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A75032	The whole duty of man epitomiz'd for the benefit of the poor. With select prayers suited to every partition. By Edm. Stacy, a minister of the Church of England.; Whole duty of man. Abridgments	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Stacy, Edmund, b. 1657 or 8.	1700 (1700)	Wing A1193A; ESTC R223863	44,918	146

but with a particular regard to every individual Commandment of Go 〈…〉 deriv'd from a fixt and solid hatr 〈…〉 against all manner of Sins The means of t 〈…〉 new and intire Ob 〈…〉 dience Of the means and of present renouncing of Sin must be o 〈…〉 next Care which w 〈…〉 be best perfected 〈◊〉 an impartial retr 〈…〉 into our own Minds there 〈◊〉 may discover the Springs and Fou 〈…〉 tains of our Sins and what Tem 〈…〉 tations we are expos'd to and 〈◊〉 be in a capacity to shun and avo 〈…〉 them and this must be done i 〈…〉 mediately too without any ma 〈…〉 ner of Delay or Pretence for t 〈…〉 it be done and a Bill of Divorce g 〈…〉 ven to every Lust we are in no r 〈…〉 spect fit to meet our Redeemer 〈◊〉 the Holy Table Beside this we a 〈…〉 to put our Souls in 〈…〉 Of imbracing Vertue and quickning Graces the best posture th 〈…〉 we can by imbracin● all the Vertues of 〈…〉 good Life and 〈◊〉 possessing them with all those Gr●●es that may render them acceptable in the Eyes of God and this we may do effectually by contemplating the Promises and goodness of God and by meditating upon the exemplary Life and Doctrine of our blessed Lord. His Life will put us Charity and Devotion and the necessity of those Graces ●n mind of that Charity and forgiving temper which is so often and solemnly requir'd of us and so essentially necessary in our Sacramental Preparations 't is Death for us to approach God's Feast of Love with any manner of Ranchor or Malice we are to bring no other Dispositions thither but what are dictated to us from a devout Mind A fixt and settled Devotion earnest and frequent Prayers and a Soul disentangled from the World are our properest Companions for this Sacrament and for these we are earnestly to implore God's Assistance without whose help in assisting us with the Graces aforementioned we can never expect 〈◊〉 compleat our Preparations And for the better perfecting a● this we are to apply our selves 〈◊〉 our spiritual Guide to the Minister of our own Parish who is th 〈…〉 properest Person in this Case 〈◊〉 him without any manner of reserv● we are to declare our Doubts an● Jealousies and to take his Assistance and Directions and herein 〈◊〉 sort The usefulness of a spiritual Guide We should not be asham'd to discover our selves of shame to discover ourselves ough● to deter or disincourage us we ough● to open our Case fairly and Impartially that he may know perfectly how matter stand between God and our Soul● and then he will be able to give u● Advice how to cure both ou● Doubts and our Sins the doubtful an● As necessary to the Confident as the Doubtful the confident are equally oblig'd to this our own Judgment are not intirely to be relied upon in a Concern where there is so much weight and difficulty nor is the Advantage of a spiritual Guide to be rejected when it can be of use in the Improvement of our Preparation These are the Duties before the Sacrament The next thing is what is to be done at the Time of Receiving At the time of Receiving to meditate upon our unworthiness and Christ's Sufferings and here First Consider thy own unworthiness and how unfit thy Sins and Frailties and the repeated breach of thy Vows have render'd thee for such a Holy Table from hence let thy Meditations lead thee to the Sufferings of Christ When we see the Bread broken and the Wine pour'd out we should reflect that his blessed Body was torn and his Blood split and that it was our Sins that was the Cause of both Consider likewise that the Sufferings of Chrst were the only means to attone the wrath of God and then The Atonement wrought by them thankfulness for them the Love of Christ in them consider what unexpressible thanks are due to him for preserving thy Sou● that must have perish'd eternally without his help this great Love of Christ for us should stir up in us a love for him and engage us immediately to take up solemn Resolutions to Sin no more and that we may indeed perform these Resolutions we ought earnestly to beg of this crucified Saviour that he will by the Power of his Death mortifie and kill all our Corruptions Just as we are about