A25478:1732
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.
and canst thou be content to pray alone only? As you eat together, so pray together also.
and can'st thou be content to pray alone only? As you eat together, so pray together also.
Obj. 3. But I am ashamed to pray with others, and that hinders me.
Answ. 1. Ashamed to pray! ashamed to do thy duty! The more shame for thee. Be ashamed to sin, and of this shame; for it is sinful, and is to be lamented, and prayed against, and striven against, and overcome: Wilt thou tell God at the Day of Judgment, that thou wast ashamed to pray in thy House and Family?
2. But why ashamed? when you are only with your own Family, and those you daily converse withal, and are head and chief and governor of?
2. But why ashamed? when you are only with your own Family, and those you daily converse withal, and are head and chief and governer of?