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A46794 The Christian tutor, or, A free and rational discourse of the sovereign good and happiness of man, and the infallible way of attaining it, especially in the practice of Christian religion written in a letter of advice to Mr. James King in the East-Indies / by Henry Jenkes ... ; and now published for the benefit of all others. Jenkes, Henry, d. 1697.; King, James. 1683 (1683) Wing J628; ESTC R1916 24,940 82

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truth and reality by a constant practice of this holy self-denial of your self Secondly 2 In making much of our selves in some other things I say you must also make very much of your self in some other things I mean 1. Such Internal Excellencies and Perfections must be minded by you besides 2. Some other external good things as will in the way and in the end make you truly happy Now these Internal Excellencies and Perfections of your Nature either relate to the body or the mind What those things are is here delared as for instance or to the whole man The external good things without you but very convenient for you to have them also are such as relate either to your good Name and Reputation or real and personal Estate Therefore what concerns your body 1 The good health of the body must be minded you must chiefly mind the good health and constitution of it For a sickly and crasie body is not fit for action nor a good Servant for the Soul The best way of attaining it under the Divine Blessing The best Rule for that is to use moderate and wholsome Diet good Exercises and innocent Recreations to live always temperately soberly and according to Rule for they that do so sleep quietly in utramque aurem they are seldom overcharged with noxious humours or arrested by any satal distempers their heads are clear and their hearts sound their blood moves briskly and vigorously in their Veins and wherever they go they carry about with them a chearful mind in an healthful body Mentem sanam in corpore sano and that surely is a great happiness not to be parted with for all the voluptuous man's most sumptuous Cheer and extravagant Jollity for that commonly ends in pains lingring diseases and a miserable death Secondly 2 The Perfections of the Mind The perfections of your mind which must be looked after and for which you may justly love your self and make much of your self in the enjoyment of are such as these viz. 1. To acquire as much useful knowledge as you can 1 Vseful knowledge for as light is pleasant to the Eye so is truth to the Understanding above all knowledge therefore labour to attain that which is most beneficial to you which really will make you wise unto Salvation as certainly the knowledge of the true Religion of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is An Account of some of the b●st Books and that you may easily learn from those good Books I have formerly re-commended to you when you went to the East-Indies I think they were such as these tho' I shall add some few more that have been publish'd since to perfect this Account An Account of the best Books in Christian Religion I. Bishop Wilkin's Principles and Practices of Natural Religion in Octavo Hugo Grotius of the Truth of the Christian Religion of Dr. Patrick's Edition in Twelves Dr. Patrick's Witnesses in 2 Octavo's and Dr. Parker's Demonstration of the Divine Authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in Quarto These good Books will acquaint you with the true Grounds and Principles of all and of Christian Religion in general II. Bishop Pearson upon the Creed in Folio Here this worthy Author gives you a most rational Account of the Fundamental Articles or Doctrines of our Christian Faith as to the Verity and Necessity of them to a good Life III. Doctor Hammond's Practical Catechism in Octavo The whole Duty of Man in Octavo Doctor Taylor 's Holy Living and Holy dying in Octavo The Grand Exemplar in Folio Mr. Scot's Christian Life in Octavo These five most useful Books thus put together will instruct you in all the worthy Practices of our holy Christian Religion Whatever concerns a pious and vertuous life you may learn from hence As for the Historical part of Christianity that you may know what manner of men the Primitive Christians were you shall do well to read Doctor Cave's Primitive Christianity in Octavo The Lives of the holy Apostles and primitive Fathers by the same Author in two Folio's IV. Doctor Patrick's Devout Christian in Twelves Next to the Common-Prayer-Book this excellent Treatise will be a good help to you in your Devotions with this you may entertain your self upon all Occasions to very good purpose V. Doctor Patrick's Parable of the Pilgrim in Quarto A most excellent Book in its kind This will always put you in mind what you are by Profession and should be in very deed a Christian Pilgrim Here you have a Guide that will instruct you in the true way to Heaven and direct you so to steer your course of life that by the Blessing of God upon your good endeavours you shall not fail to come thither in God's own due time VI. Dr. Tillotson's Sermons in Octavo This is one of the best Sermon-Books that I know and therefore I would have you read it frequently and make the best use of it as also Bishop Wilkins's Sermons lately published and Doctor Isaac Barrow's Sermons all Octavo's VII Doctor Henry More 's Grand Mystery of Godliness and Iniquity in two Folio's Divine and most excellent Books to inform you in all the great things of Christian Religion or the grand Mystery of Godliness and how some people have apostatized from it by advancing the grand Mystery of Iniquity VIII Mr. Will. Chillingworth's Protestant Religion the safe Way to Salvation in Folio I know you are a good Protestant Christian and therefore to secure you in your Religion I commend this incomparable good Book to you Next to this most useful Knowledge which so much conduces to your own Happiness and the Way of attaining it and is in the aforesaid Books very well explained and demonstrated if you have any time of leisure hereafter you shall do well to study History and Geography Studies that are both Pleasant and Profitable and will fit you for Discourse and ingenious Conversation The best in that kind I have also heretofore named unto you and given you my advice how to proceed methodically in the reading of them Another Account of the best Books in Geography and History I think for your memories sake they were such as these and may be with some new ones ranged in this Order I. Abbot's Geography in Twelves A Book for young Beginners that contains a great deal in a little room and will give you a very good description of all Countries and the most remarkable things in them II. Doctor Heylyn's Cosmography in Folio This Book gives you a larger Account of all Countries as appears by the Title Page thereof In subsidium for a farther help and direction in your Geographical Studies you shall do well to take in these viz. Varneii Geographia Absoluta in Octavo P. Bertii Tabula Geographicae in Quarto G. Fournier Geographica Orbis Notitia in Twelves Mercatoris Atlas Bleau's or the English Atlas All in several large Folio ' Goth-fredi Archontologia