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A64572	A preservative of piety in a quiet reasoning for those duties of religion, that are the means and helps appointed of God for the preserving and promoting of godliness. Namely, I. Of four Christian-duties, viz. 1. Reading the Scriptures. 2. Preparation for the Lords Supper. 3. Estimation of the ministry. 4. Sanctification of the Lords-day-Sabbath. II. Of four family-duties, viz. 1. Houshold-catechising. 2. Family-prayer. 3. Repeating of sermons. 4. Singing of Psalms. With an epistle prefixt, to inform and satisfie the Christian reader, concerning the whole treatise. By William Thomas, rector of the church at Ubley in the county of Somerset.	Thomas, William, 1593-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing T988; ESTC R37887	203,614	274

theirs so in this Scripture and in the whole Scripture of the Old Testament whatsoever thing is Spiritual and of an Evangelical nature it belongeth to us as well as to them and may upon just accounts be more pressed on us then on them because it is our happiness to have more means for and therefore our duty to make further progress in all things appertaining to godliness It were very strange to say or think the Jews were to abstain from their own self-pleasing thoughts words and actions on their Sabbath and yet that Christians may think speak and do as they please on the Christian Sabbath What must the Sabbath be the Jews delight and not ours There is so much of Gospel in these things that a learned Divine saith What can be spoken more like then this is to the perfect Precepts of Christ This will further appear by what follows to be spoken 2. Of the Sabbath-duty as it is prescribed in way of Supposition vers 13. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath or as some render it for or because of the Sabbath that is If thou keep the Sabbath from polluting it as it is before chap. 56.2 to wit by doing any act treading any step unsutable to it and tending to the profanation of it as we find otherwhere the lifting up of ones hand and foot to be a Proverbial expression of enterprizing or attempting any thing Here the foot is named and in Isa. 56.2 the hand and both put together may shew that both hand and foot the great Instruments of action are to be kept for the Sabbath sake from doing any evil Ask therefore whatever thou art about Is this a fit walk or work for the Lords Sabbath day else Turn hand and foot from it What followeth will confirm this Exposition which is this From doing thy pleasure on my Holy-day that is any thing which pleaseth thy self and pleaseth not God on that day so that to turn away the foot is to keep from doing that is from doing any thing agreeable to our wills and not to Gods it 's true of things sinful which on that day are out of measure sinful but there is no cause to restrain it and apply it only to things sinful in themselves for the six dayes work is not so which yet the Commandement will have us to set aside There are divers things not evil in their nature which yet like the counsel of Ahitophel 2 Sam. 17.7 are not good at that time It is not enough that things done on that day be good for their matter but they must be some way or other for God whose day it is it must be his work and not a product of not a thing arising from and done for thine own pleasure one writing upon this saith Whatsoever shew of holiness there is in any work yet if thou aim at thy own commod●ty in it it is a servile work and violates the Sabbath of the Lord Every day but especially on the Lords day we should be like the Angels and those Ministers of his that do his pleasure Psal. 103.21 for then we wait on our Lord at his own appointed time It cannot be well therefore to do what we please our selves when we attend our Lord not on our working-day but on his Holy-day or the day of his Holiness But Negative holiness or to forbear evil is not enough it is further added and call the Sabbath a delight that is as one speaks making the holy things of that day our delight and exercising our selves about those delightsom things with delight of heart such as we see in David unto whom the Tabernacles of God were amiable and he most glad to go to Him and them Psal. 84.1 122.1 2 c. The meaning of this and the former part of the verse is well and plainly expressed thus If thou restrain thy foot on the Sabbath so as that thou do not whatsoever pleaseth thee and if thou take delight in keeping it according to the Law and Will of God calling it the holy that is the holy day of the Lord or a day consecrated unto him and therefore honourable or glorious As a man of God is an honourable man so is the day of God an honourable day Every day may be said to be glorious because a pleasant thing it is to the eyes to behold the Sun but this among other dayes is like Solomon's Queen among other honourable Women that is it excels in glory because on that day the Sun of Righteousness shines forth in his brightness that into our hearts in the use of Ordinances to give the light of the knowledg of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ so that our eyes may see the King in his beauty and so be our selves beautiful and shalt honour him that is by honouring it for when the holy things of God are profaned He is profaned whence it is said in the case of Eli his sons Them that honour me I will honour That which followeth is but a repeating of what went before yet so as that what was laid down in the former part of the verse more generally is laid forth in this later part more distinctly a law being laid on our wayes wills and words on the Lords Holy-day 1. On our wayes not doing thine own wayes for How is God honoured if we do what we list When Eli his sons would have and do what they pleased not observing Gods order in his own Institutions the Lords interpretation of it is a despising of him Now in proper spee●h we are said rather to go rhen to do our wayes but because by a mans wayes in Scripture and in our common speech also are meant mens actions and course of life therefore this fitly expresseth unto us that Gods mind is that we should not act according to our own minds nor do our own acts on Gods day I say on Gods day for albeit it be true that God binds us out from walking according to the world and the flesh any day yet speech being made here of a special day which God appropriateth unto himself therefore another interpretation seems more proper which is this not doing thine own ways that is not doing thy usual works On the six dayes we may do what we our selves have to do but on Gods day we must do what God hath for us to do All done on Gods day must be Gods not our own 2. On our wills not finding thine own pleasure or thine own will but the Hebrew word signifieth such a will as wherein there is a delight and complacency This is before applyed to the Fast and this reproved that on the day of their Fast they found their pleasure v. 3. And it is easily transfer'd and by the same reason applyed to the weekly Sabbath for howsoever the Fast was a day

