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A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We shall here, 1. show you, that, This Command holdeth forth a Family, or Domestic • Worship. 2. We shall confirm it more largely from other Scriptures, and Grounds of Reason. 3. We shall show, wherein it consisteth in particular, ⟨p. 208⟩and on whom it mainly lieth to be discharged. 4. We shall show the Advantages, of Conscientious discharging of it, and the Prejudices of neglecting it, with the Aggravations of that Sin.
We shall here, 1. shew you, that, This Command holdeth forth a Family, or Domestic • Worship. 2. We shall confirm it more largely from other Scriptures, and Grounds of Reason. 3. We shall shew, wherein it consisteth in particular, ⟨p. 208⟩and on whom it mainly lyeth to be discharged. 4. We shall shew the Advantages, of Conscientious discharging of it, and the Prejudices of neglecting it, with the Aggravations of that Sin.
That there is such a thing as Family-Worship, included in this Command, will be clear, by considering, 1. What Worship to •od in general is. 2. What Family-Worship is. 3. What this Command requireth:
1. By Worship, is understood some Tribute payed, by the Reason able Creature to God, as the Great and Sovereign Lord Creator; wh •ther it be immediately and directly payed, and performed to Him, as Prayer, and Praise; or for Him and at His Command, and for His Honour, as Preaching, Hearing, and receiving of Sacraments; which are Worship, when Rightly gone about. In a word, we call that Worship, more tr ctly and properly, which is a Duty of the First Table; and cometh in as commanded in it, for the Honour of God, and not for our own, or others External Profit; which, though commanded in the Second Table, cannot be so properly called Worship, much-less Immediate-Worship. Thus, Teaching others the Duties of Piety, may be Worship, when Teaching the Duties of any other ordinary calling, is not.