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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63668	A choice manual containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or prayed for; the prayers being fitted to the several days of the week. Also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church. Composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons, by Jeremy Taylor, D.D.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662. Guide for the penitent: or, A modell drawn up for the help of a devout soul wounded with sin.	1677 (1677)	Wing T292; ESTC R219156	74,175	230

humbly patiently charitably and diligently served thee change this robe into the shining garment of immortality my confusion into glory my folly to perfect knowledge my weaknesses and dishonours to the strength and beauties of the Sons of God V. IN the mean time use what means thou pleasest to conform me to the image of thy holy Son that I may be gentle to others and severe to my self that I may sit down in the lowest place striving to go before my brother in nothing but in doing him and the honour staying for my glory till thou shalt please in the day of recompences to reflect light from thy face and admit me to behold thy glories Grant this for Jesus Christ's sake who humbled himself to the death and shame of the Cross and is now exalted unto glory Unto him with thee O Father be glory and praise for ever and ever Amen For Monday A Prayer against Covetousness I. O Almighty God eternal Treasure of all good things thou fillest all things with plenteousness Thou clothest the lilies of the field and fecdest the young ravens that call upon thee Thou art all-sufficient in thy self and all-sufficient to us Let thy providence be my store-house my dispensation of temporal things the limit of my labour my own necessity the measures of my desire but never let my desires of this world be greedy nor my labour immoderate nor my care vexatious and distracting but prudent moderate holy subordinate to thy Will the measure thou hast appointed for me II. TEach me O God to despise the world to labour for the true riches to seek the Kingdom of Heaven and its Righteousness to be content with what thou providest to be in this world like a stranger with affections set upon Heaven labouring for and longing after the possessions of thy Kingdom but never suffer my affections to dwell below but give me a heart compassionate to the poor liberal to the needy open and free in all my communications without base ends or greedy designs or unworthy arts of gain but let my strife be to gain thy favour to obtain the blessedness of doing good to others and giving to them that want and the blessedness of receiving from thee pardon and support grace and holiness perseverance and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. For Tuesday A Prayer against Lust. I. O Eternal Purity thou art brighter than the Sun purer than the Angels and the Heavens are not clean in thy sight with mercy behold thy servant apt to be tempted with every object and to be overcome by every enemy I cannot O God stand in the day of battel and danger unless thou coverest me with thy shield and hidest me under thy wings The fiery darts of the Devil are ready to consume me unless the dew of thy grace for ever descend upon me Thou didst make me after thine image be pleased to preserve me so pure and spotless chast and clean that my body may be a holy Temple and my Soul a Sanctuary to entertain thy divinest Spirit the Spirit of love and holiness the Prince of Purities II. REprove in me the spirit of Fornication and Uncleanness and fill my Soul with holy fires that no strange fire may come into the Temple of my body where thou hast chosen to dwell O cast out all those unclean spirits which have unhallowed the place where thy holy feet have trod pardon all my hurtful thoughts all my impurities that I who am a member of Christ may not become the member of an harlot nor the slave of the Devil nor a servant of lust and unworthy desires but do thou purifie my love and let me seek the things that are above hating the garments spotted with the flesh never any more grieving the holy spirit by filthy inclinations with impure and phantastick thoughts but let my thoughts be holy my Soul pure my body chast and healthful my spirit severe devout and religious every day more and more that at the day of our appearing I may be presented to God washed and cleansed pure and spotless by the blood of the holy Lamb through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen For Wednesday A Prayer against Gluttony and Drunkenness I. O Almighty Father of Men and Angels who hast of thy great bounty provided plentifully for all mankind to support his state to relieve his necessities to refresh his sorrows to recreate his labours that he may praise thee and rejoice in thy mercies and bounty be thou gracious unto thy servant yet more and suffer me not by my folly to change thy bounty into sin thy grace into wantonness Give me the spirit of temperance and sobriety that I may use thy creatures in the same measures and to the same purposes which