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Table of Contents
- Title Page
- BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES.
- TO THE DEVOUT READER.
- THE PRACTICE OF PIETY; DIRECTING A CHRISTIAN HOW TO WALK THAT HE MAY PLEASE GOD.
- A PLAIN DESCRIPTION OF THE ESSENCE AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD, OUT OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE, SO FAR AS EVERY CHRISTIAN MUST COMPETENTLY KNOW, AND NECESSARILY BELIEVE, THAT WILL BE SAVES.
- MEDITATIONS OF THE MISERY OF A MAN NOT RECONCILED TO GOD IN CHRIST.
- MEDITATIONS OF THE STATE OF A CHRISTIAN RECONCILED TO GOD IN CHRIST,
- 2. Meditations of the blessed state of a Regenerate Man in his Death.
- 3. Meditations of the blessed state of the Regenerate Man after Death.
- Meditations of the blessed state of a Regenerate Man in Heaven.
- 3. Of the Prerogatives which the Elect shall enjoy in Heaven.
- 4. Of the Effects of those Prerogatives.
- Meditations directing a Christian how to apply to himself, without delay, the foresaid knowledge of God and himself.
- MEDITATIONS ON THE HINDRANCES WHICH KEEP BACK A SINNER FROM THE PRACTICE OF PIETY.
- HOW A PRIVATE MAN MUST BEGIN THE MORNING WITH PIETY.
- Meditations for the Morning.
- BRIEF DIRECTIONS HOW TO READ THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ONCE EVERY YEAR OVER, WITH EASE, PROFIT, AND REVERENCE.
- A Prayer for the Morning.
- Meditations to stir us up to Morning Prayer.
- Another short Morning Prayer.
- Farther Meditations to stir up to Prayer in the Morning.
- A brief Prayer for the Morning.
- MEDITATIONS DIRECTING A CHRISTIAN HOW HE MAY WALK ALL THE DAY WITH GOD, LIKE ENOCH.
- First, For thy Thoughts.
- Secondly, for thy Words.
- Thirdly, for thy Actions.
- MEDITATIONS FOR THE EVENING.
- A Prayer for the Evening.
- Another shorter Evening Prayer.
- MEDITATIONS FOR HOUSEHOLD PIETY.
- Morning Prayer for a Family.
- THE PRACTICE OF PIETY AT MEALS, AND THE MANNER OF EATING.
- Meditations before Dinner and Supper.
- Grace before Meat.
- The Practice of Piety at Evening.
- Rules to be observed in Singing of Psalms.
- Evening Prayer for a Family.
- MEDITATIONS OF THE TRUE MANNER OF PRACTISING PIETY ON THE SABBATH-DAY.
- Ten Reasons demonstrating the Commandment of the Sabbath to be moral.
- THE TRUE MANNER OF KEEPING HOLY THE LORD'S DAY.
- A Morning Prayer for the Sabbath-day.
- Things to be meditated on as thou goest to the Church.
- A private Evening Prayer for the Lord's day.
- OF THE PRACTICE OF PIETY IN FASTING.
- I. Of a Private Fast.
- II. Of the Public Fast.
- OF THE PRACTICE OF PIETY IN HOLY FEASTING.
- I. Of Preparation.
- III. Of the Duties which we are to perform after receiving the holy Communion, called Action or Practice.
- THE PRACTICE OF PIETY IN GLORIFYING GOD IN THE TIME OF SICKNESS, AND WHEN THOU ART CALLED TO DIE IN THE LORD.
- A Prayer when one begins to be sick.
- A Prayer before taking of Medicine.
- MEDITATIONS FOR THE SICK.
- MEDITATIONS FOR ONE THAT IS LIKE TO DIE.
- A Prayer for a sick Man, when he is told that he is not a man for this world, but must prepare himself to go unto God.
- Meditations against Despair, or doubting of God's Mercy.
- An Admonition to them who come to visit the Sick.
- A Prayer to be said for the Sick by them who visit him.
- CONSOLATIONS AGAINST IMPATIENCE IN SICKNESS.
- CONSOLATIONS AGAINST THE FEAR OF DEATH.
- SEVEN SANCTIFIED THOUGHTS AND MOURNFUL SIGHS OF A SICK MAN READY TO DIE.
- The sick Person ought now to send for some godly and religious Pastor.
- Now follows the Practice of Piety in dying for the Lord.
- A Divine Colloquy between the Soul and her Saviour upon the effectual Merits of his dolorous Passion.