Upon occasion of the cares, and burdens, and afflictions of particular persons ; as

6. When we pray with, or for families where death is, especially such as have lost their head.

Visit the houses of mourning as our Saviour did, and comfort them by assuring them that Christ is the resurrection and the life, that their relations which are removed from them, are not dead, but sleep; and that they shall rise again, that they may not sorrow as those that have no hope. And enable them to trust in the living God, the rock of ages, and enjoy the fountain of living waters, when creatures prove broken reeds and broken cisterns. John 11:25. Matt 9:24. 1 Thess 4:13. 1 Tim 6:17. Ps 146:4, 5. Jer 2:13.

Bea father to the fatherless, and a husband to the widows, O God, in thy holy habitation. With thee let the fatherless find mercy; keep them alive, and let the widows trust in thee, that they may be widows indeed, who being desolate, trust in God, and continue instant in prayer night and day. And where father and mother have forsaken, let the Lord take up the children, and not leave them orphans, but come to them. Ps 68:5. Hos 14:3. Jer 49:11. 1 Tim 5:5. Ps 27:10. John 14:18.

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Pray now: a guided prayer in six parts, with the next heads each day.

Henry’s text is in the public domain. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 265 Chestnut Street. Undated, about 1840 to 1860. The preface is dated Chester, March 25, 1710. From the Internet Archive scan. The KJV text is in the public domain.