An help and exhortation to worthy communicating, or, A treatise describing the meaning, worthy reception, duty, and benefits of the Holy Sacrament and answering the doubts of conscience, and other reasons, which most generally detain men from it together with suitable devotions added / by John Kettlewell ...

A Particular Enumeration of Sins, whether against God, our Neigh∣bour, or our selves; taken out of the Measures of Christian Obe∣dience, which are all there explain∣ed in the Second Book.

SIns against our selves are Pride, i. e. too high a Conceit of our selves, and Contempt of others: Arrogance, i. e. Assuming too much to our selves, in setting off our own Praise: Vain-glory, i. e. Intemperate Affectation of the Praise of others: Ambition, i. e. A restless Pur∣suit of Honour and Great Places: Haugh∣tiness, in contemptuous, scornful Carri∣age: Imperiousness, i. e. A Lordly way of Behaviour, in commanding Men no way subject to us: Worldliness, i. e. An over eager Care of Worldly things: Glut∣tony,

Voluptuousness, Drunkenness, Revel∣ling, Inconvinence, Lasciviousness, Filthy or Obscene Jestings, Vncleanness, Sodomy, Ef∣feminateness, Adultery, Fornication, Inoest, Rape, Covetousness, i. e. Unsatisfiedness with our own, and an impatient Desire of more, or of what belongs to others: Refusing the Cross, i. e. Deserting a Duty to avoid it: Idleness, Sensuality, i. e. An industrious Care to gratifie our Bodily Senses: Carnality, i. e. Subjection to our Fleshly Lusts and Appetites.

Sins against God are, Atheism, Denying Providence, Blasphemy, Superstition, Idola∣try, Witchcraft, Foolishness, or gross Igno∣rance of our Duty, Vnbelief, Hating God, Want of Zeal, Distrusting him, Not praying to him, Vnthankfulness, Discontent in our present Condition, or Repining at his Order∣ing, Fearlesness, or Venturing on any thing, tho' we know it will offend him; Common Swearing, Perjury, Prophaneness, Disobedience.

Sins against our Brethren at large, where are Sins of

Injustice; as, Murder, False-witness, Slander, i. e. Defaming them with False things: Lying, Vnfaithfulness, or Breach of Promise; Theft, Oppression, i. e. Wrong∣ing one who cannot cope with us in Contention: Extortion, or Depressing in

Bargaining: Circumvention, or going be∣yond our Brethren.

Vncharitableness; as, Wickedness, i. e. A Delight in doing Mischief, and ma∣king others Work: Despising and hating them that are Good, Giving Scandal to Weak Brethren, i. e. Laying in their way an Oc∣casion of Sin: Envy, Rejoycing in Evil, Vncharitableness in Alms, Suffering false Stains to stick upon them, when 'tis in our power to vindicate them: Evil-speaking, or Divulging any Ill we hear or know by them: Censoriousness, i. e. A proneness to Blame or Condemn them: Back-biting, Whispering, Railing, Vpbraiding them with our Kindnesses, Reproaching them with their own Faults, Mocking them for their Infirmities, Difficulty of Access, Affronting them, Vncourteousness, Vncondescention, Vnhospitableness towards Strangers, Sur∣liness, Malignity, or putting the worst Sense on what is said or done by others: Vnquietness, Vnthankfulness, Anger, Vari∣ance, Bitterness, Clamour, Hatred and Ma∣lice; Implacableness, or Difficulty in being appeased after any Offences: Revenge, or Returning Ill for Ill: Cursing Enemies, Hastiness and Rigour in exacting Punish∣ments.

Discord; as, Vnpeaceableness, Emulati∣on, or Provoking one another: Pragma∣ticalness,

or being Busie-Bodies: Tale∣bearing, Not satisfying for Injuries, Con∣tentiousness, Division and Faction, Heresie, Schism, Tumult.

Sins against our Brethren in Particular Relations.

Sins against Sovereign Princes; as Dis∣honour, Irreverence, Speaking Evil of Dig∣nities, Refusing Tribute and Taxes, Traitor∣ousness, Neglecting to pray for Kings, Dis∣obedience to them, Resistance and Rebel∣lion.

Sins against Bishops and Ministers; as, Dishonour of them, especially for their Works sake: Irreverence, Not providing for them, Sacrilege, or taking away either by Force or Fraud those Just Dues which are given to God for their Support: Not Praying for them, Disobedience.

Sins of Married Persons; as, Vncon∣cernedness in each others Condition, Not bear∣ing each others Infirmities, Provoking each other, Estrangedness, Publishing each others Faults, Not praying for each other, Jea∣lousie. Of the Husband against the Wife; as, Not maintaining her with convenient Supplies, Not protecting her from outward Annoyances, Imperiousness, or a harsh and magisterial exercise of Commands: Vn∣compliance with her Reasonable Desires, and Vncondescention to her Pitiable Weak∣nesses.

Of the Wife against the Husband; as, Dishonour in inward Esteem and Opi∣nions, Irreverence in outward Carriage, Vnobservance in not forecasting to do what may please him, Disobedience to his just Commands, Casting off his Yoke, or Unsubjection.

Sins of Parents and Children; as, Want of Natural Affection, Not praying for each other, Imprecation. Of the Parents against the Children; as, Not providing for them, Irreligious and Evil Education, Provoking them to Anger by Imperious Harshness, and needless Severity in Governing. Of the Children against the Parents; as, Disho∣nour in their Minds, Irreverence in their Behaviour, Being ashamed of them, Mock∣ing them, Speaking Evil of them, Stealing from them, Disobedience to their Lawful Commands, Contumacy, or Casting off Sub∣jection to them.

Sins of Brothers and Sisters; as, Want of Natural Affection, Not providing for our Brethren, Not praying for them, Pray∣ing against them.

Sins of Masters against their Servants; as, Not maintaining them, Not Catechising or Instructing them, Vnequal Government, or Injustice shewn in requiring Unlawful, Wantonness in requiring Superfluous, and Rigour in requiring Unmerciful things of

them: Immoderate Threatning, Imperious∣ness, or Contemptuous, haughty treating of them: Defrauding, or keeping back the Wages of the Hireling. Of Servants a∣gainst their Masters; as, Dishonour, Irre∣verence, Publishing or aggravating their Master's Faults, Not clearing, when they can, his injured Reputation, Vnfaithfulness in what he intrusts with them, shewn ei∣ther by their Wastefulness, i. e. Spending it for their Pleasure; or Purloyning, i. e. Diverting it to their own Profit and se∣cret Enrichment: Disobedience, Non-observance, Answering again, Slothfulness, Eye-service, Resistance, Not praying for him, Praying against him.

To all which, add two other Sins, which are peculiarly so among Christi∣ans, viz. The Neglect of Baptism, and Ab∣senting from the Lord's Supper.

When we are desirous to discover all our Sins, that we may truly repent of them, we may examine our own Hearts in all these Particulars, trying our selves either by the former Catalogue when we have less, or by this latter when we have more Time, according to our own Di∣scretion. We may ask our selves at eve∣ry one, Whether we ever wittingly yielded to it? and if we have, Whether since

that we have amended it? And noting all those whereof we stand guilty before God, affect our own Hearts with a sor∣rowful sense of what we have done, from such Considerations as are before laid down; and then renew our Vows, and make God our humble Confession, and Engagements that we will never have more to do with them. For which end, they who are not otherwise supplied, may make use of the Devotion p. 448, which may serve as a Penitential Prayer and Confession.