The rule and exercises of holy living. In which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations. Together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnish'd for all necessities.

An act of contrition.

Lord thou shalt finde my heart full of cares and worldly desires, cheated with love of riches, and neglect of holy things, proud & unmortified, false and crafty to deceive it self, intricated and intan∣gled with difficult cases of conscience, with knots which my own wildnesse and inconsideration and impatience have tied and shuffled together: O my dearest Lord, if thou canst behold such an im∣pure seat, behold the place to which thou art in∣vited is full of passion and prejudice, evil princi∣ples and evil habits, peevish and disobedient, lust∣ful and intemperate, and full of sad remembran∣ces that I have often provoked to jealousie and to anger thee my God, my dearest Saviour, him that dyed for me, him that suffered torments sor me, that is infinitely good to me, and infinitely good and perfect in himself. This O dearest Savi∣our is a sad tru••h, and I am heartily ashamed, and truly sorrowful for it, and do deeply hate all my fins, and am full of indignation against my self for so unworthy, so carelesse, so continued, so great a folly: and humbly beg of thee to increase my sorrow, and my care, and my hat••ed against sin; and make my love to thee swell up to a great grace, and then to glory, and immensity.