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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46794	The Christian tutor, or, A free and rational discourse of the sovereign good and happiness of man, and the infallible way of attaining it, especially in the practice of Christian religion written in a letter of advice to Mr. James King in the East-Indies / by Henry Jenkes ... ; and now published for the benefit of all others.	Jenkes, Henry, d. 1697.; King, James.	1683 (1683)	Wing J628; ESTC R1916	24,940	82

Resignation of our Wills to him For this is the Love of God says St. John that we keep his Commandments All which if we do let our Condition in this World be what it will or may be we cannot but be truly Happy and Bl●ssed For the God of Love whom we Serve and Worship will be always Blessing us and doing us all the Good we are capable to receive from his Bountiful Hands under his Fatherly Care Protection and Government we are Safe and Secure and nothing shall be able to disquiet us where ever we are we shall always carry about with us a Heaven upon Earth the Peace of a good Conscience arising from this Love of God will be a Continual Feast to us Secondly 2 By Loving our Neighbour The next thing in Order to our Happiness is To Love our Neighbour that is All Men. Our Charity as to the Object or Persons to be Beloved by us must reach them all not one excepted and as to the several Acts of it they are only these two For First The Principal Parts or Acts of this Love are two The Love of our Neighbour requires of us that we hurt no man in any of his Concerns that we be tender of his Life 1 To wrong or grieve no man Honour Credit Reputation and Good Name that we look after the Good Condition of his Mind and Body that we do him no Wrong in impairing his outward Estate his Goods and Chattels or whatever belongs to him always remembring That whenever I wrong any Man I first wrong my Self and therefore to avoid this Mischief and Evil I bring on my Self I will be sure never to Wrong my Dear Neighbour but resolve to Love him as my Self and be as Favourable to him as I would be to my self or desire that others should be to me Hence Secondly 2 To do all the good we can The Love of our Neighbour requires of us also that we bear a good Will to all men wishing them all the Happiness they want and are capable of and that we endeavour also to do them all the Good we can as we have opportunity and as their necessity may be Instances of it to Instruct the Ignorant to Counsel the Doubtful to Convert a Sinner from the Evil of his Ways to Encourage others in Well-doing by my good Example and Seasonable Exhortations to Relieve all Indigent and Necessitous People the Poor and Needy by giving Alms Liberally to Comfort all Distressed and Calamitous Persons and such like Generous Acts of Charity are the Sum and Substance of this Law of Love to our Neighbour But then because as thus consider'd Our Particular behaviour towards our Superiors Equals and Inferiours he may be either your Superiour or Equal or Inferiour as to the Circumstances you are in you must behave your self so as to give to every Order and Rank of Men that which of Right appertains to them Our Superiors and those that are in Authority over us Whether in Church or State we are to Reverence them and Obey them in all their Pious Commands Our Equals we must Love and Respect as our Selves do to them as we would be done unto again Our Inferiours if we have any we must raise to an Equality with us and treat them with such a Due Observance as if they were our Equals that they may see we have as True and Kindly a Respect for them in the Condition they are in as for all others that are in a higher Condition above them For Christian Love makes no Difference but where it finds it made already to its hand it makes the best and most of it considering every one in the Circumstances he is in proportions her Respects and Kindnesses to them in such a befitting manner that Right and Justice may be done to all without Partiality or Diminution of any Mans Right be he my Superiour Equal or Inferiour if that can be This is I say for the main and most considerable Instances of it the true Law of Love to our Neighbour which Law whosoever Observes and Does those things it Enjoyns to do ex Animo Bona Fide truly and sincerely as he has the Pleasure Content and Satisfaction of Mind of seeing others made Happy by him in a way of Justice and Charity So he also hereby Secures and Furthers his own Happiness for who will wrong an Innocent Person or do him any harm that makes it his business by his Beneficence to Oblige all Are they Not Indebted to him And Is he not before hand with them and therefore they are under an Obligation really and truly to become his Friends to do him again all the Good they can and by this Way of Gratitude to Requite all his Kindnesses And yet if they should not do so God Almighty interprets this Man's Love to his Neighbour as if it were shewn to himself and therefore will Love this Good Man for it and ever Bless him with all manner of Good Things with such Delights and Solacements as this World can neither give nor take from him Thirdly 3 By Loving our Selves The last thing I would recommend to you Is the True Love of your Self after the best manner for there is a sort of Self-Love that is very vicious and culpable when a Man only regards himself and takes care that it may go well with him whatever becomes of all others round about him this I say is to be abandoned for it will never render you happy but rather betray you to a thousand inconveniences and real evils But now on the other hand the true love of your self consists in this First This Love Consists in two things That you deny your self in some things and then Secondly That you make much of your self in some other things First I say 1 In denying our selves in some things you must deny your self in some things and that very peremptorily that is In all such things as are contrary to Conscience and the Light of Reason within you or are expresly forbidden by the Law of God S. Peter calls these unhallowed things fleshly Lusts which war against the Soul S. Paul calls them worldly Lusts Tit. 2. What these things are by both which thus much is given to understand that whatever Appetites and Desires arise in us from the flesh and the world desires that only advance worldly designs that are apt to pamper the body to the neglect of the mind these must be cashered and banished out of the soul of man if happiness and welfare shall ever come in there And this is but the the same that your baptismal Vow obliges you unto to renounce the Devil the World and the Flesh with all the pomps and vanities thereof and therefore as you are a Christian charge your self daily with it to observe it and put it into Execution by this shew the World that you are not only a Christian by name and profession but in