to receive the The Benefits of the new Covenant seal'd in the Sacrament Consecrated Bread and Wine we should remember that then God is entring into a New Covenant with us that he 's now giving us fresh Assurances of the Pardon of our Sins if we perform our part of the Condition as soon as we have receiv'd we ought to Vpon receiving give thanks and Pray offer him our devoutest Praises for that great Mercy and should be sure never to forget to send up our Prayers to him not more for our selves than for the good Estate of the Church and for the Conversion of all Mankind After the Sacrament After the Sacrament private prayers and Thanksgivings is over then we ought as soon as Possible to retire our selves and to repeat again our Prayers and Praises and to renew our Promises and to beg the Assistance of God's Grace to enable us to make 'em good and to pursue our present Purposes to the end of our Lives The Day we receive Not presently to fall to worldly Affairs the Sacrament should be kept void of all worldly Cares and Business we should spend that Day especially in Prayers and Meditations and indeed no Day should pass but we should call to mind the Promises To keep our Resolutions and the danger of breaking them we make to God at the Sacrament and consider seriously the danger we expose ou● selves to in breaking them In breaking ou● Vows at the Sacrament Making God and our Conscience our Enemy we make God our Enemy and engage him to withdraw from us all manner of Kindness and Compassion nay we raise an Enemy within ou● own Bosom our Conscience must needs fly in our Face and upbraid us with the breach of such solemn Vows and Covenants Gods Mercies in pardoning us heretofore should not give us the least encouragement to provoke him again to presume upon this is a very high abuse of his goodness The obligation of our Sacramental Vows are God's former pardons n● incouragement the vow perpetual yet often to be renewed perpetual and can never be violated without the breach of our Oaths 't is perpetual 't is true and yet 't is to be renew'd often We are to do it as often as we have opportunity in remembrance that Christ died for us And thus I have shew'd you the Reverence we are to pay to God in his Sacrament PARTITION IV. Honour due to God's Name Sin 's against it Blasphemy Swearing of Assertory Promissory unlawful Oaths of Perjury vain Oaths and the Sin of them THE

train of dangerous Sins and with abundance of other great Inconveniencies We should likewise Temperance in Recreations have a very high regard to Temperance in our Recreations and be perpetually Cautions to be observ'd Cautious that they are lawful in their kind and no ways dishonourable to God or Injurious to our Neighbour we should be very careful too that they never ●end to undue Ends Vndue Ends of Sports but are all exactly Innocent harmless and inoffensive The last part of Temperance in Apparel Temperance is that of Apparel and this as well as the rest is to be measured according to the Ends for which Cloathing was ordain'd which were first to provide a modest and decent covering to hide our Nakedness this was the first and great End of it the second was to fence our Bodies from the Severities of the Cold and secure to us such a convenient Apparel design'd for a covering of shame Warmth that is necessary for the Preservation of our Health and the third for the distinguishing Fencing from Cold. Persons both with respect to their Sex and Qualities Now these are the three grand Ends of our Apparel which we should always be careful to preserve i● Distinction of Persons the middle between the extreams of gaudiness and contempt And thus I have pass'd through the several Branches of Temperance and herein I would in no respect seem to advance a contrary extream i. e. too much sparingness which is Too much sparing a fault as well as Excess indeed a fault as well as Excess A Covetous griping Temper is no more to be accounted for then any of the former and is in many Particulars a high breach of our Duty both to God our Selves and our Neighbours PARTITION X. Of Duty 's to our Neighbours Of Justice Negative Positive of the Sin of Murther of the Hainousness of it the Punishment of it and the strange Discoveries thereof Of Maiming c. Duties to our Neighbours IN the Word Righteousness Duties to our Neighbour Justice are contain'd in gross the Duties to our Neighbour and in the larger Sence it contains all kind both of Justice and Charity I