The country-curate's advice to his parishioners, in four parts I. Directs us, how to serve God on the Lord's day, II. On the week day, III. How to discharge our duty in our several relations, as husband and wife, parents and children, masters and servants, IV. How to prepare for death / by H.C.
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The country-curate's advice to his parishioners, in four parts I. Directs us, how to serve God on the Lord's day, II. On the week day, III. How to discharge our duty in our several relations, as husband and wife, parents and children, masters and servants, IV. How to prepare for death / by H.C.
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THE
Country-Curate's
ADVICE
TO
HIS
Parishioners
,
In
Four
PARTS
.
I.
Directs
us
,
how
to
serve
God
on
the
Lord's
Day
.
II.
On
the
Week
Day
.
III.
How
to
discharge
our
Duty
in
our
several
Relations
;
as
Husband
and
Wife
,
Parents
and
Children
,
Masters
and
Servants
.
IV.
How
to
prepare
for
Death
.
By
H.
C.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
T.
W.
for
J.
Robinson
,
at
the
Golden
Lyon
in
St.
Paul's
Church-Yard
,
1693.
TO
THE
READER
.
REligion
is
the
grand
employment
of
our
Lives
,
the
main
design
and
biass
of
our
rational
Natures
,
the
important
work
and
task
that
Heaven
hath
set
us
:
and
calls
for
our
greatest
vigour
and
vivacity
to
attend
it
:
and
though
perhaps
it
may
suffer
some
diminution
from
the
meanness
of
the
Person
,
who
treats
of
it
:
Yet
it
is
not
to
be
denied
,
that
its
own
intrinsick
worth
and
native
excellency
are
sufficient
to
render
it
most
acceptable
to
all
intelligent
Minds
,
and
unprejudiced
Understandings
.
I
pretend
not
to
any
high
strain
of
Eloquence
,
or
high
flown
Rhetorications
:
for
if
I
were
Master
of
a
very
fluent
Oratory
;
yet
should
I
at
this
time
wave
it
,
and
study
plainness
;
the
Station
I
am
in
,
a
Curate
:
the
Persons
I
write
unto
,
not
Courtiers
but
Country-men
:
oblige
me
to
it
.
My
Office
is
to
present
my
Reader
with
a
Portraicture
of
Practical
Religion
;
especially
as
it
hath
an
aspect
to
the
Duties
which
constitute
our
Devotion
:
Here
it
is
not
proper
to
be
quaint
and
florid
,
but
to
make
Impression
on
Mens
Hearts
;
and
bring
the
Deity
into
their
Souls
.
This
I
have
attempted
to
accomplish
in
the
ensuing
Sheets
:
though
I
most
frankly
acknowledge
how
feeble
and
languid
my
Enterprize
hath
been
.
Among
the
plain
Directions
which
I
have
given
towards
the
Consummating
of
a
Religious
Life
,
I
have
placed
those
which
respect
the
Lord's
Day
in
the
Front
of
all
:
and
with
good
reason
;
seeing
this
sacred
time
is
the
Queen
and
Empress
of
all
the
Days
in
the
Week
;
and
hath
a
just
precedency
of
them
by
our
Saviour's
Institution
,
and
the
practice
of
his
holy
Apostles
.
Religion
commenceth
here
:
he
that
begins
not
with
the
right
Celebration
of
this
Day
;
will
be
extreamly
defective
in
all
the
other
acts
of
Devotion
and
Religion
.
This
therefore
in
the
first
place
I
most
passionately
recommend
to
all
Votaries
of
Christianity
;
that
they
would
concern
themselves
in
the
due
Observation
of
this
Divine
Time
:
and
accordingly
I
here
offer
them
such
Rules
,
as
will
be
a
certain
conduct
to
them
,
and
fully
instruct
them
how
to
behave
themselves
,
in
all
the
Portions
of
that
Sacred
Day
.
If
this
attempt
be
favoured
and
incouraged
by
the
Religious
Reader
:
I
shall
be
animated
then
to
aspire
to
a
further
degree
of
consulting
his
Spiritual
advantage
,
by
committing
to
the
Press
those
other
Directions
which
I
have
prepared
for
the
guidance
of
pious
Minds
in
the
grand
business
of
Religion
.
In
the
interim
,
I
bid
such
adieu
,
and
incessantly
implore
the
Tri-une
Deity
;
That
these
my
weak
endeavours
may
prove
Auspicious
.
H.
C.
THE
CONTENTS
of
this
BOOK
.
Chap.
I.
THE
Preparation
for
the
Lord's
Day
upon
Saturday
Eve.
Chap.
II.
Of
Awaking
with
God
upon
the
Sunday
Morning
.
Chap.
III.
Closet-Prayer
,
and
the
Preparations
to
it
.
Chap.
IV.
Of
Family-Duty
ere
we
go
to
God's
House
.
Chap.
V.
Of
the
great
Obligation
that
lies
upon
every
one
of
us
to
worship
God
in
publick
.
Chap.
VI.
Of
going
to
our
Parish-Church
.
Chap.
VII
.
The
Souls
Soliloquy
as
it
walks
to
God's
House
,
and
behaviour
there
.
Chap.
VIII
.
Of
our
behaviour
at
Church
when
the
Minister
is
come
unto
it
.
Chap.
IX
.
Of
our
due
behaviour
between
Morning
and
Evening
Service
.
Chap.
X.
Of
resorting
to
the
Evening
Sacrifice
.
CHAP.
I.
Of
Saturday's
Eve
Devotion
.
I
Shall
wave
all
the
Opinions
I
have
read
,
concerning
the
beginning
of
the
Sabbath
;
because
I
would
not
here
enter
into
a
Controversy
with
any
Man.
The
Sentiments
of
Men
are
various
,
yet
how
different
soever
they
may
be
otherwise
,
sure
I
am
,
all
agree
in
this
:
That
a
due
Preparation
the
Even
before
,
will
be
a
great
help
to
perform
the
Duties
of
the
Day
following
.
The
Primitive
Christians
used
to
spend
the
greatest
part
of
Saturday
Night
,
in
Fasting
,
Watching
,
and
Prayer
;
to
fit
them
for
the
Duty
of
the
subsequent
Day
:
from
whence
,
I
suppose
,
our
Church
borrows
the
Custom
of
reading
the
Collect
for
the
Sunday
,
upon
the
Eve
foregoing
.
Nay
,
so
zealous
were
they
in
God's
Service
,
that
upon
the
ringing
of
the
Bell
to
Church
,
the
Plowman
used
to
leave
the
Plow
,
and
the
Tradesman
his
Shop
,
to
join
with
the
Minister
in
publick
Prayers
,
for
a
Blessing
on
the
Sabbath
.
Which
Devotion
of
theirs
,
because
this
our
degenerate
Age
is
,
for
the
most
part
,
strangely
averse
to
;
and
very
few
,
if
any
,
will
have
recourse
to
the
House
of
God
,
there
to
perform
their
duty
:
Let
them
repair
to
their
private
Oratory
;
Let
them
enter
into
their
Closets
;
Let
Conscience
there
call
an
Audit
in
their
Breasts
;
and
both
impartially
judge
the
actions
of
the
Week
past
:
and
how
the
Case
stands
,
at
present
,
between
God
and
their
Souls
.
Beg
,
O
beg
of
God
,
Dear
Christian
!
to
give
thee
a
true
sight
and
sense
of
all
thy
Sins
:
which
thou
maist
do
in
this
following
Prayer
.
O
Father
of
Light
,
and
God
of
Love
,
grant
me
true
Light
,
true
Love
,
and
true
Wisdom
;
that
I
may
clearly
discern
what
doth
please
,
or
displease
thy
Divine
Majesty
:
most
earnestly
desiring
,
even
from
my
very
Soul
,
to
detest
the
one
;
and
embrace
the
other
.
Illuminate
the
Eyes
of
my
Vnderstanding
,
that
I
may
truly
see
my
Sins
,
and
Imperfections
:
strengthen
my
Memory
,
that
I
may
duly
confess
them
:
and
rectify
my
Will
,
that
I
may
resolutely
amend
them
.
Return
,
O
my
Soul
!
to
thy Self
,
and
to
thy
God.
Lament
,
Repent
,
Amend
.
The
Spirit
indeed
is
willing
,
but
the
Flesh
is
weak
:
therefore
turn
thou
me
,
O
Lord
;
and
I
shall
be
turned
.
Convert
thou
me
,
and
I
shall
be
converted
.
Further
me
,
I
humbly
beseech
thee
,
with
thy
continual
help
,
that
in
all
my
Works
,
begun
,
continued
and
ended
in
thee
,
I
may
glorify
thy
holy
Name
,
and
finally
,
by
thy
Mercy
,
obtain
Everlasting
Life
,
through
Jesus
Christ
Our
Lord.
Amen
.
Questions
to
be
put
to
our selves
every
Saturday
Night
.
1.
How
have
I
this
Week
kept
my
Heart
?
Have
I
been
diligent
in
putting
away
evil
thoughts
of
sundry
sorts
?
and
have
I
kept
my
mind
exercised
with
good
and
holy
Meditations
?
Have
I
thought
humbly
of
my self
?
Charitably
of
my
Neighbour
,
and
reverently
of
my
Maker
and
Redeemer
?
2.
How
have
I
this
Week
kept
the
Door
of
my
Lips
?
Have
not
I
uttered
many
idle
,
vain
,
and
unprofitable
words
?
Have
I
spoke
of
my
Neighbour
with
that
Love
and
Charity
,
as
I
would
have
others
speak
of
me
?
Have
I
had
that
compassion
of
others
defects
,
as
of
my
own
?
3.
What
aim
had
I
in
all
my
actions
?
Have
I
done
them
so
purely
for
the
Love
of
God
,
as
I
ought
?
or
had
I
any
Worldly
respect
in
the
doing
of
them
?
4.
How
have
I
kept
my
Senses
this
Week
?
Have
not
mine
Eyes
gazed
upon
wanton
objects
.
Have
not
mine
Ears
listned
unto
filthy
Communication
?
And
my
taste
delighted
it self
in
Gluttony
and
Drunkenness
?
5.
Have
I
been
so
truly
thankful
for
God's
Mercies
,
as
I
ought
to
have
been
?
6.
Have
not
I
,
this
Week
,
omitted
my
Prayers
?
Slovered
them
over
?
or
suffered
my
thoughts
to
wander
in
them
?
Lastly
,
Have
not
I
been
guilty
of
some
crying
Sin
,
that
might
justly
cause
God
to
reject
them
.
These
Queries
proposed
,
and
thy
Heart
,
O
Christian
!
upon
Enquiry
,
declaring
thee
guilty
:
with
me
say
,
Of
these
,
and
all
my
other
Sins
that
I
have
committed
from
my
youth
up
,
unto
this
present
day
,
I
most
heartily
repent
me
,
O
Lord
my
God!
and
I
am
truly
sorry
for
every
thought
,
word
,
and
act
,
by
which
I
have
provoked
thy
wrath
and
indignation
against
me
:
especially
for
my
disobedience
of
so
holy
a
Law
;
and
extream
ingratitude
to
so
bountiful
a
Lord.
O
God
,
I
do
acknowledge
my self
unworthy
the
least
of
thy
Mercies
,
and
obnoxious
to
the
greatest
of
thy
Judgments
:
but
thou
hast
revealed
thy self
a
God
of
Pity
and
Compassion
,
for
giving
the
Iniquities
of
such
as
truly
repent
,
and
acquitting
those
that
voluntarily
acquit
themselves
.
Wherefore
with
a
penitent
and
contrite
Heart
,
I
confess
my
own
guiltiness
;
resolving
patiently
to
bear
whatsoever
affliction
thou
laist
upon
me
for
my
Sins
:
hoping
for
Pardon
,
through
the
alone
Mercies
of
our
Saviour
Christ
.
And
now
,
O
most
gracious
and
liberal
Benefactor
!
with
my
whole
strength
and
faculties
of
Soul
and
Body
,
I
praise
and
magnify
thy
name
,
for
thy
great
and
innumerable
benefits
,
proceeding
purely
from
thy
bounty
,
and
intended
wholly
for
my
good
.
Particularly
,
for
preserving
the
this
Week
in
the
midst
of
so
many
dangers
incident
to
my
condition
;
and
delivering
me
from
so
many
Calamities
and
Miseries
due
to
my
Sins
.
Thou
art
my
Creator
,
O
my
God!
and
gracious
Protector
:
thou
art
the
ultimate
end
of
my
being
,
and
the
supream
perfection
of
my
Nature
,
and
under
the
shadow
of
thy
Wings
is
my
perpetual
repose
:
from
the
Light
of
thy
Countenance
flows
Eternal
Joy
and
Felicity
.
To
Thee
be
Glory
and
Honour
,
Adoration
and
Praise
from
all
Creatures
,
now
and
for
evermore
.
Amen
.
And
since
thou
hast
ordained
us
the
day
to
labour
in
,
and
the
night
to
take
our
rest
:
as
I
praise
thee
for
the
blessings
of
the
day
past
,
so
I
beseech
thee
for
thy
Protection
this
Night
.
Let
the
Eye
of
thy
Providence
watch
over
me
,
and
thy
holy
Angels
pitch
their
Tent
about
me
;
that
being
safely
delivered
from
all
dangers
,
and
comfortably
refreshed
with
moderate
sleep
;
I
may
be
the
better
enabled
to
perform
the
employment
of
my
condition
,
and
faithfully
persevere
in
the
duties
of
thy
Service
to
my
Lifes
end
.
Amen
.
Beware
of
sitting
up
late
your self
on
the
Saturday
Night
,
or
of
causing
others
to
do
so
;
Lest
when
you
go
into
the
House
of
God
,
to
join
with
the
multitude
in
Prayer
,
you
are
fitter
to
sleep
than
pray
:
differing
little
from
the
dead
Bodies
,
asleep
in
their
Graves
.
The
one
sleeps
above
the
Earth
;
the
other
underneath
it
.
And
when
you
are
laid
in
your
Bed
,
let
not
your
mind
run
on
Worldly
thoughts
:
but
think
of
the
infinite
Majesty
of
God
,
that
you
are
then
to
meet
,
think
of
the
great
weight
and
importance
of
the
holy
Ordinances
,
then
vouchsafed
you
;
how
they
concern
thy
Salvation
or
Damnation
,
thy
Everlasting
Life
or
Death
.
