with her reasonable Defires, and Uncondefcenfion to her pitiable Weakness. Of the Wife against the Hufband: As Dishonour in inward Efteem and Opinion; Irreverence in outward Carriage; Unobfervance, in not forecasting to do what may pleafe him; Disobedience to his juft Commands; cafting off his Yoke, or Unfubjection.

Sins of Parents and Children: As Want of natural Affection; not praying for each other: Imprecations. Of the Parents against the Children: As not providing for them; Irreligious and Evil Education; provoking them to Anger by imperious Harfhnefs and needlefs Severity in governing. Of the Children against the Parents: As Dishonour in their Minds; Irreverence in their Behaviour; being afhamed of them; mocking them; Speaking Evil of them; fealing from them; Difobedience to their lawful Commands; Contumacy, or cafting off Subjection to them. Sins of Brothers and Sifters: as want of natural Affection; not providing for our Brethren; not praying for them; praying against them.

Sins of Masters against their Servants; as not maintaining them; not catechizing or inftructing them; unequal Government, or Injustice, fhewn in requiring unlawful, Wantonnefs in requiring fuperfluous, and Rigour in requiring unmerciful Things of them: Immoderate Threatning; Imperioufness, or contemptuous haughty treating of them: defrauding or keeping back the Wages of the Hireling. Of Servants against their Masters; as Dishonour; Irreverence; publishing or aggravating their Master's Faults; not clearing, when they can, his injured Reputation; Unfaithfulness in what he intrufts with them, fhewn either by their Sf

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Wastefulness, i. e. fpending it for their Pleasure, or by Negligence, or Purloining, i. e. diverting it to their own Profit and fecret Enrichment ; Difobedience; Non-obfervance; Answering again; Slothfulness; Eye-Service; Refiftance; not praying for him; Praying against him,

To all which, add thefe other Sins, which are peculiarly so among Chriftians, viz. The Neglect of Baptifm, and abfenting from the Lord's Supper; and Want of Faith in Chrift as our Mediator.

Since it is poffible this Book may fall into the
Hands of thofe that may be deflitute of
Helps of Family-Devotion, I have added
a Morning and Evening-Prayer for fuch
Occafion.

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A Morning PRAYER for a Family.

Almighty God, Father of all Mercies, we

thine unworthy Servants prefent ourfelves with all Humility before thy divine Majefty, to offer to thee this our Morning Sacrifice of Praife and Thanksgiving for all thy Goodness and loving Kindnefs vouchfafed to us thy finful Creatures. We blefs thee for creating us after thine own Image and Likeness, for making us capable of loving thee and enjoying thee eternally. We blefs thee for preferving us from innumerable Accidents and Dangers through the whole Courfe of our Lives till this Time; for refreshing our Bodies the Night paft with comfortable Reft and Sleep; for bringing us fafe to the Light of this Day. We bless thee for our Food and Raiment, for our Health and Friends, and for all the Comforts and Accommodations of this Life. But above all, we praife and magnify thy Holy Name for thine ineftimable Love in the Redemption of the World by our Lord Jesus Sf 2 Chrift,

Chrift, for the Means of Grace, and for the Hope of Glory; that it hath pleased thee to regenerate us with thy Holy Spirit, to receive us for thine Town Children by Adoption, and to incorporate us into thy holy Church: And we beseech thee give us fuch a Senfe of thy great and manifold Mercies bestowed upon us, as may engage us to a true Thankfulnefs, fuch as may appear in our Lives, by an humble, holy, and obedient walking before thee all our Days.

We acknowledge, O Lord, that we have rendered ourselves unworthy of thy Favours and Bleffings, by our many great and heinous Sins: But we do with Shame and Sorrow confefs our frequent Breaches of thy holy Laws, in Thought, Word, and Deed; that we have left undone thofe Things thou hast commanded; and done thofe Things thou haft forbidden; and it is of thy Mercy alone that we are not confumed. Our Sins have cried to Heaven against us, and our Iniquities justly call for Vengeance upon us: But, O moit mighty and merciful God, who haft Compaffion upon all Men, and hateft nothing that thou haft made, who wouldeft not the Death of a Sinner, but that he fhould rather turn from his Sin and be faved; mercifully forgive us our Trefpaffes, receive and comfort us, who are grieved and wearied with the Burden of our Sins; Thy Property is always to have Mercy; to thee only it appertaineth to forgive Sins; fpare us; therefore, Good Lord, fpare us, whom thou haft redeemed; enter not into Judgment with thy Servants, who are vile Earth and miferable Sinners; but fo turn thine Anger from us, who meekly acknowledge our Vilenefs, and truly

truly repent us of our Faults; that by thy Pardon and Peace, we may be cleanfed from all our Sins, and may ferve thee with a quiet Mind, all our Days. Raife up, O Lord, thy Power and come among us, and with great Might fuccour us, that whereas through our Sins and Wickedness, we are fore lett and hindred in running the Race that is fet before us, thy bountiful Grace and Mercy may speedily help and deliver us.

And thou, O God, who art the Protector of all that truft in thee, without whom nothing is ftrong, nothing is holy, increase and multiply upon us thy Mercy, that thou being our Ruler and Guide, we may fo pafs through Things temporal, that we finally lofe not the Things eternal. We acknowledge, O Lord, that through the Weakness of our mortal Nature, we can do no good Thing without thee; grant us therefore the Help of thy Grace, that in keeping thy Commandments, we may please thee both in Will and Deed. And thou, who never faileft to help and govern them, whom thou doft bring up in thy ftedfaft Fear and Love, keep us, we beseech thee, under the Protection of thy good Providence, and make us to have a perpetual Fear and Love of thy holy Name. And thou, who prepareft for them that love thee fuch good Things as pafs Man's Understanding, pour into our Hearts fuch Love towards thee, that we loving thee above all Things may obtain thy Promifes, which exceed all that we can defire.

Give unto us, O Lord, the Increase of Faith, Hope, and Charity; and that we may obtain that which thou doft promife, make us to love

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