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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23775	The whole duty of man laid down in a plain way for the use of the meanest reader divided into XVII chapters : one whereof being read every Lords day, the whole may be read over, thrice in the year, necessary for all families : with private devotions.; Whole duty of man	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Fell, John, 1625-1686.; Sterne, Richard, 1596?-1683.; Henchman, Humphrey, 1592-1675.; Pakington, Dorothy Coventry, Lady, d. 1679.	1659 (1659)	Wing A1170_PARTIAL; Wing A1161_PARTIAL; ESTC R22026	270,427	508

Flat●ering him in his faults Forsaking his friendship upon slight or no cause Making leagues in sin in stead of vertuous friendship SERVANTS Servants disobeying the lawful commands of their Masters Purloining their goods Carelesly wasting them Murmuring at their rebukes Idleness Eye service MASTERS Masters using servants tyrannically and cruelly Being too remiss and suffering them to neglect their duty Having no care of their souls Not providing them means of instruction in Religion Not admonishing them when they commit sins Not allowing them time and opportunity for prayer and the worship of God CHARITY Want of bowels and Charity to our neighbours Not heartily desiring their good spiritual or temporal Not loving and forgiving enemies Taking actual revenges upon them Falseness professing kindness and acting none Not labouring to do all the good we can to the soul of our neighbour Not assisting him to our power in his bodily distresses Not defending his good name when we know or believe him slandered Denying him any neighbourly office to preserve or advance his estate Not defending him from oppression when we have power Not relieving him in his poverty Not giving liberally or chear●ully GOING to LAW Not loving PEACE Going to Law upon slight occasions Bearing inward enmity to those we sue Not labouring to make peace among others The use of this Catalogue of sins is this Upon days of Humiliation especially before the Sacrament read them consideringly over and at every particular ask thine own heart Am I guilty of this ● And whatsoever by such Examination thou findest thy self faulty in Confess particularly and humbly to God with all the heightning circumstances which may any way increase their guilt and make serious Resolutions against every such Sin for the future after which thou ●●ayest use this Form following O LORD I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee for my iniquities are increased over my head and my trespass is grown up even unto Heaven I have wrought all these great provocations and that in the most provoking manner they have not been only single but repeated acts of sin for O Lord of all this black Catalogue which I have now brought forth before thee how few are there which I have not often committed nay which are not become even habitual and customary to me And to this frequency I have added both a greediness and obstinacy in sinning turning into my course as the Horse rusheth into the battel doing evil with both hands earnestly yea hating to be reformed and casting thy words behinde me quenching thy Spirit within me which testified against me to turn me from my evil ways and frustrating all those outward means whether of judgement or mercy which thou hast used to draw me to thy self Nay O Lord even my repentances may be numbred amongst my greatest sins they have sometimes been feigned and hypocritical always so sl●ght and ineffectual that they have brought forth no fruit in amendment of life but I have still returned with the dog to his vomit and the sow to the mire again and have added the breach of resolutions and vows to all my former guilts Thus O Lord I am become out of measure sinful and since I have thus chosen death I am most worthy to take part in it even in the second death the lake of fire and brimstone This this O Lord is in justice to be the po●tion of my cup to me belongs nothing but shame and 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 PSALM 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 acknowledge my faults and my sin is ever before me Against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy saying and clcer when thou art judged Behold I was shapen in wickedness and in sin hath my mo●her conceived me But lo thou requirest truth in the inward parts and shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly Thou shalt purge me with Hysop 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 rejoycè 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 ways unto the wicked and sinners shall be converted unto thee Deliver me from blood guiltines● 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 offering 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 Jerusalem Then shalt thou be pleased with the Sacrifice of righteousness with the burnt offerings 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 OMost merciful God who hast in thy great goodness prepared this spiritual feast for sick

