A37049:813
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.
Ye will see this Family-Worship clear: 1. By considering the Jews Eating of the Passover: Where there was, 1. Secret Worship, no question a-part. 2. There was Public-Worship; a Holy Convocation the First Day, and the Last: But 3. There was peculiarly a Family-Worship; or, if the Family was little, two joined together, for Eating the Passover, within the House, wherein all the Members of that Family; or of those two little Families that were Circumcised were necessarily to be present, and to be joiners: this is Family-worship.
Ye will see this Family-Worship clear: 1. By considering the Jews Eating of the Passover: Where there was, 1. Secret Worship, no question a-part. 2. There was Publick-Worship; a Holy Convocation the First Day, and the Last: But 3. There was peculiarly a Family-Worship; or, if the Family was little, two joyned together, for Eating the Passover, within the House, wherein all the Members of that Family; or of those two little Families that were Circumcised were necessarily to be present, and to be joyners: this is Family-worship.
2. By considering Psal. 101. compared with other Scriptures, where ye have 1. David mentioning his private carriage, and longing for God, and walking in a perfect way. 2. His public carriage as a Magistrate in cutting off the wicked from the City of God, as ye have. 3. Elsewhere his public-worship as Psal. 122.1. and 2 Sam. 6. 4. his fellowship with all the Godly, being a Companion to them that feared God, Psal. 119. v. 63. Yet 5thly, and lastly: Ye have a walk within his House with a perfect heart mentioned there as contradistinct from all; which must infer some Religious performances of duties, or exercise of worship in his House in reference to that station, as well as in private or in public, yea a joint▪ exercise; because it is such an exercise as he performed only at home in his house; whereas had it been Praying for them, or any thing, that other-wise he might have done a-part: he needed not go home to them, for performing of it: Yet,