. The family in its civil and churchly aspects; an essay in two parts. sake My law, and walk not in Myjudgments; if they break My statutes, andkeep not My commandments, then will I visittheir transgression with the rod, and their ini-quity with stripes; nevertheless. My loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, norsuffer My faithfulness to fail. Languagecould not more accurately discriminate the visi-tation which is penal, fiom the suffering that iscorrective. And in this very distinction we seehow deep the analogy hes, by which the Churchis inteipreted to us as being the true Family o
. The family in its civil and churchly aspects; an essay in two parts. sake My law, and walk not in Myjudgments; if they break My statutes, andkeep not My commandments, then will I visittheir transgression with the rod, and their ini-quity with stripes; nevertheless. My loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, norsuffer My faithfulness to fail. Languagecould not more accurately discriminate the visi-tation which is penal, fiom the suffering that iscorrective. And in this very distinction we seehow deep the analogy hes, by which the Churchis inteipreted to us as being the true Family ofGod on earth. ii&- CHAPTEB VI. The Family in its Offices of InstructionAND Worship. ^^bvls r?L 4^ r,,w^ CHAPTEE VI. THE FAJIILY ly ITS OFFICES OF iiV-STRUCTION AND WORSHIP. *And ye shall teach them jfotir children, speaking of them lohenthou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest hy theway, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.—Deuterovomy xi. 19. HIS chapter vrill close the ex-amination vre are making of theAfr^ constitution and desisn of the. Family. The subject is, indeed,T- far from being exhausted; but theobject of this essay has been simplyto jDresent it in its general aspect, with-out entering minutely into details. We shallbe content, therefore, with offering the onlytopic which remains, the Adaptation of theFamily to Offices of Religious IxsteuctidxAND Worship. From the earliest period in the history of the Church, the duty of Family instruction has 279 280 THE FAMILY. » been emphasized as the most important of allagencies in perpetuating the knowledge ofDivine truth. In Deuteronomy xi. 19, thecommand is thus laid upon Israel: Thereforeshall ye lay up these My words in your heartand in your soul, and bind them for a sign uponyour hand, that they may be as fiontlets be-tween your eyes ; and ye shall teach them yourchildren, speaking of them when thou sittestin thine house, and when thou walkest by theway, when thou liest down, and when thourisest u]d
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