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.

The Eare.

For, my Soul! by this Dore Gods * 1.1 Word is received in. Baptisme first sets thee, Preaching keeps thee on thy feet. For what are they but to know and do? And in Gods Word is both light, and heat; and both are Communicated by good Preaching. And observe that, my Soul! to avoid common Errour, The work of it is both on minde and heart, to informe and enflame; Til thou dost as well doe good as know it, the Preacher hath not done his, nor thou thy work. He may tell thee that in an hour, which he can scarce teach thee to doe in a life. The Principles of Christi∣anity are easie, but the Practise is hard. And Efficacy, as well as Instruction, is the work of the Word.

Even the Preached Word; So it be duly Preached. For that, my Soul! thou shalt doe well to eye, as another pre∣vailing but most pestilent error. The Pulpit doth not make the Word; nor Speaking from it, Preaching. But a Reverend handling of Holy Scripture according to the Truth of Gods Sense, and to the aimes of Gods Spirit a, thats * 1.2

the true Preaching of the Word. * 1.3 Errour, and Ill, are from the Devill, though out of a Pulpit. And if thou take heed how thou hearest this, and have care to harken to that, with an hum∣ble, honest Heart prepossest with neither Errour, nor Lust; thou canst not chuse but be of better life, because well∣taught by Gods Word.

Nor wilt thou be worse, for giving thy self to Read it; For therefore it is Writing, as wel as Word, to have it in thy

Notes

• * 1.1

  Act. 14. 2•• & 16. 14. Joh. 3. 5. 1 Pet. 2. 2. Joh. 10. 27 Joh. 13. 17 Psal. 109. 105. Jer. 23. 29. 2 Cor. 4. 45. Luk. 24 42. 2 Tim. 4. 2 & 3. 16. Luk. 11. 28. Heb. 5. 11. Isa. 28. 10. Heb. 6. 1, 2 Heb. 4. 12.
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  2 Tim. 1. 19
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  Tit. 1. 9. 2 Tim. 2. 15. Neh. 8. 8. 2 Chr••. 18. 21. 1 Tim. 4. 1 Joh. 4. 1. 2 Pet. 2. 1. 10, 11. Mar. 4. 24. Apoc. 2. 11. Act. 17. 11 Jam. 1. 21. Act. 10. 33 Mat. 13. 22 Heb. 4. 2.