Epitome ugaiainonton logon, or, A taste of the truth as it is in Jesus consisting of ten questions and answers, and a brief exposition upon the same : whereunto are added ten generall directions ... intended chiefly for the benefit of my countreymen, kindred, and acquaintance in Lancashire / composed by John Jackson, M.A.

The second Direction discovers to you after what manner you are daily to serve God, as also how you are to perform sundry and divers holy duties as you have opportunity and li∣berty thereunto, although you be not daily called unto them.

SEcondly, The particulars afore mentioned being known, understood, and mixed with faith: Come to Christ in the Gospel, not only to be saved by him, (a) 1.1 but also to learn of him how to serve God in spirit and in truth, (b) 1.2 and particularly how to pray, so as to sanctify God in Prayer: and being Christ that hath taught you how to pray, hath not tied you to a form of prayer, (c) 1.3 but given you a perfect pattern to pray by; Therefore use all means, to understand the meaning of the Lords Prayer: for it containeth whatsoever you can ask at Gods hands, or give him thanks for; * 1.4 And pray daily after this manner, which (I conceive) is but materially as Christ hath taught you; First, Every morning after you have awaked with God, (d) 1.5 and before you go about the works of your calling, or after you have sepa∣rated your thoughts from the world, and de∣voted your self for the time unto God; (e) 1.6

Consider first what the great and dreadfull God of heaven, (f) 1.7 and your mercifull and gra∣cious father, hath done for you, his poor sin∣full creature at all times, particularly what he hath done for you, the night and morning past; Secondly, wherein you have sinned against heaven, and before the Lord, gene∣rally at all times, particularly the by-past-night or morning, either in your dreams; thoughts, speeches, actions, omissions of, or failing in duty; Thirdly, What you would have God to do for you the day following (if you might have the desire of your soul, which ought al∣waies to be according to Gods will) (g) 1.8 for our King and his Kingdomes, the Queen, and her Royall seed; For the Magistrates, the Mi∣nisters and all in Authority; For all the Saints in generall, and particularly for the congregation and family you belong unto; Now your own spirit in the act of meditation (if you have a Gospel like spirit as every real Christian hath) (h) 1.9 is able through the help of the spirit of Christ, and the word of God to tell you what those mercies are you are to praise God for, what those sins are that you are to confesse and bewail, and what those wants are that you are to intreat the Lord for Christs sake to supply. Fourthly, Consider that there is ability and free mercy enough in God, (i) 1.10 and righteousness and grace enough in Christ to assist you in all the duties of Gods worship, to pardon all your sins, to cleanse you from them, and to supply the wants of you, yours, and all Gods people, above what you are able to ask, or to think how you should ask, (k) 1.11

These things being thought upon (as they may in a minutes time) Humbly kneel before the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (l) 1.12 and ask his spirit, (m) 1.13 casting your self upon him for it; And then praise the Lord for all his mercies, above all, for the Lord Jesus Christ; particularly for the mercies of the by-past-night and morning; Humbly confesse and bewail your sins of all sorts, particularly the sins of the night and morning past: Fervently pray (exercising all the faculties of your soul, and all the gifts and graces of Gods spirit, in the very act of thanks-giving, confessing and pray∣er) for pardon of, and power against your sins, for faith, repentance, and all other gra∣ces necessary unto salvation, especially for a sufficiency of grace to honour God withall, the day following: And for a supply of all your wants, that are according to Gods will, that either you, or any you are to pray for, stand in need of; And so commit your self and ser∣vices unto Christ, to be tendered unto God, (n) 1.14 beleeving that God will accept them in him, and that he will give you what you have asked according to his will (if you use all law∣full means, for the obtaining of the same) when it is most for his honour and your good, (o) 1.15 and that his peace shall possesse your soul all the day long, if you walk with God in your calling, (p) 1.16 and worship him continually in your heart; For you may love God, and fear him, in the midst of all your worldly businesses, and pray in your spirit unto him, and obey him, and trust and rejoyce in him, (q) 1.17 and further others to do likewise; Yea,

while you sit at your work, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up, you may either be teaching of others (if there be any with you) or learning of others, (r) 1.18 you may either be doing or re∣ceiving some good that is for Gods glory, and the furthering of your own, or the salvation of others. Remembring alwaies after, or a∣bout the time when your prayer is ended, to take notice not only of your defects, and fai∣lings in prayer, to be humbled for them, and of the sufficiency of Christs righteousnesse, (which is yours (if you beleeve it) and al∣waies the same (s) 1.19 ) to cover them (t) 1.20 But also of your inlargements, to be thankfull unto God for them; being then and ever mindefull of the need you have of Jesus Ch••ist even in your best estate, (u) 1.21 that is, when your heart is enlarged, your faith strengthened, your conscience eased, your soul comforted, and as it were ravished with the light of Gods countenance lifted upon you.

