A26695:468
A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to…
A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to God in order to their eternal salvation showing the thoughtful sinner what he must do to be saved / by Joseph Alleine.A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to God in order to their eternal salvation shewing the thoughtful sinner what he must do to be saved / by Joseph Alleine.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1688
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.
4. Look to the strict sanctifying of the Sabbath by all your households, Exod. 20. 19. Lev. 23. 3. Many poor families have little time else. O improve but your Sabbath days as diligently in labouring for knowledge, and doing your Makers work, as you do the other days in doing your own work, and I doubt not but you may come to some proficiency.
4. Look to the strict sanctifying of the Sabbath by all your housholds, Exod. 20. 19. Lev. 23. 3. Many poor families have little time else. O improve but your Sabbath days as diligently in labouring for knowledge, and doing your Makers work, as you do the other days in doing your own work, and I doubt not but you may come to some proficiency.
5. Let the Morning and Evening Sacrifice of solemn Prayer, be daily offered up in all your families, Psal. 92. 1, 2. Exod. 30. 7, 8. Luke 19, 10. Beware they be not found among the families that call not upon Gods name, for why should there be wrath from the Lord upon your families? Jer. 10. 25. O miserable families, without God in the world, that are without family Prayer! what! have you so many family sins, family wants, family mercies, what! and yet no family Prayer•? how do you pray with all prayer and supplication, if you do not with family Prayer?