Mr. Alleine's Coun/el for p~n~ual in fi1lfiliing. Let meeknefs and innoc~ncy, a!fablcnefs, y1eldmgnefs and courtefie commend your conver~ations to all men. Let mme ofyour relations want that love and loyalty, ~hat reve– rence and dc1ty, that tendernefs, care and v.igilancy, wh:ch their feveral places.andcapacities call for: This is throughout godlinefs. I charge you before d1e m-oft hi gb God, that noneof you be found ~~wearer, or a lyar, a lover ofevil company, or a tcoffer, or ma~ he10us, or covetous, or a drunkard, or a glutton, untighteous in his rleaiing, unclean in his living, or a quarreller, or a th tef, or a back– biter, or a railer : For I denounce unto you, from the livingGod, that dtftrLl.:Hon anddamnation is the end ofall fliCh, Prov. I 3. 20. ]am. 5. I 2. Re11. 2 r. 8. I Cor. 6 . 9, 10 . Gal. 5. 19, 20, 2 I. . 2. Family-godline fs. He that hath fet up Chrift in his heart, w~ll be fl1re to ftudy to fet him up in his houfe. Let every farnily W!th yoa be a Chriftian Church, t Cur. r 6 . 19 every houfe a houfe of.prayer: Let every hou[e.holder fay, wirh 1c.jhu.a~ I andm)' h~ufe 'lvzll [eYve the Lord, Jofh. 24. I 5. .and rc-fuhre with David, I will wa.lk_within my houfe with a perferJ heart, Pfal. IOI. 2. L~ t me prc.G upvn yoJ a f-=w .:.'uties in general: Firft, Let Rdigion be in your fdmilies, not as a matter by the by, (to be minded at Lilure, when the world wiH gi 1·eyo:~J teave,} but th·-:: franding bu iinefs of the kou(e: Let th~·m h.1ve your prayers as dd_y as their meals. Is there any of your families, bm have time for their tak.ir.g food ? Wretchtd tnan! Canft thou find time t,(L~at tn, anc1 not find time to pray in? :,." Secondly, $ettle it upon your hearts, that y0ur fouls are bound up in 6e fouls of your family. They arccommitted untoyou, a~d (-if they be loft through your neglefr) will be requirecl at your fi m:l;. Sirs, if you d.o not, you !hall know, that the charge of fouls is a h ,'avycharge, and that the bbodof(buls is a heavy guilt. 0 man,. Haft thou a chZJ.rgeoffouls to anfwer for, anddoft thou not yet be– ftir thy felf for them, that their blood be not found in thy skirts? \Vilt thou dono more for immortal fouls, than thou wilt do for thy bcafts that peri!h? What doft thou do fm· thy childr·en and fer- . vants? Thou .provi~k-ftmeat anddrink for them, agreeable to their narures: And doft rhou not the fame for thy beafts? Thou giveft themmedicines, and cherifheft themwhen they be fick: Anddoft , thou not as much for thy fwine? More particularly! . r. Let the foJemn reading ofthe word, and fing1ng ofPfalms, be your fdmily-ex~·rcifes, Ifa. 34· 16. 'Joh. 5· 39. Pfal. I r8. rs . . [See Chrift finging with his family, viz..~ his Difciples; ]l{.atth. 26. so. Lt-t/z; 9· 18.] 2. Let every perfon in your families be duly calle4 toan aceonnt · of th::-ir profiting by the word heard or r.ead,. as they be ~bout doe LlJO' )'OUr own bnfineCs. .This is aduty or conieqLlence a:nfpcakable~ . o .. · and· I
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