Seven Reasons Families Should Pray

By: Thomas Doolittle

Reason 1:

Because we receive every day family-mercies from the hand of God.

Reason 2:

You should pray to God daily in your families, because there are sins committed every day in your families.

Reason 3:

You should pray in your families daily unto God, because you have many daily family-wants, which none can supply but God.

Reason 4:

You should pray in your families daily because of your families’ daily employments and labors.

Reason 5:

You should pray to God in your families daily, because you are all every day liable to temptations.

Reason 6:

You should pray in your families daily because all in your families are liable to daily hazards, casualties, and afflictions.

Reason 7:

You must pray to God in your families daily, or the very Heathen will rise up against you Christians and condemn you.


 

 

About the Author

Thomas DoolittleThomas Doolittle was born at Kidderminster in 1630. Richard Baxter's work The Saints' Everlasting Rest was instrumental in his conversion. His education was at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He took his first pastorate in London in 1653. A non-conformist, Dootlittle left the Church of England in 1662.