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Christian Reader,

I have, for the help of the Devotions, set down some FORMS of PRIVATE PRAYER, upon several occasions: If it be though an omission that there are none for Families, I must answer for my self, that it was not from any opinion, that God is not as well to be worshipped in the Family as the Closet: but because the Providence of God and the Church hath already furnished thee for that purpose, infinitely beyond what my utmost care could do. I mean the PUBLICK LITURGY or COMMON PRAYER, which for all publick addresses to God (and such are Family Prayers) are so excellent and useful, that we may say of it as David did of Goliah's Sword, I Sam. 21.9. There is none like it.

DIRECTIONS for the MORNING.

As soon as ever thou awakest in the morning, lift up thy heart to God in this or the like short Prayer.

Lord, as thou hast awaked my Body from sleep, so by the Grace awaken my Sould from sin; and make me so to walk before thee this day, and all the rest of my life, that when