The Pathway to Prayer and Piety, Table of contents
SPECIALL QVESTIONS HANDLED IN CHRISTS PRAYER EXPOVNDED.
1 WHy is it called the Lords prayer. Pag. 2
2 Why Chriſt taught it. Pag. 2. 3
3 Whether there be any vertue in the repetition of the words of this prayer. Pag. 3
4 Whether it bee euer neceſſarie to repeate all thoſe words at all times, and how wee muſt. Pag. 3. 4
5 Whether we pray to the Father only. Pag. 5
6 Whether we may pray to Chriſt. Pag. 8. 9
7 Why we ſay our Father. Pag. 8.9
8 Whether we may ſay my Father. Pag. 8. 9
9 Whether we muſt pray to God only. Pag. 7
10 Why & how God is ſaid to be in heauen. Pag. 10
11 Why we begin with this name of Paternitie and ſay our Father. Pag. 12
12 What it is to Hallow Gods name. Pag. 13
13 Whether bad men may doe that which is good. Pag. 19
14 Queſtions of Gods kingdome. Pag. 19. 20. 21
15 What we muſt iudge of wicked perſons. Pag. 26
16 mhether wee may pray thus, My will bee done. Pag. 26
17 What it is to do Gods wil, & why we pray ſo Pag. 27.
18 Whether it be enough to do Gods will. Pag. 30
19 Whether God cōmāds things impoſsible. Pag. 31
20 What it is that God willeth. Pag. 31
21 Why we pray firſt for things corporall. Pag. 35
22 Whether in the fourth petition we aske foode ſpirituall. Pag. 37
23 Whether rich men may pray for daily bread. Pag. 39
24 Of praying to be rich. Pag. 43
25 Of laying vp for the time to come. Pag. 44
26 How to get riches. Pag. 45
27 Whether one at the houre of death may pray for dayly bread. Pag. 49
28 Of praying only to God for forgiueneſſe of ſinnes. Pag. 54
29 How ſinnes are diſcharged. Pag. 55
30 Whether we muſt cōfeſſe our ſins to men. Pag. 56
31 How we muſt confeſſe them. Pag. 56
32 What is required in confeſsion. Pag. 56
33 Whether we muſt pray for forgiueneſſe of ſinnes, which we do beleeue. Pag. 58
34 Of praying for the wicked. Pag. 59
35 Of praying for ſuch as ſinne againſt the holy Ghoſt. Pag. 59
36 How that ſinne is knowen. Pag. 59
37 How ſinne is a debt. Pag. 60
38 Why we are forgiuen by Chriſt. Pag. 62.
39 Whether God doth both forgiue and puniſh the ſame ſinne. Pag. 63
40 How ſinne is a debt to man. Pag. 66
41 The good of pardoning offences. Pag. 67
42 Whether wee may forgiue, and yet ſue at Law. Pag. 68
43 Rules for going to law. Pag. 68
44 Rules againſt reuenge. Pag. 69
45 Why the godly are led into temptation. Pag. 74
46 Whether we may pray to be led out of temptation. Pag. 76
47 Whether we may ſay, Suffer vsus not to be led into temptation. Pag. 77
48 What temptation is, how taken. Pag. 77. 78
49 How God leadeth into temptation. Pag. 79
50 How Satan leadeth into temptation. Pag. 79
51 Whether God be the author of ſinne. Pag. 80
52 How God tempteth man. Pag. 81
53 Why God doth harden mans heart. Pag. 82
54 How God tempteth by proſperitie. Pag. 83
55 How by our deliuerance from gunpowder, 1605. Pag. 84
56 How by aduerſitie. Pag. 85
57 Of temptation to popiſh religion. Pag. 86
58 Of temptation to forſake the Church. Pag. 87
59 How Satan is reſiſted. Pag. 88
60 In his temptation to couetouſneſſe. Pag. 89
61 To pride. Pag. 90
62 To adultrie. Pag. 91
63 To drunkenneſſe. Pag. 91
64 To enuie. Pag. 92
65 To idleneſſe. Pag. 93
66 To impatience in afflictions. Pag. 94
70 To diſpaire of Gods mercies. Pag. 95
71 To preſumption. Pag. 96
72 How many waies God deliuereth from euill. Pag. 99
73 What we muſt do to be deliuered from euil, and from Satan. Pag. 99. 100
74 Whether we may pray for temptations. Pag. 102
75 Frō whence hauehave Kings their authority. Pag. 107
76 Whether Gods power can be communicated to any creature. Pag. 108
77 How all power is giuen to Chriſt. Pag. 108
78 Of this word, Amen in diuers queſtions. Pag. 112
79 Of many circumſtances in prayer, and alſo of ſet prayer, and of the profitable and lawfull vſe of it. Pag. 117
SPECIALL QVESTIONS in a Communicant inſtructed.
