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A77634	Sacred principles, services, and soliloquies or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts: I. The grounds of Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Church of England, as differing from the now-Roman. II. Daily, and weekly formes of prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures, meditations and rules to keep the soule from the common roads of sin, and carry it on in a mortified course. III. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main limbs of divinity, which is the art not of disputing, but living well.	Brough, W. (William), d. 1671.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4991; Thomason E1339_1; ESTC R209131	186,268	487

Modesty Tie thy Lips with humble silence shut thy Eares to all Earthly Audience Fix thy Feet to lowly quietnesse Cover thy Body all over with Religious Reverence Yes and shroud thy self under it too For God sees thee as well as Man sees it Here then thy thoughts must mind Heaven and thy Affections not move Earthward On these Wings must Devotion Mount thee to the things above Those below are the businesse of Worldlings not Ezek. 33. 31. 1 Tim. 5. 8. Eccl. 5 1. Saints Admitted into the House but banished the Church Look to thy foot When thou comest to the House of God Set it right towards Heaven yea and keep it so when thou art in the House let it not wander when it is well set What is thy Foot my Soul Sure thy self art one the Body * Gressum 1. mentis 2. Corporis Olymp. per Synecd partis is the other foot Thou must look to both Thoughts and Gestures Affections and Actions Dispositions and Demeanours both must be look'd to How dreadfull is this place If reverend Gen. 28. 17. dread to make it Ridiculous Dare not Laugh in Gods Face Doe not then in Gods Church Doe not 2 Chro. 7. 14. Psal 100. 1 2 Chro. 7. 16. Jer. 7. 10. Jam. 4. 8. Chat in his Presence Dare not then talk there Dare not Gaze before Gods Eye Let not thine rove in his House If vaine thoughts and foul lusts do come bid them be gone They are no Objects for Gods Eye Here thy Eares must be shut to all Words but Gods Thy Lips watcht from all speech but Prayers Thy Eyes open to no fights but Angels Thy Mind left to no motions but for Heaven God and that and they are there and thou must doe all reverence before the Majesty Levit. 19. 30. 1 Cor. 11. 10. of Heaven Reverence my Sanctuary Yes because thy self O God! And thy Angels are there with thy self O Lord Rudenesse is fitter for Ruffians then Angels no Demeanour for Saints A rude Presence is worse then a plaine Absence for that my Soul is a neglect of God this a Scorne upon Him That to Man seemes an Offence 1 Cor. 11. 17. 1 Cor. 14. 23. 25. 1 Cor. 14. 23. 1 Cor. 10. 32. this is a Visible Scandall Yea to a Multitude As many as be Congregated to serve God and see that Sauciness before Him Better then my Soul not attend God then Affront him and be out of Mans sight when he is before God then a Moat in his Eye and when he is on his way to Heaven to lay a stumbling block before him Plead not Custome in Excuse Saints Levit. 18. 30. 1 Cor. 10. 3● Jud. ver 6. never had it and thou must not use the Haunts of Sinners Gods Dues must not be paid to the Devils Customes Not keeping Order in Heaven made Angels Devils Not keeping Decorum in the Church will not make Men Angels Before God they Adore and Tremble Where shall they be that are so Bold before him My Soul Isay 6. 2. Apoc. 4. 10. 5. 14. were it possible for thee to be a Saint an Angel and Rude thou shouldst either never come to or never keep in Heaven Break then the Bands of such Customes as the Chains of Death Go Prov. 5. 22 to Church as to Heaven and carry thy selfe there as thou wouldst keep in it Be Reverent as thou wi●t be blest No Recusant to it nor Miscreant in it If others be have no more Fellowship with them that have no more fear of God That when they Psal 5. 7. Ezek. 28. 16. go whither the Spirit of Profaneness leads them thou maist go to Heaven And when to appear at the Holy Eucharist O my Soul Array thy self 1 Cor. 10. 28 29. with all possible Reverence then Bodie and Heart let both Kneel not to Adora Communica Aug. 2 Sam. 9. 7 8. the Holy Elements but thy Maker For my Soul when thou a poor miserable wretched-sinfull Creature art admitted to Communion so near Communion with the Eternall God thy Almighty and All holy Creatour canst Psal 99. 5. thou be too Humble Did thy Face kisse the Earth when thy Knee doth touch it couldst thou go too low to a Majesty so High And yet in this Holy Mysterie as low in Condescending 1 King 7. 27. Goodnesse to thee as high above thee in infinite and incomprehensible Greatness My Soul they are mad who making themselves Coheires with Christ will therefore sit to keep Coequalls with Him At lowest he is thy Lord. Man thy Brother but God-man thy Maker and thy Father Every Communicant is thy Peer but he 1 Cor. 10. 17. Apoc. 15. 3 1 Cor. 10. 21. King of all And his Table not thy Fellowes but the Lords Worship not Fellowship is fit for Gods Board In his House thou art in his Presence but here before his Chair of Estate the Mercy-seat of Almighty Majesty Psa 132. 7 What a Man of Earth and bold so bold before the King of Heaven Even Celestial Spirits cast their Crowns Apoc. 4. 10 down before his Throne shall Dust and Ashes car●y up his Crest before Gen. 18. 27. Him my Soul Thou art better taught by an undoubted Divine God is greatly to be feared in the Psal 89. 8. Councel of his Saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him O come let us worship and fall down Psal 95. 