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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50162	Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated unto the designs of practical godliness : preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston / by Cotton Mather ; published by a gentleman lately restored from threatening sickness as a humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1689 (1689)	Wing M1153; ESTC W479520	65,669	139

by many to ●●●cuse their Prayerless Conversation with a Want of Time a Want of Confidence and a Want of Vtterance The First Excuse One man doth so Excuse himself I want Time for Family-prayer especially in a Morning I can't spare the Time. This is a most horrrid and wicked Excuse Thou Madman From Whom hast thou all thy Time All thy Time is given by God and shall None of thy Time be given to God What No Time to pray with thy Family God ●uowes thou canst find time to eat with thy family time to sleep with thy family perhaps time to smoke with thy family and no Time to pray with ●em Once more What is it that does engross thy Time and put by thy Prayer T is the World the World And is that such a Portion indeed as to bespeak thy Contempt of an Eternal GOD and of an immortal Soul in the pursuance of it Thou shalt quickly take an everlasting Farewel of all this World This World will not stand thee in any stead ere long when thy Soul thy Soul shall ●e trembling on thy cold lips just ready as the Atheist said to ●ake a great leap in the Dark Yea That very Day wherein thou goest abroad without thy Family Prayers may prove the very Day wherein an Angry God may say This day shall thy soul be required of thee And what a phrensy is this To be extreme busy earnest about the trifles of this world while a precious never-dying soul is unprovided for I wish that all Prayerless Houses had this Admonition engraved on their walls What is a man profited if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul Could you see it engraved on those walls with an Hand writing like what Belshazzer saw of old it would no doubt amaze and startle you Look into these leaves and see i● with a sharp Style engraven here Besides Family Prayers are no real prejudice to Saecular Affairs They should not be Long Tedious Burdensome and they 'le hinder no Iourney no concern all will prosper the better for them In short God will find an Eternity to Damn the man that cannot find a Time to Pray The Second Excuse Another man doth so excuse himself I wa●● Confidence for Family prayer I would pray but I am Asham'd This Excuse is little beter To be ashamed of Prayer is to be ashamed of Christ And it is the plain Word of our Lord JESUS in Marc 8. 38. Whosoever shall be ashamed of me of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed O direful Doom Will not such a smart Thunder clap cause ●hee and th● Famil● to fall down ●pon their knees Never be ash●m●d of Pray●r but be asham●d of sin t is a 〈◊〉 to live without prayer If you have any Scoffers in your Houses whom t is not fi● you should pray before then do as Abraham did e'en ●urn ●em out of the doors Better Turn them out than Turn Go● out They that use not Family-prayer say to the Almighty Depart from us The Third Excu●e But the Excuse of some is I want Utterance for Family-prayer I would pray but I am not gifted for it I cannot pray To this I answer we often say I cannot when I will not is the Bottom of it Suppose a sevcre p●nal●y were by the Magistrate laid upon every prayerless Family Daniel because he would pray with his Family was thrown to the Lions for it Suppose a lighter punishm●nt far away were to be inflicted on all them who do not pray in their Family Suppose a God or a Fine were inflicted on you for it Would you then continue Prayerless Behold the great God has by the Statute Lawes of Heaven ordeined that a Prayerless Family sahll have all manner of Calamities inflicted on it The Lions the Devils of the pit below shall devour the unhappy Master of such a Family And will not this make you pray Besides When you find that you Want things then you don't wan● Words the poor man does not want words when he is to Ask Alms. O sit down and look upon the the Wants Woes of your poo● Family you cannot then but have something to say for them And what tho you cannot pray Quaintly Yet you may pray Gracio●sly and pray Acceptably Florid Elegant Orations in your Prayers God expecteth not a few humble penitent broken-hearted Groans are of more account with Him Tho you Chatter like a Crane or a Swallows 〈◊〉 once Hezekiah did yet the success may be wonderful and glorious What shall I say Moses was unwilling to do what God bade on this very Score in Exod. 4. 10. I am not Eloquent ● But the reply of God was Go and I will teech thee what thou shalt say O that you would make a Tryal of it Friend By'nd by Call thy Family together Tell them That you must not let them remain prayerless any longer lest the Wrath of God break out upon them So Fall down before the Lord among them all and pray as well as God shall enable thee go I am verily perswaded God will teach thee what thou shalt say I am sure thou wilt never have cause to Repent of the Attempt SECT XII YOu have not so much as a shadow of Reason to render why you should not pray with your Families Let me now a little repre●●●● why you should for I am III. To propound some Incentives unto Family-Prayer And there are cheef●y Two Considerations which I have to set before you Consider First the Direful grievous Curses which prayerless Families are exposed unto Such Families they are the very Suburbs of H●●● it self A Prison A Dungeon is to be chosen before a Living in them There is a Words a● awfull Word which a Prophet of God ha● written in a certain place Methinks that Word 〈◊〉 like a Thunderbolt of Death upon the Families in which God is not prayed unto 〈◊〉 t is Written in ler. 10. 25. O Lord pour out ●hy fury on the beathe● which know thee not on the Families which call not on thy name Strikes it no● cold unto the heart of the Reader Man These are the Treful and the direful words of the Lord Tesus Christ himself He counts thy Prayerless Family no better than a Pagan Family And now he speaks not as an Advocate for thy poor Family He saies not Lord vouchs●se thy ●itty and thy pardon to that Family But He saies Lord pour out thy fury upon that family because it calls not on thy Name Alas have yo● no more Kindness for your Families than to lay them open to the Fury of a great and a terrible GOD cruel people that you are We read in Zech. 5. begin about a Flying Roll Twenty Cubits long Ten Cubits broad entring into these and those Houses to consume them I am to tell you That Prayerless Houses are to feel the force of this Flying Roll. An huge Roll of Curses belongs to that House in which Prayer is not