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A45572	A guide to heaven from the Word, or, Good counsell how to close savingly with Christ with some short but serious questions to ask our hearts every morning and evening, whether we walk closely with him : and especially, rules for the strict and due observation of the Lords day.	Hardy, Samuel, 1636-1691.	1664 (1664)	Wing H753A; ESTC R34934	16,854	113

to trifle and be careless in it Lev. 10.3 Mal. 1.8 13 14. Heb. 12.28 29. Acts 20.9 4 Exhort and command them to be at all good exercises yea watch over and look after them Remember the fourth Commandment binds you to look to all within your care and power Man-servant Maid-servant c. If God had no more pity and mercy to the souls of children and servants then many bloody Parents and Masters they must needs swim in the direful Gulph of their sins into utter destruction 5 Repair to the publick places of Worship If you have no Minister in your own Parish go where is the most soul-seaching heart-melting and sinner-rowsing Preaching c. Isa 2.3 Take these Rules with you 1 Throughly weigh these four things 1 Consider I am this day to wait on God the King of Glory and not on man and therefore am I to come with all fear and care what an infinite greatness am I to admire and reverence What rich goodness am I to love and delight in what depths of wisdom to look into what infallible truth to rest upon and believe what a wrath and fiery indignation to tremble at God is glorious in holiness and of pure eyes Isa 6.1 2 3. 2 What a poor worthless worm and wretch am 1 How should I come crawling crouching and trembling to the Throne of Grace What am I but dust and ashes but putrefaction yea a sink of sin Isa 6.5 Job 42.5 6. 3 I have not onely an empty heart void of all good but an envious heart full of all mischief and perversness Rom. 8.7 8. 4 Yet what preparation have I made Have I not spent more time and care to dress my body for the eye of man then to deck my soul for the eye of God Job 11.13 14 15. Psal 10.17 2 As you are going to Gods house 1 If you are alone fill your heart with heavenly Meditations hunger and thirst after the Word 1 Pet. 2.2 Mat. 5.6 Think if God should meet my soul and bless it Oh that he would 2 If you are in company talk of God and his Word but without pride or affectation Or hear others heavenly discourse but if they are such as savour only of Earth and scorn Godliness either reprove or leave them 2 Cor. 6.17 3 As you enter Gods presence really expect his goodness to pass before you See Exod. 33.18 to the end Chap. 34.67 Earnestly look for the light of his Countenance Psal 4.6 Say Lord thou hast promised to be in the midst of thy people Psal 133.3 Matth. 18.20 Bow the Heavens and come down Let thy greatness aw us and thy goodness refresh us By Faith behold God in the highest Heavens surrounded with glorious Saints and Angels and take heed to thy self Eccles 5.1 2. and yet through Christ come with boldness and cry Abba Father Heb. 4.15 16. Chapter 10.19 20 21 22. 4 Make a Covenant with your eyes that they gaze not about to see who is in the Congregation and what Clothes they wear and the like Take heed of a wandering departing heart Matth. 15.8 9. Fix your Eyes on the Minister your Ears on the Word and your heart on God Psal 123.1 2. 5 Be reverend in the gesture of your bodies bow your knees as well as your hearts before the Lord if the place be not convenient for kneeling stand upright 1 Cor. 14.40 6 Whatever Spiritual work you set about do it with all your might and soul Eccles 9.10 Rom. 12.11 As 1 In Prayer while the Minister is confessing and bewailing sin let your hearts even melt bleed and break Joel 2.13 When he begs Mercy let your souls breath and pant after it Psal 42.1 2. When he returns thanks and praise let all that is within you bless Gods holy Name Psal 103.1 2. 2 If Singing let your hearts make melody to the Lord Take heed when your voice is high your heart be not dead flat and low Col. 3.16 Ephes 5.19 3 When the Word is read or preacht mind This is the Word of God 1 Thes 2.13 1 It is his Command and dare I disobey it Oh that my ways were directed Psal 119.4 5. 