begin with Justice ●f which there is two sorts Negative and Positive By Negative Justice Negative Justice we are forbid to do any wrong to any Man either in respect to hi● Soul Body his Possessions or his Credit and first we must not do any manner of Injury to the Soul either in To the Soul in the Natural and Spiritual Sence a Natural and Spiritual Sence we mu●● take great Care that we give no occasion 〈◊〉 Grief or Sadness to the Mind of an● Man in which Sence the Soul 〈◊〉 said to be naturally injur'd and 〈◊〉 alike diligent not to administer 〈◊〉 him the Cause either of Sin or Punishment in which Case the So● may be spiritually wrong'd Sin is the Disea● and Wound of t●● Drawing into Sin a great Injury Soul and the sed● cing us to it is t●● greatest Injury th● can be done us There are sever● Means for this both direct and 〈◊〉 direct the direct Means are 〈◊〉 commanding us counselling enticing Direct and indirect means of it assisting us the 〈◊〉 direct Means by she●ing us ill Examples or by incouraging us in any Wickedness by justifying Vice and by throwing Reproach upon the Duties and strictness of Religion and by these and ●●ch like Means both direct and ●●direct Men bring upon themselves the great guilt of injuring ●●d wounding their Brethrens ●ouls It would be too This sort of Injury Men ought sadly to consider to bewail and repair ●●ng to instance the ●●veral Sins by which ●●en ensnare others will therefore leave with this Caution ●●at it concerns them 〈◊〉 near as their Souls to consider that Injuries they have done of ●●is kind and to bewail them with ●●e deepest Concern and Sorrow ●id not only that neither but as a ●ore particular Testimony of their ●●pentance to do their best by all ●●e means they can to make Repa●tion Negative Justice in the second ●●ce binds us against all kind of Injury to the Bodies more especially against Negative Justice in respect of the Life the Life of our Brethren Murth●● is a Sin of the de●●est Dye and may 〈◊〉 committed either openly and 〈◊〉 rectly or else secretly and treach●● rously It may 〈◊〉 done either by op●● Several ways of being guilty of Murther and Publick Violen●● or else effected und●● the Coverture of con●● ceal'd Malice and ●●venge but which way soever it 〈◊〉 the Sin is of that 〈◊〉 alted hainousness th●● The hainousness of the Sin and the Punishments of it it provokes God to higher degree of A●ger in the Execut●●● of his Vengeance 〈◊〉 Punishments upon than any other Vice in all the b●●● and dreadful Catalogue It is worth our ●●tice by what mira●●lous The strange discoveries of it Means God been pleas'd to di● ver it and indeed would we but take 〈◊〉 to our serious Thoughts it must needs possess us with the greatest Horrour and Abomination of it and engage us to watch and guard We must Watch against all approaches our selves against the most distant approaches of this Vice Next to the Murthering the maiming and Maiming an Injury which every Man dreads disabling our Neighbour is a very great Sin this we must grant by reflecting ●ow precious our Limbs are and ●ow miserable a thing the want of any of 'em is especially if it be 〈◊〉 poor Man in such 〈◊〉 Case though we Worst in a poor Man can never make him a full Satisfaction we are ●he most solemnly A necessity of Satisfaction ●ound to provide for his own and his Fami●ies wants Unlawful Wounds and Stripes are likewise highly inconsistent with that golden Rule of Loving our Neighbour Wounds and Stripes injurious also as our Selves and indeed our Cruelty to others argu●● not only a great de●● Cruelty to others the effect of Pride of Pride and In●●lence but withal 〈◊〉 savageness and bruitishness of mind much below the common tenderness and compassion that becomes the humane Nature PARTITION XI Of Justice about the Possessions of o●● Neighbours against injuring hi● in his Wife his Goods of Oppre●sion Theft of paying of Debt● c. THE next part His Possession Negative Justice relates to the Possessions of our Neighbours 〈◊〉 the front of which we may wit● great Reason place the Wife O● Wives are the Principle part of our Possessions The Wife the enticing her great injustice to the Woman and the Man and the corrupting Her to defile Her Husbands bed is the worst and highest part of Injustice both to the Man and the Woman this is an irreparable The most Irreparable sort of Injury A Vice that God has declar'd that he himself will Judge and we may depend upon 't without Repentance that Judgment of his will be