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The whole duty of man in all his stages in a plain and familiar heroick verse, with variety of cuts proper to the several chapters thereof, with several private prayers and Thanksgivings annexed to it, both for the pleasure and benefit of youth / by W. Beck.
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Beck, W. (William)
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true we cannot love them nor forgive Our Enemies and wish them well to live Much less their Wants then as we ought relieve 11. Strugle we must and with a bitter trial To bear the Cross and learn Self-denyal And so we must deny and must withstand Our selves if we 'll obey our Lord's command As his Cross to take up and bear the Shame Which he endured for his most Holy Name So we as Christians must do the same Wherefore rejoice when that comes to your turn To suffer better drown in Tears than burn In Hell with the Rich Glutton for to lie Tormented there to all Eternity 12. Now then thy War begins subscribe the List Resolve to do thy Duty and Resist Thy own Corruptions make incessant Prayer To God that he for Christ's sake thee would spare Grace sufficient to maintain the War Or else thy feeble Soul will quickly yield To Satan cowardly and quit the Field 13. Oh quickly quickly then thy self apply To thy whole Duty lest Sinning thou dye And now thy self often to Prayer betake Imploring Mercy for thy Saviour ' sake Use these short Forms which are herein prescrib'd Be Earnest and thou shalt not be deny'd What monstrous Hazards dost thou undergo Which ventures on in Sin which will bring wo. Therefore thy Duty know and now begin Leave thy delight in Error and in Sin Defer not thy whole Duty day by day But unto God for Christ's sake always Pray Uâ—ing those Means prescribed in thy Way PRAYERS 1. For Pardon 2. For Grace 3. For Comfort 4. For several Graces 5. The Lord's Prayer our Father 1. THou Lord of Mercy to thee now I Pray Let my Request be heard do not say Nay That all my griev'ous Sins be done away I am a Sinner Lord thou know'st full well And Duties owe to Thee who doth excel In Goodness and in Kindness evermore Tho' I am much behind and in thy Score But if thou hast such Mercy behind still For me then make me to fulfil thy Will And thou O Lord do all my Sins forget And let them not on my account be set Lest my Misdeeds at length should so prevail If them thou mark'st then my Soul will fail And sink by that sad weight of its own Fate For ever banished from that blessed State Even from that blessed Company and Place Unless thou dost restore me by thy Grace Thy Mercies Lord are manifold thou' rt kind Let me Oh! then one Branch but only find That I may e'er I sink lay hold thereon On thy great Goodness and Salvation 2. Now grant good God I may both hear and see To do all things well-pleasing unto thee Be pleas'd to give but to my weak Faith Strength That I to Happiness may come at length Teach me good God and so give me thy Grace To walk aright that I may see thy Face Take from me Clouds of Sin which do so blind My Sight by making clean my Heart and Mind Lest into that unfathomed Pit I fall And there for thy kind help in vain do call Where being stung with Vengeance of thy hate I call and call but yet alas too late Convert me then O Lord betimes lest I Be overtaken with thy Wrath and dye I am a Stranger here on Earth incline My Heart to what is good and so d vine That I with thee and others there may shine .3 Why why O Lord dost thou thy Face so hâ—de Making me row against the Wind and Tide In vain in vain my grief and labour 's all If thou dear Lord dost not return and call Me to thy self with longing in my Soul Letting no Sorrow ever me Controul 4. Give me both Faith and Hope and also Love Humility with Fear to thee Above Trust Gratitude Contrition to be Mild Contrite Chaste Temp'rate to be thy Child So Diligent Just also and Content With Perseverance ne'er for to Repent Of doing good to all that I may be Blessed with Angels to Eternity 5. These Six Petit'ons grant me Lord I pray Which I do put to thee e'en day by day 1. First that thy Name may sanctified be 2. Thy Kingdom come when fitting thou dost see 3. Thy Will be done in Earth as Heaven is 4. This Day our daily Bread give and it bless 5. Our Sins forgive as we forgive all men 6. And lead us not into Temptation then Thy Kingdom Power for ever be Amen 1. Thanksgivings 2. For Deliverance in Trouble 3. Ejaculations for the Lord's Supper 4. Before you Receive it 5. After Receiving 1. YES I will ever O God thy Name praise Proclaiming it on high my Voice will raise Whilst I have Breath I will stil Speak