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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43576	A family altar erected to the honour of the eternal God, or, A solemn essay to promote the worship of God in private houses being some meditations on Genesis 35. 2, 3 / by O.H. ...	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1693 (1693)	Wing H1765; ESTC R6342	87,094	166

is an Emblem of Heaven it is recorded of the Prince of Anhalts House that it was Templum Academia Curia a Church an Academy and Court where himself was as Priest Tutour Judg and Soveraign Lord Oh happy such a family I may say of such a Governour as the Queen of Sheba of Solomon happy are thy men happy are these thy Servants which stand continually before thee 1 Kin. 10.8 This this only is the Glory of a Family 2. This is not only the Ornament but muniment and defence of a Family Psal 91.1 he that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty Communion with God usually is attended with protection from God if any be safe it is the Godly that shall be safe Lot's Family must be delivered from Sodoms flames the Lord shall create upon every dwelling-place of mount-Mount-Zion Isai 4.5 as well as upon her Assemblies a Cloud and Smoak by day that the Enemy shall not find them and the shining of a Flaming Fire by night that they may see the their way Zech. 2.5 yea it shall be a Wall of Fire round about them for upon all the Glory shall be a defence yea God himself will be the Glory in the midst of them none know the advantages of Praying families but experienced and Observant Christians 3. This is the way and means to bring Spiritual and Eternal Salvation to your Houses surely that was a great word that our Dear Lord spoke to Zacheus Luk. 19 9 this day is Salvation come to this House that little man used great care and made an hard shift to behold Jesus and meat with a blessed unexpected guest that brought him the greatest Blessing himself and Salvation with Him Our Lord never comes alone but brings Happiness with him the conversion of one man as it was a pledg of his Adoption so it made even domum illam salut is haeredem the whole Family an heir of Heavenly Glory Nam quia deus dum patrem familias adoptat toti etiam ejus domni se in deum fore promit tit jure salus a capite extenditur ad totum corpus Calv. in loc Act. 10. 2 11 14. for as Calvin observed when God adopts the Governour of a Family he promiseth to be a God to the whole house and by right Salvation is extended from the head to the whole body So Lydia was baptized and her houshold and the Jaylour Act. 16 15 33 34. and oh what joy was produced when himself and his house believed yea Cornelius owning God in Family-worship brought to him and his words whereby the Master and all his house should be saved not of Merit but in a Covenant-way and in answer of Prayer Oh Sirs would you not have your Children and Servants saved this is Gods appointed way to bring it about call in Divine aid and grace to do that for yours which you cannot 4. Family-Worship will make up a defect in or want of publick Ordinances Providence may cast your lot in places where the streams of the Sanctuary run low or muddy in this case house-wells may do you much Service when publick persecution breaks up Church-assemblys house-worship will maintain Religion in the World and that private Fire will break out into an open Flame what had become of Religion had it not lodged in private houses this hath been Gods usual reserve to maintain the power of Godliness Church-History ●ells us that the open profession of the Gospel hath run at a low Ebbe and this hath helped it to a Glorious Resurrection Ministers were Banished Assemblies scaterred Churches demolished and scarce any appearance of publick Meetings yet then the fire glowed hot in private hearths and in God's due time a door was opened for Solemn Assemblies how much are we beholding to God for House-Altars and such a day may overtake us again And suppose you have free liberty of Publick and Powerfull Ordinances how can you expect a blessing upon them without seeking God for it in your Families What good will Preaching do without your private instructions admonitions councels prayers this will inculcate truths and may lay a foundation for after-godliness and as Family-Worship is most indisputable so least unaproachable by the enemy because oft indiscerneabl however you may most warrantably suffer for it if that be God's will as you heard Daniel ventured himself for it to the hungry Lions My Beloved Friends what shall I say what Arguments shall I use to perswade you to this duty of Family-Worship I doubt your Religion is to seek if you be so loath to set up this Family-Altar which may consecrate all your Civil and Natural acts and Offices I will but Pose you with these few Interrogatorys 1. Suppose a Grave and Pious Minister or Christian friend lodge with you would you not for shame reach him a Bible and desire him to go to Prayer with you lest he should suspect you to be Prayerless at other times and will not Gods authority and presence have the like influence and awe upon your Spirits 2. Suppose your Friends and Relations should quite disown and disclaim you unless you would Pray in your Family would you not make an hard shift to do something that way rather than be accounted unworthy of Humane Society and shall that prevail more than God's disclaiming you or disowning converse with you 3. If your Landlord should turn you out of your House or your Father shoud Disinherit you if you set not up this Family-altar could you be content to suffer both rather than do it and shall a threatning of your Father in Heaven or Great Land-lord to reject or eject you out of Heaven avail nothing 4. If a Law were imposed upon you to pay five Shillings a time that you neglect Prayer in your Family would you forfeit that summe toties quoties as oft as you go Prayerless to Bed and would you not fear that would begger you and shall not greater losses and heavier penalties deter you from this Omission 5. If the King or a Nobleman should promise you five Pound a time that you call your Family together read a Chapter Sing a Psalm Kneel down and Pray to God would you not strain hard to procure that Money and will not a greater profit from the Almighty God prevail with you to perform this excercise to obtain a reward 6. Suppose a Brand were set upon your Foreheads like Cains Tan or a dreadfull Trembling should seize upon your bodies for such a Neglect or you should pass under such a Stigmatizing character as that in Deut. 25.9 10. The house of him that hath his Shooe loosed So if this name be given you this is a Graceless Prayerless man would not this shame you out of this wretched Omission 7. Suppose the next time you go Prayerless to Bed your loveliest Child and Darling should be snatch't away by a sudden stroak of Death as it was in

