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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	bishop_n	communion_n	schism_n	2,982	5	9.7506	5	false

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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

you desire to die in it 4. Has it been your Sincere Case and Study in the Course of your Life to order your Actions so and to be so affected with things as might shew you were real in this Belief and were Ruled and Acted by a firm perswasion of the aforesaid Points II. 2. Of your Holy Obedience whether you have led the Life or paid the Duty and new Obedience of a Christian. If thou wilt enter into Life keep the Commandements Math. 19. 17. To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for Glory Eternal Life But to them who obey not the Truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath upon every Soul that doeth Evil. Rom. 2. 7 8 9. A Brief Recital of the Holy Laws and Duties which we are to obey 1. Duties toward God THis holy Obedience you are to pay in a due and devout Attendance on Prayers both Publick and Private and on Sacraments In thankfully owning Gods free Bounty and praising his Goodness for all the good things which you receive by any ways In submitting patiently to his Holy Will under any Afflictions and not grudging at them Non growing impatient for ease before his Time because they are of his ordering In trusting to him and to his Providence for supplying you in all your Wants And for preserving you from any Dangers or for delivering you ou● of them And so trusting to him for them as never to make use of any Sin for compassing the same nor to betaken your self to any wickedness be it what it will when you have a●tempting opportunity thereby to supply or deliver your self In reverencing his Holy Name not using it but with Honour and Respect not as a light by-word Nor ever in common Oaths And least of all in false or faithless Oaths In reverencing also his word and his Worship and any things or Persons devoted to him or Commissioned by him 2. Duties towards our Selves YOU are to pay it moreover in Humility or by preserving a just sence of your own Faults Defects and weaknesses And not priding your self on account of any outward things Nor being pussed up by any undue conceits of your self or with contempt of others In chastity both of the Heart not suffering the Fancy to fix upon forden objects or to please it self in being desirous of or in contriving for any unlawfull Delights And also of the Hand and Tongue and Ear and Eye and of all the outward Actions which are all to be kept clean of all forbidden and impure Injoyments In Temperance about Meats and Drinks In Self-Denial and Mortification to this World and in a read●ness to part with any of the ease the Interests or Conveniencies thereof rather than with the ways of Truth and Righteousness 3. Duties towards our Neighbours YOU are to pay it likewise in being just in all your Dealings In being content with what is your own and not coveting or taking away your Neighbours Right from him either by Force or Fraud Nor by detaining it when it is unjustly taken or hindering him of the same And by this Neighbour you are to understand every Man whether Country-man or Foreigner of high or low condition In being Faithful to all your Promises In being true in all your Speeches deceiving none with false Expressions And slandering none with false Aspersions Nor detracting from any Persons real Virtues and good Actions In all the ways of Charity towards others especially the Necessitous giving Alms as you are able or other Charitable Assistance for their Relief In candor or fair Interpretation of other Men's Words or Actions In not delighting unnecessarily to publish other Persons Faults by evil speaking but seeking rather to cover or excuse them as we desire may be done by our own In Meekness and Patience under Injuries not bursting out into Passion and Opprobrious words upon them In forgiveness of the same and ing Good for Ill. In living peaceably your self And in studying to preserve Peace among others not begetting or cherishing any mis-understandings between Neighbours and endeavouring to remove them when you find them In Love and Reverence and Duty to your Parents And if Need be in succouring and maintaining them In constant Loyalty and Obedience to your Rightful Princes be they good or bad be they o● true or false Religions and be they Protectors of God's true Worship or Persecutors thereof And in not casting off your Allegiance to them or levying Wa● against them on any Pretences o● Provocations In reverent Submission and adherence to Rightful and Faithful Bishops and Pastors of Christ's Church In keeping the Bond of Peace by adhereing to their Communion and flying Schism And in keeping to them at the Head of God's necessary Truths and in the Ministration of a pure and holy Worship against others who fall to minister by polluted and corrupt Offices or set up for Heretical Depravers of the Truth And in a faithful discharge of your Duties in any other Relations ●s of Husband and Wife Master or Servant or the like wherein by the providence of God you stand placed with others and mutually undebted Questions concerning our Obedience of these Laws 1. HAS it been the Study and endeavour of your Life by God's help to perform these forcited and such like Duties though with the infirmities of a forgetful and frail Nature 2. Have you bethought your self according as your Time and Memory will serve you and call'd to mind your manifold Transgressions and Breaches of any of them 3. After all the Discoveries which you have made thereof no doubt but many of your Breaches of the same are still secret for who can tell how of t'he hath offended And are you truly sorry in the General for all the rest of those Breaches which by your Recollection you cannot recover or call to mind in particular 4. Where you find that in any of these or the like Duties you have hearkned more to wicked and worldly Lusts than to a good Conscience and have yielded to Transgress are you now ashamed of your Self for having done the same Especially for having done so against both the Majesty and the Mercy of the ever Blessed God th● made you and of an ever Blesses Saviour who redeemed you from everlasting Death with his own Blood and has prepared Joys both endless and unspeakable for you i● another World and of the Holy Spirit of God who is grieved therewith and whose infinite Love had instill'd better things into you would you have hearkened to his good Motions And against the Senfe and Convictions of your own Mind which knows you ought not to have done so And against your own many ●ost solemn and repeated Promies to the contrary 5. Are you now offended with ●our Self and sorrowful from the ●ottom of your Heart that ever ●ou yielded to commit them And ●o you wish with all your Soul that ●hey never had been done 6. Do you earnestly desire that ●ou may never yield