And being you and every one may and ought to search the Scriptures, (h) 1.22 Read therfore or meditate daily of such a portion of Scripture, (having read and studied the Scriptures quoted in the Catechisme) as may inform, or minde you of your awaking with God, (i) 1.23 of the mercies you are daily and continually to blesse God for, (k) 1.24 of the sins you are daily to be∣wail, (l) 1.25 of the wants of your self, and of all men you are daily to make known to God, (m) 1.26 of the promises of audience, (n) 1.27 assistance, (o) 1.28 acceptance, (p) 1.29 of justification, (q) 1.30 sanctifica∣tion, (r) 1.31 and salvation, (s) 1.32 that you are to

act your faith on, before, at, and after prayer: of the expressions you may use (if need be) in your entrance upon prayer, (t) 1.33 in your con∣fessions, petitions and thanks-givings: of the carriage of your self, to God and man, in the calling you are in, or intended to be of: (u) 1.34 of the carriage of your self in all relations you are, or may be in: (x) 1.35 of the carriage of your self, when you are alone, (y) 1.36 or in company whether of superiours, equal••s, inferiours, igno∣rant, knowing, wicked, civill, hypocriticall, sincere, weak, or established Christians: (z) 1.37 of the carriage of your self, when things fall out by providence unexpectedly well, or ill with you, (a) 1.38 of the carriage of your self, in your lying down, to take your rest: (b) 1.39 of the man∣ner how you are to order your heart, conscience, time, talents, and all your thoughts, speeches, sences, affections, and actions at all times, to wit, so as that thereby you may glorify God, (c) 1.40 Such Scriptures (I say) as are of these or the like subjects you are to read, or to me∣ditate upon untill you be well instructed therein: to which kinde of Scriptures you may be further directed either by your table in your Bible, or by your Minister, or any neighbour that is an able Christian; Read afterward, the Bible, (d) 1.41 in order that you may understand both the history, and scope of the holy Scrip∣tures, marking all things therein, but more especially the things that concerns your self, As for example, when you read any part of Gods word, Consider in, or after your rea∣ding of it, whether there be any thing in it, •…•…hat instructs or teaches you where you are ig∣norant

that you may learn it, beleeve it, an•…•… practise it: That discovers or reproves any o•…•… your sins either of judgement, or of practise whether of commission, in thought, word, o•…•… deed, or omission of, or failing in duty, tha•…•… you may renew your faith and repentance whereby they may be pardoned for time past and subdued for time to come: That furthers confirms, or comforts you in beleeving, tha•…•… you may beleeve as God inclines you t•…•… beleeve by his word and spirit, and go from faith to faith, as the righteousnesse of the Gos¦pel is revealed unto you: that you may know the mysteries of the kingdome of heaven, an•…•… the deep things of Christ that may establish yo•…•… in beleeving, as God gives you to know an•…•… understand them: That you may make Go•…•… the joy of your salvation: as he gives you t•…•… rejoyce in him; Meditate I say of these thing in, * 1.42 or after your reading of the word, tha•…•… you may not only apply it for time present as I have now shewed you, but also that yo•…•… may hide it in your heart, or write it in a book for time to come, whereby you may be kep•…•… from your iniquities, that you are apt to b•…•… overtaken in, when you are tempted there unto: Take the like course (as you have op¦portunity) after you have heard the word read opened, preached, repeated, or spoken of b•…•… way of catechizing, or conference: For me¦ditation after this manner is the life of al•…•… means next unto Jesus Christ, and makes al•…•… you have read, or heard (through the help o•…•… the spirit) to be your own: yea it helps yo•…•… to give God his own, that is, the glory that i•…•…

