(1.) 1You have daily family sins, and therefore in your family you should daily confess them, and beg the Pardon of them; that you and your family might not go about your necessary occasions all the day, nor to your necessary rest at night, with the guilt of sin upon your Souls. (2.) You have every day daily wants, therefore you should daily beg supplies for your family: and, Christ bids you pray, Give us this day our daily bread. (3.) You have family business every day, and you should pray to God daily for his blessing upon your endeavours, for the good of your family. (4.) You have every day family mercies, and should daily bless God for them: when you wake in the morning and find your house not fired in the night, is not this a family mercy? and, should not your family be called together to bless God for this mercy? in the morning you find your family all in health, none of them dead in their beds: and, should not you, since you all live, all come together, and bless God, that sleep was not turned into death, nor the darkness of ⟨p. 184⟩the right into the darkness of Hell to any of you? And, have you not many mercies every day, you went out well about your employment, and you returned well, and God hath blest your endeavours with success; and, should not you give to God the praise of his Mercy before you sleep? or, if you have sustained some Losses, should not you pray to God to sanctify them to you, and enable you patiently to bear them, and submit to the will of God therein?
(1.) 1You have daily family sins, and therefore in your family you should daily confess them, and beg the Pardon of them; that you and your family might not go about your necessary occasions all the day, nor to your necessary rest at night, with the guilt of sin upon your Soules. (2.) You have every day daily wants, therefore you should daily beg supplies for your family: and, Christ bids you pray, Give us this day our daily bread. (3.) You have family business every day, and you should pray to God daily for his blessing upon your endeavours, for the good of your family. (4.) You have every day family mercies, and should daily bless God for them: when you wake in the morning and find your house not fired in the night, is not this a family mercy? and, should not your family be called together to bless God for this mercy? in the morning you find your family all in health, none of them dead in their beds: and, should not you, since you all live, all come together, and bless God, that sleep was not turned into death, nor the darkness of ⟨p. 184⟩the right into the darkness of Hell to any of you? And, have you not many mercies every day, you went out well about your imployment, and you returned well, and God hath blest your endeavours with success; and, should not you give to God the praise of his Mercy before you sleep? or, if you have sustained some Losses, should not you pray to God to sanctifie them to you, and inable you patiently to bear them, and submit to the will of God therein?
- 1Four Reasons for daily prayer in families.
