shall be Established Prov. 16.3 and by filling thy Soul with such happy thoughts as constant Meditation or God's Word will furnish thee And Wisdom as a Monitor advises thee Ecclus. 6.37 Let thy mind be upon the Ordinances of the Lord and meditate continually on his Commandments he shall establish thine Heart and give thee Wisdom at thine own desire Overcome thine own Mind and in every thing as much as possibly thou canst subject it to right Reason and let not Affection or Passion master it 12. SET thy Mind ever upon some good to prevent the rising of evil Thoughts that the Tempter may never find thee at leisure to entertain him The Mind is naturally active and prone to thoughts Even when thou lyest Dormant it hath its Motions Imploy it then in some Business it cannot be Idle As the Earth neglected for want of Culture bringeth forth noisom Weeds so will the Mind evil and vain extravagant Thoughts if it be not duly Cultivated Often the light of Reason is Eclipsed by the mischievous interposition of vicious Thoughts Yet perplex not thy Mind with too much or too weighty Affairs Proportion thy undertakings to thy Strength The Mind requireth some intermissions and rest which otherwise like the Fields with perpetual Bearing will grow Fruitless The Unballanced Ship is easily Overset with every gust of Wind And too much Burden Sinketh her 13. THERE is an Ark of God's secret Counsel which our thoughts must not pry into There are also admirable Mysteries from whence God calleth out of the fiery Bush Exod. 3.2 5. Come not nigh hither put off thy Shoes from off thy Feet c. Resign thy Thoughts to God's Immensity It is enough to believe his Truth tho thou canst not examine his incomprehensible Secrets If thou wilt play with these Flames thou wilt burn thy Wings God hath revealed suficiently enough to make thee Happy Ambition of knowing more destroyed Mankind 14. COMMUNE with thine own Heart concerning that which may advantageously make thee Happy Divine Soliloquies are Heavenly Raptures and the Soul's prepossession of that Blessedness Inure thy Heart to ponder on good and heavenly things and such will thy Thoughts Words and Actions be The Heart of the Wise teacheth his Mouth says Solomon Prov. 16.23 Custom grows habitual therefore also the Wise man saith Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath Vnderstanding Prov. 14.33 If the Wicked the worst of Fools have any notion thereof it can no more rest with them than Lightning in the Air. 15. TAKE the Prophet's advice Jer. 17.10 To set God ever before thee as a Searcher of hearts And that which thou wouldst detest to speak before others abhor to think with thy self Thoughts are the words of the Heart which God heareth who therefore saith Matt. 9.4 Wherefore think you Evil in your hearts And Solomon gives us this Charge Eccles. 10.20 Curse not the King no not in thy Thought Thou must be pure in Heart if ever thou meanest to see God Let not thy Heart dissent from thy Tongue neither desire to appear more Holy than thou art if thou intendest to please him who is Omniscient 16. PRAY and beseech the Lord with the earnest Supplication of the Psalmist to Create a clean heart and to renew a right Spirit within thee Psal. 51.10 To encline thy heart unto his Testimonies Psal. 119.36 Then Pray with the Prophet Jer. 24.7 That God would give thee a heart to know him To prepare thy Heart that thou mayst truly fear him Meditate on him and Love him above all And That he who cast out the tumultuous Rabble from Jairus's House would also be pleased to cast out of thy Soul and Mind all those thoughts which offend him or hinder the raising up thy Soul to the life of Grace here whereby it may be fit for the life of Glory hereafter CHAP. VI. Of the affections of Love and Delight FOR the right governing the Thoughts arising from some particular Affections or Passions which usually discompose and render the Mind less apt for the Service of God and less comfortable to our selves we must ever have in mind the General Rule before laid down that extream and violent Passions of any kind are Distempers of the Soul which at best befool a Man if not as Hypocrates thinketh maketh him Lunatick they are like a Deluge which rather overflow and drown than refresh the Mind they are like an enraged Sea full of hazard they disturb the Intellectuals and distract the Will Behold how all things in troubled Waters seem wreathed and disordered which