Meditate
on
the
short
time
thou
hast
to
enjoy
the
Sabbath
in
:
how
near
thy
Life
is
to
an
end
:
how
easily
God
can
take
down
this
Earthly
Tabernacle
:
how
there
is
no
working
,
no
labour
,
no
striving
in
the
other
World
,
to
which
thou
art
going
;
and
continue
thus
musing
till
the
fire
of
Meditation
begin
to
burn
.
If
thou
thus
leavest
thy
Heart
with
God
on
Saturday
Night
,
no
doubt
but
you
will
find
it
with
him
the
next
Morning
.
CHAP.
II.
Of
Awaking
with
God.
AS
soon
as
sleep
hath
unseal'd
thine
Eyes
,
lift
up
thy
Soul
in
Thanksgiving
to
thy
Maker
for
preserving
thee
that
night
,
and
affording
thee
a
good
beginning
of
a
new
day
;
especially
a
Sabbath
day
;
to
labour
for
his
Glory
,
and
the
good
of
thine
own
Soul.
And
that
you
may
be
incited
to
perform
this
Act
of
praise
,
consider
these
several
motives
.
1.
That
perhaps
many
others
not
so
sinful
as
thy self
,
have
been
hurried
from
their
Beds
to
the
Bar
of
Judgment
;
from
a
Bed
of
Down
they
have
been
cast
into
a
Bed
of
Flames
:
yet
God
in
his
infinite
Mercy
hath
spared
you
until
now
,
to
Repent
,
and
prepare
your
Accounts
.
2.
Consider
that
many
others
are
visited
by
God
Almighty
with
Sickness
,
so
that
they
cannot
serve
God
in
the
Publick
Assemblies
:
while
you
enjoy
your
health
and
free
liberty
,
to
go
with
the
multitude
into
his
Courts
.
3.
Consider
that
you
are
now
brought
to
the
beginning
of
another
day
,
which
when
past
,
you
shall
never
see
again
.
Thou
maist
possibly
see
more
Sabbath
Days
;
but
that
space
of
time
when
the
Sun
is
once
set
,
thou
shalt
never
see
again
any
more
.
How
careful
then
should'st
thou
be
to
improve
this
Day
,
so
that
it
may
turn
to
the
best
account
.
Solomon
sends
Man
to
School
to
the
Ant
,
to
learn
this
good
Husbandry
(
Prov.
6.6
,
7
,
8.
)
Oh
that
we
were
as
wise
for
the
Bread
of
Life
,
that
came
down
from
Heaven
;
as
the
poor
Pismire
for
Bread
,
that
springs
out
of
the
Earth
!
The
Sabbath
is
an
Harvest
;
and
he
that
sleeps
away
his
time
in
Harvest
,
is
a
Son
that
causeth
shame
.
The
Seaman
,
or
Mariner
,
observes
his
Wind
and
Tide
,
otherwise
he
cannot
get
to
his
intended
Harbour
:
but
Seasons
of
Grace
are
not
like
the
Tides
;
of
which
,
if
you
miss
one
,
you
may
get
another
.
How
careful
then
shouldst
thou
be
to
improve
every
Minute
?
Our
Saviour
Christ
said
to
his
Disciples
concerning
the
Loaves
and
Fishes
,
Gather
up
the
Fragments
that
nothing
be
lost
.
The
like
advice
I
give
you
concerning
the
Lord's
Day
:
Gather
up
the
Parcels
thereof
,
Let
no
part
of
it
be
lost
,
no
not
the
least
Minutes
;
which
are
pretious
:
to
this
end
,
Spiritualize
all
the
objects
you
meet
with
in
the
Day
;
as
thus
.
When
first
awake
,
think
that
God
Almighty
can
as
easily
awaken
you
out
of
your
Graves
from
the
sleep
of
Death
;
as
he
hath
in
your
Beds
,
from
the
sleep
of
Nature
:
Let
the
rising
out
of
your
Beds
,
put
you
in
mind
of
the
Resurrection
.
And
when
you
see
the
Sun
,
Let
your
Meditation
be
;
That
if
the
rising
of
one
Sun
be
so
glorious
,
how
glorious
will
that
day
be
,
when
so
many
thousands
of
Bodies
,
far
brighter
than
the
Sun
,
shall
appear
to
accompany
Christ
at
the
great
Assizes
?
Consider
that
this
great
Star
must
run
in
one
Day
,
ten
or
twelve
Millions
of
Leagues
:
and
shall
you
make
no
progress
in
Virtue
?
Consider
that
unwearied
Harbinger
is
gone
to
take
you
up
a
Lodging
in
the
Grave
:
each
Minute
is
so
much
deducted
from
your
Life
.
Follow
therefore
the
Counsel
of
the
Son
of
God
,
Work
while
it
is
Day
;
for
the
Night
cometh
,
when
no
Man
can
work
.
Let
not
then
this
Light
burn
in
vain
;
but
endeavour
by
your
own
good
Works
,
to
let
your
Light
so
shine
before
Men
,
that
they
may
see
your
Works
,
and
glorify
your
Father
which
is
in
Heaven
.
As
thou
art
putting
on
thy
Apparel
,
remember
some
of
them
were
at
first
given
as
coverings
of
shame
,
being
the
effect
of
Sin
;
and
that
they
are
made
of
the
Excrements
and
Offals
of
dead
Beasts
,
so
that
thou
hast
very
little
cause
to
be
proud
of
them
.
Nay
indeed
,
thou
hast
great
cause
to
be
humbled
at
the
sight
thereof
:
seeing
the
richest
Apparel
are
but
the
fine
covers
of
the
foulest
shame
.
Therefore
as
thou
art
Cloathing
thy
Body
,
endeavour
to
Cloth
thy
Soul
with
Christ's
Righteousness
,
as
with
a
Garment
:
Lest
while
thou
art
richly
apparelled
in
the
sight
of
Men
;
thy
Soul
be
found
to
walk
naked
in
the
sight
of
God.
Before
thou
betakest
thy Self
to
thy
Closet
,
breath
forth
thy
Soul
to
God
at
thy
first
awaking
,
in
this
,
or
the
like
,
short
Ejaculation
.
O
Lord
God
,
as
thou
hast
awakened
my
Body
from
last
Nights
sleep
,
so
by
thy
Grace
awaken
my
Soul
from
the
Lethargy
of
Sin
,
that
at
the
general
Resurrection
I
may
arise
to
Eternal
Glory
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
III.
Of
Closet-Prayer
,
and
the
Preparations
to
it
.
HAving
thus
fitted
thy Self
for
thy
Closet
,
before
thou
prayest
take
the
wise
Man's
Counsel
(
Ecclus
.
18.5.23
.
)
Prepare
thy Self
,
and
be
not
as
one
that
tempteth
God.
Now
for
thy
better
preparation
observe
these
few
Rules
.
1.
You
are
to
remember
when
you
settle
your self
in
Prayer
,
you
then
place
your self
in
the
presence
of
God
,
whose
Eyes
indeed
are
upon
all
Men
;
but
in
a
more
especial
manner
upon
those
that
call
upon
him
in
Prayer
.
2.
The
consideration
of
his
presence
is
to
put
you
in
mind
,
with
what
humble
reverence
both
of
Soul
and
Body
,
you
ought
to
appear
before
so
great
a
Majesty
.
3.
Lay
aside
all
wrath
and
malice
against
your
Neighbour
.
I
will
,
saith
the
Apostle
,
that
men
lift
up
holy
hands
without
wrath
(
1
Tim.
2.8
.
)
St.
Hierom
confesseth
this
of
himself
,
that
when
he
was
angry
he
durst
not
enter
into
the
Church
,
but
totum
animo
&
corpore
contremuisse
,
He
trembled
very
much
both
in
Body
and
Mind
.
The
Spouse
of
Christ
is
compared
to
a
Dove
,
which
some
say
is
sine
felle
,
without
Gall.
The
very
Heathens
when
they
offered
Sacrifice
threw
the
Gall
of
the
Beast
away
:
and
wilt
thou
offer
to
God
the
Gall
of
wrath
,
bitterness
and
revenge
,
with
the
Sacrifice
of
Prayer
?
4.
Banish
all
Worldly
thoughts
out
of
your
Heart
.
Our
Saviour
when
he
taught
us
to
pray
,
by
the
Preface
to
the
Petitions
telleth
us
where
our
affections
in
Prayer
should
be
,
viz.
in
Heaven
:
Our
Father
,
which
art
in
Heaven
.
Therefore
before
you
begin
to
pray
,
you
are
to
resolve
within
your self
,
seriously
to
intend
the
Duty
you
are
about
,
that
your
heart
may
not
wander
,
but
go
along
with
your
Prayers
:
Or
if
through
weakness
it
happens
to
stray
,
to
call
it
back
again
,
and
ask
Pardon
for
it
,
in
some
such
Prayer
as
this
:
Lord
strengthen
me
,
and
restrain
me
,
and
lay
not
this
weakness
to
my
charge
.
Having
entred
thy
Oratory
,
propose
these
few
Questions
to
thy
Soul
,
and
engage
thy self
to
an
Answer
.
O
my
Soul
!
Wherefore
art
thou
now
retired
into
this
place
?
What
is
thy
design
?
What
are
thy
Pretensions
?
Where
is
thy
God
,
whom
thou
comest
to
treat
with
?
Is
he
present
?
Doth
he
hear
thee
?
Is
he
merciful
?
Will
he
help
thee
?
What
is
the
business
thou
art
to
negotiate
?
Is
it
the
saving
thy
Soul
,
or
the
satisfaction
of
Earthly
desires
?
What
words
wilt
thou
use
to
move
God
to
hear
thee
?
What
humble
Gesture
?
What
profound
Reverence
?
Dost
thou
know
who
thou
art
before
?
Is
not
Gods
Eye
upon
all
,
to
observe
Head
and
Heart
,
Lip
and
Life
?
Darest
thou
suffer
thy
thoughts
then
to
wander
?
Will
he
be
pleased
with
that
Sacrifice
he
hath
accursed
,
of
drawing
nigh
to
him
with
our
Lips
,
when
our
Hearts
are
far
from
him
?
Answer
thy self
briefly
to
every
one
of
these
Interrogatories
,
as
thy
own
Conscience
dictates
to
thee
;
for
by
this
Discourse
made
to
thy self
,
thou
shalt
be
better
prepared
to
discourse
with
God.
Having
thus
prepared
thy self
for
Prayer
,
thou
maist
then
fall
down
on
thy
Knees
,
and
to
thy
ordinary
Prayers
(
which
must
not
on
this
Day
by
any
means
be
omitted
)
add
these
following
Heads
of
Prayers
:
suitable
in
some
measure
,
to
the
solemnity
of
the
Day
.
1.
You
are
to
pray
for
the
Minister
,
that
God
would
give
him
the
door
of
utterance
,
that
he
may
open
his
mouth
boldly
to
publish
the
mysteries
of
the
Gospel
:
that
he
may
speak
the
word
truly
,
sincerely
,
powerfully
,
and
profitably
;
delivering
that
which
is
sutable
and
seasonable
to
your
condition
.
2.
You
are
to
pray
for
your selves
,
that
he
would
banish
out
of
your
Head
all
wandring
,
worldly
thoughts
,
which
may
distract
your
minds
in
the
hearing
of
the
word
,
and
so
choak
that
Heavenly
Seed
,
make
it
Fruitless
:
and
that
he
would
give
unto
you
as
attention
to
hearken
;
so
Understanding
to
conceive
,
Wisdom
to
apply
,
Judgment
to
discern
,
Faith
to
believe
,
Memory
to
retain
,
and
Grace
to
practise
,
what
you
shall
hear
:
So
that
the
word
may
prove
unto
you
,
not
a
Savour
of
Death
unto
Death
,
but
of
Life
unto
Life
;
all
which
you
may
do
in
this
following
Prayer
.
O
Lord
God
,
from
whom
alone
are
the
Preparations
of
the
heart
,
the
day
is
now
come
,
which
being
holy
unto
thee
,
I
am
to
spend
in
thy
more
solemn
Worship
:
many
Sins
there
are
by
me
not
duly
repented
of
,
which
may
justly
bring
upon
me
a
Curse
instead
of
a
Blessing
;
especially
my
crying
Sins
,
(
Here
mention
thy
particular
Sins
which
thou
hast
found
thy Self
guilty
of
;
and
also
the
Sins
committed
by
thee
,
the
last
Week
)
that
may
make
my
Prayer
an
Abomination
to
thee
.
Accept
,
O
Lord
,
this
my
Confession
,
and
(
at
least
)
desired
sorrow
for
them
;
turn
my
heart
from
them
for
the
future
;
and
through
the
blood
of
my
Saviour
,
so
remove
the
guilt
of
them
,
that
they
may
not
hinder
good
things
from
me
.
Let
the
effusions
of
thy
Grace
,
both
upon
me
and
all
the
Congregations
of
thy
People
,
be
ever
plentiful
:
Let
my
heart
be
fixed
,
that
no
vain
or
worldly
thoughts
harbour
there
;
while
I
am
in
thy
House
.
Quicken
me
with
thy
holy
Spirit
,
that
I
may
draw
near
unto
thee
with
a
true
Heart
;
that
I
may
be
fervent
in
Spirit
,
serving
thee
;
and
that
,
receiving
thy
word
with
an
honest
and
good
heart
,
I
may
understand
and
keep
it
:
and
bring
forth
fruit
with
patience
,
and
to
perfection
.
Remember
thou
thy
Servants
which
are
to
dispence
thy
mysteries
unto
thy
People
,
and
especially
him
upon
whose
teaching
I
wait
:
Pardon
their
Sins
and
Frailties
,
open
their
Mouths
,
guide
their
Minds
and
Tongues
,
that
they
may
deliver
thy
truths
in
the
demonstration
of
thy
Spirit
:
and
let
thy
Work
so
prosper
in
their
hands
,
that
they
may
both
save
themselves
,
and
them
that
hear
them
,
that
both
may
be
built
up
in
our
most
holy
Faith
,
to
the
perfecting
thy
Church
,
and
Eternal
Glory
of
thy
name
thereby
,
through
Jesus
Christ
our
Lord
and
Saviour
.
Amen
.
You
may
also
add
this
Prayer
.
O
Lord
!
Holiness
becometh
thy
House
,
and
dutifulness
becometh
me
to
go
into
thy
Courts
,
and
wait
upon
thee
,
and
this
is
the
great
day
of
thy
Service
:
thou
that
hast
given
me
to
see
the
light
of
this
day
,
make
me
careful
to
do
the
duty
of
it
;
timely
to
present
my self
unto
thee
;
and
reverently
to
behave
my self
before
thee
;
that
when
I
go
hence
,
I
may
return
with
fruit
and
favour
from
thee
,
for
Jesus
Christ's
sake
.
