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A75019
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Private devotions for several occasions, ordinary and extraordinary
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Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.
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Wing A1161; ESTC R231157
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hurt to our neighbour Rejoycing when any Evil befalls him Neglecting to make what Satisfaction we can for any sort of injury done to our neighbour POSITIVE JUSTICE HUMILITY LYING CHurlish and proud behaviour to Others Froward and peevish Conversation Bitter and Reproachful language Cursing Not paying the Respect due to the qualities or gifts of others Proudly overlooking them Seeking to lessen others Esteem of them Not imploying our Abilities whether of minde or Estate in administring to those whose Wants require it GRATITUDE UNthankfulness to our Benefactors Especially those that admonish us Not amending upon their Reproof Being angry at them for it Not reverencing our Civil Parent the lawful Magistrate Judging and speaking evil of him Gâ—â—dging his just Tributes Sowing sedition among the people Reâ—â—â—ing to Obey his lawful Commands Rising up against him or taking part with them that do Despising our Spiritual Fathers Not loving them for their works sake Not obeying those commands of God they deliver to us Seeking to withhold from them their just maintenance Forsaking our lawful Pastors to follow factious teachers PARENTS STubborn and irreverent behaviour to our natural Parents Despising and publishing their infirmities Not loving them nor endeavouring to bring them comfort Contemning their Counsels Murmuring at their Government Coveting their Estates though by their death Not ministring to them in their Wants of all sorts Neglecting to Pray for Gods Blessing on these several sorts of Parents Want of natural affection to children Mothers reâ—osing to Nurse them without a just impedlment Not bringing them timely to Baptisme Not early instructing them in the ways of God Suffering them for want of timely correction to get Customes of sin Seâ—â—ing them Evil Examples Discouraging them by harsh and cruel usage Not providing for their subsistence according to our ability Consuming their Portions in our own riot Reserving all till our death and letting them want in the mean time Not seeking to entail a blessing on them by our Christian lives Not heartily praying for them Want of affection to our Natural brethren Envyings and heart-burnings towards them DUTY to BRETHREN NOt loving our spiritual brethren i. e. our fellow Christians Having no fellow-feeling of their sufferings Causelesly forsaking their Communion in Holy Duties Not taking deeply to heart the Desolations of the Church MARRIAGE MArrying within the degrees forbidden Marrying for undue ends as Covetousnes Lust c. Unkind froward and unquiet behaviour towards the Husband or Wife Unfaithfulness to the Bed Not bearing with the infirmities of each other Not endeavouring to advance one anothers good spiritual or temporal The Wife resisting the lawful command of her Husband Her striving for Rule and dominion over him Not praying for each other FRIENDSHIP UNfaithfulness to a Friend Betraying his secrets Denying him assistence in his needs Neglecting lovingly to admonish him Flattering him in his faults Forsaking his friendship upon slight or no cause Making leagues in sin instead of vertuous friendship SERVANTS SErvants disobeying the lawful coÌ„mands of their Masters Purloining their goods Carelesly wasting them Murmuring at their rebukes Idleness Eye-service MASTERS MAsters using servants tyrannically and cruelly Being too remiss and suffering them to neglect their duty Having no care of their Souls Not providing them means of instruction in Religion Not admonishing them when they commit Sins Not allowing them time and opportunity for prayer and the Worship of God CHARITY WAnt of bowels and Charity to our neighbours Not heartily desiring their good spiritual or temporal Not Loving and Forgiving Enemies Taking actual Revenges upon them Falseness professing kindness and acting none Not labouring to do all the good we can to the soul of our neighbour Not assisting him to our power in his Bodily distresses Not defending his good Name when we know him slander'd Denying him any neighbourly office to preserve or advance his estate Not defending him from oppression when we have power Not relieving him in his poverty Not giving liberally or chearfully GOING to LAW NOt loving PEACE Going to Law upon slight occasions Bearing inward Enmity to those we sue Not labouring to make peace among others THE use of this Catalogue of Sins is this Upon dayes of Humiliation especially before the Sacrament read