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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29188	The poor man's help being, I. An abridgement of Bishop Pearson on the Creed; shewing what he is to believe. II. A short exposition of the Lord's Prayer, directing him what to beg of God. III. The Ten Commandments explain'd; teaching him his duty both to God and man. With some additional helps for his private devotion.	Bralesford, Humphrey, 1658-1733.	1689 (1689)	Wing B4209; ESTC R216294	21,939	63

THE Poor Man's Help BEING I. An Abridgement of Bishop Pearson on the Creed shewing What he is to Believe II. A short Exposition of the Lord's Prayer directing him What to Beg of GOD. III. The Ten Commandments Explain'd teaching him his Duty both to GOD and Man. With Some Additional Helps for his Private Devotion The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill to set them among Princes and to make them inherit the Throne of Glory 1 Sam. 2. 7 8. London Printed for R. Clavell at the Peacock in Paul's Church-Yard 1689. TO THE PARISHIONERS OF St. Mildred's IN THE City of CANTERBURY My Friends COnsidering how convenient and beneficial little Books are for such as cannot reach the Price of bigger I here present you with an Explication of the Creed Lord's-Prayer and Ten Commandments as small as the Subject will permit And being that in my Iudgment the Creed cannot be better or shorter Paraphras'd than the most Learned and Iudicious Prelate Dr. Pearson has done it I have transcribed mine from thence that those most sound and necessary Truths might not be confined to those alone who are able to purchase that most Learned Work. And that the meanest capacity might not lose the Knowledge of such a safe and wholesome Exposition I have changed the more Eloquent and Difficult Words for such as are more Plain and Obvious The Lord's-Prayer is the same in Substance that I delivered to you Three Years ago when I Catechized the Children which I have now Expounded in the Form of a Prayer that the Poor Man may upon any pressing occasion know how to Express himself at large upon any Petition The Precepts of the first Table you know I Expounded to you all the last Summer till Advent the Heads of which bating the Points in Controversy I here present you with And those of the second I shall in due time Treat of if God prosper my Studies in the mean while to compleat the Exposition I here give you the Substance of them And being that in several Discourses immediately after Christmas last I did press the necessity of a daily Service to God from the Words of Zacharias Luk. 1.74 75. I have added a short Morning and Evening Form to be used before and after your daily Work A Prayer against the Temptation of the Flesh to any particular Sin to keep your Bodies in subjection to your Reason Another for your use in the time of Sickness And when at other times you shall have particular occasion for other Services I have given a short Direction where to be furnished in the Psalms And this I did not to hinder any that are able from buying Books of more peculiar use but to comply with the necessities of those that are not of which I am very sensible there is too great a number I had no other inducement to meddle with this but my Charity to the Souls of the Poor for whom Christ died as well as for the Rich And if hereby I shall gain but one Soul I shall thank God for making me an Instrument of so much good And if none be better'd by it yet I have this satisfaction that I have endeavoured for God's sake and your own to shew my self Your Affectionate Pastor and Servant Hump. Bralesford The Poor Man's Help OR A SHORT DIRECTION What he is to Believe The Creed I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord who was Conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Uirgin Mary Suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead and Buried He descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the Dead he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the Quick and the Dead I believe in the Holy Ghost the Holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the Forgiveness of Sins the Resurrection of the Body and the Life everlasting Amen Article I. I believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth ALthough these Articles of my Faith which are contained in the Creed are not apparent to my sense though they are not of themselves evident to my understanding nor appear true to me by any Natural or Necessary Cause yet being they are contained in the Scriptures the Writings of the Blessed Apostles and Prophets being that those Apostles and Prophets were Endued with miraculous Power from above and immediately inspired by the Holy Ghost and consequently what they delivered was the Word of GOD and not of Man being that GOD is of such universal Holiness and infinite Wisdom that it is impossible he should be deceived of that perfect Holiness that it is not imaginable he should intend to deceive me and consequently what he has delivered for a Truth must be necessarily and infallibly true I readily and stedfastly assent unto them as most certain Truths and am fully and absolutely and more concernedly perswaded of them than of any thing I see and know And because that God who has reveal'd them has done it not for my benefit alone but for the advantage of others nor for that alone but also for the Manifestation of his own Glory being that for these Ends he has Commanded me to profess them and hath promised an Eternal Redemption upon my Profession of them being that every particular person is to expect the Justification of himself and the Salvation of his Soul upon the Condition of his own Faith As with a certain and full perswasion I assent unto them so with a fixed and undaunted Resolution I will profess them and with this Faith in my Heart and Confession in my Mouth to the whole body of the Creed and to every Article and Part of it I sincerely readily and resolvedly say I believe I believe in God. Forasmuch as the Eternal Power and Godhead is made known by all the things that are Created and the dependency of the Creatures proves That there must be an infinite Being that depends on nothing whereas all things are made for some End and all their Operations are directed to it though they cannot understand the Reason why they are and why they work therefore both their Creation and their Work must be guided by some Universal and Over-ruling Wisdom Seeing that God is not only revealed in his Creatures but has frequently declar'd his Deity by most infallible Predictions and supernatural Operations therefore I freely acknowledge clearly profess and fully Believe that there is a God. Again seeing that there is one Being that depends upon nothing that does suppose that all other Beings must depend upon it seeing that the intire Fountain of all Perfections cannot have a double Head and the most perfect Order of the World declares the supream Dominion of one absolute Lord upon this Account I believe

