A37049:830
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.
9. This Command (when it mentioneth all within his Gates or Doors) requireth some other thing of a Master when at home with his Family, than when he is withdrawn from them: But a Master at a distance may Command all in his Family to worship God, and pray to God for them, and so may they all if they were scattered, worship God secretly; therefore when they are together, there is some other thing required of them by this Command, which is, no doubt, To worship God together.
10. The Duties that are to be performed on this day will require this; such as, Instructing one another, Exhorting, Admonishing, Comforting, strengthening one another, and talking to, or conferring with one another, of the word, D •ut. 6. v. 7.8. ⟨p. 214⟩Which cannot be denied to be Duties called for, on this day; and yet they cannot be done but by joint concurring together in that work, and therefore it concludeth strongly that Family-worship, at least on the Lords day, is commanded here; and if Families be called to worship God jointly on the Lords day by the worship competent for that day, then by proportion are they also called to worship him jointly on other days by the worship suitable to them, there being the like ground for all.
10. The Duties that are to be performed on this day will require this; such as, Instructing one another, Exhorting, Admonishing, Comforting, strengthning one another, and talking to, or conferring with one another, of the word, D •ut. 6. v. 7.8. ⟨p. 214⟩Which cannot be denyed to be Duties called for, on this day; and yet they cannot be done but by joynt concurring together in that work, and therefore it concludeth strongly that Family-worship, at least on the Lords day, is commanded here; and if Families be called to worship God joyntly on the Lords day by the worship competent for that day, then by proportion are they also called to worship him joyntly on other dayes by the worship suitable to them, there being the like ground for all.