Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

¹In Praying unto God, and that (1.) ordinarily: And, your ordinary Praying unto God in your family should be daily, and, that at least twice ⟨p. 183⟩every day; every Morning when you rise, and every Night, before you dismiss your Family to their rest and sleep. Exod. 29.38. Now, this is that which thou shalt offer upon the Altar; Two Lambs of the first year, day by day continually. Vers. 39. The one Lamb thou shalt offer in the morning, and the other Lamb thou shalt offer at even: Though the Ceremonial part of this be abolished, yet the Moral abideth, and is perpetual: and, the reasons for daily Prayer in your families are perpetual; as,

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(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