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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34597	The country-curate's advice to his parishioners, in four parts I. Directs us, how to serve God on the Lord's day, II. On the week day, III. How to discharge our duty in our several relations, as husband and wife, parents and children, masters and servants, IV. How to prepare for death / by H.C.	H. C. (Henry Cornwallis), 1654?-1710.	1693 (1693)	Wing C6333; ESTC R37664	30,893	81

keep me from all danger as well of Body as of Soul to the end I may rise again in Health to praise thy glorious Name and joyfully to serve thee with a clean Body and chaste Heart Whilst thou art going to bed exercise thy Mind with these holy and heavenly Meditations As thou art pulling off thy clothes think how it will not be long before thou be stripped of all and go out of the World as naked as thou camest as Job excellently expresseth it Naked came I c. And when thou art laid upon thy bed to take thy Repose let it mind thee of thy Grave thy Sheets of thy Shroud and thy Sleep of thy Death which indeed is the shadow of it and labour to fall asleep with the sweet Meditation of it and to that end while thou art awake exercise thy Mind with these or such like Meditations Beg of Christ That you might imitate him in his Death which you may do in these short Prayers 1. Jesus died patiently O my Soul how ill have we imitated our sweet Saviour in our Life and Manners let us at least strive to imitate him in his Death by taking patiently whatsoever Cross and Affliction he shall lay upon us following chearfully to Mount Calvary O my Saviour though my Soul be not forced out of my Body by such a violent Death as thine yet imprint I beseech thee in my Soul such sweet Thoughts and Affections as thou didst feel when thou didst die for my sake 2. Jesus dyed willingly O my God give me health or sickness life or death give me what thou pleasest not my will but thy will be done O my Saviour thou being God's innocent Son dyedst in the flower of thine Age and shall I desire long Life who am a Sinner a Rebel a Criminal I yield Lord I yield and submit to Death's Summons Farewel Earth farewel World farewel this Vale of tears and miseries Heaven is my happier home Paradise is much more pleasant and agreeable and Death is my way to it 3. Jesus prayed for strength and courage in the agony of death O my Jesu when my Glass shall be almost run out when my Senses fail me when my Strength decays and my Breath almost spent O do not thou forsake me Dear Jesu when all things else shall leave and abandon me Thou art graciously pleased Compassionate Creator to take pity on the Fowls of the air and the Beasts of the Earth and to succour them in time of n●●d O refuse not thy favours to a Soul stampt with thy Sacred Image and resemblance but pity me succour me comfort me and protect me from the hands of the Enemy 4. Jesus dying pardoned his Enemies and pray'd for them O my sweet Saviour in honour of this thy fervent Charity I pray forgive all them that have offended me in my whole Life time it now heartily grieves me that ever I hated them and were they here present how humbly would I embrace them and beg their Pardon Give them O my God thy Grace in this World and thy Glory in the next Thus have I finished my imperfect Piece And O my God as I began it by thy Goodness so I end it with thy praise Let not the weakness and simplicity of the Agent be the Readers discouragement but O my Heavenly Father give me thy Grace to live up to these Rules lest whilst I preach and write to others I my self become a Cast-away FINIS Advertisement BRief Directions for our more devout Behaviour in Time of Divine Service With a Short Rationale on the Common-Prayer By the same Author

of this Soliloquy O my Soul Let Vzza's Death make thee careful how thou enters irreverently into God's House If we be so careful to come with clean Apparel before an Earthly Prince much more should we with clean Hearts and Souls approach our Heavenly King A Prince may not regard how his Servants go in his Kitchen but when they come into his Presence-Chamber he expects they should look to their Carriage and Words God indeed O my Soul expects more honour in our religious acts than in the ordinary actions of our Lives for in the first we directly design his honour and service and if we do not perform them seriously the greater is our Sin Think then O my Soul how choice God was in the Law about all things relating to his Worship the Tabernacle and Temple must be of the best Wood the purest Gold and the finest Linnen The Persons must be without blemish Lev. 2.17 the Sacrifice must be perfect without spot the best of the Flock the best of the Beasts the fat that covereth the inwards And what O my Soul dost thou think was the substance of these shadows but this that God will be served by holy Men in the purest and holiest manner and that we must be exact both as to our Persons and Performances Great Persons are impatient of contempt and affronts especially when offered to them in their own Houses God will sooner overlook thy forgetfulness of him in thy Trade or Travels than in the Tabernacle When thou drawest nigh to him he will be Sanctified either by thee or upon thee if thou refusest to give him glory in thy Service believe me he will get himself Glory by thy Sufferings His worship is his Presence his Face and look for his Fury if thou darest him to his Face The Waters of the Sanctuary are like the Waters given to a suspected Wife if Innocent they witness her Honesty and made her Fruitful though Barren before But if guilty they caused the Belly to swell and