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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30638	The fathers legacy: or Burtons collections Containing many excellent instructions for age, and youth, shewing them how to live godly in this life, and to attaine everlasting happinesse in the life to come. First written for the instruction of his onely son, and now set forth for the benefit of others. By Edw: Burton.	Burton, Edward, of Stanton, Derbyshire.	1649 (1649)	Wing B6159; ESTC R215093	76,775	223

chant it as cheerfully in September the beginning of Winter as in March the approach of the Summer why should not we thinke I give as cheerfull ent●rtainment to the hoary Haires of ou● ages Winter as to the Primroses of our youths spring why not to the declining Sunne in adversity as like Persians to the rising Sunne of prosperity I am sent to the Ant to learne industry to the Dove to learne innocencie to the Serp●nt to learne wisdome a●d why not to this Bird to l●arne Equanimity and patience a●● to keep the same teno● of my mind●● q●●etness as well at the app●●ac●● of calamitous Winter as of the Spring of h●ppin●ss● And since the Romans constanc●e is so commended who changed not his countenanc● with his changed Fortunes why sh●uld not I with a Christian resolution hold a steddy cou se in all weat●ers and though I be ●orced with crosse Winds ●o shift my Sayles and catch at side Winds y●t skilfully to steare and keep on my course by the Cape of good hope till I arrive at the haven of eternall happinesse And now to conclude Meditation is a busie search in the Store-house of Fantasie for some Ideas of matters to be cast in the moulds of resolution into some formes of words or actions in which search when I have used my greatest diligence I finde this in conclusion that to meditate on the best is the best of Meditations and a resolution to make a good end is a good end of my resolutions A Morning Prayer O Most gracious God and loving Father we heartily thanke thee for all thy loving kindnesses so abundantly shewed upon us for our Election Creation Redemption mercifull Vocation Justification Sanctification and continuall preservation and for our assured hope of our Glorification in the world to come We praise thy gracious goodnesse for so mercifully preserving us this night past and delivering us from all dangers both of soule and body for that thou hast given us so sweet and comfortable rest and hast brought us to the beginning of this day And as thou hast safely preserved us unto this present houre from all dangers of this life so we beseech thee to continue this thy favour towards us this day and the whole course of our life suffer us not by vaine alurements of this world to be drawne away into sinne and wickednesse assist us with thy Grace and holy Spirit that we spend not our times vainely or idely but that we may alwaies be diligently exercised in the duties of our Calling to the benefit of our Brethren and discharge of our Conscience Grant that in all our consultations words and workes we may ever have thee present before our eyes through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen An Evening Prayer O Most gracious Lord God and loving Father we heartily thanke thee for all thy mercies blessings benefits and preservations so abundantly shewed towards us We doe praise thy glorious goodnesse for so mercifully preserving us this day past and delivering us from all perills and dangers both of body and soule for prospering and preserving us in health and prosperity for giving us all things necessary for this present life as health food and apparrell and other convenient things needfull this gracious goodnesse of thine we beseech thee O Lord to continue towards us for ever And here O Lord God we offer up unto thee our selves and ours our soules our bodies we recommend our lives our meanes and all we have unto thy gracious preservation and protection in assurance that that cannot perish which is committed unto thee keep us this night in safety and grant good Lord that our bodies may sleep and ou● sou●es may watch for the commi●g of our Saviour thy Son Jesus Christ tha● so our soules and bodies may be more apt and able to serve thee in that estate and Calling wherein thou hast thought good to place us we doe confesse and acknowledge O mercifull God that we are most miserable and wicked sinners as well by originall corruption of Nature as by the course of our evill and naughty life we have and doe daily breake and transgresse thy most holy Law and Commandements both in thought word and deed By the meanes of this sinne and corruption we doe continually deserve most just condemnation and to be for ever cast out of thy presence yet such is thy goodnesse towards us thou wouldest not suffer us thus to perish in our sins but hast sent thine owne deare Sonne Christ Jesus to take upon him whatsoever is due to us and to reconcile and mak● us one with thee againe In him therefore and thorow him we come unto thee beseeching thee for his sake that we feeli●g the griev●usnesse of our si●nes and groaning under the burthen of them may finde the release and ●ase of them in that we through thy ●●●y Spirit stedfastly bel●eve that Christ hath borne the burthen of them even for us Grant O Lord that we being assured hereof in our conscience may through thy holy Spirit be renewed with more graces and hate detest and abhorre all manner of sinne and study to live in all things according to thy blessed Will during our whole life Grant this O deare Father for Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for remission of sins O Lord glorious ever-living loving everlasting Father I wretched sinner presume once againe after my sinne to returne home unto thee requesting begging praying and desiring of thy heavenly Majesty that thou wil● look downe upon me I confesse were it not for the hope of thy mercy an● the hold of thy comfort and the renewing graces which sometimes I feele from thee and that sweet taste and feeling of thy good gifts and thy heavenly Word I should sinke in despaire for my sinne is alwaies before me if I go they follow me if I run they fly after me if I look back they stare upon me if I go forward they meet me if I turne to the right hand they terrifie me if to the left hand they torment me If I look down to earth Hell is ready to devour me now have I no way but to look up to thee Lord be thou then hore ready to receive me help me good God save me deare Father succour me sweet Redeemer assist me mercifull Creator that my prayers may be so fervent so zealous so affectionate towards thee that they may draw down thy mercies upon me powre down thy blessings shower down thy graces open thy hand of mercy restore joy and comfort to my heavie and laden soule wash away my sins wipe away mine iniquity heale my infirmities purge my wicked minde of all evill thoughts pardon all misdeeds and wicked dealings renew the good Spirit of he●venly graces restore the joyes of thy holy comsorts upon me O Lord let me have some feeling some taste some scent some glimmering of thy glorious presence Let me feele some comfort finde some joy have some rest good Lord let

