The Fountain of Life Opened

Besides, prayer is a part of natural worship, and the vilest among men are bound to pray, else the neglect of it were none of their sin. O, let not a duty upon which so many, and great blessings hang, fall to the ground, upon such silly (not to say wicked) pretences to shift it off. Remember, death will shortly break up all your families and disband them, and who then, think you, will have most comfort in beholding their dead? The day of account also hastens, and then who will have the most comfortable appearing, before the just, and holy God? Set up I beseech you the ancient, and comfortable duties of reading the Scriptures, singing of Psalms, and Prayer in all your dwelling places, and do all these conscientiously, as men that have to do with God, and try the Lord herewith, if he will not return in a way of mercy to you, and restore even your outward prosperity to you again. How ever, to be sure, far greater encouragements ⟨image 12⟩than that lye before you, to oblige you to your duties.

(3.) More especially I have a few things to say to you, that have attended on the Ministry, or are under my oversight, in a more particular manner, and then I have done. And,

First, I cannot but with deep resentments observe to you, the goodness of our God; yea, the riches of his goodness,