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.
Author
Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.
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London :: printed for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey,
1700.
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Devotional exercises
Christian life
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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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Page 127

For the Eighth.

GIve me, O thou Eternal Foun∣tain of all Order and Sobrie∣ty, a fixt and setl'd Hatred against all Intemperance, but more especially against that of excessive Drinking; discover to me I beseech Thee, the false Ends of Drinking, and imprint upon me such a deep sence of the Danger, and Folly, and withal of the Loathsomeness of it, that I may reject it, as a Vice much below the Dignity of a Man, much more of a Christian.

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