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 21, 2025.
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¶ Collect, or Prayer, against the Vanity of Friends and Favour.
O Lord! Friends are Jewels, and so thou hast taught us to value them; yet as men that may be false, or will be fickle, our trust must not be in them. Some are not more friends to my person, then my prosperity. And those that are now most friends with me, may prove bitter enemies against me. Let me therefore seeke to have my Conscience, thy Angels, and Selfe, for friends that will never faile me! and let thy will be mine, O God, that all these friendships may be for me! O thou great Friend of mankind,
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who by thy bloud didst make falne man friends with God, by thy Holy Spirit make me fit for all these friend∣ships! And Lord, let me not value mans with thy favour! They can give me honour, but not a Crowne of Glo∣ry! Wealth, but not Heaven (Their hands are too short.) Yea, in sicknesse and distresse they cannot reach health, or quiet, to my body, or my conscience. And though their power be ever lesse then my wants, it may be often greater then their wills. O Thou Unchange∣able Majestie, The everlasting lover of them that feare thee, let me be one, that thou maist ever favour me! Let me not care for mans cloud, so the light of thy countenance shine upon me! Let my sinnes never hide that light from my soule, I beseech thee; Sun of righteousnesse, let some beame of thy love ever come unto me. Lord Jesus say, Amen. Amen!
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