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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

grant that thy Holy Name may be worshipped and called upon by all men in the earth Petition II. Thy Kingdom come BEat down the Power of Satan and exalt thy Dominion amongst us do you reign more and more by thy ruling and reforming Spirit in the hearts of thy chosen Servants and let the number of Believers be daily encreased do thou rule and govern the hearts of all the Members of thy Church Militant in this thy Kingdom of Grace that in the World to come we may be Members of thy Church Triumphant and obtain an everlasting Inheritance in the Kingdom of Glory Petition III. Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven O Heavenly Father direct and govern our Wills by thy holy Spirit that we may as voluntarily as readily and as cheerfully submit to thee as thy Creatures in Heaven do and to that end correct our untamed Affections that they lead us not astray and drive away the darkness of our Understandings that we may see and know the true way wherein we ought to walk Give us grace to forsake our own perverse and wicked Wills and to frame our selves wholly according to thy Good and Holy Will lest in Prosperity we grow proud and secure or in Adversity murmur or despair Petition IV. Give us this day our daily Bread. O Thou Giver Preserver of all our lives bestow upon us what thou seest convenient for our sustenance and support Give thy Blessing also along with it or else tho' we abound never so much we confess it is not able to nourish us We are daily asking bread of thee but O Lord we are not distrustful of thy loving Providence and therefore we ask but for this day and depend upon thee for the next And we put up this Petition to thee in the Night also because our whole life time is but one day wherein our frail bodies have continual need of thy sustaining and upholding them But as we implore thy Care for our Bodies much more ought we to do it for our Souls Give us such a daily Measure of continual Grace as shall enable us to go through the Remainder of our War-fare Feed our Souls with the Graces of thy Holy Spirit that our Understandings may be enlightened our Wills and Affections rectified our Corrupt Natures renewed and our Souls and Bodies purified and sanctified that both our Souls and Bodies may be now and ever precious in thy sight Petition V. And forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us FOrgive us our Trespasses our spiritual Debts which bind us to an eternal Payment Alas The best of us is not able to satisfy thee for the least Trespass he commits and therefore with bended knees and prostrate souls we adore thy Goodness in sending thy Son to cloath and cover us with Holiness Innocency and Justice And as we can never hope to obtain this unless we also freely and heartily forgive others let this be the Token to know whether we desire Forgiveness of thee or not keep us from thinking that we deserve Forgiveness at thy hands for forgiving others yet by being merciful as thou art merciful lest this qualifie us for thy Pardon Petition VI. And lead us not into Temptation but deliver us from Evil. DEliver us O Lord out of those snares which the Devil our Lusts or the World have laid for us Our Enemies O Lord are mighty and vigilant and the best of us unable of himself to withstand the least of their Assaults Leave us not O God of our strength to be overcome by their Wiles or Power and suffer us not to be tempted above what thy Grace does enable us to bear And though in those Temptations that thou permittest us to be led into thy favour may seem to be shadowed from us for a time yet teach us so much spiritual Wisdom as not to despair of Deliverance but to be satisfied that thou hast appointed them their Limits which they are not able to go beyond The Doxology or giving of Glory to GOD. For thine is the Kingdom FOr thou art he that rules and governs all the World therefore we submit and surrender up both our bodies and souls to be wholly and solely at thy disposal The Power Thine is the Power therefore we sue to thee the Fountain of All-sufficiency for Grace Strength and what ever else thou seest convenient for us And the Glory And to thee we acknowledge the Thanks the Honour and the Glory due for what we are and for all that we have For ever and ever And thy Kingdom Power and Glory is from everlasting and shall continue world without end Amen So be it The Ten Commandments EXPOUNDED The Preface God spake these Words and said I am the Lord thy God. I Am here assur'd that the Lord my God is the Author of all these Laws and that I may gather from their duration from the trouble of my Conscience when I break them and from the Purity of the Laws themselves I am sure that he has Power to require my Obedience to these Laws and therefore I ought in duty to observe them that he has all Justice as my Lord to punish me if I transgress them and all Love as my God to reward me if I keep them and therefore the Fear of his Anger and the Hope of his sweet Love should make me obedient to them O Lord give me Grace and Strength to do what thou Commandest and then Command me what thou wilt The Order of the Precepts THese Laws are divided into Two Tables One tells me my Duty towards God and the other my Duty towards Man. Now it is but Reason as well as my Saviour's Precept that my Duty towards God should be set first And as the first Precept that relates to God bids me worship him and none but him that made me so the first Precept that concerns Man is to respect him first that begat me O God without thy help I am not able to keep the least Commandment therefore I am bound to pray unto thee by the first that thou maist give me Spiritual Power and Abilities to observe and keep the rest Commandment I. Thou shalt have none other Gods but me THere is a God above who influences all inferiour Beings and this God is but one and there is none besides him And therefore I am bound first To love him above all and all other things that I love must be beloved either as they come from him or as they are helpful to us in performing our Duties to him I may know whether I have this Love or not by examining whether I endeavour to keep his Commandments whether I love to frequent his Ordinances give Respect to his Embassadors pity and help Christ's distressed Lambs and desiring the Company of none but good Men. Secondly I am obliged by this Precept to fear him above all i. e. be afraid to offend or anger him and this Fear should be

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