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A92885	The whole duty of a Christian containing all things necessary, both as to what he is to know, and do, for the obtaining a happy eternity ; to which is added, More particular directions, how to prepare for a comfortable death ...	Seller, Abednego, 1646?-1705.; Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698.	1699 (1699)	Wing S2461A; ESTC R42613	99,994	253

divers manner of being of one and the same substance and Divi● Essence Consider the Divine Essence as t● Fountain and Principle not as the Caus● of the Deity so it is the first person conder it as begotten of the Father so it is t● second person consider it as breathed for or proceeding from the Father and the S● so it is the third person begetting and p●ceeding respects not the Divine Natu● but Person the Divine Nature of the Go● head is not begotten doth not proceed but the Divine person of the Son is beg●ten and the Divine Person of the Ho● Ghost proceedeth These Three are 〈◊〉 One in Nature Essence Will Conse● Virtue what the One doth the Other do also Yet how in that most simple sin● Essence there be several subsistences of Perso● truly subsisting three in one and one in th●● differing but not divided several yet t● same all one for their Nature all distin● for their Persons is a Mystery rather Reve● ently to be believed and adored than Curiously searched into Of the Creation GOD in the Beginning of Time by the Word of his Power in Six Dayes made all things of nothing for himself and ●ll very good He made the First Day Heaven and Light The Second The Firmaments The Third Earth Grass Plants and Trees The Fourth Sun Moon and Stars The Fifth Fish and Fowl The Sixth Beasts Creeping Things and Man Thus in three Dayes the Parts or Body of the World was gradually laid As The First Day He made ●he Highest Heavens and came down so low ●s Light The Second lower The Firmaments and the Ayr. The Third lowest of All He separates Earth and Water In three Dayes more and in the same order they are finished For on the Fourth Day The Heavens which were made the First Day are decked with Sun Moon and Stars The Fifth Day the Firmaments which were made the Second Day are fill'd with Fish and Fowl The Sixth Day the Earth which was made the Third Day is Replenished with Beasts and Man He provided for his Irrational and Rational Creatures Habitations and Food before he made them fills the Earth with plants and nourishment before he brough● them into it abundantly furnished with a● things for necessity and delight He first produced a Rude undigested formless Mass and out of it drew the 〈◊〉 Elements by fetching one contrary out o● another as Light out of Darkness Th● Firmament out of Emptiness dry Earth out of Water Then the compounded Bo● dies out of the same Elements At first the confused Heap Then things without Life as Light Firmament dry Land Seas● Then things that had Life but no Sense a Grass Herbs Trees Then things tha● had Life and Sense but no Reason as Fow● Fish Birds Beasts Creeping Things lastly those that had Life Sense and Reason as Man the Perfection and Compendium of all In simple Bodies he began with th● most perfect but in mixt Bodies with things more Imperfect Of Providence PROVIDENCE is the constant Influence of the Divine Being upon the who● Creation preserving and upholding the several Beings and Faculties of all his Creatures perpetuating their several kinds b● a continual Succession providing the●● agreeable Provision permitting directing and governing their several Motions and Actions to the great end of his own Glory and other ends of their Creation subordi●ate to that End It reaches to Insensible (y) Ps 135.7 and 147.18 and 148.8 Mat. 6.30 and Irrational Creatures (z) Psal 36.6 and 104.21 27. and 147.9 Mat. 10.29 ●s more concern'd for Man for whom next to his own Glory ●e made all things (a) Gen. 1.28 Regards Manages and over-rules all things in the World (b) Psa 97.1 and 103.19 Ec. 5.8 Dan. 4.35 ●nd all the Actions of men in ●t whether Natural (c) Act. 17.28 Casual (d) Exod. 21.12.13 1 Sam. 9.16 and 14.42.2 Ch. ●8 33 Ps 16.33 and 18.18 Joh. 1.7 Act. 1.26 Good (e) Ezr. 7.27 Jo. 15.15 or Evil (f) 2 Ch. 10.15 Ez. 14. ● 2 Th. 2.11 Of the Angels ANGELS are Intellectual Spirits created by God good but ●utable (g) Job 4.18 the first day (h) Job 38.7 ●o do his pleasure The good Angels are secur'd from falling ●y Gods unchangeable Decree ●nd Christ their Head (i) 1 Tim. 5 21. Col. 1.20 Eph. 3.15 