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One-of-a-kind stand-alone collection of seventeenth-century Puritan writer Richard Baxter's guidance on how to have a godly home. In twenty-first century America, at a time when the family structure is crumbling, divorce rates are at an all-time high, and respect for parents is diminishing, The Godly Home serves as a balm for those seeking God's plan for the family. With an introduction by J. I....

the consent of parents is necessary, much more is the consent of God. Question: But how shall a man know whether God calls him to marriage or consents to it? Has he not here left all men to their liberties, as in a thing indifferent? Answer: God has not made any universal law commanding or forbidding marriage and in this regard has left it indifferent to mankind. Yet he does not allow all to marry (for to some it is unlawful), but he has by other general laws or rules directed men to know in what