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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07678	A godlie mans guide to happinesse A manuell of necessary motiues, holy meditations, and godly prayers, to stirre vp the hearts of men vnapt to pray. To the great comfort of all, that with due and holy attention will practise this most godly and Christian dutie. Written for his owne, and published for the comfort of them that long for trv[e] happinesse. by I.N.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1624 (1624)	STC 18608; ESTC S100057	58,821	306

I belieue Lord that if my faith faile not I shal draw vertue from thee and bee either fully healed or eased Wherfore most gracious Lord God in Iesus Christ increase and confirme my faith and say vnto me Be it vnto thee as thou beleeuest then shall I be whole for I constantly beleeue that thou canst doe it but that thou knowest what is best for me In thy prouidence it befell as a token of thy displeasure for my sins that I might bee thereby continually put in mind when I intend any thing offensiue vnto thee that by my further sinning I should feare greater punishments for thou knowest my corrupt nature euer inclinable to forbidden things and therfore wilt continue thy gentle hand vpon me lest I repenting of my repentance should returne againe to new sinns which good Father I humbly pray thee in fauour to preuent If thou tarry long and delay thy helpe let not my faith falter nor faile mee nor my heart be discouraged for thou knowest better what is best for mee then I my selfe And therefore will I wayte when what and how thou wilt worke for mee nothing doubting but that in thy fatherly prouidence thou wilt prouide for mee and that thou wilt neuer faile mee nor forsake me Amen Lord increase my faith A consideration or consultation touching the estates and conditions of seuerall men their vocations manners liues lawfull and vnlawfull punishable and to bee cherished seruing also as a necessary motiue to a prayer for the blessing of God vpon the lawfull callings of men of whatsoeuer condition necessary for all men that hope of any blessing vpon their labors trauels professions arts trades or imployments IT is not enough for a man to haue or to desire a calling in the Church or Common-wealth but before he vndertake it he must consider whether it be lawfull agreeable to the word of God honest or necessary for the vse and societie of men and whether his apprehension and inclination be capable and able to manage it aright It is not lawfull though it be priuatly profitable to himselfe if a man find himselfe not fit neither is lawfully called thereunto but assumes it to himselfe neither respecting Gods glory ●or the good of others and consequently not honest for that it proceedes only respecting his owne corrupt ends of which kind may bee obserued not a few who intrude into functions and callings such as they cannot with a good conscience nor with sufficient vnderstanding performe which must rest vpon euery mans conscience for his choyce Some haue againe lawfull and laudable callings of themselues sufficient and yet may and often doe erre in the execution either for priuate profit or forbidden ends Some liue without any lawfull profession profitable to none no not to themselues but are onely Ladders to bring most plentiful mulcture to the Deuils mill their patrimonies to Tauernes Ale-houses and worse places mils that grind onely wickednesse feeding themselues and others therewith fat in impieties for the shambles of Sathan Of this are some well descended Gentlemen whose ancestors haue borne honorable praise worthy Offices both in Church Commonwealth doing good to many and to none more hurt thē vnto their dearest children to whom they haue left great earthly portions and patrimonies and no good education or profession to liue as men no not as men for all men are borne to labour in one commendable calling or another for the Church or Commonwealth to neither of which are many of these men profitable but run on in their lasciuious liues as the horse mule who yet in their kind haue more vnderstanding and are more profitable then many of these men seeme yet to be All parents yet are not much blame-worthy for some are carefull as men to prouide for their children worldly goods to maintaine them after their deaths Some as Religious men desire more the good education of their children in religious knowledge then desirous to make them great they rather endeauour to make them good which last is the worke of God without whose grace howsoeuer parents may instruct and educate their children in Gods feare and by a primary apprehension of their towardnesse in vertue yet it falleth oftentimes out that euen these full of hoped towardnesse to prooue good and vertuous and fit for laudable imployments when their parents full estates befall them they associate the company of such as turne al the good they formerly learned into euill for though the father plant the Minister waters yet if the Spirit of God confirme it not in them they will shew themselues to be but men and such as feare not God nor reuerence man but liue as if there were no law spending as boastingly they will say but their owne It were fault sufficient to consume it had it bin their owne gotten by the sweat of their owne faces but being left vnto them by their carefull fathers or louing friends it is reputed by law theirs indeed yet so as they should hold it as the free gift of God or rather lent of him rather to do good with it then with the prodigall vnthrift to consume it as these men doe vpon their lusts And hauing spent all as in Gods iust iudgment many of them doe as daily experience sheweth what becomes of them doth not like experience tell vs Many idle drones there are also that haue not that they by any colour may call their owne and yet they spend and labour not but are as the froth and scumme of a good Common wealth As touching their conuersation it is not onely idle in good things but laborious in euill they roaue and run about the citie and countrey ●ilching stealing couzening cheating rioting in all kindes of wickednesse and whose profession is only to deceiue Can these men pray for a blessing vpon their vocations and labours Nay can they or doe they pray at all They may haue and often haue the name of God and his parts in their mouthes but for a curse not for a blessing for in stead of praying vnto God they blaspheme his name It is manifestly obserued that God is abused and the Common wealth pestered and priuily endangered by the idlenesse wickednes and mischiefes of these men And yet who taketh it into consideration and endeuour to reforme it Some are in places so eminent as they cannot look so low and some are in place of Office so meane that haue a good will to put hand to helpe it but their power is weake and their countenance and aid small they dare not taxe an offender in this kind especially a Gentleman-like Roarer that can make a whole Street or a Hamlet to quake at his carriage and execrable blasphemies Some haue lawfull callings but vse them not lawfully for want of the grace of God to guide them and the blessing of God to profite the Church or Common-wealth by them because they seldome or neuer pray for a blessing Some are often seene to