In our duty to our Neighbour. 74. The duty of a friend, and of HE duty of princes. 54. The duty of civil magiftrates both to king and people. 55. In what manner the civil magiftrate is to be punished. partaking of other men's fins. 75. Of the qualifications requisite in friendship. 76. Of the choice of company, and its importance to youth. 77. The duty of fervants, fhewing that fervitude is of God's appointment for the public good. 78. The advantages of fervitude. There is no fuch diftinction in heaven. 56. Of the chriftian priesthood, and 57. Why it was ordained. 59. What is required of thofe that enter into holy orders. 60. Of the fuperior education of the clergy. 61. Of the behaviour due to those that fet a bad example. 62. The reafons of the contempt of the clergy. 63. The advantage of doing our duty to the minifters of God's word and facraments. 64. Of the king's fupremacy in ecclefiaftical affairs, and power to punish evil ministers. 65. The king cannot invade the prieft's office, 66. The duty of children in regard to quarrels or contention between their parents. 67. When they may go to law with a parent; and in what manner. 68. The duty of parents in regard to the portioning their children. 69. Whether they may difinherit their children; and in what cafes. 70. The duty of a wife in regard to drefs. 71. How fhe may fecure her hufband's affections. 72. How to behave to an adulterous husband; and how to reclaim him, 73. The advantage of her meekness to herself. 80. Of duelling. $1. Of murder that may be committed in word and thought. 82. The cafe of Abraham offering his fon Ifaac, not to be imitated. 83. In what cafe killing is not murder. 84. Of felf-murder by melancholy perfons, and by condemned prifoners. 85. Self-murder is infamous, and to be abhorred. 98. Who is an unmerciful creditor. 99. We are not to be charitable by unjuft gain, nor to the prejudice of our creditors. In our duty to Ourselves. 100. Othoughts. F the government of our 101. In what their liberty and morality confift. 102. The various methods of governing them. 103. Of felf-conceit, its bad confequences, and how it may be curbed. 104. Of paffionate people. 105. Of idleness. 106. It is the fountain of poverty. 107. It is the root of all evil. 108. It is dangerous to fervants, and to tradefmen in particular. 109. It is the parent of enthusiasm. 110. It is the bane of religion and fociety. 111. Of the bleffings of industry. 112. How far the devil has a power to tempt man, 124. Of innocent appetites, and their great advantage. 125. Of good and bad zeal. 126. Of chriftian zeal, how to be practifed, and when it is abused. 127. Of the certainty and uncertainty of death. 128. It is advantageous to man, and a token of God's wifdom and goodness. 129. What influence a meditation on death fhould have upon us. 130. How to number our days. 131. Of repentance before death. 132. Of habitual preparation for death. 133. Of the beft preparation for it. 134. How this preparation is hindered. 135. Ofa juft difpofal of our worldly affairs. 136. Of a difregard of the world; of patience in fickness; and of fubmiffion to the will of God. 137. Of the advice and affiftance of a minister. 138. In what the death of the righteous confifts. 113. How to guard against tempta-139. Of the fhortnefs of human life. tion. 114. Of drinking fpirituous liquors. 115. How they are deftructive to our nature. 116. Offpending our time. 117. Of refreshments and recreati ons. 118. Of chearfulness and melancholy. 140. In what the life of man confifts. 141. Of the advantage of piety. 142. Of the difadvantages of a long life. 143. Of a middle state. 144. Of the danger and folly of mif-spent life. 145 Directions for a holy life. 119. Of the danger and finfulness of 146. Why death is so dreadful to huexcefs in apparel. man nature. 120. Of chriftian fortitude and pa-147. How the fear of death may be tience. removed. 148. Why men defire to live long. 149. Of the height of chriftian per fection. 150. Its comfort to the foul of a dys ing perfon. ITANT Whofo eateth my Fleth, and drinketh my Blood,hath eternal Life, and I will raise him up at the last Day. Engraved and Printed only for J.Hinton, according to An Act of Parliament. The NEW Week's Preparation For a Worthy receiving of the Loyd's Supper. As CHURCH of ENGLAND; Part the Second: Confifting of MEDITATIONS, PRAYERS, and HYMNS finitable for the Sunday Evening on Sacrament Day, and for the Morning and Evening of every Day in that Week. WITH A FORM of Daily SELF-EXAMINATION. AND In the Course of thefe MEDITATIONS, thofe Doubts and Scruples which are apt to disturb and render the Minds of devout Communicants Uneajy, are clearly itated and finally removed. LONDON: Printed for JOHN HINTON in |