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A30278 Eighteen directions for saving conversion unto God by Daniel Burgess ... thus published for the poor. Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713. 1691 (1691) Wing B5705; ESTC R36045 21,736 58

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forgiven in the Blood of my Redeemer by my gracious God! May my more Judicious Brethren more able in Speaking and more able in Writing be drawn to publish their more Elaborate Directions by the good Success of these so hastily thrown together May these Lines Live when I am Dead and Speak when my Breath is Stopt and in the mean time may they Preach unto Thousands of whom I can never see the Faces till the Resurrection Amen and Amen FINIS Books Printed for and Sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chapel A Call to Sinners such as are under Sentence of Death and such as are under any Prospect of it from the Long-suffering and Gracious but most Righteous God Three Questions resolved briefly and plainly viz. 1. What Conceptions ought we to have of the blessed God 2. What are those Truths whereof the Knowledge appeareth most indispensibly necessary unto our Salvation and therefore to be first and most learnt by us 3. What is the change wrought in a Man by God's H. Spirit before he can safely conclude himself pass'd from Death to Life Being the Summ of three Sermons A seasonable Question plainly resolved viz. What are we to judge of their Spiritual Estate who neglect the Lord's Supper And What is that discerning of the Lord's Body in it without which Men do eat and drink their own Damnation Mans whole Duty and Gods wonderful Intreaty of him thereunto Set forth from 2 Cor. 5.20 and published at the Request of some Hearers Advice to Parents and Children The Sum of a few Sermons Contracted and Published at the Request of many Pious Hearers Christian Commemoration and Imitation of Saints Departed Explicated and Pressed from Heb. 13.7 occasioned by the Decease of the Reverend Mr. Henry Hurst Lately Minister of the Gospel in London All Six by Daniel Burgess Minister of the Gospel FINIS Directions for Daily Holy Living by D. Burgess Minister of the Gospel D. 1. LImit your sleeping hours Let them not be as many as brutish Sense demandeth Let Reason fit their number to your Health and Labour Your Motion is not by the Rule of Religion if your Rest be not so Psal 139.18 I awake that I may be still with thee So some Learned read it D. 2. Consecrate your waking thoughts Let your God have those first Fruits He always Loved the first of all things The first Fruits and first Born under the Law were his Present Him with these every morning Thoughts are inward Speeches Let God hear Himself first spoken of by you still It will argue that He is your Beloved and it will make Him more so Love makes Thoughtful and Thoughtfulness makes Love A Potter is known by his Vessels and a Heart by its Thoughts and of all Thoughts by its first in the morning and last at night My voice shalt thou hear in the morning O Lord Psal 5.3 D. 3. Regulate your Bodily Dresses Long Dresses bewray large Consciences if no worse He that duly prefers his Soul above his Body would rather go like the wild Indians than dress like some Londoners The Hebrew word Beged signifies Cloathing and Covenant-breaking God seems to have taught thereby that the Cloaths on our backs should humble us for the sin of our first Parents and Persons But if they do not so and if outward Adorning be that which employs our early hours and severe thoughts it will be dearly paid for in our dying hours with tormenting thoughts 1 Pet. 3.3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning D. 4. Time well your Closet and Family Worship They be not the same things in season and out of season Let the Word be read one verse rather than none and Prayer be made the shortest rather than none both by your selves alone and with your Families If it may be worship first by your selves But needlesly tie not your selves being God hath not bound you unto such and such hours Still do as you verily think is most for Edification Mat. 6.6 Enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut the door pray to thy Father Josh 24.15 As for me and my House we will serve the Lord. D. 5. Sanctifie your worldly Business Nothing is your business but that which God your Master sets you about Dare not then do any thing but that whereto you can entitle Him Nor dare you to do it for any other chief end but to please Him When you do WHAT He sets you and supremely BECAUSE He sets it and wills that you do it knowing and hoping for his Direction in it and Blessing of it you then sanctifie it Then HOLINESS TO THE LORD is written upon it whatever it be 1 Cor. 10.31 Whether ye Eat or Drink or WHATSOEVER ye do do all to the glory of God D. 6. Moderate your Pains in your Callings Pains must be Sweat is required But by Reason and Religion they must be measured God's Laws be all Just and Good Drones that will not work must not eat He that is a sluggard in his work is branded as Brother of the Prodigal waster Prov. 18.9 Drudges of whose Labour there is no end and who bereave their Souls of good who use themselves worse than God allows Oxen to be used Treading out the Corn and muzzling themselves these are branded by the Spirit of God as inconsiderate absurd and self-destroying fools Eccles 4.8 Diligent hands have the promise of being made rich That is Hands that be neither Drones nor Drudges Prov. 10.4 The hand of the diligent maketh rich D. 7. Strengthen your guards against your strongest Enemies Sin is our Enemy even One and All. God hates nothing but sin and man can be hurt by nothing but sin Sin 's name is Legion for it is many And of the many there is some one or other in every man that has more power than all the rest That gives strength unto all the rest And being mortified all the rest are mortified There be also beside that KING-sin in the Souls some kind of PEER-sins which of all next unto the KING-sin are by far the most dangerous The KING-sin is alway or mostly your Temperamental sin the sin of your Constitution The PEER-sins be the Radical ones of Sensuality Unbelief Hypocrisie and the way-laying ones whereunto Temptations will every day meet us in our Company and Business You can never have any but a false Peace till you can say as Psal 18.23 I am upright before the Lord I keep my self from my own iniquity Doctor Bates his little Book upon that Text is a Light and a Lamp a Rod and a Staff D. 8. Govern your Thoughts and your Words Let not your Minds or Tongues be unbridled and run whither they will You are in your Shops and your Business very often alone Reverence your Conscience and dare not in the presence of God's Vicegerent to suffer a sinful or useless self-discourse But talk with your selves of great and good Subjects and with