6. and kneel before the Lord our Maker The Summe of this Soliloquie is God our Common Maker must have a Publique Service in Common-Prayers and Worship Every Man must pay God this Homage and the Greater he is the greater his Obligation to it There must be a place set apart for that Service and the Church for it is a sacred place As for Holy Duty most fit so for Heavenly regards no place out of Heaven is so lovely and desirable as the Church There must be a time set for Holy Assemblies in it and by Ancient and Vversall use that with Christians is the Lords Day As Profanation so Superstition must be shun'd in the due Observation of that Holy time It 's ill to keep our selves from Church unnecessarily and worse to keep away others If rude and irreverent there as good keep away our selves At Communion-times above all we should be neither absent nor rude VVednesd-Soliloquie Perpetuall-Service OR A Soliloquie directing the Soul in those Duties which must never cease whilst we Live if we will be happy when we Die SEt Houres of Devotion do well O my Soule but that Service is not all To give God two a day and Spend Ten at thy pleasure The truth is Two are set apart to pray that we may Spend all in his Service Which if we doe not as well Endeavour as pray to do we do but Mat. 7. 7. Prov. 28. 9 mispend those two For my Soul Thy Prayers are but Mockeries of

if thou seek God no Day thou wilt find him no where And in Heaven every day is a like Sabbath on Earth to make each day alike is to seek God no day Thou canst not be as in Heaven every day Holy thou must not be as in Hell every day Profane alike One Day therefore in the Week is set that Religion and with it thy Salvation be not lost And the first of the Week is that One. As Ancient as Apoc. 1. 10 the Apostles as Catholick as the Church of Christ Reverend for that and to be kept holy by thee because observed by all All that ever professed the Name of Christ And my Soul thou wilt not renounce him not be Refractory to Apostolike Order not Contradictory to Christian Custom not Singular to all the Saints in the Catholick Christian World This Day was ever kept by all And so let it be kept And as they did so do thou keep it For my Soul many do not so Not caring or knowing how to keep the Day of the Lord. For Some Observe it with great Superstition Second part Col. 2. 16. Others shun that with grosse Profanation Some bind themselvs to such a strictnesse as they neither doe nor can nor need observe because what God requires not Others leave themselves to such a loosnesse as they take not like Liberty on another day Betwixt these two Extremes must thou walke warily O my Soul Keep it not as the Jew a Sabbath nor as the Exod. 16. 23. Exod. 35. 3. 1 Pet. 4. 5. 2 Pet. 2. 13. Heathen ● Bacchanal Observe the Day with Devotion Keep it from Superstition Fly from an uncommanded strictnesse but run not to an unjustified loosnesse Take this Rule for thy Guide Let Church duties be duly paid and let not the House defrau● the Church Those are the Maine Service those must be Serviceable to the maine For it is absurd My Soul to thinke that on one and the same day thou maist appeare Saint in Gods house and in thy owne a Devil Be not Privately though piously employed when thou shouldest be at Publike Service but when publikely will-disposed be not privately ill This being more holy then another day must not have lesse of thy Service House and Church then both looke to this What others daies confine to the House this doth in it and what others do not in Church So then My Soule In the Church Gods House on Sunday the Lords day Where and when the King of heaven keeps his Court and commands thy Attendance faile not upon any terms save just and necessarie fail not to present thy selfe in the Holy Equipage of a Servant and Suppliant to the Majestie of Heaven Believe thy absence else an Offense to God thy Father A Neglect to Christ thy Saviour An Vndutifulnesse to the Church thy Deare Mother A Scandall to man thy Christian Brother And to those that know Thee and it an Example of ill and Encouragement to ungodliness But when God by his Ministers sends out summons to call thee to his House and Table too not onely to Serve but Sup with thy Lord O my 1 Cor. 11. 20. Soule How wilt thou answer it or to thy Selfe or thy God if thou dost not come Lovest thou Eternitie and hast no appetite to the Bread of Life Can Joh. 6. 48. thou and Satan be too much two Thou and thy Saviour too much One And is not this thy Communion with 1 Cor. 10. 16. 2 Cor. 8. 15. 1 Cor. 10. 21. Christ That thy Separation from Sin And it thy Dis-union with Satan Can thy Pardon from Hell be so sure or thy Assurance for Heaven too strong And is not this blessed Sacrament * Sensum in minimis minuit i● gravoribus peccatis consensum tollit Bern. 1 Cor. 11. 31. Mat. 26. 28. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Damasc Luk. 22. 9. the Seale of thy Pardon and that Assurance Canst thou doe thy Saviour too much Honour Is a Commanded Commemoration of His love too much Is not a neglect of that a scorne A signe of his vile neglect Wilt thou shed thy Bloud for his sake that wilt not drinke His to thy Salvation Wilt thou drinke his Cup of gall that dost refuse his Wine Wilt thou climb his Crosse that dost shun his Board Die for him that wilt not Sup with him Be his Sacrifice that dost decline his Sacrament O My Soul Where is thy love and Duty to thy Christ if at his call thou dost not come And what is it keeps thee away Doth Malice glut thy Holie Appetite 1 Cor. 10. 21. 1 Joh. 3. 12. This is to leave Gods for the Devills Table Is thy Stomack for some carnall lusts and pleasures and the Preparations for it slack that This is to preferre mans bread to Angels Nay Psal 78. 