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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36933	Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration.	Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.	1683 (1683)	Wing D2660E; ESTC R220202	41,746	221

the good name and reputation of another Or hast thou pleased thy self either in inventing or spreading rumors of that kind III. Dost thou willingly give ear to Slanderers and to such as go about with lies or dost thou abhor them both in thy self and others The Examination upon the tenth Commandment I. DOst thou rest contented in that condition or state of life wherein God hath placed thee or hast thou at any time inordinately lusted after that which belongs to others II. Hast thou entertained secret covetings in thy thoughts with any delight or complacency Or hast thou labour'd to restrain them and quench them in their first beginnings When you have consider'd seriously and answered your self in these particulars one by one sum up the Account you have made where you find your self innocent give the glory to God whose Grace hath kept you from falling into those sins but where you find your self guilty humble your self before God in Prayer confessing sadly the evil you have done and imploring mercy in these or such other words as the devotion of your heart shall suggest to you An humble Confession after Examination O The God of my Soul with all humble Reverence I appear this day before thee not as the proud Pharisee to justifie my self but as the poor Publican who striking his breast durst not lift up his eyes towards Heaven nor say any more than this Lord be merciful to me a sinner For I have sinned O Lord I have sinned Wo is me I cannot cast my searching eyes into any corner of thy Commandments but I find my self miserably guilty But in what manner soever I have offended thee O my merciful Lord whether in Thought Word or Deed whether secretly or openly I am now sorry for it from the very root and bottom of my heart beseeching thee to look compassionately upon the frailty and ignorance the wilfulness and presumption of my life and graciously to forgive all that I have done amiss For alas I am neither able to stand thine indignation nor present thee with any thing of mine own but tears and prayers to appease thine anger Be reconciled therefore to me O God in the blood of thy dear Son which was so freely offered up to thee as a full ransom for the sins of the whole World O require not that payment again of me a poor and bankrupt sinner but for his sake for his abundant Satisfactions sake cancel the hand-writings that are against me blot out all my sins past new and old and for the time to come let there be an everlasting tie between my Soul and thee that thou maist be my God and I may live and die thy servant Amen A Protestation to be made after Confession O My great and glorious God I who am less than the grain of dust that hangs upon the balance profess seriously and with the remorse of a wounded spirit that I am not only sorry but ashamed and confounded within my self that I have so many ways sinned against so good a God so gracious a Father But what is past I cannot recal though thy mercy may forgive But for the time to come I call all thy holy Angels to witness that I this day sacrifice my self wholly to thee resolving to break of from all sinful courses and fully purposing never to offend thee more But because thou knowest my failings and my weakness is not hid from thee I beg of thee O my God to shew thy strength in my weakness and to confirm my infirm mind in this holy Resolution That so never repenting of this Repentance nor wavering in those Resolute Purposes which I have now by thy Grace fo deliberately made I may go on constantly in a pure and holy life till in the end of my days I come to everlasting joys which thou hast prepared for them that love thee through Jesus Christ my Lord Amen A Prayer before the receiving the holy Sacrament O My most blessed Saviour who in the bowels of thy Mercy towards Mankind didst not only offer thy self a Sacrifice for the sins of the whole world but didst institute this heavenly and holy Sacrament as the means to convey the Benefits of thy precious death to all such as with humility and repentance come unto thee Accept I beseech thee this my humble Address who here present my self a woful sinner I confess but such a one who am heartily sorry for my sins and penitent for my offences Direct me therefore O my God in this great action with such a reverent and awful fear that all the faculties of my soul may be attentive rightly to apprehend and joyfully to receive this wonderful Mystery of thy Body and Blood O my Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof let thy Holy Spirit therefore before thy coming prepare and dress up a Lodging for thee in my Soul cleansing it from the stains of sin and suffering nothing to abide in it that may keep thee out so that being wholly possest by thee all sinful thoughts and unclean suggestions may not only presently vanish but never find entrance more Grant this O my Jesu and so this day receive me into thy favour that I may with joy receive thee into my soul and being once united with thee thy Grace may never depart from me that so thou maist live in me and I in thee for ever Amen A Thanksgiving after the Receiving of the Sacrament O Lord the only Spring and everlasting Fountain of all good who hast this day revived and quickned my poor Soul by giving thy self unto me after a wonderful way in this Blessed Sacrament I praise and glorifie thy holy Name for this thine infinite mercy beseeching thee to crown what thou hast begun by a continual supply of thy heavenly grace that I may never forget whom or what I have received but being purified by thy Blood and strengthned by thy Body against all future Temptations I may constantly run through all the parts of an holy life to the possession of thy glorious Kingdom World without end Amen Amen Rules of Devotion to be observed toward the Evening or some time of the Afternoon I. THat you fail not unless some extraordinary or unavoidable accidents hinder you to allot some part of the Afternoon or toward the Evening for the advantage of your soul when freeing your self from business and company you may retire into your Closet or private Oratory and there direct your thoughts without disturbance upon God alone II. That being thus retired you constantly make it your business to read some part of the Holy Scripture especially in the Psalms which if all other Books of Devotion were lost are sufficient to supply us in that kind having begun there go on to the reading of some part of the New-Testament not carelesly or in haste as if you had a mind to have done but so attentively as to be able to give some account of what you have read or

