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

Direction 6.

¹6. Direct. Since this is so, consider next that you do not know, but now you are going to make your last Family Prayer together. You do not know, but God and death might seize upon some of you before the next time of prayer do come again, that God might single out the Master or Mistress of the house, this Child or that Servant, and every one think, I might be the first, that you may never pray all together again: Pray then as if you were to pray no more, and see if you shall not find real spiritual benefit by such a Prayer. A Heathen writing a Letter to his Friend did say, I write unto you, not knowing but death might call me away, whilst the pen is in my hand; and should not Christians pray as such as do not know but death might seize upon them with their prayers in their mouths?

¹6. Direct. Since this is so, consider next that you do not know, but now you are going to make your last Family Prayer together. You do not know, but God and death might seize upon some of you before the next time of prayer do come again, that God might single out the Master or Mistris of the house, this Child or that Servant, and every one think, I might be the first, that you may never pray all together again: Pray then as if you were to pray no more, and see if you shall not find real spiritual benefit by such a Prayer. A Heathen writing a Letter to his Friend did say, I write unto you, not knowing but death might call me away, whilst the pen is in my hand; and should not Christians pray as such as do not know but death might seiz upon them with their prayers in their mouths?

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