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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Title: Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.
Author: R. H., 1609-1678.
Publication: Oxford :: [s.n.],; 1688.
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Subject terms: Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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§. 37.

AFter these Considerations, and Counsels, the two first parts, chiefly directing to the cure and preventing of Sin, our negative Holiness in eschewing evil; follows the Third; Viz. The positive Sanctity that God our Cre∣ator requireth of, and in, us; consisting in the Practice of all Holy Duties and Christian Virtues. Of these, First, In diligently doing all good we can. Secondly, In patient∣ly suffering all evil; together with the means to procure and preserve these Virtues.

For the former, The practising all Holy Duties, and do∣ing Good; The Duties required of a Christian are three∣fold. 1. Towards your self, Duties Moral. 2. Towards your Neighbour, Civil. 3. Towards God, Religious. Living, 1. Soberly, 2. Righteously, 3. Holily: The three grand Duties mentioned in our Lord's Sermon, 1. Fasting, Matt. 6.16. —2. Alms, —6.1. —3. Prayer, —6.5. In the prosecution of which, so far as the former Counsels are subservient to the promoting of them, I shall refer you to them, and forbear here a repetition.