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A30305	The poor man's help and young mans guide containing I. Doctrinal instructions for the right informing of his judgment, II. Practical directions for the general course of his life, III. Particular advices for the well-managing of every day : with reference to his [brace] 1. Natural actions, 2. Civil imployments, 3. Necessary recreations, 4. Religious duties : particularly I. Prayer [brace] publick in the congregation, private in the family, secret in the closet, II. Reading the Holy Scriptures, III. Hearing of the Word preached, IV. Receiving of the Lord's Supper : unto which is added an earnest exhortation unto all Christians to the love and practice of universal holiness / by William Burkitt ...	Burkitt, William, 1650-1703.	1694 (1694)	Wing B5738; ESTC R34773	72,112	85

Influence it will have upon thy Obedience in the time of thy Life it will afford thee no small Comfort and Assurance at the Hour of Death and in the time of Temptation 3. Make choice of some wise and faithful Friend and Engage him by all the Endearments and Obligations of Friendship to be your Monitor and Remembrancer this the Apostle advises to Heb. 10.23 Consider one another to provoke unto Love and to good Works There are two sorts of Persons that will tell us of our Faults our best Friends and our bitterest Enemies Hast thou such an Enemy make use of those Rebukes with Christian Prudence which he gives in sinful Anger Art thou blest with such a Friend Bless God for him let thy Heart cleave unto him and perform a Reciprocal Duty of Love and Faithfulness towards him be often Admonishing Reproving Restoring Quickning and Confirming one another the Advantage of such a Friendship is inexpressible 4. Labour every Day to Live as in God's sight and to walk continually as under the View and Observation of his All-seeing Eye Psal 16.8 In all Places and in all Companies endeavour to remember the Presence of God that he is about thy Path by Day and about thy Bed by Night and espies out all thy ways Remember that thy God seeth in secret and that no Darkness is an Obstacle to his piercing Eye Remember that God is every where present and then thou wilt Study to be every where Holy It is not sufficient that God's Eye sees thee but thou must see thy self Seen of God The Master's Eye upon the Scholar will not Command him to his Book but the Scholar's seeing that his Master sees him will do it Oh my God! says pious Bishop Hall let me see my self Seen of Thee and I shall never dare to Offend thee 5. Have frequent recourse to your Minister your spiritual Guide desire his Advice and follow his Instructions in order to your Improvement in Knowledge and Advancement in Piety Acquaint him with thy Resolutions for Heaven and a Holy Life and desire him to give thee the needfull Directions in order to it Lay open thy very Soul unto him and be not shie of acquainting thy spiritual Physitian with all thy Soul-Complaints hear him as thou wouldst hear Christ himself whose Minister he is Mark what he says with the greatest Care and follow his Instructions with the greatest faithfulness Acquaint him from time to time with the State and Condition of thy Soul with thy Temptations and Discouragements with thy Doubts and Fears with thy Failings and Imperfections with thy Joys and Sorrows his Counsels by the Blessing of God will preserve thee in an uniform even and steady Course of Well-doing Thy Minister is concerned to give thee the best Advice he can and God is concerned to make it Effectual for thy Good having in his Infinite Wisdom ordained it for that end 6. And above all look up to Almighty God in Prayer that he would make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you Give him the entire Praise of all that good that is wrought in you or performed by you Be Thankfull to him for any measure of Knowledge received in thy Understanding for any good Inclinations found in thy Will for any devout Affections stirring in thy Soul and intercede with him that in mindfulness of his Promise as he has begun a good Work in thee he would perfect it unto the Day of Jesus Christ that he would Order thy Steps in his Word and let no Iniquity have dominion over thee that he would hold up thy goings in his ways 'till thy Feet take hold of Eternal Life that thou mayest be faithful to the Death not beginning in the Spirit making a sad End in the Flesh not being of the Number of those who draw back unto Perdition but of those who persevere in Well-doing to the saving of their Souls Amen FINIS

Principles of our Religion necessary to be known and Believed by all Persons in Order to their Everlasting Salvation are these four I. Concerning God II. Concerning Man III. Concerning Jesus Christ the Mediator between God and Man IV. Concerning the way and means to obtain Salvation by Christ the only Mediatour I. Concerning GOD. It is necessary to Know and Believe the following Severals Namely That God is an Infinite Invisible and Immortal Spirit without Bodily Parts or Passions Almighty All-knowing every where present most Wise and Holy most Just and Righteous most Good and Gracious The following Scriptures will Confirm your Belief of the Truth of this viz. St. John 4.24 God is a Spirit St. Luke 24 39. A Spirit hath not flesh and bones Exod 34. v. 6 7. The Lord passed by and proclaimed his Name the Lord God gracious and merciful long-suffering abundant in Goodness and Truth 2. That there is but one true and ever-living God who being Oone in Nature is yet Three