Family devotions for Sunday evenings, throughout the year being practical discourses, with suitable prayers / by Theophilus Dorrington.

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Family devotions for Sunday evenings, throughout the year being practical discourses, with suitable prayers / by Theophilus Dorrington.
Author
Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715.
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London :: Printed for John Wyat,
1693.
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Devotional exercises.
Prayer.
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"Family devotions for Sunday evenings, throughout the year being practical discourses, with suitable prayers / by Theophilus Dorrington." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36367.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.

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The Subjects of the following Discourses.

  • Sermon I. THE Great Excel∣lency of the Soul of Man demonstrated and improved. Pag. 1
  • Serm. II. Of Vain Thoughts or Inconsideration with the Mischiefs and Re∣medies. p. 27
  • Serm. III. Of true Happiness, wherein it lies, demon∣strated. p. 49
  • Serm. IV. The Heavenly Mind described and urged p. 75
  • Serm. V. The Necessity of O∣bedience to the Com∣mands of God proved and stated. p. 98
  • Serm. VI. The Great Duty of Thankfulness urged & directed. p. 116
  • Serm. VII. The Pleasantness of Religion demonstrated and improved. p. 134
  • Serm. VIII. The Easiness of Re∣ligion explained and im∣proved. p. 152

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  • Sermon IX. The Unprofitableness of Sin demonstrated. p. 177
  • Serm. X. God's Hatred of Sin demonstrated and im∣proved. p. 201
  • Serm. XI. The Meanness of this present Life proved and applied. p. 225
  • Serm. XII. The Usefulness of Ear∣ly Religion to Old-age demonstrated. p. 249
  • Serm. XIII. Of a Death-Bed Repentance; shewing how unreasonable it is for any Man to rely upon it. p. 273

Jer. 10. 25. Pour out thy Fury upon the Heathen that know thee not, and upon the Families that call not on thy Name:—
Joshua 24. 15.— As for me and my House, we will serve the Lord.
Deut. 6. 6, 7.

And these words which I com∣mand thee this day shall be in thine Heart.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children, and shalt talk of them, when thou sittest in thine House.—

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