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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