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A59766	The practical Christian divided into four parts. I. The practice of self-examination, and a form of confession fitted thereunto; the Lord's Praier and penitential Psalms paraphrased; with meditations, and praiers to be made partakers of Christ's merits. II. Directions, meditations and praiers, in order to the worthy receiving of the Holy Communion of the body and bloud of Christ. III. Meditations with Psalms for the hours of praier, the ordinary actions of day and night, with other religious considerations and concerns. IV. Meditations with Psalms--- upon the four last things; 1. Death, 2. Judgment, 3. Hell, 4. Heav[en.] The third and fourth parts make the second volume, formerly called the second part. By R. Sherlock D.D. Rector of Winwick.	Sherlock, R. (Richard), 1612-1689.	1677 (1677)	Wing S3243; ESTC R221137	111,932	313

infamous reports 4. As to your spiritual Fathers 1 Tim. 3.1 13. Luk. 10.16 the Bishops and Pastors of Christ's Church have you not despised their Calling but honoured them according to their respective degrees and stations in the Church of Christ 1 Tim. 5.17 Heb. 13.17 Ecclus. 7.29 Have you not slighted and disobeyed those commands and admonitions which God by them hath given you Have you not denied or diminished their dues or payed them grudgingly Joh. 10.4 5. 2 Tim. 4.3 4. Have you not forsaken your lawful Pastor to follow after factious Preachers or such who more tickle your itching ears which is the issue of a corrupt heart Prov. 29.1 Isa 29.21 and the high rode to errour and falshood Have you not been angry when told of your faults or put in mind of the errours of your waies and refused to return and amend thereupon 5. Have you been respective and lowly in your demeanour to all your Superiours whether in age or office learning and judgment temporal estate and preferment Rom. 12.10 2 Tim. 2.20 1 Pet. 2.17 giving to each the honour due to their respective conditions and this though you have no dependence upon them nor hopes to receive any benefits from them 6. Have you been meek gentle courteous and affable unto all men as becomes the Spirit of a true Christian not high and haughty Tit. 3.3 churlish and distasteful in your carriage towards any slighting undervaluing scorning your equals if not your betters in some respects However the truly humble good Christian esteems others better then himself Phil. 2.3 7. If you have any persons under your command as a Master of a Family Eph. 6.9 have you not been over-harsh and rigorous towards any of your Servants 1 Sam. 12.3 nor defrauded them of their wages and have you preserved them to your power from the wrongs of others and have you taken care what in you lies for the good of their Souls viz. that they be Catechized in the principles of Religion Gen. 18.19 Jos 24.15 and duly frequent the publick Worship of God both in Church and family 8. If you be a Servant examine Eph. 6.5 Tit. 2.9 10. have you been obedient to your Master in all his lawful commands just and true in the managing his business so that he hath suffered no loss either by your carelesness or dishonesty and hath your carriage towards him been submissive and meek not answering again when provoked by hard language 9. In a word have you obeyed that admonition of S. Paul which is the more full meaning of this 5. Commandment Rom. 13.7 8. Render therefore to all men their due tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the Law The Sixth Commandment Thou shalt do no murther Examination by the Sixth Commandment THere are several degrees of Murther in this Law prohibited and though you have not been guilty thereof by bloud-shed yet examine 1. Have you not been guilty of immoderate Anger Matt. 5.21 22. been peevish and disquieted at trifles at slight miscarriages of others and inconsiderable accidents about you 2. Hath not your anger swelled into wrath and fury Pro. 27.3 4. Eph. 4.31 Jam 1.19 Matt. 5.22 1 Pet. 3.9 Matt. 5.40 nor been drawn out into hatred and malice nor broken out into bitter and opprobrious language rendring evil for evil and railing for railing brawling and quarrelling for any offence going to law upon petty and small occasions of trespass 3. Ps 37.1 Rom 13.13 Have you not envied the good parts and endowments or the wealth and preferments or the flourishing estate of others in any respect though they may be wicked and unworthy 4. Lev. 19.18 Matt. 5.38 Have ye harboured no secret grudge in your heart towards any person nor entertained any secret thoughts and desires of revenge 5. Prov. 24.17 Rom. 12.15 Have you not secretly rejoyced at