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A40495 A Friendly letter to all young men shewing the benefit of a religious and friendly reproof, conversation and admonition, and not only to live good lives themselves but to incourage others to do the same : with a letter to masters of families : to which is added a specimen of the rules and orders of the religious societies, as now practiced in the cities of London and Westminster. 1699 (1699) Wing F2223A; ESTC R26731 24,637 62

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to advance in Charity toward their Neighbours to grow Eminent in the Love of God to keep Holy the Lord's-Day to honour his Name and obey his Laws Put them in mind to come to the Publick Prayers of the Church and tell them that in the Publick Solemnities God opens his Treasures and pours out his Grace more abundantly upon them Private Devotions and the secret Offices of Religion are like the Refreshing of a Garden with the distilling and petty Drops of a Water-Pot but the Returns to Addresses made in the Temple and Services offer'd up in the publick Communion of Saints is like Rain from Heaven Advise them to behave themselves decently in the House of God for to be rude and talking to laugh and gaze about or to do any Indecency in that Place is to affront the Almighty to his very Face And for their more devout Behaviour in the Church recommend to them to read Dr. Comber's Companion to the Temple and another thing put them in mind of not to repeat the Absolution for that is to be pronounced by the Priest alone and this I urge because I have observ'd some saying the Absolution along after the Priest as if we could pardon our selves nor to repeat the Commandments in the Church but we ought to hearken to them with Reverence as if they were then spoken from God neither should they repeat any of the Prayers with an audible Voice except the Lord's-Prayer and the Responses because they give great Disturbance to others in their Devotions And I would particularly recommend to every one to buy and acquaint themselves with the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England that they may lay a good Foundation and have solid Principles to go by I am afraid that some that think very well of themselves do not rightly understand the Principles of their Religion These Articles are as Sea-Marks to shew what Rocks and Sands you are to avoid and by being well acquainted with them you will be able to give a good Account of the Doctrinal Part of our Religion and this is an excellent Foundation to build the Practical Part upon And of all things let me warn you that you do not in any Religious Conversation or Society or elsewhere say or do any thing to the Disparagement of the Ministry of the Church of England but ever preserve a due Respect for that Order In all greater Difficulties resort to them and pay them that Obedience and Honour which the Holy Ghost requires of you And though there may be some bad Men among them yet learn to distinguish the Order from the Defects that cleave to some of them and for all the ill Lives or Weakness of some do not condemn the rest nor erect your selves into Teachers but with great Humility edifie and encourage one another in Duties and Virtues which belong to all Christians Pride Self-conceitedness will ruine your Religion and if Order and Decency be not preserved your Meeting will become a Riot not a Christian Society Nothing will adorn your Piety more than a due Submission to your Pastors and those that would entice you to despise Them are certainly not your Friends but Enemies Therefore take the Apostle's Advice Heb. 13. 17. Obey them that have the Rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your Souls as they that must give account that they may do it with Joy and not with Grief for that is unprofitable for you AND now in the last This following Part being took out of a private Letter a friend of mine designed for his Brother I thought it might not be amiss to recommend it to you here place there is one thing more that I would particularly recommend to you that are Masters of Families which is this That you would make Conscience of going to Prayer with your Families at least once or twice a day a Duty I think we may trace from our Father Adam for he was no sooner fallen from his Innocence and a Happy State but was sensible God was Angry with him and he thought it necessary to implore the Offended Deity by Prayer and Invocation by Sorrow and Repentance Offerings and Sacrifices and instructs his Children in the Knowledge of Divine things and maintains Religion and the Worship of God in his Family For we find Cain and Abel bringing their Oblations and Seth and Enos called upon the Name of the Lord and Enoch and Noah walked with God Gen. 4. 4. 5. 26. Gen. 6. 9. It cannot be doubted but that the Holy Patriarchs were careful in this Duty as appears by that Character God gave of Abraham in Gen. 18. 19. I know him that he will command his Children and his Houshold after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do Justice and Judgment to which they joyned Prayers and Praises as a necessary Duty And David saith Morning and Evening and at Noon will I Pray and you know Joshua's Resolution in this Duty but as for me and my House we will serve the Lord Joshua 24. 15. These Men did not comply with the sinful Neglect of the Times And indeed it 's no thanks to be Religious or go to Prayer with your Family when it is the Humour and Fashion of the Times for then you would be asham'd to neglect it by reason others do it The greatest Trial is as it was with Noah when we live in the midst of a corrupt Generation for it is the Crown of Vertue to be Good when there are all manner of Temptations to the contrary when the greatest part of Men go the other way when Vertue and Honesty are laugh'd at and censur'd as an over-wise and affected Singularity Thus it was with Noah he contended with the Vices of the Age and dared to own God and Religion in his Family when almost all Mankind besides himself and his Family had rejected and thrown it off And although Masters of Families are so careless of this Duty now it 's grown out of Fashion yet it is a Duty still The Primitive Christians did Pray with their Families three times a Day and looked on 't as a great Sin to omit it and What can we expect from you who do not care to Worship God at all Our bare being of the Christian Religion or calling our selves Members of the Church of England will avail but little without this Duty and our Saviour hath intimated so much unto us in the Lord's-Prayer by teaching us to Pray for our Daily Bread and I need not tell you that you have Daily Wants to be supply'd Wants for your selves and Wants for your Children and Servants Have you not Daily Infirmities both in your Self and Family to be healed Are you not Daily subject to Dangers and Temptations And do you not Daily Sin against God And is it not necessary then that you Daily Pray unto God for the Supply of all your Wants for the Healing of all your Infirmities for the Preventing