Morning FAther of Mercies and God of all Comfort All thy works praise thee and thy Saints bless thee of that number we that are here before thee desire to be and therefore come into thy presence to acknowledge that all the good we have cometh from thee and therefore that all our praises are due unto thee Help us we beseech thee in an acceptable manner to pay this debt and to perform this duty of Thanksgiving wherein in the first place we wonder at the riches of thy free grace whereby thou hast been pleased from all Eternity to elect and choose a company of the sons and daughters of men for thine own portion fore-ordaining and appointing them to Grace here and to everlasting Glory in Heaven And we bless thee exceedingly for any testimony we have that we are in the number not only of the called which are many but of the chosen which are few We praise thee also for creating us after thine own Image and giving us life and breath for How could we have had an everlasting well-being hereafter if we had not had a being here But amongst and above all we give thee all possible thanks for that great and admirable work of Redemption wrought by the Lord Jesus Christ for the Salvation of Mankind utterly lost and undone in and by the sin of our first Parents whereupon it is come to pass that whereas at first we were made righteous now there is none righteous no not one but our Understandings are full of darkness our Consciences of deadness and defilement our Wills of perversness our Affections of distemper our Conversation of disorder yea every way we carry about with us naturally abundant matter of condemnation nor can Men or Angels help us but blessed be thy Name O God that thou hast been so pitiful and of so tender mercy as to lay help upon One that is mighty and that is able to save to the uttermost those that come unto God by him O How many be there that neither have nor hear of this mercy Great is thy goodness therefore which we do with all our hearts acknowledge that we live in thy Church and therein enjoy those lively Oracles and Ordinances wherein as all other truths necessary to Salvation are made known unto us so more especially the Doctrine and benefit of the great work of Redemption is fully revealed and freely offered and that with all powerful motives to perswade our hearts to accept of that gracious offer for our own good yet considering how many there are in the Church unto whom the Lord Jesus may say I would and ye would not we cannot but reckon it a singular favour that any grace is bestowed on any of us by the means of grace vouchsafed unto us and for any gratious change which thou hast wrought in us for it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure But besides all these our hearts are glad our glory rejoyceth and our tongues that should be our glory by setting forth thy glory do with all our hearts praise thee for the unconceiveable glory and happiness reserved in Heaven for all those who through the abundant mercy of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ are begotten again unto a lively hope through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead which assureth us that all is done and suffered which was necessary to keep us from being undone and to recover us unto a state of perfect blessedness Meanwhile we confess unto thy praise O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel how good thou art unto us even in this present evil world in that we have the benefit of our Understandings Senses and Members which divers want and of Health Liberty credit maintenance success in business recovery from sickness vouchsafed to us above many other of thy dear Servants We bless thee for preserving us in so many dangers for removing so many of our fears for granting so many of our desires and for not granting what we have desired amiss We praise thee for watching over us by thy good Providence from time to time in particular for the late mercy of the night past and the new mercy of the present morning for we are less then all thy mercies then a nights rest or a mornings refreshing yea our sin and unworthy walking before thee is such which here we freely confess unto thee as that it were just with thee that all thy favours should be turned into frowns and that thou shouldest do us hurt and consume us after thou hast done us good But with thee there is mercy that thou mayest be feared Let us have occasion to fear thee reverence thee and admire thee and to say Who is a God like unto thee how incomparably good is our God by pardoning the transgressions and continuing the comforts of such sinful and worthless creatures as we are Let it ever repent us O Lord of our ill dealing with thee but let it never repent thee of thy gratious dealing with us This day in special let thy goodness towards us appear in keeping us from any evil thing to which we shall be more inclined or more tempted and in making us ready to and able for every good word and work to which of our selves we shall be more unable indisposed and unprepared or wherein by tentation we shall be more hindred Guide us O Lord in the right way and therein Guard us let us undertake no business but what thou approvest and in that do thou bless and prosper us especially we humbly crave thy protection all the day in those works and wayes wherein there are more dangers and hazards Preserve us we beseech thee from vile and vain thoughts when we are alone from idle words when we are in company and from an empty carriage and unprofitable expence of time whether we be alone or in company And since thou hast appointed man to labour and the day to labour in Keep us we pray thee from idleness and neglect of our Callings from infidelity and depending on our labour and industry from discontent if we live hardly by it and from intemperance state-pride covetousness and worldly confidence if we thrive and prosper in it Let all our dealings through thy grace O God that art the God of all grace be just and equal without over-reaching and as there shall be occasion let us be charitable according to our ability without grudging And be pleased to set and keep our hearts in so good a frame that notwithstanding our worldly occasions We may be watchful to do and ready to receive any spiritual good and let our desire be to be in that company that will give occasion of both with the shunning not only of wicked but unprofitable Society Enable us we humbly pray thee to adorn our Profession by

