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

10. If God should bring back some from the Grave and Hell, and set them in this world again, dost thou think, that they would so follow the World, and run up and down after money, that they would say, they could find no time to pray that they might escape that dreadful place of Torment they had been in? If some of those that have been in Hell but a Month or two, were now in thy circumstances, dost thou think they would not let their work stand still, or rise the sooner, and sit up the later, or would deny themselves much of their eating time and sleeping time, that they might have time to pray, Lord let us not go down to Hell again: O let us not return to the place which we have found to be so restless and so dreadful? And shouldst not thou be as much and often, and as earnest with thy Family, that neither thou nor any of thine be cast into it?

10. If God should bring back some from the Grave and Hell, and set them in this world again, dost thou think, that they would so follow the World, and run up and down after money, that they would say, they could find no time to pray that they might escape that dreadful place of Torment they had been in? If some of those that have been in Hell but a Moneth or two, were now in thy circumstances, dost thou think they would not let their work stand still, or rise the sooner, and sit up the later, or would deny themselves much of their eating time and sleeping time, that they might have time to pray, Lord let us not go down to Hell again: O let us not return to the place which we have found to be so restless and so dreadful? And shouldst not thou be as much and often, and as earnest with thy Family, that neither thou nor any of thine be cast into it?

I durst not let this pass (though I am sensible I have taken up too much room) without endeavouring to remove this hindrance that lies in the way to keep many Families from their knees in Holy Prayer. I beg for the Lord's sake, and for your Soul's sake, that you would watch against it, and resolve against it, and that your worldly Interest shall no longer keep you from Family Prayer.

I durst not let this pass (though I am sensible I have taken up too much room) without endeavouring to remove this hindrance that lyes in the way to keep many Families from their knees in Holy Prayer. I beg for the Lord's sake, and for your Soul's sake, that you would watch against it, and resolve against it, and that your worldly Interest shall no longer keep you from Family Prayer.