Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

¹In repeating what you hear in the public Congregation, in discoursing to your Family what sin ⟨p. 187⟩was reproved, and what duty was enforced, and what were the Arguments and Motives thereunto. What Christ preached more publicly, he repeated to his Disciples (which were as his Family) more privately, Mar. 4.10. and 7.17. Mat. 13.36, 37. and the Apostle commanded Wives to ask their Husbands when they came home, the things that were delivered in the Congregation, 1 Cor. 14.34, 35. This would keep your Children and Servants better employed on the Lords day, than to be standing Idle at your doors, or walking sinfully in the fields. This would make them profit more by the Word preached, if you would repeat it to them, and use them to give account of what they hear.

¹In repeating what you hear in the publick Congregation, in discoursing to your Family what sin ⟨p. 187⟩was reproved, and what duty was inforced, and what were the Arguments and Motives thereunto. What Christ preached more publickly, he repeated to his Disciples (which were as his Family) more privately, Mar. 4.10. and 7.17. Mat. 13.36, 37. and the Apostle commanded Wives to ask their Husbands when they came home, the things that were delivered in the Congregation, 1 Cor. 14.34, 35. This would keep your Children and Servants better imployed on the Lords day, than to be standing Idle at your doors, or walking sinfully in the fields. This would make them profit more by the Word preached, if you would repeat it to them, and use them to give account of what they hear.