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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25385	Holy devotions, with directions to pray also a brief exposition upon [brace] the Lords prayer, the creed, the Ten commandments, the 7 penitential psalms, the 7 psalms of thanksgiving : together with a letanie / by the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrews ...; Institutiones piae, or, Directions to pray	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1663 (1663)	Wing A3129A; ESTC R40284	169,352	493

everlasting 4. His Patience to us daily offending him and new crucifying his Son again 5. His Mildness and Lenity in correcting us to Amendment not to Destruction 6. His Mercy in forgiving our offences in promising protection and rewards to his servants And tell me if these be not sufficient motives to perswade us to his service if our hearts be not hardned And if we ask what it is to be the servants of God The Answer is plain and easie for as it is in the case of a Master Temporal so is it in the Spiritual To do the Will of our Lord and Master This is the will of GOD even your sanctification To fear keep his Commandements This Commandement is double 1. To keep innocency and to do that which is right 2. And to do no evil They are put both in one Verse by God himself I have set before thee life and good death and evil And by the Prophet David Flee evil and do that which is good Now that his Precepts should be kept there is great reason Because they are just and holy All his Commandements are just True and righteous are thy Iudgements Iust art thou O Lord and righteous are thy Iudgements 1. For the first part of his Will To keep that which he commandeth To follow that which is good Many motives there are to perswade us to it 1. For the peace which good men have 1. With God They are reconciled to him We have peace with him 2. With Men. When the wayes of man please the Lord he will make his enemies also at peace with him 3. With our Selves Having mortified our affections and placed them on heavenly things we are troubled with nothing but all things are quiet about us Great is the peace that they have which keep Gods Law The work of Iustice shall be Peace The Kingdom of GOD is righteousness and peace 4. 4. In our Consciences inward Peace The testimony of a good Conscience was Saint Paul's rejoycing A good Conscience is a continual feast It shuns no mans sight The Heathen had some feeling of this Peace A life well spent bringeth such comfort that either sickness toucheth them not or the grief of it little troubles them Socrates said That he lived without perturbation whose conscience reproved him not And Byas That he lived without fear that had a good conscience And though such a man have fear it is not desperate or grievous but religious and holy Which kind of fear disquieteth not but comforteth For the best hope is joyned with such a fear 2. For the comfort they have in the Holy Ghost There is sprung up a light for the righteous and joyful gladness to such as be true hearted The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous They shall be satisfied with the plenteousness of thy house and thou shalt give them drink of thy pleasures as out of the River All vertues and graces of the Spirit assist them as the blood of the veins do the heart 1. Faith whereby they discern the good and evil of the life to come and adhere to the promises of God made in Christ Iesus So that they account not the afflictions of this life worthy of the glory which shall be revealed to them 2. Hope whereby they expect their reward joyfully Rejoycing in hope Who so trusteth in the Lord mercy embraceth him on every side Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord. Blessed are all they that wait for him Cast not away your confidence which hath great reward 3. Love to God Which breeds contempt of the World Accounting all things dung and loss to win him Take good heed therefore to your selves that you love the Lord your God The Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation c. 4. Alacrity in Obedience to his Commandements The heart of the wise meditateth obedience This is better than sacrifice Wee will do all things which the Lord hath commanded us I have set God before me Wherefore my heart was glad My heart and flesh rejoyce in the living God 5. Humility in all their actions which makes them acceptable in the sight of God When we have done all we are able to doe we are to say that we are unprofitable servants He hath regarded the lowliness of his Handmaiden He hath exalted the humble and meek Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven He that humbleth himself shall be exalted 6. Patience in their tribulations which are accidents common to Gods Children For our life is like a troubled Sea There is nothing so unstable and no joy in it is secure but many dangers and sorrows attend it But God being a skilfull Physician and knowing well the state of our souls will minister no more of those bitter potions than we are able to bear nor than are needfull nor more than we may with patience endure Though he feed us with the bread of tears and giveth us tears to drink yet he will give it in measure as a token of his love in our correction to amendment not to confusion For tribulation polisheth the soul it wipes off all the filth it makes us fervent in prayer humble in thoughts and pure in conscience Adversity openeth the eyes which prosperity closeth up but GOD suffereth the just not to be overwhelmed with grief For though many be the tribulations of the righteous yet the Lord delivereth them out of all If their sorrowes encrease he lendeth strength whereby they not only bear them patiently but joyfully insomuch as they look not on the pain but the reward Not on the affliction but the Crown Not on the bitterness of the Medicine but the health attained by it Nor on the smart of correction but the Corrector Who chasteneth whomsoever he loveth And they shall be able to say with Iob Shall we receive good at the hands of God and not receive evil Knowing that the punishment they receive is not equivalent to that which their sins have deserved and withall they consider the bitterness of Christs Passion in comparison whereof all their tribulations are nothing not to be mentioned Lastly They have this assured confidence That the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever And that the Lord will save them that with patience wait on him 7. In regard that God heareth the prayers of the just Man by sin is become subject to many Infirmities Wants Necessities And hath no remedy to cure them nor means to relieve them but to God by prayer Now this advantage the godly and servants of GOD