25. 1 Pet. 1. 12 Cant. 5. 1. a Sinners which is worse to the most Heavenly which is better O my Soul When God and the Devil or God and Man at once invite thee to their Board give not Man much lesse the Devill thy Presence and deny God thy Appearance No my Soul without good Warrant from God under Seal of thy Conscience Refuse not his Invitations Luk. 14. 17 to thy Eternall welfare lest he Banish thee his Beatificall vision for such inexcusable negligence And keep thee Apoc. 19. 9 from the Supper of the Lamb that hast kept thy self from the Supper of the Lord. O! woe to thee my Soul for ever if he once say as for like neglect he did Thou shalt not eat of Mat. 22. 8. Luk. 14. 22 Psal 118. 19 Prov. 9. 2. my Supper On Gods day then when his Doore is open be with him but especially when his Table is Spread Gods Ordinary is better then the Worlds Feast because it feeds to a better Life But Joh. 6. 27. here my Soul are the Dainties of Heaven * Omnium carnalium saporum dulcedinum voluptates exup●rat Cypr. de C. D. Prov. 9. 2. 5. What Infinite wisdome voluptates exuperat Cypr. de C. D. Prov. and goodnesse can provide to Feast thee till thou art satisfied with his Psa 17. 15. Glory in his Presence where is fulness of joy for Eternity O my Soul where * Chrys Ubi omnes angeli cum sacerdoto c. Joh. 6. 51. Joh. 6. 41. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Damasc Animae vis spes salus lux nostra Chrys Psa 42. 1. 2. Psal 93. 6. 1 Cor. 11. 22. Eccl. 5. 1. Hab. 2. 20. Psa 46. 10. Angels are Ministers be thou one of Gods Guests Where Heaven is on the Table Kneel thou at the Board Where Life is in the Bread be thou at the Table Think it Death and Exile from God and Heaven to be kept from the House and Table of the Lord. But Presence is not enough if Carriage be not Christian Holinesse becomes Gods House Rudenesse is unsutable Veile thy Eyes here with Holy

Death 127 6. Of Judgement 130 7. Of Hell 134 8. Of the Pleasures of Piety 205 9. Of the Passion of Christ 231 10. Of the Holy Cummunion 262 The Services in this Book for the severall Dayes of the Weeks 1. Weekes Services of seven Subjects fit to Excite to a love of Godliness Sunday Service Of the Joyes of Heaven 112 Monday Service Of the Miseries of Earth 116 Tuesday Service Of the Vanities of it 119 Wednesday Service Of the Villanies of it 122 Thursday Service Of Death 126 Friday Service Of Judgment 130 Saturday Service Of Hell 134 2. Weekes Services against the seven Common Sinnes Sunday Service against Neglect of Gods Service 138 Monday Service against Procrastination 140 Tuesday Service against Presumption 143 Wednesd Service against Desperation 145 Thursday Service against Swearing 149 Friday Service against Lying 152 Saturday Service against Slandering 155 3. Weekes Services against the seven Deadly Sinnes Sunday Service against Idlenesse 158 Monday Service against Covetousness 161 Tuesday Service against Gluttony 168 Wednesday Service against Luxury 175 Thursday Service against Pride 178 Friday Service against Anger 182 Saturday Service against Envie 185 4. Weeks Services Against Seaven Vanities of the most valued things of the world Sunday Service against Pleasures 188 Monday Service against Honeurs 190 Tuesday Service against Riches 192 Wednesday Service against Beauty 194 Thursday Service against Strength 196 Friday Service against Wit 198 Saturday Service against Friends and Favour 200 Services upon other Particular Subjects and Occasions A Service Of the Pleasures of Piety 203 A Service Against Malice 209 A Service Against Revenge 212 A Service Penitentiall 215 A Service Against Impatience 223 A Service Of the Passion 230 A Service For the Holy Communion 251 A Service For sad Times 295 The Sinnes against which Prayers and Rules are made Alphabetically disposed Anger Remedies of it 183 Covetuousnesse Remedies of it 163 Desperation Remedies of it 147 Detraction Remedies of it 156 Envy Remedies of it 186 Gluttony Remedies of it 170 Idlenesse Remedies of it 159 Impatience Remedies of it 2●6 Lying Remedies of it 153 Luxurie Remedies of it 176 Malice Remedies of it 210 Neglect of Gods Service Remedies of it 139 Presumption Remedies of it 144 Pride Remedies of it 179 Procrastination Remedies of it 141 Revenge Remedies of it 213 Slaunder See Detraction Sloth See Idlenesse Swearing and Takeing Gods Name in Vaine Remedies of it 150 The Use of the Services Delivered in Fower Rules Rule 1. When you would strengthen in you the Grace 1. Of Feare Vse the Service of Death Judgement Hell 2. Of Hope Vse the Service of the Passion The Joyes of Heaven Against Desperation 3. Of Charity Vse the Service against Malice Anger Revenge Envy Detraction c. 4. Of the Contempt of the World Vse the Service against the Vanities of it Of Honours Riches Pleasures Beauty Wit Favour or of the Miseries of it Villanies of it Of Death Of the Joyes of Heaven 5. Of any Virtue which you would strengthen in you Read the Service against the Contrary Vice As For Chastity The Service against Lust For Truth The Service against Lying For Humility The Service against Pride For Meeknesse The Service against Anger For Patience The Service against Impatience c. Rule 2. When you would strengthen your self against any of the Sinnes above-named Read the Service against that Particular Sinne for that Day Rule 3. When you read one Service you may use besides the Collect for it the Collects for another As for the Service against Pride That against the Vanities of the World In the Service against the Vanity of Pleasure That for the Pleasures of Piety c. Rule 4. When