in the still are clearly seen so is it here The calm Affections are more fit for God's Service and our own 2. LOVE and Delight are great Actors in this present Life and every Man hath some share in them Now our main skill is to fix 'em on right Objects as God Psal. 37. and upon heavenly Things as St. Paul directs us Col. 3.1 By this means we cannot fall into any Excess but shall be undoubtedly happy that we pervert not the Order we must not delight in or love any object but God let him be our first and chief Love and Delight and we shall have Felicity in all that is subordinate 3. LET no inferiour Love or Delight allure us away from him who is perfect Love Tho there is a time place and measure for Secular Delights so far as they are subordinate to God's Will which may make us fit for his Service and administer occasion of Expressions of Thankfulness to him But if on the contrary they prove hurtful to us if God loves us he will take that away from us which else would wean us from him A necessary Rule for them to consider who too impatiently bear the loss of that they so much loved or delighted in 4. LET us neither love nor delight in any temporal things otherwise than to hold it with a loose Hand and let us follow the Apostles advice 1 Cor. 7.31 To use this World as not abusing it for the fashion of this World passeth away And St. John commands us in his first Epistle chap. 2.15 That we should not love the World nor the things that are in the World We must be contented to part with all when God in his good pleasure sees convenient It was Job's Resolution chap. 1.21 The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away and blessed be the name of the Lord. CHAP. VII Of Joy CONCERNING Joy Rejoicing and Mirth the Rules are That God would not have us disconsolate but to rejoice and be cheerful in him evermore 1 Thess. 5.16 Melancholy Dejectedness worldly Sorrow bitterness of Spirit and secret repining against God's Providence are dangerous Symptoms of Incredulity For if as the Apostle says Rom. 5.1 Being justified by Faith we have peace of Conscience and cheerful access to God through Christ there will be joy in the Holy Ghost We shall rejoice in hope and glory in our Tribulations being assured of a blessed issue
occasion to vex at the Levity and Vanity of thy own Mind If it be just what is the monstrous Object of thy Hatred and Malice Assure thy self the Adulteress is unhappy enough and there is no Creature on Earth more despicable and odious nor no Sin in this Life accompanied with so many varieties of Plagues and Judgments so that indeed they are great Objects of Pity if all these wretched Ingredients can render them to be so as a wounded Conscience the Devil 's Earnest to the Impenitent and assurance of Hell and Damnation 8. IN the next place my address shall be to those in whom there is occasion of Suspicion And first Let Man himself consider how odious Adultery is and out of all measure sinful for he sinneth against his own Body defileth the Temple of the Holy Ghost Cor. 6.18 19. and pierceth through his own Bowels with a Dart of Rottenness Prov. 7.23 And that which will render him in the end mournful But beyond all this in case of Impenitency which the stubborn Presumer may justly suspect it is that whereby he excludeth himself from the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Cor. 6.9 10. And in the Adulteresses Crime some Aggravations are appertaining to it as robbing her Husband of his Posterity obtruding a base and adulterous Issue and so stealing away his Estate and Inheritance by giving it to a Stranger and fixing on an indelible Character of Dishonor and Bastardy upon her Child who but for her impotent and ungovern'd Lust might have proved noble and legitimate An Injury which she can never expiate nor repair to the innocuous Son with Rivers of Tears and streams of her infected Blood This multiplied Sin is sometimes conceal'd from Men but never from the All-seeing God who is a severe Revenger of all Iniquity 9 OTHER Sins are grievous and pernicious yet neither Lying Stealing Idolatry Murder nor Witchcraft can of it self dissolve the Sacred Bond of Wedlock as this only base act of Adultery doth Therefore our Saviour admits of no Divorce but upon that occasion And it is remarkable that when God would display the loathsomness of Idolatry which most displeased him he styl'd it Whoredom and himself a jealous God and certainly