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...

To our NEIGHBOUR.

• Being injurious to our Neighbour.
• Delighting causlesly to grieve his mind.
• Ensnaring his Soul in sin, by command, counsel, enticement, or example.
• Affrighting him from Godliness, by our scof∣fing at it.
• Not seeking to bring those to Repentance, whom we have led into sin.
• Murder open, or secret.
• Drawing men to intemperance or other vi∣ces, which may bring diseases or death.
• Stirring men up to quarrelling, and fight∣ing

• Maiming, or hurting the body of our Neigh∣bour.
• Fierceness, and rage against him.
• Coveting our Neighbours wife.
• Actually defiling her.
• Spoiling the goods of others, upon spight and mal••ce.
• Coveting to gain them to our selves.
• Oppressing by violence, and force, or colour of Law.
• Not paying what we borrow.
• Not paying what we have voluntarily pro∣mised.
• Keeping back the wages of the servant, and hireling.
• Unfaithfulness in trusts, whether to the li∣ving or dead.
• Using Arts of deceit, in buying and selling.
• Exacting upon the necessities of our Neigh∣bours.
• Blasting the credit of our Neighbour:
• By False Witness.
• By Railng.
• By whispering.
• Incouraging others in their slanders.
• Being forward to beleeve ill reports of our Neighbour.
• Causeless suspicions.
• Rash judging of him.
• Despising him for his infirmities.
• Inviting others to do so by scoffing and de∣riding him.
• Bearing any malice in the heart.

• Secret wishing of death, or any kind of hurt to our Neighbour.
• Rejoicing, when any evil befalls him.
• Neglecting to make what satisfaction we can, for any sort of injury done to our Neighbour.
• Lying.
• Churlish, and proud behaviour to others.
• Froward and peevish conversation.
• Bitter and reproachful language.
• Cursing.
• Not paying the respect due to the qualities or gifts of others.
• Proudly overlooking them.
• Seeking to lessen others esteem of them.
• Not imploying our abilities whether of mind or estate, in administring to those whose wants require it.
• Unthankfulness to our Benefactours.
• Especially those that admonish us.
• Not amending upon their reproof.
• Being angry at them for it.
• Not reverencing our Civil Parent, the law∣ful Magistrate.
• Judging and speaking evil of him.
• Grudging his just tributes.
• Sowing sedition among the people.
• Refusing to obey his lawful commands.
• Rising up against him, or taking part with them that do.
• Despising our Spiritual Fathers.
• Not loving them for their works sake.
• Not obeying those Commands of God they deliver to us.

• Seeking to withold from them their just maintenance.
• Forsaking our lawful Pastors; to follow fa∣ctious teachers.
• Stubborn and irreverent behaviour to our na∣tural Parents.
• Despising and publishing their infirmi∣ties.
• Not loving them, nor endeavouring to bring them joy and comfort.
• Contemning their counsels.
• Murmuring at their Government.
• Coveting their estates, though by their death.
• Not ministring to them in their wants of all sorts.
• Neglecting to pray for Gods blessing on these several sorts of Parents.
• Want of natural affection to children▪
• Mothers refusing to nurse them without a just impediment,
• Not bringing them timely to Baptism.
• Not early instructing them in the wayes of God.
• Suffering them for want of timely corre∣ction to get customes of sin.
• Setting them evil examples.
• Discouraging them by harsh & cruel usage.
• Not providing for their subsistence, accord∣ing to our ability.
• Consuming their portions in our own riot.
• Reserving all till our death, and letting them want in the mean time.

• Not seeking to entail a blessing on them by our Christian lives.
• Nor heartily praying for them.
• Want of affection to our natural brethren.
• Envyings & heart-burnings towards them.
• Not loving our spiritual brethren; i. e. our fellow Christians.
• Having no fellow-feeling of their suffe∣rings.
• Causelesly forsaking their commnnion in Holy Duties.
• Not taking deeply to heart the desolations of the Church.
• Marrying within the degrees forbidden.
• Marrying for undue ends, as covetousness, lust, &c.
• Unkind, froward, and unquiet behaviour towards the husband, or wife.
• Unfaithfulness to the bed.
• Not bearing with the infirmities of each o∣ther.
• Not endeavouring to advance one anothers good, spiritual or temporal.
• The wife resisting the lawful command of her husband.
• Her striving for rule and dominion over him.
• Not praying for each other.
• Unfaithfulness to a friend.
• Betraying his secrets.
• Denying him assistance in his needs.
• Neglecting lovingly to admonish him.
• Flattering him in his faults.