due to him from these duties; For your main drift in reading and hearing of the word, * 1.43 should be to know the will of God, for that end that you might honour God in doing it, and in suf∣fering it in every thing as it shall be required of you. (*) 1.44 And before you enter upon this exer∣cise, think of your many sins by reason of which God might give you over to a reprobate minde, (e) 1.45 and consider that you cannot teach your self without the spirits teaching, nor know the minde of God in the word, but by the spirit of God that did indite it, (f) 1.46 and so desire God for the Lords sake to pardon your sins, to pour out his spirit upon you, and to help you there∣by to understand, remember, and to profit by the word, (g) 1.47 And after you have read and pondered upon the word, and seriously consi∣dered what a mercy it is to have Gods word to read and meditate upon, (h) 1.48 to receive any be∣nefit by it, (i) 1.49 to have a heart and a desire to obey it, (k) 1.50 Blesse God for his good word, for any good you receive thereby, and for any inclination you have of walking answerable unto it, (l) 1.51 and pray to him for the continu∣ance and encrease of the same unto you, which you may do in your morning and evening pray∣er, if this exercise be immediatly before. * 1.52

Sometimes in stead of reading and medita∣ting upon the word, ponder upon one of these or the like subjects; (m) 1.53 First ask your self (For set meditation is a talking with ones self) whether you truly beleeve in the Lord Iesus Christ, (n) 1.54 Secondly whether you have added to your faith, since, as you conceive, God gave you to beleeve, vertue, knowlege, tem∣perance,

patience, godlinesse, brotherly kinde∣nesse, charity, (o) 1.55 Thirdly, whether you con∣ceive that God may say of you (as he said of Iob) that you are perfect and upright and one that fears God, and eschewes evill, (o) 1.56 Fourth∣ly whether you dare die, or can die with com∣fort, in the present condition you are in: (p) 1.57 And if your answer to your self be negative, teen be the more diligent in the use of all means that you may beleeve, and add those gra∣ces to your faith, and be upright, and prepared for death: But if your answer to your self, be affirmative, then be thankfull to God, and incouraged therewith to beleeve more, to grow in those graces you have added to your faith, to be more sincere, to be more desirous to be dissolved, and to be with Christ: or if you be unable to meditate and to speak with your self about these subjects, then have re∣course to your minister, or to some able expe∣rienced Christian that they may confer with you about them, and the estate of your soul: making your requests to God before and after your meditation of this kinde, by praier and thanks-giving, according to the nature of the subject you are to meditate upon: As for ex∣ample, when you are to meditate whether you unfainedly beleeve in the Lord Iesus Christ, or no? Consider that you cannot know it, but as God shall give you to know it (q) 1.58 that when you do know it, you cannot of your self make a sanctifyed use of it, that your sins are and have been such, as might provoke God, to withhold the knowledge of it from you; After that desire God for the Lords sake, to forgive you your

sins, to give you to know the grace he hath gi∣ven you, if you have received any, if not, to give you grace to beleeve, and thereby to give glory to him, And if after your meditation, you finde that God hath given you by it to know that you are in unbelief, so as to quicken you to beleeve, or to know that you are in the faith, so as to move you to thankfullnesse and perseverance in it: Then praise God for the means and his blessing upon the same, whereby you come to a sanctified knowledge of your self, and pray to God to give you more and more grace to make a sanctified use thereof, Or if you remain doubtfull after your medita∣tion, then consult with others, about your condition according to the advice already given you.

And seeing it is meet and equall, and the bounden duty of Christian people that live to∣gether in one house, * 1.59 to blesse God together for those mercies they enjoy together, to be hum∣bled together for those sins they sin together, to endeavour together to know that God they professe together, and to pray for those mercies together, that they would enjoy together; (r) 1.60 Therefore be conscionably carefull to attend family duties at all times as you have opportu∣nity: And as you goe to attend duty, endea∣vour to take off your heart and thoughts from all things below, (s) 1.61 and to set them upon things above; praising God in your heart, as God is praised in words, confessing sin in your thoughts with sighs and groans, as sin is con∣fessed in words, and praying in your spirit for what is prayed for in expressions so farre as you

