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 May 1, 2024.
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For the FEAR of GOD.
O Glorious Majesty, who onely art high,
and to be feared, possess my Soul with a
Holy awe and reverence of thee, that I may
give thee the honour due unto thy Name, and
may bear such a respect to all things which re∣late
to thee, that I may never prophane any
Holy thing, or sacrilegiously invade what
thou hast set apart to thy self. And, O Lord,
since thou art a God that wilt not clear the
guilty, let the dread of thy justice make me
tremble to provoke thee in any thing, O let
me not so misplace my fear, as to be afraid of
a man that shall die, and of the Son of m••n
who shall be made as grass, and forget the
Lord my Maker; But replenish my Soul with
that fear of the Lord, which is the beginning
of wisdom, which may be as a bridle to all my
brutish appetites, and keep me in a constant
conformity to thy Holy will▪ Hear me, O
Lord, I beseech thee, and put this fear in my
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heart, that I may not depart from thee, but
may with fear and trembling work out my
own Salvation, through Jesus Christ.
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