never reconciled; that is, there never was any reason for it’. Together they loved and sought to instruct and discipline in a God-honouring way their son Matthew and his four sisters, Sarah, Katharine, Eleanor and Ann, who were born in quick succession from 1664 to 1668. Sunday was specially set apart from the rest of the week as God had commanded. Matthew recalls how his father greeted them on the Lord’s Day in a way similar to the early Christians: ‘The Lord is risen; he is risen indeed’. Despite