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<P>A BRIEF RULE OF LIFE: Directing how to manage it ac|cording to Principles both of PIETY &amp; PRUDENCE. To which is added, A Form of PRAYER For a FAMILY, Both for <HI>Morning</HI> and <HI>Evening:</HI> Which may likewi&s;e be u&s;ed in the <HI>Clo&s;et</HI> by tho&s;e that want &s;uch helps.</P>
<Q><HI>Ora &amp; Labora.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by <HI>J. C.</HI> for <HI>Hen. Brome,</HI> at the Gun in <HI>Ivy-Lane.</HI> 1662.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Right Reverend Father in GOD, JOHN, Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>Exeter.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My LORD,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Have ob&s;erved in a crowd, a little bit of a man (following his Honourable Ma&s;ter) to &s;hift better then many robu&s;t and bu&s;tling per|&s;ons. Excu&s;e me, my Lord, if (out of an innocent &s;el|fi&s;hne&s;s) upon a like con|&s;ideration, I make bold with your Lord&s;hips Name (placing it before) that this little Dwarf that fol|lows
<PB REF="4">after, might not alto|gether be rendred u&s;ele&s;s. <HI>Talk much, and erre much,</HI> &s;aith the <HI>Spaniard.</HI> That being too often found a Truth, by patronizing this &s;mall E&s;&s;ay your Lord&s;hip will not have much to an|&s;wer for; nor I my &s;elf, if your Lord&s;hip will be plea&s;ed to pardon the pre|&s;umption of,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord, </SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble Servant, JOHN MORTON.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE><HI>Jan.</HI> 31. 166<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Preface to the Reader.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Have &s;ometimes met with an old <HI>A|dage,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">: <HI>A great Book, a great Evil.</HI> In whatever &s;en&s;e that might be &s;poken, I will not make u&s;e of it, (by way of O&s;tentation) to in&s;inu|ate the goodne&s;s of what I pre&s;ent you. But this I may &s;ay, That if <HI>Cen&s;ure</HI> will be find|ing <HI>faults,</HI> I have taken a cour&s;e (if the <HI>Bulk</HI> be con&s;idered) that it &s;hall not finde <HI>many.</HI> I think never was Age wherein were &s;o many Di&s;contents. <HI>I</HI> am one of tho&s;e that wi&s;h that all men may live well, and to the highe&s;t of ju&s;t and &s;ober &s;atisfactions: which can never be, if they lay not the foun|dations of their <HI>Quiet</HI> in <HI>Piety</HI> and <HI>Pru|dence.</HI> In &s;uch a Nation as ours, where both <HI>Religion</HI> and <HI>Civility</HI> is profe&s;&s;ed, 'tis po&s;&s;ible every party or per&s;on may &s;ay, they know as much (as to this) as <HI>I</HI> can tell them. I'll take it for granted: but this too mu&s;t be rea&s;onably granted, <HI>That all men pra|cti&s;e le&s;s then they do know; and if eve|ry one, at every Stage of Life or Action, had a Monitor to put him in mind of what
<PB REF="5">he knows, and &s;hould do, he would the &s;eldomer do ami&s;s.</HI> Let this little <HI>Pocket-Book</HI> &s;erve as &s;uch an <HI>Officer.</HI> A <HI>little Price</HI> at fir&s;t, and an <HI>half hour</HI> at a time af|ter, is all the expence (if you retain him) you will be put to. This &s;ervice po&s;&s;ibly he may do you: Have you a minde to <HI>fea&s;t</HI> it con|&s;tantly? hee'll teach you how to keep a <HI>good con&s;cience,</HI> which is a <HI>continual fea&s;t.</HI> Are you a <HI>Slave</HI> to <HI>Vice?</HI> this little Servant will teach you how to be <HI>Ma&s;ter</HI> of your <HI>&s;elf.</HI> If you are involved in <HI>bu&s;ine&s;s,</HI> hee'l prove a <HI>Sollicitor.</HI> Follow his directions, it is an hard ca&s;e if you be not <HI>rich,</HI> or as <HI>rich</HI> as you need be. He hath &s;omething too of the <HI>Phy&s;itian.</HI> And doubt not that he will di&s;credit you, if be puts you in a way how to be <HI>beloved.</HI> Are you <HI>&s;ad?</HI> hee'll cheerfully cry <HI>Allegrement.</HI> If <HI>fears</HI> &s;urpri&s;e you, he hath &s;o much metal as to bid you be of a <HI>Bon courage.</HI> Have you a me&s;&s;age to &s;end, even to <HI>heaven?</HI> that im|ployment is one of his chiefe&s;t bu&s;ine&s;&s;es. So that in &s;tead of the Title that is given, if you plea&s;e, you may call this little <HI>Manual, The good Servant.</HI> The latter part lies open to the greate&s;t exceptions. They that either through <HI>worldline&s;s</HI> or <HI>wickedne&s;s</HI> pray not at all, may <HI>laugh</HI> at it: they that in <HI>Prayer</HI> are neither for <HI>method, form</HI> or <HI>&s;en&s;e,</HI> may de&s;pi&s;e it: tho&s;e that are for <HI>forms,</HI> may
<PB REF="5">u&s;e one or other which they are accustomed to, and may like better. And tho&s;e that have a ju&s;t love and liking to the <HI>Liturgie</HI> of the <HI>Church,</HI> may cen&s;ure it as &s;uperfluous.</P>
<P>The Exceptions of the two fir&s;t <HI>I</HI> value not. The third &s;ort di&s;plea&s;e me not if they take their liberty. The latter <HI>I</HI> &s;uppo&s;e are not hard to &s;atisfie; When they &s;hall con&s;i|der, that many Reverend <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> and <HI>Pa|&s;tors</HI> of the <HI>Church</HI> have publi&s;hed their <HI>Manuals:</HI> and too, that our <HI>Church-Litur|gie</HI> in its de&s;ignation is rather for the <HI>Com|munity,</HI> then for a private per&s;on or fami|ly. But yet <HI>I</HI> condemn not (but highly ap|prove) the u&s;e of it in &s;uch families where they are &s;o good Rituali&s;ts as to know well how to do it. All that <HI>I</HI> de&s;ire, is, That rather then u&s;e <HI>none,</HI> they to who&s;e hands this may come, may u&s;e <HI>this,</HI> or <HI>any</HI> other <HI>form.</HI> I primarily intended it for &s;ome of mine own charge, who de&s;ired me to do &s;uch a thing for them. And that they or you may know how to make a good u&s;e of it, you may do well to ob&s;erve, That the <HI>variation</HI> for <HI>Morn</HI> or <HI>Evening</HI> is onely in the <HI>Prefaces</HI> and <HI>Conclu&s;ions,</HI> which are printed in the <HI>greate&s;t Character,</HI> and may be u&s;ed alone if you are &s;treightned in time. If you have a <HI>midling &s;ort</HI> of <HI>Lei&s;ure,</HI> (as in ordinary) you may u&s;e the <HI>greate&s;t Character</HI> with