though that be abolished of the bitter Water causing the Curse and rotting of the Thigh with swelling which attended that antiquated Ceremony yet the bitter Moral and Substance are not quite extinguish'd Numb 5.18 10. AVOID what you are sensible of hath created your Suspicion otherwise you are guilty if not of Adultery yet of a just Cause of Jealousie Lysander punished one of his Soldiers for going out of his Quarters resolving that he would have none of his look or go out like a Plunderer Dinah's idle visits Gen. 34.1 2. proved her dishonor effusion of guiltless Blood her Father's Trouble and her Brother's Curse The wisest of Men recordeth it as the mark of an Harlot Prov. 7.11 12. Her feet abide not in the house now she is without now in the streets lying in wait at every corner 11. IT was an Italian Severity in Sulpitius and a Diposition to part with his Wife who divorced her for going out of doors bare-headed The Law said he confined thee to mine Eyes and Approbation and not to please others The common Law noted any going out unvail'd with the odious brand of Adultery So careful were they to avoid all occasions or suspicions of that Sin However foolishly strict they were I am sure Jerom's Rules fore-noted is good Whatsoever saith he may probably be feigned be thou cautious it may not be feigned Thou owest this to thy Husband's Love thine own Indemnity and Honor and the Right and Credit of thy Children The PRAYER O Eternal and Almighty God Father of Lights and of the First-born who are written in Heaven and of the Spirits of Just Men made Perfect Thou art the Searcher of all Hearts and Reins to whose All-seeing Eye every Creature is manifest and every thought of the Heart naked and open We humbly beseech thee to take from us our stony Hearts and to give us Hearts of flesh to subdue in us by thy omnipotent Spirit the miserable remainders of the First Adam that native inclination to Sin which continually carrieth us away Captive to the Laws thereof even to that Evil which we would not commit but utterly detest and in bitterness of Soul repent of 2. LORD create clean Hearts and renew right Spirits within us root out that raging Spirit of Jealousie that infernal Fire which lies scorching in our bosoms and enlighten our Vnderstandings with a sound Knowledge of all the Mysteries of Eternal Life and Salvation Sanctifie our Wills and Affections and according to thine own gracious promise six thy Law in our inward Parts and write it deeply in our Hearts that we may know thee from the least to the greatest Heal up those Wounds which our Sins have made so wide that none but thine own Hands can close them and forgive our Iniquity and remember our Sins no more 3. O Lord thou didst by thy holy Word so heal the fountains that death and barrenness was no more therein heal we humbly beseech thee the wretched Corruptions of our hearts cleanse and sanctifie all the thoughts thereof by the sweet and blessed influence of thy Holy Spirit and so quide govern and direct us in the way which thou wilt have us to walk in as that we may in all our Thoughts Words and Actions be acceptable to thee Mortifie and subdue all our evil Desires and Thoughts and bring them all into Subjection to thy Holy Will and Pleasure that we may constantly resist all Temptations to Sin and Wickedness 4. KEEP us and Counsel us in all our Affairs Spiritual and Temporal that we may be filled with the holy Fruits of the Spirit of Sanctification appearing in new and hallowed Thoughts Words and Actions to thy glory and our farther assurance before thee so that in our Bodies and in our Spirits we may be kept blameless in this sinful and miserable World unto the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ To whom with thee O Father of Mercy and the Holy Spirit the Comforter of the Elect be rendred all Honor and Glory in Heaven and in Earth from this time forth and to all Eternity Amen CHAP. XXIII Of External Actions THE External Actions of Men are the product and fruit of their Thoughts and as we owe Sanctimony to God and our own Consciences within so do we good Examples to our Neighbors in things External And our blessed Saviour in his Sermon on the Mount excites us with this Doctrin Mat. 5.16 Let your Light so shine before Men that they may see your good Works and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven 2. GOOD Actions proceed from a sound Credence without which they cannot be good nor pleasing in the Sight of Heaven For whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin Rom. 14.23 For Faith apprehending Christ to our Justification renders our Works