They ●ave degrees and orders a●ong them (k) Col. 1.16 readily execute ●e Will of God especially in praising of him and attending upon his Servants (l) Ps 91.11.12 Mat. 18.10 Heb. 1.14 The Evil Angels were and continued good it 's suppos'd until the seventh day (m) Ge. 1.31 I● their fall they had a Ring leader call'd the Devil Satan the grea● Dragon the old Serpent Belzebub th● Prince of Devils Ever since their fall they have been Enemies to all Good and promote● of all Evil. Their malice is a gainst all mankind especially those that are most like God (n) Ge. 3.15 Joh. 1.6 c. Zac. 3.1 Re. 12.10.17 their power is limited by him (o) 1 Ki 22.22 Job 1.12 and 2.6 Mat. 8.31 greater over the wic●ed than the good (p) Ma. 12.29 2 Tim. 2.26 1 Joh. 4.4 The● present punishment is loss 〈◊〉 Heaven which they see other enjoy utter despair of eve● being happy fearful expectation of the dregs of Gods wra● for ever which shall co●pleat it (q) Mat. 8.29 and 25.4 2 Pet. 2.4 Of Man by Creation MAn was made 1. With Deliberation Consultation and Advice of the Blessed Trinity (r) Ge. 1.26 by God the Father (ſ) Job 10.8 Psal 100.3 Son (t) Col. 1.16 and Holy-Ghost (u) Job 33.4 none ought to be proud of their Comliness or despise others for their defects or dissatisfied with their own all are Gods workmanship 2. The last work of the last Day as a Compendium of the whole and for whom he found the World furnished to his Hand But hath no reason to boast of his Antiquity the meanest Creature was made before him 3. Out of Paradise shewing he had it not by Birth-right as his natural possession his Country is elsewhere God did him no wrong to dispossess him when he sinned A Land-lord turns out his Tenant that pays not his Rent 4. Of Dust or Red-Earth shewing 1. Gods absolute Authority and Soveraignty as the Potter over the Clay (w) Ro. 9.21 2. Our worthlessness and fitness to be rejected who regards a Clod of Earth 3. The groundless nature of Pride considering the meanness and baseness of our original we 're made of that upon which every Creature may set his Foot and lay his dung which we should always remember especially in our Addresses to our Maker Behold now I have taken upon me to speak who am but Dust and Ashes (x) Gen. 18.27 4. Our frailty and mortality Dust in our original nourishment motion dissolution (y) Job 4.19 5. The power and Wisdom of our Creator who made such

Isa 53.9 Matt. 12.40 ●o sanctifie our Burial to ●weeten and perfume the Grave to us that in the strong Holds and Fortress of Death He might overcome and loose the Sorrows and Bonds of Death (r) Acts 2.24 1 Cor. 15.55 c. V. He Descended into Hell the third Day h● Arose again from the Dead Christ so humbled Himself that he was deprived of his Natural Life in the Estate of the Dead and under the Power of Death for Three Days that it might appear he was truly Dead but no longer that his Body might not se● Corruption (s) Matt. 12.40 17.23 John 2.19 Acts 2.31 He arose the third Day being the First Day of the Week for our Justification and quickening i● Grace as our Head as a Pledge and Means of our Resurrection as an Evidence Divine Justice was fully satisfied the De● paid in that the Judge released him out o● Prison VI. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty Having continued upon Earth forty Day after his Resurrection to assure his Disciple of it and instruct them in all things pertaining to their Preaching the Gospel Having finished his Work on Earth over come and Triumphed over His and our Enemies Before many Witnesses he was ●isibly taken up into Heaven where in ●ur Nature and as our Head he is Advan●ed by the Father to the Height of all Majesty Power Dominion Honour Dig●ity and Glory next unto Himself Ha●ing Authority to Rule as King over all ●●ings in Heaven and Earth making Con●nual Intercession for us that for his Ple●ary Satisfaction all his Members Persons ●nd Services may be accepted of God who ●eing the Father Almighty is both Willing ●nd Able to grant the same VII From Thence He shall Come to Judge the ●ick and the Dead At the last Day He ●all Descend from Heaven in great Power ●●d Glory when He shall sit upon his ●hrone and all then alive and that Dyed ●efore shall be summon'd and stand before ●im and be Judged by the Law of Nature ●d Covenant of Grace When Sentence ●all be pronounced of Absolution to the ●●ghteous first then of Con●mnation upon the Wick● (t) Mat. 25.41 c. VIII I Believe in the Holy Ghost Or Holy ●irit who proceedeth or is as it were ●●eathed forth from the Father and the Son Who Inspired the Prophets and Ap● stles works in us and assists us in th● which is good IX The Holy Catholick Church the Communi● of Saints I Believe that Christ hath a S●ctified People Dispersed through and ●●parated from the Rest of the World styl● the Catholick General or Universal Chur●● Called out of an Estate of Sin and Mise●● into an Estate of Grace and Salvation a●● Engaged to Holiness in Heart and Lif● Being that Body whereof Christ is t● Head Militant on Earth Triumphant Heaven X. The Forgiveness of Sins I believe the● is Pardon to be obtained Reconciliati● to an offended God and Satisfaction ma● to a Just God a Discharge from the G● of all Sin Acquittance from the Challe● of the Law and Constituting us Righted before God through the Undertaking a● Merits of our Redeemer for all who R●pent forsake their Sins Believe in him a● thankfully subject themselves to all the P●cepts of the Gospel XI The Resurrection of the Body I Belie● that at the Day of Judgment there sh●● be a general Resurrection both of the J● ●●d Unjust Their Bodies raised up and united to their Souls 1. The Just the Spirit of Christ and by virtue of Resurrection their Union with him as ●●eir Head and as their Merciful Saviour ●●d Redeemer Their Bodies shall be rai●● Spiritual Incorruptible and like unto 〈◊〉 Glorious Body out of their Beds of ●●st with great Joy and Triumph to be ●own'd with Everlasting Glory and shall ●●ne as the Sun in the Firmament 2. The ●dies of the Wicked shall be raised in disho●ur by him as an offended Judge and all come forth as out of their Prisons ●th great Fear and Trembling Horrour ●●d Astonishment as so many Malefactors 〈◊〉 Execution as so many ugly loathsom ●rcasses to look upon Their Faces ga●ering Blackness and Darkness They shall ●ise to Everlasting Shame and Confusion of ●●ce as well as to Everlasting Condemnation ●●d Torment XII And the Life Everlasting I Believe there a future State after this Life of Endless appiness or Misery according to mens ●●oce here of Good or Evil Life or Death ●hich God hath set before them either to ●●turn and live or go on and perish ever●stingly Amen I thereby acknowledge and ●●fess stedfastly to believe the undoub● Truth and Certainty of this Creed in ●●neral and of every Article thereof in ●●ticular and to live answerable to this ●●lief The Ten Commandments THey are a perfect Platform Summa● or Abridgement of the Law of Nat● or Moral Law at first writ on Man's Hea● expounded by the Prophets and Apost● and are divided into Two Tables The 1 ●●spects our Duty immediately to God wh●● to be worshipped for the true God in w●● manner how we are to use and hon●● his Name the set Time of his publick W●●ship The Summ of this Table is Thou sh●● love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart 〈◊〉 with all thy Soul and with all thy Mind I 2 respects our neighbour his Honour a Dignity Life Chastity Wealth good Na●● Propriety The Summ of this is Thou sh●● love thy Neighbour as thy self or whatsoe●●● you would that Men should do you do you e ven so to them this is the Law and the ●●phets (v) Matt. 7.12 and 22 37 39. For understanding Them we must ●●serve 1 The Law is Spiritual read the Powers of the Soul as well as Action of the Body 2 Where any Duty is ●●manded the contrary Sin is forbidden 〈◊〉 where any Sin is forbidden the contra●● Duty is commanded 93. In all Duties ●●manded and Sins forbdden all of the ●e kind together with all the Causes ●●ans Occasions Appearances Provocati●● thereunto are also commanded and for●●en 4 What 's forbidden and com●●ded our selves we ought to endeavour ●ay be avoided and eprformed by others Thou is used in every PRecept shew●● God speaks to All and to all alike to ●●y one in particular as if he named him Name ●he Preface contains the Reasons of our ●●ing them ●s 1. His Surpeam Soveraignty over I am the Lord so we owe him all ●●dience as we are his Creatures and Sub●● His Interest and Propreity inus Thy 〈◊〉 particular Engagern ent and En●●ment In such a manner as to none ●●rs by taking us into Covenant a ●●al Relationto himvelf His redeeming and delivering us out ●●hraldom Which brought thee out of ●●nd of Egypt A Place h of Servitude 〈◊〉 by how much Sin is worse than Suffering the Devil and his Angels power a●●malice surpasses Pharaoh's and his Ta●● masters everlasting Troments in Hell ●●ceed Temproal pains in the Brick-kill F●nace

