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lord_n	daughter_n	earl_n	william_n	22,824	5	8.0830	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67627	A box of spikenard: or A little manual of sacramental instruction and devotion especially, helpful to the people of God, at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper. With some other formes expedient for some peculiar occasions. The third edition, by Thomas Walmestry, Dean of Worcester.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing W881; ESTC R218419	28,612	228

The Explanation of the Frontispiece T Is not the Portracture that here In Sculpture thou do'st sce But th' Emblem of thy Saviour dear Presented unto thee The King imports his Majesty This calls thy heart to bow To his Coelestial Dignity Thou can'st not be too low The Table richly furnished With Mysteries of Love Before thee doth his Bounty spread Imparting from above Himself the Lamb the Bread the Wine To nourish thee with Grace That thou that Aliment Divine May'st thankefully embrace whil'st thy ●●art that with love doth burn Devotions Spikenard doth return When the king Sitteth att his tables My Spikenarde Sendeth for h the smell there of Cant 1.12 .. A Box of Spikenard or a little Manual OF Sacramental Instruction AND Devotion Especially helpful to the People of God at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper WITH Some other formes expedient for some peculiar occasions The third Edition By Thomas Walmestry Dean of Worcester London Printed by T. Mabb for William Sheares at the Bible in Bedford street 166● To the Right Honourable the Lady Frances Courtney Eldest Daughter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Cork Madam THE two great Offices of Magnificence are to do great things where there is no desert to merit the performance and to accept of small returns where there is no worth to challenge and acceptance There is bounty and charity in the one and humility and meekness in the other you have been very free and active towards former in those many great favours you have bestowed upon one that is so unworthy And now I am bold to offer you an occasion to exercise the noblenesse of your disposition in the latter in the Present of this poor acknowledgment unto your Honour in the Dedication of this small piece of devotion unto you The love that you beare unto the service of God to the promotion whereof it is designed and the tender respect you have manifested unto the Author gives me so good assurance of a fair admission hereof unto your hands that I do with confidence cast and leave all the faults and imperfections thereof at your mercy It hath bin twice published already hath found so much of entertainment abroad as hath been enough to encourage a third Edition wherein it hath received some enlargement and though it may yet want growth to render it serviceable to you yet I hope it may receive some power from the countenance of your Honourable Patronage to be instrumental to the Good of others which is Humbly implored by him who is exceedingly obliged to remain Madam Your humble and faithfull Servant in Christ Jesus Tho. Walmestry To his Honoured loving and Christian Friends of his Congregation in the Strand at London and to other Christian Communicants as they are concerned Grace Mercy and Peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Dear Christians OF all the operations of the life of man and indeed of the whole Creation and of the highest and most perfect creatures that are found in the whole extent thereof The most Noble and Excellent the most Profitable and truly Delectable and that which is the Crown and Diadem of their perfection and being is the operation of Religion as that whereby the creature hath Communion with God which is the most excellent being and the chiefest good and whereby it offereth homage and acknowledgement unto his Infinite greatness and receives again the influence enjoyment of his Eternal and Infinite goodnesse And indeed without this the generality of mankinde is not onely degraded from its dignity but deprived of its use and in the uselesnesse or unprofitablenesse of mankinde all the creatures that were made for his comfort and preservation are rendered uselesse and unprofitable So that the end of the whole material Creation is in a sort lost in the want of Religion in mankinde for if mankinde be good for nothing without Religion if he loose that action then all the creatures would become serviceable for the preservation of them that are good for nothing and so being ordered unto a vain end they would all be as it were vain and unprofitable creatures which would lay an unsufferable charge upon Gods wisedome as well as goodnesse not onely that he made all men in vain but that he made the creatures of the world for a vain end and purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which God forbid Now there is no reason in the world why mankind should live or be in the world if man be not a worshipper of God whereby he is to attain the enjoyment of God Other Creatures indeed have their several ends inferior unto this yet in order unto this in man some are made for the preservation of others and all for the good and preservation of man But if man be not the servant of his God here what is he but fruges consumere nat us an unprofitable plunderer of the world and destroyer of the rest of the creatures whom he wastes and devours in great multitudes daily whilest he himself liveth to no considerable end that may be answerable for so great a ruine And if his end be in the Grave and in the Dust when he hath spent a few dayes and hours in eating and drinking and sleeping and enduring many calamities and troubles in this world it may put all the world to a stand how it could stand with the wisdome of God to make such an excellent Creature to no better end and as the Apostle tells us of Christians That if in this life only we have hope we are of all men most miserable So it may be said of all mankinde that if in this life onely we have our end we are of all creatures in the world the most miserable and unprofitable and the rather because man hath so much knowledge of his infelicity and such a stomach unto eternity which he cannot upon that supposition upon any terms ever attain unto Which is to me I confesse one of the strongest arguments to prove the immortality of the soul of man and the assurance of another and better life after this that I know how to draw out of the quiver of humane reason without the clearer light of Divine Revelation For though it may be said that particular men are made and are of use for the good of Community which hath it may be given the occasion unto some Philosophers that could see no higher to place the end final operation of man in politique good or advantage of humane Society Yet when all is done if man hath no other end but this that Society Community Generality of mankinde for the service whereof every particular man is supposed to be made will prove in the end to be either of no use at all or of none proportionable to such a multitude of so many so excellent beings if that Generality of mankinde be not appointed for some end higher than it self which what other can it be