both Let those think of this who make it their pastime and sport to affront and deride this calling And let those also who dare presume to exercise the Offices of it without being lawfully called to it which is a most high presumption 'T is as if a man on his own head should go as an Ambassadour from his Prince the Apostle says of the Priests of the Law which yet are inferiour to those of the Gospel That no man taketh this honour to himself but he which was called of God Heb. 5. 4. How shall then any man dare to assume this greater honour to himself that is not called to it Neither will it suffice to say they have the inward call of the spirit for since God hath establisht an order in the Church for the admitting men to this Office they that shall take it upon them without that authority resist that ordinance and are but of the number of those theeves and robbers as our Saviour speaks John 10. which come not in by the door Besides the sad experience of these times shew that many who pretend most to this inward call of the spirit are called by some other spirit then that of God the doctrines they vent being usually directly contrary to that word of his on which all true Doctrines must be founded Such are to be lookt on as those seducers those false prophets whereof we are so often warned in the Epistles of the Apostles And whosoever countenances them or follows them partakes with them in their guilt It is recorded of Jeroboam as a crying sin that he made of the m●anest of the people priests that is such as had by Gods institution no right to it and whoever hearkens to these uncalled preachers runs into that very sin for without the incouragement of being followed they would not long continue in the course and therefore they that give them that incouragement have much to answer for and are certainly guilty of the sin of despising their true Pastors when they shall thus set up these false apostles against them This is a guilt this age is too much concerned in God in his mercy so timely convince us of it as may put a stop to that confusion and impiety which breaks in so fast upon us by it 9. Thirdly We owe to them maintenance but of this I have spoken already in the first part of this Book and shall not here repeat Fourthly We owe them obedience Obey them saith the Apostle that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your Souls Heb. 13. 17. This obedience is to be paid them in spiritual things that is whatsoever they out of Gods word shall declare to us to be Gods Commands these we are diligently to obey remembring that it is not they but God requires it according to that of Christ he that heareth you heareth me Luke 10. 16. And this whether it be delivered by the way of publick preaching or private exhortation for in both so long as they keep them to the rule which is Gods Word they are the Messengers of the Lord of Hosts Mal. 2. 7. This obedience the Apostle inforceth from a double motive one taken from their Ministry another from themselves They watch sayes he for your Souls as they that must give an account that they may do it with joy and not with grief The people are by their obedience to enable their Pastors to give a comfortable account of their Souls and it is a most unkinde return of all their care and labours to be put to grieve for the ill success of them But then in the second place 't is their own concernment also they may put their Ministers to the discomfort of seeing all their pains cast away but themselves are like to get little by it that says the Apostle Heb. 13. 17. will be unprofitable for you 't is your selves that will finally prove the losers by it you lose all those glorious rewards which are offered as the crown of this obedience you get nothing but an addition to your sin and punishment for as our Saviour tells the Pharisees If he had not come and spoken to them they had not had sin John 15. 24. that is in comparison with what they then had so certainly they that never had the Gospel preached to them are much more innocent then they that have heard and resisted it And for the punishment what Christ told those to whom he had preached That it should be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon which were Heathen Cities then for them the same undoubtedly we may conclude of our selves 10. Lastly We are to pray for them This S. Paul every where requires of his Spiritual children thus Eph. 6. 7 8. having commanded prayer for all Saints he adds And for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the Gospel and so again Col. 4. 3. And this remains still a duty to these Spiritual Fathers to pray for such assistances of Gods Spirit to them as may enable them rightly to discharge that Holy Calling I shall omit to set down here what is the duty of Ministers to the people upon the same consideration on which I forbare to mention the duty of Magistrates 11. The third sort of parent is the natural the fathers of our flesh as the Apostle calls them Heb. 12. 9. And to these we owe several duties as first we owe them reverence and respect we must behave our selves towards them with all humility and observance and must not upon any pretence of infirmity in them despise or contemn them either in outward behaviour or so much as inwardly in our hearts If indeed they have infirmities it must be our business to cover and conceal them like Shem and Japhet who while cursed Cham publisht and disclosed the nakedness of their father covered it Gen. 9. 23. and that in such a manner too as even themselves might not behold it We are as much as may be to keep our selves from looking on those nakednesses of our parents which may tempt us to think irreverently of them This is very contrary to the practise of too many children who do not only publish and deride the infirmities of their Parents but pretend they have those infirmities they have not there is ordinarily such a pride and headiness in youth that they cannot abide to submit to the counsels and directions of their Elders and therefore to shake them off are willing to have them pass for the effects of dotage when they are indeed the fruits of sobriety and experience To such the exhortation of Solomon is very necessary Prov. 23. 22. Hearken to thy father that begat thee and despise not thy mother when she is old A multitude of texts more there are in that book to this purpose which shews that the wisest of men thought it necessary for children to attend