in Person namely the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost each Person having his proper Part and Office in the Salvation of lost Sinners namely the Father as the Original and Fountain the Son as the Manager and Transacter of it and the Holy Ghost as the Applier and Sealer of it See the following Scriptures Deut. 6.4 The Lord thy God is one Lord 1 John 5.7 There are three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these Three are One St. John 15.26 But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father even the Spirit of truth which preceedeth from the Father he shall Testifie of me Eph. 4.30 Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed unto the Day of Redemption 3. That this ever-living and only living Lord God by his Almighty Power and Infinite Wisdom Created the World and all things therein out of nothing and by his effectual Providence doth sustain and preserve them in being and doth likewise govern and dispose of all things to his own glory Nehem. 9. v. 6. Thou art Lord alone who hast made the Heavens and the Heaven of Heavens with all their host the Earth and all things that are therein and thou preservest them all II. Concerning Man We are to Know and Believe 1. That Almighty God Created Man Adam after his own Image which consisted in Knowledge Righteousness and true Holiness giving him an holy Law for the Rule of his Obedience with Power to keep it and a Promise of Life upon Condition of keeping it see Gen. 1.27 So God created Man in his own Image in the Image of God created he him Eccles 7.29 This only have I found that God made man Upright 2. That Man Adam being Created in an Holy State yet in a mutable Condition and under a possibility of falling being tempted by Satan and left to the freedom of his own Will did actuall fall from his Estate of Innocency and Integrity into a State of Sin and Misery Gen. 3.6 And when the Woman saw that the Tree was good for Food and pleasant to the Eye she took thereof and did Eat and gave also unto her Husband and he did eat Eccles 7.29 God hath made Man upright but he hath found out many Inventions 3. That by reason of Man's Fall his Nature is wholly Corrupted with Original Sin which is the Seed and Root of all other Sins derived upon us by Natural Generation whereby we are disabled to that which is spiritually Good and inclined to that which is Evil and sinful Gen. 5.3 And Adam begat a Son in his own likeness after his Image Psal 51.5 Behold I was shapen in-iniquity and in sin did my Mother conceive me Rom. 8. v. 8. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God 4. That every Man doth further fall into manifold Actual Sins in the daily Course of his Life transgressing every one of God's holy Commandments either in Thought Word or Deed see Eccles 7. v. 20. There is not a just Man upon Earth that doeth good and sinneth not Rom. 3. v. 10 23. There is not one righteous man no not one for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God 5. That the Punishment due to every sin is Death and Hell all Miserie 's Temporal Spiritual and Eternal Rom. 6.23 The Wages of Sin is Death 2 Thes 1.9 They shall be punished with everlasting Destruction from the Presence of the Lord and from the glory of his Power 6. That Almighty God pitying the deplorable Misery of our fallen Estate has found out a Way and appointed a Means for our Deliverance from the Power and Punishment of Sin by a Mediator and Redeemer Titus 3. v. 4 5 6. After that the Kindness and Love of God our Saviour towards Man appeared according to his Mercy he saved us by the washing of Regeneration and Renewing of the Holy Ghost III. Concerning Christ the Mediator between God and Man We ought to Know and Believe 1. That Jesus Christ the Eternal Son of God the second Person in the Trinity is the only Redeemer of lost Man and the only Mediator betwixt God and Man from whom alone we are to expect Life and Salvation 1 Tim. 2.5 There is one God and one Mediator betwixt God and Man the Man Christ Jesus Acts 4.12 Neither is there Salvation in any other for there is no other Name given under Heaven by whom we must be saved 2. That Jesus Christ our Redeemer was both God and Man having two Natures in one Person a Divine Nature as he was God and an Humane Nature as Man in which Humane Nature he suffered for Sinners and in his Divine Nature satisfied the Justice of God for sin Acts 20.28 Feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own Blood Heb. 10. v. 10. By the which Will we are sanctified thro' the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all 3. That Christ our Redeemer having taken upon him our Nature lived here upon Earth about three and thirty Years and did in our stead and for our sin give full Satisfaction to the Justice of his Father by enduring most grievous Torments in his Soul and by undergoing most painful Sufferings in Body was Crucified Dyed and was Buryed and by his Death did Conquer Sin and Satan Death and Hell Read the 26th and 27th Chapters of St Matthew which give a large Account of our Saviour's Sufferings 4. That Jesus Christ on the third Day Arose again from the Dead with the same Body in which he suffered with which Body also he Ascended into Heaven and sitteth there at the right hand of his Father to intercede for us and by his Intercession in Heaven making Application of that Redemption which he wrought on Earth from whence at the End of the World he shall come again to Judg both Men and Devils and to determine their Final and Eternal State see Rom.

