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This site is for conservative ladies adhering to the Westminster Confession of Faith or the London Baptist Confession of Faith. The basic views of daily living include patriarchial families and headship, quiverfull, homeschooling, headcovering, dressing and behaving with modesty and decorum, homemaking, and doing all things to the Glory of our Lord and Saviour.
Purpose of this site...
Our purpose is to inform and encourage women in their faith and daily living from a practical Reformed view. To provide articles for the benefit of one's growth. To counter views that are contrary to God's Word. To learn to live in the world, but in a manner befitting God's people. And to raise up Godly seed.Selected Devotion for Edification
Domestic Duties (in part) by William Gouge
As there are two vocations to which is has pleased God to call everyone--one general, by virtue of which certain common duties are required to be performed by all (such as knowledge, faith, obedience, repentance, love, mercy, justice, truth, etc.), the other particular, by cirtue of which certain specific duties are required of several persons, according to those distinct places wherein the Divine Providence has set them in the Common wealth, Church, or family, so ought God's ministers to be careful in instructing God's people in both kinds of duties--both those which concern their general and those also which concern their particular calling.
It is the duty of Christians to set forth the praise of God and to be serviceable to one another. For this purpose in the Decalogue, to the first taable which prescribes the duty we owe to God, is added the second table which declares the service that we owwe to one another.
The service which in the fear of God we perform one to another, is an evident and real demonstration of the respect we bear to God...This discovers the hypocrisy of those who make great pretence of praising God, and yet are scornful and disdainful to their brothers, and slothful to do any service to mankind...Surely the outward service they pretend to perform to God does not so much wipe out the spot of profanity as their neglect of duty to man brands their foreheads with the stamp of hypocrisy.
It is a general mutual duty appertaining to all Christians, to submit themselves to one another. The magistrate, by ruling with meekness and humility, submits himself to his subject...The reson why all are bound to submit themselves one to another is because every one is set in his place by God, not so much for himself, as for the good of others...Let every one, therefore, high and low, rich and poor, superior and inferior, magistrate and subject, minister and people, husband and wife, parent and child, master and servant, neighbours and fellows, all of all sorts in their several places take notice of this duty...and make conscience to put it in practice.
The fear of God is an aweful respect of the divine Majesty. Sometimes it arises from faith in the mercy and goodness of God. When the heart of man has once felt a sweet tast of God's goodness, and found that in his favour alone all happiness consists, it is stricken with such an inward awe and reverence as it would not for anything displease his Majesty, but rather do whatsoever it may know to be pleasing and acceptable to him.
There are two effects to which arise from this kind of godly fear: a careful endeavour to please God...a careful avoiding of such things as offend the Majesty of God and grieve his Spirit.
No submission is be performed unto man, but that which may stand with the fear of God...Great reason is there that all service should be limited by the fear of God, for God is the highest Lord to whom all service is primarily and principally due. Whatsoever service is due to any man, high or low, it is due in and for the Lord...Besides, God is that great judge to whoom all of all sorts, superiors and inferiors, are to gice an account of their service.
The family is a seminary of the Church and Commonwealth. It is like a bee hive, in which is the stock and out of which are sent many swarms of bees. In families are all sorts of people bred and brought up, and out of families are they sent into the Church and Commonwealth...A family is a little Church, and a little Commonwealth...whereby trial may be made of such as are fit for any place of authority...It is a school wherein the first principles and grounds of government and submission are learned.
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