Amen
.
When
you
go
to
receive
the
Sacrament
,
use
this
Prayer
.
O
Thou
in
whose
Temple
every
man
speaks
of
thine
honour
,
whose
Glory
no
mortal
man
can
sufficiently
express
,
whose
Goodness
no
tongue
is
able
to
display
,
whose
Holiness
transcends
all
the
perfections
we
see
here
below
!
overaw
my
Spirit
,
when
I
go
with
the
multitude
to
the
House
of
God
,
with
the
Voice
of
Joy
and
Praise
.
O
let
me
consider
,
that
it
is
the
All-seeing
God
in
whose
presence
I
stand
;
and
that
holy
Angels
are
sent
to
observe
my
Devotion
!
Give
me
sober
Thoughts
,
holy
Affections
,
devout
Postures
,
steadiness
of
Mind
,
ardent
Desires
,
modest
Looks
,
and
a
grave
Behaviour
:
especially
now
I
am
going
to
receive
the
Sacrament
.
Now
,
let
all
that
is
within
me
turn
into
holy
breathings
;
banish
from
me
all
undecent
thoughts
;
and
if
thou
dost
not
think
fit
to
free
me
from
temptations
before
they
come
,
give
me
Grace
vigorously
to
resist
them
,
that
I
may
show
my
Zeal
to
thy
Glory
,
by
my
abhorrence
of
all
imaginations
,
that
exalt
themselves
against
the
obedience
of
Christ
Jesus
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
IV.
Of
Family-Duty
ere
we
go
to
God's
House
.
AFter
thou
hast
fitted
thy Self
for
Church
,
thy
next
care
must
be
carefully
and
conscientiously
to
perform
Family-Duties
:
Jos
.
24.15
.
Let
others
do
what
they
will
,
I
and
my
House
(
saith
he
)
will
serve
the
Lord.
In
order
to
the
performance
of
which
duty
,
take
along
with
you
these
following
Rules
.
1.
See
that
your
Servants
and
Children
waste
not
away
the
Morning
in
sleep
and
idleness
.
2.
Cause
them
to
join
together
in
Prayer
,
reading
,
or
any
other
Godly
Exercise
,
Gen.
18.19
.
3.
Make
them
accompany
you
to
Church
,
command
their
Bodies
,
though
you
cannot
their
Souls
.
4.
Inform
your selves
and
them
,
what
a
great
and
glorious
Majesty
and
Master
you
are
to
serve
:
a
God
so
glorious
,
that
the
very
Angels
vail
and
cover
their
Faces
,
not
being
able
to
behold
the
brightness
of
his
Glory
.
And
if
this
lowly
Reverence
be
performed
by
them
,
who
are
in
such
nearness
to
God
;
what
posture
is
low
enough
for
us
,
who
,
in
comparison
of
those
Heavenly
Spirits
,
are
viler
than
the
ground
we
tread
on
.
5.
Make
them
sensible
,
what
poor
Worms
and
wretched
Creatures
they
are
,
Dust
and
Ashes
;
their
Hearts
full
of
Putrefaction
,
and
a
sink
of
Sin
:
and
therefore
ought
to
come
crawling
,
crouching
and
trembling
,
to
the
Throne
of
Grace
.
6.
Examine
what
Preparation
they
have
made
for
the
Sabbath
;
whether
they
have
not
spent
more
time
and
care
to
dress
their
Body
for
the
Eye
of
Man
,
than
to
deck
their
Soul
for
the
Eye
of
God.
Whether
they
have
prayed
in
private
for
a
blessing
on
God's
Ordinance
.
7.
Inform
them
seriously
of
the
great
work
they
go
about
,
what
a
weighty
work
it
is
,
how
that
their
Weeks
Works
are
but
toys
and
trifles
in
comparison
of
it
.
What
are
Sheep
,
Oxen
,
or
Shops
;
to
Grace
,
Christ
,
and
Heaven
?
Exhort
them
all
to
be
careful
and
serious
in
God's
work
,
in
Soul-Salvation-Work
:
and
therefore
they
ought
to
prepare
themselves
with
all
their
might
.
Remember
the
Fourth
Commandment
binds
you
to
look
to
all
within
your
care
,
both
Man-Servant
and
Maid-Servant
,
&c.
Whosoever
rides
them
unnecessary
Journeys
on
that
day
,
the
groans
of
the
tired
Beast
,
will
rise
up
in
judgment
against
them
,
and
condemn
them
for
breaking
God's
Command
.
As
Motives
hereunto
,
consider
1.
That
it
is
God
in
a
Family
,
not
Man
only
that
maketh
it
to
prosper
:
so
that
if
thou
wouldest
have
it
go
well
with
thy
Family
;
then
oughtest
thou
to
set
up
the
worship
of
God
in
it
.
The
Lord
blessed
the
House
of
Obed-Edom
for
the
Arks
sake
:
so
God
will
bless
thy
House
,
if
the
Ark
,
that
is
,
his
worship
be
there
.
Wouldst
thou
have
thy
Family
flourish
,
set
up
the
worship
of
God
in
it
.
Let
no
wicked
Person
remain
in
thine
House
.
He
that
will
not
pray
and
join
in
the
worship
of
God
with
thee
;
Let
him
not
eat
with
thee
.
Make
Joshua's
resolution
;
As
for
me
and
my
House
,
we
will
serve
the
Lord.
2.
Remember
you
must
be
accountable
to
God
for
those
Souls
he
hath
committed
to
your
charge
:
you
ought
therefore
to
take
care
that
they
be
trained
up
in
the
fear
of
the
Lord.
See
that
none
of
your
Family
be
given
to
any
Vice
,
viz.
Swearing
,
Drinking
,
Lying
,
or
the
like
.
Make
choice
of
such
Servants
as
fear
God
:
chuse
for
him
somewhat
,
and
not
altogether
for
your self
.
Enquire
in
the
first
place
,
whether
they
will
submit
to
his
word
:
if
not
,
let
them
not
come
under
thy
roof
.
As
thou
wouldst
not
have
the
Devils
Company
in
thine
House
;
so
do
not
entertain
any
of
his
Friends
and
Servants
;
but
rather
let
it
be
an
Harbour
and
Habitation
of
God's
Children
:
for
so
shalt
thou
be
blessed
.
You
know
that
God
blessed
Laban
for
Jacob's
sake
:
so
may
you
likewise
expect
a
Blessing
,
if
you
entertain
such
in
your
House
.
A
Family-Prayer
before
we
go
to
Church
.
O
Lord
,
encrease
our
Faith
,
and
by
thy
holy
Spirit
prepare
our
hearts
to
pray
as
we
ought
;
and
for
Christ's
sake
accept
this
Morning
Sacrifice
of
Prayer
,
though
weak
and
imperfect
,
which
in
his
Name
,
and
by
his
Mediation
and
Intercession
we
offer
up
to
Thee
.
We
humbly
and
heartily
acknowledge
thy
infinite
Wisdom
,
tender
Love
,
and
Fatherly
Goodness
towards
us
thy
unworthy
Servants
,
most
vile
and
wretched
Sinners
,
in
that
it
hath
pleased
thee
not
only
to
give
us
a
liberal
allowance
of
time
to
do
our
own
Works
,
and
follow
our
own
Callings
and
Recreations
,
for
the
health
of
our
Bodies
,
and
the
necessities
of
this
present
Life
:
but
also
to
appoint
us
one
day
in
seven
to
attend
upon
thee
,
do
thy
Work
,
and
fit
our selves
to
keep
with
thee
an
Everlasting
Sabbath
in
the
highest
Heavens
.
We
know
,
O
Lord
,
that
we
are
bound
in
Conscience
to
serve
and
worship
thee
every
day
of
the
Week
;
and
every
day
to
set
apart
some
time
for
Spiritual
and
Heavenly
Exercises
;
yea
,
and
when
we
are
in
Earthly
business
,
to
carry
Heavenly
minds
about
with
us
:
yet
it
hath
pleased
thee
further
to
allow
us
one
day
in
seven
to
attend
wholly
upon
thee
,
and
more
throughly
to
acquaint
our selves
with
thee
;
with
thy
ways
,
and
with
our
sinful
and
deceitful
hearts
:
to
wean
them
from
the
Love
of
this
World
,
and
set
them
upon
Heavenly
Joys
.
And
now
,
O
Lord
,
as
thou
hast
given
us
a
day
to
serve
thee
;
fit
and
prepare
every
Soul
to
worship
thee
as
we
ought
.
To
this
end
,
give
us
the
assistance
of
thy
holy
Spirit
,
that
we
may
learn
to
redeem
time
,
and
number
all
our
days
,
our
Sabbaths
more
especially
;
that
so
we
may
apply
our
hearts
unto
Wisdom
:
that
we
may
now
get
wise
,
religious
,
believing
and
Repenting
Hearts
.
O
Lord
,
give
us
Grace
to
consecrate
this
day
,
as
a
day
of
delight
,
holy
and
honourable
to
thee
:
not
doing
our
own
Works
,
nor
following
our
own
Pleasures
,
nor
speaking
our
own
words
;
but
exercising
our selves
in
duties
of
Piety
and
Mercy
,
publickly
and
privately
:
in
thy
House
and
in
our
own
.
So
that
we
may
make
this
Season
a
day
not
only
of
reconciliation
for
the
Sins
of
the
Week
past
;
but
also
a
day
of
Preparation
and
spiritual
Provision
,
furnishing
our selves
for
the
better
performance
of
the
duties
of
the
Week
to
come
.
And
now
,
O
Heavenly
Father
,
we
are
going
to
thy
House
to
partake
of
thy
Ordinances
,
we
beseech
thee
to
go
with
us
thither
,
and
stand
by
us
there
;
and
bring
us
back
again
:
rejoicing
when
we
shall
find
our
Faith
encreased
,
our
Hope
quickned
,
our
Zeal
kindled
,
our
Hearts
inflamed
with
the
Love
of
thee
and
our
Brethren
.
Let
us
not
,
we
beseech
thee
,
make
thy
House
,
which
is
an
House
of
Prayer
and
Spiritual
Exercises
,
to
be
a
Den
of
Thieves
:
but
let
us
look
to
our
Feet
,
that
so
we
may
be
more
ready
to
hear
,
than
to
offer
up
the
Sacrifice
of
Fools
.
It
is
a
fearful
thing
,
when
this
word
which
should
he
a
Savour
of
Life
unto
Life
,
does
prove
a
Savour
of
Death
unto
Death
;
as
it
does
to
many
who
regard
not
what
they
hear
.
Grant
therefore
,
O
Lord
,
that
we
may
take
diligent
heed
what
we
hear
,
and
how
we
hear
:
keep
us
we
humbly
pray
thee
,
that
we
be
not
like
unto
them
that
be
compared
unto
the
high
way
;
who
do
not
so
much
as
bend
their
minds
to
regard
what
is
taught
:
nor
to
them
,
who
are
compared
to
the
stony
ground
;
who
do
it
but
shallowly
and
superficially
:
nor
to
them
that
be
compared
to
the
thorny
ground
;
that
do
choak
and
smother
it
,
with
minding
their
ease
,
pleasure
,
gain
and
profit
over
much
.
But
give
us
Grace
to
be
like
the
good
ground
;
who
coming
to
the
word
with
honest
and
good
hearts
,
bring
forth
good
Fruit
,
with
Patience
,
and
in
good
Season
:
So
that
keeping
this
day
as
we
ought
to
do
;
we
may
be
translated
to
keep
an
Everlasting
Sabbath
in
the
highest
Heaven
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
V.
Of
the
great
obligation
that
lies
upon
every
one
of
us
to
worship
God
in
Publick
.
NEglect
not
publick
Ordinances
upon
pretence
of
serving
God
in
private
:
that
God
Almighty
gives
his
Blessing
both
to
private
and
Family-Duties
,
is
most
certain
;
but
to
put
God
off
with
these
,
and
neglect
publick
Worship
:
is
to
rob
him
of
a
greater
summ
,
and
pay
him
with
a
less
.
It
is
worth
our
Observation
,
that
the
Sabbath
and
publick
Worship
of
God
,
are
by
him
joined
together
;
therefore
let
no
Man
put
them
asunder
:
Ye
shall
keep
my
Sabbath
,
and
reverence
my
Sanctuary
,
I
am
the
Lord
your
God.
They
then
that
despise
God's
Sanctuary
,
cannot
observe
God's
Sabbath
.
Do
but
consider
David's
Tears
for
the
want
,
and
his
Prayers
for
the
fruition
of
Publick
Ordinances
;
even
then
,
when
he
had
opportunity
for
private
Performances
:
and
surely
then
thou
wilt
esteem
the
Ministry
of
the
word
no
mean
mercy
.
See
his
sorrow
for
the
want
of
them
!
I
was
driven
(
saith
he
)
from
the
Sanctuary
,
when
I
did
but
think
of
it
,
my
Soul
was
poured
out
like
water
;
for
I
had
gone
with
the
multitude
,
I
went
with
them
to
the
House
of
God.
Psal
.
42.3
.
My
Soul
was
poured
out
(
that
is
)
was
over-whelm'd
with
grief
,
and
even
ready
to
dye
;
when
I
compare
my
present
condition
with
my
former
happiness
,
in
the
fruition
of
religious
Assemblies
.
How
bitterly
and
passionately
doth
he
plead
with
Saul
?
If
the
Lord
hath
stirred
thee
up
against
me
,
let
him
accept
an
Offering
:
but
if
men
,
Cursed
be
they
before
the
Lord
,
for
they
have
driven
me
out
this
day
,
from
the
inheritance
of
the
Lord.
(
1
Sam.
16.19
.
)
How
pathetically
does
he
bemoan
his
own
Soul
?
Woe
is
me
,
for
I
dwell
in
Meseck
,
and
have
my
habitation
in
the
Tents
of
Kedar
!
The
loss
of
his
Father
,
Mother
,
Wives
,
Children
,
Lands
,
Liberty
,
nay
life
it self
;
would
not
have
gone
so
near
his
Heart
,
as
the
loss
of
the
publick
Ordinances
.
As
his
sorrow
was
great
for
the
want
;
so
was
his
Soul
most
earnest
for
the
fruition
of
them
.
How
many
Prayers
does
he
put
up
for
the
liberty
of
the
Tabernacle
Psal
.
43.3
,
4.
)
and
Psal
.
27.4
.
One
thing
have
I
desired
of
the
Lord
,
which
I
will
seek
after
:
viz.
That
I
might
dwell
in
the
Tabernacle
of
the
Lord
,
and
visit
his
holy
Temple
.
