Page:Christian's pocket-book, or, A bundle of familiar exhortations to the practice of piety (2).pdf/6

6 duties; ſet up, and keep up the worſhip of God in your families, by reading in the Bible, and by prayers and praiſes to God, who only can bleſs you and yours in all your actions and intereſts, prayerleſs perſons, are juſtly to be looked on as godleſs perſons. Pſal. lv. 17. Mat. vi. 6, 7, 9. Joſhua xxiv. 15.

Exh. 8. Exerciſe yourſelves alſo ſometimes to ſpiritual meditations; think often of the joys of heaven, of the torments of hell, of the ſweetneſs of God's promiſes, of the terribleneſs of his threatnings, of the hatefulneſs of ſin, of the beauty of holineſs, of the vanity of the world, of the advantage of real godlineſs, of your hazards thro' manifold temptations, and of the readineſs and ability of Jeſus Chriſt to help and comfort you in all caſes, &c. When ye riſe up, or ly down, when ye walk in the ſtreets, or in the fields, when you are employed in any part of your lawful calling, even at all times, and every where, by night or by day, you may have good thoughts towards God, and about your ſoul concerns. Gen. xxiv. 63. Pſ. lxiii. 6. civ. 34. Phil iv. 8.

Exh. 9. Entertain and nouriſh