the losses crosses disgraces or death of any 6. Have you no way impaired the health either of the Souls or bodies of others either by hurting maiming Exod. 21.22 c. wounding any person in body or tempting them to sin Matt. 18.6 Gal. 5.26 to the ruine of their Souls or provoking their spirits or neglecting to perform the Christian duties of Charity both corporal and spiritual unto them 7. Hath your demeanour been with all meekness and humility Matt. 11.29 Eph. 4.32 being loving kind tender-hearted pitiful peaceful and easie to be entreated with the several qualifications of true Christian charity 1 Cor. 13.1 c. without which no true Christianity 8. Have you not impaired your own health by surfeiting drunkenness uncleanness or giving way to any unruly lusts passions and desires even against your reason and judgment Prov. 21.16 The Seventh Commandment Thou shalt not commit adultery Examination by the Seventh Commandment THe Christian Vertues in this Law commanded are Chastity and Temperance the one being not to be preserved without the other and of both these there are several degrees the transgression of each of which is to be here examined And First Concerning Chastity because the uncleanness of the heart is as vile before God as any act of that kind before man examine Matt. 5.28 1. Have you not pleased your fancy with loose and wanton imaginations nor suffered unchast thoughts so long to dwell in your heart till by the corrupt bent of its concupiscence they have grown into unruly lusts and have you endeavoured to subdue those lusts Col. 3.5 and not suffered them to break out either 1. Eph. 4.29 into any filthy communication scurrilous and obscene speeches 2. into any sinful solicitations and temptations of others to commit uncleanness with you Matt 5.29 30. by the wantonness of the eyes hands tongue 2. Have you not gazed upon any person Matt. 5.8 till your eyes have betrayed your heart secretly to lust and sinfully to enjoy them And as to the acts of corporal uncleanness they are of such a loathsome nature Eph. 5.3 as not fit to be once named amongst Christians your own Conscience will be your best guide for your examination in such particulars wherein consider and seriously weigh the aggravating circumstances of Time Place Person the unruliness of your lust against all the laws of God and Nature right Reason and holy Religion consider the inconsistency of every such deed of darkness with the purity of your profession 1 Cor. 6.15 c. Eph. 5.5 and your relation of being a member of Christ a child of God and an heir of Heaven Upon the consideration of this let this Memento of that one Father have a deep impression upon your Soul That in every lust of uncleanness as the unlawfull flame thereof goes up into Heaven so the filthy stench thereof

goes down into Hell And as another Father observes I am persuaded that the greatest number of the Souls tormented in Hell have been less or more guilty of this Sin Secondly And because unlawful lusts are nourished and maintained by Intemperance Jer. 5.7 8. and that chiefly 1. In Eating and Drinking either more or more often then is conducible to the two ends of feeding first to maintain life secondly to preserve health examine how frequently you have crost these ends of God and Nature either 1. by too much curiosity and daintiness to please an exotick palate Prov. 23.3 Deut. 31.20 32.15 Ecclus. 9.12 Luk. 21.34 Ecclus. 37.29 30 31. Luk. 16.19 c. Prov. 23.29 and humour a rebellious appetite or 2. to maintain and strengthen the lusts of the flesh or 3. to please and humour others And herein by drinking to excess consider first the sinful expence of your Time secondly of your Talent and estate thirdly of the health and good temper of your Body fourthly of the soundness and quickness of all the faculties of your Mind fifthly of what might and ought to have relieved the poor sixthly Isa 56.12 Wisd 2.6 c. of contracting the guilt of the excess of your companions at least by your compliance with them if not tempting of them to drink the which though it be lookt upon as a matter of jest and merriment yet 't will end in sadness and woe H●b 2.15 16. And though perhaps through the strength of your brain and good constitution of body you may come off from your excess without any visible distemper yet that frees you not from the sad woe to such denounced Isa 5.22 Luk. 6.25 And 't is woful enough that this beastly sin of eating and drinking to riot and excess is inconsistent as the former 1 Cor. 6.10 Gal. 5.21 with your Christian profession and hopes of Heaven 2. And since an account must be given of your pretious Time