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 it, to 'choose the dullest and deadest times then sleep is ready to close our eyes and renders us unable to serve ourselves, is to choose a moment not adapted to the duty. We must feel a languor that will make us pray as if fearful that God should accept us and as coldly as if unwilling he should hear us, and take away that lust by which we are governed, and against which conscience urge us to pray.'

In scripture honourable mention is mad of family worship in commendation of faithful Abraham: I know, faith the Lord, that he will command his children, and hi household after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord. In this practice also live the venerable Joshua: after a review of the many deliverances God had wrought, he say to the children of Israel, If it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose ye this da whom ye will serve; but as for me and m house we will serve the Lord. After his example copied holy David: having finished the various services of the day; in which he put