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A59766	The practical Christian divided into four parts. I. The practice of self-examination, and a form of confession fitted thereunto; the Lord's Praier and penitential Psalms paraphrased; with meditations, and praiers to be made partakers of Christ's merits. II. Directions, meditations and praiers, in order to the worthy receiving of the Holy Communion of the body and bloud of Christ. III. Meditations with Psalms for the hours of praier, the ordinary actions of day and night, with other religious considerations and concerns. IV. Meditations with Psalms--- upon the four last things; 1. Death, 2. Judgment, 3. Hell, 4. Heav[en.] The third and fourth parts make the second volume, formerly called the second part. By R. Sherlock D.D. Rector of Winwick.	Sherlock, R. (Richard), 1612-1689.	1677 (1677)	Wing S3243; ESTC R221137	111,932	313

into Egypt to return into thy countrey to be subject to thy parents to be baptized by John to be afflicted with a forty days fast and thrice to be tempted of the Devil to be wearied with journeys and macerated by hunger and thirst and watchings to be tired with preaching to weep for compassion to be rejected of the Jews and frequently abused by them Thy Passion approaching thou vouchsafedst to be heavy and exceeding sorrowful to pray not onely with bended knees but thrice to fall upon thy face to be in a bitter Agony and to sweat drops of bloud to be betrayed by Judas with a deceitful kiss to be apprehended by the Jews and bound as a thief to be left desolate and alone for all thy Disciples forsook thee and fled To be led to Annas the High-priest first and there to be buffeted to be sent by him bound to Caiaphas and there to be many ways derided to be brought before the council of the Jews and there to be falsely accused and condemned to have thy face polluted with spittings to be provok'd by manifold repro●ches to be scorned and blasphemed and again smitten on the face and buffeted to be delivered bound unto Pilate and before him vehemently accused unto death and by him to be sent unto Herod and there to be calumniated and set at nought by him and his men of war to be arrayed in white and sent back unto Pilate by his command to be bound to a pillar and cruelly scourged unto bloud to be by him condemned and delivered up to the souldiers to be crucified by whom thou wast mockt with a purple garment and pierced with a Crown of thorns derided with a Reed in stead of a Regal sceptre and with bowing of knees named in contempt The King of the Jews again the third time bespatter'd with spittle and buffeted and beaten with a Reed on thy head laden with the weight of thy Cross and led away to the place of thy Passion there again stript naked of thy garments and profered to drink Gall mingled with Myrrh At last thou wast extended on the Cross thy hands and feet transfixed with nails crucified amongst thieves numbred amongst transgressours blasphemed both by them that stood by and by them that passed by and in the extremity of thy sufferings criedst out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Thy head bowed down thou didst give up the ghost and thy Side was pierced by a Souldier whence issued both water and bloud Taken down from the Cross and buried by Joseph the third day thou didst rise again and appear to thy disciples The fortieth day thou ascendedst into Heaven and sitting on the right hand of God the Father thou didst send down the promise of the Holy Ghost upon thy blessed Apostles and Disciples and shalt come again to Judgment to render to all men according to their works done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evil O Blessed Lord Jesus by all these thy most sacred Sufferings by thy bitter death and most precious bloud shed for us and by all things foretold of thee and fulfill'd by thee vouchsafe in great mercy to deliver me a sordid sinner with all my friends and enemies parents brothers sisters all that are poor and desolate tempted and afflicted bound and imprison'd with all Christian people From all our tribulations and distresses from the snares of the Devil from the bonds and chains of our Sins and from all evils both of Soul and body good Lord deliver save and defend us All our imaginations and actions vouchsafe so to dispose and order that they may be acceptable unto thee fill us with thy grace and with holy peace and with all vertue and grant us herein to persevere even unto death that making a good end of this present life thou mayst bring us to eternal life in thy celestial Kingdom where thou livest and reignest CHAP. VI. Saint Gregorie 's Praiers upon the Passion of