understand them to be according to Gods will; (t) 1.62 Attending the word with an ap∣proved heart to God, that you desire to know, and doe, and suffer his will in every thing. Beleeving that you shall have what you ask of God, that is according to his will, as if you did nothing but pray and beleeve: (u) 1.63 and en∣deavouring in the use of all lawfull means to obtain what you pray for, (x) 1.64 as if your pray∣ing and beleeving would avail you nothing. Willingly consenting together to watch over one another, and to observe each others waies for one anothers good: and mutually to per∣form all those duties that your relations calls you unto, and in such a manner as becomes a Christian family that belongs unto the great Family of heaven. And when you are to par∣take of any of the good creatures of God, * 1.65 for the strengthning and refreshing of your body, (y) 1.66 consider that you are lesse (through your sins) then the least of Gods mercies, (z) 1.67 that the creatures are sanctified by the word of God and prayer, and that they can doe you no good without Gods blessing; for you doe not live upon meat and drink alone, (a) 1.68 but upon Gods blessing in the use thereof: After that pray to God for Christs sake to pardon your sins (in your spirit, if alone, in words if in company, and if you be called thereunto) and so to blesse the creatures to you, as that you may thereby be better fitted in body and minde to serve him in your place: And when you have refreshed your self with the good creatures of God, call to minde that your meat, (b) 1.69 and appetite, and the refreshings you receive thereby, are all bles¦sings

of God that you cannot of your self walk worthy off: Then give thanks to God for your meat, and stomack, and for the comforts you receive thereby, (c) 1.70 and desire of God for the Lords sake to give you grace to improve them, and all other mercies for his glory. * 1.71 And when at any time you have an opportunity to hear the word preached, upon any occasion; (d) 1.72 commune with your own heart (that you may be prepared to hear, so as to glorifie God) be∣fore, or at the time of your going to attend the word, what your iniquities are by reason of which the word might be made unprofitable to you, and that the word will not profit you without Gods blessing: (e) 1.73 And pray to God to blot out your sins, to give you a sound judge∣ment, an honest, and good heart, and so to blesse the word to you as that you may profit by it; * 1.74 And behave your self so in hearing (hear∣ing the word, then and alwaies, as the word of God, with an appetite to it, and a heart open to receive it, that you may beleeve it, and obey it; yea hear it as an Ordinance of God for the conveying of some spirituall good to your soul: and as seriously as if God spoke it immediately from heaven,) and attending all duties then performed, as one that is zealously desirous to glorifie God before all the people, by your re∣verent and holy behaviour, (f) 1.75 and so, as one that desires to have communion with God, while you are waiting upon him, And after you have heard the word, either be thinking of it, or speaking about it, that you may under∣standingly remember it, and apply it, and so receive benefit by it; (g) 1.76 And what good (up∣on

your calling of it to remembrance) you finde you have received, be thankfull to God for it, (h) 1.77 and humbled for your failings, and pray that God would strengthen you through Christ to improve it for his glory, your own comfort and the good of others.

And when you are called to spend some time in holy conference (i) 1.78 among your neighbour Christians, * 1.79 not in a scismaticall, but in an humble manner to edifie one anothers souls, and to further the publike Ministery; call to remembrance about the time of your meeting, what your scruples are, wherein you are wound∣ed in your conscience, or troubled in your spirit, or what you would have of God in that ordi∣nance: What your sins are and have been, by reason of which you might live and die, under wrath and terrour: and how insufficient men, and means of grace are to confirm or strength∣en you in the faith without the grace and strength of God; (k) 1.80 And intreat the Lord to discover your doubts and scruples to you, to take away your sin, to give you what you would have of him (as the occasion of the meeting is) so farre as it is for his glory and your good, and to make your conference and meeting, a means to bring you nigher unto salvation. And when you are met together, make your complaints, reveal your doubts, render a reason of the hope that is in you, make known the estate of your soul so farre as God hath given you to know it, or appoint some other to doe it for you, and joyfully receive satisfaction by them, as from the Lord; (l) 1.81 Answering the questions in meeknesse of spirit whether they be for, or a∣gainst

you, that are propounded to you for your good; and speaking your experience, and what you know and beleeve (as you have opportuni∣ty and liberty) for the setling and establishing of others; And so carry your self throughout the whole exercise, as one that is desirous to have peace spoken to you from the Lord, as one that would be cured of a doubting, unbelee∣ving heart, as one that would doe, or receive some good, that your meeting together may be for the better, and not for the worse: And af∣ter the end of the conference, and your calling to minde what God hath done for you, and what you have done against heaven and before the Lord: Magnifie the Lord for any thing he hath revealed to you for the establishing of you in beleeving: Blush, and be ashamed before him for your failings, and beseech him for the Lords sake to help you to give glory to him in beleeving, and living so, as becometh the Gos∣pel of Christ.

