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A45572	A guide to heaven from the Word, or, Good counsell how to close savingly with Christ with some short but serious questions to ask our hearts every morning and evening, whether we walk closely with him : and especially, rules for the strict and due observation of the Lords day.	Hardy, Samuel, 1636-1691.	1664 (1664)	Wing H753A; ESTC R34934	16,854	113

to trifle and be careless in it Lev. 10.3 Mal. 1.8 13 14. Heb. 12.28 29. Acts 20.9 4 Exhort and command them to be at all good exercises yea watch over and look after them Remember the fourth Commandment binds you to look to all within your care and power Man-servant Maid-servant c. If God had no more pity and mercy to the souls of children and servants then many bloody Parents and Masters they must needs swim in the direful Gulph of their sins into utter destruction 5 Repair to the publick places of Worship If you have no Minister in your own Parish go where is the most soul-seaching heart-melting and sinner-rowsing Preaching c. Isa 2.3 Take these Rules with you 1 Throughly weigh these four things 1 Consider I am this day to wait on God the King of Glory and not on man and therefore am I to come with all fear and care what an infinite greatness am I to admire and reverence What rich goodness am I to love and delight in what depths of wisdom to look into what infallible truth to rest upon and believe what a wrath and fiery indignation to tremble at God is glorious in holiness and of pure eyes Isa 6.1 2 3. 2 What a poor worthless worm and wretch am 1 How should I come crawling crouching and trembling to the Throne of Grace What am I but dust and ashes but putrefaction yea a sink of sin Isa 6.5 Job 42.5 6. 3 I have not onely an empty heart void of all good but an envious heart full of all mischief and perversness Rom. 8.7 8. 4 Yet what preparation have I made Have I not spent more time and care to dress my body for the eye of man then to deck my soul for the eye of God Job 11.13 14 15. Psal 10.17 2 As you are going to Gods house 1 If you are alone fill your heart with heavenly Meditations hunger and thirst after the Word 1 Pet. 2.2 Mat. 5.6 Think if God should meet my soul and bless it Oh that he would 2 If you are in company talk of God and his Word but without pride or affectation Or hear others heavenly discourse but if they are such as savour only of Earth and scorn Godliness either reprove or leave them 2 Cor. 6.17 3 As you enter Gods presence really expect his goodness to pass before you See Exod. 33.18 to the end Chap. 34.67 Earnestly look for the light of his Countenance Psal 4.6 Say Lord thou hast promised to be in the midst of thy people Psal 133.3 Matth. 18.20 Bow the Heavens and come down Let thy greatness aw us and thy goodness refresh us By Faith behold God in the highest Heavens surrounded with glorious Saints and Angels and take heed to thy self Eccles 5.1 2. and yet through Christ come with boldness and cry Abba Father Heb. 4.15 16. Chapter 10.19 20 21 22. 4 Make a Covenant with your eyes that they gaze not about to see who is in the Congregation and what Clothes they wear and the like Take heed of a wandering departing heart Matth. 15.8 9. Fix your Eyes on the Minister your Ears on the Word and your heart on God Psal 123.1 2. 5 Be reverend in the gesture of your bodies bow your knees as well as your hearts before the Lord if the place be not convenient for kneeling stand upright 1 Cor. 14.40 6 Whatever Spiritual work you set about do it with all your might and soul Eccles 9.10 Rom. 12.11 As 1 In Prayer while the Minister is confessing and bewailing sin let your hearts even melt bleed and break Joel 2.13 When he begs Mercy let your souls breath and pant after it Psal 42.1 2. When he returns thanks and praise let all that is within you bless Gods holy Name Psal 103.1 2. 2 If Singing let your hearts make melody to the Lord Take heed when your voice is high your heart be not dead flat and low Col. 3.16 Ephes 5.19 3 When the Word is read or preacht mind This is the Word of God 1 Thes 2.13 1 It is his Command and dare I disobey it Oh that my ways were directed Psal 119.4 5. 