A Church in the House

Matthew Henry, "A Church in the House, A Sermon Concerning Family-Religion":

This way of instruction by catechising does in a special manner belong to the "church in a house;" for that is the nursery in which the trees of righteousness are reared, that afterwards are planted in the courts of our God.
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There are family blessings which God has promised, and for which he will be sought unto, such as those on the house of Obed-edom for the ark's sake; or the mercy which St. Paul begs for the house of Onesiphorus, 2 Tim. i.16.
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If your families be little churches, God will come to you, and dwell with you in them; for he has said concerning the church, This is my rest for ever, here will I dwell.
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Wherever we encamp, under the banner of Christ, the angels of God will encamp round about us, and pitch their tents where we pitch ours;...