1 OF diuers ſorts of banquets. Pag. 1
2 Of the neceſsitie of comming to the Lords Table. Pag. 2
3 Of properties belonging to a fit gueſt. Pag. 6
4 Of examination. Pag. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7
5 Why knowledge is neceſſarie. Pag. 9
6 Why the moſt are ignorant. Pag. 9
7 VVhat knowledge a Communicant must hauehave Pag. 10
8 Twentie reaſons that the bread is not turned into Christs bodie. Pag. 14
9 VVhether it may be done by a miracle. Pag. 17
10 VVhy the bread is called Christs body. Pag. 17
11 That the bread may not be receiued alone. Pag. 18
12 VVhy Christ vſed bread and wine. Pag. 19
13 VVhat the actions of the Miniſters ſignifie. Pag. 20
14 VVhat the actions of the receiuer ſignifie. Pag. 20
15 VVhy we muſt examine our faith. Pag. 21
16 Signes of faith. Pag. 22
17 Why we muſt examine our repentance. Pag. 23
18 VVhy men muſt, and do not repent. Pag. 25
19 Signes of repentance. Pag. 25
20 VVhy we muſt examine our obedience. Pag. 26
21 Notes of true obedience. Pag. 26
22 Of reconciliation. Pag. 27
23 VVhat we muſt thinke of at the Communion. Pag. 136
24 How we muſt behaue our ſelues when wee come to the Lords Table. Pag. 29
25 Of kneeling at the Communion. Pag. 30
26 VVhat quantitie of bread and wine is fit to be receiued. Pag. 33
27 Of often receiuing. Pag. 33
28 Of priuate receiuing. Pag. 35
29 Of comming faſting to the Communion. Pag. 38
30 VVhat is required after the receiuing of the Lords Supper. Pag. 40
31 Zanchius of the Lords Supper. Pag. 42
SPECIALL QVESTIONS handled in a Chriſtian directed.
1 WHhy we ought to watch. Pag. 65
2 VVhat we muſt do in watching. Pag. 66
3 Of buying out the time. Pag. 67
4 How we muſt watch ouer our thoughts. Pag. 68
5 How ouer our words. Pag. 70
6 How ouer our actions towards God. Pag. 71
7 How ouer our actions towards our ſelues. Pag. 73
8 How ouer our actions towards others. Pag. 74
9 Of what behauiour we muſt be. Pag. 76
10 Of apparell. Pag. 77
11 Of diet. Pag. 78
12 Of recreation. Pag. 79
13 Of getting riches. Pag. 80
14 Of ſpending and frugalitie. Pag. 80. 81
15 Of ſanctifying the Sabbath. Pag. 85
16 Of chuſing a fit wife, or a fit huſband. Pag. 86
17 The duties of the husband. Pag. 87
18 Of the wife. Pag. 88
19 Of parents, naturall, and legall. Pag. 89. 90
20 Of children, naturall, and legall. Pag. 91. 92
21 Of maſters. Pag. 94
22 Of ſeruants. Pag. 95
23 Of Magiſtrates and ſubiects. Pag. 97
24 Of the Miniſters dutie. Pag. 99
25 Of the peoples dutie to their Miniſters. Pag. 100
Of hearing Sermons.
26 VVhat we must do before we heare. Pag. 101
27 VVhat in hearing. Pag. 102
28 VVhat after hearing. Pag. 103
29 How to know a good Sermon. Pag. 104
30 VVhy many do ſleepe at Sermons. Pag. 105
31 Remedies againſt it. Pag. 107
32 How hearing is better then reading. Pag. 107
33 Whether all are bounden to heare. Pag. 108
34 VVhy wee ſhould not take Gods name in vaine. Pag. 109
SPESIALL QVESTIONS in the Direction to die well.