2 Doth God threaten these Judgments and denounce these curses on sinners And must I not tremble 3 Are these his calls and invitations his rich promises and great love and shall I refuse all Doth God knock at the door of my heart Let the everlasting doors thereof fly open that the King of Glory may come in 4 While the Minister is pronouncing the Blessing post not away a fault too common every where but hope desire and believe it shall come down upon you Psal 133.3 Prov. 8.33 34 35. 5 Take heed afterward that Satan may not steal away the good seed sown that the thorny cares of the world may not choak it Mark 4.14 to 20. Let not the World get into your mouths as soon as the Word is out of the Ministers Some have been sin-sick when they hear a row-sing Sermon when the Word flashes Heil-fire in their faces a little startled but it 's as men are Sea sick vomit up the Word and come ashore to the World and all is well again 6 As soon as you come home beg of God to bless the Word you have heard that it may not be as water spilt on the ground but that your memories may retain it your hearts love and your wills obey it 1 Cor. 3.6 That it may tear rent and fetch blood from your lusts that it may fire your hearts with love to and zeal for God and that love may fill your mouths with good words and your hands with good works Rom. 2.13 7 When you sit down to dinner having begged Gods blessing on the food of Soul and Body Matth. 14.19 1 Eat no more then will fit and enable you comfortably and lively to serve God Luke 21.34 Many fill their bellies so at this time that they are fit only to lay their drowsie heads on the Devils pillow of sloth 2 Talk of Gods Word sitting down and rising up Let your hearts be heavenly and your discourse savoury seasoned with Grace A Table without some good discourse differs little from a manger Isa 5.12 8 After Dinner either repeat the Word heard or read in the Bible or in some other good book and call your own heart and your family to an account for what you have heard Deut. 6.7 8 9. 9 In the time appointed go with your Family to the publick as in the Morning Think not half a day enough for God and your souls 1 If you come to the Congregation before the Minister spend not away the time in idle imaginations or worldly discourse or any vain stories but either meditate on God or his Word or talk heavenly and holily It 's sad to see a Church-yard filled with idle persons to hear nothing but of this or that person and family The great Questions are how Corn was sold the last Market day and what

Corn in such a field and the like Poor barren empty souls have you no better things to employ your heads and tongues about Rather ask What a good Word we heard this day How are we now to provide for Heaven The Devil is so busie in the Church-yard sowing his seed that Gods seed takes little place and rooting in the Church Can you do the Devils work now and the next hour Gods I am perswaded the seasoning of persons hearts with vanity and frothy discourse before Sermon hath been a very great hindrance to the efficacy of the Word and the good of many poor souls 2 Warm your hearts with love to God and delight in the work think not that falling down on your knees at your entrance and tumbling over a few words is a sufficient preparation It 's an harder work then most imagine to fit the soul for God 3 When you are waiting on God take heed of drowsiness deadness or distraction Remember a careless heart a drowsie body dull affections and dead services are not fit for a living God Think Do I pray now as for Heaven hear as one hearing God speaking from Heaven Is my heart such as God may love and delight in It 's to be fear'd many can tell where the windows and seats are broken what spots on the walls and the like better then what the Text Doctrines or Heads of the Sermon were 4 Take heed how you spend the Evening The heart is very apt to be vain after serious Duties If God hath set home any sin shewn you any duty run that over and over in your retired thoughts Psal 1.2 10 When you are about your necessary worldly work as serving your cattel and the like Take heed of carrying a worldly heart into the field Turn all things you see or hear heavenly If your cattel stray think How apt am I to go out of Gods way If you behold the Heavens see therein Gods power and wisdom c. Psal 19.1 Think or talk of the Word Psal 19.7 to 11. 