The most widely read Puritan manual of devotion: meditations on the being and attributes of God, the misery of man unreconciled and the happiness of the reconciled Christian, and the hindrances to piety, followed by the practice of piety through the day, in the household, at meals, on the Sabbath, in fasting and feasting, at the Lord's Supper, in sickness and in dying, with prayers for each.