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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

whence I am faln and resolve by thy help to do my vows I will make bast to do 〈◊〉 and not delay to keep thy Com●●dments I beg no greater Mercy than to be fou●d stedfast in thy ways nor shall account any things to be so great favours to me as those which serve to keep me in the same I will most heartily thank thee O! Thou Faithful Guide and Keeper of returning Souls if thou wilt be pleased to hedge up my way with Thorns or with any worldly Difficulties that may keep me from finding my way to my former Vanities For 't is the unfeigned Desire of my Heart and shall be the great Endeavour of my Life above all things to keep true to thee and my chiefest prayer to thee is to keep me from falling any more from the way of thy Fear or from forfeiting thy Mercy God be merciful to me a Returning Sinner III. ANd having ●●w by thy Grace these hol●●houghts and Purposes in my He●●● I earnestly beg of thee O! Blessed Author and finisher of all Grace that I may never loose them I give my Heart to thee and humbly pray that it may always be in thy hands since it is so unconstant in what is good and prone to turn aside to what is evil when it is in mine own keeping O! Father keep it stedfast and unalterable in thy ways Let it not be inclined to any Evil thing nor lean towards any of my former Vanitys Keep mine Eyes from beholding wickedness and mine Ears from listning thereto Let not my Lips utter any thing that is Ill nor my feet move a step in any of the Paths of Death But hold my whole Spirit Soul and Body in ways of thy Fear and continue me under the Comfortable hopes of thy favour through Jesus Christ my Blessed Lord and only Saviour Amen 3. A Profession of the Fruits of Repentance and the Conditions of Forgiveness I. I Have sinned grievously O! Lord but I am angry at my self for my Sins and desire to prevent thy Justice and to take Revenge upon my own Head for my Transgressions And however disposed and easie I was to be drawn aside before yet now thou hast filled my Heart with such a Godly Sorrow and Compunction for my Sins as begets in me a Vehement Desire and Godly Care to sin no more By the help of thy Grace O! Merciful God I am ready now to walk in those Statutes which I have formerly transgressed and to give again whatsoever I have at any time unjustly taken away and to make full amends to the uttermost of my Power for all the Wrong and Damage which I have ever done to any And where either by my Example or by my Counsel and Perswasion or by my Importunities I have tempted others and drawn them into Sin It shall be the Study and Care of my Life to make them sensible of the Heinousness and extream Danger thereof as thro' the Blessing of thy Grace I am to recover them out of the same God be merciful to me a Returning Sinner II. I Am contented O! Holy Father to submit my self to those who have just cause to be offended with me and to use all fair ways of Reconciling my self to them before I hope for Reconciliation and Peace with thee I freely forgive all those that have Trespassed against me and with good Will offer them my Pardon as I most heartily desire thine And my Hearty Desire and Purpose is to study doing Good to my Brethren in their Needs that I may not be held unworthy to receive it from thee in mine own and to shew Mercy unto others that I may not be ashamed to ask it for my self and that the Rigorousness and Unrelenting hardness of my own Dealings towards them may not deprive me of the favourable Indulgence and Mercifulness of thy Dealings towards me God be merciful to me and forgive me a Merciful and Forgiving Sinner III. I Have no Hope in my self O! Gracious Lord but only in thy Mercy Nor any expectation of the same thro' my Deservings but meerly thro` thy Blessed Son's Infinite Merits Nor rest my Soul upon any other Name given among Men whereby thy Justice may be satisfied and my Sins expiated but on his alone God be merciful to me a Great but an Humble and Believing Sinner IV. I Am heartily sorry for all the Sins which I can call to Mind and do yet know my self to have been guilty of and am fully purposed by thy Grace as far as I can to amend them And I am truly desirous to discover all the rest which are yet hid from me that I may be as particularly sorry for the same and amend them too And I humbly and earnestly pray thee O! Father of Mercies that for Jesus Christ's sake thou would'st be pleased to accept this my Repentance Receive it O! Lord according to the Riches of thy Mercies and supply whatsoever is wanting therein by the Power of thy Grace And place me among the number of those who are truly contrite for all their evil ways and whose Repentance has prepared them for the free and full Remission of all their Offences through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen 4. A Prayer for Pardon of Sins O! Holy and most merciful Father spare me thy poor Sinful but Repenting Creature Spare me good Lord spare me and let me not perish in my Sins now I am heartily troubled and sorry for them but thro' thine infinite Mercies find pardon of the same I am a Sinful Person O! Lord But thou Blessed Jesus art the Saviour of Sinners And thy coming into the World was to call Sinners to Repentance Lord I come and Repent at thy Call cast not me and my Repentance away from thy Presence I have gone astray and am very defective in my return home thro' the frailty of my Flesh. But thou Gracious Lord considerest our frailties Thou knowest our frame and considerest whereof we are made Oh! be not extream to mark mine Offences nor to exact Rigors in my Repentance of the same but for Christ's sake make me all needful and favourable Allowances Now I have found the way to thy Fear let me find the Comforts of thy Mercy I have a truly Contrite Heart O! Lord despise it not My Spirit is broken and trembleth at thy word O! Lord revive it It is heavy laden and wearied with my Sins O! my God give it ease from the same Pity me O! Father as a Father pitieth his own Children Receive me as the offended Father did the returning Prodigal Tho' I was lost yet now by the Blessing of thy Grace I am found again Oh! welcome thy lost Sheep when it returns home and let there he joy in Heaven on the Repentance of me a lost Sinner Oh! let the Blood of Jesus cleanse me from all my

