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.
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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 18, 2025.
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¶ Collect, or Prayer, against the Vanity of Beauty.
O Lord! let me looke at Beauty as thy blessing, but not make it my blisse! Let not my care be more for my body, then my soule; and to have a faire face, then conscience!
O let that which is thy face and Image, have the chiefest of my costs, and care! Let the glasse of thy Word be often before me to see it, and the waters of repentance daily with me to wash it, and the fine linnen of the Saints ever by me to adorne it, that the King of Heaven may delight in my beauty; and not Men, but Angels love me!
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For beauty of the body; let it not be my sinne, or anothers snare. Let me not hate Deformity above Hell, and love Beauty before Heaven. Since age at last will, and infirmity before may deface that beauty, and change it to a loath'd deformity. And Lord keepe my looks from being lures of vanity. Let no guilts be upon my eyes, of ano∣thers iniquity. Let thy feare preserve me and them from these guilts! Make it my care, to appeare with a faire and cleane conscience before thee; and to Him whom thou hast made the vayle of my eyes, let me be joy of his, That when humane beauty shall faile, an Angels may be given me; a body and soule both faire without blot or blemish, to all eternity. To that beau∣ty, Lord Jesus bring me! Amen. A∣men!
Daily Prayers.
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