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A77277	A supplement to the Bibliotecha parochialis: or, The country curates library. Being an essay towards providing all the parishes of England, endow'd with not above ten pounds per annum, with a study of useful books, to enable the ministers thereof to instruct the people in all things necessary to salvation. / By Thomas Bray, D.D.	Bray, Thomas, 1658-1730.	1697 (1697)	Wing B4299B; ESTC R233721	6,565	20

publickly read Angels and Saints applauding them And indeed if any are Piously Ambitious of the Highest Stations in the Kingdom of Glory of becoming Courtiers and Favourites to King of kings it is Professedly and Sincerely my Oppinion that next to what the Apostles did to Evangelize the World Such Charities as these which have the most Immediate and Direct Tendency to Convert Mankind to God will be the most ready way to Recommend and Qualifie a Pious Soul for such a Dignity And I think I have the Authority of an Infallible Testimony for what I say for which reason I must again repeat it They that are wise or Teachers shall shine as the Brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many to Righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever A Catalogue of Books Fitted to the Condition and Circumstances OF A Country Curate AND Dispos'd into that Order in which if an Initiate in Theology he may most Profitably read them I. FIrst For the better understanding of the Text Heideggeri Enchiridion Biblicum Analysi Generali singulorum Vet. N. Test Librorum Capitum Argumento unicè inserviens 8o N. Hic Liber in quotidianis Sacrarum Scripturarum Lectionibus ut mibi videtur apprimè utilis Bishop Patrick's Paraphrases on Job Psalms Proverbs and Ecclesiastes 5 Vol. 8o Dr. Hammond's Annotations on the New Testament Fol. Oxford Paraphrase on St. Paul's Epistles 8o Bishop Patrick's Search the Scriptures A Treatise shewing that all Christians ought to read the Holy Books with Directions to them therein The Word of God the best Guide to all Persons Being a Collection of Scripture Texts shewing such things as are necessary for every Christians Knowledge and Practice 8o II. For a General Catechetical Body First By way of Comment upon our Articles and Church Catechism Dris Ellis 39 Articuli Bishop William's Brief Exposition of the Church Catechism with Proofs from Scripture 8o. Or Dr. Isham's Scriptural Catechism 8o. Dr. Barrow on the Creed Ten Commandments and Doctrine of the Sacraments 8o. Mr. Rawlet on the Creed Ten Commandments and Lord's-Prayer 8o. Secondly In a more voluntary and Arbitrary Method Dr. Hammond's Practical Catechism 8o Sir Matthew Hale's Knowledge of God and our selves 8o. Gouge's Explanation of the Principles of the Christian Religion with Practical Applications to each Head 8o. Dr. Scot's Works 4 Vol. III. Upon the Covenant of Grace and Baptismal Covenant in General Mr. Allen's Discourse on the two Covenants 8o. Catechetical Lectures First Vol. Fol. Mr. Rawlet on Sacramental Covenanting with God IV. Upon the Particular Articles of the Covenant of Grace both on God's part and on Man's First The Mercies on God's Part. 1. Justification or Pardon of Sin Mr. W. Allen on Justification Dr. Bates's Sermons on Forgiveness 8o 2. On Divine Assistance Mr. Allen on Divine Assistance 3. Upon Everlasting Life and Happiness Bishop Taylor 's Contemplations on the State of Man 8o. Secondly The Conditions to be perform'd on our part 1. The whole body of Christian Faith or some of its Great Articles Bishop Pearson on the Creed Fol. Mr. Kettlewel's Christian Believer 8o. Bishop Ken's Exposition of the Creed Dr. Barrow's Discourse on the Trinity Or Bishop Stilling fleet on the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity On the Satisfaction of Christ Dr. Bates's Harmony of Divine Attributes in the Great Business of Man's Salvation 8o. Dr. Sherlock on Death 8o On Judgment 8o 2. On the Commandments and Christian Duties Bishop Hopkins on the Commandments 4o. Mr. Rawlet's Christian Monitor 8o. Whole Duty of Man 8o Mr. Kettlewel's measures of Christian Obedience 8o. 3. On Repentance Dr. Ingelo on Repentance 8o. Dr. Goodman's Penitent-Pardon'd 8o. Mr. Ellis of the Necessity of serious Consideration and speedy Repentance as the only way to be safe both Living and Dying 8o. Bishop Patrick on Repentance and the Lent-Fast 8o V. Upon the Means of performing the Covenant viz. Prayer and the Sacrament First Upon Prayer Bishop Hopkins upon the Lord's-Prayer 4o Bishop Patrick's Discourse on Prayer 12o Devout Christian 12o Dr. Pelling's Discourse on Prayer 8o Dr. Comber's Discourses on the whole Common-Prayer 8o Secondly On the Sacraments Bishop Patrick's Aqua genitalis at the end of his Mensa mystica with the Mensa mystica 8o Christian Sacrifice 12o Of frequent Communion 8o Mr. Kettlewel on the Sacrament 8o VI. Sermons Arch-Bishop Tillotson's Sermons Fol. His Posthumous Sermons 4 Vol. 8o Dorrington's Sermons 2 Vol. 8o Kettlewel's Posthumous Discourses 8o Sir Matthew Hales Contemplations 3 Parts 8o VII Directions and helps in visiting the Sick Dr. Wake upon Death 12o Kettlewel's Companion to the Penitent 12o Death made comfortable 12o VIII Ministerial Instructions Herbert's Country Parson 12o Bishop Burnet's Pastoral Care 8o Bibliotheca Parochialis 4o IX Preservatives First Of our Church-Communion against Dissenters Mr. W. Allen's Works Bishop King's Inventions of Men in the Worship of God 8o Secondly Against the vulgar Deism and the manifold and desperate Heresies of the Quakers Snake in the Grass 8o Satan Disrob'd 4o X. History Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History Translated by Dr. Shorten Or Ellies Du Pin's Ecclesiastical History 3 Vol. Fol. Or Bishop Burnet's Abstract of the History of the Reformation 8o

