Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.
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- Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.
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- R. H., 1609-1678.
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- Oxford :: [s.n.],
- 1688.
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- Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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"Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66967.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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II. Concerning the condition of all present things about us. Consider
1. The good things of this world, 1 attained with much trouble (which is many times also destitute of suc∣cess.) 2 Very fleeting; in no one moment exactly like themselves in another; and not at all certainly enjoyed. [Here meditate on the temporal Crosses of the greatest, and happiest of men; David (considering his many Psalms of complaint:) Solomon (considering the Con∣fessions of Ecclesiastes:) Ezechias; Josias; Constantine; Augustus, &c. And that all Conditions are equally liable to the greatest, and intimatest, of evils; (i. e.) Sickness.]
2. The enjoyment no way satisfying; not only vanity in them, but vexation. Ecclesiastes 1.26.
3. Though never so satisfying; yet many of them for∣bidden by our Maker, and not to be enjoyed without sin. [The end of our, and their, Creation not being our present happiness in a full indulgement of them: but, in the use only of such as are necessary and allowed, and in our subjection to many strict Laws and great Tempta∣tions, and constant service and worship of our Creator here; and, hereafter, an eternal Fruition of him.]
4. Those that may be, without sin, enjoyed; yet many of them hinderances to our future happiness, and tempting to sin; and, ordinarily, our pleasure not to be had, both here, and hereafter.
5. Lastly Consider; how few those pleasures, and how momentany that time, will appear, upon your sad Death-bed, with which you have bargained for eternal pains (Ecclesiasticus 11.27.) and how sweet and gentle those commands, and how short the time of your re∣straint by them, by which you might have gained eter∣nal felicity.