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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

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either in Act or in Thought the sins whereof I shall not here reckon up And here I am Commanded all Chastity Sobriety and Temperance least I fall into them In short I must banish all Wanton Desires use all sober Means to keep my Body Chast and whenever I am tempted never to give way to it Lord have Mercy upon me c. Command VIII Thou shalt not steal THis Precept secures every mans Goods to him and therefore I must neither keep nor sue for that which is another Mans. I must not cheat steal rob or borrow with an intent never to pay again but must be content with my own Estate suffer every one to enjoy his own quietly pay every Man his full Due be just in my Dealings frugal in my Expences lest I spend that which is not mine restore what I have unjustly gotten and strive to do good with what I have Lord have Mercy upon me c. Command IX Thou shalt not bear false Witness c. ANd as I must not wrong my Neighbour in his Estate so I am not to take away his good Name but in all things I must speak the Truth nay I am bound to speak Charitably of my Neighbour and when I am called to be a Witness before a Lawful Magistrate I cannot be too cautious of what I say See the Third Commandment for a Larger Exposition on this Lord have Mercy upon me c. Command X. Thou shalt not Covet c. THis Commandment strikes deeper than all the rest it plucks up the Root and destroys the Seed of all Injustice and Uncharitableness As I must not take so I must not desire any thing that is my Neighbour's and if I never desire it I shall never wrong any Person What was hinted at before is now plainly spoken Here God reaches my Thoughts and most inward Intentions I must not covet nor desire other Men's Goods I must subdue all my Craving Lusts and mortify all the secret Inclinations of my perverse Nature Lord have Mercy upon me and write all these thy Laws in my Heart I most humbly and heartily beseech thee DEVOTIONS A Prayer to be said in the Morning O Most Gracious and Loving Father I the vilest of Sinners do acknowledge mine Unworthyness either to ask any thing of thee or to appear before thee For O Lord as I was conceived in Sin and brought forth in Iniquity so ever since as thou hast multiplyed the number of my days I have encreased the measure of my sins that if thou enter into Judgment with me to me belongeth nothing but Shame and Confusion both of Body and Soul yet O Gracious Father since thy Loving Mercy hath granted me so long time of Repentance and given thine only Son to suffer for me and to reconcile me unto thee Lord grant that I may feel the Comfort of the one and enjoy the Benefit of the other And though my Heart is so hardned with a constant Custom of sinning that I am not able to think a good Thought much less to turn heartily and penitently unto thee yet I humbly beg of thee to lay before mine Eyes such a sight of my Sins and such a Prospect of thy Judgments that I loathing the former and standing in awe of the latter may be drawn unto thy Son Jesus Christ who has most graciously promised Rest and Refreshment to those that are heavy laden with the Conscience and Burden of their Sins O Lord I beseech thee accept the Death of thy Son as sufficient Satisfaction for all my Sins and grant that I may feel the same effectually working in me a Death unto Sin killing in me the Lusts of the Old Adam Seal up in me the Truth of his Resurrection by raising me up to the Life of Righteousness that I may give my Soul and Body an holy living and acceptable Sacrifice unto thee which is but a reasonable Service And because that whilst I carry about me this earthly Tabernacle this body of Sin my whole Life is nothing but a continual Rebellion against thee I earnestly implore such a Measure of thy good Spirit as may work a Newness of Life in me and drive away the darkness of my Understanding that I may see the Way wherein I ought to walk subdue the Rebellion of my Will that it may submit to thy Commandments and correct my untamed Affections calling them from Hunting after Vanities to delight in thy Testimonies Give me also an Hope of thy Promises a Love of thy Majesty a tender Affection towards my Brethren a Care of my Duty and what other Graces thou knowest needful for a Member of Christ that thus I may live in thy Fear to the Honour and Glory of thy Name I may die in thy Favour to the Comfort of my Conscience and may receive the end of my Faith which is the Salvation of my Soul through the Merits and Mediation of Iesus Christ my only Lord and Saviour Furthermore O Lord I give thee most hearty Thanks for all thy Benefits bestowed upon me from the beginning of my days to this present time namely that thou hast Elected me before the Foundations of the World were laid Created me after thine own Image and Similitude Redeemed me by Iesus Christ's Death and Resurrection Sanctified me by the inward working of thy Holy Spirit and in due and convenient Time called me to the Knowledge of my Election Creation Redemption and Sanctification by the Preaching of the Gospel O Lord encrease day unto my years so grant that in the same I may grow in Grace and in the Knowledge of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ In whose name for these and for what ever else thy infinite Wisdom knows to be convenient for me I humbly Pray as he in compassion of mine infirmities hath taught me saying Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that Trespass against us And lead us not into Temptation but deliver us from Evil for thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen A Prayer to be said in the Evening O Most Gracious and Loving Father I the vilest of Sinners do acknowledge mine Unworthyness either to ask any thing of thee or to appear before thee For O Lord as I was conceived in Sin and brought forth in Iniquity so ever since as thou hast multiplyed the number of my days I have encreased the measure of my sins that if thou enter into Judgment with me to me belongeth nothing but Shame and Confusion both of Body and Soul yet O Gracious Father since thy Loving Mercy hath granted me so long time of Repentance and given thine only Son to suffer for me and to reconcile me unto thee Lord grant that I may feel the Comfort of the one and enjoy the Benefit of the other And though my
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