A37049:851
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.
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.
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 joynt 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 publick Worship is, though private persons privately seek God, yet there seemeth to be no publick 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.
Add that it will be hard to say that a man should take care of the outward Estate of his family, and neglect the spiritual, and keep Communion with his family in temporal things, and none in spiritual Duties, yea doubtless he should be much more in these, as being both more necessary and more excellent.
Having first showed that this fourth command holdeth