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The Duties of Parents is the best known-known work of Dutch Further reformation leader Jacobus Koelman. Outlining 282 guidelines for Christian parenting, Koelman emphasizes the need for loving, thoughtful discipline. He describes the need for good schools and teachers and encourages the latter to realize their great responsibility. The Duties of Parents gives readers an important glimpse at the...

(“beatifier”), Angel, Jezebel, Absalom, and so forth. Also beware of giving your children the names of animals, such as Birdie, Chickadee, Raven, Robin, Swanie, or Swanet. It is an insult to the institution of baptism and, later on, a source of torment and pain to pious children who are regularly reminded that at their baptism they were given such animal names and are thus entered on the roll of Christ’s soldiers and members of his household. 13. Do not be satisfied with the external baptism administered
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