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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77634	Sacred principles, services, and soliloquies or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts: I. The grounds of Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Church of England, as differing from the now-Roman. II. Daily, and weekly formes of prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures, meditations and rules to keep the soule from the common roads of sin, and carry it on in a mortified course. III. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main limbs of divinity, which is the art not of disputing, but living well.	Brough, W. (William), d. 1671.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4991; Thomason E1339_1; ESTC R209131	186,268	487

I doe is to no end without forme and voide if not with a Minde devoutly busied as a Body Well-devoted and all done in Remembrance of thee Naturally I may do something and see some Body but Sacramentally nothing if I discerne not Thine 7. Something then is to be done before I doe this I must get an Holy Appetite before I Eat and Drinke which is by Repentance And bring Mat. 5. 6. an Heavenly Mouth to the Meat which is my Faith And much is to Joh. 6. 35. be done after this I must Digest it so in Conscience as to get good Spirit by it and gaine such strength by the Digestion as to walke more ho●ly and grow Better for it Else what doe I but Deforme thy Body and Defile thy Bloud That must raise my Thoughts and Afflictions to the Memory This keepe them up As I must doe this in Remembrance of Thee I must do that in Remembrance of this and what is done not forget I have beene doing and put thee after out of my Remembrance Jesus Make me doe what I should Not neglect it lest I neglect at once my Saviour and Soule Not doe it as an Act of Complyance with Time or as a Due more to Custome then Conscience which is as ill Nor in a rude unhallowed unprepared irreverent bold Carriage and Confidence which is worse then a neglect Jesus Give me grace so to doe So to Remember Thee on thy Crosse that thou maiest not forget me in thy Kingdome So to Remember thee Luk. 23. 42. Luk. 22. 30. at thy Table that thou maiest Remember me on thy Throne Where Commemoration shall be turn'd into Vision Where I shall have not Sacramentall 1 Cor. 13. 12. but Beatificall Communion Where I shall not weare thy Ring but see thy Face Not Remember thee but Behold thee Not in Faith but cleare and full Fruition Even so be it O Lord Feede me to it in Faith and Love and Seale it to me in Spirit and Conscience Lord Thus have me and let me have Thee for ever in Remembrance Amen! Amen! Directions about the Holy Communion how to Prepare for it 1. Touching Prayers Preparatory to it ON Wednesday before Read the Penitentiall Service On Friday the Service on the Passion On Saturday the Service Preparatory to the Holy Communion On Sunday some of the Scripture Lessons with the Prayers proper for it and Meditation upon it 2. Touching Self examination necessary before we Communicate YOu must Examine your selfe 1. Cor. 11. 28. touching your Faith and Life 1. Your Faith is Right if you Believe concerning God and His Church according to the Rule of it Comprized summarily in the Apostles Creed Received by all Christians 2. Tim. 1. 13 2. Your Life is Right if it agree with the Rule of it The Law of God Comprehended in the Ten Commandements For finding of which 1. You are to Consider apart every Commandement and the Contents * Juxta ordinem Decalogi institutum Mcl. l. com de poenit v. Partic. apud ipsū Rom 7. 7. Psa 119. 15. Lam. 3. 40 of it what Duties it Requires What Sins it Forbids and then aske your Conscience how you have Discharged your selfe therein 2. Where you finde upon Just Enquirie that you have led your life according to Gods Law in Piety to God or Charity to Man Thank God for His Grace where you find that you have failed Ask God for His Pardon 3. And because none but Penitents can ask and have Gods Pardon and Contrition is the Root Confession the Branch and Amendment of Life the Fruit of Repentance look therefore carefully to all And first 1. Touching Contrition IT is the Bleeding of a Soul toucht Act. 2. 37. with Remorse for Sinne And if of the Bodies much more care must be had of the Soules Bloud That it Bleed 1. Wisely For doing ill not well 2 Cor. 7. 