thou hast designed so as may best enable me to serve thee but not to make provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof Let me not as Esau prefer meat before a blessing but subdue my appetite subjecting it to reason and the grace of God being content with what is moderate and useful and easie to be obtained taking it in due time receiving it thankfully making it to minister to my body that my body may be a good instrument of the Soul and the Soul a Servant of thy Divine Majesty for ever and ever II. PArdon O God in whatsoever I have offended thee by meat and drink and pleasures and never let my body any more be oppressed with loads of sloth and delicacies or my Soul drowned in Seas of wine or strong drink but let my appetites be changed into spiritual desires that I may hunger after the food of Angels and thirst for the wine of elect Souls and may account it meat and drink and pleasure to do thy will O God Lord let me eat and drink so that my food may not become a temptation or a sin or a disease but grant that with so much caution and prudence I may watch over my appetite that I may in the strength of thy mercies and refreshments in the light of thy countenance and in the paths of thy Commandments walk before thee all the days of my life acceptable ot thee in Jesus Christ ever advancing his honour and being filled with his Spirit that I may at last partake of his glory through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For Thursday A Prayer against Envy I. O Most gracious Father thou Spring of an eternal Charity who hast so loved mankind that thou didst open thy bosom and send thy holy Son to convey thy mercies to us and thou didst create Angels and Men that thou mightest have objects to whom thou mightest communicate thy goodness Give me grace to follow so glorious a precedent that I may never envy the prosperity of any one but rejoyce to honor him whom thou honourest to love him whom thou lovest to commend the vertuous to discern the precious from the vile giving honour to whom honour belongs that I may go to Heaven in the

Flatter not the rich neither do thou willingly or lightly appear before great Personages Never be partaker with the persecutors It is easier and safer and more pleasant to live in obedience than to be at our own disposing Always yield to others when there is cause for that is no shame but honour but it is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish or weak argument on resolution The talk of worldly affairs hindereth much although recounted with a fair intention we speak wllingly but seldom return to silence TUESDAY the Third Decad WAtch and pray lest your time pass without profit or fruit But devout discourses do greatly further our spiritual progress if persons of one mind and spirit be gathered together in God We should enjoy more peace if we did not busie our selves with the words and deeds of other men which appertain not to our charge He that esteem's his progress in Religion to consist in exteriour Observances his devotion will quickly be at an end but to free your selves of passions is to lay the axe to the root of the tree and the true way of peace It is good that we sometimes be contradicted and ill thought of and that we always bear it well even when we deserve to be well spoken of Perfect peace and security cannot be had in this world All the Saints have profited by tribulations and they that could not bear temptations became reprobates and fell from God Think not all is well within when all is well without or that thy being pleas'd is a sign that God is pleas'd but suspect every thing that is prosperous unless it promotes Piety and Charity and Humility Do no evil for no interest and to please no man for no friendship and for no fear God regards not how much we do but from how much it proceeds He does much that loves much Patiently suffer that from others which thou canst not mend in them until God please to do it for thee and remember that thou mend thy self since thou art so willing others should not offend in any thing Every man's vertue is best seen in adversity and temptation WEDNESDAY The fourth Decad. BEgin every day to repent not that thou shouldst at all defer it or stand at the door but because all that is past ought to seem little to thee becanse it is so in it self begin the next day with the same zeal and the same fear and the same humility as if thou hadst never begun before A little omission of any usual exercise of piety cannot happen to thee without some loss and considerable detriment even though it be upon a considerable cause Be not slow in common and usual acts of Piety and Devotion and quick and prompt at singularities but having first done what thou art bound to proceed to counsels and perfections and the extraordinaries of Religion as you see cause He that desires much to hear news is never void of passions and secular desires and adherences to the world Complain not too much of hinderances of Devotion If thou let men alone they will let thee alone and if you desire not to converse with them let them know it and they will not desire to converse with thee Draw not