And
(
Verse
8.
)
When
thou
saidst
,
seek
my
face
;
my
heart
said
unto
thee
,
thy
face
,
Lord
,
will
I
seek
.
David
at
this
time
was
banished
the
Temple
,
and
he
among
other
reasons
useth
this
argument
to
restore
him
to
his
happiness
;
as
if
he
had
said
:
O
God
thou
hast
commanded
me
to
worship
thee
in
the
Temple
.
To
appear
before
thee
is
my
delight
;
my
heart
desires
to
seek
and
see
thy
face
there
.
Thus
he
prays
to
God
for
the
performance
on
his
side
,
that
he
might
be
enabled
to
obey
God's
Precept
.
Peter
and
John
went
up
to
the
Temple
at
the
hour
of
Prayer
(
Acts
3.1
.
)
and
St.
Paul
reasoned
in
the
Synagogue
every
Sabbath
day
(
Acts
13.14
.
)
those
that
by
their
practices
contemn
publick
worship
,
have
neither
Christ
nor
the
Apostles
for
their
Pattern
.
One
of
the
Jewish
Rabbies
hath
a
saying
,
he
that
dwells
in
a
City
where
there
is
a
Synagogue
,
and
cometh
not
to
Prayers
,
merito
dicitur
vicinus
malus
:
if
thou
forsakest
the
Assembly
of
God
;
how
useful
thou
maist
be
to
others
Bodies
,
I
know
not
:
but
I
am
sure
thou
art
neither
to
thine
own
Soul
,
or
theirs
;
in
neglecting
God's
service
.
Consider
the
condition
of
Primitive
Christians
,
who
were
forced
to
serve
the
Lord
with
fear
,
and
attend
his
Ordinances
with
trembling
:
who
built
Churches
under
ground
,
rather
than
they
would
want
the
opportunity
of
serving
God
in
Publick
.
Consider
also
how
David
bemoan'd
himself
,
counting
Swallows
and
Sparrows
in
this
much
better
than
he
,
because
they
could
build
their
Nests
in
the
Temple
,
while
he
was
banished
from
it
.
(
Psa
.
84.1
,
2
,
3.
)
How
amiable
are
thy
Tabernacles
,
O
Lord
?
My
Soul
longeth
,
yea
even
fainteth
for
the
Courts
of
the
Lord
:
my
heart
and
my
flesh
cryeth
out
for
the
living
God.
Yea
,
the
Sparrow
hath
found
an
House
,
and
the
Swallow
a
Nest
for
her self
,
where
she
may
lay
her
young
:
even
thine
Altars
,
O
Lord
of
Hosts
,
my
King
and
my
God.
Did
David
,
being
abridged
thereof
,
thus
bemoan
himself
?
Surely
then
we
should
count
it
a
great
Mercy
,
that
we
have
Publick
Churches
and
Oratories
to
go
unto
,
without
any
lett
or
molestation
;
that
we
have
no
Tyrants
,
no
Foreign
Enemies
,
no
Rods
,
no
Axes
,
no
noise
of
War
to
affright
us
from
God's
publick
Ordinances
:
what
cause
of
rejoicing
is
here
?
But
yet
,
if
this
liberty
of
ours
make
us
wanton
,
and
the
plenty
God
gives
us
tempts
us
to
Licentiousness
:
if
instead
of
growing
better
we
grow
worse
:
if
the
Manna
we
have
,
do
not
make
us
to
hunger
and
thirst
after
righteousness
:
we
may
have
just
reason
to
fear
God
will
remove
our
Candlestick
from
us
,
and
give
it
to
a
Nation
that
bringeth
forth
better
fruit
than
we
have
done
.
Perhaps
you
say
,
you
spend
your
time
as
religiously
at
home
as
you
do
at
Church
;
that
you
Read
,
Pray
,
Catechise
,
and
the
like
:
but
I
must
tell
you
,
you
do
all
this
out
of
Season
;
you
mis-time
and
misplace
duty
,
and
you
should
not
use
one
Ordinance
or
Duty
,
in
plain
contempt
and
neglect
of
another
;
you
cannot
expect
God's
Presence
,
nor
look
for
the
gift
of
God's
Grace
,
in
a
way
of
Disobedience
to
his
Command
,
and
neglect
of
his
appointed
means
.
When
God
sets
up
the
Ministry
of
the
word
in
any
place
,
his
Spirit
then
opens
his
School
,
and
expects
that
all
that
should
be
taught
,
should
come
thither
:
Now
(
saith
the
Learned
Mr.
Gurnal
)
whether
is
it
most
fitting
,
that
a
Scholar
should
wait
of
his
Master
at
School
;
or
that
the
Master
should
run
after
his
Truant
Scholar
at
play
in
the
Field
,
to
teach
him
there
?
And
again
,
put
Case
(
saith
the
Reverend
Dr.
Sherlock
)
any
of
you
were
a
Father
of
a
numerous
Off-Spring
,
and
that
without
any
express
Command
,
most
of
your
Children
should
agree
by
common
consent
to
visit
you
together
,
to
ask
your
Blessing
,
and
pay
their
thankful
acknowledgment
to
you
for
your
care
of
their
Education
,
and
the
liberal
provision
you
have
made
for
them
;
but
one
or
two
of
them
should
chuse
to
come
in
private
,
when
no
body
sees
them
,
and
obstinately
refuse
to
come
with
their
Brethren
;
though
they
were
censured
by
them
for
undutifulness
and
ingratitude
.
Now
if
Man
would
not
accept
of
such
a
private
acknowledgment
:
shall
we
expect
that
God
should
?
God
is
a
publick
Benefactor
,
and
upon
that
account
may
challenge
publick
Worship
at
our
hands
;
nay
indeed
God
himself
instituted
it
.
In
the
Jewish
Church
the
Sacrifices
were
publickly
offered
up
by
the
Priest
:
He
likewise
appointed
a
publick
place
for
Worship
,
viz.
The
Tabernacle
at
Jerusalem
,
which
would
have
been
of
no
use
,
if
there
had
been
no
obligation
to
publick
Worship
:
and
this
is
enough
I
should
think
,
to
satisfy
any
reasonable
Man
,
of
their
obligation
hereunto
.
CHAP.
VI.
Of
our
going
to
our
Parish-Church
.
HAving
thus
fitted
thy
Family
for
God's
House
,
repair
with
them
to
thy
own
Parish-Church
:
otherwise
you
will
discourage
your
Minister
,
and
set
your
Neighbours
an
ill
Example
.
Remove
all
prejudices
against
thy
Pastor
,
especially
these
two
,
which
because
most
common
,
I
shall
therefore
instance
in
them
.
As
(
1.
)
Against
his
Parts
.
(
2.
)
Against
his
Life
.
I
confess
it
is
a
mercy
to
sit
under
a
Pastor
that
hath
both
Parts
and
Piety
,
Gifts
and
Grace
too
:
and
wert
thou
to
chuse
thy
Dwelling
,
I
would
advise
thee
to
bear
with
many
outward
Conveniencies
to
sit
under
such
a
Ministry
:
but
suppose
thy
Teacher
be
,
at
least
in
thy
thoughts
,
a
Man
of
mean
Parts
,
and
his
pains
will
yield
thee
little
profit
,
that
is
no
excuse
for
thy
not
hearing
of
him
.
Shall
the
Divine
Herbert
be
Umpire
in
the
case
:
Consult
his
Church-Porch
,
and
Page
15
th
,
he
speaks
excellently
to
our
purpose
.
Judge
not
the
Preacher
,
for
he
is
thy
Judge
:
If
thou
mistake
him
,
thou
conceiv'st
him
not
.
God
calleth
Preaching
Folly.
Do
not
grudge
To
pick
out
Treasures
from
an
Earthen
Pot.
The
worst
speak
something
good
;
if
all
want
sense
,
God
takes
a
Text
,
and
Preacheth
Patience
.
He
that
gets
Patience
,
and
the
Blessing
which
Preachers
conclude
with
,
hath
not
lost
his
pains
.
He
that
by
being
at
Church
escapes
the
Ditch
,
Which
he
might
fall
in
by
Companions
,
gains
.
He
that
loves
God's
abode
,
and
to
combine
With
Saints
on
Earth
,
shall
one
day
with
them
shine
.
Jest
not
at
Preachers
Language
or
Expression
:
How
know'st
thou
but
thy
Sins
made
him
miscarry
?
Then
turn
thy
faults
and
his
into
Confession
:
God
sent
him
whatsoe'r
he
be
.
Oh
tarry
,
And
love
him
for
his
Master
;
his
condition
,
Though
it
be
ill
,
makes
him
no
ill
Physician
.
A
Condemn'd
Person
will
esteem
a
Beggar
when
he
brings
a
Pardon
:
How
beautiful
then
are
not
only
the
Lips
,
but
the
hands
of
those
that
bring
glad
tidings
or
Peace
?
Dear
Christian
Brother
!
I
pray
resolve
me
:
Do
the
efficacy
of
the
Ordinances
depend
on
the
parts
of
a
Man
,
or
on
the
power
of
God
?
May
not
a
costly
treasure
be
brought
to
thee
in
an
Earthly
Vessel
?
Thou
maist
light
a
Candle
as
well
by
a
Brimstone
Match
,
as
by
a
great
Fire
.
A
small
Damsel
was
instrumental
for
Naaman's
recovery
both
of
his
corporal
and
spiritual
Leprosy
:
And
who
art
thou
that
none
must
instruct
thee
,
but
such
an
one
that
like
Saul
,
is
higher
than
others
in
gifts
and
abilities
?
I
wish
it
proceed
not
from
the
Pride
of
thy
Spirit
:
a
picking
Stomach
argues
a
Diseased
Body
;
and
an
itching
Ear
cannot
argue
a
sound
Soul.
The
industrious
Bee
sucks
Honey
from
the
Thyme
,
an
harsh
and
dry
Herb.
The
Meat
is
as
good
in
a
Pewter
,
as
Silver-Dish
.
If
thou
goest
to
the
Table
only
for
Sawce
,
and
the
Church
for
Stile
and
Elegancy
:
I
dare
be
bold
to
tell
thee
,
that
thy
heart
is
not
right
towards
God.
2.
As
to
thy
prejudice
against
his
Life
which
gives
the
lye
to
his
Lips.
I
must
needs
confess
,
the
night
ushers
in
more
Stars
than
the
day
opens
Eyes
to
behold
a
Ministers
Actions
,
Ears
to
listen
to
their
deportment
,
and
Mouths
to
proclaim
their
actions
through
all
Provinces
:
and
they
that
forget
their
Sermons
will
remember
their
faults
to
Patronize
their
own
.
But
if
the
Providence
of
God
should
place
thee
under
such
a
Minister
(
which
is
no
small
unhappiness
)
yet
is
he
not
to
be
rejected
.
God
Almighty
fed
Elijah
by
a
Raven
:
and
so
may
he
feed
thee
with
Heavenly
Manna
,
by
a
sinful
Minister
;
who
may
convert
thy
Soul.
The
reason
is
(
as
before
)
because
the
operation
of
the
Word
,
does
not
depend
on
the
Piety
of
the
Preacher
,
but
upon
the
free
Grace
and
Power
of
God.
A
blind
Man
may
hold
a
Candle
and
give
light
to
others
,
while
he
himself
remains
in
the
dark
.
The
Scribes
and
Pharisees
were
many
of
them
vicious
Persons
,
yet
sitting
in
Moses's
Chair
,
Christ
commands
his
Disciples
to
hear
them
.
He
did
not
forbid
them
to
hear
their
Doctrine
,
but
to
forbear
their
doings
.
CHAP.
VII
.
The
Souls
Soliloquy
as
it
walks
to
God's
House
,
and
behaviour
there
.
ORder
thy
business
to
come
before
the
Prayers
;
for
many
and
mischievous
are
the
consequences
of
coming
late
.
1.
You
rob
your self
of
the
opportunity
of
private
Prayers
,
for
a
blessing
upon
the
publick
.
2.
You
lose
the
benefit
of
publick
Confession
and
Absolution
;
which
are
of
huge
esteem
and
value
to
all
that
are
wisely
Religious
.
3.
You
willingly
deprive
your selves
of
part
of
God's
publick
Worship
,
which
is
both
a
Sin
,
and
a
loss
of
so
great
account
,
as
cannot
easily
be
expressed
,
nor
ordinarily
believed
.
As
you
are
going
to
Church
,
you
may
make
use
of
this
Soliloquy
.
O
my
Soul
!
Let
Vzza's
Death
make
thee
careful
,
how
thou
enters
irreverently
into
God's
House
.
If
we
be
so
careful
to
come
with
clean
Apparel
before
an
Earthly
Prince
,
much
more
should
we
with
clean
Hearts
and
Souls
,
approach
our
Heavenly
King.
A
Prince
may
not
regard
how
his
Servants
go
in
his
Kitchen
;
but
when
they
come
into
his
Presence-Chamber
,
he
expects
they
should
look
to
their
Carriage
and
Words
.
God
indeed
,
O
my
Soul
!
expects
more
honour
in
our
religious
acts
,
than
in
the
ordinary
actions
of
our
Lives
:
for
in
the
first
,
we
directly
design
his
honour
and
service
;
and
if
we
do
not
perform
them
seriously
,
the
greater
is
our
Sin.
Think
then
,
O
my
Soul
!
how
choice
God
was
in
the
Law
,
about
all
things
relating
to
his
Worship
:
the
Tabernacle
and
Temple
must
be
of
the
best
Wood
,
the
purest
Gold
,
and
the
finest
Linnen
.
The
Persons
must
be
without
blemish
(
Lev.
2.17
.
)
the
Sacrifice
must
be
perfect
,
without
spot
;
the
best
of
the
Flock
,
the
best
of
the
Beasts
,
the
fat
that
covereth
the
inwards
.
And
what
,
O
my
Soul
,
dost
thou
think
was
the
substance
of
these
shadows
;
but
this
?
that
God
will
be
served
by
holy
Men
,
in
the
purest
and
holiest
manner
:
and
that
we
must
be
exact
,
both
as
to
our
Persons
and
Performances
.
Great
Persons
are
impatient
of
contempt
and
affronts
;
especially
when
offered
to
them
in
their
own
Houses
.
God
will
sooner
overlook
thy
forgetfulness
of
him
in
thy
Trade
,
or
Travels
,
than
in
the
Tabernacle
.
When
thou
drawest
nigh
to
him
,
he
will
be
Sanctified
,
either
by
thee
,
or
upon
thee
:
if
thou
refusest
to
give
him
glory
in
thy
Service
;
believe
me
,
he
will
get
himself
Glory
by
thy
Sufferings
.
