What books are there out there by the Puritan writers that focuses particularly on the family, how a husband should lead his family, and what God desires of a family? Thanks for your suggestions!

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I listed a few resources in the thread above. In addition, I'll add a few more:

Jacobus Koelman, The Duties of Parents
John Wing, The Crown Conjugal
Richard Baxter, A Christian Directory

Be sure to check out this resource from A Puritan's Mind:

The Christian Family

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This isn't by a Puritan writer, but it gives good insight into the workings of a prominent late-Puritan family: Dodd's Marriage to a Difficult Man about Sarah and Jonathan Edwards was certainly humbling to me. Be aware that Dodd was not always familiar with a reformed perspective, so she goes "off" in a few places.

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Virginia

Do not forget J.C. Ryle (though not a Puritan).

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Pittsburgh, PA
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Not exactly what you're looking for, but perhaps related in a general way would be

Thoughts on Family Worship by J.W. Alexander, (Soli Deo Gloria Publications) 1990.

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Coventry, CT
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Of Domestical Duties by William Gouge

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Ginny Dohms
Puritan Reformed Church
RPNA (GM)
Canada

A Family Well-Ordered , by Cotton Mather
Family Religion, Matthew Henry

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First Presbyterian Church
Kosciusko, MS
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There is that book that Soli Deo Gloria published called The Godly Family, which contains a number of chapters by various Puritans, and the RPCI's very own Thomas Houston.

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Daniel Ritchie
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Check out these Puritan titles on the family:

Puritan Family Reformation Conference

William Perkins, Christian oeconomie: or, A short survey of the right manner of erecting and ordering a familie: according to the scriptures

A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving -- Alexander Niccholes

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I located one of the titles mentioned in the link above online. It is The Woman's Glorie: A Treatise Asserting the Due Honour of that Sexe (1645) by Samuel Torshel (or Torshell) (1604-1650).

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Hi:

A book done about the Puritan Family is Edmund Morgan's: The Puritan Family: Religion & Domestic Relations in 17th Century New England

ISBN: 978-0061312274

Blessings,

-CH

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Colorado Springs, CO
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Don't forget John Angell James (Puritan tradition) - A Help to Domestic Happiness

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