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A collection of private devotions, fitted for every day of the week by Thomas Wooley.
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Wooley, Thomas.
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1670
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Wing W3525A; ESTC R38761
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Behold a Virgine Matthew 1. 2â— This Iesus Which is taken up intâ— Acts. â— â—â— A Collection of Private Devotion Composed by Thomas Wolley foâ— the vse of his Child â—â— A COLLECTION Of Private Devotions Fiâ—â—ed for Every Day in the Week By THOMAS WOOLLEY LONDON Printed for Hen. Twyford and Timothy Twyford middle-Temple 1670. To the most Vertuous Lady Dame Anne Howe Wife of the Right Worshipful Sr. Richard Grobham Howe Kt. now High Sheriff of the County of Wilts one of the Kings Majesties Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace of that County Madam THe necessitous Melancholly hours that I have sustained in this place have been the Authour of the Collecting this small Method of Devotions which I intended only for the private use of my Self and poor Children but being instigated by some Reverend Persons to commit the same to publick view I humbly beg leave of your Ladyship to let some lustre be added to it by setting your worthy Name to the Frontispiece thereof being very confident that so Illustrious a Person as your Self being named at the beginning of this small Tract will give great encouragement to all that shall see it to believe that certainly there is something more in it than in truth it is had it come from the most Learned and Pious Prelate especially when your Ladyship is considered to be the Daughter of so Reverend Learned and Pious a Prelate as the Reverend Father in God John late L. B. of London deceased and Sister of that most Reverend Learned and Pious Prelate Henry now L. Bishop of Chichester besides your most worthy pious and vertuous Relations who when you meet together are under that Ecce of the Kingly Prophet Behold how for good and joyful a thing it is Brethren to dwell together in unity c. for truly Madam a worthy Gent who told me he had once the happinesse to see your Ladyship and great part of your own Relations together which was as pleasant to him as the Dew of the sweetest Morning and could not resemble you better to any thing more than to the true Family of â—ovâ— Madam I have seen very much my self and know what a great blessing God Almighty sent that worthy Family where your Ladyship now is when you came amongst them in your most pious and discreetest Government in all your Domestick affairs besides your learned and great Reading Madam I do once more humbly beg your Ladyships pardon for this great presumption and in doing that Madam you will add a great favour of Charity to him who hath been a very large sharer of your Ladyships Munificence and shall ever pray for your honour and happiness and the honour and happiness of that Family where you are now and continue Most vertuous Madam the meanest of your Ladyships most obliged and obedient Servants THOMAS WOLLEY Castle at Glocester the Feast day of the Annutiation of our Blessed Lady St. Mary the Virgin 1669. PRIVATE DEVOTIONS Collected and Composed in this ensuing Method By THOMAS WOLLEY Gent. For my two Sons Iohn and Thomas Wolley now at School at the Free-School in Cyrencester in the County of Glocester under the Care of their most Indulgent Worthy and Learned Master Mr. Nathaniel Gwinn And to my other 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Edward 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 when it shall please God they shall attain to the age of understanding My dear Children WHen I consider the great Calamities and horrid Accidents that have lately befallen me and in me also upon your dear Mother and your selves I cannot but with great sorrow look back and consider the Cause of all Evil which is Sin and by those reflections upon my self consider the great grace and mercy of God who by the Afflictions of this present life which in comparison of Eternity is but a moment doth many times bring those nearer unto him that by a great and 〈◊〉 Prosperity may â—â— the more estranged â—â—om him and those good things that lead to Life eternal I must truly confess that my heart was set upon your dear Mother and your Selves in whom and whose Company I took I cannot say too much but a very great delight which God thought fit to deprive me of â—y suffering me to be committed to this Prison the meditation whereof doth make me consider the words of the Prophet in the 39. Psal and 11. verse When thou with Rebukes dost correct man for Iniquity thou makest his beauty to consume away like a Moth And now God rebuking and correcting me for sin doth deprive me of my beauty which is the thing I most delighted in which was the society of you my dear Children but when that great God of all Mercies and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace in his due time shall be pleased to make a Reconciliation between me and those who have taken displeasure against me and that I may enjoy my former Liberty and your Societies I hope we shall make use of that great blessing to the glory and praise of his most holy Name And since I cannot be so happy to enjoy you nor you me at present yet let our Prayers meet at the Throne of Grace although our Bodies meet not here on Earth And that they may so do I have by the gracious assistance of Almighty God Composed into Order some private Devotions for you not but that I know there are many excellent Methods of Devotions composed by many holy learned and pious men already in Print which I might have sent you at an easier rate than to have taken this trouble upon my self Yet I considered your dutiful Obedience at all times towards me and did believe that something of my own would make a deeper impression into your hearts however I hope I shall offend none herein for that I have not attempted any new thing of my own but Collecting out of the Church Liturgy with other pious Devotions into this Order And truly it was upon the occasion of your dear Mother her coming hither unto me upon Thursday last and discoursing with me concerning your selves in relation to the supplying you with some necessaries that I fear you stand in need of which my present Condition will not admit me to furnish you with so fully as my heart is inclinable to do I therefore bethought my self of supplying you with this little Manual of Devotions that although I cannot so fully accommodate you with the things of this life yet I may by this little means direct you into the paths of Eternity which truly followed will bring you to life everlasting And now let me charge you by all the dutiful obligations that are due from you to me that you carefully consider these Meditations and effectually put them in practise And let your Prayers for me not be wanting as mine never were nor I hope never shall be for you Thus committing you to the Fatherly care and preservation of the great God and Father of Heaven and Earth that he