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The school of grace; or, A book of good nurture for the admonition and instruction of youth and age in the fear of the Lord. With godly instructions, graces, & prayers describing the whole duty of a Christian. By J. Hart, B.B. The 19th. edition. Fear God, honour the King.
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Hart, John, D.D.
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necessary for us and thy whole Church according to thy promise in Iesus Christ our Lord In whose name we beseech thee as he hath taught us saying Our Father c. An Evening Prayer for a Family O Lord God Father everlasting and full of pitty we acknowledge and confess that we be not worthy to lift up our eyes to Heaven much less to present our selves before thy Majesty with Confidence that thou wilt hear our Prayers and grant our Requests if we consider our own deservings For our Consciences do accuse us and our Sins witness against us and we know that thou art an upright Iudge which dost not justifie the sinners and wicked men but punishest the faults of all such as transgress thy Commandments Yet most merciful Father since it hath pleased thee to command us to cast on thee in all our troubles and adversities promising even then to help us when we feel our selves as it were swallowed up of Death and desparation we utterly Renounce all Worldly confidence and flee to thy Soveraign bounty as our only stay and refuge beseeching thee not to call to remembrance our manifold sins and wickedness whereby we continually provoke thy wrath and indignation against us Neither our Negligence and unkindness which have neither worthily esteemed nor in our lives sufficiently expressed the sweet comfort of thy holy Gospel revealed unto us but rather to accept the obedience and death of thy Son Iesus Christ who by offering up his body in Sacrifice once for all hath made a sufficient recompence once for all our Sins Have Mercy therefore upon us O Lord and forgive us our offences teach us by thy holy Spirit that we may rightly weigh them and earnestly repent for the same And so much the rather O Lord because that the Reprobate and such as thou hast forsaken cannot please thee nor call upon thy Name but the repenting heart the sorrowful mind the Consience oppressed hung ring and thirsting for thy Grace shall ever set forth thy proise and Glory And albeit we are but worms and dust yet thou art our Creator and we the works of thy hands yea thou art our Father and we thy children thou art our Shepherd and we thy stock thou art our Redeemer and we thy people whom thou hast bought thou art our God and we thine Inheritance correct us not therefore in thine anger O Lord neither according to out deserts punish us but mercifully Chastise us with a Fatherly affection Finally forasmuch as it hath pleased thee to make the Night for Man to rest in as thou haft ordained him the Day to Travel in Grant O dear father that we may so take our bodily rest that our Souls may continually watch for the time that our Lord Iesus Christ shall appear for our deliverance out of this Mortal life and in the mean season that we not overcome by any fantasies dreams or other temptations may fully set our minds upon thee love thee feat thee and rest in thee furthermore that out sleep be not excessive or overmuch after the insatiable desires of our flesh but only sufficient to content our weak natures that we may be better disposed to live in all Godly Conversation to the Glory of thy Holy Name and profit of our Brethren Amen FINIS Courteous READER THere is lately published an Excellent and profitable Sermon called The Christians blessed choice Likewise Christs first Sermon also Christ's last Sermon and the Christians best Garment Also Heavens Glory and Hells Horror And a Warning piece to the sloathful idle careless drunken and secure ones of these last and worst of times Very Godly Books and are but three-pence a piece Likewise 1. Englands Faithful Physitian 2. The dreadful Character of a Drunkard 3. Dooms-day at hand 4. The Father's last Blessing to his Children 5. The Black Book of Conscience 6. The sin of Pride Arraign'd and Condemn'd 7. The Plain-man's plain Path-way to Heaven 8. Death Triumphant 9. The Charitable Christian All these Books written by John Hart Dr. of Divinity and are to be Sold by W. Thackeray and T. Passinger All very necessary for these Licentious Times The Royall Oake