to thy self the affairs of others neither involve thy self in the suits and parties of great Personages Know that if any trouble happen to thee it is what thou hast deserved and therefore brought upon thy self But if any comfort come to thee it is a gift of God and what thou didst not deserve And remember that oftentimes when thy body complains of trouble it is not so much the greatness of trouble as littleness of thy spirit that makes thee to complain He that knows how to suffer any thing for God that desires heartily the Will of God may be done in him that studies to please others rather than himself to do the will of his Superior not his own that chuseth the least portion and is not greedy for the biggest that takes the lowest place and does not murmur secretly he is in the best condition and state of things Let no man despair of mercy or success so long as he hath life and health Every man must pass through fire and water before he can come to refreshment THURSDAY The fifth Decad. SOon may a man lose that by negligence which hath by much labour a long time and a mighty grace scarcely been obtain'd And what shall become of us before night who are weary so early in the morning Wo be to that man who would be at rest even when he hath scarcely a foot-step of holiness appearing in his conversation So think and so do as if thou wert to die to day and at night to give an account of thy whole life Beg not a long life but a good one for length of days often times prolongs the evil and augments the guilt It were well if that little time we live we would live well Entertain the same opinions and thoughts of thy sin and of thy present state as thou wilt in the day of sorrow Thou wilt then think thy self very miserable and very foolish for neglecting one hour and one day of thy Salvation Think so now and thou wilt be more provident of thy time and of thy talent For there will a time come when every careless man shall desire the respite of one hour for Prayer and Repentance and I know not who will grant it Happy is he that so lives that in the day of death he rejoyces and is not amazed He that would die comfortably may serve his ends by first procuring to himself a contempt of the would a fervent desire of growing in grace love of discipline a laborious repentance a prompt obedience self-denial and toleration of every cross accident for the love of Christ and a tender Charity While thou art well thou maies●… do much good if thou wilt but when●… thou art sick neither thou nor I can tel what thou shalt be able to do It is no●… very much nor very good Few me●● mend with sickness as there are but few●… who by travel and a wandering life become devout Be not troubled nor faint in the●… labours of mortification and the austerities of Repentance for in Hell one hour is more intollerable than a hundred years in the house of Repentance and try for if thou canst not endure God punishing thy follies gently for a while to amend thee how wilt thou endure his vengeance for ever to undo thee In thy Prayers wait for God and think not every hearty Prayer can procure every thing thou askest Those things which the Saints did not obtain without many prayers and much labour and showrs of tears and a long protracted watchfulness and industry do thou expect also in its own time and by its usual measures Do thou valiantly and hope confidently and wait patiently and thou shalt find thou wilt not be deceived Be careful thou dost not speak

Religion Lord have mercy c. Remember not O Lord our uncharitable behaviour ●…towards those with whom we have conversed our jealousies and suspitions our evil surmisings and evil reportings the breach of our promises to men and the breach of all our holy vows made to thee our God Lord have mercy c. Remember not O Lord how often we have omitted the several parts and actions of our duty for our sins of Omission are infinite and we have not sought after the Righteousness of God but have rested in carelesness and forgetfulness in a false peace and a silent Conscience Lord have mercy c. O most gracious Lord enter not into judgment with thy servants lest we be consumed in thy wrath and just displeasure from which Good Lord deliver us and preserve thy servants for ever II. For Deliverance from Evils FRom gross ignorance and stupid negligence from a wandring head and a trifling spirit from the violence and rule of passion from a servile will and a commanding lust from all intemperance inordination and irregularity whatsoever Good Lord deliver and preserve thy servants for ever From a covetous mind and greedy desires from lustful thoughts and a wanton eye from rebellious members and the pride and vanity of spirit from false opinions and ignorant confidences Good Lord deliver c. From improvidence and prodigality from envy and the spirit of slander from idleness and sensuality from presumption and despair from sinful actions and all vitious habits Good Lord deliver c. From fierceness of rage and hastiness of spirit from clamorous and reproachful language from peevish anger and inhumane malice from the spirit of contention and hasty and indiscreet zeal Good Lord deliver