<PB REF="6">the <HI>midling Letter.</HI> And if <HI>Lei&s;ure</HI> will &s;erve (as &s;ometimes it may &s;o happen) you may u&s;e <HI>all,</HI> being more particular, in Pe|tition and Thanksgiving. But in <HI>ordinary</HI> it &s;eems too <HI>long;</HI> therefore <HI>I</HI> have cau&s;ed what upon &s;treightning occa&s;ions may be di|&s;pen&s;ed with, to be printed in a &s;maller <HI>Ro|man Letter</HI> then the re&s;t, which upon occa|&s;ion you may pa&s;s over. And further let me add, though it be intituled a <HI>Prayer</HI> for a <HI>Family,</HI> yet it may be u&s;ed (by tho&s;e that want helps in this kinde) in <HI>private</HI> by any particular per&s;on. Neither may he &s;cru|ple its being in the <HI>plural number,</HI> (or if he do, it may ea&s;ily in reading be amended by him&s;elf) when the we may and ought in private u&s;e the <HI>Lords Prayer,</HI> notwith&s;tan|ding the words <HI>Our</HI> and <HI>Us.</HI> And it is to be &s;uppo&s;ed, that whenever we <HI>pray,</HI> &s;ome or other are at the &s;ame time praying <HI>with us,</HI> and <HI>for us.</HI> But whatever you may be doing at this pre&s;ent, to <HI>pray</HI> for your <HI>tem|poral, &s;piritual</HI> and <HI>eternal welfare</HI> and <HI>happine&s;s,</HI> is the <HI>Imployment</HI> of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Servant, <HI>J. M.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A brief RULE OF LIFE.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_NO man but de&s;ires to live happily. HAPPINESS is a Complication of Goods relating to the Soul and Body. In a competent mea&s;ure to attain unto which, a man mu&s;t live by a Rule. And mo&s;t men would live hap|pier then they do, if they had always at hand a faithful Monitor and Director. Rules are infinite and voluminous. Therefore a &s;hort</HI> Memento, <HI>to which a frequent recurrence may be made, is not
<PB REF="7">of the lea&s;t u&s;e. Reader, Therefore candidly take this as &s;uch, briefly directing as to the main things requi&s;ite to the attainment of what will make a man live to his content.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>I. <HI>Truths a man &s;hould often think of.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat there is a <HI>GOD</HI> that &s;ees all things, and will reward accord|ing to mens actions. That I may die to day; and <HI>Heaven</HI> or <HI>Hell</HI> follows. That the greate&s;t <HI>content,</HI> cheerfulne&s;s, &s;atisfaction, and &s;erenity of minde, is in keeping a <HI>good Con&s;cience,</HI> which is a continual Fea&s;t. That a good Con|&s;cience is kept by de&s;ires, re&s;olutions, endeavours of living righteou&s;ly, ju&s;t|ly, temperately; and, if there be de|fects through &s;urprize, by begging par|don, and relying on Gods mercy in <HI>CHRIST.</HI> That <HI>&s;in</HI> is the fountain of all <HI>mi&s;ery.</HI> And to &s;eek for Reme|dies of mi&s;eries in Voluptuou&s;ne&s;s, is but like drinking to &s;atisfie the thir&s;t of a Dropfie. That real goodne&s;s and vertue, cannot but finde veneration even from tho&s;e that practi&s;e contra|ry. And even evil men do rejoyce, when they &s;ee evil men puni&s;hed. That of all &s;ins, they are the mo&s;t &s;or|did
<PB REF="7">and vile, that bring neither credit, nor profit, nor plea&s;ure: As Swearing and Bla&s;pheming, Ribaldry, Romantick lying, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> That fair opportunities for the compa&s;&s;ing hone&s;t ends, or pre|vention of future evils, are not only to be valued, but to be imbraced, and improved, with a mans whole parts and &s;pirit. And that it is a ve|ry rare thing to finde a true friend.</P>
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<HEAD>II. <HI>Rules for the practice of RE|LIGION and Piety.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>REligion</HI> is the life and &s;oul of all commendable endeavour: to la|bour after other perfections and ac|compli&s;hments without an eye to it, is but to build a fair hou&s;e without a foundation. Therefore neglect no &s;ea&s;onable opportunities for the exer|ci&s;e of it, in its &s;everal acts, of Pray|er, Reading, Hearing, participating of the Sacrament, and Conference. <HI>Pray|er</HI> neglect not, morn nor evening at the lea&s;t, and occa&s;ional ejaculations; in which confe&s;s &s;in, thank God for mercies, intercede for others, and all in the mediation of Chri&s;t: perform|ing this duty with a freedom from
<PB REF="8">pa&s;&s;ion, intentne&s;s void of wandrings, and confidence of being heard. <HI>Hear</HI> and <HI>Read</HI> with a mo&s;t fixed attention; not only with a de&s;ire of informing the judgement, but with a full re&s;olution to bring convictions into practice. In the <HI>Sacrament,</HI> neglect not &s;ober pre|parations; and in participation, &s;um|mon up all the powers of thy Soul to exerci&s;e the highe&s;t acts of devotion. In <HI>Conference,</HI> be rather &s;incere, then ambitious of victory by di&s;pute. But the highe&s;t acts of devotion in the Wor&s;hip of God, is but an empty thing without <HI>piety</HI> towards men. Therefore, honour the <HI>KING,</HI> and according to proportion ob&s;erve the &s;ame towards all Superiors, whether natural, civil, or &s;piritual. And as to all other men, at the lea&s;t be preci&s;ely ju&s;t, ob&s;erving the Golden Rule of <HI>doing as you would be done unto;</HI> being ready to perform all offices of humanity, and charity, to tho&s;e that want your a&s;&s;i&s;tance.</P>
