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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23760	The practice of Christian graces, or, The whole duty of man laid down in a plaine and familiar way for the use of all, but especially the meanest reader : divided into XVII chapters, one whereof being read every Lords Day, the whole may be read over thrice in the year : with Private devotions for several occasions...; Whole duty of man	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Fell, John, 1625-1686.	1658 (1658)	Wing A1158; ESTC R17322	270,574	508

confusion of face eternally But to thee O Lord God belongeth mercy and forgiveness though I have rebelled against thee O remember not my sins and offences but according to thy mercy think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodness Thou sentest thy Son to seek and to save that which was lost behold O Lord I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost O seek thy servant and bring me back to the Shepherd and Bishop of my Soul let thy Spirit work in me a hearty sense and detestation of all my abominations that true contrition of heart which thou hast promised not to despise And then be thou pleased to look on me to take away all iniquity and receive me graciously and for his sake who hath done nothing amiss be reconciled to me who have done nothing well wash away the guilt of my sins in his blood and subdue the power of them by his grace and grant O Lord that I may from this hour bid a final adieu to all ungodliness and worldly lusts that I may never once more cast a look toward Sodom or long after the flesh pots of Egypt but consecrate my self intirely to thee to serve thee in Righteousness and true Holiness reckoning my self to be dead indeed unto sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord and blessed Saviour This PENITENTIAL PSALM May also fitly be used PSAL. 51. HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin For I knowledg my faults and my sin is ever before me Against thee onely have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justisted in thy saying and clear when thou art judged Behold I was shapen in wickedness and in sin hath my mother conceived me But loe thou requirest truth in the inward parts and shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly Thou shalt purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean thou shalt wash me and I shall be whiter then snow Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice Turn thy face from my sins and put out all my misdeeds Make me a clean heart O God and renew a right Spirit within me Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from me O give me the comfort of thy help again and stablish me with thy free Spirit Then shall I teach thy wayes unto the wicked and sinners shall be converted unto thee Deliver me from blood guiltiness O God thou that art the God of my health and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness Thou shalt open my lips O Lord and my mouth shall shew thy praise For thou desirest no sacrifice else would I give it thee but thou delightest not in burnt-of●ering The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit a broken and contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build thou the walls of Ierusalem Then shalt thou be pleased with the Sacrifice of righteousness with the burn●-●fferings and oblations then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen PRAYERS BEFORE the receiving of the blessed SACRAMENT O Most merciful God who hast in thy great goodness prepared this spiritual feast for sick and famished Souls make my desires and gaspings after it answerable to my needs of it I have with the prodigal wasted that portion of grace thou bestowedst upon me and therefore do infinitely want a supply out of this treasury But O Lord how shall such a wretch as I dare to approach this holy table I am a dog how shall I presume to take the childrens bread or how shall this spiritual Manna this food of Angels be given to one who hath chosen to feed on husks with swine nay to one who hath already so often trampled these precious things under foot either carelesly neglecting or unworthily receiving these holy mysteries O Lord my horrible guiltiness makes me tremble to come and yet makes me not dare to keep away for where O Lord shall my polluted Soul be washed if not in this fountain which thou hast opened for sin and for uncleanness Hither therefore I come and thou hast promised that him that cometh to thee thou wilt in no wise cast out This is O Lord the blood of the New Testament grant me so to receive it that it may be to me for remission of sins And though I have so often and so wretchedly broken my part of that Covenant whereof this Sacrament is a seal yet be thou graciously pleased to make good thine to be merciful to my unrighteousness and to remember my sins and mine iniquities no more and not onely so but to put thy lawes into my heart and write them in my mind and by the power of thy grace dispose my soul to such a sincere and constant obedience that I may never again provoke thee Lord grant that in these holy mysteries I may not only commemorate but effectually receive my blessed Saviour and all the benefits of his passion And to that end give me such a preparation of soul as may qualify me for it give me a deep sense of my sins and unworthiness that being weary and heavy laden I may be capable of his refreshings and by being suppled in my own tears I may be the fitter to be washed in his blood raise up my dull and earthly mind from groveling here below and inspire it with a holy zeal that I may with spiritual affection approach this spiritual feast and let O Lord that infinite love of Christ in dying for so wretched a sinner inflame my frozen benummed soul and kindle in me that sacred fire of love to him and that so vehement that no waters may quench no floods drown it such as may burn up all my dross not leave one unmortified lust in my soul and such as may also extend it self to all whom thou hast given me command and example to love even enemies as well as friends Finally O Lord I beseech thee to cloth me in the wedding garment and make me though of my self a most unworthy yet by thy mercy an acceptable guest at this holy tab●e that I may not eat and drink my own condemnation but may have my pardon sealed my weaknesses repaired my corruptions subdued and my soul so inseparably united to thee that no temptations may ever be able to dissolve the union but that being begun here in grace it may be consummated in glory Grant this O Lord for thy dear Sons sake Jesus Christ. ANOTHER O BLESSED Jesus who once offeredst up thy self for me upon the Cross and now offerest thy self to me in the Sacrament let not I beseech thee my

