they owe to those who are in authority, is one reason which has determined the author not to make mention of them in every prayer. He endeavours to infuse a spirit of loyalty into a family, by appropriating one season of family devotion entirely to this subject. By this method he conceives (even should the prayer occur but once in a month) the members of a family would learn more of what they owe to their Prince, and be much more impressed with a conviction that it is a christian duty to pray for him, than by his being mentioned only in a short sentence, in every day's prayer. May it please the God of all grace to ac company this humble attempt to promote the practice of domestic piety with his blessing; disposing the hearts of parents and masters to delight in imparting religious instruction to their children and servants. May their instruction be illustrated and ador..ed by their holy example. May the morning and evening sacrifice of prayer and praise be offered every family to the GoD of our salvation, and his blessing descend and rest on all the members; purifying their hearts, sup up in porting them under their trials, uniting them more and more to each other in the bonds of christian charity, and affording them the refreshing foretastes of that glorious state, in which the blessed Gop will be worshipped with the most profound adoration, and the sublimest strains of praise. |