His
worship
is
his
Presence
,
his
Face
;
and
look
for
his
Fury
,
if
thou
darest
him
to
his
Face
.
The
Waters
of
the
Sanctuary
,
are
like
the
Waters
given
to
a
suspected
Wife
:
if
Innocent
they
witness
her
Honesty
,
and
made
her
Fruitful
,
though
Barren
before
.
But
if
guilty
,
they
caused
the
Belly
to
swell
,
and
the
thighs
to
rot
.
If
thou
makest
Godliness
thy
business
in
the
Ordinances
of
God
,
it
will
make
thee
fruitful
,
if
barren
of
good
Works
:
but
if
thou
beest
formal
and
perfunctory
,
and
goest
thy
round
in
religious
Duties
,
never
minding
the
true
end
of
them
,
nor
thy
Carriage
in
them
:
thy
Prayer
will
be
an
abomination
;
the
word
,
a
savour
of
Death
unto
Death
;
and
the
Sacrament
a
Seal
of
thy
Damnation
.
When
thou
comest
at
the
Church-Door
,
say
;
Surely
the
Lord
is
in
this
place
:
how
dreadful
is
this
place
?
It
is
no
other
but
the
House
of
God
;
the
Gate
of
Heaven
.
When
you
enter
into
the
Church
.
O
my
Soul
!
where
ever
thou
art
,
thou
art
under
God's
Eye
;
and
therefore
shouldest
thou
be
no
where
prophane
:
but
now
thou
art
in
his
Church
,
thou
art
in
his
immediate
Presence
.
How
holy
oughtest
thou
to
be
?
How
devout
thy
Behaviour
?
We
read
(
Exod.
25.37
.
)
Moses
was
commanded
to
light
up
seven
Lamps
in
his
Tabernacle
,
the
place
of
his
publick
worship
:
and
why
seven
Lamps
?
What
was
the
substance
of
these
shadows
?
in
short
this
:
that
nothing
shall
escape
his
notice
.
He
seeth
what
uprightness
and
seriousness
there
is
in
thy
Prayers
and
performances
;
whether
thou
art
Praying
,
Reading
,
Hearing
,
or
Singing
:
and
after
what
manner
thou
dost
them
,
whether
slothfully
or
diligently
.
His
Eye
is
always
upon
thee
;
and
his
Eye-lids
try
thy
actions
:
to
reward
or
punish
them
.
When
you
view
the
Baptisterion
or
Font.
Give
hearty
thanks
unto
God
for
your
Christendom
,
that
by
Holy-Baptism
he
hath
called
you
to
a
state
of
Grace
and
Salvation
through
Jesus
Christ
:
and
humbly
beseech
him
,
that
you
may
continue
in
the
same
to
your
Lives
end
.
For
if
you
Apostatize
,
you
are
guilty
of
an
horrid
Sin
;
and
must
answer
for
it
at
the
great
and
terrible
day
of
Judgment
.
It
was
a
custom
in
the
primitive
times
,
that
such
as
were
Baptized
did
wear
a
white
Stole
:
a
Ceremony
,
to
signify
the
purity
of
Life
,
the
Baptized
was
to
lead
.
Eliodophorus
,
after
his
Baptism
,
turning
a
Persecutor
of
the
Church
,
Marilla
the
Minister
that
Baptized
him
,
in
an
holy
indignation
,
brought
forth
in
publick
the
white
Stole
,
saying
:
This
do
I
keep
against
thy
coming
to
Judgment
,
to
testify
thy
Apostasy
from
Christ
.
So
be
thou
assured
,
O
Christian
!
that
the
Water
with
which
,
the
Minister
by
whom
,
the
people
before
whom
thou
wert
Baptized
,
shall
rise
up
against
thee
in
Judgment
;
if
thou
dost
not
walk
in
newness
of
Life
.
When
you
behold
the
Eleemosynary
,
or
Poor's
Box.
How
much
am
I
bound
to
the
good
Providence
of
my
Heavenly
Father
,
who
hath
raised
my
condition
in
this
World
to
be
in
the
number
of
those
that
abound
,
not
of
them
that
want
,
since
't
is
more
blessed
to
give
than
to
receive
.
When
you
view
the
Communion-Table
say
,
What
shall
I
render
unto
the
Lord
for
all
the
benefits
I
have
received
at
his
hands
;
I
will
take
the
Cup
of
Salvation
,
and
call
upon
the
Name
of
the
Lord.
When
you
view
the
Pulpit
.
Remember
how
many
good
Lessons
you
have
received
thence
,
the
which
not
being
carefully
practised
,
will
rise
up
in
judgment
against
you
,
in
the
great
Day
of
your
Tryal
:
resolve
therefore
for
the
future
,
to
be
a
doer
of
the
word
,
not
hearer
only
,
deceiving
your
own
Soul.
When
you
view
the
Church-Bible
upon
the
Desk
.
Remember
,
that
this
is
the
Book
of
Life
;
the
sacred
Code
;
the
Divine
Volume
;
the
infallible
Oracle
of
Heaven
;
and
that
you
are
obliged
to
consult
it
with
all
manner
of
Devotion
,
and
to
inform
your selves
thence
,
what
is
the
will
and
pleasure
of
the
great
Ruler
of
the
World.
When
you
have
meditated
a
while
on
these
objects
,
fall
down
on
your
Knees
in
your
Pew
;
and
offer
up
this
,
or
such
like
Prayers
.
O
Lord
my
God!
There
is
no
mortal
Man
worthy
to
stand
at
thy
Door
,
much
less
to
appear
in
thy
Presence
:
yet
how
oft
have
I
presumed
to
approach
to
thee
;
without
that
preparedness
of
heart
,
without
that
dejection
of
Soul
,
without
that
true
and
holy
reverence
which
becometh
thy
Child
.
Pardon
,
O
Lord
,
I
beseech
thee
pardon
my
irreverence
in
so
sacred
a
place
,
and
distractions
in
my
Prayers
;
and
give
me
grace
to
demean
my self
so
reverently
and
zealously
,
now
I
am
in
thy
House
and
Service
:
that
my
Prayers
may
come
up
before
thee
as
incense
;
and
the
lifting
up
my
hands
as
a
Morning
Sacrifice
.
Grant
this
for
Jesus
Christ's
sake
.
Amen
.
Or
OPen
my
Mouth
,
my
Lord
and
Maker
,
to
bless
and
praise
thy
Divine
Majesty
.
Cleanse
my
heart
from
all
curious
,
noxious
,
and
destructive
thoughts
:
enlighten
my
understanding
to
know
thee
,
my
will
to
obey
thee
:
settle
my
attention
;
excite
my
Devotion
to
praise
thee
.
That
I
may
worthily
,
reverently
,
religiously
,
perform
this
Morning-Sacrifice
of
Prayer
;
through
the
virtue
of
those
most
pure
and
perfect
Praises
,
which
thou
,
O
Jesu
,
my
Redeemer
,
offeredst
up
on
Earth
,
to
thy
Eternal
Father
;
Mine
may
be
now
acceptable
in
thy
sight
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
Of
our
behaviour
at
Church
when
the
Minister
is
come
unto
it
.
AS
soon
as
the
Minister
begins
the
publick
Worship
,
lay
aside
all
your
other
Meditations
and
Prayers
,
and
apply
your
mind
to
attend
diligently
,
and
to
join
devoutly
in
every
part
and
passage
of
Divine
Service
;
considering
it
is
the
great
end
of
your
coming
to
Church
;
and
your
business
there
is
to
serve
the
Lord
,
with
your
Christian
Brethren
in
publick
.
1.
Therefore
when
the
Minister
exhorts
you
out
of
the
Word
of
God
,
to
confess
and
acknowledge
your
Sins
and
Wickedness
,
harden
not
your
heart
,
but
with
all
possible
humility
,
both
of
Body
and
Soul
,
say
after
the
Minister
in
the
Confession
of
your
Sins
;
and
endeavour
to
let
your
Heart
even
melt
and
bleed
in
the
bewailing
your
Offences
:
and
to
this
,
and
every
act
of
Divine
Worship
,
neglect
not
to
say
,
Amen
.
For
that
is
as
it
were
the
Seal
to
confirm
to
your
Soul
,
the
benefits
thereof
.
The
Hebrews
have
a
saying
,
that
whosoever
says
Amen
with
all
his
might
,
opens
the
Doors
of
Paradise
.
2.
After
Confession
,
when
the
Minister
comes
to
the
words
of
Absolution
;
bow
down
your
Head
and
say
softly
in
your
Heart
:
Lord
,
let
this
Pardon
pronounced
by
thy
Minister
,
be
effectual
to
my
Soul
;
and
Seal
thereunto
the
Forgiveness
of
all
my
Sins
.
3.
The
Psalms
and
Hymns
are
to
be
answered
Verse
by
Verse
,
with
the
Minister
,
that
so
all
may
join
and
bear
a
part
in
the
Service
of
God
;
for
in
his
Temple
do
every
Man
speak
of
his
Honour
:
and
here
,
though
you
cannot
read
,
yet
your
Heart
may
join
with
them
that
do
read
;
and
your
Mouth
also
may
shew
forth
the
praise
of
God
,
by
saying
after
every
Psalm
,
Glory
be
to
the
Father
:
adding
always
,
Amen
;
to
shew
and
express
how
affectionately
you
desire
the
Glory
of
God.
Be
not
silent
,
nor
ashamed
,
publickly
and
audibly
,
to
make
Confession
of
your
holy
Christian
Faith
,
when
you
are
thereunto
called
by
the
Minister
;
for
this
is
a
duty
you
owe
both
to
God
and
Man.
It
is
an
act
of
God's
Worship
,
and
a
Declaration
that
you
hold
the
same
Faith
with
all
true
Christians
:
and
therefore
it
is
required
of
you
,
not
only
with
the
Heart
to
believe
unto
Righteousness
;
but
with
the
mouth
also
,
that
Confession
be
made
unto
Salvation
.
And
when
the
Confession
of
Faith
is
publickly
pronounced
,
do
not
sit
and
loll
,
as
if
you
were
not
concern'd
at
it
;
but
stand
up
with
the
rest
of
the
Congregation
:
to
signifie
and
declare
,
that
you
will
stand
to
this
Faith
,
and
earnestly
contend
for
it
,
as
being
the
same
which
was
once
given
to
,
or
by
the
Saints
,
the
holy
Apostles
.
I
have
read
that
it
is
a
Custom
in
Poland
,
that
the
Gentlemen
draw
their
Swords
all
the
while
the
Creed
is
a
reading
:
intimating
thereby
that
they
will
defend
it
with
their
Lives
and
Blood.
Be
you
,
Christians
,
as
ready
to
assert
and
maintain
your
holy
Faith
;
and
resolve
to
attest
it
with
your
dearest
Blood
,
if
there
be
occasion
.
If
any
Child
be
brought
to
Church
to
be
Baptized
;
sit
not
still
,
as
if
not
concerned
in
that
Office
:
but
let
it
remind
you
of
your
own
Vow
;
and
put
up
this
short
Prayer
in
behalf
of
the
Infant
.
Grant
that
all
those
that
are
to
be
admitted
to
the
Fellowship
of
Christ's
Religion
;
(
and
to
this
Infant
more
especially
)
may
eschew
those
things
that
are
evil
;
and
follow
after
that
which
is
good
.
When
any
Woman
comes
to
be
Churched
,
reflect
on
the
Mercies
that
thou
receivest
from
God
,
to
make
thee
thankful
;
and
with
a
low
Voice
,
put
up
this
Prayer
to
God.
O
Lord
,
as
thou
hast
delivered
this
Woman
,
thy
Servant
,
from
the
pains
of
a
temporal
;
so
,
I
beseech
thee
to
deliver
both
her
and
all
here
present
,
from
the
pangs
of
an
Eternal
Death
.
When
you
see
any
come
to
be
Catechised
,
make
not
light
of
it
,
but
after
this
,
or
the
like
manner
pray
.
O
Almighty
and
Everlasting
God!
who
ever
makest
thy
Church
fruitful
,
with
a
new
,
a
numerous
Issue
:
increase
Faith
and
Vnderstanding
in
our
newly
instructed
,
that
they
being
born
again
may
be
joined
unto
the
Sons
of
thy
adoption
,
through
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
.
When
you
hear
the
Banes
of
Matrimony
published
in
the
Church
,
fall
not
into
Laughter
(
as
the
manner
of
some
is
;
)
for
it
ill
becomes
the
Sacredness
of
the
place
,
and
argues
out
irreverence
to
God.
We
should
show
our selves
better
Christians
,
by
falling
down
on
our
Knees
,
and
praying
at
the
same
time
for
a
Blessing
from
God
on
them
.
O
let
us
then
reflect
on
our
own
Vow
and
Promise
in
Marriage
,
how
we
have
performed
it
:
and
let
us
make
it
also
an
occasion
of
a
fresh
Engagement
in
our selves
,
to
keep
it
most
strictly
.
I
am
not
of
the
opinion
of
the
Papists
,
that
Marriage
is
a
Sacrament
;
but
I
look
upon
it
as
a
most
solemn
engagement
among
Men
,
and
Sacred
:
being
a
Vow
made
before
God
,
and
witnessed
by
many
:
and
therefore
a
subject
proper
for
seriousness
and
devotion
.
When
you
sing
unto
God
,
let
your
heart
make
melody
:
Take
heed
,
that
when
your
Voice
is
high
,
your
Heart
be
not
dead
,
flat
,
and
low
.
1.
When
the
Word
is
read
and
preached
;
mind
it
:
and
say
,
this
is
the
Word
of
God
,
't
is
his
Command
,
and
dare
I
disobey
it
?
O
that
my
ways
were
made
so
direct
,
that
I
might
keep
God's
Statutes
!
2.
When
you
hear
the
Curses
denounced
against
Sinners
,
tremble
if
thou
beest
guilty
of
any
of
the
Sins
.
3.
When
you
hear
God's
Calls
and
Invitations
,
his
rich
Promises
and
Allurements
,
say
:
What
,
shall
I
refuse
them
?
Doth
God
knock
at
them
:
and
shall
not
the
Everlasting
Doors
of
my
Heart
fly
open
,
that
the
King
of
Glory
may
enter
in
?
Lastly
,
While
the
Minister
is
pronouncing
the
Blessing
,
post
not
away
(
a
fault
too
common
every
where
)
but
hope
,
desire
,
and
believe
it
shall
come
down
upon
you
.
