Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	cover_v	head_n	prophesy_v	1,689	5	11.0692	5	false

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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

presume to do it being an act of Office This being annexed to Christs Commission Teach and Baptize and this is the Cup of Blessing Mat. 28.19 20. 1 Cor. 10.16 1 Cor. 11.13 which we viz. as Ministers bless And this they receive of the Lord and are to deliver it to the People And I find several Judicious Divines affirming that Dispensing the Seals is peculiar to an Organized Church and is proper only to Ministers rightly Ordained For the Lords Supper is a Symbol and mean of publick Communion not of Families as such For though Christ administred it to his Family yet not as a Family but as a Church The Judgment and Practice of the Primitive Doctors and Christians is a sufficient proof of this 2. Query Is the Master or Governour of the Family always bound to perform Family Duty May he not in some cases Substitute another to perform that Office for him Answ 1. It is incumbent upon the governour of a Family as his proper charge And it is the fittest he do it himself it capable David was a great King and had much business abroad 2 Sam. 6.20 Job 1.35 yet returned to bless his House and put it not off to a Chaplain Job was the greatest of all the Men in the East yet he acted personally in Family Worship I have heard of a Noble Man in England that though he keep a Chaplain yet to shew his Authority and Duty voluntarily at some times himself prays with his Family This is well done 2. Yet a Chaplain may be made use of especially where the Family is numerous or when his gifts and graces are more taking and edifying and he is likely to do more good than the Governour Deut. 12.12 18. It may seem probable that some Levites were kept in some of the Jews Families being oft reckoned with their Sons Daughters Servants it may be in some Cases to perform these Religious Duties in the Family Judg. 27.13 And so Idolatrous Micah had his Levite-Chaplain which he too much boasted of 3. Some have thought that a Wife in a Family may in some Cases perform Family-Duty and that this Honour may be given to the weaker vessel to do the Office of Religious Exercise 1 Pet. 3 7. as well as partake in the Government of the Family doubtless she is to pray And it hath been judged by Learned men that she may and must pray in the family with her husbands leave and in her husbands presence so she cover her face with a Vail in token of her subjection This they think is meant by a woman praying or prophecying with her head covered 1 Tim. 2.12 1 Cor 14.34 not in the church where she was not to speak but in the family when she performed that peice of worship Quanquam nec hoc malè quadrabit fi dicamus Apostolum hanc modestiam non modò in loco ubi tota Ecclesia congregatur requirere a mulieribus sed etiam in quovis graviore caetu aut matronarum a●t virorum Quales interdum in privatas aedes conveniunt Calv. in locum and Calvin seems to incline to this apprehension saying the Apostle requires this modesty of women not only in the place where the Church meets together but in any grave assembly of Matrons or such as sometimes are in private houses It 's true he denys them liberty to prophecy in any other place but I see no reason why an Abigail a Deborah may not at least be the mouth of a family to God But I am not positive herein but leave it to others consideration 4. And why may not a Servant a Steward of the house such as Eliezer Abrahams Servant or Obadiah Ahabs Servant pray in the Family Especially in these cases when the Master gives him not only liberty but a call to that Performance yea requests him to pray in the Family 2. When that Servant hath gifts to qualifie him for such a work and is not exposed to the scorn and contempt of his fellows 3. In case of the Masters sickness or absence from home or when more publick necessary business diverts him 4. In case that Servant be Humble Submissive Self-denying and know his place and do it not with a kind of Bravado over his Fellow-Servants or Contempt of his Master And if in all things that Servant shew himself Obedient according to his Duty 1 Tim. 6.1 2. 1 Pet. 2.18 19. 3. Query Or case of Conscience is When is the fittest time for the performance of Family-Worship Answ As to the time of Prayer I am really ashamed when I read how often the Turks and Mehometans Pray it is said by Writers they go seven times a Day to their Devotion viz. 1. Diluculo Early in the Morning 2. Oriente Sole at Sun-rising 3. Meridie at Noon 4. Inter Meridiem Vesperam betwixt Noon and Even 5. Occidente Sole at Sun-set 6. In Vespere an hour after Sun-set 7. Mediâ nocte at Midnight Oh! Be ashamed you professed Christians to be out stript by the Barbarous Turks * Weems Christian Synag p 85. David thrice Psal 55 17. Dan. 6.10 But as for the Jews whom primitive Christians imitated their hours of Prayer were borrowed from the times of their Sacrificing 1. Morning which was any time before the third hour Acts 2.15 2. Their Mid-day called the sixth hour Acts 10.9 or about Noon † Inde colligimus non posse cavere Ecclesiam certâ disciplinâ ac hodie nisi obstaret nimius corpor atile esset quotidie habere tales Conventus Calvin Act 31. 3. Evening-Prayer which was about the ninth hour which was six a Clock at Night Act. 3.1 Calvin thinks they did not go into the Temple to Pray meerly to comply with Jewish Rites but the better to propagate the Gospel yet asserts that the Church cannot want her certain Disciplin and at this Day saith he but that too much drowziness hinders it were profitable to have daily such meetings for Prayer He means in a more publick manner But for the Circumstance of time it is judged that Morning and Evening are fittest seasons for Family-Devotion Hence Calvin notes Hoc excercitio docebantur ab invocatione cultu dei incipere diem claudere by this exercise they were taught to begin and shut up the Day with Prayer and the Worship of God I have hinted this before and shall only add in short a few Directions 1. You must be sure to Pray for a Blessing upon your Meat at Meals according to 1 Tim. 4.4.5 2. Take your Family at Meal-time to seek God and read his Scriptures to sing Gods praise and to perform Family-Duty Morning and Evening 3. Let it be a stated time if possible known to the Family that none may plead excuse for their absence But the whole Family may attend 4. Yet if some extraordinary accident intervene you must not think your selves so precisely bound to a time as to be perplexed in Conscience