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A87704 The declaration and profession of the Reverend Mr. John Kettlewell, (who departed this life, April 12. 1695.) / Made by him at the receiving the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. March 23. 1694/5. Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695. 1695-1696 (1696) Wing K364; ESTC R200801 2,630 2

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THE Declaration and Profession OF THE REVEREND Mr. John Kettlewell Who Departed this Life April 12. 1695. Made by him at the Receiving the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper March 23 1694-95 LOoking upon my self under my present Weakness as having but little time to continue in this World and waiting patiently for my Change sooner or later as it shall please Almighty God in whose hands my times are and I desire they should be to send it I think fit to make and leave behind me this DECLARATION and PROFESSION following I profess firmly and steadfastly to Believe the Creed whereinto I was Baptized the Holy Catholick Faith in the Father Son and Holy Ghost In which Blessed Godhead I humbly believe and Religiously adore both the Unity in Trinity and also the Trinity in Unity I Profess to Continue Firm and steadfast in the Unity and Communion of Christ's Holy Catholick Church Being freely and heartily ready to joyn with all sound Members in the Communion thereof in all Holy and Divine Offices as the Providence of God should bring them to me or me to them to demean my self towards them in all things as my Brethren and to be affected with what befalls them as one Member ought to be with the Joy or Grief of another And as for those who are broken off from the True and Saving Faith Worship or Vnity of this Body I heartily pity them and Pray for their Recovery and Re-Union And having been not only made a Member but by my Blessed Master Jesus Christ's inestimable Vouchsafement called to be a Minister of His in the Church of England I do Profess and Declare That as I have Lived and Ministred hitherto So I do still Continue Firm in its Faith Worship and Communion And as for my Deprivation of my Living since this late Revolution in Company with many other Excellent and Pious Persons for not taking the New Oath of Allegiance to those who Claim'd the same As I did so I still do firmly believe That it was on many Great and dreadful Acounts my Bonnden Duty absolutly to refuse the same And that such Refusal was and is a most righteous and rewardable Cause of Suffering I bless my God who was pleased to Call me and Enable me thereby to give a Proof of the Sincerity of my Love and Preference of him before this World by Willingly and Gladly Quitting a worldly Livelihood for his sake And as upon this Righteous Account I parted with my Living with much more Satisfaction and Pleasure of Mind than I at first received it with So Blessed be God's Holy Name I take the same Comfort and Satisfaction therein still And as for the most unhappy and lamentable Breach of Church-Unity and Communion among Us By setting up Bishop against Bishop on account of this New-Oath of Allegiance and for the Continuance and Confirmation of the matter thereof in the Publick and Daily Offices and Ministrations of Religion making both Oaths and Holy Offices as much as may be in all Points subservient to this New-Allegiance In this most sorrowful Breach of Church-Society I profess That as I have done hitherto so I do still heartily and firmly Embrace and Continue in the Communion of those Orthodox and Rightful Bishops and the Clergy and People Adhereing unto them who have Suffered as I belleve for their Steadfastness to the Rules of Righteousness in the Refusal of this New-Oath and who keep their Divine Offices and Ministrations Free from all those things which my Conscience sticks at in the same being now about to Receive the Benefit of Absolution and the Blessed Eucharist from the hands of One of them I heartily and earnestly Pray for the Cure of this most Great and Grievous Breach And whensoever the time of Healing shall come The Lord who purchased his Church with his own Blood put the work of Healing and Re-Union into wise and good Hands who without Passion or Personal Prejudices or any regard to past Wrongs or private Interests shall faithfully and unbyassedly pursue the Blessed work of Christian-Union and be willing and Glad to see those Truths which make for Unity and will have nothing else in their Eyes but how to Re-Settle this poor Broken Church in Truth Purity Vnity and Peace As for the Books which I have writ since this Revolution to keep up among my Christian Brethren a Sense of truly Apostolical and Primitive Morals at a time when most seem'd bent to Start or take up with any Shifts or Salvo's to set the same aside for their worldly Safety Or to direct them about their Civil Obedience and Comfort and Support them under any worldly Dangers or Sufferings for the same Or to guide them in their way of Worship that they may perform the same with Purity and in the Unity and Communion of Christ's Holy Church I bless God my sincere design in Writing and Publishing them was with much Pains and some Hazard to serve my Blessed Master and as I thought the Great and Pressing Needs of his Church and People amongst us And as I truly and sincerely believed all the Points I have Taught and Delivered therein when I Wrote and Published them So I do now Profess That after all the time I have had to Consider them since and after all that I have heard or met with in opposition to any Matters contained therein which I think I have duly weigh'd and look'd through I do truly and sincerely believe them all to be true still And all this I have here Solemnly Professed and Declared for the Benefit and Satisfaction of those who shall be desirous to know whether I continued in the Belief and Practice of the same things at my Death which I Professed Taught and Practised in my Life And to this Profession and Declaration I set my Hand this 23 of March 1694-95 JOHN KETTLEWELL 〈…〉 *⁎* The Books which He means are Entituled as followeth Of Christian Prudence or Religious Wisdom not degenerating into irreligious Craftiness in TRYING TIMES London 1691. Christianity a Doctrin of the Cross or Passive Obedience under any pretended Invasion of Legal Rights and Liberties The Duty of Allegiance settled upon its true grounds according to Scripture Reason and the Opinion of the Church in Answer to a late Book of Dr. William Sherlock Entituled The Case of Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers A Companion for the PERSECUTED Or an Office for those who Suffer for Righteousness London 1694. To which may be added His Companion for the Penitent and for Persons Troubled in Mind Also His Book Entituled Death made Comfortable Or The way to Die well 1695. Of CHRISTIAN COMMUNION to be held in the Unity of Christ's Church and among the Professors of Truth and Holiness 1693.