you see cause you may make use of the Collects or Prayers and Meditations and say fewer or more of them without the Services The severall Soliloquies 367 1. The Nobility of Piety 311 2. Domesticall-Devotion 325 3. Church Duty 332 4. Perpetuall Service 351 5. Remora's in Religion 367 6. Helps to Heaven 389 7. Remedies of Humane Frailty 411 The Particulars conteined in these Soliloquies Absolution if it encourage Sin is the Bond not Acquittance of a Sinner 371 Abstinence from ill makes not good 360 Accessory to others Sins why not how not 450 Actions helping to Heaven 439 Almes see Charity Assurance not Essence of faith 426 Attempting good things overcomes them 445 Beleife Right makes not Perfect 375 Cautions good Helps to Heaven 447 Charity all goodnesse 362 Church best place 336. For most Reverence 345 Church-rudenesse an Affront to Heaven 347 Christ all in all 435 Company ill way to Hell 375 Communion Neglect of it a Sin against Christ and the Soul 343 Confession how abused 371 Covetousnesse a Meditation destroying it 403 Credit Christian how to be maintained 449 Dayes to be numbred 384 Deeds good what which best 360 362 Delayes of Repentance Dangerous 414 To Death Desperate 415 Common pleas for it poore 421 Excellency of Soul 311 Everlasting Sinning 451 Eucharist see Lords Table Meat for Heaven 447 Faith The Grace in Chief 434 A Cordiall 423. The Ingredients Rare Christ Chief 424 Virtues Soveraign 425 Five Counterfeits of it Delusion Blind Resignation Idle Speculation Great Confidence Good Opinion of our selves Boldnesse to Sin 426 Grief for Sin not Repentance enough 413 Habits ill dangerous 373 Hand to be lookt to see Deeds Heart Spring of action all care of it 352 Honest not enough without life 369 Hearing a good help to Heaven 439 Helps to Heaven 309 Hours set to be kept 327 Eleventh Hours call no cause to delay Repentance 420 Idlenesse an enemy to Godlinesse 348 Innocence from ill not enough 360 At the day of Judgement how pretious 394 Integrity all not saving 430 Intentions not sufficient though good 369 Lords Day how to be kept 341 Table how to be frequented Reverenced 342 349 Lust what Meditation kills it 304 Meditations advancing piety Of Death 391 Judgment 393. Heaven 396. Hell 400 Of Christ His Birth Life Death Soveraign against Pride Covetousnesse Lust 402 403 404 Morning and Evening best Times for Devotion 329 Motions of God How known 406 Angels 406 From Heaven To it 407 Dangerously refused 408 New Obedience the Soules Preservative 428 What Wherein How Counterfeits of it 430 Obedience see new Prastice of Good makes it easie 445 Prayers Mans Helps 446 Gods Visits 327 Private When where how to be made 329 330 Publick In Church Best 334 At Home when we should be there Ill 334 To be made by all The Greatest 336 Pride Meditation destroying it 402 Principles pernicious to Piety 368 Publick Service Piller of Religion 340 Pulpit makes not a Sermon 439 Reading Scripture a Help to Heaven 440 Of power to Convert 443 Religious Course Bars to it 367 Not for Cloister onely 372 Repentance Sins Remedy 411 Requisites Vertues of it 411 412 Not to be done by Halves 414 Not to be Delayed 414 A Time set for it 420 Resolution will doe much to

Armes I leave the wounded Mother and at thy Feet I lay the Bleeding Child Jesus nourish these Holy Passions in me which my Heart hath conceived and my Tongue now brought forth before thee Let thy Holy Passion ever Breed them in me and thy Holy Spirit nurse them for thee Even by the Merits of thy Bloody Passion I beseech thee Amen Amen A Service Eucharisticall or Preparatory to the Holy Communion for Saturday or other Day Morning Prayer Psal 26. 74. 146. Lessons 2 Chron. 30. Mat. 26. to Verse 46. Evening Prayer Psal 55. 67. Lessons Isay 55. 1 Cor. 11. or 10. 1. Prayer before comming to the Holy Communion Acknowledging and Deprecating our unworthincs O Lord I am every where in thy Presence and under thy Eye and therefore should be profanc no where But thy Speciall Presence and Face is in thy Temple there therefore I should be most Holy And thy Chair and Seat is at thy Table there then I should be most Even the Angels are not pure enough for such a Heavenly Presence how then shall a poor sinfull mortall Man appear at so High and Holy a Service How shall I dare to Communicate with thee that deserve not to Come before thee Lord Since I cannot come as I should Pure I will endeavour by thy Grace to come as I may Penitent I will be more Humble because lesse Holy and more Wash'd because so Eilthy And O Lord give me Grace so to come Let me look over my life in the Glass of thy Law let my Conscience help me look and make me wash with my Teares what is polluted in my wayes and clense in Christs Bloud what I wash with my Tears O Lord in a Bath of this water warm'd in that Blood flowing from a Sinners bleeding Heart and Saviours bloody Side shall I not be clean if I wash Pierce my Heart O Lord that I may Repent open my Heart that I may Believe that I may so wash and be clean Though I did not live let me believe aright and let me love whom I doe believe Thee O God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who didst send thy Sonne to shed his Bloud and Redeeme me Thee O Son of God who didst come and shed thy Blood to make a Bath and heal me Thee O Holy Spirit of God! by whose Grace and Work upon my heart I come to have the benefits of that Bloud And whom I love let me not grieve Lord let me no more offend thee Let my heart be set to serve thee resolved to please thee And doe thou accept me Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Amen 2 Prayer to be used before the Holy Communion to be pardoned