PART II.

CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS:

OR,

THE FAMILY DIRECTORY, CONTAINING DIRECTIONS FOR THE TRUE PRACTICE OF ALL DUTIES BELONGING TO FAMILY RELATIONS, WITH THE APPURTENANCES.

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I. Directions about marriage; for choice and contract. 394 II. Directions for the right choice of servants and masters. 407 III. A disputation, or arguments to prove the necessity of family worship and holiness, or directions against the cavils of the profane, and some sectaries, who deny it to be a thing required by God. 409 IV. General directions for the holy government of families. 422 V. Special motives to persuade men to the holy governing of their families. 424 VI. More special motives for a holy and careful education of children. 427 VII. The mutual duties of husbands and wives towards each other. 431 VIII. The special duties of husbands to their wives. 438 IX. The special duties of wives to husbands. 440 X. The duties of parents for their children. 449 XI. The special duties of children towards their parents. 454 XII. The special duties of children and youth towards God. 457 XIII. The duties of servants to their masters. 458 XIV. The duties of masters towards their servants. 460 XV. The duties of children and fellow-servants to one another. 463 XVI. Directions for holy conference of fellow-servants or others. 464 XVII. Directions for each particular member of the family how to spend every ordinary day of the week. 466 XVIII. Directions for the order of holy duties. 470 XIX. Directions for profitable hearing the word preached. 473 XX. Directions for profitable reading the holy scriptures. 477 XXI. Directions for reading other books. 478 XXII. Directions for the right teaching of children and servants, so as may be most likely to have success. 479 XXIII. Directions for prayer in general. 483 XXIV. Brief directions for families, about the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ. 493 XXV. Directions for fearful, troubled christians, that are perplexed with doubts of their sincerity and justification. 502 XXVI. Directions for declining or backsliding christians: and about perseverance. 505 XXVII. Directions for the poor. 514 XXVIII. Directions for the rich. 517 XXIX. Directions for the aged (and weak). 519 XXX. Directions for the sick. 522 XXXI. Directions to the friends of the sick, that are about them. 534