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

Reason 7.

7.You must pray to God in your Families daily, ⁽⁷⁾or the very heathen will rise up against you Christians, and condemn you. Those that never had the means of Grace, as you have had, nor a Bible to direct and teach them, as you have, nor Ministers sent to them, as you have had in abundance, do shame many that are called Christians, and go for great Professors too. When I have read the sayings of some Heathen, showing what they were wont to do, and consider and know the practice and negligence of many Christians in their Families, I have been ready to conclude, the heathen to be the better men. It was their manner to sacrifice to their Gods morning and evening, that they might have the favour of them, and be successful in their outward estates, as you may learn from their Poets.

7.You must pray to God in your Families daily, ⁽⁷⁾or the very heathen will rise up against you Christians, and condemn you. Those that never had the means of Grace, as you have had, nor a Bible to direct and teach them, as you have, nor Ministers sent to them, as you have had in abundance, do shame many that are called Christians, and go for great Professors too. When I have read the sayings of some Heathen, shewing what they were wont to do, and consider and know the practice and negligence of many Christians in their Families, I have been ready to conclude, the heathen to be the better men. It was their manner to sacrifice to their Gods morning and evening, that they might have the favour of them, and be successful in their outward estates, as you may learn from their Poets.