Chiding Hatred And all other things of this nature which may be as provocations to slaughter And on the contrary he enjoyneth us To love our Neighbours as our selves To live peaceably and quietly with them To do good for evil And all this because Man is the Image of God Flesh of our Flesh. The thing that Christ paid so dear for The Seventh Commandement Thou shalt not commit Adultery THe chief aim and scope of this Commandement is to preserve the marriage bed inviolate And with great reason it is placed next to the prohibiting of homicide because that next and dearest to a man after his own life is the preservation and honour of his Wife for they two are but one flesh And by this Commandement is also implicitely and secretly forbidden Whoredom Incest Sodomy Sins against Nature Unlawful Desires and Affections Uncleanness Evil Talk Obscene Songs And Impudent Behaviour Uncivil Sight Lascivious Pictures Intemperance of Diet. Delicacy and Excess in Apparrel And the like Being provocations to the Sin here forbidden And as we are prohibited these things so are we commanded hereby To live Chastly Temperately Modestly And purely in Heart For by these Vertues as our Saviour telleth us we shall come to the Beatifical Vision of God and enjoy that Blessedness which he hath promised to those that in pureness of heart love and serve him The Eighth Commandement Thou shalt not Steal THat is thou shalt not take from another any thing which is not thine own And against this Commandement we may offend divers wayes By committing Sacrilege taking any thing from the Church By with-holding that which is due to King or Prince By robbing on the high way or out of houses By deceiving any man In bargaining In false weights and measures In being bankrupt without cause By oppressing the Poor or keeping his pledge By encroaching upon the possessions of any other either by violence openly or by fraud in removing Land-marks c. By keeping that which is found from the true Owner By denying or concealing a trust By detaining the Labourers hire By living idlely and eating out of another mans labour By neglecting a Masters service and mis-spending his goods The Ninth Commandement Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour THou shalt not give false evidence before a Iudge against any man Whosoever doth so is not only guilty of the breach of this Commandement but of the Third also in committing Perjury Neither is false Testimony with an Oath forbidden only but also without an Oath 1. Thou shalt not accuse thy Brother unjustly Slander him Revile him Backbite him Abuse him by uncivil jests 2. Thou shalt not lye or equivocate Either for sport Or to avoid danger or loss For though some seem to approve Of Iacob in lying to his Father that he was Esau. The Midwives to save the Children Rahab the Harlot to save the Spies Michol to save David her Husband Iudith to deceive Holofernes Yet it is safer with Saint Augustine to hold that all lyes being directly opposite to truth must needs be sin The Tenth Commandement Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours House THis Commandement is directly against Coveteousness or evil Concupiscence the issue of Original Sin which was derived to all Mankind after the fall of Adam No man ought to covet or desire no not so much as in his heart any thing which belongeth to another man and whereby he may receive any damage or detriment Neither his House which is his inheritance and his defence against the heat of the Sun and the sharpness of the cold Nor his Wife which is bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh His Partner as well in sorrow as pleasure Nor his Servants without whose help and labour he cannot dispatch his affairs Nor his Cattel which do his work In conclusion nothing which may any way prejudice him Now seeing that He which is guilty in breaking one part of the Law offendeth in all And that to the keeping of it the whole inward and outward man is required And that the Flesh while we are in this world is wholly opposite to the Spirit It is impossible for us to fullfil the same by our own endeavours For it is with us as it was with Saint Paul In our flesh dwelleth no good thing and the good that we would we do not but the evil which we would not that we do And seeing also That by the deeds of the Law no man can be justified Not that the Law is in fault being good of it self but our own Flesh The carnal mind being enmity with God And they which are in the flesh not being able to please him For the comfort therefore of all when as neither the works of the Law could justifie us nor we were able to fullfil the same God of his infinite mercy sent his Son Christ Iesus into the World That he suffering death for us might redeem us from the curse of the Law that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through Faith For in him all the Promises Ceremonies and the Law it self were fulfilled and ended 1. The Promises As The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head In thee shall all the Nations of the Earth be blessed 2. The Ceremonies The Priesthood by his Eternal Priesthood The Sacrifices by his own Oblation Circumcision by his Circumcisiou and Baptism Passover by the Eucharist 2. The Law By his Satisfaction and absolute fulfilling of it in whom was no sin nor spot but an absolute and perfect Righteousness which Righteousness he hath of his free will and mercy imputed to us and made ours if with a lively Faith we apprehend him and believe on him And in this respect it may be said that he observeth and fulfilleth the Law of God who not trusting to himself or his own works commendeth himself wholly to the Grace of God and seeketh all his Righteousness by Faith in Christ Iesus So that we are to rely on those words which Saint Paul spake in his Sermon at Antioch Be it known unto you therefore Men and Brethren that through this man Christ Iesus is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins And by him all that believe are justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses But yet we must take this along with us That this Faith whereby we believe that Christ satisfied the Law and is become our Righteousness and Perfection is meerly by Gods grace and favour infused into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which stirreth up in us a love and desire to keep the Law of God which though the same desire never attaineth to perfection while we live in these Earthly Tabernacles for the frailty and indisposition of the Flesh yet God in his mercy accepteth the same for Christs sake For