God and resolution to Repent maketh Inquest after Sin that which is in Word or Action is more easily and frequently found But the sin of the Mind like Jonathan and Ahimaaz at Bahurim is let down into the depth of the Heart whose secret Enemies are like those Ligurian Mountainers whom the Roman's Chased more hardly found than Vanquished Moreover Man's innate Self-Love and natural Complacency makes him unapt and loth to Condemn himself in any thing wherein he conjectures others cannot 7. LASTLY The restless machination of Satan is to suggest Self-delusions as he doth Temptations to Sin whereby his Baits may be swallowed His policy is to keep the Heart for his Retreat and if any reproof happily chase away Prophaneness Anger Obscenity or Calumny out of the Tongue or Adultery Theft Murther or the like from the outward Man yet if he can but foment and maintain any of these in the impure Heart he will find opportunity and diabolical Suggestions to make an Eruption Or if not he knoweth where he has Possession be the Words and Actions never so well framed that God hath no part there which brings me to the next Consideration CHAP. IV. The necessity of Governing our Thoughts THERE is great necessity of Regulating our Thoughts and Heart without which as the Prophet says Isa. 29.13 It is in vain to draw near to God with our Lips And the art of governing the Affections and Thoughts must be performed by Wisdom and Ingtegrity Wisdom is as a Mistress to tumultuous Servants at whose Presence the most Disorderly are suddenly Composed and Silenced An understanding Heart is the inward illumination of the Soul which God beholds without which all External appearances of Sanctity make formal Hypocrites no better than Aegyptian Temples grave and decent outwardly but within very ridiculous setting up for Gods Apes Serpents Cats and Crocodiles 2. SOLOMON to whom God granted a free choice of any thing he would request desired an Vnderstanding Heart 1 Kings 3.5.9.12 This was more estimable to him than Riches or Life and he whom God was pleased to make the Wisest of Men of all the Holy Pen-men gave most Precepts concerning the Heart and Mind and we are commanded for our further directions to search the Scriptures which as the Apostle tells us are only able to make us wise to Salvation 2 Tim. 3.15 And St. James requires us to ask Wisdom of God that giveth to all Men liberally and Vpbraideth not James 1.5 He that trusteth in his own Heart is a Fool Prov. 28.26 Again the Wise Man like a true Prognostick tells you That the Heart of the Sons of Men is full of Evil and madness is in their Heart while they live Eccl. 9.3 Unhappy is he who goeth on perversely in the way of his own Heart or walks contrary to the Apostle's Rule 1 Cor. 3.19 persuing the Wisdom of this World which is foolishness with God 3. WE must so compose our Hearts that they may be upright and sincere in the sight of God Without this our best actions as Prayer Hearing Repentance Alms and what-ever else we do is worth nothing O Jerusalem saith the Lord wash thy Heart from wickedness that thou mayest be Saved How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge in thee Jer. 4.14 It is but folly to labour the Cure in the outward part while the Contagion and Venom of Sin invades the inward or to wash the Eyes with floods of Tears where the sin of Judah is written with a Pen of Iron and graven with the point of a Diamond upon the Table of the Heart Jer. 17.1 4. THE Psalmist tells us Psal. 84.5 Blessed are they in whose Heart are the ways of God And that he is good unto such as are of a clean Heart Psal. 73.1 And the Prophet tells you Jer. 29.13 They shall find him who seek him with all their Heart And they that know righteousness have the Law of God in their Heart Isa. 51.7 And Psal. 37.31 Their steps shall not slide they delight to do God's Will Psal. 40.8 And Psal. 119.11 They hide up the Law of God in their heart that they might not sin against him The knowledge of God is pleasant unto their Soul Prov. 2.10 and Prov. 3.2 They shall have length of days and Peace and when they go it shall lead them when they sleep it shall keep them when they wake it shall talk with them Prov. 6.22 It is a Lamp and Light to direct them in the ways of