Family - Religious life - Early works to 1800

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Family devotion; or, An exhortation to morning and evening prayer in families . With two forms of prayer, suited to those two seasons, and also fitted for the use of one person in private. To which are now added, two shorter forms, to be used by children and servants, when they cannot conveniently be present at the family prayers. First drawn up for the use of the inhabitants of the parish of Lambeth, and now revised and enlarged, By the right Reverend Father in God, Edmund Gibson, D.D. late lord bishop of London.
Edmund GibsonDate: 1798
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The necessary duty of family-prayer , and the deplorable condition of prayerless families consider'd. In a letter from a minister to his parishioners. With Prayers for their Use. Families are the first Seminaries of Religion; and if Care be not there taken to prepare Persons (especially in their tender Years) for publick Teaching and Instruction, it is like to have but little effect. Archbishop Tillotson, in his Sermon concerning Family-Religion.
Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.Date: 1704
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The importance of family-religion stated and enforced
Date: 1798
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The house-Keepers guide , in the prudent managing of their affairs. Being several observations relating to the orderly and discreet government of private families, Grounded upon Reason, Experience, and the Word of God. Recommended to all Young House-Keepers, for their Benefit and Advantage.
Date: 1706
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Family instruction or, principles of religion necessary to be known by family governors, and needful to be taught their children and servants, for preparing both themselves and theirs to receive the holy communion with benefit and comfort. ... By William Burket [sic], ..
Burkitt, William, 1650-1703.Date: 1704