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 20, 2025.
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Remedies against Idlenesse.
1. AGainst all Idlenesse. Consider,
1. To live an idle life, is to be buried whil'st we live a 1.1.
2. Time is a Treasure: for the wa∣sting whereof, we must one day dearly answer b 1.2.
3. If we be idle towards God, we shall be busie for the Devill. For man is of an active spirit, and will not be every way idle c 1.3.
2. Against Idlenesse in our vocation tem∣porall.
1. It is the Devils cushion on which he sits and shapes the Soule to all temptations d 1.4.
2. It is the spawne of lust: as stan∣ding waters corrupt soonest, and
3. It is the shame of a man. A base∣nesse below all creatures, from the Emmet to the Angell. Mans no∣blenesse in Paradise, admitted not of Idlenesse f 1.6.
4. It will be his woe. Often the mother of want in this world g 1.7, and alwaies of everlasting begge∣rie in the world to come. No la∣bour in the Vineyard, no penny i 1.8. Hide the Talent; and lose all k 1.9.
3. Against Idlenesse in our Vocation Spirituall.
1. Heaven is worth our labour l 1.10. (Eternity the expence of a little time m 1.11.)
2. It is not to be had without it n 1.12. And woe to us if it be not had o 1.13.
3. Life is the time of labour p 1.14, and God knowes how long that will last q 1.15.
4. The labour we spend to goe to hell, will bring to heaven: as much in Gods service, as on our owne lusts and sinnes r 1.16.
5. All sins are stops and stumbling blockes in our way to heaven, to remove which, requires great la∣bour s 1.17.
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6. Christ tooke paines to save thy soul t 1.18, the Martyrs sweat and bled to save theirs u 1.19, wilt thou not swet to save thine owne?
7. The Devill is ever busie to de∣stroy thy soule x 1.20, wilt thou take no paines to save it?