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…

2. It speaketh of particular duties, wherein they should join, as 1. Here of sanctifying the Sabbath in all the duties of it, adding more to our family-worship that day than other days, as well as to our secret worship, for the Sabbath was to have its double offering. 2. Of praying Jer. 10. ult. which is necessarily included in that mourning, mentioned Zech. 12. a fruit of the poured out spirit of Grace and Supplications, so 2 Sam. 6. Davids blessing his family is to be understood of his going before them in prayer to God for a blessing on them, not in common as a public▪ Prophet, which he did with the People, but as a peculiar duty discharged by him to his family, whereof he was head. 3. Of Family fasting, or setting of time apart in the family extraordinarily for Fasting and Prayer, as in Zech. 12. in that solemn ⟨p. 233⟩mourning, and in Esther 4. where it is recorded, that she and her Maids (who were her family) and all the Jews at Shushan (who yet could not have in that place a public fast) did go about that duty. 4. Of Instruction, a most necessary duty to instruct and teach the family the knowledge of God; the command goeth expressly on this, Deut. 6.7, 8, and 11.19, 20. where we are commanded to talk of the Law within the house, to teach it our Children diligently, or (as the word is) to whet it on them by catechising, and to write on the posts of our doors and on the walls of the house, for what end I pray? Sure for this very end, that the house might have the means of knowledge in it, and that the knowledge of Gods Law might be taught and learned in it, and will any think that the walls should teach and the Master be silent? Especially, seeing it is for the families behoof, that these things were written: What if some in the Family could not read? Which on several accounts might be, then it would follow that they were lost, if there were no more nor other teaching then what was by writing on the walls; when Abraham commanded his house to keep the way of the Lord, and to serve him, will any think he did not teach them, who he was, and how he should be served? By proportion other things fit for edification, and as Worship to God, come in here, particularly praise, as appeareth by the 30 Psal. entitled a Psalm or Song at the Dedication of Davids house.