. The family in its civil and churchly aspects; an essay in two parts. CHAPTEE OF Mastzes 123 CHAPTEE OF Seeyaxts 147 CHAPTEE YII I. EeLATIOXS EN THE FA>nLY 171 iii IV CO^^TKXTS. PAKT 11. CHAPTER , Development or the Chuech in the Family 195 CHAPTEE IL The Chitkch under Natural Religion 217 CHAPTER III. The Church under the System of Grace 2:51 CHAPTER Symbolical Mystery of Marriage 217 CHAPTER Church, the Family of God 203 CHAPTER Family in its Offices of Instruction and Worship 281 NOTE. This little volume has its or
. The family in its civil and churchly aspects; an essay in two parts. CHAPTEE OF Mastzes 123 CHAPTEE OF Seeyaxts 147 CHAPTEE YII I. EeLATIOXS EN THE FA>nLY 171 iii IV CO^^TKXTS. PAKT 11. CHAPTER , Development or the Chuech in the Family 195 CHAPTEE IL The Chitkch under Natural Religion 217 CHAPTER III. The Church under the System of Grace 2:51 CHAPTER Symbolical Mystery of Marriage 217 CHAPTER Church, the Family of God 203 CHAPTER Family in its Offices of Instruction and Worship 281 NOTE. This little volume has its origin in a series of articlesoriginally pubUsbed in tlie columns of the South West-ern Presbyterian. Under the advice of jiidiciousfriends, they are gathered in this more enlarged andpermanent form. The reader will perceive that it is themere outhne of what might easily be expanded into atreatise. It is brief, because intended simply to be suggestive of general j)rinciples. The Authoe. ^i Itrsi THE FAMILY IN ITS Civil Aspects. CHAPTEK I. A GENERAL VIEW OF THE FAMILY,. mi God setteth the soUtartj —PSAhM Ixviii. 6, HESE words lay bare the prin-ciple by wbich the individual isdrawn out from his own seclu-sion; so that, by the co-exist-ence of many households, societyat large may be constituted. TheFamily, then, may be viewed underseveral general aspects: I. As THE Original Society from which theState emerges, and the Church, and everyother Association known amongst men. That itis a Divine ordinance is seen from the law ofmarriage, the foundation on which it created first the individual—the man, whowas the compendium of all His creative acts-made in His own image, with reason, con- 9 10 THE FAMILY. science and will, and appointed as ruler overthe creatures. Then, from his substance anexact counterpart was fashioned, the reflectionof his own being; the mode of her derivationestablishing identity of nature, and a unitywhich is not weakened by diversity. When
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