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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11818	The Christians daily walke in holy securitie and peace Being an answer to these questions, 1. How a man may doe each present dayes worke, with Christian chearefulnesse? 2. How to beare each present dayes crosse with Christian patience? Containing familiar directions; shewing 1. How to walke with God in the whole course of a mans life. 2. How to be upright in the said walking. 3. How to liue without taking care or thought any thing. 4. How to get and keepe true peace with God; wherein are manifold helpes to prevent and remove damnable presumption: also to quiet and to ease distressed consciences. First intended for private use; now (through importunity) published for the common good. By Henry Scudder, preacher of the word.	Scudder, Henry, d. 1659?; Davenport, John, 1597-1670.	1631 (1631)	STC 22117; ESTC S106698	278,031	844

for God is many times best pleased with your services when through an humble sense of your failings you are displeased with your selfe for them Yea if when you have wrastled and contended with God in praier you are forced to goe halting and limping away with Iacob in the sense of your infirmities yet be not dismaied for it is a good signe that you haue prevailed with God as Iacob did God useth when hee is overcome by praier to work in them that do overcome some sense of weakenesse to let them know that they prevaile with him in prayer not by any strength of their own or by any worthines of their prayer when they have praied best but from the goodnesse of Gods free grace from the worthinesse of Christs intercession by whom they tender their praiers and from the truth of his promise made unto them that pray If it were not thus many whē they haue their harts desire in prayer would ascribe all to the goodnes of their praiers and not to the free grace of God and would be proud of their owne strength which in truth is none at all CHAP. IV. How to walke with God the whole day after it is well begunne SECTION 1. VVHen you haue thus begun the day by prayer by your selfe thus making your peace with God craving his gracious presence to goe along with you and for you that day you must then conscionably according to the nature of the day be it one of the sixe dayes or the Sabbath and Lords day apply your selfe to the businesse of that day whether it be in acts of Religion or of your personall calling or in any other workes belonging unto you as you are superiour or inferiour in Family Church or Common-wealth whether it be also in acts of bodily repasts recreation or sports doing all as in Gods sight And because all lawfull businesse is sanctified by the Word and Prayer and for that it is part of your calling as you are Master of a Family to gouerne your people in the feare of GOD and to teach them to live godly therefore it is your part to take the fittest time in the morning to call them together and pray with them before which prayer it will be profitable to read the Scripture in order with due reverence taking also opportunities in al fit times to instruct them in the principles of Religion oft whetting the Word upon them If it be a working day Betake your selfe ordinarily to the worke of your particular calling For whosoever hath no calling wherby hee may be profitable to the society of man in Family Church or Common-wealth or having a lawfull calling doth not follow it he liveth inordinately God never made any man for play or to doe nothing And whatsoever a man doth he must doe it by vertue of his calling receiving warrant from it else hee cannot doe it in faith without which no man can please GOD. Besides whosoever is called to Christianitie hath no way to heaven but by walking with GOD in his personall and particular calling as well as in his generall calling 1. That you may doe this first be sure that the thing wherabout you labour either with head or hand be lawfull and good 2. Be diligent and industrious for the sluggard and idle person desireth but hath nothing but the diligent hand maketh rich 3. Let there be truth plainenesse and equity in all your dealings with men Circumvent and defraud no man Make not your own gaine the waights and measures to trade by I will propound unto you sealed waights and rules according to which you must converse with all men 1 Consider your neighbours good as well as your owne Weigh unpartially with your selfe what proportionable commoditie in common estimation according to the times your neighbour is like to have for that which you receive of him For you must love your neighbour as your selfe In whatsoever you have to doe with men you must not looke onely to your owne advantage but to the benefit also of your neighbour 2 Observe