hinder your Attention For it shews a vile esteem that we have of the Word of God when we give place ordinarily to wandring Thoughts and a drowsie Eye in the hearing of it 'T is said of Lydia Acts 16.14 That the Lord opened her heart that she amended to the Word which was spoken of Paul Observe First her heart was opened then her Ear from whence I gather that the great reason of Persons not attending to the Ministry of the Word is a defect in their Hearts where the heart is open the Ear will not be shut Oh what great Vanity of Mind and Levity of Spirit does it argue in Men to yield a far greater attention at the hearing of a News-Book than when a Message from God is deliver'd to them even a Message of Life or Death 3. Hear the Word of God Retentively Labour to remember and hold fast what thou hearest To this the Apostle adviseth Heb. 2.1 Let us give the more earnest heed unto the things which are spoken lest at any time we should let them slip Many complain of the weakness of their Memory they cannot remember the Word as they desire let such take the following advice viz. Labour for a full and clear Understanding of the matter delivered The clearer Apprehension we have of Truths in our Understanding the firmer Impression will they make upon our Memories Ignorance is one of the greatest hindrances to Memory Again Labour to excite and quicken and stir up and awaken your affections of Desire and Delight in and towards the Word of God David says Psal 119. I delight in thy Precepts I will not forget thy Word We also find it true by common observation that passage in a Sermon is best Remembred by us which did most Affect us But especially if you would Remember what you hear be much in the present Meditation of the Word you have heard The Word Preached is compared to Seed sown now the Meditation is the Harrow that covers this Seed This must be used as speedily as we can after we have been under the Ordinance otherwise Satan the Bird of Prey which follows God's Plough will steal away the precious Seed out of our Hearts 4. Hear the good Word of God Applyingly Make a particular and close Application of the Truths thou hearest to thy own Soul It is observable that the Word of God is compared in Scripture to such things as do require a close and immediate Application as to Seed which brings forth no Increase as it lies in the Chamber but when cast into the Furrows of the Field to Bread which nourishes not when standing upon the Table but when applied to the Stomach to Rain which fructifies not when bringing in the Clouds but when drunk in by the thirsty Earth This was the reason why St. Peter's Sermon met with such Success why so many Thousand Souls were Converted by it Every Hearer applied what was spoken to himself They said Men and Brethren what shall we do Acts 2. v. 37. Application is not only the Life of Preaching but of Hearing also 5. Hear the Word of God Believingly All the want of Success which the Preaching of the Word meets with proceeds from Unbelief Heb. 4.2 The word Preached did not profit not being mixed with Faith in them that heard it There is a mutual Relation betwixt Faith and the Word No Faith without the Word it comes by Hearing and no profiting by the Word without Faith The Word fighteth boldly and worketh miraculously under Faith's Banner it is the power of God unto Salvation but only to them that believe Faith in the Precept causeth Subjection Faith in the Threatnings causeth Humiliation Faith in the Promises worketh Consolation Were the Threatnings and Promises which are daily Preached duly Believed what a mighty Influence would they have upon the Lives of Men The Threatnings would affright us from Sin and the Promises allure us to Duty 6. Hear the Word of God Meekly Take heed of Anger and Passion either against the Message or Messengers of God Many Sinners are Angry when the Word reproves them for their Sins and threatens them for their Abominations 2 Chron. 16.10 Asa was wroth with the Prophet put him in Prison and was in a rage with him If such Rage was found in a Good and Holy Man whose Heart was perfect with the Lord his God what Fury and Indignation may we conceive oft-times to boil in a wicked Man's Breast when his Sins are Discovered Reproved Condemned and Threatned by the Ministry of the Word And therefore St. James gives Advice to receive with meekness the ingrafted Word Ch. 1.21 Consider Oh Sinners how unreasonable and unjust thy Anger and Displeasure is when thy Sins are Reproved by the Ministry of the Word either thou must be angry with the Messenger or with him that sends the Message to be angry with the Messenger is unreasonable for God will Reprove him if he neglect to Reprove thee thy Blood shall be required at his hands and to be displeased with the Message is unjust For wilt thou impudently break and violate the Law of God and not endure to be told of thy Faults If you say that this Preaching of the Terrours and Threatnings of the Law is the ready way to drive Men to Despair I reply That 't is not the Hearing but the Rejecting of Reproof that lays Men open to Despair Peter received our Saviour's Reproof and Repented Judas Rejected Christ's Reproof and that drives him to Despair and next to the Halter he went and hanged himself St. Matth. 27.5 7. Above all Hear the Word of God Practically When the Minister's Duty is done the Hearer's Work begins He heareth a Sermon best who practiseth it most This practical Hearing of the Word will Evidence thee to be an Understanding Hearer Psal 111. ult A good Understanding have all they that do thy Commandments It will Evidence thee to be a Retentive Hearer because this practising is the end of our Remembring it will Evidence thee a Believing Hearer who Believed Moses his Word concerning the Plague of Hail but they that made their Cattel flee out of the Field into their Houses Who are they that Believe the Threatnings of the Word but such as upon the Denunciation of the Threatnings do fly from the Wrath to come Oh Christian do not only hear and admire but hear and amend obey from the heart the Form of Doctrine deliver'd to thee and then thou art blessed in thy Deed. To excite thee hereunto consider First That this Practical hearing of the Word glorifies the Word and God in the Word above all to come to the Word without any desire or design to Glorifie God by it is the height of Prophaneness to pretend and not to do it is the depth of Hypocrisie The Apostle begs Prayer 2 Thess 3.1 That the Word of the Lord may have a free course and be Glorified When is God glorified but when his Word is Believed Entertained Practised