dissembled things which I ought openly to have professed for all my unjust and hard censures and for all my detracting Speeches against any of my Brethren For all the Advantage which I have ever taken of the Ignorance and and for all the sport and pastime which I have ever made with the folly and weakness of my Neighbours For all my covetous desires and all my wrongful Gripings or hard dealings towards any whom I have at any time been concerned withall For all the over reaching which I may have been guilty of in gaming or other ways and for all the excesses and offences of my Recreations I lament O! Lord for all the countenance which I have given to other Mens Sins or complyance with them or neglect to reprove the same when I had an obliging call so to do For all the Provocation which I have ever given others and for all the sinful Passion which I have ever shewn and opprobrious Speeches which I have ever used and ill will which I have ever retained towards them when at any time they have provoked me For all the ungrounded Jealousies and evil and uncandid surmises and for all the Back-bitings and Evil-speakings which I stand guilty of towards any For all my Deafness to the cries or narrowness of Heart in Relieving the wants of the poor and needy For all which and all my other offences of the like sort which either I can remember or have forgotten Lord be merciful to me a contrite Sinner IV. I Humble my Self before thee O! Almighty God for all my irreverence Disloyalty or Breach of Faith and due Obedience whereby I have trespassed against those who have had the Right to reign over me For having ever offered a deaf or disobedient Ear to my Ghostly Rulers for all my undutyfulness to my Parents or unkindness to my Wife or Husband or remissness in governing my Dependants and training up all that serve or are any way subject unto me to fear and serve thee For all the Evil thoughts of my Heart and sinful words of my Mouth and unrighteous Actions of my Life wherein I have grievously offended thee either this Day or at any other times For all these and all other Sins O! Almighty and most Righteous Lord which either mine own Heart or thou who knowest better than my Heart seest me to be guilty of I am sorry at my very Soul and here humbly confess them before thee with shame and a broken Spirit and with stedfast Resolution by thy Grace to watch and strive against them for the time to come Where I have wickedly broken thy Statutes my Study shall be religiously to keep them And where I have done wrong to any Person I am ready and willing according to the utmost of my Power to repair the same Lord I Repent encrease my Repentance And for Jesus Christ's Sake pardon me a poor repenting Sinner Oh! Let his Blood wash me from all my Sins and let his peace rid me of all my Fears and let his Spirit preserve me from all Relapses Oh! That having utterly abandoned all my former evil ways I may eve●hence forward be fixt in thy Fear and be duly disposed for thine Eternal Mercy and favour though the Merits of my only Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ. Amen Short Prapers and Ejaculations for the Penitent to use at any time as he sees cause EJACULATIONS I Am a Sinful Man O! Lord Luke 5. 8. And mine Iniquities are gone over my Head as an heavy Burden they are too heavy for me Psal. 38. 4. Lord carest thou not that I perish Mar. 4. 38. Jesus Master have Mercy upon me Luke 17. 13. Thou that camest into the World to save Sinners 1 Tim. 1. 15. Be merciful to me a Sinner Luke 18. 13. Thou that takest away the Sins of the World Jo. 1. 29. And hast abolished and overcome Death 2 Tim. 1. 10. 1 Cor. 15. 54 57. And destroyed him that had the Power of it Heb. 2. 14. Deliver me from the Body of Sin and Death Ro. 7. 24. Short Prayers I. LOrd I am not worthy to lift up my polluted Eyes unto thee But whither should a Wretch Guilt and Misery look but unto the Fountain of Mercy Whither ●● to a God whose Mercy is greater than our Wickedness To a God whose property it is to be kind ●● his Enemies and whose patience ●● bear our Sins is as great as his power to punish them and who has much rather be reconciled to us than take Vengeance on us Whither indeed but to thee O! God of all Grace and Comfort who shewest mercy on the unworthy and who art most Graciously pleas'd to fit and qualifie them for thy Mercy that so thou mayest bountifully confer it on them for our Lord Jesus Christ's sake Amen II. LOrd under my heavy load o● Guilt and Misery I address my Self unto thee But I make no Plea but for thy Mercy Nor have any pretence to claim it O! Father of Mercies but only because I infinitely need it and because thou lovest to shew it and art more ready to look at our needs which move thy Pity and Tenderness than at our Deserts which cry aloud to thee for Wrath and Vengeance upon our Heads And because unworthy as I am yet through thine inexpressible Love and his I have a most mercyful Saviour who has born all the punishment of my Sins to purchase Mercy for me a Sinner and who now powerfully intercedes with thee for Mercy for me if being weary of my Sins I turn to seek and serve thee through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen III. AND my Soul O! Gracious God is wearied out and filed with the bitterness of mine own ways I accuse my Self and need ●o Witnesses I condemn my Self and need no other Judge to pro●ounce me Guilty I punish and af●ict my Self for all my Sins that I ●ay prevent thy Justice for the same And by thy Grace I am resolved to ●rn from them all that they may ●o longer provoke thee and as far as I am able to repair the harm which my Brethren have sustained thereby that they may no longer damnifie or disturb them Father forgive me for I am heartily sorry for all the Evils which I have done Forgive all my Sins for I am fully resolved by thy Grace to forsake them Forgive me O! Dear God for I forgive others yea I forgive all Do not go to exact punishment of me for my Sins but extend thy Mercy and Pardon to my true Repentance for my dearest Lord and only Saviour Jesus Christ's sake Amen IV. AND having thus utterly renounced my Sins O! Holy Father I desire above all things to partake of thy Righteousness Having utterly defaced and corrupted my self I would gladly be new made by thee Having hitherto miscarryed whilst I would be in mine own Hands I desire now to be altogether in thine I loath my self O! My dear God whilst I am without thee and whatever else I loose my earnest

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