Remember
the
punishment
of
Judas
,
he
stayed
not
for
the
Blessing
,
but
went
away
,
and
dispatched
himself
.
That
you
may
not
forfeit
God's
Protection
,
and
be
given
over
by
the
Almighty
,
as
he
was
:
I
pray
stay
till
the
Blessing
be
pronounced
;
and
after
it
is
ended
,
fall
down
on
your
Knees
,
and
offer
up
this
short
Ejaculation
.
O
Sweet
Jesu
!
bestow
on
me
this
day
thy
Blessing
,
with
this
of
the
Minister
:
preserve
me
from
all
Sin
,
and
give
me
perseverance
in
thy
Service
;
that
at
the
last
and
dreadful
day
of
Judgment
,
I
may
receive
that
happy
Benediction
,
among
thy
Elected
and
Predestinated
Children
:
Come
ye
Blessed
Children
of
my
Father
,
and
inherit
the
Kingdom
prepared
for
you
from
the
beginning
of
the
World.
CHAP.
IX
.
Of
our
due
behaviour
between
Morning
and
Evening
Service
.
At
your
returning
home
.
LET
your
return
with
your
Family
home
be
with
the
same
gravity
and
care
,
as
was
thy
passage
to
the
Church
.
Let
your
talk
be
rather
of
what
you
have
learnt
or
heard
,
than
of
any
Worldly
matters
:
except
necessary
occasions
enforce
the
contrary
.
If
any
of
your
Neighbours
talk
Heavenly
,
mind
them
;
but
if
their
Discourse
savour
of
the
World
,
either
reprove
or
leave
them
.
This
I
mention
,
because
I
perceive
it
the
custom
of
many
,
as
soon
as
the
Word
is
out
of
the
Minister's
Mouth
,
to
have
the
World
in
theirs
.
The
main
Questions
,
as
soon
as
gone
out
of
the
Church
,
are
usually
these
:
What
News
do
you
hear
?
How
does
Corn
sell
?
What
a
Crop
have
you
upon
the
ground
?
Such
a
Person
,
has
he
not
the
best
Corn
in
the
Parish
?
Poor
barren
Souls
!
empty
of
Grace
surely
;
or
your
Discourses
would
be
more
savoury
,
more
seasonable
,
more
Heavenly
.
Have
you
no
better
things
to
employ
your
Heads
and
Tongues
about
?
Ask
rather
,
what
good
Word
you
have
heard
to
day
?
How
are
we
to
provide
for
Eternity
?
How
strait
is
the
Gate
,
and
narrow
the
Path
that
leadeth
unto
Life
?
and
how
few
there
be
that
find
it
?
And
alas
!
how
miserable
shall
I
be
,
if
I
miss
thereof
?
The
Devil
is
always
upon
his
Watch
,
ever
busy
,
and
labours
continually
to
furnish
Peoples
Hearts
with
frothy
and
vain
Discourse
;
by
that
means
to
hinder
the
efficacy
of
the
word
,
and
the
good
of
many
a
poor
Soul.
But
alas
!
The
fourth
Commandment
tyes
up
the
tongue
as
well
as
the
hands
(
Isai
.
51.13
.
)
not
speaking
thy
own
words
.
The
tongue
is
there
commanded
to
rest
from
talking
of
Worldly
matters
,
as
well
as
the
hand
from
servile
and
Worldly
Works
.
How
blame-worthy
then
are
they
,
who
make
the
Lord's
Day
a
Day
of
reckoning
with
Workmen
and
Servants
:
a
Day
of
idle
talk
,
about
their
Pleasures
,
Profits
,
or
other
matters
?
As
soon
as
you
are
come
home
,
before
you
refresh
your
Body
,
enter
into
your
Closet
:
offer
up
this
,
or
such
like
Prayer
.
I
Do
humbly
and
heartily
thank
thee
,
O
Lord
,
Heavenly
Father
,
for
that
wholesome
Doctrine
and
comfortable
Instruction
,
which
,
this
Morning
,
I
have
heard
out
of
thy
holy
word
,
by
the
mouth
of
thy
faithful
Servant
:
and
I
do
heartily
beseech
thee
,
that
passing
by
my
Sins
and
Infirmities
of
hearing
,
thou
wouldst
so
imprint
the
same
in
my
memory
,
and
bless
it
unto
me
;
that
I
may
believe
it
with
my
heart
,
and
practise
it
in
my
Life
and
Conversation
.
Good
Lord
,
Let
not
the
sweetness
,
and
savouriness
,
of
any
bodily
food
,
which
I
am
to
receive
of
thy
bounty
,
put
the
relish
and
remembrance
of
thy
Heavenly
word
out
of
my
mind
:
but
grant
,
that
in
feeding
my
Body
,
I
may
feed
my
Soul
by
holy
Meditation
of
the
things
I
have
heard
:
and
together
with
my
bodily
sustenance
,
may
call
to
mind
the
food
that
never
perisheth
.
And
as
it
is
thy
will
,
that
I
should
use
thy
good
Creatures
with
Wisdom
and
Sobriety
every
day
:
So
give
me
Grace
this
day
especially
to
do
so
:
that
they
may
not
make
me
the
more
unfit
to
partake
of
the
spiritual
food
thou
hast
prepared
for
me
;
to
the
glory
of
thy
name
,
and
the
good
of
thy
Saints
,
and
my
own
eternal
welfare
and
Salvation
,
through
Jesus
Christ
,
my
only
Redeemer
and
Advocate
.
Having
finished
your
Prayer
in
the
Closet
;
depart
to
your
Company
,
and
the
necessary
refreshment
of
your
Body
,
which
this
Day
was
not
appointed
to
abridge
you
off
.
While
you
are
at
Dinner
appear
chearful
,
eating
your
meal
in
singleness
of
heart
:
rejoice
before
God
;
but
let
not
your
joy
be
,
by
any
means
,
wanton
,
idle
,
vain
,
intemperate
.
At
Dinner
observe
these
few
Rules
.
1.
Beware
of
making
the
Lord's
Day
a
time
of
Feasting
your
Neighbours
:
For
though
it
be
lawful
upon
this
day
to
make
such
Provision
,
as
shall
be
convenient
for
your
own
Family
,
and
for
the
relief
of
the
Poor
:
yet
to
make
solemn
Feasts
upon
it
(
as
is
the
custom
of
too
too
many
)
whereby
Servants
are
kept
from
publick
Ordinances
,
and
our selves
and
Guests
are
more
indisposed
to
the
Duties
of
God's
worship
and
service
,
must
needs
be
unlawful
:
for
though
we
be
not
forbidden
upon
the
Lord's
Day
,
to
kindle
a
fire
for
the
dressing
of
meat
;
yet
we
must
take
heed
that
we
make
not
such
a
flame
as
shall
kindle
the
fire
of
God's
wrath
against
us
.
2.
When
you
are
set
down
to
Dinner
,
having
begged
God's
Blessing
on
the
food
,
eat
no
more
than
will
fit
and
enable
you
comfortably
and
lively
to
serve
God.
If
temperance
be
required
in
our
Meals
,
on
the
Week
Day
,
as
(
Luke
21.34
.
)
much
more
on
the
Lord's
Day
.
Many
fill
their
Bellies
so
full
,
on
this
day
,
that
they
are
fit
only
to
lay
their
drowsie
heads
on
the
Devil's
Pillow
of
sloth
:
and
not
at
all
in
a
capacity
of
repairing
again
to
a
spiritual
repast
in
the
House
of
God
,
and
to
partake
of
his
Heavenly
Viands
.
3.
Talk
of
God's
Word
sitting
down
and
rising
up
.
Let
your
Hearts
be
heavenly
,
and
your
Discourse
savoury
,
seasoned
with
Grace
:
a
Table
without
some
good
Discourse
,
differs
but
little
from
a
Manger
.
One
of
the
Fathers
wrote
this
of
the
Primitive
Christians
,
that
they
were
so
holy
in
their
Talk
at
the
Table
,
that
one
would
have
thought
they
had
been
at
a
Sermon
,
rather
than
at
a
Supper
.
And
Luther
has
a
large
Book
in
Folio
,
of
the
pious
Expressions
he
used
at
his
Table
:
that
indeed
was
his
Pulpit
,
where
he
read
many
profitable
Lectures
.
When
therefore
thou
art
at
a
full
Table
,
consider
God's
Mercy
in
feeding
thee
;
while
there
are
so
many
Lazarus's
,
that
would
be
glad
of
the
Crumbs
that
fall
from
the
rich
Man's
table
.
When
thou
eatest
thy
Bread
with
a
good
Appetite
,
say
thus
to
thy self
:
If
the
bread
be
thus
savory
to
an
hungry
Body
;
how
sweet
,
how
savory
is
that
which
comes
down
from
Heaven
to
an
hungry
Soul
!
and
then
pray
:
O
God
,
give
me
evermore
of
this
bread
!
4.
Forget
not
God's
Servants
,
but
invite
the
Poor
to
Dinner
with
thee
,
that
day
.
The
poor
ye
have
always
with
you
,
(
saith
Christ
:
)
and
why
have
we
this
Memento
,
think
you
?
But
we
should
exert
our
Charity
,
according
to
their
Indigence
and
Necessity
?
If
we
belong
to
Christ
,
we
are
to
relieve
the
oppressed
,
clothe
the
naked
,
and
feed
the
hungry
:
himself
will
do
it
;
though
he
works
a
Miracle
for
it
.
Flesh
and
blood
is
not
prone
hereunto
;
and
therefore
such
munificence
must
needs
argue
a
better
and
higher
Principle
than
ordinary
.
For
as
when
we
see
the
bank
of
a
River
,
and
the
ground
next
to
it
,
wet
alone
,
we
gather
that
the
River
hath
overflown
there
:
but
when
we
see
the
furthest
and
remotest
ground
wet
also
,
then
we
know
that
the
Rain
hath
done
that
:
so
when
we
see
a
Man
doing
good
to
his
rich
Neighbors
,
and
Friends
,
we
think
this
proceeds
but
from
good
Nature
in
him
;
but
when
we
see
him
doing
good
also
to
strangers
and
unknown
persons
;
when
feeding
the
poor
and
needy
ones
,
then
we
may
well
believe
,
there
is
more
than
good
Nature
in
that
Man
:
it
is
more
than
probable
the
Gift
of
Grace
is
there
.
After
you
have
eaten
and
drank
.
I
have
now
allayed
the
importunate
craving
of
mine
Appetite
,
and
my
body
is
satisfied
with
material
Food
;
but
nothing
can
satisfie
my
Soul
,
but
to
behold
the
presence
of
God
in
Righteousness
.
Therefore
,
Dinner
being
over
,
either
respect
the
Word
heard
that
day
,
and
read
the
Scripture
,
or
some
other
good
Book
;
and
call
your
own
Heart
and
Family
to
an
account
for
what
you
have
read
or
heard
;
and
explain
the
same
to
them
.
This
is
commended
to
us
by
the
Practice
and
Example
of
our
Lord
himself
,
who
when
he
was
come
home
,
said
unto
his
Disciples
(
Mat.
13.5
.
)
Have
you
understood
all
these
things
?
viz.
that
he
had
preached
to
the
Multitude
.
And
(
Mark
4.34
.
)
When
they
were
alone
he
expounded
all
things
to
his
Disciples
.
Whereupon
one
observeth
,
That
Christ
by
his
Example
doth
instruct
every
Master
of
a
Family
,
how
to
carry
himself
in
reference
to
those
under
his
charge
on
the
Lord's
-
day
,
after
their
departure
from
the
publick
Congregation
.
A
treble
Benefit
will
follow
hereupon
.
1.
In
respect
to
our selves
:
for
the
more
you
build
up
others
,
the
more
your selves
are
built
up
in
Knowledge
,
Faith
,
and
every
Grace
of
God.
2.
In
respect
of
your
Children
and
Servants
;
for
it
will
make
them
to
hearken
more
attentively
to
what
is
,
in
publick
,
delivered
:
when
they
know
they
shall
be
called
to
an
Account
for
the
same
at
home
.
3.
It
will
help
much
to
the
understanding
and
believing
of
what
is
heard
:
if
at
home
you
repeat
it
,
conferr
of
it
,
and
examine
the
Proofs
made
use
of
for
its
Confirmation
.
2.
Singing
of
Psalms
is
another
Duty
to
be
performed
this
day
in
our
Families
,
as
well
as
in
the
Church
.
Holy
David
,
that
sweet
Singer
of
Israel
,
recommends
it
to
us
,
(
Psal
.
92.
)
the
Title
of
that
Psalm
,
is
,
A
Psalm
or
Song
for
the
Sabbath
:
and
it
begins
thus
;
It
is
good
to
give
thanks
unto
the
Lord
;
and
to
sing
praises
unto
thy
name
,
O
thou
most
high
!
For
the
manner
of
performing
this
Duty
,
we
have
the
Apostle's
Direction
,
in
these
words
:
singing
with
grace
in
your
hearts
unto
the
Lord.
1.
It
must
be
in
,
or
with
the
heart
,
that
is
;
our
hearts
must
go
with
our
Voices
:
the
one
must
be
lift
up
as
well
as
the
other
:
for
God
is
a
Spirit
,
and
must
be
worshipped
in
our
Hearts
and
Spirits
,
as
well
as
with
our
Bodies
.
Truly
singing
with
the
Voice
,
without
concurrence
of
the
Heart
and
Spirit
,
is
no
more
pleasing
to
God
,
than
a
sounding
Brass
,
and
tinkling
Cymball
.
2.
As
we
must
sing
in
the
heart
,
so
with
Grace
in
the
heart
:
(
i.
e.
)
we
must
exercise
the
Graces
of
God's
Spirit
,
as
well
as
in
praying
;
labouring
to
express
the
same
Affection
in
singing
a
Psalm
,
as
David
in
the
penning
of
it
.
If
it
be
a
Psalm
of
Prayers
and
Petitions
,
then
must
our
Affections
be
fervent
:
if
a
Psalm
of
Praises
and
Thanksgiving
,
then
must
our
Affections
be
chearful
.
Thus
must
the
Affections
of
the
Heart
be
suitable
to
the
Quality
of
the
Psalm
.
3.
Another
Family-Duty
is
Prayer
;
for
if
this
Duty
ought
to
be
performed
every
day
,
twice
at
least
,
viz.
Morning
and
Evening
:
then
more
especially
on
the
Lord's
-
day
;
a
day
wholly
dedicated
to
the
Worship
and
Service
of
God.
CHAP.
X.
Of
resorting
to
the
Evening
Sacrifice
.
