A demonstration of family-duties: or Certaine propositions and reasons of them taken [ou]t of the holy Scriptures, tending to shew the necessity, nature, and manner of performance of such religious duties, as Christian families ought to spare some time unto from common affaires every day. By T.P.

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A demonstration of family-duties: or Certaine propositions and reasons of them taken [ou]t of the holy Scriptures, tending to shew the necessity, nature, and manner of performance of such religious duties, as Christian families ought to spare some time unto from common affaires every day. By T.P.
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Paget, Thomas, d. 1660.
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[London] :: M DC XLIII. Printed by H.A. for Thomas Vnderhill, dwelling at the signe of the Bible, in Woodstreet, London,
[1643]
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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
Family -- Religious life -- Early works to 1800.
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"A demonstration of family-duties: or Certaine propositions and reasons of them taken [ou]t of the holy Scriptures, tending to shew the necessity, nature, and manner of performance of such religious duties, as Christian families ought to spare some time unto from common affaires every day. By T.P." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54497.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.

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Infallible proofes taken out of the word of God to confirme the Proposition.

THe importance of this first Proposition is declared by two sure witnesses, even the two most eminent Prophets of the old & new Testament, Moses, & Christ. Mo∣ses the man of God doeth effectually incul∣cate it to the Israelites in the booke of Deu∣teronomie, according to all that the Lord had given him in commandement unto thē, Deut. 4.39. Know therefore this day, & consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, & upon the earth beneath: there is none else. And Christ Iesus (who was faithfull to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faith∣full in all his house, Hebr. 3.2.) being asked, Mark. 12.28. Which is the first commandement

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of all? Answered, vers. 29. The first of all 〈◊〉〈◊〉 commandements is, Heare O Israel, the Lord 〈◊〉〈◊〉 God, is one Lord.

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