And when God shall be pleased to perswade and inable you to write a Diurnall (for you may use your Christian libertie herein as God shall incline, and fit you hereunto; it is indeed the dutie of every Christian to observe the pro∣vidence of God, (m) 1.82 but it is not the dutie of every one to make a book) of the passages of his providence for a memoriall of his dealings with you and yours, (n) 1.83 and for your furthe∣rance in a holy life. Before you begin it, take speciall notice (having sought God for a bles∣sing upon it) of the manifold providence of God over you, yours, the Church of God, the Nation, the King, and all in authority, at all

times, when, and in all places where you have lived, as you are able to remember them, or can any way be rightly informed of them: As of publique mercies, by blessings or deliverances, (o) 1.84 or of private mercies, concerning your self, as about your parents, who, and what they were: Of the time, means, and manner of your con∣version to the faith: (p) 1.85 Of your temptations since, and issue out of them: (q) 1.86 Of Gods hel∣ping you to pray, and hearing your praiers: Of the promises you have made unto God in time of sicknesse, danger, and adversity, or up∣on any other occasion, of amending your life, and of performing such and such duties unto God or man: Of the protestations and cove∣nants you have taken upon any solemn occasion at any time, and upon what grounds you have taken them: (r) 1.87 Of Gods love in Christ clear∣ed up unto you, or withdrawn from you: (s) 1.88 Of Gods providing for, and preserving of you and yours: (t) 1.89 Of Gods delivering you from, and out of danger, sicknesse or the like: (u) 1.90 Of the men, means and instruments of your temporall and spirituall good; (x) 1.91 Orderly writing down (when you begin your diurnall) the most remarkable things thereof; And after∣ward observe daily (setting down in your book the most considerable things thereof) the carriage of God in his way of mercie and wrath: (y) 1.92 to the Churches of God, to the Nation, the King, and all in authority: to your self, as of the sensible presence, and ab∣sence of Gods favour to you in Christ: Of your temptations, and the grace you had to resist them: Of your being overtaken in presumptu∣ous

or secret sins, that you have promised, and praied against: (z) 1.93 Of your overcoming your own iniquities and those you are most prone to commit: Of Gods discovering to you the truth, and growth of your grace: (a) 1.94 Of Gods hel∣ping, and hearing you in prayer: Of the full purposes of heart you have had in time of sor∣row, sicknesse and trouble, and of the vows you have made therein, or upon your undertake of a great journey or the like, of laying aside such and such sins, of performing such and such du∣ties to God and man: of the protestations and covenants you have taken, and of the time when; and of the reasons why you took them: Of Gods care over you and yours, in preserving of you, in providing for you, in delivering you from, and out of trouble, sicknesse, and sorrow, in raising up instruments for your temporall, and spirituall good. Mark (I say) these and all the fearfull judgements of God upon severall sorts of sinners, * 1.95 by strange and suddain death, and all other observable passa∣ges of Gods providence, and the remarkable circumstances thereof, as of the places you have been brought unto, and how, and when: writing them down in your book, that when you are tempted, deserted, and given over to a doubtfull unbeleeving heart, and that when you have no heart, nor soul to dutie, either to beleeve, pray, or live to God: You may be (by your viewing over your diurnall) quick∣ned to faith, praier, humiliation, thanksgiving and obedience; and inabled to speak by expe∣rience, of the wonderfull providence of God, (b) 1.96 and as it were of the news of heaven, and

of the whole world of your self (c) 1.97 to Gods glory, and the edifying of your self and others.

And being you are continually to pray, day and night, in prosperity, and in adversity, in health and sicknes, and at all times, while you live, when you are troubled about any thing that possibly God may grant, and that you see your self and others to stand in need of. (d) 1.98

* 1.99 Therefore as often as you are moved to pray, either outwardly by occasions and friends, or inwardly by the spirit of God, and your own heart: Minde your self of your many sins, that might provoke God to deny you every thing you are about to ask, and of the power and willingnesse of God, for Christs sake to bestow more mercies upon you, then you are able to ask, (f) 1.100 and think of every thing that may further and quicken you in the duty of praier, according to the circumstances of the occasion, that moved you thereunto (For every occasion of solemn praier (Yea we are helped by the spirit, * 1.101 to pray in our hearts con∣tinually, by our thinking of a sin, of a misery, of a want, of a promise, of a mercy, &c,) ministers an occasion of premeditation, (g) 1.102 every premeditation before prayer of our sins, of Gods mercy to us, of a word and promise sutable to the occasion of our praying, and of the circumstances of the occasion it self, mi∣nisters matter of confession, humiliation, in∣tercession, supplication, and thanks-giving) And then pour out your soul, before the Lord, as he shall by his spirit help your infirmities; And if you be inclined (For you may use your

