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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. | 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 |
