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Title:  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 to be done by pious parents, for the promoting of piety in their children. II. What are the duties that must be paid by children to their parents, that they may obtain the blessings of the dutiful. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Three lines from Malachi]
Author: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
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certain, There is no point of Religion, more certainly and commonly Rewar|ded with Blessings in this world, than that of rendring unto Parents the Dues that pertain unto them. A signal Pros|perity, even in this world, uses to at|tend those Children, that are very Obe|dient or Serviceable unto their Parents. Those Reckabites, that Obey the Command|ment of their Father, Thus said the Lord of Hosts, They shall stand before me for ever. There are Children, who have with un|speakable pleasure, supported their A|ged Parents, in their Necessities; They have said unto their Necessitous Pa|rents, like Joseph, Thus saith thy Son, come down to me, Thou shalt be near to me! I believe, There are some at this very Time, in this very place, who can say, That from the Time, they did for their Pa|rents as they have done, God hath signally Smiled upon them. Friend, That Aged Father or Mother, in thy House, is not only the Gloy of thy House, but a better and a richer Thing than a Mine of Silver there.Children, Be Blessings to your Parents, and be Assured, That those Parents will be Greater Blessings to you, than you 0