A37049:825
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.
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.
5. If secret and public worship were only required in this Command, then should we equally and alike sanctify the Lords day with other Families and persons, not of that Family whereof we are Members; for in these we join alike for them and with them; but there is some peculiar thing required here which will not agree to be performed by all alike; therefore it is Family-worship that must be here required.
5. If secret and publick worship were only required in this Command, then should we equally and alike sanctifie the Lords day with other Families and persons, not of that Family whereof we are Members; for in these we joyn alike for them and with them; but there is some peculiar thing required here which will not agree to be performed by all alike; therefore it is Family-worship that must be here required.