the thighs to rot If thou makest Godliness thy business in the Ordinances of God it will make thee fruitful if barren of good Works but if thou beest formal and perfunctory and goest thy round in religious Duties never minding the true end of them nor thy Carriage in them thy Prayer will be an abomination the word a savour of Death unto Death and the Sacrament a Seal of thy Damnation When thou comest at the Church-Door say Surely the Lord is in this place how dreadful is this place It is no other but the House of God the Gate of Heaven When you enter into the Church O my Soul where ever thou art thou art under God's Eye and therefore shouldest thou be no where prophane but now thou art in his Church thou art in his immediate Presence How holy oughtest thou to be How devout thy Behaviour We read Exod. 25.37 Moses was commanded to light up seven Lamps in his Tabernacle the place of his publick worship and why seven Lamps What was the substance of these shadows in short this that nothing shall escape his notice He seeth what uprightness and seriousness there is in thy Prayers and performances whether thou art Praying Reading Hearing or Singing and after what manner thou dost them whether slothfully or diligently His Eye is always upon thee and his Eye-lids try thy actions to reward or punish them When you view the Baptisterion or Font. Give hearty thanks unto God for your Christendom that by Holy-Baptism he hath called you to a state of Grace and Salvation through Jesus Christ and humbly beseech him that you may continue in the same to your Lives end For if you Apostatize you are guilty of an horrid Sin and must answer for it at the great and terrible day of Judgment It was a custom in the primitive times that such as were Baptized did wear a white Stole a Ceremony to signify the purity of Life the Baptized was to lead Eliodophorus after his Baptism turning a Persecutor of the Church Marilla the Minister that Baptized him in an holy indignation brought forth in publick the white Stole saying This do I keep against thy coming to Judgment to testify thy Apostasy from Christ So be thou assured O Christian that the Water with which the Minister by whom the people before whom thou wert Baptized shall rise up against thee in Judgment if thou dost not walk in newness of Life When you behold the Eleemosynary or Poor's Box. How much am I bound to the good Providence of my Heavenly Father who hath raised my condition in this World to be in the number of those that abound not of them that want since 't is more blessed to give than to receive When you view the Communion-Table say What shall I render unto the Lord for all the benefits I have received at his hands I will take the Cup of Salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord. When you view the Pulpit Remember how many good Lessons you have received thence the which not being carefully practised will rise up in judgment against you in the great Day of your Tryal resolve therefore for the future to be a doer of the word not hearer only deceiving your own Soul When you view the Church-Bible upon the Desk Remember that this is the Book of Life the sacred Code the Divine Volume the infallible Oracle of Heaven and that you are obliged to consult it with all manner of Devotion and to inform your selves thence what is the will and pleasure of the great Ruler of the World When you have meditated a while on these objects fall down on your Knees in your Pew and offer up this or such like Prayers O Lord my God! There is no mortal Man worthy to stand at thy Door much less to appear in thy Presence yet how oft have I presumed to approach to thee without that preparedness of heart without that dejection of Soul without that true and holy reverence which becometh thy Child Pardon O Lord I beseech thee pardon my irreverence in so sacred a place and distractions in my Prayers and give me grace to demean my self so reverently and zealously now I am in thy House and Service that my Prayers may come up before thee as incense and the lifting up my hands as a Morning Sacrifice Grant this for Jesus Christ's sake Amen Or OPen my Mouth my Lord and Maker to bless and praise thy Divine Majesty Cleanse my heart from all curious noxious and destructive thoughts enlighten my understanding to know thee my will to obey thee settle my attention excite my Devotion to praise thee That I may worthily reverently religiously perform this Morning-Sacrifice of Prayer through the virtue of those most pure and perfect Praises which thou O Jesu my Redeemer offeredst up on Earth to thy Eternal Father Mine may be now acceptable in thy sight Amen CHAP. VIII Of our behaviour at Church when the Minister is come unto it

●e than on the God above me have not I ●een intemperate at my Meals and eat and ●rank more than nature required have I af●●r Dinner set my Servants to read and did I pray for them and with them Have not ● this day been guilty of some crying Sin fo● which God might justly punish me as he di● the Fool in the Gospel with Death c. If upon enquiry you find you have mad● any progress in Vertue got ground of Satan and mastered your Corruptions give Go● the Glory by whose Grace you overcam● them and return him thanks in this following Prayer PRaise the Lord O my Soul yea let all th●● is within me praise● his holy name praise be the Lord from the rising up of the Sun unto th● going down of the same thou art my God an● I will praise thee thou art my God and I wi●● bless thee who hast preserved me this day from falling into Sin and hast kept me from t●● power of the evil one for my Soul is this d●● escaped as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowle● the