• Forsaking his friendship upon flight, or no cause.
• Making leagues in sin, in stead of vertuous friendships.
• Servants disobeying the lawful commands of their Masters.
• Purloining their goods.
• Carelesly wasting them.
• Murmuring at their rebukes.
• Idleness.
• Eye service.
• Masters using servants tyrannically and cru∣elly.
• Being too remiss, and suffering them to ne∣glect their duty.
• Having no care of their Souls.
• Not providing them means of instruction in Religion.
• Not admonishing them, when they commit sins.
• Not allowing them time, and opportunity for prayer, and the worship of God.
• Want of bowels, and Charity to our Neigh∣bours.
• Not heartily desiring their good spiritual, or temporal.
• Not loving, and forgiving enemies.
• Taking actual revenges upon them.
• Falsen••ss, professing kindness, and acting none.
• Not labouring to do all good we can to the Soul of our Neighbour.
• Not assisting him to our power in his bodily distresses.

• Not defending his good name, when we know or beleeve him slandered.
• Denying him any neighbourly office, to pre∣serve or advance his estate.
• Not defending him from oppression, when we have power.
• Not relieving him in his poverty
• Not giving liberally, or cheerfully.
• Not loving peace.
• Going to Law upon slight occasions.
• Bearing inward enmity to those we sue.
• Not labouring to make peace among others.
• The use of this Catalogue of sins is this: Upon dayes of Humiliation, especially before the Sacrament, read them consideringly over, and at every particu∣lar ask thine own heart, Am I guilty of this? And whatsoever by such examination thou findest thy self faulty in, confess particularly, and hum∣bly to God, with all the heightning circumstances, which may any way increase their guilt, and make serious resolutions against every such sin, for the fu∣ture; After which thou mayest use this f••rm f••l∣l••wing.

O LORD, I am ashamed, and blush to lift up my face to thee, for my iniqui∣ties are increased over my head, and my tres∣pass is growen up even unto Heaven. I have wrought all these great provocations, and that in the most provoking manner, they have not been onely single but repeated acts of sin: for, O Lord, of all this black Catalogue which I have now brought forth before thee, how few are there which I have not often

committed, nay, which are not become even habitual and customary to me? And to this frequency, I have added both a greediness, and obstinacy in sinning, turning into my course as the horse rusheth into the battel, doing e∣vil with both hands, earnestly, yea hating to be reformed, and casting thy words behind me, quenching thy Spirit within me, which testified against me, to turn me from my evil wayes, and frustrating all those outward means, whether of judgment or mercy, which thou hast used to draw me to thy self. Nay, O Lord, even my repentances may be num∣bred amongst my greatest sins, they have sometimes been feigned and hypocritical, al∣wayes so slight and ineffectual, that they have brought forth no fruit in amendment of life, but I have still returned with the dog to his vomit, and the sow to the mire again, and have added the breach of resolutions and vowes, to all my former guilts. Thus, O Lord. I am become out of measure sinful, and since I have thus chosen death, I am most worthy to take part in it, even in the second death, the lake of fire and brimstone. This this, O Lord, is in justice to be the portion of my cup, to me belongs nothing but shame and confusion of face eternally. But to thee, O Lord God, belongeth mercy and forgive∣ness, though I have rebelled against thee. O remember not my sins and offences, but ac∣cording to thy mercy think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodness. Thou sentest thy Son

to seek and to save that which was lost, be∣hold, O Lord, I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost, O seek thy servant, and bring me back to the Shepherd and Bishop of my Soul; let thy Spirit work in me a hearty sense and detestation of all my abominations, that true contrition of heart, which thou hast promi∣sed not to despise. And then be thou pleased to look on me, to take away all iniquity, and receive me graciously, and for his sake who hath done nothing amiss, be reconciled to me, who have done nothing well, wash away the guilt of my sins in his blood, and subdue the power of them by his grace, and grant, O Lord, that I may from this hour bid a final adieu to all ungodliness, and worldly lusts, that I may never once more cast a look toward Sodom, or long after the flesh pots of E∣gypt, but consecrate my self intirely to thee, to serve thee in Righteousness and true Holi∣ness, reckoning my self to be dead indeed un∣to sin, but alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord and blessed Saviour.