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<HEAD>III. <HI>To overcome any HABIT of VICE.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALl men mi&s;carry, and mo&s;t men have one di&s;order they are more addict|ed
<PB REF="8">to then another: and there is no man, however bewitched or en&s;laved to any ill habit, but hath oft cau&s;e to bewail the mi&s;chiefs it betrays him un|to. He is not the lea&s;t happy that can free his neck from the yoke of &s;uch a Tyrant. The Con&s;iderations of the fir&s;t Paragraph, will help as to this. Farther con&s;ider, That a wounded Con&s;cience makes a man unfit for any thing, making all that we do enjoy to have no relli&s;h with it. Scarce a <HI>&s;inful habit</HI> but is injurious to an E&s;tate; but certainly layes a blot upon the reputation, which &s;hould be of value to a wi&s;e man. And if a man hath a fa|mily, his exemplarine&s;s makes &s;uch di&s;orders there, that his Hou&s;e which &s;hould be his <HI>Grotto</HI> or <HI>Ca&s;tle,</HI> to retire unto for quiet and &s;afety, from the noi&s;e and hazards of a tumultuous world abroad, proves as unplea&s;ant as a Jayl. La&s;tly, Con&s;ider, that a mans &s;elf is the chiefe&s;t, if not the only thing, over which he hath a rightful power; and &s;tands in a capacity as to him&s;elf (though a Pea&s;ant) to act the parts of a Monarch. But while he continues un|der the predominancie of any vice, he makes him&s;elf a &s;lave, abject, ba&s;e, and
<PB REF="9">di&s;honorable; yet, though he be a King, he is tributary to, and dependant on, the King of kings. Therefore let him pray, and obey, and put in practice tho&s;e acts which he is free to, as con|fideration, re&s;olution, watchful en|deavour, directly &s;et again&s;t that vice which is his greate&s;t Enemy; not neg|lecting real indu&s;try in bu&s;ine&s;s, (of which every man, if he will be true to his own intere&s;t, hath his hands full) and &s;o he will not be at lei&s;ure to be wicked.</P>
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<HEAD>IV. <HI>How to do BUSINESS well and effectually</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN the morn, con&s;ider what is to be done; at night, examine and re|view what hath been done. Whate|ver thou &s;ette&s;t thine hand to do, do it with all thy might, to purpo&s;e, not negligently and &s;lightly; and with all convenient expedition, not putting it off unto another time. A man of mean capacity, if he doth all that he can do, with vigour, alacrity, nimble|ne&s;s and con&s;ideratene&s;s, may do won|ders before he dies. A Book of <HI>Me|morandums,</HI> and frequent recurrence
<PB REF="9">to it, is nece&s;&s;ary for every man of bu&s;ine&s;s. In all affairs, as near as you can, deal with hone&s;t fair-conditioned men, of credit, and not with any that are reputed &s;ubtle, debauched, or di&s;|&s;embling. In bu&s;ine&s;s of concern, no one that hath any thing of Religion, but knows that Gods ble&s;&s;ing in the fir&s;t place de&s;ired, makes him proceed more vigorou&s;ly, and in all probability the mo&s;t &s;ucce&s;sful; therefore let nor that he wanting.</P>
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<HEAD>V. <HI>How a man may thrive as to his ESTATE.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BE diligent and indu&s;trious in your Calling, and imploy, whatever it is; and labour after perfection, and exactne&s;s in it. Beware of frequent &s;mall expences, for they'll wa&s;te a great E&s;tate; of Building, Sureti&s;hip, dealing in things you have no skill in, all &s;uits and controver&s;ies in Law; of gaming, of a luxurious and delicious palate, frequent entertainments, tra|vails and excur&s;ions, extravagant clothing beyond call or ability; of many, idle, and unfaithful &s;ervants; of running in debt, e&s;pecially if you ne|glect
<PB REF="10">the due paying of the intere&s;t. Keep accounts exactly of all that comes in, or goes out. Be careful in all things that by decay will require expence, to be quick in repair upon the lea&s;t breach or need. Buy when things are cheap, and &s;tore; but ma|nage that &s;tore as if you were to buy by the penny. Be careful to keep a pur&s;e aforehand, for that may at a dead lift prove a true friend though it &s;ays nothing. Make no vain-glorious &s;hews, neither boa&s;t of any thing you have; for that tempts the thief, or beg|ger, or borrower, and at be&s;t doth but attract envy: &s;truggle amain to be freed from debts, and pinch rather than run into them; for <HI>he that is out of debt begins to be rich.</HI> But above all, be charitable to the Poor. <HI>For there is that &s;cattereth, and yet increa|&s;eth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>VI. <HI>How a man may pre&s;erve his HEALTH.</HI></HEAD>
<P>OB&s;erve Temperance, Cheerfulne&s;s, and Bu&s;ine&s;s, (provided you be not too much intangled) and moderate Ex|erci&s;e,
<PB REF="10">and Recreation, avoiding exor|bitant pa&s;&s;ions of Love, Grief, or An|ger: Keep your head warm in the night, and your feet dry in the day. Ri&s;e and lye down early: at meat be merry; forgetting all trouble, and laying a&s;ide all bu&s;ine&s;s. Li&s;ten to Na|tures call, for evacuation of Excre|ments; but e&s;pecially in the morning, which by u&s;e will become natural: and be in every thing cleanly; and in an ordinary cour&s;e you cannot be other than healthy.</P>