Life to preserve them from Sin 5. NOW however the ways of an Hypocrite may seem clean in his own Eyes yet seeing the God of Justice Weigheth the Spirits Prov. 16.2 it highly concerneth every Man to look to the ordering of this inward House that it may be a clean Temple for God's Spirit to dwell in without whose guidance Man runs to Destruction both Body and Soul If we govern our Thoughts aright we have our conversation in Heaven we walk with God And in our many dangerous sicknesses of Mind sundry Distempers and Perturbations of fluctuant Thoughts the wearied Soul shall ever have recourse unto this Ark for Rest. 6. THERE are troublesome Errors of sick minds which see false Comforts instead of true There is Anxiety Impatience and Grief which devoureth the Heart There is the fire of Anger to inflame Envy and Malice to transport vain Hopes and Fears whose vicissitudes do miserably afflict the disquiet Mind There are many Perturbations which if not prudently managed will master Reason and violently carry Men into the most dangerous Precipices from whence they cannot when they would retrieve themselves All which to a wise and good Man shall prove but Exercises to make his Victory over his own Passions more Glorious 7. NOR is he less Honourable who is victor over himself than he that conquereth others The great Conquerors of Kingdoms have been overcome of their own Affections whereby they have foolishly eclipsed all the Glory of their Victories The Strong may vanquish others but only the Good can over-come themselves I shall conclude with the Saying of a Pious Man I had rather over-come my own Mind than all my Enemies and I would I were secure of my self All the Powers of Hell cannot over-come me nor make me unhappy if my own Affections betray me not CHAP. V. Rules of Practice FOR the right composure of Mind and Thoughts it is very requisite to consider those Rules of Practice which concern the same in general and then that which appertaineth to some particular Passions of the Mind First Have a care of thy Soul as thy greatest Interest and that which surpasseth all things in the World Next have a care of thy Mind which if well composed is prudently Content in every Estate without which Even Temper nothing can prove good or comfortable What is Strength Sickness may anticipate but Age must bow down to the Grave What is Beauty Why those Flowers quickly fade and many times become the Snare and Destruction of
most weak let thy Fortifications and Guards be strongest 17. FLY Idleness that lazy Matron of all Evil and Basis of Mischief Ever employ thy self about acts of Vertue and then there will be no space or room for the Tempter What advantage did he reap upon the Royal Prophet by staining so glorious a Life which was produc'd by his few hours Vacancy Dally not with Temptations for happy shall he be who parleys not with them but is Careful and Vigilant and is ready to say as Elisha said of Jehoram's Messenger 2 Kings 6.32 When he cometh shut the Door and hold him fast there Is not the sound of his Master's Feet behind him The same Remedy we must use to Satan's Messengers who are sent to Destroy us We must crush the Cocatrice Eggs lest breaking out into a fiery Serpent we cannot Conquer it but say too late as the Turk mention'd of Scanderberg This Enemy should have been Subdued in his Minority for a Attemptation is Nourished that Hour it is not Mastered 18. INVOKE the Almighty constantly and fervently use his own Words Lead us not into Temptation In many Instances these are a Divine Revenge on some precedent unrepented Sin against which the Sanctimonious frequently make their Supplications And if as often as Satan assaileth we could address our selves to earnest and zealous Prayers we should worst him at his own Weapon receive frequenter Allarms to awaken us to a stronger Guard even the shadow of the Almighty The first Enemy that assailed Israel in his way to Canaan was vanquish'd by Prayer When Moses held up his Hands Israel prevailed Exod. 17. The same repulse we must use to our grandest Enemy The Prayer O LOD God Almighty the Examiner of all Hearts and the Tryer of the Reins who knowest before we ask what our Necessities are and by thy Holy Spirit helpest our Infirmities Lord I acknowledge my Ignorance in not Praying unto thee as I ought but thou alone canst make request for me according to thy blessed Will with unutterable Groans which thou only understandest