Plain Practical Sermons

"An enimie to idlenesse

A friend to exercise,

My practice of the prudent pen
Lo here before thine eyes!"

William Fulwood.

PRINCIPAL POINTS OF RELIGION.

"To pray to God continually,

To learn to know him rightfully,

To honour God in Trinity,

The Trinity in Unity,
The Father in his Majesty,
The Son in his humanity,
The Holy Ghost's benignity,
Three Persons, as one Deity.
To serve Him always, holily,
To ask Him all things, needfully,
To praise Him in all company,
To love Him alway, heartily,
To dread Him alway, Christianly,

To ask Him mercy, penitently,
To trust Him alway, faithfully,
To obey Him alway, willingly,
To abide Him alway, patiently,
To thank Him alway, thankfully,
To live here alway, virtuously,
To use thy neighbour, honestly,
To look for death still presently,

To help the poor in misery,

To hope for heaven's felicity,

To have Faith, Hope, and Charity,

To count this life but vanity,

Be points of Christianity."

Quoth Tusser.

"When good men pursue

The path mark'd out by virtue, the blest saints,
With joy look on it, and seraphick angels
Clap their celestial wings in heavenly plaudits
To see a scene of grace so well presented,
The fiends, made up of envy, mourning.

Massinger.

PLAIN

PRACTICAL SERMONS.

BY

JOHN WOOD WARTER, B. D.

CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD;

RECTOR OF PATCHING, AND VICAR OF WEST TARRING, SUSSEX;