B09511:86
The Bostonian Ebenezer. Some historical remarks, on the state of Boston, the chief town…
The Bostonian Ebenezer. Some historical remarks, on the state of Boston, the chief town of New England, and of English America. With some, agreeable methods, for preserving and promoting, the good state of that, as well as any other town, in the like circumstances. / Humbly offered, by a native of Boston.
Boston: printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Samuel Phillips, 1698
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III. Our Tabernacles must not be Prayerless ⟨p. 65⟩Tabernacles, if we would Comfortably Enjoy these Tabernacles. If we will Deny God, in our Houses, 'tis but just that He should then Deny Houses unto us. It is a dreadful Imprecation, in Jer. 10.25. O Lord, pour out thy Fury on the Families, that call not on thy Name. And wherein will that Fury be discovered? It will be partly discovered, in Turning those Families out of their Houses.
III. Our Tabernac•es must not be Prayerless ⟨p. 65⟩Tabernacles, if we would Comfortably Enjoy these Tabernacles. If we will Deny God, in our Houses, 'tis but just that He should then Dany Houses unto us. It is a dreadful Imprecation, in Jer. 10.25. O Lord, pour out thy Fury on the Families, that call not on thy Name. And wherein will that Fury be discovered? It will be partly discovered, in Turning those Families out of their Houses.
If there be so much as one owner of a Prayerless House, now appearing in this House of Prayer; yea, if there be so much as one of you, that Pray any seldomer with your Families, than ordinarily Twice in a Day, with a Morning and an Evening Sacrifice, I would address that man, with an Earnest Expostulation.
Friend; The very Turks, do at this Day uphold a Family Worship among them; and art thou worthy to be called a Christian, that livest without any Family-Worship at all? No, Thou art in this Thing, worse than a Turk. It is noted concerning Obed-Edom, The Lord blessed Obed-Edom, and his Household, while the Ark of the Lord was there. Even so, The Lord