Help I beseech thee my Infirmities regulate my Devotion and restrain the busie Malice of the Tempter Direct and accept my Prayers as Incense in thy sight and let them enter thy Presence through Jesus Christ my only Redeemer and Advocate 2. THOU who art Truth it self hast promised that all things shall work together for good to them that love thee and keep thy Commandments Lord I put all my trust and confidence in thee and do stedfastly believe that it is good for me that I have been afflicted for I am assured that after the tryal of my Faith and exercise of my Patience I shall receive of thee the only giver of all good things the quiet Fruits of Righteousness But O Lord how shall frail dust and ashes appear before thee which is full of Infirmities Fears Doubtings and Failings for mine Iniquities have taken such hold upon me that l am not able to look up Nay they are more in number than the hairs on my head and my heart hath failed me Neither have I to deal O Lord with Flesh and Blood only but with Invisible Powers of Darkness which with restless encounters assault my Soul to destroy it 3. BUT O Lord God of my Salvation be not thou far from me Shew thy Power and deliver me from the Messengers of Satan which are too mighty for me O rescue me and bridle their Insolent Malice bind the Strong man and deliver thy Vessel from his Usurping Tyranny that I may in every faculty of my Soul serve and please thee Pardon all my sins for thy Blessed Son's sake who died for me Heal my wounded Soul which hath to the anguish of my heart so often sinned against thee Hide not thy face from me in time of my trouble forget not my bitter affliction which makes me go mourning all the day long while the insulting Enemy heavily oppresseth me Thou art my King O God and canst Command deliverances Lord I am poor needy and destitute of help and strength to resist the Fiery Darts of Satan 4. PUT thy whole Armour upon me I beseech thee that I may be able to stand Arise for my aid O thou preserver of all Men redeem me from the devouring Lyons Mouth and for thy Infinite Mercies sake think upon me make hast to help me and make no long tarrying O my God O suffer me not for any tryals to fall from thee Lay no more upon me than thou wilt be pleased to give me Strength Patâ—ince and Perseverance to bear Cheerfully Confirm me unto the end that I may be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus Give me a blessed Effect and Issue out of every tryal that the more thou permittest me to suffer the more Experience I may acquire of thy Mercy and the greater assurance that thou wilt never fail me nor forsake me That I may through him who hath by suffering vanquished death hell and him who hath the power of death overcome all these Spiritual wickednesses which war against my Soul 5. LORD I have trusted only in thy Mercy thou hast ordained Strength in the Mouths of Babes and Infants O strengthen me unto the end that my heart may rejoice in thy Salvation Lord spare me that I may recover my strength Put thou a new song into my mouth that I may praise thee for my deliverance and declare unto afflicted Sinners what thou hast done for my Soul Lord hear me and have mercy upon me Thou who art ever readier to give than poor Mortals are to ask deny not the Humble and Earnest Requests of me the vilest and worst of Sinners This I beg O Lord through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ my only Saviour and Redeemer Amen The Close HAVING run through the several Parts I intended I shall now Calculate the whole and give a Specimen of Reducing it into Practice Be very careful to stifle every Sin in its primitive motion and give no place to the Wiles of Satan but crush betimes the Cockatrice Egg lest it break out into a Serpent Permit not vain Imaginations to possess thy Mind which are impossible for thee to attain or unprofitable if they are attained but rather contemn and behold them as empty shadows and lighter than Vanity 2. BUT labour daily more and more to inspect into thy self that thou mayst attain to that cognizance If thou shouldst upon the Enquiry be asked what is the vilest Creature in the whole Earths Circumference thy nearest and most intimate Friend thy Conscience may report thy own self by reason of thy Sins And if on the contrary thou wert ask'd the Question What is the truest Catholicon for it Thy Heart may readily reply The Blood of Christ which speaks better things than the Blood of Abel Affect not vain Glory nor Popularity lest it prove more pernicious than Contempt and avoid entertaining a male-contented mind for that may produce thee more misery than thou