examine whether your intemperance in diet hath not often engaged you to spend your time either in immoderate sleep or slothfulness Thess 5. ● 7. ●sa 56.10 ●2 Ezek. 16. ●9 whereby the sinful lusts of the flesh are fomented which was the sin of Sodom and 't is the onely business of the slothful man to tempt the Devil who tempts man unto all other sins 3. Intemperance and excess in Apparel is not onely a sign of pride and vain-glory but a symptom and allurement to unlawful lusts Examine if your attire be such as is 1. agreeable to your rank and condition neither affectedly sordid nor too curiously fine and costly Luk. 7.25 2. answerable to the ends of cloathing viz. first to cover your nakedness secondly to preserve by moderate warmth the health of the body in either of which respects to affect gorgeous apparel Luk. 16.19 Phil. 3.19 Gen. 3.21 or to be proud of the same is to glory in your shame to cover which shame the use of garments was first instituted Again have you not envied others for the bravery of their apparel but rather pitied their folly remembring that the true ornament of a Christian is the hidden man of the heart 1 Pet. 3.4 even the ornaments of a meek and quiet spirit 4. Recreations are not onely useful but necessary to recruit the vigour both of the Soul and body Eccl. 2.10.11 3.12 13. 2 Sam. 11.2 3. when over-toil'd with labour but are too often the foments of unlawful lusts and therefore as to these examine 1. that your recreations be in themselves lawful neither dishonourable to God nor scandalous and injurious to man Eph. 5.11 2. that they be not unseasonable Eccl. 3.1 to the hindrance of any duty to God or man 3. that you be not immoderate in their use by making that your imployment which should onely fit you for employments more useful 4. Eccl. 8.5 that your recreations be not what they are vulgarly call'd pastimes it being strangely imprudent to spend that pretious time in toys and vanities Eccl. 2.1 2 3. Phil. 2.12 which is lent onely to work out the eternal Salvation of your Soul The Eighth Commandment Thou shalt not steal Examination by the Eighth Commandment A Man may steal and play the thief 1. to himself 2. to others 1. As to the first consider if you have not ruin'd decayed or diminished the estate God hath given you either Prov. 24.30 31. 1. by your own careless and imprudent management thereof or 2. by the carelesness and profuseness of others whom you intrusted but not discreetly regarded Prov. 6.6 13.4 and 19.15 Prov. 18.9 Eccles 6.1 2. or 3. by your sloth and negligence in your calling or 4. by your prodigal and profuse mispending or yet on the contrary 5. by pinching and too much sparing and denying thy self the full and lawful enjoyment of thy riches the which with several others are the causes of poverty Prov. 24.34 and kinds of self-robbery 2. As to injustice towards others examine your self 1. 1 Kin. 21.1 c. Is 3.14 15. by the publick sins of oppression or grinding the face of the poor 2. of making hard bargains with the necessitous of every forcible way either to get 1 Sam. 12.3 4. or to keep what not of right or more then of right belongs to you 3. by the private sins 1. of pilfering and filching which is properly call'd stealing 2. of cogging and lying to couzen and deceive 3. Luk. 19.13 c. 1 Thess 4 6. Deut. 15.7 8 9. Ps 37.21 Hos 12.7 of cunning to defraud and circumvent in buying and selling lending and borrowing lending to the loss of the borrower borrowing and not paying again by false weights and measures by counterfeit coin naughty money and the like unjust dealings Have you not robbed God in tithes and offerings Mal. 3.8 Eccles. 7 29.3● 31. Rom. 13.6 Luk. 10.7 ●e● 20.13 ●●m 13.7 8. nor his Priests in their accustomed dues nor the King's Majesty in his Tribute customs honour and obedience due to him nor the labourer of his hire or servants of their wages nor yet deprived any person of what either by law or custom belongs unto him All which with many more particulars are transgressions of that golden rule of righteousness and charity Whatsoever ye would that men should doe unto you Matt. 7.12 even so doe unto them Have you not been uncharitable to the poor and indigent Deut. 15.7 c. Ps 41.1 112.9 2 Cor. 9.9 Pro. 29.7 Is 58.7 Eccl 5.11 Luk. 2.11 Pro. 3.27 2 Cor. 8.12 13 14. either by not giving or not lending to supply their wants or by railing reviling and using opprobrious language towards them Want of charity is no other then downright robbery for the poor man's livelihood is the rich man's superfluity and that is the poor man's due it being as equal justice for the rich to relieve the poor as 't is