Temper and hainousness of the Crime Forgive them often in things not sinful Take not notice of every small Offence Passion makes Severity look like Revenge Reforms not but provokes and exasperates Be rather lov'd than fear'd a Master than a Tyrant a Lion in thy Family Let your Dominion be that of the Soul over the Body not for its hurt but help advantage edification guidance and instruction Reward allure them praise them openly reprehend them secretly Be chearful and pleasant with them that they may love not avoid or be weary of your Company Have a great care of your Carriage Nothing will please from one whose Person is distasted Give them good Example by a Prudent Pious Honest unblameable Conversation which much tends to the bettering of them and maintaining your Respect Esteem Authority over them Betray not your Natural weaknesses by Passion or Imprudent words and deeds Command your selves if you expect they should obey you Suffer not that in your selves which you discountenance in Them Conscience of our own Crimes Choaks the Accuser and not like to amend the Offender An Inferior cannot but stoop in Heart to that Superior in whom God's Image appears The heaviest work is made light by seasonable enjoyning it As much as possible settle a constant order in your Family and of your Business that every ordinary work may know its Time and Confusion and Distraction may not shut out or hinder Godliness which is much furthered and made easie by skill and foresight Be in your Family as a Prophet to Teach and Instruct them as a King to govern and take care of them as a Priest to offer up the daily Sacrifice of Prayer and Thanksgiving with and for them Always Remembring who hath committed them to your Charge and that at your Hands it will be Required His Morning Prayer with his Family MOst Holy and Infinitely glorious Lord God who art in thy self a Consuming Fire but in thy Son a Reconciled Father We desire in all Humility to Prostrate our Souls before thee acknowledging our selves far less than the least of all thy Mercies unworthy to breath in thy Air to tread upon thy Earth to lift up our eyes to Heaven to have any thing to do with thee in a way of Grace and Mercy Thou hast nourished and brought us up and we have Rebelled against thee Requited thee Evil for Good and Hatred for thy good will It 's a wonder of thy Patience and Forbearance that we are alive before thee Praying unto thee and Praising of thee and not spending a sad Eternity in that place of Torment from whence there is no Redemption O glorifie thy Mercy in the Pardoning and Saving of us and not thy Justice in our Destruction Justifie us freely by thy Grace through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ and sanctifie us by thy Holy Spirit Let the time past of our lives be too too much that we have been so Careless in serving thee and saving our Souls for the Time to come let us work out our Salvation with fear and trembling and give all diligence to make our Calling and Election sure And in our several Relations and Places give us Grace to behave our selves as becomes thy Children and Servants with Care and Conscience and Soberness of Mind as having thy Law writ upon our Hearts and thy fear always before our Eyes and a sence of thine Omniscience and Omnipresence that thine Eye runs too and fro through the whole Earth that thou art the Witness and wilt be the Judge of all our Thoughts Words and Actions And seeing thou hast been pleased to Encourage us to our Duty by many great and precious Promises let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of Flesh and Spirit perfecting Holiness in thy fear Let this be our great Care notwithstanding all Temptations that we never leave thee nor forsake thee and this our great Comfort in all Conditions that thou hast said thou wilt never leave us nor forsake us Let us not be weary of well-doing knowing in due season we shall reap if we faint not Let the End of our Dayes be often at the End of our Thoughts Give us Grace so to live now as we shall wish we had done when we come to Die that then we may be able to Reflect upon a well-spent life and on good Grounds to resign up our Souls into thy Hands as into the hands of a Faithful Creator and Merciful Redeemer Remember all Mankind in much Mercy Send thy Gospel where it is not Preached make it very successful where it is Pardon our Crying Sins in these Three Nations Reform our wicked Lives Continue our forfeited Mercies prevent our deserved Judgments Let our Soveraign and all our Magistrates be Terrors to Evil