Snare is broken and I am delivered my he● standeth in the name of the Lord who hath ma●● Heaven and Earth But if upon enquiry you find that yo● have been guilty of many Frailties and Imperfections if you have not been so devout 〈◊〉 you ought to have been in your Prayers a●fect your Soul with the sense of your Sin i● this following Prayer AH frail weak and wicked Wretch art thou not ashamed to remain still in thy wonted negligences and tepidities to sing the same sinful Song after so many Vows Promises and purposes of better Obedience wallowest thou still in the same mire and lyest thou still snorting in the same Bed of Sensuality O horrid ingratitude if thou wert now summoned to give up thy just accounts what couldst thou answer for so much time mis-spent so many inspirations neglected and so many Graces abused thou approachest nearer Death and Eternity but recoilest backward in religious Piety and Perfection wilt thou still lye sleeping in this dangerous Lethargy is this the grateful and dutiful Service thou renderest thy Creator for having afforded thee all convenient means to repent for having so patiently expected thy Conversion and amendment Alas my Confounded Soul what will become of thee what course wilt thou steer and when and how wilt thou begin Ah sinful Wretch prodigal Child disloyal Friend sue to thy Physician return to thy Father repent thee of thy Disloyalty request Pardon Grace and Love resolve to repent for what is past and amend for the time to come and from this moment consecrate the remainder of thy Life to his Service And now O my Lord as thou hast given me Grace to frame this Resolution so give me strength and courage to put it in execution But if upon Inquiry you find you have greatly broken the Sabbath-day neglected his publick Worship relapsed into some crying Sin which without God's great Mercy will bring upon you speedy Death and Damnation affect your Soul with this Prayer O My good God Father of all Comfort and Compassion Creatour of Heaven and Earth and Redeemer of my poor Soul behold here a poor Worm prostrate at the feet of thy Divine Majesty humbly craving pardon for all the Iniquities and Impurities that I have committed against thy Divine Majesty from my Youth up until now especially those that I have this day committed against thee such a Sin especially most justly provoking thy wrathful Indignation against me the remembrance of them breeds an extreme Shame Fear and Sorrow in my now sensible penitent Soul Shame for having left an infinite Good to embrace an empty fading nothing Fear for having forsaken the Light of Heaven and the Life of Aeternity to remain in aeternal Death and Darkness Sorrow for having offended thee my God wh● art so loving and liberal unto me Oh that my Heart could rend asunder with true Contrition and Compunction and my Eyes dissolve into a flood of Tears for having been disloyal to so faithful a Friend and disobedient to so free-hearted a Father Mercy dear Father to thy prodigal Child Mercy dear Lord to thy sinful Servant Pardon my past Faults pity my present Follies protect my future Frailties that with a clean quiet contented Soul I may strive to please and praise thee all my Life long hereafter and in the end die happily in thy Favour and Friendship O my Crucified Jesu my only Hope and Refuge bathe me in thy Blood beautifie me with thy Merits bless me with thy Grace by the Tears that issued out of thy Eyes by the Prayers that came from thy Mouth by the Blood that gushed from thy Wounds and Heart by all the Pains of thy Body and Pangs of thy Soul by all the Mercies of thy Divinity and Merits of thy Humanity by all that is dear and near unto thee in Heaven and Earth Cleanse quiet clothe comfort content my sick sinful weak and wretched Soul O thou Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the World take away the world of sins that is in me O thou that wert my Saviour upon Earth be thou my Advocate in Heaven pleading and interceding that none of these Evils my sins have deserved may fall upon my head Forget and forgive all the Crimes Ingratitudes and Impurities of my Life past and in particular whatsoever through my carelessness have escaped my memory and whatsoever my dreadful Judge may in the rigour of his Justice lay to my charge that at the end of my days I may receive the end of my hopes the Salvation of my precious and immortal Soul Grant this O Lord for Jesu Christ his sake Amen Then fail not to add to this this usual Prayer for the Evening Before thou goest to bed be sure to offer unto God thine Evening Sacrifice of Prayer and Thanksgiving This was shadowed out unto us under the Law where the Lord required his Evening Sacrifice as well as the Morning therefore much more doth he require it of us under the Gospel And truly if thou liest down in thy sins unrepented of thou mightest haply awaken with Hell-flames about thy Ears Thou mayst better and safelier sleep with a Serpent in thy Bosom than with a Sin upon thy Soul the one can only punish thee temporally the other torments thee aeternally Before ever then thou suffer the Temples of thy head to take any rest beg O Christian Brother not only Pardon of thy Sins but his Protection from all Dangers which you may do in this following Prayer ALmighty and Everlasting God I yield thee most humble and hearty thanks for that thou hast vouchsafed me of thy great Mercy and Goodness to preserve me this day from all evil and I also beseech thee for thy bitter Death and Passion most mercifully to forgive me a wretched Sinner all my Offences which I have this day committed by thought word or deed and hereafter to preserve and