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A31438	Family reformation promoted in a sermon on Joshua, chap. 24. ver. 15. and by short catechismes fitted for the three-fold relations in a family of 1. Children and parents, 2. Servants and masters, 3. Husband and wife / by D. Cawdrey ...	Cawdrey, Daniel, 1588-1664.	1656 (1656)	Wing C1627; ESTC R5596	30,955	146

but will much more extend to children and servants There is a kinde of Civil judicature erected in the Family a power to examine try censure punish and eject offenders Gen. 21.10 Cast out the Bondwoman with her sonne And this houshold discipline David resolves to exercise in his house Psal 101. either to keep out or cast out such as are wicked and incorrigible This of the second Reason 3. Every chief housholder hath Curam animarum 3. He hath the cure of souls the charge of the souls of his family not properly pastoral but very like it He must give an account of the soules of his Wife Children Servants as well as the Magistrate of the souls of his Subjects Ezek. 34.10 or the Minister of the soules of his people Ezek. 2.18 It concerns him therefore very nearely to endeavour to make them Religious which is the onely way to save their soules 4. His house is a lesser Church 4. Every Christians house should be a lesser Church as the Church is called the House of God Hence we read of a Church in a house Rom. 16.5 The Church which is in the house of Aquila and Priscila Philem. ver 2. The Church in thy house Whether it were because the Congregation did assemble in their houses having at that time no publick place of meeting or that in their houses there were enough to make a little Church as some limite the number at lest to seven or whether their houses were so ordered for Religion that they seem●d to be lesser Churches it is not material to inquire Of that famous Emperours house Constantine it is reported by Eusebius that the exercises of Religion were so ordered in it that it differed little from a Church There were Prayers morning and evening reading of the word Catechising Singing of Psalmes all but Sacraments and Preaching as in the Church And to use St. Chrysostomes words Where there are in a house Prayers and Singing of Psalmes Tom. 1. pag. 6.11 l. 19. c in Psal 41. and reading of the Prophets c. a man should not much mistake in calling such a meeting or assembly a Church And this service of God in the family he calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a good Liturgie worship of God And besides there is or should be exercised a Church-like Discipline even a lesser Excommunication of refractorie offenders as David professes he would deal with wicked proud deceitfull lying servants Psal 101. If by instruction admonition correction he could not reclaim them he would Excommunicate cast them out of the Church in his house This may suffice for confirmation of the point 2 Applied We now come to the Application of all by Uses and Inferences therefrom 1 To check the rashnesse of young people 1. To consider and bewaile the rashnesse of many young ones who rush upon Family Relations and never know or weigh how fit or unfit they are to discharge the Duties of those Relations They must be married forsooth in all the hast there 's one Relation then come children perhaps before the lawful time there 's another And then servants must be had to attend them and theirs that 's a third Relation but know not what the duties of any of those relations are nor the charge of those souls under their Inspection While a man is single he hath care almost of none but his own soul and much liberty to study how to serve and please God 1 Cor. 7.34 But when once he hath a family made up of these three relations his duties are multiplied with them and now he must take care of the Soules of wife children servants and yet scarce knows how to take care of his own soul Little do they consider that the chief housholder must be a Prophet to teach a Priest to pray with and for a King to rule his own family when they cannot teach pray or rule themselves Let this consideration check and coole the heat and heady rashnesse of younger people 2 It shews the iniquity of Toleration 2. This may serve to discover the iniquity of that so much cal'd for cursed Toleration of all Religions falsly called Liberty of Conscience The mischiefes of it are so many and so great that they cannot be aforehand imagined Besides the publick disturbance of the peace by different fractions and factions c. The natural or unnatural consequences of such a Toleration the divisions in families will be as many almost as there are persons and the wisest Housholder cannot possibly redresse it But the maine is this that it will prove impossible for the most pious Housholder to do his duty in making his Family Religious and to serve God with him in all his relations when as he hath no coercive power to resolve with Joshua I and my house will serve the Lord. Suppose which experience daily confirmes to be true The Housholder be a godly zealous Protestant his Wife an Independent the children Anabaptists some one or more of the servants Papists c. How is it possible the Superiour should unite all these into a Church in his house to serve God if a toleration for all Religions be granted Some will pretend they goe to serve God in their own way and assemblies and perhaps goe to serve the Devil in the Stewes or Taverne How shall the Housholder joyne with his family wife children servants in prayers reading hearing Sacraments sanctification of the Sabbath by all together which is charged upon him in the fourth Commandement when they not onely detest his way of serving God but his prayers reading Sabbaths c. and perhaps himselfe different affections commonly arising from differing opinions and judgements Let the wise consider it 3 Complaint of many Housholders 3. Here 's matter of just complaint of many of most Housholders who are discovered to be little Religious themselves by the profanenesse and loosnesse of their Family wives children servants In that place afore cited Deut. 6.6 7. its made a sign of a man that is godly and religious that hath Gods words in his heart that he endeavours to make his family such These words that I command thee shall be in thine heart And thou shalt teach them to thy children c. Contrarily ignorance of God and irreligion in their families are joyn'd together Jer. 10.25 and both of them Characters of a nation or family lying under the wrath of God and subject to his curse and destruction Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know thee not and upon the families that call not on thy Name Much complaining there is every where of the badnesse of servants children wives as if they were corrupted abroad when the truth is they are either corrupted or neglected at home for want of instruction or houshold discipline or good example of the chief and Head of the family This might be exemplified in all the Relations of the family and in all the Services of God

