you hear

Tit. 3. Directions for Holy Resolutions and Affections in hearing 257

Tit. 4. Directions to bring what we hear into practice . . . 259

....

CHAPTER XX.

Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures . . . .

....

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266

CHAPTER XXII.

Directions for right Teaching Children and Servants, so as is

most likely to have success. The sum of Christian Religion 270

CHAPTER XXIII.

Tit. 1. Directions for Prayer in general

A Scheme or brief Explication of the Exact Method of the