The whole duty of man epitomiz'd: for the benefit of the poor. With select prayers suited to every partition. By Edm. Stacy, a minister of the Church of England.

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The whole duty of man epitomiz'd: for the benefit of the poor. With select prayers suited to every partition. By Edm. Stacy, a minister of the Church of England.
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Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.
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London :: printed for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey,
1700.
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"The whole duty of man epitomiz'd: for the benefit of the poor. With select prayers suited to every partition. By Edm. Stacy, a minister of the Church of England." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75032.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.

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For the Ninth.

O Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord, God, direct me I beseech Thee in a right Application of all thy Blessings. Thou hast given me leave to Sleep for the Support and Repose of my Frail Body, teach me likewise, O God of Temperance, to measure it by the Ends for which thou was at first pleas'd to ordain

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it. Let all my Recreations be mo∣derate and inoffensive, and us'd with the strictest Caution with re∣gard to Thee, my Neighbour, and my Self; give me Grace and Pru∣dence to avoid all Gaiety in my Apparel, and to prefer the inward Ornaments of my Soul to all use∣less Trappins, and all gaudy and insignificant Shews and Formalities.

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