Family Prayer

Family-PRAYER.

First, then. Let family-prayer be maintained in our houses, that they may serve the Lord. My neighbours, I have told you often, and I now tell you weeping, that it will be a sad thing, if so much as one prayerless family be found among you all. The owners of that house will never be able to stand or live in the fiery day of God's pleading with him. You have been warned and warned full many a time, that if your houses be not warmed with your prayers, the fierce wrath of God abides on them; and I hope, none of you will venture to meet me at the bar of the Lord Jesus, with the fearful heavy guilt of this omission upon your souls. The very Turks themselves at this day uphold a family-worship among themselves; God forbid that any styled Christians here should be worse than they.