11. Precepts. The Israelites are bound to tell in the ears of their sons, and of their sons sons, what things the Lord had wrought in Egypt, that they also might know Jehovah to be the Lord. The Parents are bound to be Expositors of that great Rite of the Paschal Lamb, and of the Stones set up in the midst of Jordan. Bound also to teach their Children the words which they heard from the Lord their God in Horeb, even the Ten Commandments. How doth this Duty sparkle with a Radiant Lustre in that great Text, Deut. 6.6, 7? These words which I Command thee this day shall be in thine heart, ⟨p. 209⟩and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine House, and when thou walkest by the way, 2and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. It is the Eternal God that here gives forth his strict Command to Parents. These words, all these words, Precepts, Promises, Threatenings, shall be in thy heart, not in thy head only, so as to know, but in thy Heart to affect. An Heart inflamed with the Love of God and his Truth,3 God knew was one of the most effectual means to engage the Tongue to make known his Truth; but not only in their Heart, but Houses too. Thou shalt teach them thy Children; nor was this a Ceremonial Precept, or a Command given peculiarly to the Jews, for their assistance in their Remembrance of the Law of God, as their Phylacteries and fringes, &c. Exod. 13.9. Deut. 6.8, 9. but was and is a Moral, perpetual, standing Precept, binding us in Gospel-times as well as them: The same things we find in this Text, we find also in the New Testament. The word of Christ must dwell richly in us, all one with this here, Let it be in thine heart, Col. 3.16. and in our Houses also: we must teach and admonish others, 4we are to bring up our Children in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord.
11. Precepts. The Israelites are bound to tell in the ears of their sons, and of their sons sons, what things the Lord had wrought in Egypt, that they also might know Jehovah to be the Lord. The Parents are bound to be Expositors of that great Rite of the Paschal Lamb, and of the Stones set up in the midst of Jordan. Bound also to teach their Children the words which they heard from the Lord their God in Horeb, even the Ten Commandments. How doth this Duty sparkle with a Radiant Lustre in that great Text, Deut. 6.6, 7? These words which I Command thee this day shall be in thine heart, ⟨p. 209⟩and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine House, and when thou walkest by the way, 2and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. It is the Eternal God that here gives forth his strict Command to Parents. These words, all these words, Precepts, Promises, Threatnings, shall be in thy heart, not in thy head only, so as to know, but in thy Heart to affect. An Heart inflamed with the Love of God and his Truth,3 God knew was one of the most effectual means to engage the Tongue to make known his Truth; but not only in their Heart, but Houses too. Thou shalt teach them thy Children; nor was this a Ceremonial Precept, or a Command given peculiarly to the Jews, for their assistance in their Remembrance of the Law of God, as their Phylacteries and fringes, &c. Exod. 13.9. Deut. 6.8, 9. but was and is a Moral, perpetual, standing Precept, binding us in Gospel-times as well as them: The same things we find in this Text, we find also in the New Testament. The word of Christ must dwell richly in us, all one with this here, Let it be in thine heart, Col. 3.16. and in our Houses also: we must teach and admonish others, 4we are to bring up our Children in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord.
- 1Ex. 10.2. Ex. 12.24, 26, 27, with 13.8, 14, 15. Josh. 4.6, 7, 21, 22, 24. Deut. 4.9, 10. Ainsw. in Deut. 6 6, 7.
- 2Ainsw. in Deut. 6.6, 7.
- 3Joel 1.3. Deut. 11.19.
- 4Eph. 6.4.
