A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

1. Let the Master of the Family exercise his Authority in the good Government of his household. He is to be the foreman in the worship of God in the Family. Mr. Perkins writes thus, That the Master of the Family hath the proper government of the whole household, and he comes not to it by election —but by the Ordinance of God, settled even in the order of nature— and by the light of nature hath the principality and sovereignty therein; he is Pater-Familias, the father and chief head of the Family—and ought therefore to bear the chief stroke, and to be the principal agent, director and furtherer of the worship of God in his Family, and to keep order, and to exercise discipline in his house. Let him improve his Authority in commanding and causing every one in his house under his charge to be present, and to attend upon God in Family Prayer: God and Nature have made ⟨p. 332⟩him the head of all the rest; and the head is to govern, rule, direct, and influence the whole Body. Let him also take care to purge his house from sin, and to his utmost power endeavour that none in his house live in gross sins, that there be no swearers, drunkards, and openly profane sinners under his roof.

1. Let the Master of the Family exercise his Authority in the good Government of his houshold. He is to be the foreman in the worship of God in the Family. Mr. Perkins writes thus, That the Master of the Family hath the proper government of the whole houshold, and he comes not to it by election —but by the Ordinance of God, settled even in the order of nature— and by the light of nature hath the principality and soveraignty therein; he is Pater-Familias, the father and chief head of the Family—and ought therefore to bear the chief stroke, and to be the principal agent, director and furtherer of the worship of God in his Family, and to keep order, and to exercise discipline in his house. Let him improve his Authority in commanding and causing every one in his house under his charge to be present, and to attend upon God in Family Prayer: God and Nature have made ⟨p. 332⟩him the head of all the rest; and the head is to govern, rule, direct, and influence the whole Body. Let him also take care to purge his house from sin, and to his utmost power endeavour that none in his house live in gross sins, that there be no swearers, drunkards, and openly profane sinners under his roof.