accompany the Just and love the Religious 12. IT is evident that Corrupted Nature is prone to Hypocrisie therefore it behoves us to take heed that we exercise our Religion not meerly as Customary but to those higher ends for which it was designed as the Glory of God and the Salvation of our Immortal Souls Be not Rash in thy proceedings nor Confident and Pertinacious in thy own Opinion but seek advice of him that is Prudent and receive Instruction of him whose Judgment exceeds thy own Petition not for a long Life but a happy one for length of dayes oft times prolongs the Evil and augments the Guilt Therefore it would deserve Applause if that little time we had allotted us were employed to the best advantage 13. LASTLY In thy Supplications wait with Patience and be not dissatisfied if thy Requests are not speedily granted but search the Scriptures and there thou wilt find holy Job and others that far out-stripped thee in Sanctity of Life did not murmure or repine and charge God foolishly but on the contrary did resign themselves up to his good Will and Pleasure An Instance we have in that Pattern of Patience Job 14.14 All the dayes of my appointed time will I wait till my Change comes He that fixes his Trust in the most High shall not miscarry he is neither puft up in Prosperity nor cast down in Adversity but continually fears him who is his Salvation and his Refuge FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THere is now ready for the Press the Art of Patience and Balm of Gilead under all Afflictions an Appendix to the Art of Contentment Written by the Author of the Whole Duty of Man The Second Impression with Additional Prayers suitable to the several Occasions THE CONTENTS CHAP. 1 OF the Chief Governor the Soul Pag. 1 CHAP. 2 Of the Faculties of the Soul Pag. 4 CHAP. 3 Of the Hearts Corruptions Pag. 6 CHAP. 4 The Necessity of Governing our Thoughts Pag. 10 CHAP. 5 Rules of Practice Pag. 14 CHAP. 6 Of the Affections of Love and Delight Pag. 22 CHAP. 7 Of Joy Pag. 24 CHAP. 8 Of Anger and Malice Pag. 30 CHAP. 9 Rules of Practice Concerning Anger and Malice Pag. 33 CHAP. 10 Of Envy Pag. 39 CHAP. 11 Arguments to be Considered by way of Disswasion against Envy Pag. 42 CHAP. 12 Remedies against Envy Pag. 45 CHAP. 13 Of Impatience Pag. 48 CHAP. 14 Motives to Patience and Contentedness Pag. 53 CHAP. 15 Rules for Contentment Pag. 59 The Prayer Pag. 65 CHAP. 16 Of Hope Pag. 68 CHAP. 17 Rules to Govern our Hope Pag. 75 The Prayer Pag. 77 CHAP. 18 Of Fear Pag. 79 CHAP. 19 Rules for Governing our Thoughts in Fears Pag. 95 The Prayer Pag. 100 CHAP. 20 Of Cares Pag. 102 CHAP. 21 Rules Concerning Cares Pag. 105 The Prayer Pag. 110 CHAP. 22 Of Jealousie Pag. 112 The Prayer Pag. 109 CHAP. 23 Of External Actions Pag. 111 CHAP. 24 Rules in External Actions Pag. 113 The Prayer Pag. 117 CHAP. 25 Of a Wounded Spirit what it is Pag. 118 CHAP. 26 What the Conscience is and the Tranquility of it Pag. 121 CHAP. 27 What things Principally wound the Conscience Pag. 124 CHAP. 28 Divine Considerations of the Afflicted Pag. 127 CHAP. 29 Considerations of Humility Pag. 131 CHAP. 30 Divine Considerations of our Repentance forgiving Enemies and the Love of God Pag. 133 CHAP. 31 The Examination of the Conscience concerning our Repentance Pag. 137 CHAP. 32 Rules of Practice Pag. 146 The Prayer Pag. 150 CHAP. 33 Sense of Spiritual Wants Pag. 152 The Prayer Pag. 160 CHAP. 34 Fear of Temptations Pag. 162 The Prayer Pag. 171 The Close Pag. 174 Books Printed for and Sold by Richard Cumberland at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard I. Reform'd Devotions in Meditations Hymns and Petitions for every Day in the Week and every Holy-Day in the Year Divided into Two Parts The Third Edition Review'd II. Analecta Or A Collection of some of the Choicest Notions and what seemed most Remarkable in more than Forty Authors Philosophical Chymical Medical Astronomical Historical c. Whereunto is added an Appendix containing short but very profitable and delightful Rules in many parts of the Mathematicks By T. B. Gent. III. A Compleat Discourse of the Nature Use and Right Managing of that Wonderful Instrument the Baroscope or Quick-Silver Weather-Glass In Four Parts By John Smith C. M.