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

7. Keep seasonable hours for Family Prayer, and take the fittest time when all might be most free from distraction and disturbance. In the morning put it not off too long, lest by worldly occasions it be put quite by. Be not too late at night, when the Family, after weariness by their Callings all the day, will be more fit to sleep than to pray: Late Prayers are too commonly sleepy Prayers; one asleep in one place, and another in another, and it may be the Master of the Family himself prays between sleeping and waking. Be not clubbing abroad when you should be praying at home; This is in the power of the Governor of the house to remedy, the other being to be at the hour appointed by him.

7. Keep seasonable hours for Family Prayer, and take the fittest time when all might be most free from distraction and disturbance. In the morning put it not off too long, lest by worldly occasions it be put quite by. Be not too late at night, when the Family, after weariness by their Callings all the day, will be more fit to sleep than to pray: Late Prayers are too commonly sleepy Prayers; one asleep in one place, and another in another, and it may be the Master of the Family himself prays between sleeping and waking. Be not clubbing abroad when you should be praying at home; This is in the power of the Governour of the house to remedy, the other being to be at the hour appointed by him.