given both in Heaven and Earth Arise then thou Lord to whom the Kingdomes doe belong and shew thy selfe and let not the man of the Earth any longer exalt himselfe least he be too proud and least he ascribe to himselfe or to his graven Images or vaine Idols the conquest that thou shalt see and suffer over thy people Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be the praise For the honour of thy Name arise before Ephraim Benjamin and Manasses before Great Britaine Ireland and other Countries that call upon thy Name arise and shew thy selfe for us for on thee only doe we call We call on thee to save us and our Forces and thy people now in more danger how and in what manner and at what time fully to declare thy Salvation we referre to thy heavenly wisedome only in the meane time that it may please thee to sanctifie and save to preser●e and provide for them and us and all thine both in Field and City Protect and defend deliver us and ours at home and abroad And thou great Sheheard of Israel be pleased to take downe more and more that Man of Sinne that hath and would exalt himselfe against thee Asswage then the malice of those that are enemies to us or to any of thy people and evermore confound all their devices that we being armed with thy defence may ever more and more give praise to thee which art the only Author of our peace and Giver of all victory And all this good Lord for us for them and all thine not for our merits but for thy great Mercy sake and for the Truth sake of thy gracious Promises in Jesus Christ our Lord and only Advocate and Redeemer To whom with thee O Father and the holy Spirit be all praise and glory now and for ever-more Amen A Prayer before Sermon O Most gracious God assist me I humbly beseech thee in this my good purpose and zeale and give me grace at this present time godly to enter into thy service Deare Father assist me with thy holy Spirit and drive away all vain and idle cogitations out of my minde that I may heare thy Word to my Soules comfort grant that it may take deepe roote in my heart and bring forth plentifully to the honour of thy blessed Name to the comfort of my Soule and the good example of my Brethren who seeing my good workes may glorifie thee my only Saviour and Redeemer Amen A Prayer before the receiving of the Sacrament O Most sweet lover of all Mankinde Lord and Saviour I beseech thee for thy bitter Passion sake to remove from me all pride envie and detraction wrath malice and impatience and all other sicknesses and diseases of the Soule and plant good Lord in my heart and minde true meeknesse charity temperance and modesty with all such other vertues and preservatives unto the Soule And mortifie in me good Lord all uncleane motions carnall desires and inordinate affections and revive in me the love of vertues and the perpetuall exercise thereof so that at this time and at all times I may worthily receive this holy and blessed Sacrament unto thine honour and glory and my soules endlesse joy and comfort Amen A Prayer after receiving of the Sacrament JN most humble and most hearty manner with most due reverence I thank thee good Lord most holy Father and everlasting God tha● by the bounty of thy mercifull grace wouldest vouchsafe thus to refresh and feed my Soule through faith with the benefit of the Death and Passion of thy Sonne our Lord God and Saviour Iesus Christ And I beseech thine infinite goodnesse that this the Sacrament of this thy Death and Passion which I most unworthy wretch have now received may never come hereafter in Iudgement and Condemnation unto me for mine evill merits and deservings but rather good Lord it may come to the profit and comfort of my body and to the salvation of my Soule unto the life everlasting Amen A Prayer at the houre of death O Heavenly Lord God wee poore wretches being overcome with griefe come all here attending thy good pleasure with this sick Servant of thine O Lord incline to heare our Prayers and his complaints unto thee be now O Lord present and send thy good Angels and Spirit to attend us be with us O Lord and comfort this sick person and now if the time be come of his departure grant O Lord he may depart with godly comfort and joy everlasting into thy Kingdome Ease O Lord his griefs mittigate his paines asswage his sorrowes an● give him a lively touch of thy heavenly comfort put by all worldly thoughts and beat downe all bad suggestions let nothing but good come in his minde and grant that he may to the last gaspe of breath breath out still some comfort of thy helpe and grant when he hath done his last to finish this mortall life then he may with Lazarus be carried into Abrahams bosome O Lord forgive him O Lord receive him O Lord protect him O Lord succour and save him and now and for ever grant he may rest with thee in eternall glory Heare us good Father for this our Brother and doe for him and us according to thy Fatherly mercy in Jesus Christ to whom we commend him with these our prayers for him and all his and our occasions in tha● prayer which thy blessed Sonne hath taught us Our Father which art c. FINIS Novemb. 29. 1648. Imprimatur John Downham

