A pathvvay to patience in all manner of crosses, tryals, troubles, and afflictions: inwardly for sinne, or outwardly by sicknesse, pouerty, enemies, imprisonment, banishment, slaunders, disobedience of children, houshold-crosses betweene man and wife, &c. With necessary prayers for euerie of them; as also for diuers other necessarie purposes. By I.N.
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- A pathvvay to patience in all manner of crosses, tryals, troubles, and afflictions: inwardly for sinne, or outwardly by sicknesse, pouerty, enemies, imprisonment, banishment, slaunders, disobedience of children, houshold-crosses betweene man and wife, &c. With necessary prayers for euerie of them; as also for diuers other necessarie purposes. By I.N.
- Author
- Norden, John, 1548-1625?
- Publication
- At London :: Printed by E. A[llde] for T. Harper,
- 1626.
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- Patience -- Early works to 1800.
- Prayer-books -- Early works to 1800.
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"A pathvvay to patience in all manner of crosses, tryals, troubles, and afflictions: inwardly for sinne, or outwardly by sicknesse, pouerty, enemies, imprisonment, banishment, slaunders, disobedience of children, houshold-crosses betweene man and wife, &c. With necessary prayers for euerie of them; as also for diuers other necessarie purposes. By I.N." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08282.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2025.
Contents
- frontispiece
- title page
- To the right Honourable Earle of PEMBROOKE, Lord Chamberlaine to his Maiestie: And to his entirely beloued and most louing bro∣ther, the Earle of MONTGO∣MERIE; health, honour, and happinesse here, with all hea∣uenly blessings; and eternall saluation, when the Lord Iesus shall come to glorifie his Saints in heauen.
- To the beneuolent Reader, and especially to such as are afflicted or vnder any kinde of crosse or trouble.
- The Table of the perticulars contained in this Booke.
- A PRAYER FOR the Morning.
- A Prayer to be said before a man goes to his nightly rest.
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A
PATH-VVAY
TO GODLY PA∣TIENCE,
IN
all manner of
Afflictions.
- Touching sinne, the cause of all afflictions; the confession and repentance thereof, and pa∣tience in troubles.
- Comforte for a man afflicted in conscience, by reason of his sinnes.
- A Prayer for the forgiuenesse of sinnes, that afflict the weake conscience of a sinner.
- Comfort for the sicke.
- A Prayer to be often said of a sicke man or woman.
- A Prayer to be said for a sicke man or woman, of faithfull friends that come to vi∣site him, or her.
- For such as are oppressed with po∣uerty and want: not imperti∣nent for the rich to read and consider.
- A Prayer to be vsed of such as are oppressed with necessity and want of things necessarie.
- A short Prayer to bee said of him, that is in pouertie and want.
- Generall counsell and comfort, for men imprisoned.
- Against Treason, for which a man is worthily imprisoned.
- For such as are imprisoned, as guiltie, or vehemently suspe∣cted of murther.
- A Prayer for a man impriso∣ned, guiltie of murther.
- For such as are imprisoned, for committing any offence against the Lawes of the Kingdome, deseruing death.
- A Prayer to be said of a Pri∣soner, accused and like to bee condemned to death for some facte against the Lawes, or to any other cor∣porall punishment.
- A Prayer to be said of a peni∣tent offender, going to his execution; or to any cor∣porall punishment.
- For such as are imprisoned for debte.
- A Prayer to be often said, of a man imprisoned for debte.
- A Caueat for cruell Creditors, that keepe poore men in prison, whom they know vnable to pay that, for which they keepe them in prison.
- Encouragement for such as are molested and afflicted with enemies flatterers, and their slaunders.
- A Prayer for a man that hath vndeserued enemies, and is subiect to slaunderous tongues, flatterers, and false friends.
- Counsell and comfort for him that is persecuted, for his constant profession of the Gospell of Christ.
- A Prayer for a man persecu∣ted for his faith and pro∣fession of the Gospell of Iesus Christ.
- Comfort and encouragement, for such as are banished, or enforced to liue out of their own natiue Countrie, either for feare of persecution for Gods word, or the feare of enemies, that pursue them without iust cause.
- A Prayer for a man banished from his natiue Countrey, for some crime commit∣ted; or enforced to for∣sake it, either for feare of persecution, or of some mightie aduersarie that doth vniustly oppresse him.
- Comfort and encouragement for Parents, that are crossed and grieued at the vngodlines and disobedience of their children: fit for all Parents to reade.
- A Prayer to bee vsed of godly parents, for the reforma∣tion of vngodly and diso∣bedient children, and for patience; not ouermuch to afflict themselues for the stubbornesse and disobe∣dience of a wicked sonne.
- A perswasion to patience, in the crosses that often fall betweene man and wife, fit to be consi∣dered of maried folkes for their mutuall comfort; with counsell to such as intend to mary.
- A Prayer fit to be said by man and wife together, or by either of them, at any time in priuate.
- How the Husband ought to be∣haue himselfe towards his discontented Wife.
- A Prayer to be said often of a man, who hath a wife of refractarie conditions.
- How the wife ought to behaue her selfe towards her husband, though he be faultie and hard to be pleased.
- A comfortable conclusion, show∣ing the benefit of afflictions, to the end wee may beare them in what nature or kinde soeuer they befall vs, with the more resolute and godly patience.
- A necessarie Prayer, for strength, to beare whatso∣euer afflictions, with pati∣ence; and for faith, to resist the tentations of Sathan, that will suggest, they pro∣ceede of Gods meere dis∣pleasure.