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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47291	A companion for the penitent, and for persons troubled in mind consisting of an office for the penitent, to carry on their reconciliation with God, and a tryal or judgment of the soul, for discovering the safety of their spiritual estate, and an office for persons troubled in mind, to settle them in peace and comfort / by John Kettlewell ...	Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.	1694 (1694)	Wing K360; ESTC R13898	49,186	156

Advertisement THere is lately printed a Book entituled A Companion for the Persecuted or an Office for Those who suffer for Righteousness Containing particular Prayers and Devotions for particular Graces and for their Private or Publick Wants and Occasions By John Kettlewell a Presbyter of the Church of England Price bound 1 s. 6 d. LONDON Printed for Robert Kettlewell and Benj. Bragg at the White-Hart over against Water-Lane in Fleet-street 1694. A COMPANION FOR THE Penitent And for Persons Troubled in MIND CONSISTING OF An Office for the Penitent to carry on their Reconciliation with God And a Tryal or Judgment of the Soul for discovering the safety of their Spiritual Estate And an Office for Persons troubled in Mind to settle them in Peace and Comfort By JOHN KETTLEWELL a Presbyter of the Church of England LONDON Printed for Robert Kettlewell and Sold by Benj. Bragg at the White-Hart over against Water-Lane in Fleet street 1694. Imprimatur Ra. Barker February 15. 1693 4. To the Inhabitants and Parishioners of the Town and Parish of Coles-hill in Warwick-shire My beloved Friends and Brethren THough by God's Providence which most wisely Orders all Things I now live at a great distance from you yet I still retain a Pastoral Affection for you and ordinarily remember you in my Prayers and have an Heart that is truly desirous to serve you in the great Work of your Souls and is glad when any pains of mine can prove serviceable to you therein I remember the Labours which I have spent among you with a very sincere and good Will tho' alass with much weakness in my great Lord and Masters Service and I hope also that you will not forget them And if by tract of time many things which I have taught you have sl●pt out of your Memories as I cannot expect but they have yet much of that which I prepared and preached to do you good I printed whilst I was among you for the Benefit of others and the Books are in many of your Hands and may be in more wherewith you may refresh your Memories when you please In those labours of my Ministry which I took among you for a course of several years I thank God I endeavoured to lay before you his whole Counsel according to the best my Skill And suited my Discourses to the needs of the place and to Times and Seasons to possess you with such Thoughts and Tempers as I judged needfull to support your Spirits and to direct your Practice under them And I was not silent but warned you yea sometimes till I even wearied some of you with warnings against your Spiritual Dangers when I thought any great Danger to your Souls drew near For you your selves know Brethren that I have not kept back the Truths of God from you nor suppressed them at the times when you had most need to be put in mind thereof tho' I found some were like to be displeased therewith and as St. Paul says to count me their Enemy for telling them these Truths Now there must be a strict Account given one day both how I have discharged my part in that Station and how you have discharged yours And my Hearts desire and earnest Prayer for you all is that you may both bear in Mind all the faithful Warnings and Instructions which according to the best of my understanding I was continually pressing upon you and left with you and may likewise willingly and carefully follow them That so when both you and I are brought before our ever Blesled and Great Master as most certainly we shall be we may both rejoyce together I for having been your affectionate and Faithful Monitor and you for having afforded a willing a mindful and an obedient Ear. And now since I am out of the may of serving you otherwise I have sent this Companion among you to minister to your most Serious and Holy Thoughts and to direct and go before you both in your Prayers and in your Practice And I desire that by your frequent and considerate use thereof you wouldturn the Hymns and Prayers contained therein to become the familiar and genuine Sense and Language of your Hearts Learn habtually to breathe these Thoughts and daily to live by them And by this means you may both perfect the work of your Repentance and preserve the Peace of your Consciences which are the greatest and most concerning things you have to mind and the chief things which I earnestly pray you that you would and hope that you will mind all the days of your Lives And this I shall look on as the best and the most obliging Return that you can make to me for this Labour of Love which I desire you to receive not only as a Token of my Respect and Kindness to you but also as a proper means which by God's Blessing may do you good if you please I humbly commend it to the Acceptance and Blessing of the Almighty without which it will be of no force either among you or among any others And I heartily commend you all to the Protection of his Good Providence and especially to the Guidance of his Grace that he would deliver you from all dangerous Errors and Wickedness and both make you perfect in the doing of his Will and give you Comfort in the same I remain my Beloved Friends and Brethren Your truly Affectionate Friend and Faithful Monitor in the Work and Service of the Lord Jesus John Kettlewell From my House in London Jan. 23. 1693. THE Introduction DIrections and Helps for Repentance can never come out of Season For Repentance is the one thing necessary and the chief Business of all Men in this World and will be so whilst they live in it The best do daily need it to make up their daily Failures their Defects and Forgetfulness And the bad have no time to delay it for one Moment having deferred a great deal too long already to shake off their sinful Habits aud to set themselves with all their might to please God and to secure their Everlasting Peace Especially this time of Lent is a Season wherein great numbers profess to make this their Business For from the early usage and practice of the Church this has still been made a solemn time for Sinners to call their Sins to Remembrance and to seek Gods Mercy and Forgiveness of the same by earnest Prayers and amendment of Life and by afflicting of themselves and bringing forth Fruits worthy of Repentance And to help them in so necessary and beneficial a Work I have composed and published the following Offices hoping that they may prove acceptable to my Heavenly Master and serviceable to direct and compleat the Repentance and to settle the Comfort and Peace of some of his beloved Servants into whose Hands his Providence shall bring them In the Office for the Penitent I have endeavoured to mark out distinctly the several Steps and full compass of a Sinners Restauration or