them consideringly over and at every particular ask thine own heart Am I guilty of this And whatsoever by such Examination thou findest thy self faulty in Confess particularly and humbly to God with all the heightning circumstances which may any way increase their guilt and make serious Resolutions against every such Sin for the future after which thou mayest use this Form following O LORD I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee for my iniquities are increased over my head and my trespass is grown up even unto Heaven I have wrought all these great provocations and that in the most provoking manner they have not been only single but repeated acts of sin for O Lord of all this black Catalogue which I have now brought forth before thee how few are there which I have not often committed nay which are not become even habitual and customarie to me And to this frequencie I have added both a greediness and obstinacie in sinning turning into my course as the Horse rusheth into the battel doing evil with both hands earnestly yea hating to be reformed and casting thy words behinde me quenching thy spirit within me which testified against me to turn me from my evil wayes and frustrating all those outward means whether of judgement or mercie which thou hast used to draw me to thy self Nay O Lord even my repentances may be numbered amongst my greatest sins they have sometimes been feigned and hypocritical alwayes so slight and ineffectual that they have brought forth no fruit in amendment of life but I have still returned with the dog to his vomit and the sow to the mire again and have added the breach of resolutions and vows to all my former guilts Thus O Lord I am become out of measure sinful and since I have thus chosen death I am most worthy to take part in it even in the second death the lake of fire and brimstone This this O Lord is in justice to be the portion of my cup to me belongs nothing but shame and confusion of face eternally But to thee O Lord God belongeth mercie and forgiveness though I have rebelled against thee O remember not my sins and offences but according to thy mercie think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodness Thou sentest thy Son to seek and to save that which was lost behold O Lord I have gone astraie like a sheep that is lost O seek thy servant and bring me back to the Shepherd and Bishop of my soul let thy spirit work in me a heartie sense and detestation of all my abominations that true contrition of heart which thou hast promised not to despise And then be thou pleased to look on me to take away all iniquitie and receive
walls of Jerusalem O God wherefore art thou absent from us so long Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture O think upon thy Congregation whom thou hast purchased and Redeemed of old Look upon the Tribe of thine Inheritance and Mount Sion where thou hast dwelt It is time for thee Lord to say to thy hand for they have destroyed thy Law Arise O God and mantain thine own cause Deliver Israel O God out of all his troubles Brief Heads of Self-Examination especially before the Sacrament Collected out of the foregoing Treatise concerning the breaches of our Duty To GOD FAITH NOt BELIEVING there is a God Not believing his Word Not believing it practically so as to live according to our belief HOPE DEspairing of Gods Mercy so as to neglect duty Presuming groundlesly on it whilst we go on in wilful sin LOVE NOt Loving God for his own excellencies Not Loving him for his Goodness to us Not labouring to please him Not desiring to draw near to him in his Ordinances Not longing to enjoy him in Heaven FEAR NOt Fearing God so as to keep from offending him Fearing man above him by committing sin to shun some outward suffering TRUST NOt Trusting on God in dangers and distresses Using unlawful means to bring us out of them Not depending on God for supply of our Wants Immoderate Care for outward things Neglecting to labour and expecting God should sup 〈…〉 our idleness Not looking up to God for a blessing on our honest endeavours HUMILITY NOt having a high esteem of God Not submitting obediently to act his Will Not patiently suffering it but murmuring at his Corrections Not aâ—ending by them Not being Thankful to him Not acknowleding his Wisdome in choosing for us but having eager and impatient desires of our own HONOUR NOt Honouring God by a reverend usage of the things that Relate to him Behaving our selves irreverently in his House Robbing God by taking things that are consecrated to him Profaning Holy times the Lords Day and the Feasts and Fasts of the Church Neglecting to read the Holy Scriptures not marking when we do read Being careless to get knowledge of our duty chusing rather to continue ignorant then put our selves to the pains or charge of learning Placing Religion in