Christian liberty herein) in time of sicknesse, * 1.103 or danger, or upon any weighty cause, to make a solemn vow unto God, besides those implicite promises you make every time you call upon God, of amending your life, for to testify your hearts unfained desire to walk with him, and to use all means whereby your heart might cleave unto him: Consider before you make it, whether you be in a capacity to keep it, through the help of Gods grace, and whether the matter of the vow be according to Gods word, if not, you ought not in any wise to make it; Consider also before you vow unto the Lord, the greatnesse of your sin, by reason of which God might so give you over to sin and Sathan, as to break all vows and cords asunder, The insufficiency of a vow in it self, to help you to perform a duty you are slack in, or to keep you from a sin you are prone unto: The insufficiency of your self to pay your vow when you have made it, then desire God for Christs sake, to pardon your sin, to incline you to make that vow (if it be for his glory, and your good) that you are moved unto, to ina∣ble you through Christ to keep it, and to make it instrumentally helpfull (for a vow is but an help to Gods worship, and not a part of it) for to obtain the end for which it was intended: And so solemnly vow unto the Lord, * 1.104 taking notice of the time, and of the occasion thereof, and if in processe of time, you finde that God gives you in some measure to keep it, and that he makes it successefull unto you for the end for which it was made. Then return thanks unto God answerable unto the successe

thereof; But if otherwise you finde that you have broken your promise (as every one doth in part) and that your vow is unhelpfull unto you, for that purpose for which it was made; Then be made hereby humbly sensible of your sinfullnesse and insufficiency to any good work or word, and moved hereby to value and esteem Christ; * 1.105 and to put forth new acts of faith on him, that through him you may be strengthen∣ed to do all things.

* 1.106 Lastly as you begun, so end the day with God, and make him daily after this manner your Alpha and Omega, (h) 1.107 In the evening as you have convenient time and place, solemnly call to minde what God hath done for you, yours, or any of his the day past, wherein you have transgressed the law of God, or disobeyed the Gospel, by committing of evill in thought, word, or deed, therein forbidden, or omitting of, or failing in dutie therein required what you would have God to do for your self the night following, for your friends, for all his people, (i) 1.108 particularly for the Churches and king∣domes wherein you live, and therein for our King, and all in Authority, how able the Lord is to supply all your wants: After that, give glo∣ry to God for his mercies, humbly confesse your sins, asking what you want for Christs sake, in your spirit, if not in expression; and so commit your self to God, and be not faith∣lesse but believe that his peace shall possesse your heart, (k) 1.109 in the night season as well as in the day time; And as you did awake: so go to your rest with thoughts of God, and say; I will lay me down and sleep in peace, (l) 1.110 for thou Lord

only makest me to dwell in safety (l).

Thus acquaint your self with God by praier and meditation, twice every day at least, and walk not as a stranger towards him, with whom you look to dwell for ever: (m) 1.111 But be much in Gods worship, that you may be more and more acquainted with God. It is a sweet thing (and it ought to be our delight, (n) 1.112 ) to live with or nigh good people, Much more to live with or nigh a good God, as they do that walk humbly with God, in the sincere performance of the duties of his worship; (o) 1.113 And let me tell you that you will be inexcu∣sable unto God, if you do not worship him by praier twice every day at least, as morning and evening, because you have nothing ordina∣rily to hinder you from it; How will you ex∣cuse your self (Let your conscience answer) from being one that forgets God, who is the giver of your life, (p) 1.114 and time, (q) 1.115 and of all you are and have, (r) 1.116 and of purer eyes then to behold any iniquity, in any creature to allow of it, (s) 1.117 If you do not worship God morning and evening, for some small continuance of •…•…ime by prayer, confession, and thanks-giving, Gods glory requires it, your soul hath need of •…•…t, that it might be more and more acquain∣•…•…ed with the Lord, and that it might receive more and more grace from him to glorifie him •…•…ithall.

