. Sermons on various subjects, evangelical, devotional and practical : adapted to the promotion of Christian piety, family religion and youthful virtue. l to your con-science, whether your neglect of family worship isnot owing more to a spirit of indifference, than to a-ny real scruples in the matter. Bring the questionhome, for once, to your conscience. Whether youdid not first omit it through disinclination, and thenseek reasons to justify the omission ? It was not asense of duty that dictated the neglect; but previ-ous neglect that suggested your evasions of the du-ty. However easy it may b
. Sermons on various subjects, evangelical, devotional and practical : adapted to the promotion of Christian piety, family religion and youthful virtue. l to your con-science, whether your neglect of family worship isnot owing more to a spirit of indifference, than to a-ny real scruples in the matter. Bring the questionhome, for once, to your conscience. Whether youdid not first omit it through disinclination, and thenseek reasons to justify the omission ? It was not asense of duty that dictated the neglect; but previ-ous neglect that suggested your evasions of the du-ty. However easy it may be, in the days of pros-perity, to reconcile your minds to a prayerless life,yet in the day of family adversity, when your chil-dren are by death torn from your embraces, orwhen you feel yourselves under his arrest, the re-flection on such a life will pierce you through andthrough. Encouraged by Gods gracious prom-ises in favour of the godly and their houses, andawed by the threatenings of his wrath against thefamilies which call not on his name, adopt the res-olution of the pious captain of Israel, As for me^and my house^ xve willsei-ve the A Christian Family helping their Minister. k^.y\^9fs- • y^-^vr*^ ROMANS xvi 3, |, 5. Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Jesus; who formy sake have laid do-jon their own necks ; unto whom not onlyJ give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles, Likt-tt/ise greet the church that is in their house. .OlQUILA, and his wife Priscilla, thetwo persons whom Paul here salutes, are severaltimes named in his epistles, and always mentionedwith particular marks of friendship and first acquaintance with them was at Corinth. Itis said in the l8th chapter of the Acts, Paul cameto Corinthj and found a certain Jew named Aquihyborn in Fontus., lately come from Italy^ with hiswife Priscilla^ because that Claudius had commandedallJews to depart from Rome. Aquila was by na-tion a Jew ; the place of his birth was Pontus, a
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