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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39515	An Earnest exhortation from a minister to his parishioners to discharge the duty of morning and evening prayer in their families with a collection of prayers suited to those two seasons.		1700 (1700)	Wing E97; ESTC R40391	8,417	18

who takes care to keep it up and will not suffer it to fall and languish as most certainly it will do for want of daily Exercise This is too evident amongst the poorer sort of People who having stupidly omitted the Duty of Prayer in their own House proceed at last to a total Neglect of it in God's Nor hath this Neglect of Family-Prayer only had this unlucky Influence on the Poor as to make them neglect Publick Prayer but it hath had almost as bad a one upon those who are of better understanding and better ability for some of them being strangers to the devout Performance of Prayers in their Families upon week days they do not perform it with that Spirit which they ought upon Sundays for their Hearts are cold and their thoughts as well as their Eyes are wandering Seventh●y In order to promote Prayers in your Families let me desire you to consider that dreadful imprecation upon those Families which are Prayerless Jer. 10 25. Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know thee not and upon the Families that have not called upon thy Name This Curse hath entred in a visible manner upon many Prayerless Families whom God in his Judgment hath given up to a reprobate Sense and vile Affections to commit all Uncleanness with greediness and fall from one Wickedness to another without any stop or restraint O let the dread of this Judgment prevail with you to set up Prayers in your Families that so you may prevent its falling on them Lastly Let us consider that there are terrible Days which will come and altho' our Prayers cannot prevent them yet by the constant and devout Exercise of Prayer we shall be better prepar'd for them and therefore our blessed Saviour doth most earnestly exhort his Disciples to this holy Exercise Luke 21. 34 35 36. Take heed to your least at any time your hearts be overcharged with Surfeitings and Drunkenness and the cares of this Life and so that Day come upon you unawares for as a snare shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of the Earth watch ye therefore and Pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man So that watching and praying are the best Preparation against all evil Days that may come but more especially our greatest Support at those most terrible Days of Death and Judgment which certainly will come There are two Excuses which Men generally make for their omitting this Duty which I shall shew the Weakness and Insufficiency of First The want of Time Secondly The want of Ability to perform it First As for the want of time to perform it I beg you to consider whether 'tis not very unmannerly as well as very sinful to answer God when he calls you to Prayers I will come when I have nothing else to do And how would you take such an Answer from your Child or your Servant 〈◊〉 Besides you cannot spend any part of your Time better than in Prayer because that time which is thus spent will turn to your greatest Advantage both in respect of this Life and another For as it procures Gods Blessing upon you it will be a means of making you prosper in the World more than all your other Labours can without it and as it will promote the good of your Souls in the several respects before-mention'd 'twill turn to your highest and most unspeakable benefit hereafter Besides the Prayers that are here recommended to you will take up so very little time that it cannot be any considerable hind rance to those that work hardest and have most Business to do And I am sure no Man ought so to imploy his time for the Service of his Body as utterly to neglect his Soul And I am afraid there are many who every day spend more time than this Duty does require much worse And I earnestly beg you to consider how little this Excuse can avail with God Almighty when at the same time you make it your own Consciences must tell you that 'tis not true As for the Second hind rance of this Duty of Prayer that you want Ability to perform it as you ought I have for your assistance collected the following Prayers out of the Common-Prayer Book and the Prayer for Grace out of the whole Duty of Man and if you offer them up to God as our Church directs with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart they will be an acceptable Morning and Evening Sacrifice to Him May all those for whose use this short Exhortation to Family-Prayer is Printed read it often and consider it seriously as a matter that Concerns the Good of their Souls and may as many as have not set up this Godly Practice in their Families put on a Resolution to begin it this Day and not any longer neglect that Duty which conduceth so much to promote the Glory of God and the Salvation of their Children and Servants Souls as well as of their own Prayers for MORNING LOrd we know not what to pray for as we ought O let thy blessed Spirit help our Infirmities and keep us from all cold desires and wandering Thoughts from Impenitence Uncharitableness and hardness of Heart and whatsoever may make them unacceptable to thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty and everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent create in us new and contrite Hearts that we worthily lamenting our Sins and acknowledging our Wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all Mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty and most merciful Father we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable Sinners Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord. And Grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy Name Amen O Lord we beseech thee to hear our Prayers and spare all those who confess their Sins unto thee That they whose Consciences by Sin are accused by thy merciful Pardon may be absolved through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God who art the Author of Peace and Lover of Concord in Knowledge of whom standeth our eternal Life whose Service is perfect Freedom Defend us thy humble Servants in all Assaults of our Enemies that we surely trusting in thy Defence may not fear the Power of any Adversaries