Christ I. I Adore thee Holy Lord Jesus hanging upon the Cross and bearing on thy venerable head a Crown of Thorns and I humbly beg by thy Cross to be delivered from the destroying Angel II. I Adore thee Holy Lord Jesus Christ expanded on the Cross with five great wounds in thy nailed hands and feet and pierced side and I humbly beg that thy dire and gastly wounds may be a healing remedy to my sin-sick Soul III. I Adore thee Holy Lord Jesus panting under the sad weight of the sins of the world and I humbly beg by that unconceivable bitterness of sorrow thy innocent Soul suffered in that moment when it left the body have mercy upon my Soul in the memert of her departure hence IV. I Adore thee Holy Lord Jesus laid in the Sepulchre and anointed with Myrrh and Aloes and I humbly beg that thy death may be the life of my Soul V. O Save Holy Jesus the good Shepherd who laid down his life for his Sheep save and preserve the righteous call home the wicked justifie the penitent have mercy upon all true believers and upon me a miserable sinner Amen CHAP. VII The Form of Praier used by our Lord upon the Cross viz. the XXII Psalm paraphrased Verse 1. MY God my God So prayed my dear Redeemer hanging upon the Cross the gemination of his words expressing both the great Devotion and also the bitter Anguish of his Soul look upon me imploring divine commiseration and assistence in the sufferings of his humane nature why hast thou forsaken me That 's the height of sorrow and suffering to be therein forsaken as if the personall union of his divine and humane nature were dissolved and art so far from my health not affording the least mitigation of my tormenting pains or consolation therein and from the words of my complaint or the voice of my roaring for with strong crying and tears I offer up my prayers and supplications a Heb. 5.7 2. O my God I will never cease to call thee so though now thine indignation for the sins of the world lieth heavy upon me so that though I cry in the day-time in the which I suffer the torments of crucifixion yet thou hearest not so as to deliver me from them and in the night-season also when I was in a bitter agony sweating drops of bloud under the pressure of the Sins of men and thy wrath for them in both seasons and sad sufferings I take no rest no ease of my Soul's sorrows no cessation of my bodily torments 3. And thou continuest holy just and faithfull in all thy promises of mercy to the miserable or thou dwellest in thy holy one in this holy and innocent body of mine though nailed to the cross So we reade God was in Christ reconciling the world b 2 Cor. 5.19 O thou worship of Israel who hast so often delivered thy people and been made both the subject matter of their prayers and praises and onely object of

thing that is in heaven above or in the earth beneath or in the water under the earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them c. Examination by the Second Commandment 1. Deut. 4.15 c. HAve you not in your phantasie misrepresented the most pure and spiritual God under any bodily shape or visible being whatsoever 2. Have you not served the creature more then the Creatour making a God of the World by Ambition Rom. 1.25 Col. 3.5 Phil. 3.19 and Cavetousness which is Idolatry or a God of your Belly by Luxury and the too much indulging of carnal delights 3. Ezek. 14.4 Ps 81.9.12 2 Cor. 10.5 Deut. 4.2 Heb. 13. ● Have you not set up your idols in your own heart idolized your own imaginations by believing and worshipping God otherwise then himself hath prescribed either immediately in his Holy Word or mediately by the Ministry of his holy and true Church 4. Have you worshipped God as with all internal devotion of Soul so also with all external humble and low prostration of Body Ps 95.6 1 Cor. 6.20 For in being forbidden to fall down to serve Idols or any false gods you are thereby bidden to fall down in serving the Lord. 5. If you abhor Idols Rom. 2.22 examine if you have not been guilty of Sacrilege which is to rob God in Tiths and Offerings Mal. 3.8 or of whatsoever is devoted to his Service Both of which sins are equally condemned by this Law for as by Idolatrie God is robbed in his service so by Sacrilege in the support and maintenance of his service The Third Commandment Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain c. Examination by the Third Commandment HAve you not profaned the Name of God either 1. In your Thoughts by entertaining any misbecoming apprehensions of God's Majesty and such as are vain and mean and far below the Name of God Ps 99 3. which is great wonderful and holy Or 2. Jam 2.7 In your Words by any scurrilous and irreverent discourses