for which clothing should be used Those are especially these three First the hiding of nakedness This was the first occasion of apparel as you may read Gen. 3 21. and was the effect of the first sin and therefore when we remember this or●ginal clothes we have so little reason to be proud of them that on the contrary we have cause to be humbled and ashamed as having lost that innocency which was a much greater ornament then any the most glorious apparel can be From this end of clothing we are likewise e●gaged to have our apparel modest such as may answer this end of covering our shame And therefore all immodest fashions of apparel which may either argue the wantonness of the wearer● or provoke that of the beholder are to be avoided 9 A second end of apparel is the fencing the body from cold thereby to preserve the health thereof and this end we must likewise observe in our clothing we must wear such kind of habits as may keep us in that convenient warmth wh●ch i● necessary to our healths And this is transgrest when out of the vanity of being in every phantastick fashion we put our selves in such clothing as either will not defend us from cold or is some other way so uneasy that it is rather a hurt then a benefit to our bodies to be so clod This is a most ridiculous folly and yet that which people that take a pride in their clothes are usually guilty of 10. A third end of apparel is the distinguishing or d●fferencing of persons and that first in respect of Sex Secondly in respect of qualities First clothes are to make difference of Sex this hath been observed by all Nations the habits of men and women have alwayes been divers And God himself expresly provided for it among the I●ws by commanding that the man should not wear the apparel of the woman nor the woman of the man But then secondly there ●s also a distinction of qualities to be observed in apparel God hath placed some in a higher condition then others and in proportion to their condition it befits their clothing to be Gorgeous apparel our Saviour tels us is for Kings Co●●ts Luk. 7. 25. Now this end of apparel should also be observed Men and women should content themselves with that sort of clothing which agrees to their Sex and condition not striving to exceed and equal that of a higher rank nor yet making it matter of envy among those of their own estate vying who shall be finest but let every man cloth himself in such sober atire as befits his place and calling and not think himself disparaged if another of his neighbours have better then he 11. And let all remember that cloths are things which add no true worth to any and therefore it is an intolerable vanity to spend any considerable part either of their thoughts time or wealth upon them or to value themselves ever the more for them or despise their poor brethren that want them But if they desire to adorn themselves let it be as St. Peter advises the women of his time 1 Pet. 3. 4. In the hidden man of the heart even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit Let them cloth themselves as richly as is possible with all Christian vertues and that is the raiment that will set them out lovely in Gods eyes yea and in mens t●o who unless they be fools and Idiots will more value thee for being good then fine and sure one plain Coat th●u puttest upon a poor mans back will better become thee then twenty rich ones thou shalt put upon thine own 12. I have now gone through the several parts of temperance I shall now in conclusion add this general caution that though in all these particulars I have taken notice only of the one fault of excess yet it is possible there may be one on the other hand men may deny theirbodies that which they necessarily require to their support and well being This is I believe a fault not so common as the other yet we sometimes see some very niggardly persons that are guilty of it that cannot find in their hearts to borrow so much from their chests as may feed their bellies or cloth their backs and that are so intent upon the world so moiling and drudging in it that they cannot afford themselves that competent time of sleep or recreation that is necessary If any that hath read the former part of this discourse be of this temper let him not comfort himself that he is not guilty of those excesses there complained of and therefore conclude himself a good Christian because he is not intemperate for whoever is this covetous creature his abstaining shall not be counted to him as the vertue of temperance for it is not the love of temperance but wealth that makes him refrain And that is so far from being praise worthy that it is that great sin which the Apostle tels us 1 Tim. 6. 10. is the root of all evil such a mans body will one day rise in judgement against him for defrauding it of its due portion those moderate refreshments and comforts which God hath allowed it This is an Idolatry beyond that of offering the children to Moloch Lev. 20. 3. they offered but their children but this cove●ous wretch sacrifices himself to his god M●mmon whilest he often destroyes his health his life yea finally h●s ●oul too to save his purse I have now done w●th the second head of duty that to our selves contained by the Apostle under the word soberly PARTITION X. Of D●TIES to our NEIGHBOURS Of JUSTICE Negative Positive Of the sin of MURTHER Of the H●inousness of it the Punishme●ts of it and the strange Discoveries thereof Of Maining wounds and strip●s § 1. I come now to the third part of duties those to our Neighbour which is by the Apostle summed up in gross in the word righteousness by which is meant not onely bare justice but all kind of charity also for that is now by the law of Christ become a debt ●o our neighbour it is a piece of unrigteousness to defraud him of it I shall therefore build all the particular duties we owe to our neighbour on those two general ones Justice and Charity 2. I begin with Justice whereof there are two parts the one negative the other positive the negative justice is to do no wrong or injury to any The positive justice is to do right to all that is to yeeld them w●●at soever appertains or is due unto them I shall first speak of the negative justice the not injuri●g ●r wronging any Now because a man is capable of receiving wrong in several respects this first part of justice extends its self into several branches answerable to those capacities of injury A man may be injured either in his Soul his body his possessions or credit and therefore this duty of

