5. How to begin the morning with pious Meditations Another shorter Prayer for the Morning. 8. Meditations how to walk with God all the day. 125 ibid. 12. Meditations for a godly Housholder. 13. A Morning Prayer for a Family. 14 Holy Meditations and Grates, before and after 15. Rules to be obferved in finging of Pfalms. 163 6. An Evening Prayer for a Family. 17. A Religious Difcourfe of the Sabbath day, where- in is proved that the Sabbath was altered from the Seventh to the First day of the Week, not by Humane Ordinance, but by Chrift himself and his Apostles That the Fourth Commandment is perpetual and moral under. the New Testament, as well as under the Old: And the 18. A Morning Prayer for the Sabbath Day. 9. An Evening Prayer for the Sabbath Day. 214 20. Meditations of the true manner of Fafting, and 20. Holy and devour Meditations of the worthy and reverent receiving of the Lords Supper. 23. An humble confeffion of fms before the holy Cam- 24. Afweet Soliloquy to be faid a little before the receiving of the holy Sacrament. 125. A Prayer to be faid after the receiving of the ho- 26. Meditations bow to behave thy felf in the time of 27. A Prayer when one begins to be fick 28. Directions for making thy Will, and fetting thy 32. Meditations for one that is like to die. 33. A Prayer to be faid of one that is like to die. 297 34. Comfortable Meditations against Despair. 300 85. Directions for those who come to vifit the fick 36. A Prayer to be said for the fick. And choice Scriptures to be read unto him. 37. Confolation against impatiency in sickness. 315 38. Confolation against the fear of Death. 39. Seven fanctified Thoughts, and so many spiritu- al Sighs, fit for a fick man that is like to die. 40. Of the comfortable use of true Absolution, and receiving of the Lords Supper to the Faithful and Peni- that those who die for Popery, cannot be Christs Martyrs. 43. A Divine Colloquy betwixt Chrift and the Soul, concerning the vertue and efficacy of his dolorous Paffion. THE PRACTICE OF PIETY, Directing a CHRISTIAN how to walk, that he may please GOD. 7 Ho ever thou art that lookeft into this Book, never undertake to read it; unless thou firft refolveft to become from thy heart an unfained Practitioner of Piety. Yet read it, and that Speedily, left before thou haft read it over, God (by some unexpected death) cut thèe off, for thine inveterate Impiety. ii. The . In knowing The Practice of Piety consists 2.Inglorifying God aright. Father. f1.The divers manner of 1. 1. Abfo-S1. Simpleness. 2. The Attributes in re thereof, Spect of which are Real, 2. Relative, 2. Infinitenefs. 1. Life. 2. Understanding. 3. Will. 4. Power. B I 5. Majefty. 2. Thy own felf in refpect of thy ftate of $1. Corruption. 22. Renovation, 1. Privately in thine own perfon. 2. Pub 1. With thy family every day. 1. By thy lickly 2 Sabbath day. Extraordinarily, by Feafting. 2. By thy death in dying. In the Lord. 2. For the Lord. Unless that a man doth truly know God, he neither can nor will worship him aright: for how can a man love him whom he knoweth not? and who will worship him, whofe help a man thinks he needeth not? and how fhall a man feek remedy by Grace, who never underftood his mifery by Nature? Therefore (faith the Apoftle) He that cometh to God, must believe that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that feek him, Heb. 11. 6. Tum Deum amare libet, cum perfuafum habemus ipfum effe optimum maximum, ubique præfentem, omnia in nobis efficientem, eum in quo vivimus, movemus, Jumus, Bucer in Pfalo 115. 3 And forafmuch as there can be no true Piety, without the knowledge of God; nor any good Practice without the knowledge of a mans own felf: we will therefore lay down the knowledge of Gods Majesty, and Mans Mifery, as the firft and chiefeft grounds of the Practice of Picty. Deum norimus, quotquot fœlices Danda in primis opera eft, ut effe volumus. Quid nofcis, fe ipfum nefcй? 2 A plain Defcription of the Effence and Attributes of God, out of the Holy Scripture, fo far forth as every Chriftian must competently know, and neceffarily believe, that will be saved. Although no creature can define what God is, be caufe is incomprehenfible, Pfal. 143. 3. and dwelling in inacceffible light, 1 Tim. 6. 16. yet it hath pleafed his Majesty to reveal himself in his Word unto us, fo far as our weak capacity can best conceive him. Thus : B с God is that one Spiritual and infinitely perfect Effence, whofe being is of himself eternally. d Deut. 3.4. and 4.35. and 32: 39. and 6. 4. Ifa. 45. 5, 6, 7, 8. 1 Cor. 8. 4. Ephef. 4, 5, 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. b John 4.24. 2 Cor. 3. 17. 1 Kings 8. 17. Pfal. 147. 5. d Deut. 32. 4. e Exod. 3. 14. f 1 Cor. 8. 6. Aûts 17. 2,. Rom. II. 36. In |