Excerpt from A Family Exposition of the Pentateuch This principle, then, once admitted, it is surely a proper subject upon which to exercise the right of private judgment, and to determine each mas ter of a family, for himself, according to the ages and state of mind of his hearers, what books of Holy Writ, and What portions of those books, he shall present to his assembled household, at the particular seasons of family worship. At the same time, it is well that he intimate to those committed to his charge, that this duty is by no means intended to supersede the full, and entire, and devotional reading of the whole of God's word in private, or the attendance upon it in the more public ordinances of the church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.