2 Doth God threaten these Judgments and denounce these curses on sinners And must I not tremble 3 Are these his calls and invitations his rich promises and great love and shall I refuse all Doth God knock at the door of my heart Let the everlasting doors thereof fly open that the King of Glory may come in 4 While the Minister is pronouncing the Blessing post not away a fault too common every where but hope desire and believe it shall come down upon you Psal 133.3 Prov. 8.33 34 35. 5 Take heed afterward that Satan may not steal away the good seed sown that the thorny cares of the world may not choak it Mark 4.14 to 20. Let not the World get into your mouths as soon as the Word is out of the Ministers Some have been sin-sick when they hear a row-sing Sermon when the Word flashes Heil-fire in their faces a little startled but it 's as men are Sea sick vomit up the Word and come ashore to the World and all is well again 6 As soon as you come home beg of God to bless the Word you have heard that it may not be as water spilt on the ground but that your memories may retain it your hearts love and your wills obey it 1 Cor. 3.6 That it may tear rent and fetch blood from your lusts that it may fire your hearts with love to and zeal for God and that love may fill your mouths with good words and your hands with good works Rom. 2.13 7 When you sit down to dinner having begged Gods blessing on the food of Soul and Body Matth. 14.19 1 Eat no more then will fit and enable you comfortably and lively to serve God Luke 21.34 Many fill their bellies so at this time that they are fit only to lay their drowsie heads on the Devils pillow of sloth 2 Talk of Gods Word sitting down and rising up Let your hearts be heavenly and your discourse savoury seasoned with Grace A Table without some good discourse differs little from a manger Isa 5.12 8 After Dinner either repeat the Word heard or read in the Bible or in some other good book and call your own heart and your family to an account for what you have heard Deut. 6.7 8 9. 9 In the time appointed go with your Family to the publick as in the Morning Think not half a day enough for God and your souls 1 If you come to the Congregation before the Minister spend not away the time in idle imaginations or worldly discourse or any vain stories but either meditate on God or his Word or talk heavenly and holily It 's sad to see a Church-yard filled with idle persons to hear nothing but of this or that person and family The great Questions are how Corn was sold the last Market day and what

and dross for Christ 1 Joh. 5.4 5. 23 Have I really set death before me My life as a vapour a shadow if I should die dayly what preparation have I made for it Am I sure but this is my last night If God should shut mine eyes by death how is it like to be with my soul Dare I lie down with the guilt or filth of any one sin Is there any returning from the Grave to amend No certainly 2 Cor. 4.14 16. I Cor. 15.54 c. Prov. 27. 1. 24 Can I tell how great the day of Judgment will be how glorious and terrible And dare I meet Christ coming in flaming fire with ten thousand of my sins to take vengeance Can I hold up my head Are my graces sound and of the right kind All is not gold that glisters Have I this day searcht judg'd and condemn'd my self 1 Cor. 11.31 2 Cor. 5.10 11.2 Thess 1.8.9 10. 25 Do I believe Hell torments dreadful and eternal Its flames unspeakably scorching It s misery endless and easeless And do I not fly from this wrath to come Rev. 14.10 11. 26. Have I ascended in the triumphant Chariot of Faith this day and beheld the new Jerusalem Gods glorious Palace Did I live love think and talk as an Heir of this kingdom Eph. 1.18 19. 27 Have I not in all I have done minded man more then God Have I not minded only the clean-sing the outside Eph. 6.5 6. 28 Dare I lie down this night without praying earnestly to God for the pardon of my sins the blessings of the night and the salvation of my soul Directions for the strict observation of the Lords Day For Preparation 1 ORder all your week business so wisely before hand that you may have no unnecessary work on Gods day that your hands may be as free as possible from worldly work and your heads from worldly cares and thoughts Exod. 20.8 9 10 11. 2 Think seriously What a weighty work am I going about My week-affairs are but Toys and Trifles to this What are Sheep Oxen or Shops to Grace Christ or Heaven Can I be too careful and serious in Gods Work in Soul-salvation work Surely no. How holy should my thoughts be how heavenly my discourse how earnest mine endeavours all the day long Isa 58.13 14. 