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A29251 An appendix to the discourse upon the doctrine of our baptismal covenant being a method of family-religion / by Thomas Bray ... Bray, Thomas, 1658-1730. 1699 (1699) Wing B4288; ESTC R34276 17,835 51

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this both Ordinary and Extraordinary Ordinarily and at every time the Family are call'd together to Prayers it were well if a Chapter were read either according to the order of our Kalendar by which means the most material parts of Holy Scripture might be read over the Old Testament once the New thrice a-year Or if time will not serve to have four Chapters read every day then the New Testament may be read over in order And it would tend singularly to the improvement of the Youth of the Family both Children and Servants to have them read the Chapters by turns Extraordinarily I would recommend it to all Families that on Sunday-Evenings the Master or Mistress having call'd together their whole Family would besides the Chapter cause to be read some Discourse out of some Practical Treatise And I shall here recommend what Books they may read with profit and in what order And in the first ●●ace since in the Doctrine of our Baptismal Covenant is contain'd all that is essentially necessary to Salvation and nothing is to be accounted such which is no part nor Article of the Covenant of Grace and since according as we have perform'd or not perform'd our part of this Covenant we shall be justify'd or condemn'd at the last day I am therefore persuaded that the Knowledge of the Nature Terms and Conditions of this Covenant by whose Mediation we obtained such Gracious Terms of Salvation and what vast Obligations do lie upon us to discharge the same I am therefore I say persuaded that a through understanding of this Covenant is fundamentally necessary And since the general Doctrine thereof gives a view of the whole Scheme of the Christian Religion I humbly conceive it ought to be the first thing taught and understood in Christianity to which end give me leave to recommend every Sunday the reading of a Lecture in the foregoing Short Discourse till it be gone through And then after that for a more particular Information in the several conditions of this Covenant I would be glad if some Treatise upon the Articles of our Christian Faith such as Kettlewel's Practical Believer and next to that some Discourse upon the several Christian Duties such as the Whole Duty of Man were by degrees read over And then if next after this a Discourse upon the Sacrament such as Kettlewell's Help and Exhortation to worthy Communicating were also read there wou'd be nothing wanting to give all the Mem●●rs of a Family both a general and particular Knowledge in the whole Christian Religion and to guide them to Heaven These three last mentioned Books are what I would wish were in every Family for the compleat Instruction of the Members of it But in regard they may be thought too dear a Purchase and too tedious for some instead thereof the Guide of a Christian and the Christian Monitor may serve excellently for the purpose of Family Instructions And if with the latter of these be bound up Wake upon Death between these three there will be an admirable Rule provided for Holy Living and dying And both together will make up an Excellent poor Man's Family-Book The purchase of the two latter will not arise to above one Shilling and six Pence and of all together to not above eight Shillings And it were happy for this Church and the Souls of Men if so many of our Common People did not lay out much more as they generally do to the loading of their Shelves in Books of an Antinomian Spirit such as Bunyan's Books to the Poysoning of many thousand Persons both in their Faith and Practice Thirdly And now after the Psalm and Chapter and the other reading on Sundays In the Close it is proper that Prayer should succeed for which by this time we may suppose all the Members of the Family to be very well prepared and to be put in a good frame of Spirit And there are indeed great variety of excellent Devotions in the foregoing Books especially if to them there shall be added Patrick's Devout Christian However to render this as generally useful as may be for all the purposes of Family-Religion I shall add a Prayer for the Morning and Evening made for the most part out of the words of our Liturgy the best Treasury of Devotions doubtless in the World of any Humane Composure and particularly out of the words of our Catechism the Praying over of which will have these advantages in my Opinion of all other Forms that first the things thereby prayed for will be the same we have Covenanted with God to perform And secondly every single Expression being pregnant of abundance of Matter so as to be the Subject of Expositions in every Petition the Mind will be taken up with great variety of things whereas in most other Composures in much variety of Expression there is but little Matter included And by the by this being the Nature of our Forms in the Liturgy especially of those Supplications following the several Commandments the Injury which is done to our Church Service is intolerarable when it is hurry'd over and read precipitately so as the Worshipper cannot have due space to reflect upon the copious Matter he prays for under those comprehensive Expressions PRAYERS O Most blessed Lord God whose glorious Name is exalted above all Blessing and Praises yet it is our Duty and our Happiness to Glorify thee And to this end we a small handful of thy depending Creatures are here met to join our Hearts and Voices in the Celebration of thy Praises And therefore with Angels and Archangels and all the glorious Company of Heaven we laud and magnify thy holy Name for all thy Mercies vouchsafed unto us and to all Mankind Our Creation was an admirable Instance of thy Goodness communicating Life and Being and a competent measure of Happiness to all thy Creatures And as the Morning-Stars or Angels did thereupon sing for Joy so do we this Day celebrate the Glorious Power then appearing But the Redemption of us by the Mediation of thy Son Jesus Christ reconciling us to thee when we had basely revolted from thee and took part with thine Enemy was an astonishing Work of Mercy which the Angels themselves cannot fathom but desire to look into O how did Mercy and Truth here meet together How did Righteousness and Peace here kiss each other We are in some measure sensible of it and we do most devoutly adore thy Goodness that thou hast called us into the Family of thy Church to partake of the Benefits of such Redemption And now O God as at our Admission into this holy Society we did List our selves under Christ's Banner manfully to Fight against the World the Flesh and the Devil so do thou enable us to Renounce the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanity of this wicked World and all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh As we have been Baptiz'd into the Belief and Profession of thee the only true God Father Son