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.

¶ Prayer against the Vanity of Honours.

O Lord! Because thou hast made me great, shall I not be good? Because my bloud is noble, shall my life be wicked? Because men doe me honour, shall I doe thee shame? Lord, let such a spirit of basenesse never pos∣sesse me; let me know, that the greater my honours are, the greater be my ob∣ligations to serve thee. And let those parasites of greatnesse, appeare as so many fiends of Hell unto me, who would have me break those bonds, and flatter and nourish such a spirit in me. Make me too wise to build my blisse

on mans breath, that I be not misera∣ble at their pleasure, and happy when they list. Make me not so fond, as to think, a glory so vaine, can make me happy: So poore, as to thinke that applause my blessednesse, which goes and comes with a blast of mans.

Make me so wise as to know, that a holy spirit makes the noblest bloud, and to be thy child is the best descent; to beare thine image the best coat, to have thine Angels, the best Ministers of honour, and thine eyes the best Judges! And make me so good, as to doe those noble acts of vertue and pie∣ty which may give me this honour: let others court the vaine, let me seeke t••ue glory! To scorne earth, get hea∣ven, shining as the Sun in the State of immortality: King of Glory give this honour to me Sweet Jesus, I beseech thee. Amen, Amen.

Daily Prayers.