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

You should pray to God in your Families daily, ^(5.)because you are all every day liable to temptations. As soon as you wake the Devil will be striving for your first thoughts, and when you are risen, he will be urgent with you to do him the first service, and attend you all the day to draw you into some heinous sin before night: and is the Devil a subtle, watchful, powerful enemy, and unwearied, and do you not all need to get together in the morning, that Satan might not prevail against any of you before night, till you come to God together again? How many temptations might you meet with in your Callings, and your company, which without God you will not be able to resist? And how might you fall and dishonour God, discredit your profession, defile your souls, disturb your peace, and wound your consciences? This Origen bewailed in his lamentation, for that day he omitted prayer he heinously sinned. — But I, O unhappy creature, skipping out of my bed at the dawning of the day, could not finish my wonted devotion, neither accomplish my usual prayer — folded and wrapped my self in the snares of the Devil. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. lib. 7. cap. 1.

You should pray to God in your Families daily, ^(5.)because you are all every day liable to temptations. As soon as you wake the Devil will be striving for your first thoughts, and when you are risen, he will be urgent with you to do him the first service, and attend you all the day to draw you into some hainous sin before night: and is the Devil a subtil, watchful, powerful enemy, and unwearied, and do you not all need to get together in the morning, that Sathan might not prevail against any of you before night, till you come to God together again? How many temptations might you meet with in your Callings, and your company, which without God you will not be able to resist? And how might you fall and dishonour God, discredit your profession, defile your souls, disturb your peace, and wound your consciences? This Origen bewailed in his lamentation, for that day he omitted prayer he hainously sinned. — But I, O unhappy creature, skipping out of my bed at the dawning of the day, could not finish my wonted devotion, neither accomplish my usual prayer — folded and wrapped my self in the snares of the Devil. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. lib. 7. cap. 1.