and Sing My Praises all unto my Lord and King Wishing my self all Voice and Tongue to have To sing thy Praises and for me to crave A Blessing which thou always dost bestow On humble Penitents here now below Oh that my Thanks could then but equal grow Bless'd then for ever bless'd be thy Name Thou Fountain from whence all our Blessing came 2. O God for Mercy I on thee do call My Soul do's trust alone in thee for all True Shelter to thy Wings O Lord I run O cover me or else I am undone Thou art my Hope and Refuge also still Deliver me that I may do thy Will Preserve my Soul for unto thee it flies O look upon me with thy Holy Eyes With mine I 'll look up till the Tears have wore My Sight away and I here be no no more O pitty pitty my distressed Estate Leave me not wholly desolate nor Hate Me for I have here no true Friend but thee O pitty whither whither shall I flee 3. I am not worthy that under my Roof Thou Lord shouldst come Can I bear thy Reproof For I have Sinn'd if thou shouldst now mind With rigour to correct for what 's behind Who could abide But Mercy is in store Reserved for me and so for others more Thro' thy beloved Son my Trust shall then B' in Him that took away the Sins of Men. Oh see and hear the Cry of his dear Blood Which I with others plunge into that Flood 4. The Symbols now which I m about to use Eternal Life by them do not refuse To give to me as promised I 'll take 5. The Bread and Cup and so thy Passion make Known unto all thy Sitting on the Throne For ever blessed Thou great Three in One. FINIS BOOKS Printed and Sold by J. Bradford THE Complaint of English Subjects deliver'd in Two Parts The first is the Complaint of the Poor Middle and Meanest sort of Subjects concerning their Bodily Assistance The second is The true Christians Complaint against Vice and Wickedness for the good of their Souls health Wherein also is set forth the Late prodigious Growth of Atheism Errors and Vice With a Call to Repentance As also how needful it is in these Times for every one of us first of all to look into our Hearts and endeavour to Amend what is there amiss And lastly a brief Discourse concerning our late Unfruitful and Cold Summers As also what is the Real Cause of it by way of Opposition to the Opinion of Astrologers By Richard Newnam of Tiverton in Devonshire Price 6 d. A Gold Chain of Four Links to draw poor Souls to their desired Habitation Or the Four Last Things briefly discoursed of viz. Death Judgment Heaven and Hell By the late Reverend Dr. Stevens Price 2 d. 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THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN In all his Stages in a plain and familiar Heroick Verse with Variety of Cuts proper to the several Chapters thereof c. By W. Beck M. A. Fitted for the Pleasure and Benefit of YOUTH London Printed and Sold by J. Bradford in Little Britain ADVERTISEMENTS BOOKS Printed and Sold by J. Bradford 1. YOuth's Travels Or The Vanity of Mans Age. Represented in Seven several Stages thereof from his Birth to his Death With variety of Pictures exposing the Vanities and Follies of this Age. By A. F. Price Two-Pence 2. A Mirror for Atheists wherein they may plainly see their Prodigious Follies Vast Extravagancies Notorious Impieties and Absurdities containing a compendious account of the egregious vicious Life and Eminently and Sincerely Penitent Death of John Earl of Rochester Wherein is briefly receited his Disputes and Arguments against God and Religion as the same were used at several Meetings Also the manner of his wonderful Conversion and his Godly Expressions during his Last Sickness Abstracted from the Remarks of the Right Reverend Dr. Gilbert Burnet Price Sticht in Blue Paper Two Pence 3. The Father's Blessing Penn'd for the Instruction of his Children With a Paraphrase upon the Lord's Prayer With Motives to Prayer By William Jole Minister of Sarrat in Hartfordshire Price Two-Pence 4. A Choice Drop of Honey from the Rock Christ Or a short Word of Advice to all Christians in order to a thorough Reformation Price stitcht Two Pence 5. The Triumph of Faith manifested to the World Or Abrahâ—m offering up his Son Isaac as a sweet Burning Sacrifice upon Mount Moriah to the Lord. Being a Dialogue between Abraham Isaac and the Angel that staved his Hand from Execution With a large Cut to it Price One Penny 6. A Dialogue between a Blind Man and Death By Richard Standfast late Minister of Christ-Church in the City of Bristol Also the Great Assize or Christs Certain and Sudden Appearance to Judgment Price 1. d. 7. The Grand Question Resolved What we must do to be Saved Being Instructions for a Holy Life By Dr. Burnet