c. From a schismatical and heretical spirit from tyranny and tumults from sedition and factions from envying the Grace of God in our Brother from impenitence and hardness of heart from obstinacy and apostasie from delighting in sin and hating God and good men Good Lord deliver c. From fornication and adultery from unnatural desires and unnatural hatreds from gluttony and drunkenness from loving and believing lyes and taking pleasure in the remembrances of evil things from delighting in our Neighbour's misery and procuring it from upbraiding others and hating reproof of our selves Good Lord deliver c. From impudence and shame from contempt and scorn from oppression and cruelty from a pitiless and unrelenting spirit from a churlish behaviour and undecent usages of our selves or others Good Lord deliver c. From famine and pestilence from noisome and infectious deseases from sharp and intolerable pains from impatience and tediousness of spirit from a state of temptation and hardened consciences Good Lord deliver c. From banishment and prison from widowhood and want from violence of pains and passions from tempests and earthquakes from the rage of fire and water from Rebellion and Treason from fretfulness and inordinate cares from murmuring against God and disobedience to the Divine Commandment Good Lord deliver c. From delaying our rep●…ntance and persevering in sin from false principles and prejudices from un●…hankfulness and irreligion from seducing others and being abused our selves from the malice and craftiness of the Devil and the deceit and lyings of the World Good Lord deliver c. From wounds and murther from precipices and falls from fracture of bones and dislocation of joynts from dismembring our bodies and all infatuation of our Souls from folly and madness from uncertainty of mind and state and from a certainty of sinning Good Lord deliver c. From Thunder and lightning from phantasms Spectres and illusions of the night from sudden and great Changes from the snares of wealth and the contempt of beggery and extreme poverty from being made an example and a warning to others by suffering sad judgments our selves Good Lord deliver c. From condemning others and justifying our selves from misspending our time and abusing thy Grace from calling good evil and evil good from consenting to folly and tempting others Good Lord deliver c. From excess in speaking and peevish silence from looser laughing and immoderate weeping from giving evil example to others or following any our selves from giving or receiving scandal from the horrible sentence of endless death and damnation Good Lord deliver c. From cursing and swearing from uncharitable chiding and easiness to believe evil from the evil spirit that walketh at noon and the arrow that flieth in darkness from the Angel of wrath and perishing in popular diseases Good Lord deliver c. From the want of a Spiritual Guide from a famine of the Word and Sacramants from hurtful persecution and from taking part with persecutors Good Lord deliver c. From drowning or being burnt alive from sleepless nights and contentious days from a melancholick and a confused spirit from violent fears and the loss of reason from a vitious life and a sudden and unprovided death Good Lord deliver c. From relying upon vain fancies and false foundations from an evil and an amazed Conscience from sinning near the end of our life and from despairing in the day of our death Good Lord deliver c. From hypocrisie and wilfulness from self-love and vain ambition from curiosity and carelesnes from being tempted in the days of our weakness from the prevailing of the flesh and grieving the Spirit from all thy wrath and from all our sins Good Lord deliver c. III. For gifts and graces HEar our Prayer O Lord and consider our desire hearken unto us for thy truth and righteousness sake O hide not thy face from us neither cast away thy servants in displeasure Give unto us the spirit of Prayer frequent and fervent holy and persevering an unreprovable●… Faith a just and an humble Hope and a never-failing Charity Hear our Prayers O Lord and consider our desire Give unto us true humility a meek and a quiet spirit a loving and a friendly a holy and a useful conversation bearing the burthens of our neighbours denying our selves and studying to benefit others and to please thee in all things Hear our Prayers c Give us a prudent and a sober a just and a sincere a temperate and a religious spirit a great contempt of the world a love of holy things and a longing after Heaven and the instruments and paths that lead thither Hear our Prayers c Grant us to be thankful to our Bene factors righteous in performing promises loving to our relatives careful of our charges to be gentle and easie to be intreated slow to anger and fully instructed and readily prepared for every good work Hear our Prayers c. Give us a peaceable spirit and a peaceable life free from debt and deadly sin grace to abstain from appearances of evil and to do nothing but what is of good report to confess Christ and his holy Religion by a holy and obedient life and a mind ready to die for him when he shall