beseeching thee for Iesus Chirst his sake to pardon and forgive us all our Sins and to blot out our Transgressions our of thy Remembrance we confess Lord we are by nature Children of Wrath but we pray thee make us thy Children O Lord by Grace and Adoption and as we grow in yeace so Lord we pray thee let us grow in Grace let us not be children in malice and witkedness but Chrildren in Love and Unity as thou hast loved us O Lord so we pray thee let us love thee our God and love one another Bless our parents in their Godles especially bless them in their Souls bless them in their Baskets and in their Store instruct them O Lord that they may instruct us he with us all this Night in our down-lying O Lord let us sleep in thy fear let is lye down in the love and rise again in thy lavour and grant we beseeth the most merciful Father that whether sleeping of waking living or dying we may be always thine watch over us this Night and defend us in the same by the mighty power and preserve us from sin defend us from Satan continue thy love to us and he with us and all ours Bless Guide Peserve defend and keep us both in Soul and in Body this night and evermore Amen And then if thou wouldest be a Child of God always after Prayer in the morning see that you Read some Lesson of Chapter out of the Bible and be always Reading of good Books as The Practice of Piety the Plain-mans Path-way to Heaven Mrs. Baxter's Call to the Unconverted The Great Assize the Silver Watch-Bell and others and be sure thou never lookest upon any idle foolish jesting Book which tend only to the noutishment of Vice and spending of precious time but delight thy self in reading the Holy Bible and other Godly Books that so the Lord may bless thee here and thou mayest be blessed hereafter for Godliness hath not only the promise of this life but of the life to come that thou mayest give account at the great and Terrible Day of Iudgement as well for every idle hour thou spendest as for thery idle word thou speakest when thou are disposed to be merry laying assde all ungodly Songs and Ballads which tend only to the nourishment of Vice and Wickedness and the corruption of Youth If any be merry let him sing Psalms the Apostle doth not say If any be merry let him any merry Songs and merry Ballads but if any be merry let him sing Psalms And be sure always that you sing with Grace in your heart making melody to the Lord. PSALM CXXVIII BLessed art thou that fearest God and walkeft in his way For of thy Labour thou shalt eat Happy art thou I say Like fruitful Vine on the House side so doth thy Wife spring out The Children stand like Olive Plants thy Table round about Thus art thou blest that fearest God and he shall let thee see The promised Jerusalem and her felicity Thou shalt thy Childrens Children see to thy great joys increase And likewise Grace to Israel prosperity and peace Then in the next place be sure to get and learn some good Catechism that so thou mayest be instructed in the Principles of Religion as that excellent Catechism of Mr. Perkins called The six Principles of Religion Mr. Balls Catechism c. A Short but Necessary Catechism for Children Q. WHo made you A. God. Q. For what did God make you A. God made me that I might serve him and for his glory Q. Who Redeemed you A. Iesus Christ Q. From what did Christ Iesus Redeem you A. Iesus Christ redeemed me by his blood from Sin and Hell. Q. Who sanctified and preserved you A. God the Holy Ghost Q. What is God A. God is a Spirit Q. How many Gods are there A. One only true God divided into three persons God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost Q. In what state did God make man at first A. God made man at first after his own Image in Righteousness and True Holiness Q. Did man continue in this state A. No. Q. How did he fall A. By disobeying the Commandments of God in eating the forbidden Fruit. Q. What followed thereupon A. Hereupon followed Sin Death and Hell. Q. Did God leave man in this fallen estate A. No God provided for fallen Man a Saviour and Redeemer our Lord Iesus Christ the Righteous Q. How many Commandments are there A. Ten. Q. Which be they let me hear you rehearse them I. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or that is in the Earth beneath or that is in the water under the Earth thou shalt not bow down to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain IV. Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day is the Sabath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter thy Man-Servant nor thy Maid Servant nor thy Cattel nor the Stranger that is within thy gates for in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day and hallowed it V. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee VI. Thou shalt not kill VII Thou shalt not commit Adultery VIII Thou shalt not steal IX Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour X. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours House thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Wife nor his Man Servant nor his Maid-Servant nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is thy Neighbours Q. What dost thou chiefly learn by these Commandment A. I learn by these Commandments that it is my duty to serve God according to his Word and love my Neighbour as my self Q. Art thou able to keep the Commandments A. No. Q. How then shalt thou expect to be saved A. Only by Faith in Iesus Christ Q. What is Faith A. Faith is the Gift of God whereby we lay hold on Iesus Christ for Eternal Salvation Rehearse the Articles of the Christian Faith. I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead and Buried he descended into Hell the