B09511:87
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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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 ⟨p. 66⟩would Bless thee, and thy Household, if Prayer to the Lord were there. But thy Sinful, Woeful Family lies open to the Curse of God, as long as thou dost not carry those poor Children and Servants unto the Lord Jesus Christ, for His Blessing to be bestowed upon them: And how hideously, will They also Curse thee, throughout Eternal Ages, when they shall with Intolerable Anguish cry out, Oh! that I had never seen that Prayerless House! 'Tis that House, which ha's brought me to this Hell for ever! But there is this particular Aggravation of thy Impiety; That if the Town be laid in Ashes, 'tis thy Prayerless House that is among the just causes of it.
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 Houshold, while the Ark of the Lord was there. Even so, The Lord ⟨p. 66⟩would Bless thee, and thy Houshold, if Prayer to the Lord were there. But thy Sinful, Woful Family lies open to the Curse of God, as long as thou dost not carry those poor Children and Servants unto the Lord Jesus Christ, for His Blessing to be bestow'd upon them: And how hideously, will They also Curse thee, throughout Eternal Ages, when they shall with Intolerable Anguish cry out, Oh! that I had never seen that Prayerless House! 'Tis that House, which ha's brought me to this Hell for ever! But there is this particular Aggravation of thy Impiety; That if the Town be laid in Ashes, 'tis thy Prayerless House that is among the just causes of it.