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<HEAD>VII. <HI>How a man &s;hall live &s;o as to be beloved.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF thou wilt be beloved, <HI>LOVE</HI> is <HI>Seneca's</HI> great <HI>Philter.</HI> But it is an hard thing to love men, there being &s;o many deformities in mens natures, conditions and practices; therefore labour to love what is lovely, as they are Men, as Countrymen, as Neigh|bors, as the &s;ame temper, humour, imployment, as having any thing com|mendable (for the wor&s;t men cannot be in all things bad) but above all, as Chri&s;tians. And &s;o loving others, bring your &s;elf to expre&s;s it, even to tho&s;e
<PB REF="11">that de&s;erve lea&s;t, in all things po&s;&s;ible: As with a clear, cheerful, affable, o|bliging carriage; giving good words to all, &s;peaking well of all; doing &s;mall offices of humanity and urbanity, if you cannot do greater; condemning &amp; cen|&s;uring none, unle&s;s Honour or Chri&s;ti|anity oblige. Watching all opportu|nities to &s;hew your &s;elf a &s;ympathizer with others &s;orrows and nece&s;&s;ities; e|&s;pecially in vi&s;iting when &s;ick, in Pri&s;on, di&s;con&s;olate, or any other ob&s;curity; &s;peaking good words to them, and for them. Congratulate with cheerfulne&s;s the good, and condole with an evident re&s;entment the bad fortunes of your Friends and Acquaintance. Labour to acquire a &s;tock of &s;uch things which make a man acceptable &s;ociety; which may be by taking lea&s;ure times to read Hi&s;tory, by furni&s;hing your &s;elf with facete and plea&s;ant relations; by ob&s;er|vation of the carriages of men u&s;ing to give appo&s;ite, fit, and well-worded characters and repre&s;entations there|of: by taking notice of remedies for Di&s;ea&s;es, and communicating them, or any thing that may be for the profit, or hone&s;t plea&s;ure of mankind. In a word, in all conver&s;es with men, to u&s;e
<PB REF="11">an hone&s;t, plain, hearty, chearful &s;im|plicity; yet with civility, due re&s;pect, and good manners; concerning which there may be many Rules, but the&s;e following the chiefe&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>VIII. <HI>Concerning GOOD MAN|NERS.</HI></HEAD>
<P>LEt the carriage of the body be decent, and not affected. In all addre&s;&s;es or partings, an&s;wer others ci|vilities with equal returns; and if po&s;&s;i|ble, go beyond them. Stand bare be|fore all per&s;ons of Quality, and to all, while they &s;peak to you, or you to them: Give to every one as plea&s;ing looks as po&s;&s;ible; which cannot well be without di&s;cernable evidences of coun|terfeiting, unle&s;s you put on a &s;weet and courteous frame of &s;pirit; moti|ons of the body, and looks of the coun|tenance, following the minde. In all &s;ociety therefore, put off all prejudices or jealou&s;ies, and all &s;olicitous thoughts of bu&s;ine&s;s, or melancholy and per|plexed reflections on cro&s;s emergen|cies. If it be po&s;&s;ible, let there not be the lea&s;t appearance of wearine&s;s, but with a cheerful, yet re&s;pectful com|plai&s;ance,
<PB REF="12">be wholly theirs in who&s;e company you are. Watch and take e|very opportunity to be facete, without &s;arca&s;m, ribaldry or profu&s;e laughter. In di&s;cour&s;e, minde exactly what o|thers &s;ay; and by the eye, and an open frank countenance, make it manife&s;t that you do minde. Approve of what is well &s;poken by another, and put the be&s;t glo&s;s and faire&s;t interpretation on what may not be &s;o well. Gibe not at, neither deride, the meane&s;t, or mo&s;t (if not in&s;ufferable) impertinent. In all di&s;cour&s;e (where matter of di&s;pute is) labour not to be thought victorious; and though you may have &s;poken bet|ter rea&s;on or &s;ence, yet commend (if without injury to truth or vertue it will bear it) what hath been &s;poken by your opponent, and let that conclude your di&s;cour&s;e. But, to conclude mine, let me minde you, that it is mo&s;t ine|vitably certain, that there is no man in this world, (however he may appear to you before you know him through|ly) but hath his troubles and bur|thens, which are heavier or lighter ac|cording to the frame and temper of a mans own &s;pirit, over which (if over any thing) a man hath the greate&s;t right
<PB N="13" REF="12">of ma&s;tery and dominion. There are in the minde two great evils, <HI>(viz. SO<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">|ROW and FEAR)</HI> which if he can out overcome, I know not why he &s;hould not be happy in the mid&s;t of what the world calls unhappine&s;s. The reme|dies for both mu&s;t principally be found in the minde, fortifying it &s;elf by con&s;iderations. A few of which, let me give you in the&s;e two la&s;t Paragraphs.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="rule">
<HEAD>IX. <HI>Remedies again&s;t SORROW.</HI></HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider the injury it does to the whole man; impairing bodily health, di&s;quieting the &s;oul, and di&s;|compo&s;ing all; &s;o as that it proves in|jurious to the whole capacity of a man. It hightens tho&s;e evils which come from without; and certain it is, that by &s;orrow and trouble of &s;pirit I can|not remove them, or le&s;&s;en them; but rather weaken my &s;elf for re&s;i&s;tance: and then &s;uppo&s;e I have lo&s;&s;es, cro&s;&s;es, enemies, reproach, pri&s;ons, or what el&s;e; others better then I have had them, they are things common to men, yea upon the &s;core of nece&s;&s;ity: but it is not nece&s;&s;ary that a man &s;hould a|bu&s;e him&s;elf becau&s;e he is abu&s;ed.
