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diff --git a/62017-0.txt b/62017-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e64644f --- /dev/null +++ b/62017-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,699 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Religious Tract, recommending a Christian's +Duty, by Rev. Joseph Phillimore + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most +other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions +whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of +the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at +www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have +to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. + + + + +Title: A Religious Tract, recommending a Christian's Duty + + +Author: Rev. Joseph Phillimore + + + +Release Date: May 3, 2020 [eBook #62017] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A RELIGIOUS TRACT, RECOMMENDING A +CHRISTIAN'S DUTY*** + + +Transcribed from the 1814 Flanders and Co. Many thanks to Kensington and +Chelsea Local Studies for finding this in their archives, and allowing it +to be transcribed. + + [Picture: Cover of pamphlet] + + + + + + A + Religious Tract, + + + RECOMMENDING + + A CHRISTIAN’S DUTY + + MOST RESPECTFULLY, + + To the Parishioners + + OF + + ORTON ON THE HILL & TWYCROSS, + + IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER. + + * * * * * + + BY THE REV. JOSEPH PHILLIMORE, + VICAR OF ORTON ON THE HILL. + + * * * * * + + * * * * * + + _ATHERSTONE_: + PRINTED BY FLANDERS AND CO. + + 1814. + + + + +Religious Tract, &c. + + +NOTHING can be of more moment to you, than living virtuously on earth, as +the salvation of your souls in future is one of the objects nearest my +heart. + +May you practise this friendly admonition contained herein, being assured +I wish no harm or evil to any part of the human race, but for the love of +my Redeemer, and the certain hopes of mankind zealous in faith and good +works being rewarded with perpetual bliss, which the wicked and the +negligent in pure religion will not inherit, unless they be reclaimed, +and walk in newness of life, like the good and faithful which will +produce repentance, and forgiveness from past sins, is the only object of +my addressing this small tract of religion for your future private and +public conduct. + +It is almost ten years since my late most invaluable friend, John +Randolph, late bishop of London, Bangor, and Oxford, in the year 1804, +conferred on me an everlasting monument of friendship (which had existed +unshaken more than thirty years), in presenting me to the living of Orton +on the Hill; and with tributes of gratitude I daily looked upon it my +bounden duty to have prayed for him during his life, and for the benefit +of his surviving widow and family, for their present and future +happiness; knowing you cannot be displeased at my imitating such a great +example of Christianity, to invite you to pursue the blessed steps of a +merciful Redeemer, who came into the world to save miserable lost +sinners. + +It was my first inquiry to know your characters and circumstances +individually, and having minutely watched and observed your actions, +though not extreme to mark what has been done amiss, I will allow there +has been great improvement in general in religious exercises since my +first appearance among you. Some exceptions there are, and I am fearful +ever will be; there being scarce any flock without some wandering sheep; +yet happy should I be, if both my parishes were more exemplary in +temperance, integrity, religion, and chastity, than any others in the +diocese of Lincoln; but remember, those who have been exceptions, I have +gently warned them of their errors and manner of life, privately at home, +as well as in the church, to turn from their evil ways, and live; for why +should the obstinate sinner practise bad habits, which will ruin both +body and soul, instead of being forgiven by a merciful God, on hearty +sorrow and repentance? + +In the first place, I shall recommend private prayers, morning and +evening, to you in your respective dwellings, that God may bless your +industrious, honest endeavours, in this life with prosperity, and +patiently to bear adversity. + +In the morning, the first thing you think on, think on your God that made +you, and his Son Jesus Christ, who redeemed the whole world from sin, and +upon your bended knees offer up these two following prayers, and when +finished, rise up and say your belief; and ye that are parents, teach +them your children before you go to your daily labour. + + + +_Let_ (_me_ or _us_) _pray_. + + +OUR Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name: Thy kingdom come: +Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily +bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass +against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; +for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. +Amen. + + * * * * * + +O Lord, our heavenly Father, almighty and everlasting God, who hast +safely brought (_us_ or _me_) to the beginning of this day; defend (_us_ +or _me_) in the same with thy mighty power; and grant that this day (_I_ +or _we_) fall into no sin; neither run into any kind of danger; but that +all (_my_ or _our_) doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always +that is righteous in thy sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. + + + +_Stand up to repeat your Belief_. + + +I believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth; and in +Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, +born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, +dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again +from the dead, he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of +God the Father almighty: from thence he shall come to judge the quick and +the dead. + +I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy Catholic church; the communion of +saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body, and the +life everlasting. Amen. + + + +_Evening Prayers before going to bed_. + + +OUR Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name: Thy kingdom come: +Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily +bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass +against us: and lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil; +for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. +Amen. + + * * * * * + +ALMIGHTY God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from +whom no secrets are hid; cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the +inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and +worthily magnify thy holy name, through Christ our Lord. Amen. + + * * * * * + +LIGHTEN our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy +defend us from all perils and dangers of this night, for the love of thy +only Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen. + + * * * * * + +After this private domestic duty to Almighty God, morning and evening, I +should hope with such preparations, no one will be deficient in public +duty every revolving Sabbath in God’s holy church, to enable him to +become as perfect a Christian as possible on earth; for private prayer is +only one part of a Christian’s duty; to which must be added, public +devotion, praise, gratitude, and thanksgiving, for daily benefits +received from Almighty God, on the sacred Sabbath. Private prayer +without public