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.
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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 18, 2025.
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The summe of this Soliloquie.
...God being our God even unto death, must be served all our life.* 1.1
...Our Conscience of all our wayes, is his perpetuall Service.
...To look to our thougbts, words, and deeds, is to have care of all our wayes.
1. The Heart must be strictly kept, because the Spring of all ill is in the Heart.
...First Motions must be repell'd, and the Senses well watcht, if we will keep the Heart.
...Eyes and Eares must be chiefly watcht, of all the Senses.
...2. The Tongue must be bridled, as we love our life.
...Gods Law and Threat, and Mans Resolution make a strong Bridle.
...The Tongue will be easily rein'd, if the Heart be rul'd; and hard∣ly else.
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...It will flie out if God keep not the Door of the lips.
...Taciturnity is a good lock to keep it in.
3. The Hand must be bound from ill, to good.
...To God and Man it must doe no* 1.2evill, but all good.
...True love performes all.
...Charity to Man, is by God ac∣counted as the Principall and totall of Love.
...If we have to spare, we must spend; if not, pinch rather then want to lay out on workes of Charity.