This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...of the-domestic constitution is thus in danger of being lost. Fear may produce partial and temporary submission; but thp restraint being removed, the evil bursts forth with greater violence. Combine meekness and love with firmness; and exercise authority with holy wisdom. You exercise authority from God: take care that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...of the-domestic constitution is thus in danger of being lost. Fear may produce partial and temporary submission; but thp restraint being removed, the evil bursts forth with greater violence. Combine meekness and love with firmness; and exercise authority with holy wisdom. You exercise authority from God: take care that it be exercised according to the will of God. It is so when the temper is according to the divine will; and the objects. You are to " bring them up," to educate them. This therefore is your duty. Education consists in giving proper information to the mind, and a proper direction to all the habits. What they ought to know, and what they ought to be, you are to set before you, and bring them up accordingly. The particular character of this is described; so that you cannot mistake. It is to be "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." That is, let the discipline under which you place them, and the instruction you give them, constitute a part of your own religious duty, be such as the Lord approves. It will not be difficult to ascertain the great principles of the education we are thus required to give. Recollect, we are ourselves the subjects of the moral government of God. Train up your children to know, reverence, and obey, the laws by which it is exercised. There is a certain state of mind and character well-pleasing to God: that which he designed for such a creature as man. When our faculties are duly harmonized, and conscience reigns over them all; when we know, love, and obey the truth of God; when our affections desire the blessings which God gives, and our conscience acknowledges the authority which God exercises; when man is, in fact, and according to the divine will, a moral being;--then is he what his Creator in...
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