1 WHat we muſt euer thinke on. Pag. 111
2 VVhy on death. Pag. 112.
3 That the Art of dying well, is the Art of Arts. Pag. 113
4 VVhy few thinke of it. Pag. 113
5 How we ought to number our daies. Pag. 114
6 That it is folly not to thinke of death. Pag. 115
7 That our life is miſerable. Pag. 115
8 How the houre of death is better then the houre of life. Pag. 116
9 Whether we may deſire death. Pag. 117
10 What death is. Pag. 118
11 Whether Adam, if he had continued in his innocencie, ſhould hauehave died. Pag. 119
12 That wee are better in Chriſt then in Adam. Pag. 119
13 Three monitors of death. Pag. 120
14 How we may die well. Pag. 120
15 VVhen we muſt begin to ſerue God. Pag. 120
16 Of deferring repentance. Pag. 121
17 Of the death of the wicked. Pag. 122
18 Of the death of the godly. Pag. 122
19 Of vnwillingneſſe to die. Pag. 128
20 How many wayes may a man carrie himhimſelfe in death. Pag. 131
21 VVhat we muſt do when we are ſicke. Pag. 134
22 VVhy we muſt ſet our ſoule in order. Pag. 134
23 VVhen and why we muſt ſend for the Miniſter. Pag. 135
24 VVhy we muſt take phyſicke. Pag. 136
25 How we muſt take it. Pag. 136
26 VVhether wee may vſe ſuperſtitious, and vngodly Phyſitians. Pag. 137
27 VVhy the Phyſitian for the ſoule muſt bee firſt ſent for. Pag. 138
28 VVhat we muſt doe when the Miniſter commeth. Pag. 139
29 What the Miniſter muſt do to vsus. Pag. 140
30 Whether being ſicke of the plague, wee may ſend for the Miniſter. Pag. 140
31 Of them that dreame of a particular faith. Pag. 143
32 Againſt them that abuſe Gods prouidence. Pag. 143
33 The obiection, that many eſcape, anſwered. Pag. 144
34 Who may viſit perſons infected. Pag. 145
35 Comforts againſt the peſtilence. Pag. 145
36 Obiect. that friends forſake, anſwered. Pag. 146
37 Obiect. that want ſolemne buriall, anſwered. Pag. 147
38 Of our reconciliation to man in ſickneſſe. Pag. 147
39 VVhy we ought to hauehave a will in readines. Pag. 148
40 How we ought to make our will. Pag. 149
41 Whom we may make our executors. Pag. 149
42 Who is our beſt friend in our ſickneſſe. Pag. 150
43 What ſpeeches we muſt vſe to our friends that viſit vsus. Pag. 151
44 Comforts againſt the feare of death. Pag. 151
45 Comforts againſt the feare of Gods anger. Pag. 157
46 Comforts againſt the feare of desperation. Pag. 159
47 Comforts againſt the feare of Satan. Pag. 162
48 Comforts againſt the commiſsion of ſinne. Pag. 164
49 Comforts againſt the greatneſſe of our ſinnes. Pag. 167
50 Comforts againſt the multitude of ſinnes. Pag. 169
51 Comforts againſt our imperfect obedience. Pag. 171
52 What thoughts wee muſt hauehave at the houre of death. Pag. 175
53 Of ſpeech at that time. Pag. 176
54 Of ſudden death. Pag. 180
55 Whether we may pray againſt it. Pag. 183
56 Why wee muſt take thought for our bury all. Pag. 184
57 Of the place of buryall. Pag. 186
58 Of keeping cleane Church-yards. Pag. 187
58 Of Monuments. Pag. 187
60 Of mourning. Pag. 189
61 Of mourning apparell. Pag. 191
62 Of Funerall Sermons. Pag. 192
63 That Christs death is often to be thought on. Pag. 194
64 What his paſsion is. Pag. 195
65 What moued Chriſt to ſuffer. Pag. 196
66 When his ſuffering beganne. Pag. 196
67 What hee ſuffered before his apprehenſion. Pag. 197
68 Why was his ſoule troubled. Pag. 197
69 What it was that crucified Chriſt. Pag. 200
70 Why he was crucified at Eaſter. Pag. 201
71 Why he died on the Croſſe. Pag. 202
72 Who hauehave profit by Chriſts death. Pag. 203
73 How it is meritorious. Pag. 204
74 A meditation of Chriſts death. Pag. 205
75 Whether we muſt follow Chriſt in his Croſſe. Pag. 208
76 Of the vertue of Chriſts reſurrection. Pag. 209
77 Of the deceitfulneſſe of the world. Pag. 212
78 Of eternall glorie. Pag. 215
79 What we ſhall enioy in heauen. Pag. 216
80 How we ſhall come vntounto heauen. Pag. 217
81 VVhat the obiect of life eternall is. Pag. 217
82 For whom it is prepared. Pag. 218
83 That our bodies ſhall riſe. Pag. 219
84 The qualities of our bodies after the reſurrection. Pag. 223
85 How our bodies ſhall be ſpirituall. Pag. 224
86 VVhether they ſhall bee perfect without the leaſt imperfection. Pag. 224
87 The qualities of the ſoule after death. Pag. 225
88 Sweet meditations of the Fathers concerning the ioyes of heauen. Pag. 226
89 Of the torments of hell. Pag. 231
A conſolatorie Epiſtle againſt all croſſes. Pag. 239
An heauenly meditation in Ʋerſe. Pag. 249
A prayer for morning or euening. Pag. 251
A morning prayer. Pag. 266
An euening prayer. Pag. 277
A prayer to bee ſaid alone, or with companie, changing I, into we. Pag. 289
A thanks-giuing for our Gunne-powder deliuerance. Pag. 335
A prayer for a ſick man. Pag. 298
A thanks-giuing after deliuerance from ſickneſſe Pag. 307
A prayer to be ſaid by a ſick man. Pag. 313
A thanks-giuing after the death of any. Pag. 319
A prayer for a woman in trauaile. Pag. 323
A thanks-giuing after her ſafe deliuerance. Pag. 326
A prayer before the Communion. Pag. 329
A thanks-giuing after. Pag. 332
Graces. Pag. 341
FINIS.