The practice of Christian graces, or, The whole duty of man laid down in a plaine and familiar way for the use of all, but especially the meanest reader : divided into XVII chapters, one whereof being read every Lords Day, the whole may be read over thrice in the year : with Private devotions for several occasions...
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The practice of Christian graces, or, The whole duty of man laid down in a plaine and familiar way for the use of all, but especially the meanest reader : divided into XVII chapters, one whereof being read every Lords Day, the whole may be read over thrice in the year : with Private devotions for several occasions...
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Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.
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London :: Printed by D. Maxwell for T. Garthwait ...,
1658.
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Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
Devotional exercises -- Early works to 1800.
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"The practice of Christian graces, or, The whole duty of man laid down in a plaine and familiar way for the use of all, but especially the meanest reader : divided into XVII chapters, one whereof being read every Lords Day, the whole may be read over thrice in the year : with Private devotions for several occasions..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A23760.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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For HOPE.
O Lord; who art the hope of all the ends of
the earth, let me never be destitute of a
well grounded hope, nor yet possest with a
vain presumption, suffer me not to think thou
wilt either be reconciled to my sins, or reject
my repentance, but give me, I beseech thee,
such a hope as may be answerable to the onely
ground of hope, thy promises, and such as may
both incourage and enable me to purifie my
self from all filthiness, both of flesh and Spi∣rit,
that so it may indeed become to me an an∣chor
of the soul, both sure and stedfast entering
even within the vail, whither the forerunner