God that hath taken away the sins of the World our many and great sins our day-sins and our night-sins may be so taken away that if they be sought they may not be found being removed from us as far as the East is from the West that so in all the sorrows of this world we may joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement Make us able we pray thee by thy grace to prove that our sins are forgiven because they are forsaken and that we have right to the promises of the Tree of Life because we do thy Commandements and walk sincerely in the duties of Christianity and of our particular Callings that thereby though we cannot procure yet we may assure our happiness and in that way of thine may come to be possessed of it That we may the better perform the duties belonging to us in our several places Help us we beseech thee to take heed both of Idleness and ill Company that are Enemies to Imployment And if we do labour diligently let us shew the power of godliness in not aiming at our own advantage and self-ends Set our hearts O God in so good a frame as that we may follow our business day by day in obedience to thy Word with respect to thy glory and to the doing of good to those that we live amongst and ought to be helpful unto For these ends and purposes we beg of thee as of a God Al-sufficient to preserve us from danger by thy Providence to enable us for what we are to do by thy power and to make all we do to thrive and prosper by thy blessing without which it is in vain to rise up early to sit up late and to eat the bread of sorrows Have a gracious respect we humbly pray thee unto all thine and ours according to all thy wisdom and goodness and according to all their need and occasions Be pleas'd to look with special favour upon the Churches of the Saints in all places especially in this and the neighbour-Nations Herein Pour forth thy choysest blessings on the head and thy choisest graces into the heart of the Kings Majesty with the rest of the Royal Family Furnish those with ability and fidelity that are in Authority in the State and that watch over the souls of thy people in the Church As for our selves and all that are under authority make us ever ready to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods Let thy fear O Lord be upon our hearts all the day long that walking conscionably as in thy presence we may present our selves comfortably before thee in the Evening with the sense and feeling of thy grace in us and goodness towards us in Jesus Christ through whom we glory in thee and to whom with thee O Father and the Eternal Spirit we acknowledge to be due and desire to give all honour and glory now and evermore Amen A shorter Prayer for the Evening MOst glorious God and in Jesus Christ our most loving Fat●er It is of thy great mercy that we have been preserved and followed with many fatherly favours this day and that we are in so good a condition before thee to offer up this Evening Sacrifice unto thee We must needs confess and we come unto thee to confess that thy gracious dealing with us is altogether undeserved and that any evil that is or shall come upon us in this world is far less then we deserve For if we look to our beginnings we that at first were made good and like our God have by our sin in our first Parents forfeited and lost that holiness in which and that happiness unto which we were created so that thou mayest justly call us transgressors from the womb we having procured this unto our selves that we are every one of us shapen in iniquity and in sin did our mother conceive us And this corruption that over-spreads our natures so declareth and disperseth it self also in our whole carriage that as there is no day of our life wherein we do not many wayes partake in thy mercy so no day passeth over our heads wherein we do not in many things provoke thy justice In regard whereof we do not more need our daily bread for our bodies and being then a daily pardon of sin for our souls and for our well-being And blessed be thy Name O gracious God w●o art so far from leaving us without hope of a pardon that thou callest us unto thee and teachest us to seek it from thee as from our heavenly Father Unto thee therefore we come acknowledging O Father that we have sinned against Heaven and against Thee so that we are not worthy to be called thy children But though we forget to be towardly children yet do not thou forget to be a compassionate Father but be pleased to come forth and meet us and kiss us with the kisses of thy love Declare thy self in Jesus Christ a God reconciled unto us and that our sins and iniquities thou wilt remember no more So shall we remember thy Loves more then Wine and thou shalt put gladness into our hearts more then can possibly be had from all worldly enjoyments Nor do thou kiss us only but clothe us Take away our filthy garments which by our prodigality we have brought our selves unto and clothe us with change of rayment for as our great desire is that the righteousness of Christ which is the righteousness of God may be put upon us to shelter us from thy justice so we beg also for the clothing of the new Man that we may be meet to partake in thy mercy and may walk worthy of thee our Lord unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work Give us we beseech thee that Knowledge which is the Light of the Soul that Faith which is the Life of the Soul that Love which is the Heat and holy Fire of the Soul that Holiness and Meekness which is the Beauty and Ornament of the Soul and that Hope which is the Anchor of the Soul And thus prepare us for that glorious place whither our Fore-runner is for us entred and who hath given us assurance that where He is there shall also his servant be Nor do we pray for our selves only but as in duty we are bound for thy whole Church Thy Church is thy Treasure Lord where thy peculiar treasure is there let thine heart and peculiar favour be also Cast thine Eye of compassion on those therein that are under any special affliction Yea Look O thou All-seeing and All-pitying God into all corners of the World and shew thy self the God that comforteth those that are cast down In special manner Let the Eyes of the Lord our God be alwayes on this Land and