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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12649	A short rule of good life To direct the deuout Christian in a regular and orderly course.	Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.	1622 (1622)	STC 22970; ESTC S106293	53,144	246

must bestowe those daies in reading good bookes hearing sermons and such like godly exercises not lightly running ouer thē thinking it enough to haue read or heard good things but pawsing vpō such thinges as moue my affectiō and p●inting them wel in my mind and memory Because I am like to be troubled with cōpany more those daies thē others I must endeuour to recompence in this sort First by often lifting vp my hart to God in talke Secondly by striuing against occasions of euill speech and by not yeldinge to speake of other folkes faultes Thirdly in seekinge when occasiō serueth to helpe those I talke with by mine example or wordes And finally to make my talke agreeable to the rules of conuersation On principall Feastes it is conuenient to prepare my selfe before hand for them to liue a day or two before as it were in expectation of them desiring the presence and solemnity of that day wherein God doth most aboundantly bestowe his graces that hauing heretofore bene slacke in his seruice I may that day beginne of newe to take hart and courage to amend my life by the helpe and prayers of that Saint or by the meritte and benefitte of that action of Christ the holy day shall be For Confession and Receiuinge EVery sonday and high feast and all the festiual daies of Christ our Lady the Apostles and such other principall holy daies I must prepare my selfe the day before to receiue On Saterdaie at night or on the eue if occasion serue I must go to confession and withall diligence the neerer the time commeth of receauing the more wary must I be of my behauiour I must go to confession twice in a weeke Wednesday and Saterday at night when there commeth not a great holy day or some other day When I want meanes to goe to confession I must notwithstanding at my vsuall times prepare my selfe and to almighty God make euen in wordes the same confession that I would to my ghostly father for though it bee not a Sactament without absolution of a true Pre●st yet is it a godly thing good to keep me in vre and my conscience in awe Euery yeare twice once about Christmas if I may vpon Newyeers day or Epiphany and another time about S. Mary Magdalens day I must make a generall confession of the halfe yeare last past so from time to time taking those two times especiallie to renewe my selfe to remember Gods goodnesse towardes me and to beginne with newe feruor more earnestly to serue him as my duety and his benefits require I must also compare one time with an other and see whether I goe forward or backwards in Gods seruice and endeuour euery halfe yeare to gaine some ground of my selfe and to amend some one imperfection When I make my generall confession if I haue one certaine ghostly father I must yeild vp an account of my conscience concerning th●se points following First how I find my selfe affected in Gods ser●●ce and whether I finde a con●entment and delight therein or rather a tediousnes and dulnes Secondlie what praiers I vse to saie and howe much time I spende therein and what taste or trouble I feele in the same Thirdly what temptations and passions I am most troubled withal what meanes I doe vse to resist them Fourthlie what imperfections I am most prone vnto what vertu I cheifly labour to attaine and which I haue most facility to practise Fiftly what mortification I doe vse to break mine own will and what other cha●●isement to mortify my body Sixtly what desire I finde in my self to amend my former faultes and to begin a better course Seauenthly how I find my selfe for my resignation of mind to Gods will and for suffering and losse punishment sicknes or disgrace that he should lay vpon me Lastly how my health is aggreable to my exercises and whether I find not my body or mind ouercharged with too much praier penance or such other actions of deuotion These thinges are conuenient to be vttered that the pastour knowing the estate disease force or weakenes of his sheepe may be the abler discreetly to direct it Euery weeeke IN the beginning of the weeke I must fore●see what holy daies there are in the same that I may the better prepare my selfe for thē Also in the beginning of the weeke I must thinke whether I haue any extraordinary business temporall or spirituall to doe that hauing a foresight of it I may remember it and prouide the better for it When I reade my rules I may omitte the reading of other bookes vnlesse leisure serue me to doe both I must twice a weeke at the least go see into the offices of the house and suruey the houshold booke but if I haue the gouernemēt of it wholy in mine owne handes I must doe it oftener hauinge regarde that was●e lauishing be auoided frugality vsed and behauing my selfe in the demeaning of temporal thinges rather as a stewarde or bailife of an others goods then an owner of mine own seing that in truth I must at my dy●●g day be liable to God how I haue spent euery farthing I must ●uery weeke read some part of this rule of good life so deuiding it that at the moneths ende I may haue read al● seeking to print these spirituall directions in my mind and endeuouring to put them in daily practise Of Rules in sickenesse THE SEAVENTH Chapter IF my sicknesse be great I neede not vse any vocall praiers at all more then in the morning to commend my selfe to God with a 〈◊〉 and Aue and Creede or if I cannot well say so much now and then I must call vpon God with short praiers as Lord Iesus saue me Lorde strengthen me Lord grant me patience and such like In sicknesse when I can beare it it will be good sometimes to haue a part of some good booke read vnto me but yet not much for feare of hurting my health As in health I ought to be obedient to my superiours by diligent obseruation of my rules to shew my duety towardes God so in my sickenes I must be contented to be ruled by the phisitions and such as haue ca●e of me in thinges belonging to my bodily health must perswade my selfe that in that time one chiefe rule I haue to obserue is to be patient and tractable which in such case counteruaileth the merite of all my vsuall exercises I must also assure my selfe that I doe God good seruice when I doe any necessarie thing and take any conuenient recreation that may further my health I must take heede of being testy or froward which sicknes for the most part doth cause thinking that how much paine soeuer I suffer Christ suffered far more for my sake and farre more had I suffered long since in Hell if God had dealte with me as I diserued So soone as I fall sicke I must procure that I be confessed and if my sicknes continue long I