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A55005
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Memorials of godliness & Christianity in three parts : with a brief account of the authors life / by Herbert Palmer.
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Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647.
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Wing P240; ESTC R27526
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in danger to starve either through want of publick provisions or leisure to provide for my self what might be had and therefore by no means to overslip the opportunity even for my own sake besides the Commandment and to take to the utmost minute that I can my spiritual liberty to serve God and get Grace not allowing any thing by my good will to interrupt me therein 27. I desire to account the Sacrament of the Lords Supper a singular Fair wherein the Bread that came down from Heaven the water of life spiritual wine and milk and whatsoever else is nourishing and comfortable to the soul is freely offered and to be had without money and without price That therefore I may be sure not to miss when I may go to it And yet because all that come thither make not so happy a bargain but rather purchase to themselves wrath and judgement I may be carefull to prepare my self so by Examination that my soul be not sent away fasting or which is worse poisoned while my body is entertained 28. I desire to account all other Ordinances of God in their degree and manner likewise the means of my Souls enriching nourishing physick So that if I should slight or trifle away these blessed opportunities I could not but die a beggar die and starve die a miserable diseased Leper die and perish eternally That therefore I may not be so much a fool as to have these put as prizes into my hand to get wisdom withall and I to have no heart to them or that pretending no other errand to the place where they are nor other business at that time but to receive them I should be so wickedly mad as to sleep away the offers of Grace then tendered unto me nor suffer my mind to be diverted to any other thing â—or to look that God should hear me where I scarce hear my self in my prayers or refuse to hear him in his Word 29. I desire to account those my best friends that most help me in my business of Christianity And to esteem a watchfull consideration and faithfull admonitions the most necessary and best expressions of friendship and best helps to my feeble and frail mind 30. I desire if ever I marry to account that one of the greatest businesses even of Religion that I can undertake any time in my whole life which if I speed well in will incomparably beyond that other men or creatures can Advance my spiritual projects and advantages and contrarily disappoint and overthrow them if I make an ill match that therefore being truly sensible of my own natural sinfull inclination which may betray me as soon as any other into some one at least of those many untoward courses which persons of all qualities and conditions usually take on this occasion as also Apprehensive of Gods punishing no sin more frequently or sharply in this world I may from the first moment of my entertaining any such thoughts make my most ardent and faithful Prayers keep pace with them first to implore to be directed in a perfect way and then to be blessed with a true helper every way meet for me 31. Particularly I desire that the phrases of Marrying in the Lord and not being unequally yoaked c. not corrupted by the worlds false glosses but truly interpreted by a serious conscience may ever have an absolute negative voice in all Propositions that is that I may never marry with any whom I have reason to judge not to be truly religious whilest yet I conclude That Religion alone is not sufficient to make any match That I may never dare to cross the Rules of nature in too much disparity of age or in robbing Parents of their right at least of Approbation and Consent nor those of Civility by aspiring too eminently above my degree or debasing my self too much below it withall counting it a necessary qualification in one whom I may match my self unto To have no predominant humour which I cannot bear but to be able to bear any infirmity of mine and to be at least some help to my spirit in those things wherein I specially need help 32. I desire for my security in all these Resolutions that I may never be in hast but make a leisurable and sufficient enquiry by my self and friends answerable to the necessity which the worlds deceitfulness enforces in a business of such lasting importance but specially that I may never be in love with the estate or comeliness of person which would hinder any full enquiry and stop my ears to any though never so true an information and blind my eyes from a right discerning Whether there be indeed that which in others I was wont to make the Character of Piety and even in a visible observation of defects make me wickedly run to Gods Decree for my excuse and say Marriages are made in Heaven or presumptuously promise my self that I shall make them better when once married and headlong run on notwithstanding all the contrary advice of friends or even the commands of Parents and be in danger to have my heart broke with discontent if the Providence of God shall any way break the Match which last consideration forbids also too much engagement of affection upon the most worthy and fit person in the world while there remains any possibility of dissolving the Treaty 33. I desire to enforce the undervaluing of wealth or beauty upon my spirit from the scarecity of these who have all the other more necessary Qualifications and that remembring among all the Ends of Marriage mentioned in Scripture none of them to be to make one rich I may never consent to set my Liberty my Comfort my Self for so long a term as during life to make never so great a purchase of worldly Estate As also though I must never match my self to any till I can love their person I may yet count it a sin to refuse one otherwise every way fit for me upon the meer exception that I cannot love when there is no remarkable deformity to breed a loathing and to reckon it a duty to pray earnestly to God to rectifie such untowardness of my mind as makes me without just cause reject a gracious offer of his Providence towards me and that to prevent the mischief of an unexpected continuall jarre all our lives long I may be willing to be inquired into my self as well as to enquire after others and may not dissemblingly disguise for a fit that which will afterwards come certainly to be known expecting That that love cannot be firm whose foundation is laid upon a lie But that I may by my self or friends ' fully and freely before engagement be past Express what I expect both for Piety and all other matters of habitation manner of living order of Family and the like and what may be expected from me in each respect not fearing that this faithfulness to my self and them should make a breach but resolving that if this