hearing of Sermons without Practice Breaking our Vow made at Baptisme By resorting to Witches and Conjurers i. e. to the Devil By loving the Pomps and Vanities of the World and following its sinful customes By fulfilling the Lusts of the flesh Profaning the Lords Supper By coming to it ignorantly without Examination contrition and purposes of New Life By behaving our selves irreverently at it without Devotion and spiritual Affection By neglecting to keep the Promises made at it Profaning Gods Name by blasphemous thoughts or Discourse Giving others occasion to Blaspheme him by our vile wicked liâ—es Taking unlawful OATHS Perjury Swearing in ordinary Communication WORSHIP NOt Worshipping God Omitting Prayers publick or private and being glad of a pretence to do so Asking unlawful thigs or to unlawful ends Not purifying our Hearts from sin before we pray Not praying with Faith and Humility Coldness and deadness in Prayer Wandring thoughts in it Irreverent gestures of body in prayer REPENTANCE NEglecting the duty of Repentance Not calling our selves to Dayly account for our sins Not assigning any set or Solemn times for Humiliation and Confession or too seldome Not deeply considering our sins to beget Contrition Not acting Revenges on our selves by Fasting and other acts of Mortification IDOLATRY OUtward Idolatry in Worshipping of creatures Inward Idolatry in placing our love and other affections more on creatures then the Creator To our SELVES HUMILITY BEing puft up with high conceits of our selves In respect of natural parts as beauty wit c. Of worldly riches and honours Of Grace Greedily seeking the praise of men Directing christian Actions as Prayer Alms c. to that end Committing sins to avoid Reproach from wicked men MEEKNES DIsturbing our minds with Anger and peevishness CONSIDERATION NOt carefully Examining whâ—t our estate towards God is Not trying our selves by the true Rule i. e. our obedience to Gods Commands Not weighing the Lawfulness of our Actions before we venture on them Not examining our past actions to Repent of the ill to give God the glory of the good CONTENTEDNES UNcontentedness in our estates Greedy desires after Honour and Riches Seeking to gain them by sinful means Envying the condition of other men DILIGENCE WATCHFULNES BEing Negligent in observing resisting Temptations Not improving Gods gifts outward or inward to his Honour Abusing our Natural Parts as Wit Memory c. to sin Neglecting or Resisting the motions of Gods Spirit CHASTITY UNcleanness adultery fornication unnatural lusts c. Uncleanness of the Eye and Hand Filthy and obscene Talking Impure Fancies and Desires Heightning of Lust by pampering the body Not labouring to subdue it by Fasting or other Severities TEMPERANCE EAting too much Making pleasure not Health the end of Eating Being too curious or costly in Meats Drunkenness Drinking more then is useful to our bodies though not to drunkenness Wasting the Time or Estate in good Fellowship Abusing our strength of brain to the making others Drunk Immoderate Sleeping Idleness and Negligence in our Callings Using unlawful Recreations Being too vehement upon Lawful ones Spending too much time at them Being drawn by them to Anger or Covetousness Being proud of Apparel Striving to go beyond our rank Bestowing too much time care or cost about it Abstaining from such Excesses not out of conscience but covetousness Pinching our bodies to fill our purses To our NEIGHBOUR NEGATIVE JUSTICE BEing Injurious to our Neighbour Delighting causlesly to grieve his mind Ensnaring his soul in sin by Command Counsel Enticement or Example Affrighting him from godliness by our Scoffing at it Not seeking to bring those to Repentance whom we have led into sin MURDER MVrder open or secret Drawing men to Intemperance or other vices which may bring diseases or death Stirring men up to Quarrelling and Fighting Maiming or hurting the body of our Neighbour Fierceness and Rage against him ADULTERY COveting our Neighbours wife Actually defiling her MALICE SPoiling the goods of others upon spight and malice COVETOUSNES COveting to gain them to our selves OPPRESSION OPpression by violence and force or colour of Law THEFT NOt paying what we Borrow Not Paying what we have voluntarily promised Keeping back the Wages of the Servant and hireling DECEIT UNfaithfulness in Trusts whether to the Living or Dead Using arts of Deceit in Buying and Selling Exacting upon the necessities of our Neighbours FALSE-WITNES BLasting the credit of our neighbour By false Witness By Railing By Whispering Incouraging others in their Slanders Being forward to believe ill reports of our neighbour Causeless suspicions Rash judging of him Despising him for his Infirmities Inviting others to do so by scoffing and Deriding him Bearing any Malice in the heart Secret wishing of death or