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Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated…
Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated unto the designs of practical godliness : preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston / by Cotton Mather ; published by a gentleman lately restored from threatening sickness as a humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.
Boston: printed by R. Pierce, 1689
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.
Family-PRAYER.
SECT. IX.
First, then. Let Family-Prayer be maintained in our Houses, that they may serve the Lord. My Neighbours, I have told you often, and I now tell you weeping, That it will be a sad thing, if so much as one Prayerless-Family be found among you all. The owners of that House will never be able to stand or live in the fiery day of of God's pleading with him. You have been Warned and Warned full many a time, that if your Houses be not Warmed with your Prayers, the fierce Wrath of God abideth on them; and I hope, none of you will venture to meet me at the Bar of the Lord Jesus, with the fearful heavy guilt of this Omission upon your souls. The very Turks themselves at this day uphold a Family-Worship among themselves; God forbid that any styled Christians here should be worse than they.
FIrst, then. Let Family-Prayer be maintained in our Houses, that they may serve the Lord. My Neighbours, I have told you often, and I now tell you weeping, That it will be a sad thing, if so much as one Prayerless-Family be found among you all. The owners of that House will never be able to stand or live in the fiery day of of God's pleading with him. You have been Warned and Warned full many a time, that if your Houses be not Warmed with your Prayers, the fierce Wrath of God abideth on them; and I hope, none of you will venture to meet me at the Bar of the Lord Jesus, with the fearful heavy guilt of this Omission upon your souls. The very Turks themselves at this day uphold a Family-Worship among themselves; God forbid that any styled Christians here should be worse than they.