11 Look on all you have done as far short of what God deserves and requires What heavenly fervent zealous prayers doth such a God deserve and such rich mercy call for God is worthy of a better tongue then mine to praise him and a better heart to love him Could I have done all commanded and never so well I were but an unprofitable servant Luke 17.10 What am I then when I come so infinitely far short when every duty is filled up with abundance of sin and fearful failings 12 Rest on nothing you have done for acceptance or salvation but on Christ alone Disown all confidence in your own righteousness and expect all the blessings and promises streaming to you alone in the blood of Christ Phil. 3.8 9. 13 Before you lie down at night look over the days work Search back into every hour and duty of the day Humble your self and be heartily sorrowfull for any miscarriages bless God and be unfeignedly thankful if you have received any good and still look out for more Take the shame of failings to your self and give God the glory of any enlargements 1 Chron. 29 10 11 c. FINIS A Catalogue of some Books Printed for H. Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane DIodates Notes on the Bible Fol. The New Common-Prayer with choice Cuts in Copper newly engraven suited to all the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England throughout the year in a Pocket Volume Doctor Sparks's Devotions on all the Festivals of the year in 8 with Cuts The Alliance of Divine Offices exhibiting all the Liturgies of England since the Reformation by Hamon L'Estrange Esq in fol. Justice revived or the whole Office of a Country Justice in 8. The Exact Constable with his Original and Power in the Offices of Church-wardens Overseers of the Poor Surveyors Treasurers and other Officers as they are now established by the Laws and Statutes of the Land both E. Wingate Esq Dr. Browns Sepulchral Urns and Garden of Cyrus in 8. Floddan Field in nine Fits c. Mr. Richard Brome his Royal Exchange The Jovial Crew English More Love-sick Conceit New Exchange Covent Garden Weeded Queen and Concubine All the Songs on the Long Parliament and Rump from 1640. to 1660. the second edition enlarged Songs and other Poems by A. Brome Gent. Mr. Boys Translation on the sixth Book of Virgil. AEneas his Voyage from Troy to Italy an Assay upon the third Book of Virgil in 8 The Pourtraicture of His sacred Majesty King Charles the second from his birth 1630. till this present year 1661. being the whole story of his escape at Worcester his Travels and Troubles Chisul's danger of being almost a Christian in 12. Choice occasional Sermons Mr. Grenfields Sermon in behalf of the Loyal Party Mr. Glovers Assize Serm. His Sermon on Jan. 30. Mr. Stones Sermon at S. Pauls Octob. 20. 1661. against Rebellion Mr. Walwins Sermon on the happy Return● of King Charles the second Eighteen choice Sermons preached by Bishop Usher in Oxford in the time of War in 4. A Treatise of Moderation by Mr. Gaule in 8. S. Boneventures Soliloquies in 4. Speeds Husbandry in 8. The glories and Magnificent Triumphs of the Restitution of King Charles the second shewing his entertainments in Holland and his passage through London and the Country comprising all the Honours done to and conferred by him by James Heath formerly Student of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. The covenant discharged by J. Russel in 4. The compleat Art of Water-drawing in 4. The Harmony of the World in 8. in 3 parts The Temple of Wisdom useful for all persons being a Magical Discourse in 8. both by John Heydon Esq Jews in America by Mr. Thorogood in 4. Blood for Blood in 35 Tragical stories the five last being the sad product of our late Rebellion in 8. A Discourse of all the Imperfections of Women in 8. Mr. Mortons Rule of Life in 8. A Geographical Dictionary of all the Towns and Cities in the world Arithmetical Tables fitted to the capacity of such as are unskilled in the Art of Numbers by H. Walrond Esq in 8. Holy Anthems sung in all Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches in England Schiverius Lexicon Greek and Latine the fourth Edition much enlarged A learned Exposition on the Proverbs Ecclesiastes Canticles and the Major Prophets by John Trapp M. A. The Crams of Comfort The History of the Bib'e The List of the Loyal Party And Case A brief Chronicle of the Turkish War From July to January 1663. Turned out of High-Dutch Together with his Imperial Majesties Reasons for the undertaking of the War and a Map for the better understanding of the Story