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In The Duties of Parents, J.

Ryle explores the best ways to raise children with Christ in their hearts, and the duties all Christian parents have toward those God has entrusted to them.

Ryle gives helpful advice on how to raise children, and shows how we can love our children without spoiling them.

Though written in 1888, it contains timeless truths based on God's wisdom.

Ryle perfectly balanced love and discipline in this approach to raising godly children.

Essential reading for every parent who seeks to raise their children in the instruction of the Lord, Ryle's book is one you will return to over and over again.

It is short, powerful, easy to comprehend, and one of the best resources for parenting outside of the Bible.

Those who truly seek biblical parenting should not be without this book.

About the Author: John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool.

Ryle was born at Macclesfield, and was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was Craven Scholar in 1836.

After holding a curacy at Exbury in Hampshire, he became rector of St Thomas's, Winchester (1843), rector of Helmingham, Suffolk (1844), vicar of Stradbroke (1861), honorary canon of Norwich (1872), and dean of Salisbury (1880).

However before taking the latter office, he was advanced to the new see of Liverpool, where he remained until his resignation, which took place three months before his death at Lowestoft.

His appointment to Liverpool was at the recommendation of the outgoing Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

Ryle was a strong supporter of the evangelical school and a critic of Ritualism.

He was a writer, pastor and an evangelical preacher.

Among his longer works are Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century (1869), Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (7 vols, 1856-69), Principles for Churchmen (1884).

Ryle was an athlete who rowed and played Cricket for Oxford, where he took a first class degree in Greats and was offered a college fellowship (teaching pos.