Short Discourses to be Read in Families

SHORT DISCOURSES

TO BE READ IN FAMILIES.

BY

WILLIAM JAY.

VOL. II.

" In every work regard the writer's end."

For I know him, that he will command his children and his house
hold after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to d
justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abra
ham that which he hath spoken of him.-Gen. xviii. 19.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall bei
thine heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto th
children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house
and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down
and when thou risest up. Deut. vi. 6, 7.

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THE CONTENTS,

DISCOURSE I.

A CHECK TO PRESUMPTION.

ET us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of

tering into his rest, any of you should seem to come sh