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 16, 2025.
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3. Touching Conversion, or A∣mendment of Life.
1. THis is the End and Comple∣ment * 1.1 of Repentance, without which it's vaine and fruitlesse to con∣fesse (as touching our Soules health.) As to bleed is in vaine, if we presently fall to distemper our Bloud againe; and to vomit ill humours out of the Stomack, if we avoid not those things which will fill it up againe: So at pre∣sent to be Sick of Sinne, and Bleed the Heart in Contrition; and to void it up in Confession * 1.2, if we amend not our Lives, but returne to our old Vo∣mit againe. That were but to abuse Gods Ordinances, and to make our Confession, and the Holy Sacra∣ment it selfe our Sinne, if they serve onely to encourage and strengthen our Soules in Sinne, and not (as God
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Institues them) to Arme, and Enable us against it.
2. And if the Amendment be not thorough, even this is but as withered Fruit, and to no end, if it be not, * 1.3
1. Ʋpright. As well within as with∣out, and reach not as well to the Heart, as Life.
2. Absolute. Without exempting any Sinne, or Lust whatsoever, whether in Life, or Heart, (else indeed, it is not Ʋpright.)
This makes a Pure Heart, and Quiet Breast, (Integrity of Life.) Which en∣sures our Repentance, Seales our Par∣don, and Pacifies our Conscience, and makes us Approach Gods Holy Pre∣sence, and Table with confidence. Which is not to be done without full purpose, and some measure of this In∣tegrity.