against me yet a stedfast and true Faith in Christ Jesus shall Triumph over it Vouchsafe O God that Faith unto thy Servant that I may be enabled by the fellowship of his Death and Resurrection to Crucify the old Man and Mortify the whole body of sin Make me strong O God in the Power of his Might that all the days of my Life I may be defended from all adversities and in the evil day the day of my death strengthned in the inner Man That having finished my course I may with those that have overcome through the Blood of the Lamb arrive at those Blessed Mansions that thou hast prepared for all those that fight the good fight of Faith. Grant that in the hopes of that I may victoriously fight under my Saviour's Banner against all the assaults of Sin the World and the Devil Hear me O Lord in these my requests for Jesus Christ his sake in whose Name and Words I further Pray as he hath taught me saying Our Father which art c. A Prayer to be said in time of Sickness O Most Gracious Merciful Father thou Lord of Life and Death in whose hands is the power of Sickness and Health Thou who woundest and healest whom thou wilt Unto thee O God I commit my self beseeching thee for thy love in Christ Jesus to be merciful unto me O my God I confess that I have many ways offended thee and provoked thy wrath and indignation against me but as I have been disobedient so now I return Penitent and heartily Submissive Remember O Lord that I am but dust and let not thy Spirit strive with me seeing thou hast promised that at what time soever a sinner does Repent from the bottom of his heart he shall live and not die Fulfill this Gracious word unto thy servant that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice My Flesh O Lord drieth up my Strength fails me and my Life draweth near to an end in all this thou art Just in chastiseing my disobedience and Merciful in not suffering me to run on any longer in the course of my sins and without such Fatherly admonitions how prone are we to forget thee O Lord I am comforted when I remember that thou lovest every Son whom thou Chastenest and scourgest every Son whom thou dost receive that when we receive correction God dealeth with us as with sons and if we be without it whereof all are partakers then we are bastards and not sons Lord I believe all this help thou mine unbelief I see that Iob Daniel Hezekiah and all thy holy Children have drunk of the cup that thou hast made their bed easy in their sickness and delivered their Souls out of trouble I therefore hope that as I am made partaker of their sufferings I shall also be a partaker of their Comfort and Refreshing O Lord let the Meditation of these and such like examples be always present with me and make me firmly believe that I shall receive the like deliverance as they did Add unto that Faith Patience that I may quietly undergoe whatever thy hand shall lay upon me and may receive this thy Fatherly chastisement with thanksgiving knowing that though this outward man perish yet the inward man shall be in the hands of its most faithful Creatour O Lord the Spirit is willing to be dissolved and to be with Christ but the flesh is weak pardon the weakness of my flesh and forgive the infirmities of my froward Nature which looks back to the world and is loath to be separated but fills me with impatience and murmuring Strengthen me with Faith which is the Victory whereby I shall overcome the world strengthen me with Patience wherein thy children possess their Souls strengthen me with Hope which is the true and firm Anchor of the Soul and strengthen me by thy Comfortable Promises in Christ Jesus my Lord and Saviour that thus I may wait for the Issue of thy Gracious Providence that if I live I may live to thy Glory if I die I may die in thy Favour receive the end of my Hope Patience and Faith which is the Salvation of my Soul in thy Everlasting Kingdom of Glory through Jesus Christ my only Saviour and Redeemer in whose Name and Words I conclude these my weak Prayers for whatever thou seest convenient for me saying Our Father which art c. TO THE READER Christian Reader AS Man is subject to many alterations and changes in his Actions so he has need of different forms of Devotion suitable to every Case that he shall happen to be in but because I will not swell this little Book beyond the reach of the poor man's pocket for whose use I design it therefore I direct thee to the Prophet David a Person who had variety of Turns in his Life and has expressed himself to God in such Excellent and Proper Words as nothing but the Spirit of God could inspire into his mind Read therefore these following Psalms frequently over and thou wilt the more readily know which of them best suit thy present Circumstances Psalms of Prayer against Spiritual and Temperal Enemies are the 3. 5. 6. 12. 13. 17. 21. 31. 35. 38. 44. 51. 64. 69. 70. 74. 77. 79. 84. 86. 88. 90. 130. 139. 140. 141. 142. 145. Psalms of Thanksgiving for Deliverance from them are the 8. 9. 30. 66. 67. 75. 81. 92. 96. 98. 100. 103. 106. 113. 116. 117. 124. 138. 144. 145. 146. 147. 148. 149. 150. Psalms of Comfort in Trouble are the 11. 27. 37. 40. 42. 46. 56. 63. 73. 85. 93. 94. 102. 107. 118. FINIS Advertisement Books Printed for Robert Clavell THE Reflections of the Reverend and Learned Mounsieur Jurieu upon the Strange and Miraculous Ecstasies of Isabel Vincent the Shepherdess of Saou in Dauphine to which is added a Letter of a Gentleman in Dauphine containing the Discourses and Prophecies of the Shepherdess The Golden Rule or the Royal Law of Equity Explained by the Reverend Dr. Goodman Advice to a young Gentleman for his more safe and profitable Conduct in three great Instances of Study Moral Deportment and Religion by a true Son of the Church of England A Finite Number is used for an Infinite