and prepared for it DEare Saviour that hast given thy Flesh and Bloud to be my meat and drinke and now invitest me to those heavenly dainties Who am I wofull and wicked wretch that I am that I should dare with my unworthy hands to receive those High and Holy Mysteries Originally uncleane Actually defiled and even since my last comming and Communicating for all my vowes and protestations before Thee againe and againe polluted In these straits and stresses of spirit how shall my soule be satisfied If I come not at thy call I rebell against thy mercy If I come I trespasse upon thy puritie O my God! I will not stand out a Rebell but rather fall downe an humble Suppliant before thee I am guilty Lord pardon me I am polluted Lord purge me Though guilty though polluted I am thy Ransomed soule Deare Redeemer save me Let the Merits of thy pretious bloud clense me from the guilts upon me Let the graces of thy Holy Spirit Sanctifie me from the stains within me Let the sighs and teares which come from my bleeding heart wash off those blots by vertue of that pretious bloud Let the cryes and prayers which now come from my believing soule obtaine those graces from thy Holy Spirit True repentance and humility A lively faith and charity with all those holy and heavenly thoughts and affections which may dispose and prepare me for thee By these fit my soule for thy selfe and my body with my soule to be an holy house and habitation for thee Let thy Holy Spirit and Body enter into me Come Deare Redeemer come to the price of thy bloud seize thine owne and save me Possesse my soule feede me and preserve me Hereafter let me have more grace then to grieve thee Give me care to keepe my bodie thy Temple more pure from sinne and holy to thee and my heart thy Bed more cleane from lust and undefiled before thee In the strength of thee the Living Bread let me grow more able to serve thee And by vertue of so neare an Union and Communion with thee let not mine but thy Holy Spirit from henceforth lighten lead and enliven me That I may shun sinne which thou hatest and daily doe those duties of devotion and charity which please thee So let this Holy Sacrament at once Seale to me thy mercy and my glory Where I shall for ever communicate with thee in perfect purity and felicity To that happy Communion by thy grace deare Saviour ever prepare me and now for a Holy Communion with thee Amen! Amen! Say Amen Lord Jesu 3. Prayer at our comming to the Holy Communion DIdst Thou not invite me to thy Holy Table O Lord I durst not come Now thou callest me I dare not keepe away And yet when I doe consider Who and what is here I fear and tremble to come Thou O Lord art a Holy and Dreadfull Majesty and so Thy Mysteries be Holy Bread and Holy Wine A most Holy Bodie and Bloud No taint in His Bloud who is God and Lord as Thy selfe The Lamb of God Immaculate Undefiled without Spot all-pure most High and Holy But alas I am Uncleane Uncleane Uncleane Originally Actually every way In Heart Hand Lips every part Throughout Childhood Youth Manhood every Age Most unworthy to approach a Presence so pure who am so unholy True Lord But I lament my Uncleanness I renounce my owne worthinesse I come not because worthy but needie I come to be made cleane and worthy That Bodie and Bloud can make me cleane It is my Saviours His Merits can make me worthy They are thy Sons And here is a conveyance of that Blessed Body and Bloud It is thy Sacrament Lord Thinke me worthy for his sake and Make me worthy for thy Mercies sake by my comming Give my Sins thy Pardon my Soul thy Grace My selfe thy Acceptance in thy Beloved And what Thou dost convey Seale to me by what I am to Receive from thee The Blessed Body and Bloud of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen 4. Prayer and Thanksgiving after Receiving of the Holy Communion PArdon O Father thy poore Child the errours and infirmities which have pass't in thy Holy Service whether before or in or since the Sacrament And in and for the pretious Bloud of thine Holy Child Jesus of which I

I wear a Deaths-head in a Ring to preserve alive the memory of a Dead Friend And O thou Loving and Blessed above all Beloveds when thy Passion is Engraven by thy own Hand in an Holy Mystery for my minde to wear shall not the Ring be on my Finger shall not my Heart keepe and weare thy Ring 4. But is that all Dear Jesus Is that all I am to doe to give thee a Memory Surely then it must be the best of all O thou Manna that camest Joh. 6. 32. Heb. 9. 4. downe from Heaven a Golden Pot must keep thee My Soule must have most Pretious memory for thee Quick not Dull Humble not Bold Tender not Hard Active not Contemplative that 's Leaden Brasen Iron but Silver at best and reprobate at worst The Memory which moves all good Affections to thee and Promoves all good Abilities for thee that 's the Golden pot must keep thee So thou wouldst have this Memory because it will minde and doe all Duty Admire and Love thee Obey Endure Doe and Suffer for thee It will establish Faith excite Repentance enflame Charity maintain Constancy O thou Mirrour of the Godhead Heb. 1. 3. 4 Beauty of the World Excellent above Angels High above all Lord of Lords King of Kings Those are thy 1 Tim. 6. 15. Eccles 12. 1. Dues And Holy Memory is a Store-house full and Rich to Pay all therefore thou sayest Remember me I cannot but Believe Repent and Love to the last if thou be in minde If I Deut. 32. 18. fail payment of any Duty to God or Man it is because thou art out of my Memory But to thy Memory Dear Jesus what is it I should doe O Lord thou wouldst have me doe this In Remembrance of thee Thy Passion that that must be in my Memory and Thee I must Remember in 1 Cor. 11. 