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 22, 2025.
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¶ Collect, or Prayer against Envy.
O Lord! Because thine eye is good, let not mine eye be evill! And that the Devils eye be not in my head, keepe envy out of my heart. The eye, by which he kill'd our first Parents, and would have us their progenie, to kill one another! O let me not grudge anothers good! If a friends, because I love him; if a foes, because he loves my griefe. Whosoever it is, since it is the Dispensation of thy Providence, let me not repine and quarrell at the acts of thy Goodnesse!
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And as for thy glory, so for my owne comfort too, let not that Ulcer grow on my heart, which will be as much my corrasive, as thy offence. Since I have enough as a man, to grieve my owne adversity, let me not be my owne Devill so much as to torture my selfe with anothers prosperity; lest on earth, a Hell of perpetuall torment seize upon me. From an eye so full of sin and pain, Lord deliver me, even from envy, I beseech thee, for Jesus Christ his sake. Amen!
Daily Prayers.
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