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Family Worship, The Christian Home, Family Alter, Family Devotion"Family-worship is a most proper way of teaching children religion, as you teach them language by insensible degrees; a little one day, and a little another; for to them line must be upon line, and precept upon precept...Indeed were this duty properly attended to, it might be expected, that all christian families would, according to their respective sizes and circumstances, become nurseries of piety; and you would see, in the most convincing view, the wisdom of providence, in making human infants so much more dependent on their parents than the offspring of inferior creatures are." - Philip Doddridge - Extract from a Letter on Family Worhip
An Old-Fashioned Home by J. Wilbur Chapman
If you will tell me what is in your house by your own choice, I will tell you the story of your home life and shall be able to inform you whether yours is a home in which there is harmony and peace or confusion and despair.
Family Duty: A Father's Duty to His Family in General by John Bunyan
He that is the master of a family, he has, as under that relation, a work to do for God; the right governing of his own family. And his work is twofold. First, Touching the spiritual state of it. Second, Touching the outward state of it.
Family Worship by Thomas Manton
The devil hath a great spite at the kingdom of Christ, and he knoweth no such compendious way to crush it in the egg, as by the perversion of youth, and supplanting family-duties.
Family Worship by Author W. Pink
There are some very important outward ordinances and means of grace which are plainly implied in the Word of God, but for the exercise of which we have few, if any, plain and positive precept; rather are we left to gather them from the example of holy men and from various incidental circumstances.
Family Worship - "As for me and my house" by J.H. Merle D’Aubigne
Family worship is the most ancient as well as the holiest of institutions. It is not an innovation against which people are readily prejudiced; it began with the world itself.
Family Worship: An Extract from a Letter by Philip Doddridge
While I write this, I have that awakening scripture before me: "Pour out my fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name." Jer. 10:25. I appeal to you, whether this does not strongly imply, that every family, which is not a heathen family, which is not quite ignorant of the living and true God, will call upon his name.
Great Duty of Family Religion by George Whitefield
"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."Joshua 24:15
These words contain the holy resolution of pious Joshua, who having in a most moving, affectionate discourse recounted to the Israelites what great things God had done for them
Television & the Christian Home by J. K. Duff
There are many perils which threaten the spiritual well-being of the believer in these last closing days. Some of these dangers are apparent and can be easily discerned, while others are like sunken rocks which cannot be readily seen, but are, for that very cause all the more dangerous.
The Daily Exercise of God's Most Holy & Sacred Word by John Knox
The following passage is excerpted from a letter written by John Knox in 1557 before leaving Scotland for exile in Geneva. Knox addressed the letter to "His Brethren in Scotland," that is, Christ's brethren, the Church.
The Directory for Family Worship by Assembly at Edinburgh
ACT for observing the Directions of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY for secret and private Worship, and mutual Edification; and censuring such as neglect Family-worship. (August 24, 1647)
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 1 Section 2 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
The parent is the divinely constituted HEAD AND LORD of his family. The authority which he possesses is not usurped, but is delegated to him by the source of all authority. It belongs to the station which he occupies, and to which he has been called by the providence of God.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 1 Section 3 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
The parent is invested with authority for some wise and special end, which looks beyond this world, and "things temporal." It is to accomplish the great purpose for which the family was constituted.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 2 Section 1 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
THE head of a family should act the part of a PROPHET towards the rest of his household, and impart to them such instruction as is calculated to answer the purpose for which he is placed in honour and authority over them. Without such instruction, he can not, and ought not, to expect to accomplish much by the exercise of parental discipline.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 2 Section 2 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
The conversation and conduct of some parents, make the impression on the minds of their children, that happiness consists in the possession of wealth or fame, or in the indulgence of fashion, pleasure, or amusement. Hence, as we might expect, this impression (than which nothing can be more erroneous) gives character and direction to all the exertions and aims of their children through life.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 2 Section 3 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
But in addition to preceptive instruction, there must be superadded the force of corresponding example. The one will effect but little without the other. We are imitative creatures, and learn our earliest lessons, and receive our most enduring impressions through the eyes and not through the ears.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 2 Section 4 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
As the helplessness of a child, unable to defend itself from surrounding danger, makes a strong and effectual appeal to its parents for protection, so should its native ignorance, especially of the most important truths, and of those, a knowledge of which is essential to its well-being, both here and hereafter, make a still more powerful and affecting appeal, for instruction and careful training.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 2 Section 5 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
To its mother’s care and instruction, the first years of a child, are almost exclusively committed. She makes upon its infant mind, the first impressions, whether good or bad. She, in a great measure, forms its future character, and, humanly speaking, determines its destiny.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 2 Section 6 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
The obligations which rest upon parents to "bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord," are numerous and weighty. Besides those already mentioned in a general way, we may specify several others.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 2 Section 7 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
Your children are to be either blessings or curses to society, according as their principles, education, and habits are good or bad. Should they become, through neglect of proper care and attention to their education, profligates, and the corrupters of others, you will have entailed an evil on the community in which they live, which cannot be estimated in this life.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 3 Section 1 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
WE come now to consider the remaining office devolving on the head of a family. In addition to that of governor and instructor, he is required to act the part of a priest to his family.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 3 Section 2 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
The duty in question is fully settled by the authority of Holy Writ. :There is, indeed, no specific and formal command on the subject. This we had no reason to expect, any more than a formal injunction, requiring men to eat and sleep. The Scriptures do not stop to announce every thing which is clearly taught by the light of nature, but proceeds on the supposition of such things being already known.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 3 Section 3 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
Let us now look at the examples of those eminent saints mentioned in Scripture, and see whether they thought the duty of family-worship obligatory or not. More was not required of them than of us; rather less was to be expected, as they had less light.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 3 Section 4 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
Perhaps the reader of these pages, is by this time, if not before, convinced of the great importance of the duty we have endeavoured to exhibit and of the obligation there is upon him, punctually and faithfully to discharge it. But there may arise in his mind particular difficulties, which hinder him from following the dictates of his judgment and his conscience.
