Private devotions for several occasions, ordinary and extraordinary
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Title
Private devotions for several occasions, ordinary and extraordinary
Author
Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.
Publication
London :: printed for T. Garthwait, at the little North Door of St. Pauls Church,
1660.
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Subject terms
Prayers -- Early works to 1800.
Devotional exercises -- Early works to 1800.
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"Private devotions for several occasions, ordinary and extraordinary." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75019.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2025.
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TEMPERANCE.
EAting too much
Making pleasure, not Health the end of Eating.
Being too curious or costly in Meats.
...Drunkenness.
Drinking more then is useful to our bodies though not to drunkenness.
Wasting the Time or Estate in good Fellowship.
Abusing our strength of brain to the making others Drunk.
Immoderate Sleeping.
Idleness and Negligence in our Callings.
Using unlawful Recreations.
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Being too vehement upon Lawful ones.
Spending too much time at them.
Being drawn by them to Anger or Covetousness.
Being proud of Apparel.
Striving to go beyond our rank.
Bestowing too much time, care or cost about it.
Abstaining from such Excesses not out of conscience but covetousness.
Pinching our bodies to fill our purses.
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