tf)cPoo? .? anz FRrniIp MoD .- and provifion as his own. Do you not need filch aprotector ? And can you have abetter ? or better rake care,for the welfareand fafety of you and yours ? And ifyour Family be not Gods, they are his Enemies and under his curfe as Rebels : In head ofhis bleffings of ,Health, Peace, provifion, and fuccefs, you may look for fickneffes, dangers, crofi'es, diffreffes, ungnietnel and death ; orwhich is worfe, that your profperity fhall be a curie and fnare to you and yours, 3. A Holy Family is a place of comfort : A Church of God : What a joy will it be to you, to live toge- ther daily in this Hope, that you (hall meet and live together in Heaven ! to think that Wife, Children and Servants (hall fhortly be fellow Citizens with you of the Heavenly yerufalem l How pleafant is it to joyn with one heart and mind in the fervice of God, and in his chearful praifes ? How lovely will you be toone another, when each one beareth the Image of God ? What abundance ofjars and miferies will be prevemedi which fin would daily bring amòng you s And when any ofyou die, how comfortably may the reft be about their bed, and attend their Corps unto the grave, when they have good hopes that the Soul is received to Glory by Chrift ? But if your family be ungodly, it will be like a ne(f of wafps or like a Jail Ell of difcord and vexation : And it will be grievous to you to look your Wife or Children in the face, and think that they are like to lie in Hell : And their ficknefs and death will be tenfold the more heavy to you to think of their woful unfeen end. 4. Your family bath filch conífant Need of God, as commandeth you conftantly to ferve him : As every man bath his perfonal neceflities, fo families have fitmily nece/fxf s which God muff fupply, or they are 289
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