A25478:1706
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
MOTIVE VI.
6. If Religious Duties are not set up in your Families, 1there will be the more sinning there, and wickedness abounding in them. How much cursing is there in many Families, where there is no praying? The field that is not dressed and manured is full of weeds and thorns. Where God is not served, the Devil is. If in your houses God hath not a Church, the Devil will have a Chapel: What hopes will the Devil have,2 that he shall have Souls out of those Families, where there is much sinning and no praying? And if he might have their Souls, he will be content that you may have all the rest: If your houses be not nurseries for Heaven, they will be breeding places for Hell. If Souls under your roof are not prepared for Salvation, they will there be fitted for Damnation; and is this nothing to you? Awake, arise you drowsy Governors of Families to your work and duty.
6. If Religious Duties are not set up in your Families, 1there will be the more sinning there, and wickedness abounding in them. How much cursing is there in many Families, where there is no praying? The field that is not dressed and manured is full of weeds and thorns. Where God is not served, the Devil is. If in your houses God hath not a Church, the Devil will have a Chappel: What hopes will the Devil have,