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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
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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.
3 A Master of a Family by his daily offering up a morning and evening Sacrifice of prayer and praise, will make his house an house of prayer, or little Temple, which God will fill with his presence. Yea a Christians house is hereby made Gods Church, by a constant performance of holy duties, which is a great honour unto a family.
3 A Master of a Family by his daily offering up a morning and evening Sacrifize of prayer and praise, will make his house an house of prayer, or little Temple, which God will fill with his presence. Yea a Christians house is hereby made Gods Church, by a constant performance of holy duties, which is a great honour unto a family.
4 Family-prayers are a special means to bring down Gods blessing upon the whole family,1 and upon all their lawful undertakings. As God blessed the house of Obed-Edom for the Arks sake: So will God bless those families in which his name is ⟨p. 152⟩called upon; For godliness is profitable unto all things, as well in families, as in any other societies.
5 Another Argument may be taken from the danger of neglecting this duty of Family-prayer, for such do incur the danger of Gods wrath and fury.1 Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not upon thy Name, saith the Prophet Jeremiah. Which words contain a fearful imprecation against all prayerless-families. And it is observable, that such as neglect this duty of prayer in their family, are joined with the Heathen; and truly very fitly, for wherein do they differ from the Heathens, who have not so much as a form of godliness in their families, upon whom God will power out his fury? Oh think of this all ye who make no conscience of praying daily with your families, consider it well, and lay it to heart! Are ye not under that Prophetical curse, and liable to the pouring forth of Gods wrath and fury, both upon your selves, and upon all that belong unto you? even your Wives, your Children, your Servants, yea and very wares and goods? It may well be written upon the doors of such houses, as one saith, Lord have mercy on us; for surely the plague of God is not far from them, but nigh unto them.