A25478:1714
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
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MOTIVE IX.
19. The neglect of calling upon God in your Families, will bring the curse of God upon them. Jer. 10.25. Pour out thy fury upon the — Families that call not upon thy Name: (1.) The persons threatened, are Families: which if in this Text comprehendeth many households, or yet more largely taken, yet there is the same parity of reason to a proper Family: (2.) Their crime is, not calling upon the name of God: (3.) The thing threatened, the fury of the Lord; fury is fervent anger, anger in it's height and rage: (4.) The abundance of it; it shall not fall drop by drop upon prayerless Families, but pour down in great showers upon them. Whereas the way to have God's blessing and protection over you and your household is to set up the worship of God therein. There is a passage in a worthy Divine of a remarkable Providence of God to this purpose, concerning a Town consisting of ninety houses, that was in the year 1584. destroyed by an Earthquake, except the half of one house, where the Master of the Family was earnestly praying with his Wife and Children upon their bended knees to God.
19. The neglect of calling upon God in your Families, will bring the curse of God upon them. Jer. 10.25. Pour out thy fury upon the — Families that call not upon thy Name: (1.) The persons threatned, are Families: which if in this Text comprehendeth many housholds, or yet more largely taken, yet there is the same parity of reason to a proper Family: (2.) Their crime is, not calling upon the name of God: (3.) The thing threatned, the fury of the Lord; fury is fervent anger, anger in it's height and rage: (4.) The abundance of it; it shall not fall drop by drop upon prayerless Families, but pour down in great showrs upon them. Whereas the way to have God's blessing and protection over you and your houshold is to set up the worship of God therein. There is a passage in a worthy Divine of a remarkable Providence of God to this purpose, concerning a Town consisting of ninety houses, that was in the year 1584. destroyed by an Earthquake, except the half of one house, where the Master of the Family was earnestly praying with his Wife and Children upon their bended knees to God.