of God or impertinent and unseemly addresses unto him Or 3. In your Actions by the ungodliness and injustice of your conversation 2 Sam. 12 14. Rom. 2.23 24. giving occasion to others to blaspheme his Name 4. Have you taken no * Lev. 19.12 Matt. 5.34 Jam. 5.12 false and unlawful Oaths nor yet been guilty of too ordinary customary swearing in discourse Ps 109.17 Jam. 3.10 or cursing by the dreadful Name of God which is onely to be mentioned for adoration and blessing 5. Ezek. 17.18 19. Zach. 8.17 Have you carefully observed those lawful Oaths you have taken in order to subjection to higher powers nor yet have taken any that have been contrary thereunto 6. Have you to the utmost of your power observed all just promises made unto others Psal 15.4 though to your prejudice in your outward affairs And because the Name of God is to be honoured in all things that have his Name enstamped thereupon Lev. 21.6 Deut. 28.58 ●er 34.15 16. you may therefore upon this Commandment examine as to the duties you owe first to the Word secondly to the Sacraments thirdly to the House of God As to the Word of God 1. Have you a far more venerable esteem for the Word of God 1 Thess 2.13 then for the word of man though spoken in the Pulpit wisely distinguishing betwixt the divine inspiration of the one and the humane invention of the other 2. Do you believe unfeignedly all that God hath spoken in his Holy Word Psal 19.7 c. whether by doctrine or example promises or threatnings and have the promises of God's Word allured you to obey its precepts and the threats confirmed by examples deterred you from doing what is therein prohibited Ps 90.11 3. Have you not placed your Religion in the bare reading of Holy Scriptures and hearing of Sermons without due consideration of the weight and true meaning of what you have heard or read Mar. 4.24 and without the careful practice thereof in your life Jam. 2.22 4. 2 Pet. 1.20 2 Pet. 3.16 1 Tim. 6.3 4 5. Tit. 3.9 Have you not made your own private interpretation of Scriptures nor wrested any Text to another sense then the Holy Spirit of God intended therein either to please your own fancy or maintain some private opinion or to minister to contention and dispute 5. Have you not used the Word of God in ordinary and common talk either to excite to merriment and laughter or to shew your own wit and secretly boast of your reading and readiness therein As to the Sacraments which Christ hath ordained in his Church 1. In general Have you a very high and holy esteem for those blessed means of Grace and mysteries of Salvation Joh. 3.5 and 6.53 believing unfeignedly the great necessity and efficacy both of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and not upon any pretexts or pretences neglecting the devout and reverend use of either as occasion and opportunitie hath been offered 2. Have you not profaned the consecrated Elements of either Sacrament Act. 10.14 15. by esteeming and using them as common things 3. As to Baptism in particular your grand dutie is to examine your self frequently by that solemn Vow you made when Christened confessing and bewailing your manifold transgressions thereof and daily renewing your Covenant with God resolving and promising daily to forsake the Devil the World and the Flesh and devoting your self to the sacred service of God by a true and lively Faith and Obedience to his Commandments The breach of which Vow unto God is a greater offence then that of ordinary Swearing because in the one God is but call'd upon as a witness but in the other he is a party concerned Concerning the Sacrament of the holy Body and Bloud of Christ examine 1. How often you have neglected to come Is 55.1 2 3. being invited to that blessed Feast And here consider the causes of this sin which are 1. ignorance of your Duty Isa 5.13 joyned with a slothful and careless neglect to take pains for instruction or apply your self to your Pastour for direction 2. 1 Cor. 11.28 29. Isa 55.7 the terrour of unworthy receiving considered but the duty to receive not remembred 3. impenitence and continuance in sin preferr'd before the Sacred Religious actions of a due preparation and devout participation of that Bread of life 2. Notwithstanding which impediments examine have you not presumed to come to that Sacred Feast being ignorant of the nature of the ends and benefits thereof and so received the same unworthily 1 Cor. 11.27 29. not discerning the Lord's body Or having knowledge 3. Have you accordingly prepared your self aright to come unto that celestial banquet and that 1. by a through examination of your self 1 Sam. 7.6 Jam. 4.8 9 10. Act. 3.19 to find out your sins and failings 2.