<PB N="14" REF="13">Con&s;ider too, that there is &s;carce an it convenience but it hath its commo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">y or advantage, that &s;hall counter|vail it: there is no hone&s;t or con&s;ide|ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e man, but in his life-time hath a|bundance of experience to confirm this truth. The wor&s;t of mi&s;eries is Poverty, becau&s;e a complicated Evil: yet that not intolerable to be born by him that con&s;iders with how little Na|ture may be &s;upported, and that it is not very difficult, (if a man will keep up his &s;pirits in vigour and cheerful|ne&s;s, and not put too great an e&s;timate on the opinion of others concerning him&s;elf) to get that little hone&s;tly. Nay, po&s;&s;ibly, if the per&s;on hath real worth, he need not &s;eek, but that &s;ufficiencie for &s;u&s;tentation may be &s;ent. Nay, without Romance, there is a real plea|&s;ure in the mean fare of quiet and un|envyed Indigencie; and Bread may be as &s;weet and delicious, as the vari|eties of a loaded Table. But then as to real cheerfulne&s;s, if the other Rules be followed, &s;o that a man keeps a good Con&s;cience, is in health, does his bu&s;i|ne&s;s &s;ucce&s;sfully, thrives in his E&s;tate, and gets the love of tho&s;e he conver&s;es with, he cannot want it; but e&s;pecially
<PB REF="13">if he keeps a good Con&s;cience: and as to the other, though &s;ick, poor, un&s;uc|ce&s;sful, and hath Enemies; yet having done his endeavour in an ordinary and fair way, he &s;hall not want content.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="rule">
<HEAD>X. <HI>Remedies again&s;t FEAR, and means for the &s;upport of Courage.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WIthout courage there can be no|thing done nobly, throughly, and hand&s;omly: and Fear is a ba&s;e, fordid, weakning thing. And what is <HI>FEAR,</HI> but a trouble of Spirit pro|ceeding from a conjecture of &s;ome|thing future which may happen? Con|&s;ider in general, that all the fear in the world cannot prevent, what will come; nay, in many ca&s;es it comes with a fear. Perchance it may not come; and then, what a Fool was I to fear? But if it do come, Why &s;hould I torture my &s;elf before the time? The greate&s;t evil that can come, is but <HI>Death.</HI> And that will be certain, and all the fears in the world cannot prevent it. Labour there|fore to get your Spirit above the fear of Death, and all other fears will va|ni&s;h. Now the way not to fear to dye, is &s;o to carry a mans &s;elf, as not to be a|&s;hamed
<PB REF="14">to live. And if at all you fear to dye, be afraid to dye ba&s;ely, as im|penitent, in debt, or cowardly; and &s;o fear &s;hall be a cure of fear: therefore while you live, keep a good Con|&s;cience void of offence to God and man, and you need neither to be a|fraid or a&s;ham'd. And doing &s;o, know, 'tis a &s;in not to be confident, open, bold, frank; and if not a &s;in, yet a ve|ry great imperfection or defect; and he that is timorous or unnece&s;&s;arily ba&s;h|ful, is either guilty of evil, or would make the world believe he is. In a word, the practice of the other directi|ons will cure a mans Spirit of the di&s;|ea&s;e of fear or &s;hame. And every Di|rection followed, will help ont he o|ther. If the&s;e brief Rules be put into practice, (and the way to practi&s;e them, is frequently to recur to them) a man may become, a Religious, Ho|ne&s;t, Vertuous, Thriving, Healthy, Beloved, Orderly, Contented and Couragious per&s;on; and one that will do his bu&s;ine&s;s well in this world, and make &s;ure of the next.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayers">
<PB REF="14">
<HEAD>A PRAYER For a FAMILY, Either for <HI>Morning</HI> or <HI>Evening.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<P><HI>If in the Morning, u&s;e this Preface.</HI></P>
<P>CAu&s;e Thy Face to &s;hine upon us,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Preface for the morning.</NOTE> and lift up the Light of Thy Countenance; and let
<PB REF="15">the words of our mouth, and the meditation of our hearts, be now and always acceptable in Thy &s;ight.</P>
<P><HI>If in the Evening, u&s;e this Preface.</HI></P>
<P>LEt our Prayer be &s;et before Thee as In|cen&s;e,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Preface for the Evening.</NOTE> and the lifting up of our hands as the Even|ing Sacrifice.</P>
<P><HI>The Prayer followeth.</HI></P>
<P>OH Almighty God,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Compellation</NOTE> the King of kings, and Lord of lords, glorious in holine&s;s, fear|ful in prai&s;es, doing wonders. Thy Name is excellent in all the
<PB N="19" REF="15">earth, and Thou ha&s;t &s;et Thy glory above the heavens. Thou art a great God, and a great King above all gods: before Thee are honour and maje&s;ty, and in Thy Sanctuary are &s;trength and beauty. Thou looke&s;t down from heaven, and beholde&s;t all the &s;ons of men: Thou knowe&s;t our down-&s;itting and our up-ri&s;ing, and under&s;tande&s;t our thoughts afar off. Thou art of purer eyes then to behold evil, and can&s;t not look on iniquity with ap|probation.</P>
<P>With what confidence then can we, poor &s;inful Creatures, come into Thy pre&s;ence? 'Tis Thy mercy, O Lord, that incou|rageth us: for who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth ini|quity, and pa&s;&s;eth by the tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ion of the remnant of his heritage? Thou retaine&s;t not Thine anger for ever, becau&s;e Thy delight is in mercy; even
<PB N="20" REF="16">towards tho&s;e that are le&s;s then the lea&s;t of all Thy mercies.</P>
