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…

2 By the practice of the Apostles, and other Saints in the Primitive times.¹ For we read, That at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them, Plinius Secundus, ²though an Heathen, who lived about two hundred years after Christ, testified of Christians, that they had their morning songs, using to rise before day to sing Psalms.

2 By the practice of the Apostles, and other Saints in the Primitive times.¹ For wee read, That at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them, Plinius Secundus, ²though an Heathen, who lived about two hundred years after Christ, testified of Christians, that they had their morning songs, using to rise before day to sing Psalms.

1. 1Act. 16. 25.
2. 2Hymnos anteelucanos. Plin. second. lib. 3. cap. 33.Hymnos anteelucanos. Plin. secund. lib. 3. cap. 33.

2 Reasons commending this duty, may be taken from the benefits accompanying the same; For

1 By this duty jointly performed, our own spirits will be much quickened and enlivened.