Notes

• (a) 1.1

  Mat. 11.28. Ioh. 6.37. Heb. 7.25.
• (b) 1.2

  Ioh. 4.24.
• (c) 1.3

  Mat. 6.9. Act. 4.24. to 31.
• * 1.4

  How you are to pre∣meditate and pray every mor∣ning.
• (d) 1.5

  Psa. 139.18.
• (e) 1.6

  Psa. 5 3. Dan. 6.10.
• (f) 1.7

  Psa. 104.34. Eccl 5.2.
• (g) 1.8

  1 Ioh. 5.14.
• (h) 1.9

  Rom 8.9.
• (i) 1.10

  Rom. 10.12. Eph. 2.7. 1 Pet. 1.3.
• (k) 1.11

  E••h. 3.20 Heb. 7.25.
• (l) 1.12

  Psa. 95.6. Eph. 3.14.
• (m) 1.13

  Luk. 11.13. 1 Ioh. 1.9 Iam. 5.16. to 19.
• (n) 1.14

  Rev. 8.3.
• (o) 1.15

  1 Ioh. 5.14.
• (p) 1.16

  Phil. 4, 6. 2 Chro. 15.25. Ioh. 14.22.23.
• (q) 1.17

  Psa. 62.8. 1 Thes. 5.16.
• (r) 1.18

  Deut. 11.29. Eph. 4.29.
• (s) 1.19

  Heb. 13.8. Rom. 4.3.
• (t) 1.20

  Rom. 4.7.
• (u) 1.21

  Phil. 3.1. to 19.
• (h) 1.22

  Rom. 35.4 1 Tim. 3.••5. What sub∣iects of Scripture, you are of∣ten to read or meditate upon.
• (i) 1.23

  Psa. 119.147.
• (k) 1.24

  Psa. 104.1 to 35. Psa. 22.9.10.
• (l) 1.25

  1 Ioh. 3.4. Psa. 51.3, 4.5
• (m) 1.26

  Phil. 4.6.
• (n) 1.27

  1 Ioh. 5.14.15.
• (o) 1.28

  Luk. 11.13
• (p) 1.29

  Eph. 1.6
• (q) 1.30

  Heb. 10. to 13.
• (r) 1.31

  Ioh. 3.16.
• (s) 1.32

  Rom. 10.13.
• (t) 1.33

  Hos. 14.2.
• (u) 1.34

  Mat. 7.12.
• (x) 1.35

  Phil. 1.27.
• (y) 1.36

  Heb. 13 Psa. 139.1. to 24.
• (z) 1.37

  Mat. 5.16.
• (a) 1.38

  Iob. 1.21 Rom. 8.28.
• (b) 1.39

  Psa 14.8. Psa. 139.3. Pro. 3.24.
• (c) 1.40

  1 Cor. 10.31.
• (d) 1.41

  2 Tim. 3.16. What thing you are chiefly to observe in the word in or after you reading or hearing of it. 2 Tim. 3.16. Phil. 4 8.
• * 1.42

  Pro. 2.2. Psa. 119.11. Isa. 42.23. Iam. 1.22.
• * 1.43

  Mat. 7.24. to 28. Ioh, 13.17.
• (*) 1.44

  Mat. 28.2.
• (e) 1.45

  Rom 1.28
• (f) 1.46

  1 Cor. 2.14.
• (g) 1.47

  1 Cor. 12.7.
• (h) 1.48

  Psa. 147 19.20.
• (i) 1.49

  Mat. 11.25.
• (k) 1.50

  Deut. 5.29. Eze. 36.27.
• (l) 1.51

  Phil. 2.13
• * 1.52

  How and upon what subjects you are some times to me∣ditate.
• (m) 1.53

  Psa. 42 5.11. Psa. 119.97.99 Psa. 104, 34,
• (n) 1.54

  2 Cor. 23.5.
• (o) 1.55

  2 Pet. 17.8.
• (o) 1.56

  Iob. 1.8.
• (p) 1.57

  Phil. 1.23 When and in what ca∣ses you are to go to your Mi∣nister or to some expe∣rienced Christian for resoluti∣on. See the con∣clusion of the expositi∣on of the right ans∣wer in the Catechisme.
• (q) 1.58