<P>And &s;uch we mu&s;t acknow|ledge our &s;elves to be, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Confe&s;&s;ion.</NOTE> by rea&s;on of our &s;ins, both original and actual. Thou did&s;t plant our Parents a noble Vine, a right Seed; but they quickly degene|rated; &s;o that we are tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ors from the Womb; and we are not able of our &s;elves to think any thing that is good. Our hearts are deceitful above all things: our wills make us &s;er|vants unto &s;in, and our bodily members are in&s;truments of un|righteou&s;ne&s;s. We do not (as we ought) regard the works of the Lord, nor con&s;ider the ope|ration of Thy hands. We too often draw nigh unto Thee with our mouths, when our hearts are far from thee. We have not feared as we ought the threats of Thy Law, nor valued as we ought the &s;weet tenders of Grace in
<PB REF="16">Thy Go&s;pel, e&s;teeming Thy pre|cious Promi&s;es as the Joy of our hearts. Our &s;ins we have not been &s;ufficiently humbled for: our repentance &s;eldome or never hath born proportion to the multitude or greatne&s;s of our mi&s;carriages; but we have too too often tempted, grieved, quen|ched the holy Spirit of God, whereby we &s;hould be &s;ealed unto the day of Redemption. Who can tell how oft he offen|deth? Our iniquities are in|crea&s;ed over us, they are more then the hairs of our head. If one &s;in in <HI>Adam</HI> were enough to condemn the whole world, what then may a world of &s;ins do in every one of us? If one man &s;in again&s;t another, the Judge &s;hall judge him; but if a man &s;in a|gain&s;t God, who &s;hall intreat for him? If thou &s;hould&s;t be ex|tream to mark what is done a|mi&s;s, Oh Lord, who may abide
<PB REF="17">it? But there is mercy and for|givene&s;s with Thee, that Thou may&s;t be feared. Thou know|e&s;t our frame, and con&s;idere&s;t that we are but du&s;t.</P>
<P>Oh think upon Thy &s;ervants as concerning Thy Word,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Petition for Pardon.</NOTE> where|in Thou ha&s;t cau&s;ed us to tru&s;t: heal our back&s;lidings, and love us freely. Though the Wages of &s;in is death, yet this is our comfort, that the Gift of God is eternal Life through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord. Grant therefore, Oh Lord, that we may be ju&s;tified freely by Thy Grace, through the redemption that is by Je&s;us Chri&s;t. According to the mul|titude of Thy tender mercies, blot out our tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions: wa&s;h us throughly from our iniquities, and clean&s;e us from our &s;ins.</P>
<P>So &s;anctifying us,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Petition for Sanctificati|on in general</NOTE> that &s;in may not reign in our mortal bodies, that we may not walk according to the cour&s;e of the world, fulfil|ling
<PB REF="17">the de&s;ires of the fle&s;h. Give unto us a new heart, and put a new &s;pirit into us. Grant us, according to the riches of Thy glory, that we may be &s;trength|ned with might by Thy Spirit in the inward man. Lead us into the paths of righteou&s;ne&s;s, that in &s;implicity and godly &s;incerity we may have our Conver&s;ations in this world; that denying all ungodline&s;s and worldly lu&s;ts, we may live &s;oberly, righteou&s;ly and godly in this pre&s;ent life; holding faith and a good con&s;ci|ence, patiently continuing in well-doing, without wearine&s;s, knowing that in due time we &s;hall reap, if we faint not.</P>
<P>Fill us with knowledge of Thy VVill,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Petition for par|ticular Graces. Knowledge. Faith.</NOTE> in all wi&s;dom and &s;piritual un|der&s;tanding. Open our hearts to be|lieve all the truths of Thy holy Word. Make us to tru&s;t in the Name of the Lord,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tru&s;t in God.</NOTE> and to relie on Thee in all our
<PB REF="18">troubles.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Love.</NOTE> Make us to love Thee with all our hearts, &s;ouls and mindes. So frame our &s;pirits,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zeal.</NOTE> that we may be zea|lou&s;ly affected in every good thing, and not be a&s;hamed of the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t, which is the power of God un|to &s;alvation. That we may &s;erve Thee with joy and gladne&s;s of heart,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Joy &s;piritual.</NOTE> delighting greatly in thy Command|ments.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Patience.</NOTE> Give us patience under all the evils we &s;uffer,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Submi&s;&s;ion to God.</NOTE> and a &s;ubmi&s;&s;ive heart to accept of the puni&s;hments of our iniquities, waiting on God in the way of his Judgements. Work in us &s;uch a &s;anctified fear,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fear of God.</NOTE> that we may not be afraid of men that &s;hall die, and the &s;ons of men that &s;hall be made as gra&s;s; but that we may fear him who is able to de&s;troy both body and &s;oul in hell. Cloath us, Oh Lord, with the great ornament of meekne&s;s and hu|mility,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Meekne&s;s and Humility.</NOTE> that we may not minde high things, nor be wi&s;e in our own con|ceit. Make us to walk as becomes holine&s;s towards all men, being kindly affectioned one to another,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Brotherly Love.</NOTE> with bro|therly love, without di&s;&s;imulation; not in word onely and tongue, but in deed and in truth, loving each other with a pure heart fervently. Direct
