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…

Obj. If it be said, that by Families there, are meant People and Nations, yea (comparing this place with Psal 79. v. 6.) Heathens that called not on God. Ans. 1. That doth confirm the Argument: for if Heathens, whether Kingdoms or Families be described by this, that they call not on God; then still it must be a Heathenish Kingdom that has not public worship, a Heathenish person who wanteth secret worship, and so a Heathenish Family that wanteth Family-worship. 2. The Curse here is not threatened to Families as Families, but as such Families that call not on Gods Name, therefore it reacheth them • for, à quatenus ad onine, &c. So then what-ever profession Families ⟨p. 218⟩have otherwayes, if they want this duty they are thereby laid open to the Curse. 3. It is all one upon the matter whether by Families be meant Societies lesser or greater: for if it be a fault in Nations to neglect Gods worship, and if the neglect thereof bring a Curse on them, will it not be a fault in particular Families, and bring a Curse on them? •. Families cannot be excluded, seeing they are expressly named; though more be included, to wit, that the Curse cometh on multitudes of Families, or upon Nations made up of Families. And we conceive Families to be particularly named, 1. To show that the Curse will reach all Societies lesser as well as greater, who have this Character. 2. Because Nations are made up of Families, and because there is fitness (to say so) betwixt the carriage of Families in Religious worship, and the carriage of the whole Land. 5. The comparing of Jeremiah 10. with Psal. 79. will not enervate any of the places; but, when put together, they show that the Holy Ghost doth mean both Families and Kingdoms, and that what is implied in the one place is expressed in the other, to show that God will have both public-worship from whole Kingdoms and Family-worship from particular Families as parts of these Kingdoms. 6. The ground whence the Curse is derived, is because that such a Society neglecteth such a duty, and therefore how-ever we expound the place and the word Family there, it will hold of all Societies in general.

Obj. If it be said, that by Families there, are meant People and Nations, yea (comparing this place with Psal 79. v. 6.) Heathens that called not on God. Ans. 1. That doth confirm the Argument: for if Heathens, whether Kingdoms or Families be described by this, that they call not on God; then still it must be a Heathenish Kingdom that has not publick worship, a Heathenish person who wanteth ecret worship, and so a Heathenish Family that wanteth Family-worship. 2. The Curse here is not threatned to Families as Families, but as such Familes that call not on Gods Name, therefore it reacheth them for, à quatenus ad onine, &c. So then what-ever profession Families