the Royall Law the Standard of all equitie in this kinde Whatsoever you with a rectified judgement and honest heart would that men should doe unto you doe you even so unto them for this is the Law and the Prophets 4. Be provident that you let not slip your opportunities and take heed lest in these evill times you be circumvented by fraud and falshood and be insnared by unnecessary Suretiship 5. Whereas in every calling there is a mysterie and for the most part each calling and condition of life hath its speciall sin or sinnes which the Devill and custome for gaine or credit sake amongst wicked men hath made to seeme lawfull yea hath put a kinde of necessitie thereupon which cannot bee shunned but with exposing a mans selfe to losse or censure Looke you narrowly by the light of the Word and by experience to finde out that or those sinnes then be as carefull to avoid them SECTION 2. Concerning Superiours and Inferiours THere are other works also such as concerne you as you are a superiour and in authoritie or as you are inferiour and subject either in Familie Church or Common-wealth in doing whereof you must take GOD along with you following the directions of his Word and Spirit 1. As you are a Superiour first walke worthy of all honour and due respect carrying your selfe in your place with such holines wisedome gravitie justice and mercy keeping such a meane betweene too much rigour and remisnesse betweene straining your authoritie too farre and loosening it too much that those under your charge may have cause both to feare and love you 2. Wait on your office and be watchfull over your charge with all diligence and faithfulnesse using all good meanes to containe them in their duties of Godlinesse and honesty which is the onely end why God hath set you over them The meanes are 1 Goe before them in good example Examples of Superiours have a kind of constraining power working powerfully and insensibly upon inferiors 2 Pray with and for them 3 Command onely things lawfull possible and convenient and onely those to which the extent of your authority from God and man doth allow you 4 As much as in you is procure for them the meanes and put them upon the opportunities of being and of doing good 5 Prevent likewise and remove all occasions of their being and of doing evill 6 Protect and defend them as much as lyeth in you from all wrongs and injuries 7 When they doe well incourage them by letting them see that you take notice as readily of their well doing as of their faults and so farre as shall be fit let them have the praise and fruit of their well-doing 8 When they doe evill rebuke them with more or lesse heat of anger according to the greatnesse of

excellency of Christian Experience 126 127. F An answer to them that question their Faith because they want feeling 590 Many doe not feele they have Faith because they feele not for it 603 How a man may know that he hath Faith 621 Reasons why many without cause thinke they have no Faith 584 Many presume they have Faith but have none 614 Reason for which many thinke they have Faith but have not 463 Who may Fall from grace and how 683 A regenerate man may Fall farre backe but not quite away 685 Grounds of difference betweene the Fals of men truly sanctified and others 688 Whence it is that a true Convert cannot Fall quite away from grace 695 Of Religious Fasting 68 A generall Reason of Fasting 72 Reasons why the body must be afflicted in Fasting 73 Reasons why the soule must be afflicted in Fasting 74 Who are to keepe a publike Fast 76 Who may keepe a private Fast 77 How oft we must Fast 78 How long we must Fast 80 Preparation to a Fast 82 How to keepe a Religious Fast 84 c. What to doe when a man is interrupted in his private Fast 142 Motives to oft Fasting 143 Directions what is to be done after a Fast 145 Cautions touching Fasting 146 Needful fear before cōversion 485 Holy Feare after conversion 486 Causlesse Feare 488 The kindes of causlesse Feares ibid Strange effects of Feares rising from naturall distempers 489 There is some difference between the regenerate in those Feares which arise frō melācholy others 490 Difference betweene those Feares which arise chiefly from melancholy and those which arise from trouble of conscience ibid Grounds of false Feares 495 Feare of punishment must be turned into trouble for sinne 498 Feares of sinning against the holy Ghost removed 527 Feare that because the heart condemneth God will condemne much more removed 529 Feare of being reprobates removed 531 Feare that God will not have mercie because they have let passe the time of their Conversion removed 540 Feares arising from doubts of Gods love removed 576 c. Feares through conceit of being in worse case than any other removed 561 Feares that God loveth them not