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 20, 2025.
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Thursday Service. Against the Vanity of Strength.
Morning Prayer. Psal. 22, 33. 38. 102.
Lessons. Job 6. or 9. or 40. or 1 Sam. 17. Act. 3. or 5.
Evening Prayer. Psal. 86. 147.
Lessons. Job 21. or Isay. 26. 1 John 2.
¶ Collect, or Prayer, against the Vanity of Strength.
THat I have health, the Crown of earthly mercies, I thank thee, O God of my strength! And I beseech thee continue it to me; without which, I cannot serve thee, or enjoy any com∣fort from thee! And let me use it whilst it is with me, to the end, for which thou givest it me, to look, and seek after eternall life, where is no sicknesse, nor infirmity.
Lord, make me know, that all o∣ther use is Vanity. To trust in strength, idolatry; to turne it against thee, vil∣lany; (To doe more sinne, because I have more health from thee.) Let me
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therefore have care in the dayes of my youth, and strength to remember thee, my Creatour; that in the dayes of age, and infirmity, thou mayest not forget thy Servant! Let my healthy body, make my soul more cheerfull to serve thee.
How unfit sicknesse is, to doe thee service, and how many wayes it may come, let me sadly consider; that in my health I may goe about my happi∣nesse, and in my sicknesse have the comfort of a well-employed health; and at my death, the assurance of e∣ternall life, by that employment!
Lord! since thou givest me the best of thy blessings, let me give thee the first of my years, the strength of my youth, not my decrepite dayes; that come sicknesse, or health, life or death, I may be Thine ever; a child of blisse, and heire of immortality, by the merits of him who is the Sonne of thy Love, Je∣sus Christ. Amen.
Daily Prayers.
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