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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.
1. That it is commanded, what we have said from this fourth Command may sufficiently make it out, yet we further add, Deut. 6. v. 7, 8. and Deut. 11. v. 18, 19. In which two places it is clear that observing of the law, is not only to be studied by a Master of a Family himself alone, but that the Religious duties of frequent speaking of it, diligent teaching of it, whetting and pressing of it on his Family, are to be performed by him; yea it is to be written on the posts of his Door, to show that Religion must be in the Family, & in all that enter into it, even as carrying the word on the frontlets betwixt their eyes was to mind them of the peculiar and particular sanctification that was called for from them.
1. That it is commanded, what we have said from this fourth Command may sufficiently make it out, yet we further add, Deut. 6. v. 7, 8. and Deut. 11. v. 18, 19. In which two places it is clear that observing of the law, is not only to be studied by a Master of a Family himself alone, but that the Religious duties of frequent speaking of it, diligent teaching of it, whetting and pressing of it on his Famaly, are to be performed by him; yea it is to be written on the posts of his Door, to shew that Religion must be in the Family, & in all that enter into it, even as carrying the word on the frontlets betwixt their eyes was to mind them of the peculiar and particular sanctification that was called for from them.
2. That it is commended by examples is clear in Abraham's, who dealeth both with Children and servants in the Family, and that in things concerning the worshipping of God, as well as in things concerning his own particular Affairs; He Circumcised them, and commanded, yea charged them to serve the Lord, which cannot be supposed to have been done without other duties of worship. And in David's