because they thinke their prayers are reiected removed 576 Feares from doubting of faith removed 581 Feares of not being sanctified because they thinke they were never sufficiently humbled nor have repented removed 626 Reasons why some feele more sense of Feare and horror in their first conversion than others 627 Feares that a man is not sanctified because he is pestered with worse thoughts than ever removed 637 Feares of not being sanctified because of falling into grosse sinnes removed 656 Feares that they are not sanctified because of sense of dulnesse and deadnessein spirituall duties removed 665 Feares of not being sanctified because of sudden dulnesse after fresh feeling comforts removed 670 Feares of not being sanctified because out-gone by others removed 671 Feares of not being sanctified because of hardnesse of heart removed 677 Feares of falling away from grace removed 681 c. Feares taken from thinking the heart is deceitfull removed 727 Feares from present fainting removed ibid Feares because we doe not our part removed 729 Feare from want of such graces where of God hath absolutely promised removed 676 Feares through want of peace of Sanctification removed 744 G Convincing reasons to prove that there is a God 647 God doth never wholly forsake his children 566 Once and ever in state of Grace 685 Reasons why man being once in state of grace can never fall quite from it 701 Reasons why many thinke they have lesse grace now than in their first conversion but mistake 714 H What is the cause of Hypocrites well-doing 341 Disswasives from hypocrisie 361 365 Meanes against hypocrisie 373 Grounds of false hope discovered and removed 444 I Meanes to strengthen the Inner man 133 Rules to direct Inferiours 62 Causes of error in Iudging of a mans state 754 Of Iudging and condemning of a mans selfe 126 L ATable of Duties commanded and of Vices forbidden in the Morall Law 90 c. No man must abuse Christs lenity 620 Signes to know when God giveth good things in love 265 Directions for sanctisying the Lords day 147 M What Meditation is 195 The distinct acts and parts of Meditation 198 Rules for meditation 202 Cautions about the matter of meditation 203 Motives perswading to meditation 211 Meanes of Mortification 131 O When it is that a man obeyeth out of conscience and love to Christ 340 Weakest performance of duties is lesse dangerous than whole omissions 551 P A description of Christian Patience 286 Inducements to patience 286 287 Meanes of Christian patience 288 Vpon what grounds arguments may be taken to worke the heart to patience 291 292 What peace is in generall 414 The peace of GOD explained and magnified by the opening of Philip. 4. 6. 7. 415 The different sorts of peace of God 421 Reasons proving the excellency of the peace of God 432 The impediments of peace 437 Whence presumption and false peace doth arise 441 Signes of false hope and false peace 476 An excellent helpe to peace of conscience 765 Meanes to get and keep true peace ibid How to know in time of peace to hold out in time of persecution 725 How to be kept from dastardly feare in time of persecution 723 Reasons of due preparation of the heart to prayer 32 How to bee disposeà in the act of prayer 35 God heareth prayer many wayes 578 Cautions to be observed in preparation and in prayer 37 Signes of distempered thoughts thorough worldly businesse to prayer 42 Remedies against distempered thoughts in preparation and in prayer 43 How to know when thoughts of worldly businesse are distractfull in preparation in prayer 45 Remedies against the said distractions in preparation and in prayer 47 Pride is a manifest hinderance of Christi●● Comfort 764 765 Grounds of presumption discovered and removed 437. unto 481 Rules of holy carriage in prosperity and when men have good successe 245 246 Good effects of prosperity 247 Doubts of Gods love because men prosper removed 559 Presumption of Gods love because they prosper removed 448 Presumption ariseth either from false grounds of hope or from true grounds misapplyed 442 Presumption that God will save a man because he made him removed 444 Presumption of escaping Hell because men thinke they have it in this life removed 445 Presumption they shall ever be wel because hither to they have escaped evill removed 446 Presumption they shall be saved because as great sinners as they have bin saved removed 450 Presumption of Salvation by Popes Pardons pennance and merit of workes removed 452 Presumption of salvation because God is mercifull removed 454 Presumption from universall Redemption removed 456 Presumption of Salvation because as men thinke their faith and repentance is good when it is not removed 462 Presumption of repenting hereafter removed 475 R How to read the Word profitably 187 Who must