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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

Egypt the first born of Pharaoh and others dyed Exo. 11.56 and there was a great Cry would not this move you into better Manners Oh but a greater evil befalls you your own precious Souls are endangered by Neglect 8. Suppose a Red Cross with a Lord have Mercy upon Vs were set upon your doors and the Pestilence were within your house seizing on you one after another and you had nothing else to do but to get ready to dye would you not spend some time in Prayer for your selves and Families Behold a worse Plague is upon you of Sin and will you not Pray 9. Suppose upon every Omission of Family Prayer you should lose a Limb or member of your Body first one finger then a Toe should be cut or torn off till all be gone and you dismembred would not this force you to this duty and yet your Precious Souls are in hazard which are ten thousand times more worthy than a Limb yea than the whole Body by wilfull Neglect 10. Suppose a Gallows were set at your door and you must be hanged thereupon the next time you go out of your door when you have not Prayed in your Family would you venture to be hanged rather than omit this duty do you love your lives no better Oh! but Eternal death is far more dreadfull and are Eternal torments Rev. 21.8 that lake that burneth with fire Brimstone nothing to you is the second death easie and shall not Sinners be damned for their Omission of good as well as Commission of Evil Be it known to you Numb 32.23 that if you will not do so i. e. as God Commands Behold ye have sinned against the Lord and be sure your sin will find you out it will hunt you as a Blood hound and haunt you as an evil Spirit in conscience here and in Torments hereafter if God said to Cain for a defect in his Sacrifice Gen. 4.7 if thou doest not well Sin lies at the door i. e. guilt shall be charged upon thee and you know how it dog'd him though he failed but in the manner of it not acting Faith on Christ for acceptance Oh what will become of you that fall short even in the matter also and do nothing of what God Commands you yea you think it is a needless ceremony and mock them that do carefully constantly and conscientiously perform this duty wo unto you if you dye in this Sin you are undone forever But one word more if any offer themselves to be members of particular Churches and partake of the Lords Supper I should judge them not fit to be Communicants except they Pray in their Families and if any be admitted and perform not their duty I should think them as worthy church-censures as those that are Idle and omit working in their particular callings which is injoyned 2 Thes 3.6 12 14. what censure this is lesser or greater whether only withdrawing familiar converse with the offender or upon obstinacy publick Excommunication I leave to the judgment of the Learned But * Si quis renuit libe●os suos alere reprehendunt eum pudefaciunt eum urgent eum Si adhuc renuit publice in eum proclamant in Syna goga dicentes 〈◊〉 crudelis est non vult alere liberos ●un●vel ipsis volu●ribus immundis crudelior nam illae pullos suos alunt c Dr. Lightfoot in Evang Mathaei Borae Hebraicae cap. 18. 17. p. 215. Dr. Lightfoot tells us out of the Rabbins that if any refuse to nourish his children they must reprove him make him ashamed urge him if he still refuses they must publickly proclaim in the Synagogue such a one is cruel and will not nourish his children he is more Cruel than the unclean Fowls for those nourish their Young ones and may we not say the same of such as neglect these needfull Family-excercises for the Souls of their's Chap. VII Directions how to set up an Altar in Families and how to manage Family-Worship I Have now done with persuasives to this great Excercise of Family-worship whether all that I have said will prevail I know not but loath I am all this should be in vain it 's pitty so needfull an Exercise should fall to the ground and all that I have said should rise up in judgment against you I again renew my motion in the name of the Lord Jesus you that are young set up your families with God whatever you have of the World beside to set up with this will be your treasure your Palladium your defence you cannot miscarry if you begin with God you that are old have been house-keepers long set up this altar turn over a new lease begin a new life you are not too old to learn nor too good to be taught better thrive late than never though you begin at the eleventh hour you shall not be rejected Death looks you in the face look up to God and be saved say not I will go to Hell because I have been long traveling in that road Be not ashamed to undo all you have done or misdone unravel this confused skein what stick you at Is not the Infinite God worthy of your love Fear worship are not the Souls of your Families precious is not heaven worth your seeking having Oh! say you I would fain set up an Altar in my Family to the Lord I would offer him a Sacrifice and Worship God but I know not how to set about it or manage it to any purpose so as may be acceptable to God profitable to my Family or comfortable to my own Soul I Pray you give me some directions on this behalf I answer that I shall very willingly but first I do solemnly require your promise to set about it in the name and strength of Christ and do thy best you can to do it right my Instructions I shall reduce to two heads viz. 1. Preparatives to it 2. Management of it For the Preparatives to your setting up this Family Altar I shall but give you these four 1. See your heads and hearts be well stock't your heads with sound Knowledge and your hearts with Saving-Grace without either of these you 'll not be fit for this undertaking without the former you 'll have no skill without the latter you 'll have no Will to the Work but go to it as a Bear to the stake 1. Be sure you get Scripture knowledge a knowledge of God the object of worship of the Mediator by whom only you must have access to the Father a knowledg of the Holy-Ghost that must help your infirmities a knowledg of your selves of Divine Truths Precepts Prov. 19.2 Promises that the Soul be without knowledg it is not good otherwise you will Worship you know not what or you care not how or regard not why you 'll degenerate into Formality and Superstition it 's worth nothing what you find in Isa 19. having told us of an Altar in ver 19. he tells

