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

9. When we pray with, or for those parents, whose children are a grief to them, or such as they are in fear about.

Lord, give to parents the desires of their souls concerning their children, which is to see them walking in the truth; form Christ in their souls. O give them betimes to know the God of their fathers, and to serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind. Let the children of youth, that are as arrows in the hand, be directed aright, that those parents may have reason to think themselves happy that have their quiver full of them, and they may never be arrows in their hearts. 2 John 1:4. Gal 4:19. 1 Chr 28:9. Ps 127:4, 5.

Let those foolish children, that are the grief of the father, and the heaviness of her that bare them, that mock at their parents, and despise to obey them, be brought to repentance; and let those that have been unprofitable, now at length be made profitable. O turn the hearts of the children to their fathers, even the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that they may be made ready a people prepared for the Lord. O show them their work, and their transgression, that they exceeded, and open their ear to discipline. Prov 17:25; Prov 30:17. Philem 1:11Mal 4:6. Luke 1:17. Job 36:9, 10. Isa 29:23, 24.

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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.