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Helps to increase our Love to God, by way of Exercise.. 190

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Rules for Hearing or Reading the Word of God........

Concerning spiritual Books and ordinary Sermons, take

in these Advices also

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Of keeping Festivals and Days holy to the Lord: particu-

larly, the Lord's Day..

Rules for keeping the Lord's Day and other Christian

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Signs of tediousness of Spirit in our Prayers and all Ac-

tions of Religion....

Remedies against Tediousness of Spirit

Works of Mercy, or the several kinds of corporal Alms.. 231

Remedies against Unmercifulness and Uncharitableness.. 241

1. Against Envy, by way of Consideration

2. Remedies against Anger by way of Exercise..

Remedies against Anger, by way of Consideration.... 246

3. Remedies against Covetousness, the third Enemy of

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Of Preparation to, and the manner how to receive the holy

Sacrament of the Lord's Supper

The Effects and Benefits of worthy Communicating..... 273

Prayers for all Sorts of Men and all Necessities; relating

to the several Parts of the Virtue of Religion...

A Prayer for the Graces of Faith, Hope, Charity

Acts of Love by way of Prayer and Ejaculation; to be

used in private...

A Prayer to be said in any Affliction, as Death of Chil-

dren, of Husband or Wife, in great Poverty, in Im-

prisonment, in a Sad and Disconsolate Spirit, and in

Temptations to Despair....

Ejaculations and short Meditations to be used in Time of

Sickness and Sorrow, or danger of Death......

An Act of Faith concerning the Resurrection and the Day

of Judgment, to be said by Sick Persons or meditated.. 280

Short Prayers to be said by Sick Persons

Acts of Hope to be used by Sick Persons after a pious

A Prayer to be said in behalf of a Sick or Dying Person ib.

A Prayer to be said in a Storm at Sea....

A Form of a Vow in the Time of Danger..

A Form of a Prayer to be used for a Blessing on an En-

A Prayer before a Journey

AD SECTION IV.] A Prayer to be said before the Hearing

or Reading the Word of God..

AD SECTION V. IX. X.] A Form of Confession of Sins and

Repentance, to be used upon Fasting-days, or Days of

Humiliation; especially in Lent, and before the holy

AD SECTION VI.] Special Devotions to be used upon the

Lord's Day, and the great Festivals of Christians

A short Form of Thanksgiving to be said upon any spe-

cial Deliverance, as from Child- birth, from Sickness,

from battle, or imminent Danger at Sea or Land, &c... 298

A Prayer of Thanksgiving after the receiving of some great

Blessing, as the Birth of an Heir, the Success of an ho-

nest Design, a Victory, a good Harvest, &c.

A Prayer to be said on the Feast of Christmas, or the

Birth of our blessed Saviour Jesus; the same also may

be said upon the Feast of the Annunciation and Purifi-

cation of the blessed Virgin Mary..

A Prayer to be said upon our Birth-day, or Day of Bap-

A Prayer to be said upon the Days of the Memory of

Apostles, Martyrs, &c.

A Form of Prayer recording all the Parts and Mysteries

of Christ's Passion, being a short History of it: to be

used especially in the Week of the Passion, and before

the receiving of the blessed Sacrament..

AD SECTION VII. VIII.] A Form of Prayer or Interces-

sion for all Estates of People in the Christian Church.

The Parts of which may be added to any other Forms:

and the whole Office entirely as it lies is proper to be

said in our Preparation to the holy Sacrament, or on the

Day of Celebration

1. For ourselves....

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2. For the whole Catholic Church......

3. For all Christian Kings, Princes, and Governors......

4. For all the Orders of them that minister about holy

5. For our nearest Relatives, as Husband, Wife, Children,

6. For our Parents, our Kindred in the Flesh, our Friends

and Benefactors

7. For all that lie under the Rod of War, Famine, Pesti-

lence to be said in the time of Plague, or War, &c. ib.

8. For all Women with Child, and for Unborn Children.. 313

9. For all Estates of Men and Women in the Christian

AD SECTION X.] The Manner of using these Devotions

by way of Preparation to the receiving the blessed Sacra-

ment of the Lord's Supper.

A Prayer of Preparation or Address to the holy Sacra-

An Act of Love....

An Act of Desire

An Act of Contrition

An Act of Faith

Ejaculations to be said before, or at the receiving the

holy Sacrament..

Ejaculations to be used any Time that Day, after the

Solemnity is ended....

For the Contents of the RULE and EXERCISES OF HOLY

DYING, see the detailed Table prefixed to that division of the

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

AND TRULY NOBLE

RICHARD, LORD VAUGHAN,

EARL OF CARBERY,

KNIGHT OF THE HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH.

MY LORD,

I HAVE lived to see religion painted upon banners, and thrust out of churches, and the temple turned into a tabernacle, and that tabernacle made ambulatory, and covered with skins of beasts and torn curtains, and God to be worshipped not as he is the Father of our Lord Jesus, (an afflicted Prince, the King of sufferings) nor as the God of peace (which two appellatives God newly took upon him in the New Testament, and glories in for ever:) but he is owned now rather as the Lord of Hosts, which title he was pleased to lay aside when the kingdom of the Gospel was preached by the Prince of peace. But when religion puts on armour, and God is not acknowledged by his New-Testament titles, religion may have in it the power of the sword, but not the power of godliness; and we may complain of this to God, and amongst them that are afflicted, but we have no remedy, but what we must expect from the fellowship of Christ's sufferings, and the returns of the God of peace. In the mean time, and now

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