A25478:1535
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 15 › Question 1 › Argument 3 › Proposition 4: Proposition 4.
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1Proposition 4.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Anton. l. 1. Sect. 17. [Greek or Hebrew]. Idem.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Anton. l. 1. Sect. 17. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Idem.
God is the Benefactor of your Families as such; therefore as such they should serve God, in praying to him, and praising of him. God doth not do you good and give you mercies only as individual persons, but also as a conjunct Society. Is not the continuance of the Master of the Family, not only a mercy to himself, but to the whole Family also? if he be not he is not over good. Is not the continuance of the Mother, Children, Servants, in life, health and being, a mercy to the Family? that you have an house to dwell together, and food to eat together, do not you call these Family-mercies? and do not these call aloud in your ears and to your consciences, to give praises to your bountiful Benefactor together, and to pray together for the continuance of these, and the grant of more, as you shall need them? It would be endless to declare how many ways God is a Benefactor to your Families conjunctly, and you are shameless if you do not conjunctly praise him for his bounty. Such an house is rather a sty for Swine, than a dwelling house for rational Creatures.
God is the Benefactor of your Families as such; therefore as such they should serve God, in praying to him, and praising of him. God doth not do you good and give you mercies only as individual persons, but also as a conjunct Society. Is not the continuance of the Master of the Family, not only a mercy to himself, but to the whole Family also? if he be not he is not over good. Is not the continuance of the Mother, Children, Servants, in life, health and being, a mercy to the Family? that you have an house to dwell together, and food to eat together, do not you call these Family-mercies? and do not these call aloud in your ears and to your consciences, to give praises to your bountiful Benefactor together, and to pray together for the continuance of these, and the grant of more, as you shall need them? It would be endless to declare how many ways God is a Benefactor to your Families conjunctly, and you are shameless if you do not conjunctly praise him for his bounty. Such an house is rather a stye for Swine, than a dwelling house for rational Creatures.