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…

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.

11. And lastly, that which is required of Families, is such a worship as ought to be performed by them, supposing there were no public worship, nor yet any other Family, worshipping him in the World. So Joshua resolveth Chap. 24.15. I a •d my House will serve the Lord, and Sanctify His Sabbath (that being a special piece of His service) what-ever ye will do; but if there were no worshipping of God in all the World but in one Family, then ought that worship to be joint according to that same word of Joshua's, I and my House, otherwise we behooved to say, that there might be a plurality of worshippers of God in the World, and yet without any joining together in worship, which were in it self absurd and contrary to Joshua's Religious Resolution.