Price Sticht Two Pence THE Whole Duty OF MAN In all his Stages in a plain and Familiar Heroick Verse With Variety of Cuts proper to the several Chapters thereof With several Private Prayers and Thanksgivings annexed to it both for the Pleasure and Benefit of Youth By W. Beck M. A. Prov. 22.6 Train up a Child in the Way he should go and when he is Old he will not depart from it LONDON Printed and Sold by J. Bradford in Little Britain the Corner House right against the Pump 1700. A PREFACE To the Good and Honourable But more Particularly The Courteous READER SInce this Renowned Book has been by some in part impeâ—fectly turned into Lyrick or Jambeck Verse so that I thought it necessary to give you it compleat iâ— Heroick And seeing every Body now adays haâ— an Inclination either to Read or Write Verses and some by an unhappy Skill that way taking the advantage of the general humour have exercised their abused parts in the recommending of Vice with all the flourish of Wit adding to the natural propensity to sin the sweet taking Seducements of Poetry but since the Contagion rather spreads than decreases and because it becomes me to hope that many rather love the Vice for the sake of the Verse than the Verse for the sake of Sin Therefore I thought it not unworthy the Character of a Christian nor besides my duty as such for the Reformation of Manners in Youth to make and humbly present you with this little Version of The Whole Duty of Man in a plain and familier dress to be got by Heart by the Ignorant being divided into Thirteen Chapters one quarter of which being learned every Sunday the Whole in one Year may be compassed And it is measured out in Verse only to make it go down the smoothlier and stick the better upon the Memory for as Verse has been a great occasion of the breach of most Duties contained herein and a means of drawing too many from performance so I hope this may and will be as prevalent for the reclaiming as many since according to the Poet A Verse may find him whom a Sermon flies And turn Delight into a Sacrifice So if all Dignity and Renown and Parts and Vnderstanding of Birth and Fortune would but freely and conspicuously offer themselves for Patterns of Education and Conversation they must and would undoubtedly entice and make others to be good and the Honour of our Religion would soon be retrieved and brought again into Credit and our Off-spring be as promising and hopeful as our deceased and much Lamented Duke But since that there are too many Proud Covetous and Malicious Pluralists and also incroaching and intruding Vnnaturalized Foreigners which having ingrossed the Inheritance being more for the Fleece than the Flock Lording over it So that I as well as others in this Iron Age having nothing to support us but a feeble Quill are almost ready to be Interred in the Ruins of a low Fortune yet being desirous of giving a publick Testimony of the value I have for all that are good and more particularly for you which soars above the rest being unbyassed by the Customary Opinion of the World and so far from believing any to be undeserving because unfortunate that their very Indigency in a great measure entitules them to your Protection So humbly beseeching to accept of my weak Endeavours Prayers and Good Wishes in reliance â—n your Goodness I assume the boldness to subscribe my Self Your most Humble and Devoted Servant Will. Beck ADVERTISEMENT THe Author being Master of Arts of a long standing now either at his Lodgings at the Kings-Head and Grammar-School in Jermain-street St. James's or at any one 's own House if desired doth and will in a few Years exactly tho' not pedantickly teach Young Ladies and Gentlemen the Tongues and Sciences he having lately contrived and made a Compendious yet exact English Accidence Grammar and Rhetorick c. By which any of an ordinary capacity with the Author's assistance without a Miracle in a few Months may learn that which is so much wanting and desired to accomplish Ladies viz. to Write True English and good Sense either with or without the Latin Tongue The Accidence he promises God willing to publish the beginning of the New Year But the other will be dictated only to those that can write to be got by Heart against the next Day THE Whole Duty of Man c. CHAPTER I. 1. The Necessity of caring for the Soul 2. The Worth of the Soul 3. The Misery of the Soul 4. The danger of the Loss of the Soul 1. THE chief Intent of this Book is to show Those things which each Person is now to do Being in as plain and familiar way That Old and Young should never go astray And in the end of all most happy be And from Eternal Burnings then set free