The works of George Swinnock, M.A

Sixthly, Close the day with God, in Praying, and Reading his word, both in thy Closet and Family. Our bed is resembled to our graves, sleep to death; its of worse consequence to go to bed before we have made our prayers, then to our Graves before we have made our Wills; God is the first and the last, and ought to be the beginning and ending of every day; Thou causest the out-goings of the morning and evening to rejoice. Some understand the inhabitants of East and West, others the vicissitudes of day and night, for which men rejoice in God. David was mindful of the Word at night, I have remembered thy law O Lord in the night; and also of prayer, Evening and morning will I pray and cry aloud, Psal. 119. 55. Psal. 55. 17.

Sixthly, Close the day with God, in Praying, and Reading his word, both in thy Closet and Family. Our bed is resembled to our graves, sleep to death; its of worse consequence to go to bed before we have made our prayers, then to our Graves before we have made our Wills; God is the first and the last, and ought to be the beginning and ending of every day; Thou causest the out-goings of the morning and evening to rejoyce. Some understand the inhabitants of East and West, others the vicissitudes of day and night, for which men rejoyce in God. David was mindful of the Word at night, I have remembred thy law O Lord in the night; and also of prayer, Evening and morning will I pray and cry aloud, Psal. 119. 55. Psal. 55. 17.

The sins of the day call for our mournful confession. The mercies of the day call for our sincere thanksgiving. The perils of the night call for fervent petitions, so that none can want matter for a nights prayer. Our wanderings and aberrations in the day may well engage us to confession and contrition every night. They who do not paddle in every gutter, or thrust their hands into every ditch, though they washed clean in the morning, find them dirty at night. We cannot meddle with money, but we foul our fingers; nor about earthly affairs, but we defile our soul. Infirmity bewrayeth it self in all the actions of fallen man. We are steady in nothing but wantonness and wickedness. The feet of men limp at best, and are too slow to follow the Word of