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…

For 1. Though that be worship, yet is it not worship from persons in such a Relation or Family-worship, more than if they were not in such a Relation, or of such a Family; and though it might be said that such and such persons sanctified the Sabbath, yet could it not be said that the Family as such did it; even as Families or persons seeking God in secret, could not be exonerated thereby, as to their being in the Congregation; nor their serving of God be so accepted as Congregational-service, i • they met not together when they might: Just so it is here; yea as it lieth, by this Command, on a Congregation and a Minister to sanctify the Lords day, and to come together for that end; so doth it lye on the Family and Master of it.

For 1. Though that be worship, yet is it not worship from persons in such a Relation or Family-worship, more than if they were not in such a Relation, or of such a Family; and though it might be said that such and such persons sanctified the Sabbath, yet could it not be said that the Family as such did it; even as Families or persons seeking God in secret, could not be exonered thereby, as to their being in the Congregation; nor their serving of God be so accepted as Congregational-service, i • they met not together when they might: Just so it is here; yea as it lyeth, by this Command, on a Congregation and a Minister to sanctifie the Lords day, and to come together for that end; so doth it lye on the Family and Master of it.

2. By this Command there is more required than secret o • solitary sanctifying of the Sabbath, even a peculiar sanctification of it within one Family distinct from another: I say, 1. more than solitary worship, because the Lords saying thou, without repeating Son, Daughter, &c. had been sufficient to have laid it on all separately for themselves; the enumeration therefore of the whole Members of a Family must import some other thing, for the former is implied in all Commands, as Thou shalt not kill, that is, as far as in thee lieth, thou nor thy Son, &c. There must I say, be something more understood by the peculiar enumeration pressed in this fourth Command. I say, 2. Even a peculiar worship, because it's something laid on by this Command which is holden within Gates or doors, and neither goeth to the Congregation, nor to the persons of other Families, at least ordinarily, but reacheth the Members of such a Family who are within such a Mans Gates or Doors; therefore it must be a distinct Family-worship mainly performed by that Family together.