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…

5. Private Worship is profitable to all the ends of a family. It's an acknowledging of God and honouring of him, it helpeth the Master to keep his Authority, and maketh every one in their Family to walk the more respectively towards the rest, and it keepeth from many out-breakings, when they are to meet so often together to seek and worship God; hence, in experience, we often see that these families, where religious Worship is, are generally more civil, at least, than other families, where it is not, and that the children and servants of such families readily profit most, are most countenanced by Gods blessing, and are in greatest capacity to get good of the public Ordinances.

5. Private Worship is profitable to all the ends of a family. It's an acknowledging of God and honouring of him, it helpeth the Master to keep his Authority, and maketh every one in their Family to walk the more respectively towards the rest, and it keepeth from many out-breakings, when they are to meet so often together to seek and worship God; hence, in experience, we often see that these families, where religious Worship is, are generally more civil, at least, than other families, where it is not, and that the children and servants of such families readily profit most, are most countenanced by Gods blessing, and are in greatest capacity to get good of the publick Ordinances.

6. The Lord loveth to have a distinction betwixt these that serve him, and these that serve him not: Now as to a family relation, what difference is there betwixt a professing Christian fam •ly, where the joint worship of God is not, and a Heathenish family? Heathens live and eat and work together, and when no more is seen, they look very like the one to the other. Even as in a Nation where no public Worship is, though private persons privately seek God, yet there seemeth to be no public National difference betwixt that Nation and a Heathen Nation; so in the former case a Family-difference will hardly be found, if any should inquire of what sort of families these are.