himself And that this may be done with the more advantage some hours at least if not some day must be set apart for this examination Especially let the immediate preceding day be kept as the Eve to this great Feast wherein you are to humble your self by Prayer and Fasting that you may be the better disposed and qualified for the performance of this Duty For the carrying on this private Assize and Trial of our selves devoutmen have proposed many several methods but the most general and approved way is to set before you as the most clear and impartial glass the Moral Law of God with such heightnings of it and deductions from it as either our Saviour in the Gospel hath drawn from it or our own reason well informed to make use of The Examination by way of Articles upon the Moral Law to every particular of which the Soul is to answer it self whether guilty or not guilty The Examnation upon the first Commandment I. DOst thou really believe O my Soul that there is a God or hast thou set some secret touches of Atheism within thee II. Hast thou doubted at any time of his Providence or of his Power of his Justice Mercy or any other of his Attributes III. Hast thou been willing to entertain scruples of this nature and to listen to their discourses who turn the reason that God hath given as a weapon against himself IV. Hast thou proudly ascribed the good that thou hast done unto thy own strength or imputed thy sins and follies to the necessitating and inevitable Decrees of God V. Dost thou think thy self obliged to obey God as well as to believe in him to love him as thy Father to fear him as thy Judge to praise him as thy Maker with daily and most humble Thanks for all his Mercies to thee Hast thou done this or wherein hast thou failed VI. Hast thou really in thy Thoughts no other Gods but him Hast thou set up nothing in Competition with him no Pride no Pleasure no Ptofit no Self-Love no Self-Interest of thine own VII Hast thou given credit to vain Predictions of men to Dreams or Fortune-tellers or gone about to know any secret thing by lot VIII Hast thou in thy Prosperity forgot thy God or in thy Adversity hast thou put thy confidence more in worldly helps than in him The Examination upon the Second Commandment I. DOst thou apprehend God as an infinite incomprehensible Essence without framing to thy self any bodily shape or form of him that is invisible II. Dost thou worship God in or by an image or any other way which either he hath forbidden or not commanded III. Dost thou give the worship that is due unto the Creat or to any of his Creatures either Saint or Angel Or dost thou consider that he is a jealous God who will have nothing lov'd nothing honour'd by thee like himself IV. Dost thou in all thy Addresses to him either of Publick Prayers or Private come into his presence with reverence kneeling and religiously bowing thy self before him and before him alone The Examination upon the third Commandment I. HAst thou used vain impertinent customary Swearing II. Hast thou sworn any thing false knowing it to be so making the Name of God a Broker to thy Lies III. Hast thou been perjur'd by violating any publick Oath made to thy lawful Superiors or failed in any private engagement which hath been in thy power to perform IV. Hast thou broken any voluntary religious deliberate Vow made purposely to God and his glory V. How far hast thou kept that great and solemn Vow which was made for thee in Baptism or hast thou seriously considered thy frequent and dangerous violations of it VI. Hast thou given God upon all occasions offered the honour due unto his Name or hast thou any ways spoken of him without fear or reverence VII Hast thou abused either God's Name or any of his Creatures in Curses or bitter Execrations The Examination upon the fourth Commandment I. HAst thou kept the Lord's day holy or hath it been as a common day unto thee II. Hast thou constantly sanctified this day either by being present at the Publick Service of the Church or being hindred of this by private Prayer and reading of holy Books III. Dost thou shew forth thy Charity this day in works of mercy to them that stand in need of thee The Examination upon the fifth Commandment I. HAst thou loved honoured and obeyed thy Parents thy King and Sovereign and all that have a lawful authority over thee II. Hast thou upon all occasions assisted them to thy power and offered up daily Prayers to God for them III. Hast thou respected thy spiritual Guides such as labour for thy Soul or hast thou grieved or despised any of those whom thou art bound to honour The Examination upon the sixth Commandment I. DOst thou endeavour as much as in thee lies to preserve the lives of all men as bearing the same Image of thy Maker with thee II. Art thou a lover a follower a procurer of Peace among those with whom thy conversation is III. Hast thou been either causelesly or sinfully angry Hast thou born Malice Hatred or Revenge in thine heart Hast thou forgiven hast thou loved thy Enemy for Christ's sake who loved thee when thou wert yet his Enemy IV. Hast thou compassionate bowels Hast thou to thy power fed and clothed them whom thou hast known to be ready to perish with cold and hunger V. Hast thou been careful of thine own life or hast thou any way hastened thine own end by wilful Intemperance or Disorder The Examination on the seventh Commandment DOst thou consider that thy body was made to be a Temple of the Holy Ghost that whosoever therefore shall presume to pollute this Temple him shall God destroy II. Hast thou preserved it in that purity which is required of thee or hast thou defiled it by Fornication Adultery Lasciviousness or any other Uncleanness of which the Apostle pronounceth that they who do such things shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven III. Hast thou deliberately pleased thy self with any foul lascivious thoughts or continued in them to a delight Hast thou consented to them or hast thou rejected them IV. Hast thou been careless in avoiding the occasions and approaches that lead into those sins or hast thou exposed thy self either unwarily or wilfully to temptation V. Hast thou delighted in wanton company in unchaste songs or unclean discourses The Examination on the eighth Commandment I. HAst thou taken away from others by deceit or violence that which belongs not to thee Hast thou injured no man in his rights II. Hast thou defrauded Servants of their wages Labourers of their hire or Creditors of such debts as thou art able to satisfie The Examination upon the ninth Commandment I. HAst thou upon all occasions been witness to the truth without fear or flattery II. Hast thou said any thing falsly that hath been injurious to