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…

3. The thing required here is not only worship simply, but worship as from a Member of such a Family, therefore it is not solitary worship: for seeking of God and moral duties in secret still agree to persons in all places and Families alike, but this draweth a line as it were betwixt Families, and so divides one Family from another; yet maketh the Duty more obliging to these within such a Mans Gates or Doors than others without Doors; therefore it must be joint-worship: for, a-part, or as concerning secret worship, all are every where alike obliged.

3. The thing required here is not only worship simply, but worship as from a Member of such a Family, therefore it is not solitary worship: for seeking of God and moral duties in secret still agree to persons in all places and Families alike, but this draweth a line as it were betwixt Families, and so •ivides one Family from another; yet maketh the Duty more obliging to these within such a Mans Gates or Doors than others without Doors; therefore it must be joynt-worship: for, a-part, or as concerning secret worship, all are every where alike obliged.

4. If by this Command something more in the worship of this day be required of a person that is a Member of a Family in reference to that Family, than there is required of one who is not a Member of such a Family, or is required of that person in reference to an another Family whereof he is not a Member; then it requireth a distinct Family-worship, for no other thing can be understood but a joint going about the sanctifying of that day in a stricter and nearer way of Communion amongst the Members of that Family, than with persons and Families in and to whom they are not so interested and related.

4. If by this Command something more in the worship of this day be required of a person that is a Member of a Family in reference to that Family, than there is required of one who is not a Member of such a Family, or is required of that person in reference to an another Family whereof he is not a Member; then it requireth a distinct Family-worship, for no other thing can be understood but a joynt going about the sanctifying of that day in a stricter and nearer way of Communion amongst the Members of that Family, than with persons and Families in and to whom they are not so interested and related.