Sacred principles, services, and soliloquies or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts: I. The grounds of Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Church of England, as differing from the now-Roman. II. Daily, and weekly formes of prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures, meditations and rules to keep the soule from the common roads of sin, and carry it on in a mortified course. III. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main limbs of divinity, which is the art not of disputing, but living well.
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Sacred principles, services, and soliloquies or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts: I. The grounds of Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Church of England, as differing from the now-Roman. II. Daily, and weekly formes of prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures, meditations and rules to keep the soule from the common roads of sin, and carry it on in a mortified course. III. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main limbs of divinity, which is the art not of disputing, but living well.
Author
Brough, W. (William), d. 1671.
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London :: Printed by J.G. for John Clark, and are to be sold at his shop under Saint Peters Church in Cornhill,
1650 [i.e. 1649]
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Church of England -- Prayer-books and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
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"Sacred principles, services, and soliloquies or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts: I. The grounds of Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Church of England, as differing from the now-Roman. II. Daily, and weekly formes of prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures, meditations and rules to keep the soule from the common roads of sin, and carry it on in a mortified course. III. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main limbs of divinity, which is the art not of disputing, but living well." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A77634.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.
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Sunday-Service. Against neglect of Gods Service.
Morning Prayer. Psal. 5. 27. 42.
Lesson. Gen. 28. or Jor. 7. to ver. 17. Mat. 11.
Evening Prayer. Psal. 95. 122.
Lesson. Eccles. 5. 1 Cor. 11. or Heb. 6.
¶ Collect or Prayer, against Neglect of Gods Service.
O Lord! Thou hast devoted a Time and Place to thy wor∣ship, and holinesse becometh thy house for ever!
Make me ever carefull to pay thee then, and there, the dues and duties of Religion, which I owe thee. Solemnly waiting on thy Majestie amongst thy S••rvants, in thy Court and Sanctuary. L••t me be diligent in thy service and r••verend at it! That as thy Saints and Angels in heaven incessantly serve thee,
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I may with thy Saints on earth con∣stantly worship thee, till we all come together for ever to adore thee. Even for his sake whose meat and drinke it was to serve thee, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Daily Prayers.
Remedies against Neglect of Gods Service.
1. GOd wil find no time to save us, if we find no day to serve him a 1.1.
2. Have we six in a Week, and shall not God have one day b 1.2?
3. Publique worship is the Pillar of Religion, and high service of Almighty God c 1.3.
4. If every one take away his stone, we shall pull down the Pillar, to the ruine of Religion d 1.4.
5. In the Church we are before Gods face, as well as Mans e 1.5.
6. It is both a Scandall to man f 1.6, and Scorne to God g 1.7, to be irreverent in the Church; to dare, and jeer, God to his face.
7. The truest Picture of the Saints
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with God in Heaven, is a Congre∣gation, devout at Gods Worship on Earth h 1.8.
8. We cannot doe better then to goe to Heaven; nor worse, then to doe any thing ill, or unseemly in it i 1.9.
9. The Devils misbehaviour in Hea∣ven, cast him into Hell k 1.10.
10. He that laughs in the Church is tickled by the Devill * 1.11.