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 9, 2024.

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The Examination upon the tenth Commandment.

I. DOst thou rest content∣ed in that condition or state of life wherein God hath placed thee, or hast thou at any time inordinate∣ly lusted after that which belongs to others?

II. Hast thou entertain∣ed secret covetings in thy thoughts, with any delight or complacency? Or hast thou labour'd to restrain them and quench them in their first beginnings?

When you have consider'd

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seriously, and answered your self in these particulars one by one; sum up the Ac∣count you have made, where you find your self innocent, give the glory to God, whose Grace hath kept you from falling into those sins; but where you find your self guil∣ty, humble your self before God in Prayer, confessing sadly the evil you have done, and imploring mercy in these or such other words as the devotion of your heart shall suggest to you.

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