WHen
it
is
now
almost
time
to
repair
to
the
Evening
Service
,
call
as
many
of
your
Servants
as
can
be
well
spared
,
that
they
may
accompany
you
to
the
publick
Assembly
:
command
their
Bodies
,
though
you
cannot
their
Souls
.
And
it
may
not
be
amiss
(
but
right
edifying
)
if
some
one
Person
read
a
Psalm
suitable
to
the
present
undertaking
,
of
going
to
worship
God
:
such
as
the
84.
Psal
.
or
the
119
th
;
one
,
or
two
parts
of
it
being
taken
at
a
time
,
as
occasion
shall
serve
;
to
which
reading
all
ought
reverently
to
attend
.
And
this
being
done
,
let
the
same
Rules
and
Directions
which
were
given
touching
going
to
Church
in
the
Morning
,
be
observed
in
the
Evening
:
and
let
all
(
as
before
)
resort
to
the
publick
worship
;
where
your
carriage
ought
to
be
the
same
,
as
was
before
directed
.
Surely
unless
you
and
your
House
appear
thus
the
second
time
before
God
;
you
cannot
be
said
duly
to
sanctify
the
Lord's
Day
:
but
only
to
do
it
by
halves
.
And
now
to
move
you
to
this
duty
:
Consider
you
are
bound
in
justice
to
God
to
do
it
.
Because
God
hath
set
a
day
,
not
a
piece
of
a
day
apart
for
himself
;
and
we
should
be
more
afraid
to
steal
away
God's
time
,
than
to
steal
away
Mans
Goods
:
the
one
is
Theft
;
but
the
other
Sacriledge
.
God
Almighty
hath
consecrated
to
his
own
Service
the
seventh
part
of
our
time
;
but
if
you
come
only
in
the
Morning
,
you
give
him
but
the
14
th
part
of
it
:
nay
,
I
fear
,
too
many
spare
him
only
that
time
which
their
Morning
attendance
takes
up
,
in
our
publick
Assembly
,
on
the
Lord's
Day
.
Now
I
appeal
to
thy
own
Conscience
,
Christian
Brother
!
Whether
it
be
a
meet
and
fit
thing
,
that
rational
Persons
,
Created
by
God
,
redeemed
by
Christ
,
should
afford
to
the
Worship
and
Service
of
Christ
,
and
the
great
Concern
of
their
immortal
Souls
,
but
two
hours
at
the
most
on
the
Lord's
-
day
:
and
that
time
perhaps
spent
in
a
formal
,
customary
,
cold
,
heartless
Worship
of
the
infinitely
holy
and
just
Deity
;
the
tremendous
,
impartial
Judge
,
both
of
Angels
and
Men.
The
Jews
kept
a
whole
day
▪
holy
in
a
grateful
Memory
of
the
lesser
benefit
of
the
Creation
;
and
their
Deliverance
out
of
Aegypt
:
and
shall
we
grudge
to
spend
a
whole
day
,
in
remembrance
of
our
Deliverance
from
Hell
,
and
Death
eternal
?
We
have
not
only
greater
Motives
,
but
we
have
greater
Means
:
they
had
only
Moses
and
the
Prophets
;
but
we
have
Christ
and
the
Gospel
:
they
had
the
Shadow
;
we
the
Substance
.
And
shall
we
that
have
more
Means
and
Helps
,
put
God
off
with
less
Duty
,
smaller
Service
,
and
shorter
Performances
?
Nay
,
the
very
Heathens
,
guided
by
the
Light
of
Nature
,
gave
whole
Days
to
their
Dunghill
Deities
:
and
shall
we
Christians
refuse
it
to
a
true
God
?
You
give
your
Bodies
two
Meals
a-day
,
and
will
you
feed
your
Souls
but
once
?
It
was
a
rational
Discourse
of
Joseph
to
his
Mistress
,
(
Gen.
39.9
.
)
My
Master
hath
kept
nothing
from
me
but
thee
,
because
thou
art
his
Wife
:
how
then
can
I
do
this
great
wickedness
,
and
sin
against
my
God
?
God
hath
kept
no
Days
in
the
Week
from
us
,
but
only
the
First
Day
,
because
it
is
his
Sabbath
:
how
can
we
do
this
great
Wickedness
then
,
and
sin
against
him
?
Nathan's
Parable
to
David
,
may
be
applied
to
thee
,
O
thou
most
prophane
Sabbath-breaker
!
Hath
God
only
one
Day
,
which
he
hath
kept
to
himself
,
and
sanctified
to
his
Service
,
and
laid
as
it
were
in
his
Bosom
:
and
shall
Men
be
so
unworthy
,
when
their
Hearts
tempt
them
to
Vanity
,
even
to
take
this
day
to
please
and
gratifie
their
own
corrupt
hearts
in
?
When
they
are
rich
in
time
,
and
have
six
days
for
themselves
;
To
entrench
upon
the
Lord's
Day
:
it
is
something
too
much
.
Nay
,
as
it
is
unreasonable
,
so
is
it
plainly
contradictory
to
our
own
Prayers
that
day
:
for
upon
every
Lord's
Day
Morning
,
as
we
make
it
our
open
Confession
,
so
likewise
a
publick
Prayer
,
after
the
reading
of
the
Fourth
Commandment
:
Lord
,
have
mercy
upon
me
,
and
incline
my
heart
to
keep
this
Law.
As
much
as
to
say
;
Lord
,
we
acknowledge
we
have
neglected
thy
Day
;
we
pray
thee
therefore
pardon
all
our
unchristian
Sabbath-breaking
for
the
time
past
,
and
give
us
Grace
to
observe
the
Christian
Sabbath
better
for
the
future
.
Now
shall
we
confess
in
the
Forenoon
,
and
transgress
in
the
Afternoon
?
Will
you
beg
pardon
in
the
Morning
,
and
sin
again
the
same
Sin
before
Night
?
Will
you
open
your
mouths
to
ask
God's
Grace
,
to
sanctifie
and
keep
holy
the
Sabbath-Day
:
and
,
it
may
be
,
prophane
it
in
a
graceless
manner
as
soon
as
you
are
out
of
the
Congregation
?
But
now
to
draw
to
a
Conclusion
.
You
that
God
Almighty
have
blessed
with
Families
,
I
beseech
you
to
take
care
of
making
any
Visits
on
that
day
after
Evening-Service
,
for
by
that
means
you
may
become
guilty
of
a
double
Sin.
1.
In
neglecting
to
worship
God
your selves
,
in
your
Family
.
2.
In
hindering
others
from
doing
that
Duty
.
But
if
the
Weather
invite
you
into
the
Fields
,
let
your
Walk
be
such
as
Isaac's
was
,
to
meditate
:
and
that
you
may
not
want
matter
to
exercise
your
Thoughts
about
;
when
you
divert
your self
in
the
Field
,
meditate
on
these
Ten
Particulars
.
1.
The
Greatness
and
Goodness
of
that
God
that
you
paid
your
Homage
unto
.
2.
With
the
Vileness
of
Sin
,
and
your selves
,
because
of
it
.
3.
With
the
Sweetness
of
Christ
,
and
the
Greatness
of
his
Love
,
and
Mercy
.
4.
With
the
Excellency
of
that
heavenly
Work
you
have
been
about
,
and
the
Gain
of
Godliness
.
5.
With
the
Vanity
of
the
World
,
and
all
things
therein
.
6.
With
the
Worth
and
high
Value
of
your
immortal
Souls
.
7.
With
the
Rage
,
Subtilty
,
and
Diligence
of
your
Souls
Enemy
.
8.
With
the
Deceitfulness
of
your
Hearts
.
9.
With
the
Terrour
and
Torment
of
Hell.
10.
With
the
unspeakable
and
everlasting
Glory
of
Heaven
.
2.
Endeavour
to
spiritualize
every
Object
you
see
.
As
you
walk
and
travail
by
the
King's
High-way
,
say
;
I
am
the
way
,
the
truth
,
and
the
life
,
saith
my
blessed
Redeemer
:
the
Way
I
must
follow
,
the
Truth
I
must
believe
,
the
Life
I
must
hope
for
;
the
Way
which
leadeth
me
,
the
Truth
which
teacheth
me
,
the
Life
whereunto
he
bringeth
me
:
the
Way
is
undefiled
,
the
Truth
is
infallible
,
and
the
Life
without
end
;
blessed
are
they
that
walk
in
this
way
that
leads
to
everlasting
life
.
When
you
behold
pleasant
Grounds
,
and
variety
of
Objects
;
O
Lord
,
how
manifold
are
thy
works
!
in
wisdom
hast
thou
made
them
all
;
the
Earth
is
full
of
thy
Riches
.
When
you
perceive
a
gentle
Brieze
of
Wind
;
Come
,
Holy
Spirit
,
blow
upon
my
Garden
,
that
the
Spices
may
flow
out
;
make
my
Mind
calm
,
serene
,
and
quiet
,
breath
upon
me
,
and
revive
me
with
the
Light
of
thy
Countenance
.
When
you
hear
a
Clock
strike
,
or
perceive
by
the
Sun
the
Hour
of
the
Day
.
O
how
fast
do
hour
after
hour
come
on
;
Time
hastening
to
be
swallowed
up
of
Aeternity
!
So
teach
me
,
O
Lord
,
to
number
my
days
,
that
I
may
apply
my
heart
unto
Wisdom
;
wisely
providing
for
that
long
day
,
wherein
the
Sun
of
Righteousness
shall
rise
with
healing
in
his
Wings
.
When
you
see
an
high
place
:
Thy
Mercy
,
O
Lord
,
reacheth
unto
the
Heavens
,
and
thy
Faithfulness
to
the
Clouds
.
When
you
perceive
a
Dunghill
:
O
make
me
to
know
my self
,
and
discover
to
me
my
false
deceitful
Heart
,
and
the
Odiousness
and
Loathsomness
of
my
Sins
,
that
I
may
hate
them
with
a
perfect
hatred
.
When
you
behold
a
stately
House
.
O
God
,
make
me
in
love
with
that
City
which
hath
foundations
,
whose
Maker
and
Builder
is
God.
Oh
when
shall
this
earthly
house
of
this
Tabernacle
be
dissolved
,
and
I
received
into
that
Building
,
the
House
not
made
with
hands
,
aeternal
in
the
Heavens
!
When
beholding
any
Children
or
Infants
.
O
Lord
,
out
of
the
mouth
of
Babes
and
Sucklings
dost
thou
prepare
Praises
for
thy self
.
When
beholding
a
beautiful
Woman
.
O
Lord
,
let
not
this
Creature
's
Face
be
her
Pride
,
or
the
Beholder's
sin
or
shame
.
If
you
see
any
Cattle
to
stray
,
think
with
your self
.
O
God
,
how
apt
am
I
to
go
out
of
thy
way
.
I
have
erred
and
strayed
,
O
Lord
,
like
to
a
lost
Sheep
.
By
such
holy
Ejaculations
as
these
you
may
banish
all
Worldly
thoughts
out
of
your
Mind
,
and
keep
the
Devil
(
that
is
always
busy
to
hinder
the
good
Seed
of
the
Word
from
taking
effect
)
better
out
of
your
heart
,
than
Teresa's
holy
Water
,
or
St.
Anthony's
Sign
of
the
Cross
.
When
you
come
home
observe
the
same
Rules
that
were
given
you
before
to
be
practised
after
Dinner
,
viz.
to
read
the
Scripture
,
sing
Psalms
,
meditate
,
repeat
the
Word
,
&c.
but
when
you
have
done
all
,
look
upon
your selves
as
unprofitable
Servants
,
and
that
you
come
short
of
what
God
requires
or
deserves
at
your
hands
.
O
what
heavenly
,
fervent
and
zealous
Prayers
doth
such
a
God
deserve
,
such
rich
Mercy
call
for
!
God
is
worthy
a
better
Tongue
to
praise
him
,
and
a
better
Heart
to
love
him
.
Disown
therefore
all
your
own
Righteousness
,
and
expect
all
the
Blessings
you
have
prayed
for
,
through
the
alone
Merits
of
Jesus
Christ
.
CHAP.
XI
.
Evening
Exercise
.
THE
Day
thus
happily
sliding
away
,
draws
on
the
Night-season
,
and
there
remains
an
Evening
Exercise
in
order
to
even
out
Accompts
with
the
great
Father
of
the
Family
,
concerning
our
days
labour
in
his
Vineyard
.
Before
therefore
you
take
your
repose
at
night
,
look
over
your
days
work
,
search
back
into
every
hour
of
the
day
,
humble
your selves
,
and
be
heartily
sorry
for
your
miscarriage
;
bless
God
if
you
have
received
any
good
:
Put
these
Questions
to
your
Soul
ere
you
betake
your self
to
your
rest
.
First
,
How
did
I
ly
down
or
rise
up
,
was
God
in
my
thoughts
or
no
?
Secondly
,
How
did
I
put
up
my
Prayers
in
my
Closet
,
did
they
proceed
from
my
Heart
,
or
Lip
only
?
Have
I
gone
this
day
with
Joy
into
the
House
of
Good
,
have
I
heard
●he
Word
,
and
treasured
it
up
in
my
Heart
?
Have
not
I
aimed
more
at
the
information
●f
my
judgment
,
than
at
the
warming
of
my
●ffections
?
was
it
curiosity
or
piety
that
led
●he
thither
?
have
I
gathered
my
thoughts
●ogether
in
the
publick
Prayers
of
the
Church
,
●nd
have
my
heart
and
desires
gone
along
with
the
Supplications
which
the
Minister
of
God
put
up
to
Heaven
?
Have
not
I
thought
●f
my
Farm
,
Trade
,
and
Oxen
,
while
I
have
●een
repeating
after
him
?
Have
I
read
in
pri●ate
,
have
I
called
my
Family
together
,
read
●o
them
,
instructed
them
,
made
them
give
●e
an
account
of
what
they
did
remember
?
When
I
received
the
holy
Sacrament
,
were
●y
thoughts
fixed
on
the
Cross
of
Christ
,
●nd
were
my
Soul
affected
with
the
great
●ystery
of
God's
Love
,
and
did
I
meditate
●n
the
Word
as
soon
as
I
left
the
Church
?
●as
not
the
World
in
my
Heart
as
soon
as
●e
word
was
out
of
the
Minister's
?
Did
not
●eat
and
drink
at
Table
more
to
please
my
●ppetite
than
to
repair
the
decayed
strength
●f
my
nature
?
