Of confusion, in no one instance, is God the Author; but of order and of peace He is assuredly the cause in every family properly conducted, as well as in all churches of the saints. The precise and appropriate sphere of every relation, from the head downwards, he has described in his word, with a minute accuracy, which demonstrates the importance, in his eye, of domestic duties, and of each individual knowing his own place, as well as how to act in it. Husband and Wife, Parent and Child, Master and Servant, are again and again singled out; and the parties who will only take his word, and study it, as their guide, need, in truth, no other Family-book.
Christopher Anderson — Christopher Anderson, The Genius and Design of the Domestic Constitution, with Its Untransferrable Obligations and Peculiar Advantages (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1826), Section Fifth, "Family Government," p. 314
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