Doers Incouragers of those that do well Make the Ministers of thy Gospel faithful painful religious their labours successful Let all our Relations be related to thy self and all thine afflicted Servants relieved by thee according to the multitude of thy tender Mercies We Praise thee for our last Night's Preservation and Refreshment and for all the Instances of thy Goodness to us all our Dayes Go along with us this Day Bless us in all our ways preserve us from all Evil especially from the Evil of Sin Work in us a greater Care of pleasing and fear of offending thee that living this Day and all our Dayes in thy fear we may dye in thy favour thorough thy Son who hath taught us when we Pray to say Our Father c. His Evening Prayer with his Family ETernally Blessed and Infinitely glorious Lord God the great and terrible Majesty of Heaven and Earth at whose Dreadful Appearance all Impenitent Sinners shall e'er long in vain call to the Rocks and the Mountains to cover them for fear of thy Wrath and for the glory of thy Power So often as we come into thy Presence we have abundant Cause to be covered with Shame and Confusion of face for the vileness and sinfulness of our Natures Hearts and Lives We are by Nature Children of Wrath and by our Lives Children of Disobedience have broken all thy Holy Laws in Thought Word or Deed so that it were Righteous with thee to make us miserable in this World and that which is to come But O deal not with us according to the multitude and hainousness of our Provocations but according to the multitude and tenderness of thine own Compassions for thy Goodness sake Remember us O Lord. And for the Time to come make us to amend our Lives according to thy Word Enlighten our dark Understandings subdue our Wills and Affections wholly to thy self Let us know and do the things that belong to our Peace before they be hid from our Eyes Let us chearfully perform what thou requirest of us and patiently bear what at any time thou shalt lay upon us Be stedfast and unmoveable always abounding in the Work of the Lord for as much as we know our labour shall not

so much our Deliverance exceeds the which was a Type and faint shadow of th● And therefore we being delivered ut of Hands of our Enemies must serve him w●● out fear in Holiness and Righteousness be●● him all the Days of our Life Commandment I. THE First Commandment require● That we have the only true God a none other for our God and that 〈◊〉 worship and glorifie hima ccordingly T●● we acquaint our selves with him th● frequently of him love and highly Este●● him delight rest satisfied in him o●mit all unto him trust and depend u● him place our whole Happiness in 〈◊〉 looking upon all things as nothing w● out him honour and adore fear and verence him yield all Praises and Tha● Obedience and Submission unto him 〈◊〉 and acnoweldge him be zealous for h●● walk humbly with him be carefull in things to please him and sorrowfull w●● in any thing he is by our selves or oth●● offended II. The Second forbids us worshipping or giving any Religious Adoration to any Creature in Heaven Earth or Water which particular Places are named besides which there are none other or the true God In or before or by any Representation Likeness or Image who being infinite and invisible is not to be represented by any visible thing (w) Deut. 4.12 15 c. Isa 44.10 c. Rom. 1.23 and enjoyns the serving him by such means and in such a manner as is agreeable to his Nature and Word And this because he is our Soveraign and Proprietor tender of his own Worship will severely punish Ido●aters and their Posterity as those that hate him and be mercifull to true Worshippers as those that love him to many Generations III. The Third forbids us thinking or speaking prophanely vainly slightly of him careless irreverent Attendance upon him in his Worship unadvisedly crying O Lord or O God! c. without a due sence of him Cursing our selves or others Swearing by any Creature or by himself except before a Magistrate in weighty and true Cases which cannot otherwise be determined And requires of us a Holy and Reverent Respect unto and Use of his Name Attributes Ordinances Word Works all things whereby he makes himself known And this because the great Soveraign is most highly provoked by Prophaneness and Contempt of him and will deal with those that are guilty of it accordingly IV. The Fourth requires us with those under our Charge to consecrate keep Holy the Sabbath-Day That we bear it in mind to fit our selves