The Reformed Faith in Its Ethical Consequences in the Family: Part I by John Macleod
The family as an institution belongs to the natural order. Its welfare tells on that of the community, and of the State, and of the world. So also what affects it to its hurt has an injurious influence on all the constituencies that reap the benefit of its well-being.
A Brief History of Biblical Family Worship by Kerry Ptacek
The distinctive elements of Biblical family worship, leadership by the male head of the family and the use of God's word, are found throughout the Bible, in the ancient Church, and in those churches which prepared and continue the Reformation to this day.
Family and Government in Puritan New England by Kerry Ptacek
New England Puritans, like their counterparts in England and Scotland, did not view family worship as a rival to congregational worship, but rather as its complement: "Domestic instruction and worship was considered indispensable to the success of the weekly services in the church, for religion was too important a matter to be left to weekly lessons" - Morgan
Getting Started: The Biblical Elements of Family Worship by Kerry Ptacek
The Bible teaches that Christian men who head households should be spiritual leaders in their families. The principal means for this leadership has been in domestic gatherings called "family worship," "family devotions," or "the family altar." This practice was once widespread in the homes of members of Protestant churches; however, today few Christians are familiar with this exercise of spiritual nurture by fathers and husbands.
Jonathan Edwards on the Family and Grace by Jonathan Edwards
The following is from the "Farewell Sermon" of this leader of the Great Awakening in New England. Although considered by many to be one of America's greatest preachers and theologians, Edwards was driven from his pulpit. His sermon hints at some of the lesser known reasons why his church forfeited his teaching.
Matthew Henry On Family Religion by Kerry Ptacek
As his 1704 sermon "On Family Religion" indicates, Matthew Henry was a strong proponent of the spiritual leadership of the male head of the household. This excerpt from volume I of The Complete Works of Matthew Henry treats Bible reading and teaching in the family.
Southern Presbyterians on Family Worship (1873-1912) by General Assembly of the PCUS
Family worship led by the male head of the household was in decline among Presbyterians in the latter half of the 19th century. Nevertheless, many strong statements on family worship continued to be issued by the Southern Presbyterian General Assembly well into the 20th century. The following are some excerpts from statements of the General Assembly of the PCUS.
The Apostolic Constitutions and Spiritual Leadership in the Family by Kerry Ptacek
The Apostolic Constitutions is a collection of early church law dated by scholars as being predominantly from the second or third century, with only a few additions from the fourth and fifth centuries.
The Importance of Family Religion: Chapter 1 Section 1 by S.G. Winchester, A.M.
The head of a family sustains to his household the threefold relation of a king, a prophet, and a priest. As a king, he rules his house, and administers its government. As a prophet, it is his business to impart suitable instruction to his children and servants. And as a priest, he should conduct the worship, and lead the social devotions of the family.
The Reformed Faith in Its Ethical Consequences in the Family: Part II by John Macleod
The Reformed Churches by their recognition of the household of the believer as a unit in their fellowship were shut in to what they looked upon as no bondage. Their views on the membership of the Visible Church, as we have seen, found a place in the constituency for the children of those who were saints by profession. These were looked upon as being in virtue of their birth in believing homes entitled to be acknowledged as outwardly sanctified or specially set apart by the Head of the Church to enjoy external privileges in His house.
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