to know and serve God How else can an Husband say as Joshua I and my house will serve the Lord when one principal party is at liberty to serve the Devil without controle 2 As a father to children 2. As a Father or in his death or absence a Mother unto children The Scripture is expresse for this and full Deut. 6.7 8. These words which I command thee shall be in thine heart And thou shalt teach them diligently to thy children and thou shalt talke of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou liest down and when thou risest up The same is repeated again to note the excellency and necessity and common neglect of this duty Deut. 11.18 with this addition in both places Thou shalt write them upon the dooreposts of thy house and upon thy gates to make them know and remember them the better So Pro. 22.6 Train up a childe in the way he should goe and when he is old he will not depart from it The New Testament speaks the same language Eph 6 And ye Parents bring up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 3. As a Master to servants 3 As a Master to servants Abrahams example is here recorded for imitation He will command his houshold as well as his children that is his servants and they shall keep the way of the Lord c. That Psal 101. is Davids profession for ordering his servants He will have all his servants faithful and religious or make them such or else eject and turn them out of doores The Masters of families Exod. 12.44 were to see that their servants did eat the Passeover and did sanctifie the Sabbath Exod. 20. in the fourth Command●●ent Thus in respect to his Relations 2 To the kinds of service of God 2. In respect to the several kinds of Services of God to be maintained in the Family and they are as we said of two sorts 1 Immediate in the first Table 1. Immediate service of God in the first Table of the law called specially Worship and that according to the four Commandments thereof 1. To know feare love trust delight in God required in the first Commandement 2. To cause them to know and attend upon all instituted Ordinances of worship as Prayers Reading hearing the word Grace Thanksgiving at Meales Sacraments c 3. To Reverence Gods Name in not taking it in vain and reverent using of all his Ordinances and Creatures 4. To sanctifie his Sabbath These the chief Housholder is to take care of in all in his Family as the places afore-cited manifest 2. Mediate Service 2 Mediate in the second is that which at second-hand redounds to God by serving of men according to the Commandements of the second Table Teaching them to be obedient to Superiours to be meek quiet peaceable To be chast and temperate To be just and righteous in their dealings To be true and faithful in their words And to be moderate in their desires contented with their own estate c. In doing these things men are said by reflexion and at last result to serve God as is clearely spoken of servants Col. 3.24 and Eph. 6.6 Not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart And ver 7. With good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men God is pleased to esteem himselfe served and worshipped in faithfull performance of the works of our callings and duties of the second Table to our neighbour as well as in our Immediate worship of himselfe in the first Table 3. By Reason Thus have we both explained and confirmed the Doctrine by light and proofes of Scripture we shall adde the light and strength of Reason 1. He is Gods Deputy 1. The chief Housholder is in his family Gods Deputy or Vice-roy yea a God to his Wife children and servants as Moses was to Aaron Exod. 4.16 Liberis suis Pater Dei vice est Greg. Naz. And therefore to manage his Authority for God in promoting his service in the little World or Kingdom of his own House He hath Gods Titles of Father and Lord put upon him and so the Supreame power in the family to command all his subjects for so they are in a sense for God As was said of Abraham he will command his Houshold c. He is also called the Head of the Family though chiefly of his wife to oversee and guide the body that little Domestical body 2. The Chief housholder Christian is in Christs stead 2 In Christ stead in all his offices As to his family And hence it is said of dutiful servants that in serving their Masters they serve the Lord Christ Col. 3.24 whose Deputies Masters are to them Whereupon they are invested with all his Offices as every good Christian is to himselfe Rev. 1.6 1 Pet. 2. of Prophet Priest and King These three Offices met all in one man at the beginning as in Adam to be sure he was all these to his Family afterwards they were severed and distributed into several persons one a Prophet another a Priest another a King Sometimes two of them met in one person a Priest a King as Melchisedeck a Prophet and a Priest as Samuel a Prophet and a King as David But they never met all in one person till Christ the Second Adam was anointed above his fellowes and recovered that which the first Adam lost And this Oyntment descended to the skirts of his garments the meanest of his Members but especially to Houshlders as their primitive right to be in one person a Prophet a Priest and a King to his Family Touch but the particulars 1. A Prophet 1. A Prophet to teach and instruct his Houshold Deut. 6.6 Thou shalt diligently teach them c. Eph. 6.6 Every Housholder is a Preacher to his own family a Minister in a sense to read and expound with modesty the word of God to Catechise and instruct his wife children servants 2. A Priest 2 A Priest to off●r Sacrifice for them and with them as Job did for his Both propitiatory sacrifice after a sort that is praying for pardon of their sins and for grace and Peace-offerings or Eucharistical Sacrifices of Praises and Thanksgiving for them and with them as for himselfe 1 Pet. 2.9 Ye are a royal Priest-hood that ye should shew forth the praises of him Heb. 13.15 who hath called you out of darknesse into his marvelous light 3. A King 3. A King to rule and command as well as to protect his family Abraham will command his Houshold c. And the Coercive and correcting power over his family argues his authority to be King-like The very Heathens acknowledged this truth by the light of Nature Eph. 1. last That every man should beare rule in his own house It is spoken with respect to the Wife