<PB REF="18">us to behave our &s;elves aright towards all Relations, gravely and mode&s;tly towards our Inferiours, teverently and dutifully towards our Superiours, thankfully to our Benefactors, friendly to our Equals, in honour preferring one another.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mildne&s;s and peaceablene&s;s.</NOTE> Give us mild and peace|able &s;pirits, that we may be &s;low to anger, putting on bowels of mercy and kindne&s;s, and humblene&s;s of mind, meekne&s;s, long-&s;uffering, forbearing one another, forgiving one another; even as God for Chri&s;ts &s;ake forgave us.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cha&s;tity.</NOTE> Enable us to po&s;&s;e&s;s our ve&s;&s;els in &s;anctification and honour, that we may keep our bodies undefiled, as be|ing members of Chri&s;t, and temples of the holy Gho&s;t. Thou, Oh Lord, who art the God of all Grace, who ha&s;t called us into Thine eternal Glory by Chri&s;t Je&s;us, make us perfect: e|&s;tabli&s;h us, &s;trengthen and &s;ettle us, that we may continue in the Faith,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Faith.</NOTE> and not be moved away from the Hope of the Go&s;pel;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hope.</NOTE> laying a&s;ide e|very &s;in that &s;o ea&s;ily doth be&s;et us, holding fa&s;t our profe&s;&s;ion without wavering;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Per&s;everance.</NOTE> that we may abide in Chri&s;t, and his words abide in us; continuing in the things which we
<PB REF="19">have learned, being faithful unto death, that then he may be&s;tow upon us a Crown of Life.</P>
<P>As to our temporal Concern|ments,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Petition for temporal things.</NOTE> let us not want any thing that is good, and defend and pro|tect us from all evil. Continue unto us the u&s;e of our Wits and Memories. Fill us with gladne&s;s of heart, peace and &s;erenity of mind. Continue unto us our health and &s;trength, repairing all decays. Pre&s;erve unto us our Reputations, re&s;training others from reproaching, and us from &s;candals and appearances of e|vils. Rai&s;e up unto us &s;uch that may be kind unto us, and give us comfort in all our Relations. And, Oh Lord, &s;upply us with food and raiment convenient for us, keeping our hearts from be|ing troubled with carking Cares, teaching us how to abound, and how to want, and in all e&s;tates to be content.</P>
<PB REF="19">
<P>Defend and protect us from all evil; from &s;ickne&s;&s;es,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deprecation of evils.</NOTE> ene|mies, and reproaches; from want, confu&s;ion and trouble. Keep us from bruti&s;hne&s;s and &s;tupidity, from trembling of heart, and &s;orrow of mind. Give us not over to vile affections, a &s;eared Con&s;cience, or a repro|bate &s;en&s;e. Deliver us, Oh Lord, from the deceits of our corrupted Natures, the malice and &s;ubtilty of Satan, the allurements or ter|rours of the world. Finally, Oh Lord, cut us not off with &s;wift de&s;truction; &s;natch us not out of the Land of the Living with out &s;ins and our fears upon us; and ca&s;t us not into tho&s;e Regions of darkne&s;s, where there is nothing but weeping and gna&s;hing of teeth.</P>
<P>Not onely do we pray for our &s;elves,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Interce&s;&s;ion for others.</NOTE> but we make bold to bring our Interce&s;&s;ions for others into Thy pre&s;ence. Be merciful un|to
<PB REF="20">all Thine elect people,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">For the whole Church</NOTE> and ble&s;s them, and cau&s;e Thy face to &s;hine upon them, that Thy way may be known upon earth, and Thy &s;aving health among all Na|tions. We pray Thee to inform the ignorant, reclaim the erroni|ous, &s;trengthen the weak, com|&s;ort the &s;orrowful, re&s;tore the &s;ick,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">For our own Nation.</NOTE> relieve the needy. In all re|&s;pects be good unto our own Na|tion: Pardon our &s;ins, purge out our corruptions, heal our di&s;tem|pers, &s;end and continue unto us a righteous peace. Abundantly ble&s;s our provi&s;ion, and &s;atisfie our poor with bread, that our Garners may be full, affording all manner of &s;tore. Deliver and pre&s;erve our Nation from dome|&s;tick Confu&s;ions, and &s;orreign Inva&s;ions, and the noy&s;ome Pe|&s;tilence, or other infectious Di|&s;ea&s;es. Let not Death come up into our VVindows, nor enter into our Palaces, to cut off the
<PB REF="20">Children from without, and the Young Man from the &s;treet, We pray Thee to ble&s;s the King,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">For the King</NOTE> gi|ving him a wi&s;e and under&s;tand|ing Heart to judge the people, that he may be a terrour to evil doers, and an incouragement to them that do well: pre&s;erve and defend him from all his ene|mies.</P>
<P>Endow all the Nobility and Gen|try with &s;uch Vertue and &s;piritual Graces,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nobility.</NOTE> as can alone truely ennoble them, whereby they may be made the children of God, and heirs of heaven. Ble&s;s all publick Judges and Coun&s;el|lors; make them wi&s;e and upright,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Judges and Coun&s;ellors.</NOTE> and &s;ucce&s;sful in all the difficult bu&s;ine&s;&s;es they are called unto.</P>
<P>And all inferiour Magi&s;trates;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inferiours Me|gi&s;trates.</NOTE> make them men of courage, fearing God, wi&s;e and faithful in their places, ba|ters of reward, and without re&s;pect of per&s;ons.</P>
<P>For all that mini&s;ter about ho|ly things,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mini&s;ters.</NOTE> however dignified or di&s;tin|gui&s;hed.