26. that Thy Sacrament then is an Obelisk to the Eternall Memory of thy Passion A Pyramide of everlasting date set up in the Church for a Solemne memoriall of thy Death And Lord So oft as I neglect it what doe I but pull downe thy Pyramide And Bury Thee and thy Merits as the Jews did thy Limbs but in a worser grave not in a garden but desert a grave of oblivion 2. And what Lord Shall I Remember of thy Passion What But that thou the Eternall Son of God wast made Man to endure it Moved Heb. 9. 14. by meer Love Infinite Love to undergoe it And I wretched Creature Sinfull Sonne of Man the Man that caused it who else had been for ever a Miserable and Damned Man And thus did Infinite Wisdome Mercy and Power in God wonderfully work the Salvation of Man This ineffable Mystery of Redemption by the Miraculous Passion of the Sonne of God which thou didst Suffer thou wouldst have me Remember And thy Sacrament is a Monument to last as long as thy Church that whilst I have Life and Soul I should perpetuate and preserve a Holy Memory of my Saviour 3. And what a Wretch am I that have neede of such a helpe to my Memory and Spur to my Duty as both a Commandement and a Sacrament for both It casts reproaches on me O Christ That thou should give thy Body for me and I scarce give my minde to thee That I should have so great a roome in thy heart and thou so hardly get any in mine That thou should be more ready to Bleed for me then I to Thinke of thee Dear Jesus That didst empty all thy Veines for me shall I not finde a vessell to Preserve thy Pretious Bloud Doe I not Spill what thou didst shed if I let it run out of my Memory Yet art Thou put to it to finde me both Bloud and Minde And when thou hast done all that out of Remembrance of me lest it should be forgotten ordainest a Sanction and Sacrament and sayest Do this in Remembrance of me 4. But more Wretch I if I doe not so doe and Remember For Lord If I doe thee Honour dost thou not doe me favour for it If I give thee glory is it more my Duty then Felicity to doe it If thy Sacrament is it not my Emolument Receive I not great Honours in it Reap I not good Benefits by it Conveyes it not the Bloud-Royall Concorporei Consanguinei Basil of Heaven into me and am I not Kinsman Brother of God an Heire and Prince of Heaven by vertue of that Bloud Is not the Godhead Bodily in Christ And is not his Body Col. 2. 9. 1 Cor. 10. 16. Mystically in me And I near Akinne to God by the Communion of that Body And can he want Demeans that is such a Prince Is not the Earth Psal 2. ● thy Gift and Heaven in thy Power Mat. 28. 18. Heb. 1. 2. Ephes 1. 7. 2 Cor. 1. 22. Rom. 8. 32 1 Cor. 3. 21 22 23. Jesus thou Son and Heire of all And have I not thy Spirit thy Flesh to Pledge for all The Conveyance Sealed in thy Bloud and thy Merits made over and Assured in thy Body O Lord I am so much concern'd in Honour and Estate to doe what thou dost command that if I doe consider my Selfe I should do it to thy Memory in Remembrance of me as well as Thee 5. But what Lord Must I so doe Mat. 26. 26. Credi salubriter posest investiga●i sa●ubr●iter non potest Lumb Believe Thee Present in thy Holy Sacrament Upon thy Word I doe But Determined in a Naturall and Corporeal way of pr●s●nce for thy Word I doe not * Act. 3. 31 So thou art in Heaven and wilt be to the great day Not on Earth So. This Remembrance teacheth me that Absence If so present I should see thee not Remember thee Thou art Glorified in Heaven Thou wast Crucified on earth It 's this I remember I Remember but doe not Offer Heb. 9. 25 26 28. Heb. 9. 24. Col. 1. 20. this That thou didst once I Commemorate not R●iterate often The Propiatory Sacrifice is Thine the Eucharisticall Mine That was on the Crosse this is in the Eucharist This I 1 Cor. 11 26. doe that I Remember The Memory of that I offer the Tragedy I doe not act What was in Sacrifice is here in Sacrament This is all that I doe and neede to doe and can doe if all in Remembrance of thee 6. So then My Soule and Body have both to doe in this Businesse of thine But my Soule more then my Body My Soule is Chief Minister to wait upon thee in this Mysterie My senses but handmaids to wait upon my Soule Sight Touch Tast Smell all to bring the more to my minde and reach the better to my Memory Thy Bodily Presence makes a True 1 Cor. 11. 29. 1 Cor. 1● 30 31. Eucharist Mine if minde be away to me but a Mock-Sacrament To thee but a Mock-Service and will convey to me a Reall Judgement but a Mock-Salvation What

Dr. J. White p. 122. Dr. F. White pag. 188. Ag. Fisher 2. Eccl. Lutheranorum v. Conf. Ausb c. Et Quae Calvinum sequitur v. Ipsum Alios ut supra 1. De Romanae Ecclesiae Corruptelis in Confessione audi conquerentem Cassandrum in Consult de Confessione p. 108. Salutaris haec confitendi medicina ab imperitis importunis medicis multis inutilibus traditiunculis infecta contaminata fuit quibus Conscientiis quas extricare levare debebant laqueos injecêrunt tamquam tormentis quibusdam excarnificârunt 2. De Angl. Eccl. circae haec Judicio Vide Cas ub Epist ad Front p. 129. Cujus rigidam quidem necessitatem quae apud vos obti●et Ecclesia Anglicana molliendam sibi certo consilioputavit rem quidem ipsam neque sustulit ullâ unquam lege neque damnavit Ib. 5. But whether in or out of these cases if I have any Be sure my Pilot have skill My guide Goodnesse My Judge ability My Physitian experience I will not put my Body into the hands of an Empirike My State to an Ignorant at Law The Key of my House to a Varlets or Ideots hand Take heede then to whose Conduct and Judgement and Counsell and Trust I commit the Key of Heaven and my Heart 2. Be my Confession made to the Coram ipsis confiteantur Dco Conf. Boh. sie Jos 7. 