vanities hath seized it and like a strong man armed keeps possession O thou who art stronger come upon him and take this unworthy heart of mine as thine own spoil refine it with that purifying fire of thy love that it may be a fit habitation for thy Spirit Lord if thou see it fit be pleased to let me taste of those joys those ravishments of thy love wherewith thy Saints have been so transported But if in this I know not what I ask if I may not chuse my place in thy Kingdom yet O Lord deny me not to drink of thy cup let me have such a sincerity degree of love as may make me endure any thing for thy sake such a perfect love as may cast out all fear all sloth too that nothing may seem to me too grievous to suffer or too difficult to do in obedience to thee that so expressing my loue by keeping thy Commandments I may by thy mercy at last obtain that Crown of life which thou hast promised to those that love thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. For SINCERITY O Holy Lord who requirest truth in the inward parts I humbly beseech thee to purge me from all hypocrisie and unsincerity The heart O Lord is deceitful above all things and my heart is deceitful above all hearts O thou who searchest the heart and reins try me and seek the ground of my heart and suffer not any accursed thing to lurk within me but purifie me even with fire so thou consume my dross O Lord I cannot deceive thee but I may most easily deceive my self I beseech thee let me not rest in any such deceit but bring me to a sight and hatred of my most hidden corruptions that I may not cherish any darling lust but make an utter destruction of every Amalekite O suffer me not to speak peace to my self when there is no peace but grant I may judge of my self as thou judgest of me that I may never be at peace with my self till I am at perfect peace with thee and by purity of heart be qualified to see thee in thy Kingdom through Jesus Christ. For DEVOTION in PRAYER O Gracious Lord God who not only permittest but invitest us miserable and needy creatures to present our petitions to thee grant I beseech thee that the frequency of my prayer may be some what proportionable to those continual needs I have of thy mercy Lord I confess it is the greatest honour and greatest advantage thus to be allowed access to thee yet so sottish and stupid is my profane heart that it shuns or frustrates the opportunities of it My Soul O Lord is possest with a spirit of infirmity it is bowed together and can in no wise lift up it self to thee O be thou pleased to cure this sad this miserable disease to inspirit and inliven this earthy drosly heart that it may freely mount towards thee that I may set a true value on this most valuable priviledge and take delight in approaching to thee and that my approaches may be with a reverence some way answerable to that awful Majesty I come before with an importunity and earnestness answerable to those pressing wants I have to be supplied and with such a fixedness and attention of mind as no wandring thoughts may interrupt that I may no more incur the guilt of drawing neer to thee with my lips when my heart is far from thee or have my prayers turned into sin but may so ask that I may receive seek that I may finde knock that it may be opened unto me that from praying to thee here I may be translated to the praising thee eternally in thy glory through the merits and intercession of Jesus Christ. For HUMILITY O Thou High and Lofty one that inhabitest Eternity yet art pleased to dwell with the humble spirit pour into my heart I beseech thee that excellent grace of Humility which may utterly work out all those vain conceits I have of my self Lord convince me powerfully of my own wretchedness make me to see that I am miserable and poor and blinde and naked and not only dust but sin that so in all thy dispensations towards me I may lay my hand upon my mouth and heartily acknowledge that I am less then the least of thy mercies and greater then the greatest of thy judgements And O Lord grant me not only to walk humbly with my God but even with men also that I may not only submit my self to thy rebukes but even to those of my fellow Christians and with weekness receive and obey their admonitions And make me so to behave my self towards all that I never do any thing through strife or vain glory and to that end grant that in low liness of mind I may esteem every other man better then my self and be wiling that others should esteem them so also that I neither nourish any high opinion of my self nor covet one among others but that despising the vain praise of men I may seek that praise which cometh from thee onely That so in stead of those mean servile Arts I have used to recommend me to the esteem of men I may now imploy all my industry and care to approve my self to thee who resistest the proud and givest grace to the humble grant this O Lord for his sake who humbled himself unto the death of the Cross Jesus Christ. For the FEAR of GOD. O Glorious Majesty who only art high and to be feared possess my soul with a Holy awe and reverence of thee that I may give thee the honour due unto thy Name and may bear such a respect to all things which relate to thee that I may never prophane any Holy thing or sacrilegiously invade what thou hast set apart to thy self And O Lord since thou art a God that wilt not clear the guilty let the dread of thy justice make me tremble to provoke thee in any thing O let me not so misplace my fear as to be afraid of a man that shall die and of the Son of man who shall be made as grass and forget the Lord my Maker but replenish my Soul with that fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom which may be as a bridle to all my brutish appetites and keep me in a constant conformity to thy Holy will Hear me O Lord I beseech thee and put this fear in my heart that I may not depart from thee but may with fear and trembling work out my own Salvation through Jesus Christ. For TRUST on GOD. O Almighty Lord who never failest them that must on thee give me grace I beseech thee in all my difficulties and distresses to have recourse to thee to rest and depend on thee thou shalt keep him O Lord in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee O let me always rest on this firm P●llar and never exchange it for the broken ●eeds of worldly succours suffer not my heart to be overcharged with the