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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.
SECT. X.
The Method in which I shall treat with you here about, shall be,
THe Method in which I shall treat with you here about, shallbe,
I. To offer some Directions about Family-Prayer.
The First Rule.
Let all Persons that should attend Family-prayer, count themselves concerned to Pray without •easing. Eve•y Master of an House, is to carry on the Prayer in it. That man is not fit to have a• House, that cannot make a Prayer. But if the Mater be absent? Then the Mistress is to see till that Prayer be not wanting. It seems affirmed of Ether, a Woman, in Cap. 4. 16. That she Prayed with her Maidens. There should not be one Prayer the less in a Family, because […] is become the Ruler there: No, the Lsses of a Family, should increase the Prayers of it. And let the Master of a Ship, remember, That the Sailors are his Family. He should pray with them aboard, every day while they are at Sea together. You that see the Wonders of God together, should together sing the Praises of God, and together beg the Mercies of God. Methinks, the poor Sea-men, should be the best […] in the world. With what face can you pray in a Storm, if you do not also pray in a Calm? Now Master, tis your Work, tis part of your Order from your great Owner to see that this e done […] all Mariners call upon their Master, as those Mariners did upon the Passenger in, […] 1 6 Are, […] God, that we perish […] Let the Master of […] School also Remember,