Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration.
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Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration.
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Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.
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London :: printed for W. Hensman, at the King's-Head in Westminster-Hall,
1683.
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Prayer -- Early works to 1800.
Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.
Theology, Practical -- Early works to 1800.
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"Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36933.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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THE third Assault that is made upon the Soul, is by the Cares of this Life, which like so many Thorns, are ready to choak the seeds of Grace as soon as they are sown. For overmuch soli∣citude and anxiety of Mind in worldly things, casts such an heap of Earth upon our * 1.1 Prayers, as will not suffer them to ascend, taking up the Mind, and all the Facul∣ties of it, and hardly admit∣ting so much as a Thought of Heaven. But as they say of Thorns, That they may do well in an Hedg, but ill in a Garden; so is it with these Cares, which being kept within their bounds;
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and measures, hurt not the Soul; but if we admit them among our Prayers, they cor∣rupt the very nature of them, and turn them into Sin. When thou art therefore set∣ting thy self to thy Devoti∣ons, imagine that thou hear∣est thy Saviour calling to thee, as he did to Martha, Why art thou so careful? why art thou troubled about many things? One thing is only needful, the saving of thy Soul: Since therefore * 1.2 thou art come to treat about it, dismiss whatsoever may disturb thee, lay aside, thy Cares as Mary did; place thy self at my feet, hear me in my Word, that I may hear thee in thy Prayer.