  1 Cor 2.12 How you are to pre∣meditate and pray be∣fore your set Meditation upon any subiect.
• * 1.59

  That you are to at∣tend, and how you are to attend fa∣mily duties.
• (r) 1.60

  Act. 10.2.
• (s) 1.61

  Col. 3.2.
• (t) 1.62

  1 Cor. 14.16. See the next Direction a∣bout the manner how you are to sing Psalmes.
• (u) 1.63

  Mar. 11.24
• (x) 1.64

  Matt. 4.7. 1 Cor. 12.12, 13, 14, 25. Phil. 2.4. Heb. 3 13.
• * 1.65

  How you are to premedi∣tate and pray at me al times.
• (y) 1.66

  1 Tim. 4.4, 5. Act 27.35.
• (z) 1.67

  Gen. 32.10.
• (a) 1.68

  Deut. 8.3.
• (b) 1.69

  Psal. 104.27, 28.
• (c) 1.70

  1 Thes 5.18.
• * 1.71

  How you are to carry your self be∣fore, at, and after your hearing of the word.
• (d) 1.72

  Pro. 8.34. Iohn 10.27.
• (e) 1.73

  1 Cor. 3.7, 8.
• * 1.74

  1 Thes. 2.1•• 1 Pet. 2.2. Prov. 2.1, 2. Rom, 10.14, to 18. 1 Pet. 2 19.
• (f) 1.75

  Lev. 10 3.
• (g) 1.76

  Matth 13.19. to 24.
• (h) 1.77

  Col. 4 2.
• (i) 1.78

  Luke 2.4.14, 15. Heb 3.13. Psal, 16.3. Mal. 3.16. Heb 10.25. Iude 20.
• * 1.79

  How you ate to behave your self be∣fore, at, and after your solemn con∣ference with the Saints.
• (k) 1.80

  Eph 1.19.20.
• (l) 1.81

  Luk. 22.32.
• (m) 1.82

  Ps. 107.1. to 43.
• (n) 1.83

  Ex. 17.14. Numb. 33.2. How a Chri∣stians Diur∣nall is to be made.
• (o) 1.84

  Ex. 13.3. Exod. 16.33.
• (p) 1.85

  Act. 2.36, to 42.
• (q) 1.86

  2 Cor. 12.7.
• (r) 1.87

  Ps. 116.1, 2.
• (s) 1.88

  Ps. 30.7.
• (t) 1.89

  Ps. 22.9.10
• (u) 1.90

  2 Cor. 1.10
• (x) 1.91

  2 Tim. 1.16, 17, 18.
• (y) 1.92

  Neh. 9.7, to 38.
• (z) 1.93

  Ps. 19.12, 13. Ps. 51.3, 4.
• (a) 1.94

  1 Cor. 2.12.
• * 1.95

  How and when a Chri∣stians diur∣nall is to be made use of.
• (b) 1.96

  Ps. 77.11.12. Ps. 106.7. to 47. Ps. 107.43.
• (c) 1.97

  Ps. 22.9, 10 2 Cor. 11 24. to 33.
• (d) 1.98

  1 Thes. 5.17. Phil. 4.6.
• * 1.99

  How you are to p••emedi∣tate andd pray upon all oc∣casions.
• (f) 1.100

  Eph. 3.20.
• * 1.101

  Observe these thing about pre∣meditation.
• (g) 1.102

  Eccl. 5.21.
• * 1.103

  When and how you are to make a vow unto God for a∣mendment of life or the like. Eccl. 5.4 5. Deut. 23.22. How you are to pre∣meditate and pray be∣fore you vow a vow unto the Lord.
• * 1.104

  How you are to ob∣serve the ef∣fect of your vowing and what du∣ties you are thereupon to perform
• * 1.105

  Phil. 4.13.
• * 1.106

  How you are to pre∣meditate and pray every eve∣ning.
• (h) 1.107

  Psa. 55.17.
• (i) 1.108

  Eph. 6.18. 1 Tim. 2.1, 2, 3.
• (k) 1.109

  Phil, 4.6.
• (l) 1.110

  Psa. 4.8.
• (m) 1.111

  Ioh. 17. 2 Thes. 4.17.
• (n) 1.112

  Psa. 16.3.
• (o) 1.113

  2 Cre. 15.2. Psa. 34.18. Psa. 145.18. Iam. 4 8. You will be inexcusable if you do not worship God twice every day at least.
• (p) 1.114

  Psa. 55.17 Act. 17.28.
• (q) 1.115

  Mat. 6.11
• (r) 1.116

  Iam. 1 17
• (s) 1.117

  Hab. 1.13