devotion is imperfect, like faith without works of +charity, benevolence, and Christian love will not complete the true +disciple of our Lord, like unto St. John; but an union of faith and good +works daily practised will plead for mercy, and a resurrection from the +dead to endless happiness. + +Our excellent church requires three necessary offices to be observed, +besides public worship, as preparatory to our Saviour’s interference for +miserable sinners:—Baptism, Confirmation, receiving the holy Sacrament +frequently, particularly on the sacred days which have a preface +appointed to be read in the communion service, which are on the nativity +of Christ, or Christmas-day, Easter-day, Whit-Sunday, Ascension-day, +Trinity-Sunday. + +Our blessed Saviour was born in a manger, on Christmas-day, to teach +mankind humility; suffered death on the cross, on Good Friday, to teach +patience and resignation in affliction, troubles, and death; rose again +the third day from the dead on Easter Sunday, convincing all the world he +had conquered sin and wickedness. + +On Ascension-day, after his most glorious resurrection from the dead, he +manifestly appeared to his Apostles; and in their sight, he ascended up +into Heaven to prepare a place for faithful Christians. + +On Whitsunday, he sent down his Holy Spirit, like a dove, upon the +Apostles, teaching the way, the truth, and the light of the Gospel. + +Trinity Sunday is observed as a total union of Father, Son, and Holy +Ghost, in heaven. + +It is my eager wish, for the great benefit of both parishes, as an +encouragement to religion, and the regular practice of it, that a Bible, +the Common Prayer Book, the Whole Duty of Man, was in every house. The +opulent part of the parishes, I have every reason to believe, have some +of these books, Bible, Common Prayer, (perhaps not the book called the +Whole Duty of Man), but I earnestly entreat them to buy it. Seven or +eight shillings will. It contains the whole duly of a Christian: it is +divided and subdivided into several Sundays, and an excellent substitute +for sermons; for if religious discourses are not written by orthodox +divines educated at either of our Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, +and well chosen for unlearned people to read, they sometimes urge the +ignorant, for want of such superior education, to dive into mysteries +which they cannot unfold, and increase the number of dissenters, many of +whom presume to be teachers, by law authority, though without divine +authority, and add greatly to the number of fanatics, by which means the +blind lead the blind, though perhaps without any original intention of +mischief. + +Our blessed Redeemer was no respecter of persons; he came to save the +poor as well as the rich, both to be inheritors of the kingdom of heaven; +and it is becoming the poor should practise religion, and join in the +service on the sacred Sabbath; for which reason, it was my wish a Sunday +School might be established in both parishes, which has been done, one of +some years, from which great benefit has ensued; the other is in its +infancy, but I hope it will flourish, and be as effectual to stop vice as +the other; for the beginning of all evil in general proceeds from neglect +of early duty on the sacred Sabbath; but the future advantages of this +institution must be considered, as well as the present; for after the +children have learnt to read, and having no books, their parents being +unable to purchase any, what will be the consequence? An oblivion of all +their once acquired Christian duty? If some remedy is not prescribed, +which I humbly recommend to all my wealthy parishioners to enter into, +that the word of God may never be forgotten from infancy to old age, but +cherished and nourished till the hour of death, as the most inestimable +treasure, meriting the greatest future reward, and will never be +forgotten by the almighty Disposer of all human events, when the humane +and charitable will appear before him. + +I recommend a Bible in every poor man’s house, but this may be too +expensive; but the one I shall offer will not; as I am a Member of the +Society in London for propagating Christian Knowledge, I shall have an +opportunity of purchasing the books at a reasonable rate; so as every +poor man’s house may have a Testament, Common Prayer, as I have the great +satisfaction to assure my parishioners (of Orton), if the parents cannot +read, the children can; by which means, whoever comes to church, may +bring a prayer book, and join in the service, and the testament read at +home. + +I beseech you to listen to my entreaties for a subscription for the +benefit of religion, and shew your permanent gratitude to the Almighty +for his bountiful harvest; and likewise for the many great victories +gained by our armies and our allies, in foreign countries, compelling the +insulting tyrant disgracefully to retreat with irreparable loss to his +own country. But think, my parishioners, how this our native country, +and united dominions, should excel all others in Europe in religion and +gratitude, and give every token of present and future praise to the God +of all mercies, who has so favourably defended us with his shield and +buckler, never to have permitted the enemy’s sword to be drawn in our +land during the contest of 20 years. + +Think on the thousands and thousands of innocent men, women, and +children, who have fallen sacrifices, and our country has enjoyed inward +tranquillity, peace, domestic and public. + +There are thirty poor houses, for which I solicit from the farmers, as a +token of gratitude, subscriptions which will enable me to fulfil my most +eager desire for every family in the parish among the poor, to have a +Testament and Common Prayer, by which means they will learn their duty to +God and their neighbour. + +The day is hastening (O my parishioners) when I shall meet you face to +face, and our mutual examination will pass before a merciful and +impartial Saviour and judge, to give an account of all our actions; when +hypocrisy, intemperance, breaking the Sabbath and God’s holy +commandments, will receive their punishment, and virtue, religion, and +charity, their rewards; for I have done my duty as a faithful shepherd, +as far as my frail abilities have enabled me, to reclaim the wicked, and +exhort the good, having clothed the naked, fed the hungry, visited the +sick, and preached the blessed gospel of salvation to every one of you +who have observed the sacred sabbath. When you have shut your pew doors, +recollect, as many as possible, these verses of the Psalm xix. v. 14, 15. +“Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be always +acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.” + +When the sermon is finished, before you go out of church, Psalm cxxxix. +v. 23, 24. “Try me, O God, and search the ground of my heart, prove me, +and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any wickedness in me, and +lead me in the way everlasting.” + +I remain, + + Worthy parishioners, + + Your constant well-wisher in things + temporal and eternal, + + JOSEPH PHILLIMORE. + _Vicar of Orton_. + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A RELIGIOUS TRACT, RECOMMENDING A +CHRISTIAN'S DUTY*** + + +******* This file should be named 62017-0.txt or 62017-0.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/6/2/0/1/62017 + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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