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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Title: 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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Subject terms: Church of England -- Prayer-books and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
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Prayer of a Child for Parents.

O Lord, who hast made my Parents as Gods in thy stead, (under thee) the Makers and Preservers of my life; let me look at thy power and good∣nesse in them, and (as thee) love, serve, and obey them; that I may give, die * 1.1 to their life, and length to their dayes! And Lord, who hast given them power to convey blessing on me, give me leave from thee (the Father of all) to pray blessing on them! And (to my power) to be ever dutifull, and help∣full

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to them. That so I may be (as the Child of their love, so the Heir of their blessing, (the blessing thou hast promised to loving and obedient Children (theirs and thine) give it me good Lord; for Jesus Christ his sake. Amen.

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* 1.1

Ephes. 6. 1.

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