Was
my
Discourse
holy
at
●●e
Table
,
when
I
craved
a
Blessing
?
was
●ot
my
mind
more
intent
on
the
meat
before
●e
than
on
the
God
above
me
?
have
not
I
●een
intemperate
at
my
Meals
,
and
eat
and
●rank
more
than
nature
required
?
have
I
af●●r
Dinner
set
my
Servants
to
read
,
and
did
I
pray
for
them
and
with
them
.
Have
not
●
this
day
been
guilty
of
some
crying
Sin
,
fo●
which
God
might
justly
punish
me
as
he
di●
the
Fool
in
the
Gospel
,
with
Death
,
&c.
If
upon
enquiry
you
find
you
have
mad●
any
progress
in
Vertue
,
got
ground
of
Satan
and
mastered
your
Corruptions
;
give
Go●
the
Glory
,
by
whose
Grace
you
overcam●
them
,
and
return
him
thanks
in
this
following
Prayer
.
PRaise
the
Lord
,
O
my
Soul
,
yea
,
let
all
th●●
is
within
me
praise●
his
holy
name
:
praise
be
the
Lord
from
the
rising
up
of
the
Sun
unto
th●
going
down
of
the
same
:
thou
art
my
God
,
an●
I
will
praise
thee
,
thou
art
my
God
,
and
I
wi●●
bless
thee
,
who
hast
preserved
me
this
day
from
falling
into
Sin
,
and
hast
kept
me
from
t●●
power
of
the
evil
one
;
for
my
Soul
is
this
d●●
escaped
as
a
Bird
out
of
the
Snare
of
the
Fowle●
the
Snare
is
broken
and
I
am
delivered
:
my
he●
standeth
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
,
who
hath
ma●●
Heaven
and
Earth
.
But
if
upon
enquiry
you
find
,
that
yo●
have
been
guilty
of
many
Frailties
and
Imperfections
,
if
you
have
not
been
so
devout
〈◊〉
you
ought
to
have
been
in
your
Prayers
:
a●fect
your
Soul
with
the
sense
of
your
Sin
i●
this
following
Prayer
.
AH
frail
,
weak
and
wicked
Wretch
,
art
thou
not
ashamed
to
remain
still
in
thy
wonted
negligences
and
tepidities
,
to
sing
the
same
sinful
Song
after
so
many
Vows
,
Promises
and
purposes
of
better
Obedience
?
wallowest
thou
still
in
the
same
mire
,
and
lyest
thou
still
snorting
in
the
same
Bed
of
Sensuality
?
O
horrid
ingratitude
,
if
thou
wert
now
summoned
to
give
up
thy
just
accounts
,
what
couldst
thou
answer
for
so
much
time
mis-spent
,
so
many
inspirations
neglected
,
and
so
many
Graces
abused
?
thou
approachest
nearer
Death
and
Eternity
,
but
recoilest
backward
in
religious
Piety
and
Perfection
;
wilt
thou
still
lye
sleeping
in
this
dangerous
Lethargy
?
is
this
the
grateful
and
dutiful
Service
thou
renderest
thy
Creator
,
for
having
afforded
thee
all
convenient
means
to
repent
,
for
having
so
patiently
expected
thy
Conversion
and
amendment
?
Alas
,
my
Confounded
Soul
,
what
will
become
of
thee
,
what
course
wilt
thou
steer
,
and
when
and
how
wilt
thou
begin
?
Ah
sinful
Wretch
,
prodigal
Child
,
disloyal
Friend
,
sue
to
thy
Physician
,
return
to
thy
Father
,
repent
thee
of
thy
Disloyalty
,
request
Pardon
,
Grace
and
Love
;
resolve
to
repent
for
what
is
past
,
and
amend
for
the
time
to
come
;
and
from
this
moment
consecrate
the
remainder
of
thy
Life
to
his
Service
.
And
now
,
O
my
Lord
,
as
thou
hast
given
me
Grace
to
frame
this
Resolution
;
so
give
me
strength
and
courage
to
put
it
in
execution
.
But
if
upon
Inquiry
,
you
find
you
have
greatly
broken
the
Sabbath-day
,
neglected
his
publick
Worship
,
relapsed
into
some
crying
Sin
,
which
without
God's
great
Mercy
will
bring
upon
you
speedy
Death
and
Damnation
;
affect
your
Soul
with
this
Prayer
.
O
My
good
God
,
Father
of
all
Comfort
and
Compassion
,
Creatour
of
Heaven
and
Earth
,
and
Redeemer
of
my
poor
Soul
!
behold
here
a
poor
Worm
prostrate
at
the
feet
of
thy
Divine
Majesty
,
humbly
craving
pardon
for
all
the
Iniquities
and
Impurities
that
I
have
committed
against
thy
Divine
Majesty
from
my
Youth
up
until
now
;
especially
those
that
I
have
this
day
committed
against
thee
(
such
a
Sin
especially
;
)
most
justly
provoking
thy
wrathful
Indignation
against
me
:
the
remembrance
of
them
breeds
an
extreme
Shame
,
Fear
,
and
Sorrow
in
my
now
sensible
,
penitent
Soul.
Shame
,
for
having
left
an
infinite
Good
,
to
embrace
an
empty
,
fading
nothing
:
Fear
,
for
having
forsaken
the
Light
of
Heaven
,
and
the
Life
of
Aeternity
▪
to
remain
in
aeternal
Death
and
Darkness
:
Sorrow
,
for
having
offended
thee
,
my
God
,
wh●
art
so
loving
and
liberal
unto
me
.
Oh
,
that
my
Heart
could
rend
asunder
,
with
true
Contrition
and
Compunction
;
and
my
Eyes
dissolve
into
a
flood
of
Tears
;
for
having
been
disloyal
to
so
faithful
a
Friend
,
and
disobedient
to
so
free-hearted
a
Father
!
Mercy
,
dear
Father
,
to
thy
prodigal
Child
;
Mercy
,
dear
Lord
,
to
thy
sinful
Servant
:
Pardon
my
past
Faults
,
pity
my
present
Follies
,
protect
my
future
Frailties
;
that
with
a
clean
,
quiet
,
contented
Soul
,
I
may
strive
to
please
and
praise
thee
all
my
Life
long
hereafter
,
and
,
in
the
end
,
die
happily
in
thy
Favour
and
Friendship
.
O
my
Crucified
Jesu
!
my
only
Hope
and
Refuge
:
bathe
me
in
thy
Blood
,
beautifie
me
with
thy
Merits
,
bless
me
with
thy
Grace
,
by
the
Tears
that
issued
out
of
thy
Eyes
,
by
the
Prayers
that
came
from
thy
Mouth
,
by
the
Blood
that
gushed
from
thy
Wounds
and
Heart
;
by
all
the
Pains
of
thy
Body
,
and
Pangs
of
thy
Soul
,
by
all
the
Mercies
of
thy
Divinity
,
and
Merits
of
thy
Humanity
,
by
all
that
is
dear
and
near
unto
thee
in
Heaven
and
Earth
.
Cleanse
,
quiet
,
clothe
,
comfort
,
content
my
sick
,
sinful
,
weak
and
wretched
Soul.
O
thou
Lamb
of
God
,
that
takest
away
the
sins
of
the
World
,
take
away
the
world
of
sins
that
is
in
me
.
O
thou
that
wert
my
Saviour
upon
Earth
,
be
thou
my
Advocate
in
Heaven
,
pleading
and
interceding
,
that
none
of
these
Evils
my
sins
have
deserved
,
may
fall
upon
my
head
.
Forget
and
forgive
all
the
Crimes
,
Ingratitudes
and
Impurities
of
my
Life
past
,
and
in
particular
,
whatsoever
through
my
carelessness
have
escaped
my
memory
,
and
whatsoever
my
dreadful
Judge
may
in
the
rigour
of
his
Justice
lay
to
my
charge
,
that
at
the
end
of
my
days
I
may
receive
the
end
of
my
hopes
,
the
Salvation
of
my
precious
and
immortal
Soul.
Grant
this
,
O
Lord
,
for
Jesu
Christ
his
sake
,
Amen
.
Then
fail
not
to
add
to
this
,
this
usual
Prayer
for
the
Evening
.
Before
thou
goest
to
bed
,
be
sure
to
offer
unto
God
thine
Evening
Sacrifice
of
Prayer
and
Thanksgiving
.
This
was
shadowed
out
unto
us
under
the
Law
,
where
the
Lord
required
his
Evening
Sacrifice
,
as
well
as
the
Morning
:
therefore
much
more
doth
he
require
it
of
us
under
the
Gospel
.
And
truly
if
thou
liest
down
in
thy
sins
unrepented
of
,
thou
mightest
haply
awaken
with
Hell-flames
about
thy
Ears
.
Thou
mayst
better
and
safelier
sleep
with
a
Serpent
in
thy
Bosom
,
than
with
a
Sin
upon
thy
Soul
;
the
one
can
only
punish
thee
temporally
,
the
other
torments
thee
aeternally
.
Before
ever
then
thou
suffer
the
Temples
of
thy
head
to
take
any
rest
;
beg
,
O
Christian
Brother
,
not
only
Pardon
of
thy
Sins
,
but
his
Protection
from
all
Dangers
:
which
you
may
do
in
this
following
Prayer
.
ALmighty
and
Everlasting
God
,
I
yield
thee
most
humble
and
hearty
thanks
,
for
that
thou
hast
vouchsafed
me
of
thy
great
Mercy
and
Goodness
,
to
preserve
me
this
day
from
all
evil
,
and
I
also
beseech
thee
,
for
thy
bitter
Death
and
Passion
,
most
mercifully
to
forgive
me
,
a
wretched
Sinner
,
all
my
Offences
,
which
I
have
this
day
committed
by
thought
,
word
,
or
deed
;
and
hereafter
to
preserve
and
keep
me
from
all
danger
,
as
well
of
Body
as
of
Soul
;
to
the
end
I
may
rise
again
in
Health
,
to
praise
thy
glorious
Name
,
and
joyfully
to
serve
thee
with
a
clean
Body
,
and
chaste
Heart
.
Whilst
thou
art
going
to
bed
,
exercise
thy
Mind
with
these
holy
and
heavenly
Meditations
.
As
thou
art
pulling
off
thy
clothes
,
think
how
it
will
not
be
long
before
thou
be
stripped
of
all
,
and
go
out
of
the
World
,
as
naked
as
thou
camest
;
as
Job
excellently
expresseth
it
,
Naked
came
I
,
&c.
And
when
thou
art
laid
upon
thy
bed
to
take
thy
Repose
,
let
it
mind
thee
of
thy
Grave
,
thy
Sheets
of
thy
Shroud
,
and
thy
Sleep
of
thy
Death
,
which
indeed
is
the
shadow
of
it
;
and
labour
to
fall
asleep
with
the
sweet
Meditation
of
it
;
and
to
that
end
,
while
thou
art
awake
,
exercise
thy
Mind
with
these
or
such
like
Meditations
.
Beg
of
Christ
,
That
you
might
imitate
him
in
his
Death
,
which
you
may
do
in
these
short
Prayers
.
1.
Jesus
died
patiently
.
O
my
Soul
,
how
ill
have
we
imitated
our
sweet
Saviour
in
our
Life
and
Manners
;
let
us
at
least
strive
to
imitate
him
in
his
Death
,
by
taking
patiently
whatsoever
Cross
and
Affliction
he
shall
lay
upon
us
,
following
chearfully
to
Mount
Calvary
.
O
my
Saviour
,
though
my
Soul
be
not
forced
out
of
my
Body
by
such
a
violent
Death
as
thine
;
yet
imprint
,
I
beseech
thee
,
in
my
Soul
such
sweet
Thoughts
and
Affections
as
thou
didst
feel
when
thou
didst
die
for
my
sake
.
2.
Jesus
dyed
willingly
.
O
my
God
,
give
me
health
or
sickness
,
life
or
death
;
give
me
what
thou
pleasest
,
not
my
will
,
but
thy
will
be
done
.
O
my
Saviour
,
thou
being
God's
innocent
Son
,
dyedst
in
the
flower
of
thine
Age
,
and
shall
I
desire
long
Life
,
who
am
a
Sinner
,
a
Rebel
,
a
Criminal
?
I
yield
,
Lord
,
I
yield
and
submit
to
Death's
Summons
.
Farewel
,
Earth
;
farewel
,
World
;
farewel
,
this
Vale
of
tears
and
miseries
;
Heaven
is
my
happier
home
,
Paradise
is
much
more
pleasant
and
agreeable
,
and
Death
is
my
way
to
it
.
3.
Jesus
prayed
for
strength
and
courage
in
the
agony
of
death
.
O
my
Jesu
,
when
my
Glass
shall
be
almost
run
out
,
when
my
Senses
fail
me
,
when
my
Strength
decays
,
and
my
Breath
almost
spent
;
O
do
not
thou
forsake
me
,
Dear
Jesu
,
when
all
things
else
shall
leave
and
abandon
me
.
Thou
art
graciously
pleased
,
Compassionate
Creator
,
to
take
pity
on
the
Fowls
of
the
air
,
and
the
Beasts
of
the
Earth
,
and
to
succour
them
in
time
of
n●●d
.
O
refuse
not
thy
favours
to
a
Soul
stampt
with
thy
Sacred
Image
and
resemblance
;
but
pity
me
,
succour
me
,
comfort
me
,
and
protect
me
from
the
hands
of
the
Enemy
.
4.
Jesus
dying
pardoned
his
Enemies
,
and
pray'd
for
them
.
O
my
sweet
Saviour
,
in
honour
of
this
thy
fervent
Charity
,
I
pray
forgive
all
them
that
have
offended
me
in
my
whole
Life
time
;
it
now
heartily
grieves
me
that
ever
I
hated
them
,
and
were
they
here
present
,
how
humbly
would
I
embrace
them
,
and
beg
their
Pardon
.
Give
them
,
O
my
God
,
thy
Grace
in
this
World
,
and
thy
Glory
in
the
next
.
Thus
have
I
finished
my
imperfect
Piece
.
And
,
O
my
God
,
as
I
began
it
by
thy
Goodness
,
so
I
end
it
with
thy
praise
.
Let
not
the
weakness
and
simplicity
of
the
Agent
be
the
Readers
discouragement
:
but
,
O
my
Heavenly
Father
,
give
me
thy
Grace
to
live
up
to
these
Rules
,
lest
whilst
I
preach
and
write
to
others
,
I
my self
become
a
Cast-away
.
FINIS
.
Advertisement
.
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Directions
for
our
more
devout
Behaviour
in
Time
of
Divine
Service
.
With
a
Short
Rationale
on
the
Common-Prayer
,
By
the
same
Author
.