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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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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.
Publication
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 19, 2025.

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2. Touching Self examination, ne∣cessary before we Communicate.

YOu must Examine your selfe, * 1.1 touching your Faith, and Life.

1. Your Faith is Right, if you Believe concerning God and His Church, according to the Rule of it, Com∣prized summarily in the Apostles Creed, Received by all Christi∣ans. * 1.2

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2. Your Life is Right, if it agree with the Rule of it, The Law of God, Comprehended in the Ten Com∣mandements. For finding of which,

1. You are to Consider apart every Commandement, and the Con∣tents * 1.3 of it; what Duties, it Re∣quires, What Sins, it Forbids; and then aske your Conscience, how you have Discharged your selfe therein.

2. Where you finde upon Just En∣quirie, that you have led your life according to Gods Law, in Piety to God, or Charity to Man, Thank God for His Grace, where you find that you have failed, Ask God for His Pardon.

3. And because none but Penitents can ask, and have Gods Pardon; and Contrition is the Root, Con∣fession the Branch, and Amend∣ment of Life, the Fruit of Repen∣tance; look therefore carefully to all. And first,

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