3 Therefore prepare with all your might search your hearts and lives 1 Chron. 29.1 2.1 Find out what your sins are to confess mourn over and pray against Lam. 3.20.2 What the Mercies are you want for soul or body for your Friends Families and Nation account this a Market day for your souls Rev. 3.17 18.3 What blessings received and what thanks to be returned Psal 116.12 4 Think with your self What good did I get by former yea by the last Sabbath Was my heart then broken or warm'd with love to God and the like What did I then learn and how have I practised it in the Week Have I fully digested by meditation firmly believed and faithfully obeyed the truths were last taught me Isa 1.11 c. 5 Beg earnestly of God that he would help you to sanctifie a Sabbath that this may be the best Sabbath you ever kept That your heart may be more tender humble and heavenly that the out-goings of your soul may be more free strong and fixed and the incomes of Heavenly grace and comfort more abundant that God may reap more glory and you receive more good then ever heretofore That the holy keeping of this Sabbath may be an earnest to you of keeping a never never-ending Sabbath with God in glory To this end pray especially for these four things 1 That God may prepare a suitable word for your soul that the Ministers mouth may be opened and his heart enlarged and his message full of goodness That it may be the pure plain and powerful Word of God Ephes 6.18 19. 2 That God would fill his own Ordinances with his own presence and blessing that he would touch your heart when man speaks to the ear Drop yea stream down h eavenly grace through these Conduit Pipes Isa 48.17 Luke 16.14 3 That you may have the hearing Ear the seeing Eye and the understanding Heart that you may be teachable willing to learn and apt to receive what God delivers Jam. 1.21 22. Psal 110.3 4 That your souls enemies may be kept off at least resisted and kept down That your hearts may not deceive you the Devil divert you nor the World distract or disturb you Having thus in some measure prepared your hearts for the Solemn work of this great Day observe and practice these following directions as ever you hope to have the blessing of the Sabbath 1 As soon as you awake fix your hearts and eyes heaven-ward bless God that you see the light of one day more especially Gods day wherein you may labour to have your sins pardoned and purged and your souls furnisht with grace and so fitted for glory Call the Sabbath your delight Psal 118.23 24 Psal 59.16 2 Beg heartily of God that he would strengthen you by his grace to do what he requires as he would have it done that he would pardon your unpreparation bear with your infirmities accept of your poor services and Crown all with his blessing 2 Chron. 30.18 19 20. 3 That you be fitted for the holy and heavenly work of the day affect your heart with some or all of these Ten following things 1 With the Majesty of that God whom you are to wait upon Psal 95.2 3 c. 2 With the vileness of sin and of your selves because of sin 3 With the sweetness of Christ and the greatness of his Love and Mercie 4 With the excellency of that heavenly work you are going about and the gain of godliness 5 With the vanity of the world and all things therein 6 With the worth and high value of your immortal souls 7 With the rage subtilty and diligence of your souls enemies 8 Especially with the deceitfulness of your own hearts 9 With the Terrour and Torment of Hell 10 With the unspeakable and everlasting glory of Heaven 4 Carefully and conscienciously perform Family Duties Josh 24. 15. 1 See that your Servants and Children of age waste not away the Morning in sleep or idleness 2 Cause them to joyn together in Prayer Reading or any other Godly Exercise Gen. 18.19 3 If you have time you may Catechise them or discourse to them of any of those former Ten things Deut. 6.6 7. 1 Inform your selves and them what a great and glorious Majesty and Master you are to serve Mal. 1.14 2 What a blessed and heavenly work you go about that it's heart work Joh. 4.24 and therefore hard and difficult work and yet that its pleasant and excellent Prov. 3.17 Chap. 8.34 35. Oh the fatness of Gods house and the beauties of holiness 3 What an abundant and unspeakable reward attends the well-doing even life everlasting Rom 6.22 and how fearful a thing it is