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A36932
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A guide for the penitent, or, A modell drawn up for the help of a devout soul wounded with sin
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Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.
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Wing D2660; ESTC R24920
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Insolent Rebel have not onely set up my own Will in opposition to thine but many times preferred it before thine and have listned more to the false Oracles of Flesh and Bloud then to all thy Holy Commandments But I Repent O my God I Repent I Accuse and Iudge and Condemn my self for it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner X. Wo Wo unto me O God that being made according to thine Image the greatest honour that could be done thy Creature I have dashed so many blurs and spots and foul sins upon it so defaced all the lines and features of it that unless the Holy Spirit please to renew that Image in me again I tremble to think what I must one day hear Depart from me I know you not But I Repent O my God I Repent I am ashamed and confounded at it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XI Wo Wo unto me O God that having received a Rational Soul from thee to be a Moral Light and guide unto my actions I have been so brutish as to follow my sensual appetite in stead of it and have made no farther use of Reason then to find out vain excuses to cozen my own Soul into all the by-waies of Sin and Error But I Repent O my God I Repent I Accuse and Iudge and Condemn my self for it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XII Wo Wo unto me O God that being endowed with Memory to serve as a Magazine to treasure up thy Precepts and holy Counsels in I have stuft it so miserably full with the Ideas of former Vanities and Sin that I have left no room for thee at all But I Repent O my God I Repent I infinitely condemn my self for it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XIII Wo Wo unto me O God that having received a Heart from thee to be the seat of clean and holy affections and the onely Temple for thy holy Spirit to dwell in I have so unworthily abused and altered the property of it that it is now become a Den of Thieves and an unhandsome receptacle of all uncleanness But I Repent O my God I Repent I bate and loath and abhor my self for it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XIV Wo Wo unto me O God that my wretched Heart being corrupted my Imagination hath run wildly after with a swarm of vain and sinfull Thoughts which like importunate Flies being driven away light again and again upon my distracted Soul and intermingle with the best of my Devotions But I Repent O my God I Repent I am infinitely troubled grieved for it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XV. Wo Wo unto me O God that mine Eyes being greedy after Vanity have been upon all occasions as open windows to let in Sin but when by the same way they should have issued out Penitential Tears to wash away the stains those Sins had made there hath been no passage found for them But I Repent O my God I Repent I am inwardly grieved and deplore my self for it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XVI Wo Wo unto me O my God that for the entertaining of vain conversation I have left mine Ears too often open to light and vain and sinfull discourses and in all my inquiries have hearkened more to what the world saith abroad then to what thy holy Spirit and my own Conscience saith within me But I Repent O my God I Repent I Accuse and Iudge and Condemn my self for it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XVII Wo Wo unto me O God that I have not resolved with thy servant David to take care of my waies that I offend not in my Tongue but have many times vainly and inconsiderately let it loose and either to please the Company or my self I have spoken words which might unhappily prove occasions of sin both to them and me without regard or remembring how great Flames such little Sparks might kindle But I Repent O my God I Repent I do infinitely condemn my self for it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XVIII Wo Wo unto me O God that all the parts and faculties of my Soul and Body have been abused and have not served the Laws of their Creator but have so eagerly and constantly pursued the corrupt desires of a seduced Heart that I have cause to fear that either my whole life may be looked upon as one continued sin or at least as having admitted so few inconsiderable Pauses that if thou shouldest enter into strict Judgment with me I should not have the confidence to say when or where or wherein I have been innocent But I Repent O my God I Repent I am confounded and astonished at it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XIX Wo unto me O God that I have wretchedly failed even in my best endeavours that I have been cold in my Devotions weary of my Praiers inconstant to good purposes dull and heavy in the way to Heaven but quick and active in all the waies of sin having made it the whole business of my life rather to seem to be Religious then really to be so But I Repent O my God I Repent I Accuse and Iudge and Condemn my self for it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XX. Wo Wo unto me O God that I have not washed mine hands in Innocency when I have gone unto thine Altar nor made mine heart ready to receive the bread that came from Heaven but have failed in my Preparations and have not sufficiently considered either mine own unworthiness or the high secrets of so great a Mystery But I Repent O my God I Repent I am grieved and troubled at it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XXI Wo Wo unto me O God that having so often received those inestimable Pledges of thy love the precious Body and Bloud of thy dear Son in the Holy Sacrament I have been so unwary as to admit my former sins under the same roof with thee and have unhappily done what lay in me to drive thee from me But I Repent O my God I Repent I am infinitely ashamed at it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XXII Wo Wo unto me O God that my Repentance the onely plank left me in the Shipwreck of my Soul hath been so weak so slight and so unsteady that every small blast of a new Temptation hath been able to drive me from it and by frequent Relapses into sin gives me cause enough to repent even of my vain repentance But I Repent again O God again I Repent I hate and loath and abhor my self for it Lord be thou mercifull to me a Sinner XXIII Wo Wo unto me O God that having received my Life and Being and Preservation from thee with so many advantages to have made me happy in this world and blessed in the next I have been so abominably unthankfull that I have cast all these thy Blessings behind me