of your Family will bring every one a Stone to raise the pile of praise to an higher pitch yea and bring their Coal to warm your hearts together and kindle a greater Flame of heavenly devotion try this course and you 'll see the blessed issue 9. Consider what dangers you are daily incident to and see if that will not afford you matter of Prayer possibly some of your Callings expose you to greater hazards than ordinary some ride much abroad early and late to Markets and are subject to falls some work under ground and may be crusht to death others go to Sea and see the wonder of the Lord in the deep and it hath been said he that knows not how to Pray Qui nescit orare discat navigare let him go to Sea there is no Calling but it hath its Snares and difficulties which it exposeth Persons to and Wisdom is profitable to direct foreseen Dangers least hurt for as Persons are forewarned at least it affords Matter of Deprecation But there are thousands of accidents that the most sagacious eye cannot foresee which you see others fall into and fall by one falls into a Pit and perisheth another his Horse falls and he breaks an Arm or Leg or his Neck others are assaulted by Robbers and Slain others are burnt by sudden Fires in their Houses your own observation may afford you many sad Instances and what befalls others may befall you and may not these afford you matter of Prayer for their prevention or your preparation for them put your selves into Gods hands every Morning and Evening for you are never safe but under his Tuition the Omniscient Omnipotent God can only guard you and your Family He that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleepeth Psa 121.4.227.1 2. other means are ineffectual without him Zech. 12.10 10. Beg Gods Holy Spirit It is a Spirit of Grace and Supplication go to God in the name of Christ and if you can say nothing else yet tell him you cannot Pray but withall say Lord I hear others can Pray why not I No matter how dull the Schollar is so I have thee for my Master I hear others of mean gifts Naturally are yet instructed Spiritually and have arrived to great dexterity in managing Family-Worship and may not I be endowed with the same Spirit first of Sanctification and then of Supplication come Lord and teach me to Pray as John taught his Disciples or rather as Jesus teacheth his Members thou saist Luk. 11.1 v. 13. if ye being evil know how to give good Gifts unto your Children how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him I know this is an hard Text but it must not be understood as if God would give his Sanctifying Spirit to a carnal mans Prayer by vertue of a promise but either common gifts of the Spirit to such or further degrees of the Spirit to his own Children and so I think it is to be taken as the Pledge and earnest of the Holy Spirit to Sanctified Souls as Calvin takes it as being one of the good things of the kingdom of Heaven Which Godly Souls most importunately ask and beg for and you see here a free and faithful promise of Christ that his and our Father will bestow his Holy Spirit on us Jubemar q●id●m pulsare sed nemo Sponte pra●nditari vel 〈◊〉 Syllab●m po●erit visi arcado Spiritus sui instinctu nos Deus puisi●● ade●●● sibi corda nostra aperiat Cal. ix loc and the Blessed Apostle tells us the advantage of the Holy Spirit for our assistance in prayer Rom. 8.26 likewise also the Spirit helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should Pray for as we ought c. All acknowledge that the Spirit must help our infirmities in the manner of right Praying exciting Graces and Holy affections and knitting our thoughts to God But the great question is whether the Holy Ghost dictates to Gods Children matter or expression in Prayer I think the Text is clear that it doth For the Text saith not that we know not how to pray but what we should pray for as we ought hence a Schoolman saith Dissicillimum est scire quid sit desiderandum it's most difficult to know what is to be desired a Godly man knows the end Gods Glory and the injoyment of him but unless the Spirit teach him he will miss it in the means and as our Saviour saith ask they know not what Mat. 20 2● Luk. 9.54 55. Job 6.8 9 Jonah 4.3 as we have some instances in Scripture and many sad experiments in our selves and though the Lords Prayer be a rule in general yet we may be to seek in particulars except the Spirit bring things into our thoughts and often suggest Scripture expressions to our Memorys in earnest and perinent Pleading with the Lord the Spirit inlightens us in our Ignorance assists us in our weakness resolves us in our doubtings Comforts us in our Sadness Quickens us in our Deadness Composeth us in our distractions Oh! therefore sue out this blessed Advocate within which will make Interpellation in our Hearts as Christ makes intercession at Gods right hand and then you Pray acceptably But God hears no Language but that of his Spirit yet God's Spirit makes intercession by helping God's people to intercede Spiritus i●t●●lat ●a●i endo nos ●●terpell 〈◊〉 ●r ac saci●● to nos orare clamat faciendo nos clamare videsis Pare●m in loc it Prays by helping us to Pray not as Arrians imagine that the Holy-Ghost is below the Son as supplicating the Son or that the Son is less than the Father as supplicating the Father which is a grosse mistake for Christ intercedes for us by the vertue of his merit with the Father the Holy-Ghost by helping us to cry Abba Father Gal. 4.6 Let none Imagin that this is an Euthusiastick fancy or a miraculous gift as Chrysostom thought no nor a Melancholy dream they that have any solid experience in the things of God know that the assistance of the Spirit in Prayer is the greatest reality in the World nor was it a temporary gift but a permanent Grace abiding with the Church for Ever Joh. 14.16 Eph. 6.18 Jude 20. Enabling even private Christians to Pray in the Spirit and in the Holy-Ghost yet differently as God sees good sometimes more inlarging their hearts and at other times withdrawing his Influences but it becomes us to embrace its Motions and Pray earnestly for it Thus much for helps to the matter of Prayer Chap. IX Helps how to manage Family-Worship as to the manner of Performance THUS at last I have dispatch't the instructions that concern the matter of Family-Prayer for the help of such as are weak and are sensible of their own Insufficiency and have been longer than I intended and must contract in the Rest As to the due manner of managing this Solemn Family-Work