Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness

Use 1. For Reprehension. And there are many that fall under just and sad Reproof from this Doctrine.

1. It condemns those that live in the total neglect of this duty of Family prayer. And what is like to come on prayerless Families at lasts Let Prayerless Fathers, and prayerless Masters hear the word of the Lord, & tremble at it O that you would consider, how you expose not only your selves but Families, to the vengeance of Heaven. How often have you been put in mind of that awful Scripture, Jer. 10.25. Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know thee not. what's ⟨p. 66⟩that to us? some one will be ready to say; we are no Heathen, we are all Christians: but mark what follows: and upon the Families that call not upon thy Name. Not only professed Heathen, but Families that live like Heathen with out any prayer, the curry of the […] will come pouring down from Heaven up […] them. Hence are temporal judgements upon […] many times. The Lord kills Children […] death because Parents do not shewch man example of Religion to pray with them […] and as well as for them in secret. Yea the Souls of your poor Children are ruined by his sin of yours. And O how sad will it be when God shall require the blood of the Souls of Children at the hands of their prayerless Fathers; and the blood of the souls of servants at the hands of their prayerless Masters. Think with your selves what answer you will make before Jesus Christ the Son of God at the last and great day. If thy Children shall be thine accusers before the Lord then; if any of them shall stand before the Lord Jesus in the day when he shall judge the World, and say, Lord, there is the man that was my Father, I never heard him pray in all my life, and that made me live in the neglect of God also; or if thy Servants shall any of them say, Lord, there is the man that was my Master, I lived in his house so many months […] never heard him praying unto God all that […], what answer wilt ⟨p. 67⟩