A SUPPLEMENT TO THE Bibliotheca Parochialis OR THE Country Curates Library BEING AN ESSAY Towards providing all the Parishes of England Endow'd with not above Ten Pounds per Annum with a Study of Useful BOOKS to enable the Ministers thereof to Instruct the People in all things necessary to SALVATION By THOMAS BRAY D.D. LONDON Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCXCVII To All who are Lovers of the Souls of those for whom Christ Dyed THAT there are such even in this Frozen Age and Country and who being of a Publick Spirit are not only Able but Willing to do any thing they can be made sensible will be for a Common Good is to be hop'd or at leastwise to be wish'd But that which is the chiefest of all Goods the Cultivating the Minds and Manners of Men with Divine Knowledge and Christian Vertues seems not to be thought of however not to be promoted by such proper and immediate Methods as it easily might Schools and Colleges God be prais'd we have sufficient to send us out Labourers for the Vineyard and from thence there come more than enough to supply all the Cures of the Kingdom But alas when they are come Abroad there are scarce one Third of our Parochial Preferments which can enable our Clergy to furnish themselves with those necessary helps whereby they may be serviceable in any tolerable measure to the good of Souls And yet I find few do cast their Eyes upon this sort of Charity the raising of Libraries for this End and Purpose But whatever others may think of it to me this seems to be a prime part of Christian Charity and the most wanted too in this Kingdom And I doubt not but it will in like manner appear to all others who will but consider these following Particulars namely I. That as the Soul of Man is Infinitely more valuable than the Body so that Charity which goes towards the Cultivating the Minds and Manners of Men with Divine Knowledge and Christian Graces whereby they may be made meet to be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light must needs be of a far more exalted Nature than that which Terminates only upon the welfare of this Mortal Life II. That by an exact Scrutiny into the Value of our Livings it will be found that there are 200 Parishes and upwards in England Wales and the Isle of Dan Endow'd with not above Ten Pounds per Annum for the maintenance of a Minister with which Provision it is utterly Impossible he should furnish himself with Books whereby he might be able to give those Souls committed to his Charge due Instructions in all the meer Necessaries to Salvation III. It will therefore follow that those Persons who abound in this World's Goods and especially whom Providence seems in a more peculiar manner to have design'd to be Publick Benefactors to Mankind by giving 'em good Estates without Heirs to enjoy their Riches it will therefore follow I say that such will approve themselves both to God and Man most Divinely Charitable who shall bestow some of the forementioned Libraries for the perpetual Use of the Ministers of such Places in order to Capacitate them to save the Souls of Men. IV. As by this means such Charitable Persons will become at a second hand and in an Inferior degree as it were Apostles to the World by Preaching through the Mouths of these Ministers to the People and will have a share in all the Conversions which shall be made in such places to all succeeding Generations so to induce 'em thereunto they need no more than to meditate upon those words of the Prophet Dan. 12.3 They that are wise or Teachers as it is in the Original shall shine as the Brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many to Righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever I shall not enlarge on these Particulars I think they carry their own Evidence along with 'em all of 'em except the second and a little Insight into the present State of the Clergy will make that appear to be matter of Fact And the rest need no Illustration And now if the Case of the Church in this Nation be really so I conjure all those who love to see the Image of God Imprinted upon the Souls of Men to furnish as our Plantations abroad so our poor Vicaridges at home with what may enable us to erace that Ignorance and Barbarity those Brutish Manners and Paganish Vices and Customs which do to this day so hideously deform the greatest part of Mankind We cannot now work Miracles nor is Inspiration any part of our Talent but we are left to the ordinary Means to fit our selves for this great Work of Converting the World namely the common measures of God's Holy Spirit accompanying our hard Study But how can they Study who have not Books to read Those who were never pinch'd with narrow Preferments may not be sensible of this want because they have been able to furnish themselves sufficiently with Books But those whose Incoms from the Church never enabl'd 'em to purchase the fourth part of the Authors they have occasion to peruse in order to discharge the ordinary Duties of their Ministry can speak feelingly in this matter I know there is nothing a more a common Jest than the Poverty and Ignorance of the Poor Clergy in Wales and the Northern parts of this Kingdom but this Jest in my Opinion is the Nations shame who provide not better for ' em And provide 'em but with Books and they would be neither Ignorant Poor nor Scandalous not Ignorant for Books do by an immediate Causality remove that Imputation not so very Poor as now for I have known Good Men and Lovers of Learning kept under hatches all their life time chiefly by their being Bookishly given and indebted to Book-sellers nor Scandalous for I know that many whose Immoralities are said to be a Reproach to their Function who yet in all probability had never become such Men if they had been possess'd of Good Books wherewith they might have employ'd their time in reading for want of which it is that some perhaps may have sought their Diversion in Ale-houses and in a Santring way of Life But alass The want of Books is not of the tenth part of that ill Consequence as it affects the Minister to what it is as it affects the People If it could only be consider'd as affecting the former it would be but a Private and Single Misfortune but since it cannot but extreamly much affect the latter it is a Publick Calamity For why Where the Priests Lips cannot preserve cannot procure Knowledge how should the People seek the Law at his Mouth And alas where Ignorance and Darkness Universally Reign in any part of the World and the People are destitute of Divine Knowledge innumerable are the Miseries and dreadful are the Sins which Reign in such places Between Superstition and Atheism such People