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A46794	The Christian tutor, or, A free and rational discourse of the sovereign good and happiness of man, and the infallible way of attaining it, especially in the practice of Christian religion written in a letter of advice to Mr. James King in the East-Indies / by Henry Jenkes ... ; and now published for the benefit of all others.	Jenkes, Henry, d. 1697.; King, James.	1683 (1683)	Wing J628; ESTC R1916	24,940	82

little conduce to the increase of your happiness IV. Our good Name and Reputation Be tender of your good Name and Reputation which you may easily obtain and maintain if you never do any thing whereof you may have just cause to be ashamed be but true to your own Conscience in the faithful discharge of your several duties and you cannot fail of an unstained Reputation and that surely in this World goes a great way to secure a Mans happiness If you live inoffensively and vertuously with a due respect to all Gods Commandments if you walk unblamably and righteously you will walk surely and then Honour and all due Respect from men of the best judgement will follow you V. Our Real and Personal Estate And last of all your re● and personal Estate that you may live conveniently and handsomely by it must be also minded by you God Almighty has placed you in a condition of Life that may be very gainful and advantageous to you in which many have got great Estates in a little time now my dear Friend that you may do so too festina lente do not make too much hast to be rich but use all diligence and industry all fair just and honest ways to come to a plentiful Estate for industry and honesty is the truest policy in this Case to get and increase Riches it has the blessing of God promised to go along with it so says the wise King Solomon The diligent hand maketh rich and then when you are in possession of something of your own which your pains and innocent endeavours have brought you in Remember that you lay by some of it for Pious and Charitable Vses wherewith to gratifie your poor and indigent Neighbour this I can assure you will never lessen your Estate or make you poorer for it but rather the richer for it will never prove detrimental to you but rather highly beneficial to you both in this World and that which is to come For the Charitable man is greatly beloved of God he will take especial Care of him that whoever wants he shall never want and at Doomsday he shall be most amply rewarded for all his Heroick Acts of Charity and Kindness which he has out of the Love of God and his Neighbours shewn unto others And now I am come at last to an end of my long Letter The Transitition to the next head of Discourse it is you see a Letter that treats of the most Sovereign Good in which mans happiness is to be placed it is in A Letter of Love but then it treats of the Divinest Love that a Human Soul is capable of and therefore I hope you cannot have been weary in reading of it thus far Now my Dear Mr. James King for a farewell and to conclude I will now only entertain you with one special Rule of Love more that there may be nothing wanting in this Letter to compleat your happiness and to further you in this great Vertue of Love and that is as you are a Lover of Vertue and so a good Christian let me entreat you not to trouble your self with Controversies or Litigious Questions about Religion for the Christian Religion as it is Professed also by our Church of England in her Sixth Article of Religion is so plainly and intelligibly laid down in the Scriptures especially of the New Testament that it requires not so much a subtle head to understand it as a good and honest heart to Believe and Practise those Sacred Truths which are there so evidently delivered and so effectually recommended unto us I say waving 〈◊〉 Controversies and nice Speculations which are both fruitless and unprofitable and also very destructive of this Holy Love I have all this while been discoursing of to you § VI. The infallible way of attaining the Soverein good of Mans happiness Make it your daily study and constant practice to Love the Lord Jesus Christ in Truth and Sincerity For this Love of him being firmly rooted in the heart will make you a True Disciple of His In the special way of Christian Religion and infinitely tend to the advancement of your Happiness both here and hereafter Now that you may do so you will not fail to love our blessed Saviour Christ Jesus in sincerity By Loving our Lord Jesus Christ in Truth and Sincerity if you mind and practise these three things First 1 Honour Him Always maintain in your mind an high and honourable opinion of our ever blessed Master Jesus Christ that is think of him frequently with Honour and Reverence 1. 1 As to his Person As to His Person 2. As to his Offices 1. As to his Person you then honour him with that Religious Veneration and Worship you ought if you acknowledge him to be the True the Honourable and only begotten Son of God the express Image of the invisible God that came from the great God of Heaven and Earth and from him received his Divine Authority Hear him therefore who has been so highly dignified by God Almighty as thrice to be openly and audibly declared the Well-beloved Son of God besides the many Miracles he did and at last his Glorious Resurrection from the Dead shew him to you in the Glory of the only begotten Son of God full of Grace and Truth that you should honour him as you honour God the Father 2. 2 As to his Offices 1. Your Prophet Look unto Jesus with a Religious regard and honour as to his Offices for so you will find him to be 1. Your great Prophet and Teacher to instruct you in the Revelation of God's Mind and Will to you what he will do for you and what he will have you do in order to your Everlasting Happiness Give him therefore that Honour that is due to so great a Prophet Submit your self to his Instructions take his Yoke upon you and faithfully observe all his Sayings 2. 2 Your High-Priest Behold Jesus also in the Glory of his Kingdom as your merciful High-Priest to make Attonement for you to represent your Case in Heaven to interceed for you there and from thence to bless you with all Spiritual and Temporal Blessings and therefore daily pray unto him that he would be mindful of you now he is ●n his Kingdom and has received all Power in Heaven and Earth doubtless for your good and benefit and be you also very mindful of him whilst you are here upon Earth that you keep up the memory of his venerable Passion and Death and Communicate with Christian People as often as you can Especially at those solemn times our Church has appointed the Holy Communion I mean the Festival Days set apart and dedicated to the honour and everlasting remembrance of our Blessed Saviour 3. 3 Your King And lastly look upon him as your Sovereign Lord and most Gracious King to Govern you by the wisest and best Laws and to direct you by his

