A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

Reason 2.

You should pray to God daily in your Families, because there are sins committed every day in your Families. ¹Do you indeed sin together, and will you not pray together, what if you should be damned all together? Doth not every member of your Family commit many sins every day? How great is the number then of all, when considered ⟨p. 327⟩or put together? What! so many sins every day under your roof, within your walls, committed against the glorious, blessed God, and not one Prayer? one sin should be lamented with a thousand tears, but you have not one tear shed by one, and another by another, in Prayer together for a thousand sins? Is this to repent daily, when you do not confess them daily? Would you have God to pardon all the sins of your Family? say, would you or no? If you would not, God might justly let you go to your Graves and Hell too, with the guilt of sin upon your Souls. If you would, is not pardon worth asking for? Would you have it, and not beg it at the hands of God? would not all judg that man worthy of death, that being justly condemned, might yet have life for asking for, and will not? How do you, how can you quietly go to your beds, and sleep with the guilt of so many sins upon your Souls? and have not prayed to have them blotted out? What do you take to make you sleep? What is your pillow made of, that your heads can rest upon it, under the weight and load of so much guilt? Is indeed your bed so soft, or your heart so hard, that you can rest and sleep, when to all the sins of commission in the day, you add this sin of omission in the evening? Lay to heart your daily Family sins, and you will feel a reason why you should pray to God in your Families daily.