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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67107	Forms of prayer for a family. Composed by the late pious and learned John Worthington D.D. Published by the right reverend Father in God Edward, Lord Bishop of Gloucester	Worthington, John, 1618-1671.; Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1693 (1693)	Wing W3622; ESTC R217193	12,575	50

FORMS OF PRAYER FOR A FAMILY COMPOSED By the Late Pious and Learned John Worthington D. D. PUBLISHED By the Right Reverend Father in God Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester LONDON Printed for Luke Meredith at the Star in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1693. TO THE READER THE following Prayers for a Family being hereafter to accompany the Scripture-Catechism which I published soon after the Author's Decease It was thereupon desired by some Friends that I would recommend these additional Prayers to you And I could not but comply with their Request though the Author's Name is sufficient to bespeak their Acceptance I gave a brief Character of that Excellent Person in a Preface to the Catechism And the little that is there said which I need not tell those that knew him he highly deserved and a great deal more is abundantly enough to invite all good People to the perusing of any of his Writings And as to these Prayers Whoever reads them must needs judge them well fitted for the Vse of Families The more so for their being for Substance penned in the Words and Sentences of the divinely-inspir'd Writers which are the aptest of any to excite Devotion and in this Respect they have the Advantage of all the Prayers that I have seen This and other Instances of their Excellency and Usefulness I might here insist upon but I think it wholly needless they being easily to be discerned by a serious Reader I will add a few Words concerning the daily worshipping of God in our Families which I cannot forbear having this Opportunity This is a Duty very shamefully neglected in this loose Age. And no wonder it is so by such as are irreligious and can be content to live in gross Ignorance and the disacknowledgment of him in whom they live move and have their Being But that so many of those who are well instructed in Religon and keep themselves from the more scandalous Pollutions of the World and make Conscience of attending on the Publick Worship of God and of Secret Prayer should be able to satisfy themselves constantly to Neglect Family-Worship is very unaccountable Especially since not only pious People in all Ages have so commended it by their Practice but also that nothing seems more clearly discoverable by Natural Light than that it is the paying of a most Reasonable Service and nothing doth more plainly tend to the begetting keeping up and encreasing a sense of Religion in Families than this doth In a Word since the Divine Providence watcheth over Families as such what serious Christian can doubt whether the Governours of them are strictly obliged to call them every Day together thankfully to acknowledge the daily care God takes of them and the great Obligations he continually heaps upon them to make a penitent Confession of their daily Offences against him and to deprecate the Punishment deserved by them and to put up humble Petitions to the Throne of Grace for the Continuance of those Spiritual and Temporal Blessings they enjoy and a Supply of those they want And that we may be more generally awakened to a Sense of this great Duty as also that the following and all other good Helps for the better Performance thereof which pious Persons have given those who stand in need of them may have the Divine Blessing accompanying them is the Hearty Prayer of Your Faithful Servant Edw. Gloucestr Morning-Prayer FOR A FAMILY I. EVER-Blessed Lord God the God that hearest Prayers and therefore should all Flesh come unto thee Thou who hast promised that where two or three are met together in thy Name there thou wilt be in the midst of them We thy poor and unworthy Servants who are less than the least of all thy Mercies desire in all Humility to offer up unto thee this our Morning-Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving we acknowledge O Lord that it is of thy Mercies that we are not consumed because thy Compassions fail not they are new every Morning Thou hast not dealt with us after our Sins nor rewarded us according to our Iniquities But thou hast spared us according to the greatness of thy Mercy and kept us unto this present Moment In thee we live and move and have our Being with all the comforts thereof Thou O Lord hast preserved us from the dangers of the Night past whereas we might have slept the Sleep of Death and thou hast raised us up to the Light of another Day to walk before thee in the Land of the Living What have we O Lord which we have not receiv'd of thee The Mercies of this Life the means of Grace and the Helps and Advantages for that better Life which is to come they are all from thee And by these Mercies we should have been perswaded to offer up our selves a Living Sacrifice holy and acceptable unto thee O God which is our reasonable Service II. BUT we confess O Lord that we have not rendered unto thee according to what we have received from thee We have been unthankful and have not glorified thee as God We confess O Lord we have sinned against thy Law written in our Hearts and against the Light shining in our Consciences We have sinned against thy righteous Law declared in thy Holy Word whereas thy Word should have been a Lamp unto our Feet and a Light unto our Paths We have sinned against the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ against the Precepts and Promises of the Gospel nor have we walked agreeably to that excellent Pattern of Holiness shining out therein even the Life of Christ who left us an Example that we should follow his Steps We have sinned O Lord against thy Mercies and against thy Judgments and Corrections against the Motions of thy Holy Spirit against Purposes and Promises of better Service and Obedience Father we have sinned against Heaven and in thy Sight and have made our selves unworthy to be called thy Children And therefore to us belongeth nothing but shame and confusion of Face and the Wrath to come III. BUT there is forgiveness with thee O Lord To the Lord our God belong Mercies and Forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him Thou hast declared thy self in thy Word to be the Lord the Lord God merciful gracious and long-suffering forgiving Iniquity Transgression and Sin not willing that any should perish but that all should come to Repentance Thou willest not the Death of Sinners but hadst rather they should turn from their evil Ways and live Thou didst so love the World that thou gavest thine onely-begotten Son Jesus Christ that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting Life Thou didst send thy Son to be the Propitiation for our Sins that we might live through him IV. GOOD Lord give us such a sight and sense of our Sins as may beget in us an holy hatred of them