good Spirit to defend you from all your Enemies and in due time to raise you from this infirm and mortal state to an immortal full of glory honour and blessedness in the world to come to crown you with a Crown of Righteousness and a Diadem of never fading Glory Honour therefore and reve● this glorious King of yours remember you are one of his Subjects and therefore make good that relation you stand in towards your dearest Lord love and serve and honour him for ever 2ly 2 Entertain his Doctrine Entertain his Doctrine with all readiness and resolution of mind with a full consent and purpose of your will to live according to it that is 1. 1 Believe his Promises Believe his Promises as they are in themselves both general respecting the good of all Mankind and also conditional requiring something to be done by us for our exceeding great comfort first then believe his gracious Promise about the forgiveness of our Sins upon the condition of a living Faith sincere repentance and new obedience to be performed by you so his promises about the assistance of Divine Grace and the Spirit of God to further you in all well-doing his Promises relating to this Life and a comfortable subsistence ●ere that you may be content with whatsoever God sends his Promise during your ●boad and Pilgrimage here that you shall be under his Guardianship and the Protection of his good Angels to keep all Evil from you and therefore be Valiant and Couragious and last of all believe his great Promise of Eternal Life to keep up your mind above all the Temptations of this world that you be not insnared or overcome by them these are the great things and the good things that our Saviour has promised to us and you need not doubt or question his Veracity but he will make them good to you in particular if you only believe on him with the heart unto Righteousness and therefore in the next place 2dly 2 Obey his Precepts Obey his Precepts universally Sincerely and Constantly that so you may without fail inherit his promises These holy Precepts of his you may find in his divine and excellent Sermon on the Mount and in most of the pages of the New Testament St. Paul has reduced them to three Heads that we live Soberly Righteously and Godlily Tit. 2. and certainly he that makes conscience so to do that lives in a constant observance of our Saviour's laws that glorifies God Almighty by a Voluntary chearful and constant obedience in the whole course of his life as he does our Saviour the greatest honour and service of love fulfills the whole duty of a Christian loves his good Master heartily and intirely according to that blessed saying of his If ye love me keep my Commandments so this holy and good man shall only inherit that blessedness and those beatitudes which our Saviour has promised to bestow on his faithful Servants in the other world when he shall appear in his own glory and illustrious presence to our Eternal Satisfaction 3. And lastly 3 Imitate his holy life and Example follow your bl●ssed and holy Master Jesus in his holy life and the many examples of Vertue of all kinds he has set before you Imitate his Piety and Devotion in his loving of God his Father in magnifying his holy Name in the world upon all occasions in setting up his Kingdom of righteousness in advancing his honour and the due observance of his holy Laws and in the resigning of himself perfectly to his divine Will in all things so that it became his meat and drink to do the Will of his Father which is in heaven Imitate him next to that in his great Charity to all men for he went up and down as the holy Story says of him only to do good where ever he was and where ever he came he left monuments of his great Beneficence behind him all places and all persons were really the better for him and so do you herein follow your blessed Master as you have opportunity to do good to all especially to the houshold of faith that is to explain St. Paul's phrase to you in plain English to those that are eminently Vertuous truly Just and Good according to our Saviour's holy Religion and Faith as those that best deserve your Charity and Kindness Imitate your holy Master also in his great Humility Purity Sobriety Temperance Meekness Contempt of this World Heavenly-mindedness his Magnanimity and Patience in his undergoing and bearing all afflictions and sufferings especially his invincible Patience under his Cross and his last triumphs of it in his holy Passion and Death In a word always have this great Examplar of all Vertue and Holiness before your eyes as he walked so do you as he was in the World so be you that so you may say in truth and sincerity of heart with St. Paul now I live yet not I but Christ lives in me which if it be your happiness to do as it is really the greatest happiness in the world so to do you will never repent your self that you have lived thus and when you come to dye as we all must you will find the blessed comfort of it in your self and so in full assurance of your Faith in sure and certain hope you will pass into those happy regions of Light and Glory whither our blessed Saviour is gone before us to receive you there you shall live and reign with him and be blessed for ever world without end Amen So be it My dear Friend God grant we may all of us there meet in his due time to our everlasting comfort and satisfaction In the mean time Simus in procinctu let us be always ready for that blessed state by Innocency and Holiness of life let us love our Lord Jesus Christ in truth and sincerity and follow St. Paul's short advice most exactly with which I will shut up this long Letter of mine Phil. 4.8 9. Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue and if there be any praise think on these things Those things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the God of peace shall be with you § VII The Conclusion And so my good Friend farewell and be perfect in this divine and heavenly art of living well and happily God Almighty bless you and inrich your Soul with all the graces of his holy Spirit May the divine Spirit of all love and goodness and a sound Mind ever abide with you as it is and shall be my constant Prayer for you so in this excellent Spirit of Love with all hearty Affection I ever remain Dear Sir Your true Friend and Christian Tutor Henry Jenkes POSTSCRIPT Mr. Faithorne and Mr. Kersey I have reviewed this Letter of mine and made some considerable Additions to it since I first writ it if you think good to Print it as it is now Enlarged I give you my free Leave and Consent so to do Fare you well H. J. From my beloved Colledg of Gonvill and Cajus in the University of Cambridg Octob. 11. 1682. FINIS