<PB REF="21">We pray Thee that Thou would&s;t give unto Thy people Pa&s;tors after Thine own heart, who may be gratious in their lives, painful and powerful, diligent, wi&s;e and faithful in the di&s;charge of their duty.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> own Pa|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">rs.</NOTE> E&s;peci|ally for him or them who are by Thy Providence more particularly &s;et over us, that in life they may &s;hew them|&s;elves paterns of good works, beha|ving them&s;elves as &s;tewards of the my|&s;teries of God; &amp; as to their Doctrine, that they may &s;tudy to approve them|&s;elves unto God, workmen that need not to be a&s;hamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth; &s;upporting them under all di&s;couragements that they may meet with in the way of their holy Calling.</P>
<P>Make the common people humble,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">mmon people.</NOTE> peaceable, charitable, not &s;o ea&s;ily carried about with every wind of Do|ctrine.</P>
<P>Ble&s;s all tho&s;e that are our brethren according to the fle&s;h:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">r friends and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ations.</NOTE> tho&s;e that have been in&s;trumental for our good, either in &s;ouls, bodies or e&s;tates, remember them for good in the day of their troubles, and recompence an hundred fold for all the kindne&s;s that we have received from them.</P>
<PB REF="21">
<P>Even we pray Thee for our Ene|mies,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Our enemies.</NOTE> and &s;uch as hate us without a cau&s;e: let not their offence again&s;t us be laid to their charge, but con|vert their &s;ouls unto Thy &s;elf.</P>
<P>Ble&s;s our Neighbourhood and our Families,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Our Neighbour|hood and fami|lies.</NOTE> that we may live at Peace and Unity among&s;t our &s;elves; faith|fully di&s;charging our &s;everal duties, a|dorning our profe&s;&s;ion, con&s;idering one another, provoking unto love and good works.</P>
<P>Thus, Oh Lord,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Thanksgi|ving for</NOTE> becau&s;e there is all fulne&s;s with Thee, we make our Petitions to be &s;upplyed with mercies of all kinde; and we are incouraged by our experience of Thy readine&s;s to &s;upply us; for we dayly and hourly have recei|ved good things at thy hands, for which we prai&s;e and ble&s;s Thy Name.</P>
<P>For our beings;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Temporal Ble&s;|&s;ings.</NOTE> for that in the de|grees of Creation, Thou ha&s;t made us little lower then the Angels: That we are born free, and not &s;laves; Chri|&s;tians, and not Pagans and Infidels:
<PB REF="22">That thou ha&s;t pre&s;erved us, when in anger Thou mighte&s;t have cut us off, and ca&s;t us into Hell: That Thou continue&s;t unto us our under&s;tandings and our healths: That Thou ha&s;t in|clined the hearts of any to &s;hew us fa|vour: That we are not a reproach and by-word as to our reputation: That Thou ha&s;t con&s;tantly &s;upplyed us with food and raiment: That we have not been a prey unto the &s;word, or given over at any time to the will of our e|nemies.</P>
<P>But above all,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spiritual Ble&s;|&s;ings.</NOTE> we prai&s;e Thee for &s;piritual ble&s;&s;ings, and Je&s;us Chri&s;t the Fountain of all. For our election un|to &s;alvation, our redemption by the blood of Thy Son; our vocation, in that Thou ha&s;t called us by Thy Go|&s;pel to the obtaining of glory by Je&s;us Chri&s;t; for ju&s;tification and pardon of &s;in by the merits of Thy Son; for any mea&s;ures of &s;anctification.</P>
<P>Many,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">General Thanksgi|ving.</NOTE> Oh Lord, are the wonderful works which Thou ha&s;t done, and Thy thoughts which are to us|ward
<PB REF="22">cannot be reckoned up in order unto Thee. Ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord God of I&s;rael, who onely doth won|drous things; and ble&s;&s;ed be his glorious Name, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory.</P>
<CLOSER>Amen and Amen.</CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="addendum">
<P>At Morning Prayer proceed as followeth, otherwi&s;e with what fol|lowing that is &s;uited to every Pray|er; &s;ummarily recommending our &s;elves and concomments in Gods hands.</P>
<Q><P><LABEL>In the Morning.</LABEL></P>
<P>Oh Lord,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Summary Recommen|dation in Conclu&s;ion.</NOTE> we recommend our &s;ouls and bodies, and all concernments, into Thy hands this day. Protect us, and watch over us by Thy
<PB REF="23">fatherly Providence. De|fend us from the &s;ins and dangers we may be expo&s;ed unto. Give Thy Angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways. So direct and a&s;&s;i&s;t us, that we may glori|fie Thy Name in thought, word and deed; and make us walk circum&s;pectly, not as fools, but as wi&s;e; con|&s;idering that God is about our paths, and is acquain|ted with all our ways. That we may be wi&s;e and mode|rate in our carriage, hum|ble and moderate in our pa&s;&s;ions, temperate and &s;o|ber in our dyet, diligent and chearful in our bu&s;i|ne&s;s.
<PB REF="23">Give us &s;ucce&s;s in all hone&s;t undertakings. Send us good &s;peed this day, and &s;hew Thy kindne&s;s to us. Enable us this day, and eve|ry day, to proceed forward in our &s;piritual growth, to get ma&s;tery over our own evil heart and affections, to renew and practi&s;e all tho&s;e holy purpo&s;es and re&s;oluti|ons which we have formerly made; that proceeding from grace to grace, we may at length come to be perfect in Chri&s;t Je&s;us our Lord and Saviour. In who&s;e Name and words we call upon Thee as he him&s;elf in his mo&s;t holy Go&s;pel hath
<PB REF="24">taught us to pray, &s;aying, <HI>Our Father,</HI> &amp;c.</P></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="addendum">
<P>At Evening after the Thanksgiving, thus as followeth.</P>
<P>Becau&s;e,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Summary Recommen|dation in Conclu&s;ion for the E|vening.</NOTE> Oh Lord, Thou ha&s;t commanded Thy lo|ving kindne&s;s in the day|time, therefore at night &s;hall our &s;ong be of Thee, and our prayer unto the God of our life. Protect us there|fore, we pray Thee, this night following. Thou who never &s;lumbere&s;t nor &s;leep|e&s;t, we pray Thee wake for us, and watch, over us for good. Thou who give&s;t Thy beloved &s;leep, refre&s;h us with quiet re&s;t, that we may hear of Thy loving
<PB REF="24">kindne&s;s betimes in the morning; for in Thee is our tru&s;t. Suffer us not to be &s;cared with dreams, nor terrified with vi&s;ions; but make our &s;leep &s;weet unto us, that through the refre&s;h|ment we receive from it, we may be enabled to do Thee better &s;ervice in the duties of the following day. But if Thou ha&s;t determined to take us out of this world before we have another op|portunity of approaching before Thee in this holy duty, then we pray Thee to pardon our &s;ins, and &s;ave our &s;ouls, for the &s;ake of him who hath purcha&s;ed
<PB REF="25">pardon, even Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Righteou&s;ne&s;s: In who&s;e ble&s;&s;ed Name and holy words we call upon Thee as he him&s;elf hath taught us to pray,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Lords Prayer.</NOTE> <HI>Our Fa|ther which,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>The peace of God which pa&s;&s;eth all under&s;tanding,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Benedi|ction.</NOTE> keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord: and the ble&s;&s;ing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the holy Gho&s;t, be with us, and remain with us,
<LIST>
<ITEM>This Morning and for ever|more.</ITEM>
<ITEM>This Night and for ever|more. </ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<CLOSER>Amen.</CLOSER>
<PB REF="25">
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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