19. Supreame Judge or His Delegate God or his Deputy to Him or Before Him it must be 1. Humble As the Publicans Because I stand as a Prisoner before Luk. 18. 13 the Judge of Heaven and am Suppliant for His Mercy 2. Hearty As the Apostles Because 1 Tim. 1 13 at Gods Barre The Knower and Tryer of the Heart 3. Particular As the Kings Of Psa 51. 14 what doth or should most disquiet the Conscience * Enumerationem quâ gravioraomnia peccata diligenter expenduntur tanquam Spiritualia vulnera Spirituali Medico revelantur retineudam esse dubium non est Protestantes non aspernantur hujusmodi enumerationem Casaub Consult p. 108. Such are Commonly Sins of a more grievous Nature either for their 1. Matter As Sins of a greate Kind which greatly wound and waste the Conscience As Perjury Murder Adultery Blasphemy c. a Rom. 2. 29. Gal. 5. 21 22. 2. Manner As Sins against Vows and Promises b Ezek. 16. 59. 17 18. and Mercies c Hos 7. 15 Isay 1. 2. or against Knowledge d Jam. 4. 17. Joh. 9. 41. and and Conscience Especially Since we last Received the Holy Communion 3. Touching Conversion or Amendment of Life 1. THis is the End and Complement Act. 26. 20 Mat. 3. 8. Act. 3. 19. Jer. 35. 15. Ezek. 18. 30. Dan. 4. 27 of Repentance without which it's vaine and fruitlesse to confesse as touching our Soules health As to bleed is in vaine if we presently fall to distemper our Bloud againe and to vomit ill humours out of the Stomack if we avoid not those things which will fill it up againe So at present to be Sick of Sinne and Bleed the Heart in Contrition and to void it up in Confession * Quasi escam indigestam-Evomit peccata Orig. in Psal 31. 2 Pet. 2. 22. if we amend not our Lives but returne to our old Vomit againe That were but to abuse Gods Ordinances and to make our Confession and the Holy Sacrament it selfe our Sinne if they serve onely to encourage and strengthen our Soules in Sinne and not as God Institues them to Arme and Enable us against it 2. And if the Amendment be not thorough even this is but as withered Fruit and to no end if it be not Jer. 7. 5. Ezek. 36. 25 26. Joel 2. 12. Rom. 6. 17 1 King 9. 4 Heb. 13. 18 Psal 139. 23 24. 1 Tim. 1. 5. 9. Isay 39. 4. Psal 32. 2. Psal 119. 165. Job 27. 6. 1 Joh. 3. 21 Jam 4. 8. 1. Vpright As well within as without and reach not as well to the Heart as Life 2. Absolute Without exempting any Sinne or Lust whatsoever whether in Life or Heart else indeed it is not Vpright This makes a Pure Heart and Quiet Breast Integrity of Life Which ensures our Repentance Seales our Pardon and Pacifies our Conscience and makes us Approach Gods Holy Presence and Table with confidence Which is not to be done without full purpose and some measure of this Integrity 2. How to Demeane our selves at the Holy Communion WIth all Humble and Entire Devotion of Body and Soul 1. The Body cannot be too Reverent Eccl. 5. 2. Mic. 6. 6. Exod. 3. 5. Jam. 4. 8. Psa 132. 7 because the Misteries are so High and Holy in which we draw so near to God 2. The Soul cannot be too Devout Whose faculties are all to be improved to the best and uttermost to discharge her Duty aright in this Great and Holy Service Therefore 1. The Mind must be Elevated to Putasn in ter consis●● Chrys Heavenly thoughts and Contemplations Of the Mystery of Mans Redemption By Gods Miraculous Incarnation In a most Bitter and Bloudy Passion Out of the Bottomlesse Deep of Love and Goodnesse Whereof we are to Receive his Pretious Pledges and ●okens All this of and with and in our Dying Lord and Dear Redeemer we are to have in Actuall Mind and Memory And Him in all to Mat. 6. 26. 1 Cor. 11. 24. Admire and Adore And 2. The Heart is to be Ravished with such Infinite mercy in God to Sinfull miserable Man * Vide quo modo his qui Christi cōmemorant passionem inter sacra officia quasi per qu●sdum can●les de interioribus fontibus oriantur ●orrentes super om●es deli●ias ●●●rymis nectarcis anima delectetur Cypr. de c. D. Psa 116. 11 12. To contrive and give so Glorious a Redeemer and Redemption to save his Soul And now to present him with such Gracious Seales of his Love and Admit him into so near and Holy Communion And for this to be dissolved in love to God and Christ and Man for His sake Psal 116. 11 12. With resolute Vowes of Life and Death to His Service That we will give forgive doe suffer any thing for Him And from that to be filled with Holy Rapts and Joyes and Hopes * Inde sequitur mentis jubilus cbrietas Haec non accendit sed extinguit peccatum Cum sopivit oblivio cuncta caernis ludibria mira sunt quae senti● mira quae videt inaudita quae loquitur Cypr. Rom. 8. 32. Rom. 5. 9 10. in so great a Goodnesse of so Good a God who having done this will deny me nothing And maugre the Rage and Malice of Hell will not see my Soul lost for whom all this is done And for those who need an aide v. Meditation on the Sacrament on the Passion Such Meditations will now be perused well as they have found to move most to give more