affections neither do we desire to profit more and more dayly in well doing if therefore we remain in Religion either cold or luke-warme what marvell But were we dead unto our own selves and not intangled inwardly with parturbations doubtlesse we should taste the unspeakable sweetnesse of a godly life and be inflamed with a burning desire of celestiall things for in very deed the greatest if not the whole let from godlinesse is because we are in bondage to vild affections and labour not to follow the foot-steps of the faithfull Hence it is that if we be never so lightly touched with adversity we are marvelously dismaid and seek help of man which cometh of the Lord now would we keep our places like valiant Souldiers the Lord would help us from above for he is ready to assist them which serve him and will give us victory if we fight his battles But if we place our Religion in doing these outward things in short time our Religion with them will utterly decay wherefore the Axe must be laid unto the root and our wicked affections must be cut off which is the only way to find rest for our soules If every year we would but root out one vice from our mindes oh how quickly should we prove good men But alas we see by experience that after many years we are worse then at the first when we begin for to professe Religion And he is an holy man counted now a dayes which can retain a part of his former zeal yet should the fire of godlinesse increase dayly and be inflamed more and more The remedy whereof is at the begining to strain our selves so shall we afterwards do all things at pleasure I confesse indeeed it is hard for to leave an old custome and as hard yea harder for a man to bridle his affection At the begining therefore strive with thine inclination and leave a wicked custom least otherwise when thou wouldest thou canst not easily for it is impossible that we should vanquish and subdue mighty which cannot overcome light and trifling things Oh if thou wouldest consider what quietnesse to thy self and joy to others thou shouldest bring by godly and good beheaviour doubtlesse thy chiefest care would be how to live in the sight of God religiously and honestly in the eyes of men What prefit cometh by Adversity IT is good for us sometimes to suffer affliction for it maketh us to know our selves in this world and to repose no confidence in any creature It is good for us sometimes to be ill spoken of and ill thought of although we deserve not the same for that bringeth to humilitie and driveth from pride And the more earnestly we call for the testimony of God in our conscience when we are condemned among men and of no credit So that every man ought so to depend upon God that he need not care for any worldly comfort For a good man the more he is troubled either outwardly in body or inwardly in minde the more hee considereth how greatly he standeth in need of Gods assistance without which he seeth he can doe no good then he sorroweth and sobbeth desireth to be delivered from misery then it greeveth him to live any longer and wisheth to be loosed and to be with Christ and then he perceiveth full well that in this life we cannot finde perfect peace and security Against rash Judgement LOoke warily into thy selfe and judge not other men For in judgeing others we labour vainely erre commonly and easily offend but in judging and examining our selves wee reape singular commodity As wee fancie a thing so we judge thereof and blinded with private affection wee commonely give partiall sentence now were the love of God alwaies our onely guide our sences which are enemies to truth would not so easily trouble us But commonly somewhat either lurketh within or chanceth without which carrieth us away Many in their doings unwittingly seeke themselves which are so long quiet in minde as they injoy all things according to their w●sh but if any thing fall out otherwise then they would they chafe fret and fume great descention falleth out even among friends and Countreymen yea among the godly and zealous too through the diversitie of opinions for such is our nature we can hardly break on old custome and further then he seeth will no man gladly goe But if we cleave or depend more upon reason and sense then upon that vertue which bringeth unde● the obedience of Christ let us never looke to be inflamed with the light of Gods holy Spirit for God wil be served not with a peece of man but with whole man neither doth he allow reason to judge of Religion Of the Works of Charitie WEe ought not to doe wickedly for any thing nor for any mans sake albeit in respect of the weake a good work may be undone sometimes or done otherwise And that is not to neglect a good work but to leave one good work to do a better If thou have not love there outward deeds profit nothing if thou have love be thy works never so small and simple they profit much for God respecteth not what is done but how and with what affection a thing is done Hee doth much that loveth much hee doth much that doth a thing as it should be done and he doth so that seeketh the common welfare before his owne profit It many times seemeth a charitable deed which indeed is a carnall for that which is done as commonly workes are done either of affection or desire of gaine or hope of reward which are carnall inclinations is doubtlesse a carnall and not a charitable Work A man indued with perfect charity serveth not his owne turne but onely in all things seeketh the glory of God He envieth not for he loveth no private joy neither will rejoyce in himselfe but in the Lord whose blessing hee desireth before all things He ascribeth no goodnesse to any but acknowledgeth all things to come of God from whom every good gift every perfect gift doth proceed in whom all the Saints do rest in perpetuall blisse Finally he which hath but a sparke of this true Charity accounteth all worldly things but meere vanity That men which offend must be borne withall sometimes THat which thou canst not amend neither in thy selfe nor others must patiently be suffered till God otherwaies worke Thinke with thy selfe that perchance God doth it to try thy patience without which our merits doe little availe notwithstanding in thy troubles thou oughtest to beseech Almighty God to assist thee with his grace that patiently thou maist indure his crosse and tryall If any being divers and sundry times admonished will not amend deale with him no more but commit the whole matter to God that his will and glory may appeare in all his creatures which knoweth well how to turne all things to the best endeavour thy selfe patiently to beare the faults and the infirmities of other men whatsoever