Addrefs of lovers to be to parents first, 34.

Adon jah ruined by his father David's indulgence, 158. Advice, excellent, the church's in the cafe of matrimony, 36. Cautions for the manner of giving it by parents, 85. Of a prelate to a mother how to educate a daughter, 111, &feq. Of masters and mistresfes, how neceffary to their servants, 266.

Adultery, the horrid perjury of, 43; the practice of the ancient Chriftians in that cafe, 46.

Affectation to be avoided by young and old, 211; whence it arifes, ibid.

Air (open) children fhould be bred in it, 175.

Anger, many provocations to it, 53. Of parents mif taken by their children, 87. To be corrected in children, 148.

Avarice fhould be no motive of marriage, 35.

Avertion, young women thould ground

of marriage, 35.

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Auguftus,

Auguftus, his moderation in ea ing, 179.
Aurelia, Mother of Auguftus, his tutor, 123, 130.
Auftin, (St.) faved by his mother's prayers, 168.
Authority of parents, to be early exerciled over their
children, 196.

B

Banns of marriage, why publifhed, 12.

Baptifm (church) the duty of parents to give it their

children, 142.

Baths (cold) the virtue of 'em, 174.

Bed (hard) beft for children, 185.

Beer (fmall) drink for children, 181.

Being of God, to be early taught children, 143.

Body, good temperature of it helps the mind, 121.
Bread (brown) proper for children, 178.

Breeding acquired by converfation, 215.

Burial of hufbands, the obligation of widows to do it handfomely, 217.

Bufy-bodies, widows apt to be fo, 226.

C

Calling, all children should be bred up to one, 147.
Capacity of children, how to know it, 210.

Carelefinefs the effect of bad education, 94. When to be borne with in children, 214..

Carriage of wives, cautions about it, 43, 44. Civility of it comes with age, 213.

Catechifing children, the benefit of it, 158. A pillar of the Proteftant religion, 160.

Charity, a virtue to be taught children betimes, 153; required of widows, 224. The bleffings of it 225.

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Chafte

Chafte converfation, the principal duty of a wife, 42. Chafifement, too much of it fpoils children, 198. and creates incurable averfion, 200.

Cheats not fo bad as trickers, 110.

Child and parent, the relation equal among all ranks,

129.

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Childhood, what is understood by it, 138. Children, the duty they owe their parents, 1, & leq. cannot be acquitted of it by any fault of their parents, 6. How they fhould be corrected, 85. be educated according to the condition of their parents, 91. Should be nurfed by their mothers, 117, 138. Mu have nothing because it pleafes them, 194. Should look on their parents as their best friends, 197. Their minds not to be too much curbed, 199. Should be made fenfible of fhame, 204, and converfe with their parents, 216. Apt to be spoiled by the niggardlinefs of mothers, 219. Cholerick husbands how to be managed, 77. Chriftnings, private ones condemned, 142.

Christian women must appear good, as well as be good, 43, 44.

Christianity, the beft religion for all ftates of life, 255.

Choice, women feldom allowed it in marriage, 70.
Churlish hufbands, how to be managed, 48.
Civility, inward, will produce outward, 215.

Cold water, childrens feet to be washed in it, 172: Commands of parents just and kind, 9. Of husbands when not to be obeyed, 41. Of parents fhould be reasonable, 104.

Compaffion of men how dangerous to wives, 69. Confirmation, the practice of it recommended, 160. Connivance at the hufband's falfhood how far neceffary in a wife, 49.

Convent-life no honourable virginity, 25.

Corns

Corns cured by wet feet, 173.

Correction, when to be used by parents, 101. Rules for it, 156.

Covetous husbands how to be managed, 78.

Country gentlemen refufed by town ladies, and why, 31. Should live at their feats, 65. Country, the fervice we owe it, 95.

Craft not to be encouraged in women, 108. The fign of a mean fpirit, 109.

Curiofity, the mifchif of it to virgins, 28.
Curfing of parents, the wickedness of it, 3.

D

Dancing fhould be taught children, 213.
Darlings ruined by their parents, 118.

Daughters, why they do not love their mothers com pany, 32. Advice to mothers by a prelate how to educate them, 111, &feq. Should be their mothers companions, 124, 125.

Debts to fervants, the duty of paying them, 239, 247. Decoy, love fo to young women, 33.

Deformity of drunkenness, 74.

Delicacy, not to be indulged in children, 91.

Diet, great moderation in it to be used towards chil dren, 150. Should be plain, 177. Rules for it, 178, & feq.

Dionyfius, his faying to his mother about a fecond marriage, 230.

Diligence, the virtue of it in children, 145, 146. Great men famous for it, ibid.

Difcipline, the mischief of ill timing it towards chil dren, 131.

Difobedience of children to parents in the cafe of mar. riage, when juftifiable, 16. The trouble it occi

ons, 22.

Difflembling

Diffembling to be corrected in children, 109. Dittinction of quality abfolutely neceffary, 90. Divorces cheap among the ancients, 16. The practice of them among the Jews, 47.

Dominion of parents to be fubmitted to with patience, 88.

Drink, much or flrong, not to be given to children,

181.

Drunken hufbands, how their wives fhould treat them, 75. They give up the privilege of governing, 76. Duties of life, our firft confideration in it, 84. Of wives, laughed at by ladies, 261.

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Education to be fuited to condition, gr. Good, the benefit of it, 97. Should be religious, 99, 100. Rules for mothers towards their daughters, 111, &feq. Errors of it mix with the blood, 128. Should be religious, 143, 144.

Eli, his fin of indulgence to his children, 156, 157, 158,

Employment, the neceffity of it for virgins, 28. For people of quality, 95.

Encouragements what proper for children, 202. Efteem of husbands to be preferred by wives, 67. Of the world, children fhould be made in love with it, 203.

Examples of parents fatal to their children, 103. Their duty to give good, 154. Of mafters and miftreffes of families how prevalent, 266.

Extremes of frugality or expence to be avoided by women in their families, 260.

Family,