A25478:1738
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.
Answ. 1. Where do you live? in London? What! an old housekeeper in London, or where there hath been much means of Grace, and are you so ignorant, that you are not qualified to pray in your Family? This is your sin; and will one sin be pleadable to excuse you from another? One of the Ancients of the Parish, and plead ignorance! are you not ashamed?
Answ. 1. Where do you live? in London? What! an old housekeeper in London, or where there hath been much means of Grace, and are you so ignorant, that you are not qualified to pray in your Family? This is your sin; and will one sin be pleadable to excuse you from another? One of the Ancients of the Parish, and plead ignorance! are you not asham'd?
2. It is not parts and gifts and florid expressions that God looks at, but an humble, penitent, broken, and believing heart. Have you not this neither? If you have not, get it quickly, or you must to Hell: If you have, God will accept of such a Sacrifice; bring it then.
3. Study your sins and wants, and mercies; and get a sense of all these ⟨p. 354⟩upon your heart, and you will be able to express them in your Family, in such a manner as may be more for their profit, than the constant omission can be. If a man feel himself sick or hungry, do you think he could not find words to make his complaint, and ask for help? Study the Scripture and your own hearts, and these will be good prayer-Books to furnish you for the duty: Besides by praying you shall learn to pray.