As their speech grows more plain and easy to them, teach them who made, and redeemed, and sanctified them, and for what end, namely, to glorify and to love God; and withal, teach them some of the shortest ejaculations you can, such as these :

me.

"Lord, help me; Lord, save me.

Lord, have mercy upon me.

All love, all glory, be to God, who first loved

Lord, keep me in thy love."

Within a little time you may teach them the Lord's prayer, and hear them say it every day, morning and evening, on their knees, with some one or more of the foregoing ejaculations; and by degrees, as they grow up, they will learn the creed, and the whole Catechism.

Be sure to teach your children with all the sweetness and gentleness you can; lest if you should be severe, or should over-task them, religion should seem to them rather a burden than a blessing.

As their knowledge increases, so let their prayers increase also, and teach them, as they go, to turn their Catechism into prayers, after the manner which I shall shew you; and to confirm and improve their knowledge, bring them duly to the church to be catechised by the parish priest, that by his familiar and devout explications of the Catechism, they may learn to understand it, and may be capable of reading the Exposition on it, and other books of piety.

Take conscientious care to season your children, as early as you can, with the love of God, which is "the first and great command,"37 and

37 Matt. xxii. 38.

with "the fear of God, which is the beginning of wisdom;"38 for the awful love and the filial fear of God must always go together.

The same method you observe in teaching your children, the same you may observe in teaching your servants, according as you see they want teaching; and you yourselves will reap the benefit of it, as well as your servants; for the more devout servants they are of God, the more faithful servants will they be to you.

Remember, you must teach both your children and servants by your example as well as by your instruction; for they learn best by example; and if they see you give an example of fraud or lying, of revenge or calumny, of uncleanness or drunkenness, of cursing and swearing and irreligion; instead of teaching them to obey God, you teach them to provoke him; instead of teaching them to honour God, you teach them to blaspheme him; instead of leading them the way to heaven, you lead them the way to hell; and you will increase your own damnation, by furthering theirs; which God forbid you should ever do!

Now, that you may the better give a good example to your family, I will (by God's help) give you a method of daily devotion, taken for the most part out of the Catechism, which will be suitable to all Christians, be they never so well instructed, and which you may by little and little teach your children; and which those who have been bred up in ignorance, and are children in understanding, and yet willing to be taught, may learn to say also, as the capacities of either do increase for a Christian must never stand at a stay, but must be always "growing in grace, and

38 Ps. cxi. 10.

in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."39

A Method of Daily Prayer.

As soon as ever you awake, offer up your first thoughts and words to God, saying,

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, three persons and one God, blessed for evermore all love, all praise, be to thee.

As you are rising, say,

I laid me down and slept, and rose up again, for the Lord sustained me: all love, all glory, be to God. 40

As soon as you are dressed, kneel down, as our Saviour himself kneeled11 at his prayers, and remember you are in God's presence, and say your prayers with reverence and devotion.

MORNING PRAYER.

Glory be to thee, O Lord God, for my preservation and refreshment, and for all the blessings of the night past; for which all love, all praise, be to thee.

Father, forgive me all the evil of the night past, for the merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour. Amen.

O merciful God, keep and protect and bless me this day, and prosper me in my calling, and preserve me from sin and danger, for the merits of Jesus my Saviour. Amen.

I believe in God the Father almighty, &c.

39 2 Pet. iii. 18.

40 Ps. iii. 5.

41 Luke xxii. 41.

All love, all glory, be to thee, O God the Father, who hast made me and all the world.

All love, all glory, be to thee, O God the Son, who hast redeemed me and all mankind.

All love all glory, be to thee, O God the Holy Ghost, who dost sanctify me, and all the elect people of God.

All love, all glory, be to thee, O Father of mercy, who in my baptism didst make me a member of Christ, thy own child, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.

O my God, I do this day dedicate myself to thy service, and do renew the promise and vow of my baptism.

I do from my heart renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanity of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh; from all which, good Lord, deliver me.

I believe all the articles of the Christian faith, and I will keep thy holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of my life.

All this, O Lord, I am bound to believe and do, and by thy help so I will; and I heartily thank thee, O heavenly Father, who hast called me to this state of salvation, through Jesus Christ my Saviour; and I pray unto thee to give me thy grace, that I may continue in the same unto my life's end.

Lord, hear me, help me, pardon my failings, supply all my wants, and the wants of all faithful people, which I sum up in the words of thy own beloved Son.

Our Father, which art in heaven, &c.

After the like manner you may pray at night.

EVENING PRAYER.

Glory be to thee, O Lord, for my preservation, and for all the blessings of the day past; for which all love, all praise, be to thee.

Father, forgive me all the sins I have this day committed, either in thought, or word, or deed, either against thee, or against my neighbour, for the sake of Jesus my Saviour. Amen, amen.

It grieves me, O merciful God, that I should daily offend thee: but I repent. O, pity and pardon me, for the sake of Jesus thy beloved. Amen,

amen.

O my God, keep and protect and bless me this night, and preserve me from sin and danger, for the sake of Jesus. Amen, amen.

Lord, refresh me this night with seasonable sleep, that I may rise the next morning more fit and able to serve thee in my calling, for the sake of Jesus thy beloved. Amen, amen.

I believe in God the Father, &c.

All love, all glory be to thee, O God the Father, who, &c., as in the morning.

I desire thee, O Lord God, O heavenly Father, who art the giver of all goodness, to send thy grace unto me, and to my wife and children, to my husband and children, father and mother, brethren and sisters, kindred and friends, master and mistress, [you must name these relations, according as you stand related] and to all people, that we may worship thee, serve thee, and obey thee, as we ought to do and I pray unto thee, that thou wouldst send us all things that be needful both for our souls and bodies; and that thou wilt be merciful unto us, and forgive us our sins; and that it will please thee to save and defend us in all dangers, ghostly

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