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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.
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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 21, 2025.

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THURSDAY. A Prayer against Hypocrisie.

O Lord! Make me abhorre to be prophane, and feare to be an Hypocrite! If I be a notorious sinner, the world will condemne me; and if a close offender, Thou wilt not justifie me: Let me therefore be a Saint in sinceritie, that God and man may ap∣prove and blesse me!

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O Lord God of truth that searchest the heart, what will it availe me to have the world accquit me, when my conscience shall be a thousand witnes∣ses against me, and Thy selfe more then ten thousand consciences to condemne me! Keepe me therefore from the blot and follie of Hypocrisie.

And since Hypocrites are the first∣borne of the damned, let me have no part in that sinne, that I may have no portion with such sinners! Let me be the same wheresoever I am, in the Clo∣set and Church, in secret and publike, in the darke and day; and let me be alwayes what I should be, studying ever to approve my heart and wayes before thee, that thou who seest in se∣cret, mayest reward me openly. O let me set Thee every where before my eyes, and my selfe before thine; and accordingly walk uprightly before thee, till I come to rest eternally with thee!

O Lord, since thou requirest no more, to have thy favour on Earth and glory in Heaven, but a heart true unto thee, and doest pardon and passe by many infirmities, where thou seest such a heart; Let me not give thee lesse,

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then a sinceritie in thy service. God of Truth, give me a single heart to serve thee, and accept it from me: and a Monster of a double heart let Satan never make me. From Hypocrisie and lyes of life, Lord deliver me! Thou that hadst no gaule in thy heart, nor guile in thy mouth, Blessed Sonne and Truth of God, let me be Thine in truth sweet Jesus. Amen!

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