CONTENTS.

PART FIRST.

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE HUMAN FAMILY OR DOMESTIC CIRCLE;

INCLUDING ITS VARIOUS CONNECTIONS AND PECULIAR SANCTIONS;

THE MORAL POWER OF WHICH IT IS SUSCEPTIBLE; WITH THE

DANGER AND VANITY OF INTERFERENCE.

SECT. I.-Preliminary Observations,

II.-The Family Constitution,

III.-Connections subsisting between the different Bran-

ches of the Domestic Constitution,

IV. The Penalty or Punishment of Disobedience or Neg-

lect, descending to Posterity,

V.-The Blessing connected with Obedience, descending

to Posterity,

VI. The Moral Power which is peculiar to the Domestic

Constitution,

VII.-The Danger and Vanity of Interference with the

Domestic Constitution,

VIII.-Concluding Reflections,

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PART SECOND.

THE UNTRANSFERABLE OBLIGATIONS AND PECULIAR ADVANTAGES
OF THE DOMESTIC CONSTITUTION.

SECT. I.-Obedience and Success contrasted with Negligence

and Ruin,

II. The Causes of Failure traced to their Source,

III. The Means of Recovery and Establishment,

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IV. The Manner of Procedure with regard to a Family, 257

VII.-Domestic Education, as distinguished from pur-

chased Tuition; the Obligations to which are not
only Indispensable, but Untransferable,

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VIII. Concluding Address-To Christian Parents, and the

Ministers of Christ, more especially as the heads

of Families,

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PART FIRST.

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE HUMAN FAMILY, OR DOMESTIC CIRCLE; INCLUDING ITS VARIOUS CONNECTIONS AND PECULIAR SANCTIONS; THE MORAL POWER OF WHICH IT IS SUSCEPTIBLE; WITH THE DANGER AND VANITY OF INTERFERENCE.

Reduce things to the first institution, and observe wherein and how they have degenerated; but yet ask counsel of both times: of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

BACON.

Persons are elements of Families; Families are the elements of which both Churches, and Kingdoms, or Commonwealths, are composed and made up: and as the one sort of these is purely civil, the other purely sacred, that which is elementary unto both must

be both.

HOWE.