Governours Yea therefore are Parents rewarded or punished in their Children according to the second Commandment because Governours must account for their Inferiours Yea God orders Housholders to bring all under their roof to the feast of Weeks with their Free-will Offerings Deut. 16.10 11. and the feast of Tabernacles v 13 14. Yea they were to bring their Males yearly three times in the year v. 16. And it is not for nothing that Housholders have this charge laid on them because they have greater Authority opportunity to bring them together for God's Publick Worship in the family for they may call them together upon natural and civil accounts to eat and to work and why not to pray together their command is a Law A Master may say Luk. 16.2 Give an account of thy Stewardship and why not of such a Sermon They may demand an account of their time and talents committed to their trust and why not a Reason of their hope and an account of their piety or proficiency why not call them to prayer And indeed it is a debt due to mens Children and Servants This is implied in Col. 4.1 2. Masters give unto your Servants that which is just and equal presently he adds continue in prayer intimating that praying for and with Servants is just and equal both upon their own and Servants account it 's as due as their promised wages God makes Masters as truly Watch-men as Ministers and if they fail Ezek. 3.18 God will require their blood at their hand Besides the advantages and conveniency of frequent intercourse capacitates Governours for this solemn Exercise and God will require accounts of all these Talents another day 10. There are daily cases occasions necessities that concern families to be presented unto the Lord There are family-sins to be confessed wants to be bewailed mercies to be desired cares and crosses to be removed fears to be prevented temptations to be resisted duties to be performed graces to be exercised obtained peace to be maintained or regained passions to be suppressed mercies to be acknowledged and all these must be laid at God's foot in daily prayer That 's a rare family that hath not some Prodigal Son or Carnal Soul as a Member of it some body sick in it or some Child to dispose of in Marriage or Calling some doubts or difficulties that call for prayer wherein the whole family is concerned or if there be no such exigency at present yet who knows how soon any of these or all these may light upon a family And what remedy is there like family prayer Phil. 4.6 Be careful in nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God This is a Catholicon a Cure for all Diseases a Salve for every Sore We find that when God afflicted Abimelech's family Gen. 20.1 1 Exod. 9.2 Abraham prayed unto God and God healed him his Wife Maid-servants and they bare Children A Pharaoh will beg Moses prayers for him in his Affliction and oh what a woful state is that family in that hath no body to speak a word to God for it and with it in domestick troubles A Child lies groaning and the Father cannot groan out a prayer a Servant lying at the point of death and the Master hath no skill or will to bring him to Jesus for cure Alas that any should be so insensible of their wants Deest sempe quod petitur vel ex to●o vel ex parte vel in s●se ve● in sersu nestro vel denique quoad actum vel quod continu atam ejus durationem Ames Med Theol. l. 2● cap. 9. so ignorant of the means of relief or distrustful of the Power of God or efficacy of prayer No family is above wants therefore none should be without prayer for prayer riseth from sense of wants which no person or family is without in whole or in part in it self or in sense in act or continued duration of mercy 11. The Blessing of God usually attends Family-Altars Not as though God were tyed to Religious Families as Heathens chained their Idols or as Elies Sons fancied Gods presence necessarily attending the Ark but God usually visits pious Families Scripture and Experience testifie this Psal 115.12 13. Psal 118.15 He will bless the house of Israel he will bless the house of Aaron he will bless them that fear the Lord both small and great i. e. Proselites Gentiles Converts The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the Tabernacles of the righteous Our Lord loves to converse where his Children inhabit it 's true he prefers publick Assemblies The Lord loveth the Gates of Zion Psal 87.2 more than all the Dwellings of Jacob God loves to see his Children together in his H. Worship The greater the Solemnity if good the more of Gods Spirit and Presence But God doth not despise his Children seeking him in families Psal 101.1 2. when devout David sings of mercy and judgment to God and behaves himself wisely in a perfect way he cries out O when wilt thou come unto me Gods kind visits are worth a World whether by way of Providence Assistance Influence or Evidence How often have Gods Children met with God in their families Gen. 18.10 Act. 10.3 Luk. 8.43.51 Abraham had a Promise of a Child Cornelius had a glorious Vision of an Holy Angel and our Lord came to Jairus's house to raise his dead Daughter How often hath God answered Family-Prayer Even at present by melting the hearts of Children Servants And afterwards It 's recorded of Mr. Banen of Stepleford That he seldom performed Family-duty but he had some Answers of Prayer to bless God for since the former time of appearing there before God Anno autem 1584. terrae motu Mons quidam in Ditiore Bernatum ultra alias Montes violenter latus pagum quendam nonaginta familias habentem contexit totum dimidiâ domi exceptâ in qua paterfamilias cum uxore liberis in genua provolutus Deum invocabat Polani Syntag. cap. 22. fol. 301. It is a remarkable story that Polanus relates of an Earth-quake in the year 1584. in Berna in a Mountain violently hurried beyond other Mountains overturning a whole Village of Ninety houses and families excepting half of one house in which the Father of the family with his Wife and Children were prostrate on their knees praying So true is that of Solomon Prov. 12.7 The Wicked are overthrown and are not but the house of the Righteous shall stand Prov. 3.3 God blesseth the Habitation of the just Exo. 12.1 He thinks fit sometimes to distinguish by his wise Providence betwixt the houses of the Israelites and Egyptians And experience doth daily shew that the house is blessed where God is sincerely worshiped as the Lord blessed the house of Obed-Edom and his Houshold for entertaining the Ark 2 Sam. 6.11 12. On the contraty God curseth Prayerless-families that 's