which he can never Lose but by his own Default nor be deprived of by any outward Force or Violence a Good that is commensurate to the great End of mans Creation as he is a Free and Rational Agent and for which he was made by God and sent into this lower World that he might Live according to the Tenor of his Nature a Good that is of it self sufficient to gratifie all our Reasonable Appetites and Desires a Good that is Perfective of our Nature that improves our Rational Powers and Faculties that every one of them may attain their Chief End for which they were given us by God Almighty the Liberal Donor of all Good Things in a word it is the General Good of all the Vniverse that which does not only procure our Real Profit Pleasure and Satisfaction but also the greatest Pleasure to all others of the same Community with us Vt universis singulis bene sit That it may fare well with all and every one of us Now 1 Wherein it consists that this can be nothing else but Virtue or the most Heavenly Life that Man can lead here upon Earth You may easily make out to your self from the Description I have just now premised for he that endeavours to Live Vertuously and really doth so reaps thereby the comfortable benefits of this Life and that which is to come and so do all others too by this good man's Intention and Provision He enjoys the truest Pleasure Content and Satisfaction of Mind the serenest Peace and Tranquillity of a good Conscience attend him perpetually and nothing is of that sufficiency as this to gratifie all his Reasonable Appetites and Desires Here is a Good that is Perfective of our Nature that Improves and Advances all our Rational Faculties and Powers for it makes us truly Wise and truly Good it is infinitely conducive to our Happiness it is our very Happiness and nothing else so much This was that great and excellent Good for which God Almighty made Man and gave him a Nature suitable to this very End and Purpose that he should make it his main Business and Work in this World to Live Vertuously and do all the Good be can For in so doing he approves himself a True Citizen and Worthy Inhabitant of the World and all the World is the better for him for not only my own Pleasure is hereby Procured but also the Pleasure and Satisfaction of all others by me the General Good I mean of our Community we Live in This I say is the Sovereign Good of Man's Happiness All other things without this can never make us Happy This 2 Wherein it cannot Consist and this only can do it That which the men of this World so much Admire and Hunt after is Riches Honors and Sensual Pleasures but upon an impartial Review and Examination none of these Idle Toys can ever pretend to make the Owners of them Happy for they are all at the Best but Vain and Momentary and Perish in the Enjoyment they do not only not make us Good or Better but they neither make us truly Rich truly Honourable or truly Joyful as they may be well Used and Employed by us in the Way of Vertue they are good Tools or Instruments but in disjunction from Vertue they are stark naught and so can be no Ingredients of Happiness Besides they reach not the Mind of Man the better Part in us they are common and trivial things few are ever the Better for them but most are the Worse for the greatest Enjoyment of them But this can never be said of Divine Vertue all the World is the better for it and every Man in particular may be so too if he will but List himself under her Colours and therefore to conclude this point The Sovereign Good of Mans Happiness consists in the Acquisition and Possession of this Great and Everlasting Good Secondly §. 4. Of the Infallible way of Attaining it Now to Attain this Happy State of Life to live in a constant and uninterrupted Fruition of the best Pleasures of the Mind to have true Peace Content and Satisfaction and that all others for whom we are concerned may have it too by our means This can only arise from the Conscience of doing well and always better and better that is to say if you would be truly Happy as you and I desire to be Let us once for all resolve to Live according to the Rules of Vertue and the Laws of our Holy Christian Religion and I can assure you that we cannot but be exceeding Happy What those Rules and Laws are that set out to us the Divine and Heavenly Life of Vertue I will now lay before you I mean the Chiefest of them for the Holy Scriptures especially of the New Testament which I hope you diligently Read with Erasmus his Excellent Paraphrase will inform you better in the particulars and all other things relating to this Affair than I can do and here tho' I could be Large and Copious yet for your sake and my own I will be as brief as I can in the Enumeration and Explication of them He that Desires § 5. The General Way and Heartily Endeavours to be truly Happy must make it his Principal Care to lead a Life of Holiness and Vertue correspondent to those Laws which Reason and Revelation have made known unto us They are for our singular Advantage not Many and Burthensome but Few Easie and Pleasant Injunctions as for Instance To Love God our Neighbour and our Selves in the last place after the best manner For Love is the Fulfilling of the whole Law it is that which the Royal Law of Liberty The Everlasting Gospel of our Saviour Jesus Christ above all Duties most strictly Enjoyns us and as Effectually recommends unto us all other Particular Commands are but so many Parts of this General Law of Love this contains them all and is indeed the true Source and Vital Principle of the Divine Life of Vertue and Doing Well which can only render us Happy First 1 By Loving God By Loving of God I mean nothing else but what any body may easily understand that Loves Vertue Namely that we always have Worthy Thoughts of him in our Minds becoming the Perfection of his Divine Nature and his Sovereignty over us that we Reverence Esteem him Infinitely for his Wisdome Goodness and Power that we Magnifie and Praise him for his Benefits The best Expressions of that Love that we constantly Depend upon him and Pray unto him for the Supply of all our Wants that we heartily thank him for every Good Thing we enjoy and look upon it as an Effect of his Grace and Bounty that we be always willing to Trust our selves with him to submit to his Wise Disposals ●hat we fear nothing so much as to displease him nor love any thing so Affectionately and Devoutly as to Obey him Universally and Constantly in the most perfect