10 That were to let out good Bloud and keep in Ill. 2. Kindly Even for doing Ill as an Psal 51. 4. Ezek. 7. 16 Offence to God chiefly Not so much for the Dread of Damnation as the Displeasure of his Goodnesse 3. Rightly For the Sinne which hath done more Displeasure to God and is chiefe in me most That 's to strike the right Veine Psa 51. 14 4. Freely The Heart must bleed for all and that above all Water must 1 Cor. 15. 9 Psal 66. Mat. 26. 75. Luk. 7. 38. not be wrung out of the Eye like Fire out of a Flint but if nature stop not the Course flow as from a full Fountain Naturally and Plentifully out Yet 5. Temperately too Not bleeding Joel 2. 12 13. Jer. 18. 11 12. to the Death of Despaire but so as to keep in Heart a Life of hope for Mercy and Help The sorrow be-being to drowne Sinne and not the 2 Cor. 7. 5 Heart To that end God hath given the Soule as the Eyes for Sluces to Jer. 13. 17. let out the Waters of Griefe when they swell about the Heart and are ready to overwhelme it So a Floodgate in the Mouth to void them and prevent an Inundation Psal 39. 4. of Heavinesse And as Teares spend Grief by the Eye Confession puts it out at the Mouth Of which is the next Enquiry 2. Touching Confession GOd being the Majesty whom Sin Psa 51. 13. Isay 43. 25 Prov. 28. 13. 1 Joh. 1. 8. Lev. 5. 5. John 20. 23. 2 Cor. 20. Vice Dei qui thesaurum in ●s posuit hominum Luth. 1 Sam. 7. 6 offends of him Pardon is to be sought and Confession the way to find it without which we seeme either to need no Pardon or not to seek it And God being pleased two wayes to give Pardon Immediately by a Power Imperiall in and of Himselfe and Mediately by the Ministry of Man Delegated by him to Seal Pardons in his Name and the Soules Peace Hence Man also hath two wayes to make Confession or speake his Guilt to God One is to pour out the Soul into Gods Bosome by having an Immediate Recourse for mercy to God Himself The other is into Gods Ear Fiat pastori vel potius Deo Coram pastore Zanch. in 1 Joh. 1. Betaking our selves for Ghostly good and Comfort to some Man of God And as in some Cases there is great need ●o for sundry Causes there may be much profit of this 1. In a storme of Conscience it 's not Job 33. 23 24. 37 38. Isay 504. Jam. 5. 15 16. safe to be without a Spirituall Pilot lest for want of better Direction and helpe the Soule be Swallowed up in her owne Deeps or Sunke under some Gust of Temptation As God knowes many daily are * Damnaberis tacitus qni posses liberari confessus Aug. 2. Or If the Mind Fluctuate and cannot rest Satisfied in her Spirituall Estate it 's dangerous not to seeke a Guide of God to leade us out of those Ghostly straights

Mortification 443 Remedies of Frailty to be used duly 433 Scandall not to be given 448 Hinders others keeps our selves from Heaven ibid. Sermon and Gods Word two things often 439 Scruples Satans Policies The Soules Bane 377 For Comforts and Duty 378 End in Carelesnesse 380 Scriptures plaine in Necessaries 440 Senses Cinqueports to be lookt to 354 Service of God due frō all Private 325 Publick 323 Perpetuall 351 Sins Basenesse in ten Particulars 313 Souls Worth in ten Excellencies 312 Theif on Crosse how to be lookt at 417 No Encouragement to Delay Repentance 419 Thoughts how to be Governed and why 353 Tongue how to be Ruled and why 355 Tongue Murders 358 Tongues Bridle how made 355 To be kept as Life Not without Care of Heart 357 and Gods Watch 359 Tryalls of Repentance Faith Obedience 432 Time pretious Of what value with God 383 With the Damned 384 Vowes to be Rare 444 Workes Good to be done 361 Charities their Chief 362 Words v. Tongue ERRATA PAge 15. line 5. read Clement 8. p. 41. l. 17. r. Distractions p. 44. l. 5. adde For thy Christ his sake l. 7. r. and perfect p. 45. l. 2. r. Prayer p. 48. l. 24. r. Joy p. 56 l. 12. r. with thee p. 51. l. 22. r. Glory p. 52. l. 30. r. mine p. 53. l. 10. r. first p. 63. l. 19. r. earth l. 9. r. upon it p. 75. l. 22. r. health p. 77. l. 4. r. mortall p. 117. l. 1. r. wein p. 118. l. 18. r. arhest p. 121. l. 30. dele revised p. 125. l. 6. r. Sinners p. 127. l. 21. r. or field p. 128. l. 19. r. shall p. 135. l. 17. r. Interests l. 21. r. horrours p. 144. l. 1. r. preserve me p. 154. l. 4. r. filed l. 14. r. to leave it p. 161. l. 2. r. swet l. 3. r. sweat p. 163. l. 2. r. duty p 167. l. 6. r. thrift p. 169. l. 18. dele both p. 170. l. 24. r. deadly p. 249. l. 6. r. to see p. 251. l. 18. r. more p. 265. l. 21. r. and thy self p. 275. l. 15. 