A new family-book, or, The true interest of families being directions to parents and children, and to those who are instead of parents : shewing them their several duties, and how they may be happy in one another : together with several prayers for families and children, and graces before and after meat : to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by James Kirkwood ... ; with a preface, by Dr. Horneck.

Title

A new family-book, or, The true interest of families being directions to parents and children, and to those who are instead of parents : shewing them their several duties, and how they may be happy in one another : together with several prayers for families and children, and graces before and after meat : to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by James Kirkwood ... ; with a preface, by Dr. Horneck.

Author

Kirkwood, James, 1650?-1709.

Publication

London :: Printed for J. Taylor ..., and J. Everingham ...,

1693.

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Subject terms

Family -- England.

Family -- Religious life.

Parent and child -- Early works to 1800.

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"A new family-book, or, The true interest of families being directions to parents and children, and to those who are instead of parents : shewing them their several duties, and how they may be happy in one another : together with several prayers for families and children, and graces before and after meat : to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by James Kirkwood ... ; with a preface, by Dr. Horneck." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47513.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• To my Honoured Friend and Patron, Thomas Brown of Arlsey Esq and to Mrs. Mary Brown his Wife.
• THE PREFACE.
• THE CONTENTS Of Advice to Parents.
  • PART I.
  • PART II.
• ERRATA.
  • ERRATA in Advice to Children.
• ADVICE TO PARENTS.
  • The first Duty of Parents for the Souls of their Children, is, to Consecrat them to God in Baptism.
  • 2. Duty, to feason their Minds betimes with good Impressions.
  • 3. Duty, to teach them to pray.
  • 4. Duty, to observe carefully their tem∣per and disposition, and to endeavour to reform what is amiss therein.
  • 5. Duty, to see that they be taught to Read.
  • 6. Duty, to bring them to the place of publick Worship so soon as they are fit for it.
  • 7. Duty, to make them understand their Baptismal Covenant.
  • 8. Duty, to encourage them to come to the Lord's Table.
  • 9. Duty, to take care that they ac∣custom themselves to Self-Examina∣tion.
  • 10. Duty, to observe what Providences they meet with, and to acquaint them therewith in due time, as also with some of the most remarkable Provi∣dences, which either they (to wit the Parents) themselves, or others have met with.
  • Some Directions to Parents, how to render their Endeavours effectual.
  • Some Motives to excite Parents to do these things.
• Advice to Parents.
  • The Duties of Parents as to their Childrens Bodies.
  • The Duty of Parents as to the outward Estate of their Children.
  • The above mentioned particulars earnestly recommended to Parents.
  • Concerning the Duty of Parents when God removeth their Children by death.
  • The Duty of Parents On their Death-Bed.
  • Concerning the Duties of Step-Fathers and Step-Mothers.
  • Some Motives to stir up Step-Parents to do these things.
  • The Duties of Guardians.
  • Some Motives to excite Guardians to do these Things.
  • PRAYERS FOR FAMILIES.
    • A Morning Prayer for Parents, or Masters of Families, with their Family.
    • An Evening Prayer for Parents, or Masters of Families, with their Family.
    • A short Prayer for the Morning or Evening, when through Extra∣ordinary Occasions there is not time for the other.
  • SOME FORMS OF PRAYER WHICH Parents may teach their Chil∣dren according to their Age.
    • A Morning Prayer to be taught Children, when they begin to speak.
    • A Morning Prayer for Children, when they come to twelve or fourteen years of Age; sooner or later, according to the ripe∣ness of their understanding.
    • A Grace before Meat.
    • After Meat.