benefits deserve what a shameful unthankfulnesse is it then to deny him so poor a satisfaction as this the forgiving our brethren suppose a man that were ransomed either from death or slavery by the bounty sufferings of another should upon his release be charged by him that so freed him in return of that kindnesse of his to forgive some slight debt which was owing him by some third person would you not think him the unthankfullest wretch in the world that should refuse this to so great a benefactor yet such a wretch much worse is every revengeful person Christ hath bought us out of eternal slavery and that not with corruptible things as silver and gold 1 Pet. 1. 8. But with his own most precious blood and hath earnestly recommended to us the love of our brethren and that with the most moving arguments drawn from the greatnesse of his love to us and if we shall obstinately refuse him in so just so moderate a demand how unspeakable a vilenesse is it and yet this we do downright if we keep any malice or grudg to any person whatsoever Nay farther this is not barely an unthanfulness but there is also joyned with it a horrible contempt and despising of him This Peace and unity of brethren was a thing so much prized and valued by him that when he was to leave the world he thought it the most precious thing he could bequeath and therefore left it by way of legacy to his Disciples Jo. 14. 27. Peace I leave with you we use to set a great value on the slightest bequests of our dead friends to be exceeding careful not to lose them and therefore if we wilfully bangle away this so precious a Legacy of Christ 't is a plain sign we want that love and esteem of him which we have of our earthly friends and that we despise him as well as his Legacy The great prevailing of this sin of uncharitablenesse has made me stand thus long on these consideration● for the subduing it God grant they may make such impression on the reader as may be available to that purpose I shall add only this one advice that these or whatsoever other remedies against this sin must be used timly 'T is oftentimes the frustrating of bodily medicines the applying them too late and 't is much oftner so in spiritual therefore if it be possible let these and the like considerations be so constantly and habitually fixt in thy heart that they may frame it to such meekness as may prevent all risings of rancour or revenge in thee for it is much better they should serve as armour to prevent then as balsome to cure the wound But if this passion be not yet so subdued in thee but that there will be some stirrings of it yet then be sure to take it at the very first rise and let not thy fancy chew as it were upon the injury by often rolling it in thy mind but remember betimes the foregoing considerations and withal that this is a time and season of tryal to thee wherein thou mayest shew how thou hast profited in Christs School there now being an opportunity offered thee either of obeying and pleasing God by passing by this offence of thy brother or else of obeying and pleaseing Satan that lover of discord by nourishing hatred against him Remember this I say betimes before thou be inflamed for if this fire be throughly kindled it will cast such a smoak as will blind thy reason and make thee unfit to judge even in this so very plain case whether it be bettet by obeying God to purchase to thy self eternally bliss or by obeying Satan eternal torments Whereas as if thou put the question to thy self before this commotion and disturbance of mind 't is impossible but thy understanding must pronounce for God And then unless thy will be so perverse that thou wilt deliberately choose death thou wilt surely practice according to that sentence of thy understanding I shall add no more on this first part of Charity that of the Affections I prooceed now to that of the Actions And this indeed is it whereby the former must be approved we may pretend great charity within but if none break forth in the Actions we may say of that love as Saint James does of the Faith he speaks of that it is dead Jam. 2. 20. It is the loving indeed that must approve our hearts before God 1 Jo. 3. 18. Now this love in the Actions may l●kewise fitly be distributed as the former was in relation to the four distinct capacities of our brethren their Souls their Bodies their Goods and Credit The Soul I formerly told you may be considered either in a natural or spiritual sense and in both of them Charity binds us to do all the good we can As the Soul signifies the mind of a man so we are to endeavour the comfort and refreshment of our brethren desire to give them all true cause of joy cheerfulness especially when we see any under any sadness or heaviness then to bring out all the cordials we can procure that is to labour by all Christian and fit means to chear the troubled spirits of our brethren to comfort them that are in any heaviness as the Apostle speaks 2 Cor. 1. 4. But the Soul in the spiritual sense is y●t of greater concernment and the securing of that is a matter of much greater moment then the refreshing of the mind onely in as much as the eternal sorrwes and sadnesses of Hell exceed the deepest sorrowes of this life and therefore though we must not omit the former yet on this we are to imploy our most zealous charities Wherein we are not to content our selves with a bare wishing well to the Souls of our brethren this alone is a sluggish sort of kindness unworthy of those who are to imitate the great Redeemer of Souls who did and suffered so much in that purchase No we must add also our endeavour to make them what we wish them To this purpose 't were very reasonable to propound to our selves in all our conversings with others that one great design of doing some good to their Souls If this purpose were fixt in our minds we should then discern perhaps many opportunities which now we overlook of doing something towards it The brutish ignorance of one would call upon thee to endeavour his instruction the open vile of another to reprehend admonish him the faint and weak vertue of another to confirme and incourage him Every spiritual want of thy brother may give thee some occasion of exercising some part of this Charity or if the circumstances be such that upon sober judging thou think it vain to attempt any thing thy self as if either thy meanness or thy unacquaintedness or any the like impediment be like to render thy exhortations fruitless yet if thou art industrious in thy Charity thou mayest probably find out some other