16. r. thee p. 288. l. 25. r. Cassand p. 304. l. 8. r. ask p. 315. l. 19. r. abominable p. 327. l. 24. r. and keep p. 359. l. 16. r. stored p. 362. l. In Margent r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 373. l. 13. r. awry p. 382. l. 14. r. Corruption p. 400. l. 3. r. things p. 420 l. 23. r. that he p. 433. l. 26. r. Saviour p. 435. l. 15. r. rather then p. 447. l. 9. r. most p. 450. l. 15. r. sins Mistakes of Figures in the Marginall Notes PAge 2. l. 12. for 278. p. 29. Act. 17. 24. Isa 38. 5. p. Jer 8. 22. p. 32. Act. 2. 37. p. 46. Ephes 5. 22. 29. p. 47. Gen. 9 1. p. 49. Gen. 18 19. p. 68. Psal 25. p. 73. l. 20. deest Isa 11. 1. p. 141. Isa 19. 18. p. 142. 1 Pet. 2. 11. p. 144. Mat. 27. 5. Prov. 1. 22. Isa 1. 2. p. 145. Mica 7. p. 152. Apoc. 22. p. 156 Jam. 4. 11. p. 160. Mat. 3. 9. p. 161. Phil. 4. p. 164. Mat. 26. 23. p. 165. Luk. 12. 20. deest l. 3. p. 168. Psal 106. Jude Epistle p. 181. Dan. 4. 51. Prov. 3. p. 206. 1 Pet. 1. 8. p. 312. Joh 6. p. 327. Psal 7. p. 320 Psal 18. p. 321. Mat. 26. 27. p. 355. Act. 26. p. 336. Isa 60. p. 426. Eph. p. 387. p. 354. 2 Sam. 11. 2 p. 357. Prov. 18. 8. p. 358 Rom. 2. 1 2. p. 359. Psa 141. p. 360 Exod. 20. p. 376. l. 14. deest Jude v. 23. Psa 1. 1. p. 377. Exod. 24. p. 380. Isa 50. 4. 9. p. 390. Psa 119. 165. p. 392. 2 Cor. 3. 4. p. 400. Mar. 9. 43. p. 408. Cant. 2. 3. Luk. 22. 3. p. 412. Isa 51 48. p. 428. 2 John v. 11. p. 432. Rom. 14. 23. p. 433. Heb. 10. 39 p. 439. 2 Cor. 4. 4. 5. p. 440. 1 John 4. p. 445. Judg. 14. 9. p. 446 Ezek. 11. 19. 36. 27. p. 456. Mat. 6. 7. Note Reader that the second part of the sixt Soliloquie is Printed after the Seventh but the proper place is before it and so thou art to read it Of Religion in general Of Religion and how this Manuall is made to serve the Soule in it REligion is the Worship or Service of God a Joh. 9. 31. The parts of it are two Faith and Life b Act. 24. 14. or the Knowledge and Practice of it c 1. Chron. 28. 9. 1. There is a three-fold Knowledge of Religion Of Foundations or Grounds of it Of Superstructions or what 's built on those Grounds Or of Pinacles or Punctilio's high and curious points in the building The first of these is necessary for a Christian d Pro. 19. 2 Luc. 12. 47. the second for a Divine e Tit. 1. 9. the third for no man f 1 Tim. 6. 20. The first is necessary and profitable the second profitable not necessary The third is neither The first is the minds life g Prov. 3. 18. 22. the second health h 2 Tim. 1. 7. the third the souls disease or itch i Tim. 4. 3. The Grounds of Religion necessary to be knowne See pag. 2. And what profits may be made of those Grounds pag. 4. 2. The Practice of Religion consists in three things 1. Invocation k Gen. 4. 26. For that see the Prayers 2. Mortification l Gal. 5. 24. Col. 3. 5. For that see the weekly Services against Vanities and Sins and their Remedies And the Soliloquies 3. Celebration of the Holy Eucharist For that see the Particular Directions pag. 12. and Meditations in the Service for it The Grounds of Christian Religion Qu. WHat is the End for which Eccl. 7. 29. God made Man in this world Ans To live happy with himself in Ro. 6. 22. 1 Pet. 1. 9. another world Qu. What is the Means to be so happy Ans To serve God according to Heb. 11. 16. true Religion Qu. Which Religion is the True Ans The Christian Joh. 17. 3. Qu. What is required of the true Christian Ans To Believe Doe and Pray aright Joh. 6. 29. 1 Pet. 3. 6. Mat. 6. 9. according to the Rules of his Religion Qu. 1. What is it to Believe aright Ans Largely all which God sayes in his Word briefly summ'd up in the Apostles Creed which all Christians receive as the Rule of their Faith Qu. 2. What is it to Doe aright Ans All which God wills in his Law summed up in the Decalogue by whose ten Commands we are to governe all our actions as the great Rule of our life Qu. How are we to understand and observe those Commandements Ans We must understand 1. That Mat. 5. 28. they binde our hearts and thoughts as well as our hands and tongues in outward workes and words 2. To doe 1 Pet. 3. 11. the contrary good