will not for Civilities sake and the Religious will not be so Profane And if any should offer such an Irreligious incivib●ty to thee doe not thou by suffering it doe as much to thy God! Cursed is he that makes thee neglect thy Maker Cursed thou if any Person or Thing whatsoever make thee guilty of that neglect My Soul For Honesties sake thou will not break thy promised Time with Man For Religion sake doe not break thy Set-houres with God And though God tie thee not precisely to such set Houres of the Day yet shalt thou doe well to let Religion bind thee to the best times of his Service And the Morning when thy Spirits are most Fresh unsullied with Worldly thoughts and Affaires as for Studies so for Devotions is doubtlesse Psal 63. 1. best And the more Early the more Acceptably dost thou make thy Devout Appearance before Almighty Psa 130. 6 God But not so if most Late at Night Mal. 1. 14. That is to give God the Prime this the Dreg of the Day if when thou art sleepy and shouldst be in sleep and hast no more wayes to spend and passe thy Time thou dost give the Relikes to thy Ptayers and bestow thy Broken Minutes on thy God My Soul The Religious King did rise at Midnight to say his Prayers to God But not did sit up till Midnight Psal 119. 62. Rom. 13. 13. ravelling out his Time on Toyes which should be wound up in his Prayers To be on thy Knees when others are in their Beds to break Sleep for Devotion Luk. 2. 37. is Pious but if not so it 's good when others are to be on thy Knees that thou maist take strength to thine by a concurrence of other Prayers Extraordinarily that but Ordinarily thou must doe this In the Evening and Morning and at Noone will I Pray and Psal 55. 17. that instantly Observe it my Soul He doth not make his Morning-Prayers at Noone and his Evening at Midnight and instantly alwayes sleepily never the Time which God and Nature have set out for Bodily rest is best for Sleep Thou stealest from it if due time neglected thou take of that for Devotion Yea thou dost commit a double Robbery on God and Nature Him thou robbest of his Devotion in due Job 17. 12. time and Her of her due time of rest to pay God what thou owest Him And the Coine is scarce current in which thou makest thy payment because it wants both Metall of Spirit and Stamp of Gods allowed Time Be then Devout daily Dear Soul and observe due Seasons and Houres for thy Prayers to Him to whom thou owest thy Selfe and Life every Act. 17. 28. moment and so thy Private Duty is Discharged to God And the better the more Private Some affect Ostentation and their Prayers in the Closet look as Publique as a Pharisees in the Mat. 6. 5. Market-place as if they did rather act then say their Prayers and rather played then performed a Part of Devotion But so God see thine no matter if no Man know it It lookes more Sincere if it be more Secret and so much more pretious as it is more sincere What thou canst then avoid that let those who would have Man reward them have Man see them But thou when thou prayest enter inter Mat. 6. 6. into thy Closet and when thou hast shut thy doore pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly The summe of this Soliloquie God is singularly God of me as universally Psal 86. 7. Psal 50. 7. Psal 118. 28. of the World For this I owe God a Particular Service There must be some time set for that Payment Evening and Morning are best houres 1 Chro. 16. 40. 1 Thes 5. 17. Psal 76. 11 to be set Time set to God must not be broken by Man Noone and Midnight are not Gods Morning and Evening Tuesday-Soliloquie Church-Duty OR A Soliloquie shewing that all owe a Publike Service to Almighty God and where and when and how they are to pay it MY Soul Though one and 1. Part. entire of thy self thou art but a Part of the Church and as a Member of it must do Rom. 12. 12 Duty with the Body In whose Common w●e and Welfare thou hast thy proper interest and part Thou must be Jer. 29. 5. One therefore at Common-Prayers when it is sought and make One at Publique-praises when it is found and as in Private must Attend God in● Publick For since he is God of All as well as One He must be serv'd by All as well as thee and by thee as much as 2 Sam. 12. 7 8 9. any and more if thou be a Greater One For dost thou my Soul look for least respect where thou dost most favour Or to receive lesse Rents where thou lettest most Lands O my Soul be not thou of all be not thou ingratefull to thy God who hath done thee favour above many Millions in making thee both One and Great and Deut. 10 12 Psal 116. 11 yet requires no more but thy Duty for his Rent My Soul obliged by so many Bonds unto thy Maker Detract not a Single Service where thou Lev. 5. 6 7 owest a Double Duty Upon thy solemne● occasions thou wilt not excuse thy greatest Servants from Attendance because the greater they are the greater is thy honour Thou canst not excuse thy self to God if thy Service Fail when it is most for his Glory And can any Service be Solemne without a Publike Place or Meeting in it without an Appointed Time Can any Place be so convenient as what is Consecrate to his Honour Or Time so fit as what is Devoted to his Service The Temple then the Lords House that 's the Place and Sunday 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords Day that 's the Time And what Dayes else Holy Church by Law and Leave from God sets a part to his Worship Content not thy selfe my Soul with a Common place if thou canst goe to a Consecrate Where shouldst thou Waite on the King but in his Court The Church is Gods Court my Soul Psa 100. 3. Psal 65. 1. Psal 89. 5. There Heavenly Majesty lookes to be Waited on and ever was by his Saints For the Body of them to be in one place and thou in another is Schisme Heb. 10. 25. Be not thou at the Devills Chappell when others are at Gods Church A Separatist Jude v. 19. how much Saint soever he seemes is no better then one of his Servants To be so out of a Mind that all Places are alike even the most Common as good as the most Sacred for Gods Service is bestiall Heresie The Devill himselfe will not allow such a Chappell Though he chose Swine for a House yet never a Stie to Mat. 8. 31. be serv'd in Nor let it suffice to keep Conscience