for it Rest from those Works which are properly called Ours Set our selves apart for the Duties of it Spend it not in Idleness Worldly Recreations or Imployments except of necessity and mercy but in the publick and private Worship and Service of God in Prayer Hearing Reading the Word Religious Meditation and Discourse accounting the Sabbath the holy of the Lord honourable and honouring him therein (x) Isa 58.13 And this from 1. the Equity of it God's allowing us s●● days of seven for our own warrantable Imployments and reserving but one for Himself 2. His challenging a special Propriety in it setting it apart from common to holy Uses so it 's Theft and Sacriledge to alienate it to any others than he allows 3. His own Example resting on it not from doing good or preserving what he had made but from creating any more diversities or kinds of Creatures And 4. from that Blessing he hath put upon it in advancing preferring inriching that Day above the rest in choosing ordaining setting it apart sanctifying it to be a Time for his Service and a means of Blessing to us in sanctifying it Which is not upon the Seventh but First Day of the Week from the Resurrection of Christ on that Day the Practice of the Apostles Primitive Christians and Church of God in all Ages since together with the Command of our Rulers in Church and State V. The Fifth requireth under the sweet Relation between Parents and Children the preserving the Honour and performing the Duties belonging to every one in their several Places Stations and Relations That Inferiors reverence and obey their Superiors that Superiors carry themselves worthily towards and be carefull of those under them that Equals render due Respect towards each other More particularly as to our Superiors in Family Church and State that we pray for them honour and reverence them chearfully submit to and obey them not envy or grudge the Preheminence God hath given them that we do not neglect or despise them for their wants or weaknesses but rather support assist them cast a covering of love over them stand up and plead for them against those that abuse disparage or speak evil of them To which obedience prosperity and length of days as God sees good is promis'd in the Old Testament and not reversed but rather confirmed in the New (y) Ep. 6.2 3. VI. The Sixth condemneth any hurt done threatned or intended to our own or other's Soul or Body Forbiddeth our being actually guilty of or of whatsoever tendeth to our own or others death Together with all sinfull Anger Strife Malice Hatred Revenge denying necessary means for preservation of life but not lawfull War necessary Defence or the Execution of publick Justice And requireth our Endeavours to ●ender all men's lives as safe and comfortable as we can VII The Seventh forbiddeth all Impurities and fleshly Pollutions in Thought Word and Deed unchastity in Mind Speech Behaviour And withall enjoyneth the shunning and avoiding all Occasions Provocations Temptations thereunto as to our selves or others VIII The Eighth forbiddeth all defrauding over-reaching dishonest Actions or whatsoever Abuses unjustly lessens or hinders our own or others Estate and requireth the lawfull procuring and furthering of the same IX The Ninth forbiddeth all false or evil speaking or surmising lying slandering back-biting dissembling reviling tale-bearing detracting from or prejudicing another's Esteem or good Name And requireth our defending preserving promoting advancing the same X. The Tenth forbiddeth dissatisfaction with our own Estate envying repining at desiring of any thing that is another's And requireth a full Contentment with our Enjoyments furthering of and rejoycing in our Neighbours The Lord's Prayer SO called from the Author our Lord Jesus Christ It 's a compleat Directory and Summary of all Prayer And contains 1 A Preface of Compellation the Person we pray to not Saints or Angels but God described by our common Interest in him our Relation to him his Habitation 2 Six Petitions The three first more especially respect God's Glory Advancement of his Kingdom Obedience to his Will which must be first sought The three last our own and others Temporal and Spiritual good 3 A Doxology or Conclusion for Confirmation containing Praise and Thanksgiving and Arguments for our Petitions for Thine is the King dom which we desire to come thy Power alone can effect these things the grant of them tends unto and will end in thy Glory Our Father Implies We ought to call