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A threefold alphabet of rules concerning Christian practice the first precept of every letter concerning duty towards God, the second towards our neighbor, the third towards our selves : gathered at a friends request in this order, for the helping of the memory.
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Lawful Promises with Men your Faith and Truth must kiss each other in Christian Conversation Prov. 4. 23. 3. Keep out wandering Worldly thoughts as much as possible that you may be narrowly Watching your Heart for such as your suffer to be such will be your words deeds and whole Conversation L. 1. LOve all things for Gods sake and 1. God only for his own and look you make him your friend whosoever be your Enemy for it this you shall do if as an obedient Child you live in the eye of your Heavenly Father 2. Look upon the Lives and Behaviors of the Wicked to avoid them of the Godly to imitate them upon the Life and Death of them both as also your own not far off to make you loath this World long after the Life to come 3. Let your Meat Apparel Recreation be Lawful Needful and Moderate Luk. 21. 34. Rom. 13. 13. M. 1. MAke not mention of God or any Word or Work of his but with fear and reverence nor of any Man but with Love and Carefulness using his Name as you would have him to use yours Deut. 28. 5. 8. Mat. 7. 12 2. Mark other Mens profiting in Religion to provoke your self their slip to make your self more wary their risings to be thankful to God for them 3. Meditate often upon the four last things 1. Death 2. Judgment 3. Heaven 4. Hell N. 1. NEver make show of more Holiness outwardly then inwardly you have in your Heart with God â—eeth in which he desireth truth nor please your self with your unprofitableness unfitness or unwillingness to good Rom. 12. 2. No Man is owner but steward of that he hath you must therefore impart of the Blessings you have to those that stand in need wisely heartily and in due season 3. Note your own special corruptions whether they grow stronger or weaker and how your self can resist them and if any assault you more strongly Pray and make the matter known to God the best way for a Woman solicited to folly to be rid of the tempter is to tell her Husband Cor. 11. 28. Rom. 12 12. O. 1. OFten speak to the Praise of God never of your self for other things because many words want not iniquity speak as few as you can or rather none then unprofitable Prov 27. 2. and 10. 19. 2. Open not your Mouth to speak of other Mens infirmities especially behind them nor before them without Grief and Sorrow Jam. 1. 19. Psal 15. 3. 3. Of every Idle word account must be given and much more of every wicked word and therefore let your Speech be gratious pondered with Salt and tending to Edification Mat. 12. 36. Col. 4. 6. P. 1. PRaise the Lord for every new Benefit bestowed and then by it promote his Glory the Churches good and your own Salvation esteeming of Graces Given as spurs to godliness and pledges of eternal Life Thes 5. 18. 2. Prevent anger before it kindle it is Wisdom to quench the least sparkle of fire before it begins to flame consider 1. the Original of Anger being pride or self Love 2. the cursed Fruits by giving place to the Devil 3. Gods patience 4. Gods image in your Brother 4. your own Weakness in the same Guide 6. the wrong is not remedied by Revenge but inlarged nor the wrong Doer amended but imitated Eccle. 7. 9. Prov. 4. 17. 3. Prepare your self for Death and pull out his sting by 1. Bewailing time past 2. Turning to God in time to come 3. Proposing a new Life none can Die ill that have had a care to live well but if you Die well doubt not but you shall do better Cor. 15. 56. Q. 1. QUiet your Heart and be still under the correcting Hand of God because 1. he doth it 2. for your best 3. he will moderate it 4. supply Strength 5. seasonably deliver out of it Psal 39 9 2. Question not whether they should do you good or you they first It is Praise worthy to be first in well doing and if you do good to your Enemies your reward is with God Mat. 5. 44. Rom. 12. 20. 3. Quench not the Spirit not suffer any good Motion arising in your Heart to pass away but feed it by Reading Meditation Prayer and Practice Thes 5. 19 R 1. REad daily something of Gods Book for the encrease of knowledge and conscience And ad hereto Meditation and Prayer For these three saith Luther make a Divine All time thus spent is well Redeemed As for lascivious and idle Books shunn them as Rocks Psal. 12. Deut. 6. 6. 2. Rejoyce in the good you know by another Praise God for it pray for the encrease of it But if you know any Evil by any Mourn for it and if you can by Brotherly admonition Amend it 3. Refrain your Ears Eyes Mouth and Hands from hearing seeing speaking or performing any Wicked or Vaine thing knowing that Death often entreth in at the Windows Job 31. 1. Psal 119. 37. S. 1. STick to God as well in Adversity as Prosperity the one being as Necessary as the other If you want Necessaries humble your self for them If you have them Be humble with them and use them well least you Forfeit them Jam. 1. 2. 2. Seek reconciliation with your Neighbour freely forgiving those that have offended you and Earnestly desiring to be forgiven of all that have been Offended by you Mat. 5. 23. Psal 35. 14. 3. Study to approve both your Heart to God and your Life to Gods Children in your particular Calling and Especially to such As to whom God hath joyned you As if a Servant in Obeying If a Master in ruling If a Husband in loving If a Wife reverence for a good Conscience a good Name and good Manners must go together Mat. 23. 25. Jer 7.9.10 Ephes. 5. 23. and 6. 5 6. T. 1. TAke heed of performing wholy Duties for fashions sake or without feeling and profit For this is Hypocrisie or Profaineness Heb. 3. 12. Isa 1. 11. Mat. 15. 8. 9. 2. Thankfully requite at least with 1. Acknowledgement 2. Hearty affection 3. Prayer the good you get by any Man For their is no Member in the Body but 1. standeth in need of other mens Gifts Rom 1. 12 and 12. 10. 1. Cor. 12. 25 26. 3. Think it the greatest thing in the World to Die well Which to do you must Inure your self to die before hand 1. By dying to your Sins 2 leaving the World in affection before it Actually leave you in your last leaving of it do it willingly yea joyfully whensover wheresoever or howsoever God shall call you U. 1. VOw to God and keep it especially strive in performing the Solemn vow of your Baptism and the Covenant which you renew in the Lords Supper Eccles. 5. 34. Psal 16 14. 2. Variance and Discord with Men will not stand with your Peace with God if you love God you will love Men also for Gods Image or else for his Commandment sake 1. John 4 10. 3. Use the World as not using of it and your prosperity and liberty to be Bettered by them that is not gained that it gotten with the loss of your Soul and then is the Soul Exchanged with one handful of the World When it is not gotten and held 1. In Christ restoring it 2. In Christ the chief gain 3. For Christ the Lord of it 1. Cor. 7. 31. Mat. 16. 26. W. 1. WAit upon the Lord and he will direct your way become his Servant for this is the way to Attain your truest Liberty Psal. 37. 7. 2. Weep with them that weep and Fellow feel the Afflictions of the Brethren that are in the World Christ in Heaven accounteth the sufferings of his Saints his own and we his Members upon Earth must do the same Religion and Mercy are well matched by God and must not by Man be divorced as for the Miseries and Sins of the Age wherein you live mourn also for them And pray to God for remedy Rom. 1. 15. Jer. 13. 1. Psal 69. 9. 3. Wish not a long Life so much as a good Life He hath lived long who hath lived well A short Life in Grace settleth into the Everlasting Life of Glory LONDON Printed for William Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-street at the Corner of Ivy Lane