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    The Duties of Parents: Parenting Your Children God's Way
    The Duties of Parents: Parenting Your Children God's Way
    The Duties of Parents: Parenting Your Children God's Way
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    The Duties of Parents: Parenting Your Children God's Way

    By J.C. Ryle

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    Training your children well and not causing them to stumble in any way ought to be one of the highest priorities of Christian parents.

    In The Duties of Parents, J. C. Ryle presents seventeen simple and yet profound responsibilities of Christian parents. Nothing new is contained in this little volume, yet what is presented has the potential to change future generations both now and for eternity. Learn how to shepherd your children; learn how to utilize the most significant key of all – love; and learn first and foremost how to present and represent Christ to your children. As you read this book, expect to find yourself both challenged and excited to begin a wonderful, appropriate, and growing relationship with the most wonderful gift God can give us in our lifetime – our dear children.

    About the Author
    John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) graduated from Eton and Oxford and then pursued a career in politics, but due to lack of funds, he entered the clergy of the Church of England. He was a contemporary of Spurgeon, Moody, Mueller, and Taylor and read the great theologians like Wesley, Bunyan, Knox, Calvin, and Luther. These all influenced Ryle’s understanding and theology. Ryle began his writing career with a tract following the Great Yarmouth suspension bridge tragedy, where more than a hundred people drowned. He gained a reputation for straightforward preaching and evangelism. He travelled, preached, and wrote more than 300 pamphlets, tracts, and books, including Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Principles for Churchmen, and Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century. Ryle used the royalties from his writing to pay his father’s debts, but he also felt indebted to that ruin for changing the direction of his life. He was recommended by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli to be Bishop of Liverpool where he ended his career in 1900.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAneko Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2018
    ISBN9781622456017
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    J.C. Ryle

    J. C. Ryle (1816–1900) was a prominent writer, preacher, and Anglican clergyman in nineteenth-century England. He is the author of the classic Expository Thoughts on the Gospels and retired as the bishop of Liverpool.

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      Easy to understand, straightforward and instructs hard truths. Favorited this book. Short but full of wisdom for parents. Giving it a five star.
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      Good, simple Christian teaching on child rearing. I would recommend this over Tedd Tripp's book Shepherding a Child's Heart.

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    The Duties of Parents - J.C. Ryle

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    The Duties of Parents

    Parenting Your Children God’s Way

    J. C. Ryle

    Contents

    The duties of parents

    Train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would go.

    Train up your child with all tenderness, affection, and patience.

    Train your children, for much depends upon you.

    Train them knowing that the soul of your child is most important.

    Train your child in a knowledge of the Bible.

    Train them in a habit of prayer.

    Train them in habits of diligence and regular church attendance.

    Train them to form a habit of faith.

    Train your children to develop a habit of obedience.

    Train children to always speak the truth.

    Train them to redeem the time.

    Train them, and beware of overindulgence.

    Train them as God trains His children.

    Train them by the influence of your own example.

    Train them to realize the power of sin.

    Train them to know the promises of Scripture.

    Train them with continual prayer for a blessing on all you do.

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    The Duties of Parents

    Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it. – Proverbs 22:6

    I suppose that most professing Christians are acquainted with the text at the top of this page. The sound of it is probably familiar to your ears, like an old tune. You have probably heard it, read it, talked of it, or quoted it many times. Is it not so?

    But even so, how little is the substance of this text regarded! The doctrine it contains appears scarcely known; the duty it puts before us seldom practiced. Isn’t this the truth?

    This is not a new subject. The world is old, and we have the experience of about six thousand years to help us. We live in days when there is a mighty zeal for education in every corner of the world. We hear of new schools rising on all sides. We are told of new systems and new books for the young of every sort and description. And still, the vast majority of children are not trained in the way they should go, for when they reach adulthood, they do not walk with God.

    How can we account for this state of things? The plain truth is that the Lord’s commandment in our text is not regarded, and therefore, the Lord’s promise in our text is not fulfilled.

    These things may well give rise to great searchings of heart. Pay attention, then, to a word of exhortation from a minister about the right training of children. Believe me, the subject is one that should touch every conscience and make everyone ask himself the question, Am I doing what I can in this matter?

    Training children is a subject that concerns most people. There is hardly a household that is not affected by children. Parents, nurses, teachers, guardians, uncles, aunts, brothers, and sisters – all have an interest in them. Few can be found who could not influence some parent in the management of his family or affect the training of a child by suggestion or advice. All of us can do something here, either directly or indirectly, and I wish to stir everyone up to remember this.

    This is a subject that all concerned are in great danger of falling short of in their duty. This is generally a point in which men can see the faults of their neighbors more clearly than their own. They will often bring up their children in the very path which they have denounced to their friends as unsafe. They will see specks in other men’s families but overlook beams in their own. They will be quick-sighted as eagles in detecting mistakes abroad, and yet blind as bats to

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