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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.

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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 16, 2025.

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Friday-Service. Against Anger.

  • Morning Prayer. Psal. 4. 103. 106. Verse 28.
  • Lesson. Gen 4. Mat. 5. v. 21.
  • Evening Prayer. Psal. 2. 124.
  • Lessons. Jona. 4. Ephes. 4. or 1 Pet. 3. James 1.

Collect, or Prayer against Anger.

LOrd! keep all undue passions out of my mind and mouth! Make me to think, how often thou dost pardon those that provoke thee, that my anger may not forth with burne against every one that doth offend me: But that I may be like thee my heavenly Father, in meek∣nesse and mercy: Even for his sake, who was the great example of both, the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Daily Prayers.

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Remedies against Anger.
  • 1. TO loath it: Consider two things, point of
    • 1. Honour. As,
      • 1. Holy anger makes a Saint a 1.1 o∣ther, a beast and bedlam b 1.2.
      • 2. Wrath shuts God out of the heart, and lets in the Devill. c 1.3
      • 3. To rule it, is to be above a Conquerour; to serve it, below a Slave d 1.4
    • 2. Danger.
      • 1. It is against health e 1.5 and grace f 1.6; and so an enemy both to body and soul.
      • 2. Kindling of it within is dange∣rous, but flaming out in words and deeds, condemn'd by Christ the Judge to Hell-fire g 1.7
  • 2. To leave it: Endeavour 3. things.
    • 1. Prevent it.
      • 1. Expect injuries and provocati∣ons. So they move lesse h 1.8
      • 2. Suspect reports. They make a little, more i 1.9; as Ziba did k 1.10
      • 3. Value wrongs aright, as unfit, or not worthy anger; but scorn, if small; and pitty, if great; and if they come from men an∣gry,

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      • take them as blowes from the hands of madmen. In comparison of injuries done to God, what are ours? and who are we, if he were alwayes angry l 1.11
      • 4. Cut off occasions m 1.12 as Cotys brake his Venice-glasses.
      • 5. Avoid selfe-love, which gives our wrongs too great a value n 1.13.
    • 2. Divert it. (As bleeding at nose, by opening a veine in the arme.)
      • 1. To another passion: as joy, pitty, scorne o 1.14.
      • 2. To another occasion: set mind on somthing else.
      • 3. To another injury: against God, be angry at sin p 1.15 and par∣ticularly, at anger, so deform'd a sinne * 1.16.
    • 3. Delay it. Hold our selves in suspense, and silence, and do and say nothing in anger.

This was Augustus his cure. Prescribed by the Philosopher. * 1.17 If you be angry,

  • 1. Say over the Alphabet, be∣fore you speak or do any thing.
  • 2. Say over the Lords Prayer, sayes the Divine, and mark the fift Petition, or some lesson of Scripture, as Mat. 5. 22.

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