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heaven_n	almighty_a	holy_a	lord_n	2,609	5	3.9315	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45865	A guide to repentance. Or, The character and behaviour of the devout Christian in retirement Psal. 119. 54, 60. I called my own ways to remembrance, ... commandments. By John Inett, M.A. chanter and residentiary of the cathedral church of Lincoln.	Inett, John, 1647-1717.	1692 (1692)	Wing I157A; ESTC R215993	30,439	131

thou gavest thy Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting Life Have mercy upon me a miserable sinner O thou that despisest not a broken and a contrite heart and whose Will and Power nothing can resist O do thou create a clean Heart and renew a right Spirit within me O say unto my soul I will be thou clean and be it to thy servant according to thy word O thou that hast no pleasure in the death of him that dies and hast given thy Son to die that sinners may not die eternally Spare me Lord most holy O God most mighty and deliver me from the bitter pains of eternal Death O blessed Jesus who didst die to give a worth and value to Repentance and that Repentance and Remission of sins should be preached to all the world in thy Name O do thou make my Repentance such as thou hast required and wilt accept and let thy Merits render it effectual to the forgiveness of my sins O thou who didst taste death for every man and laidst down thy Life for those who were dead in Adam and hast promised to accept all such as come unto thee O cast me not away from thee but have mercy upon me O God my God O thou that hast bid such as are weary and heavy laden come unto thee and promised they shall find rest for their souls O Lord look down upon me who in the bitterness and anguish of my soul come unto thee and have mercy upon me O Holy and Ever-blessed Spirit whose sacred Fires melt down the hardest Hearts whose holy Aids are sufficient to help our Infirmities and whose Fruits are Repentance and Peace and Joy O do thou direct assist and guide my soul and keep me in all thy ways O thou that leadest the ignorant to the Truth sinners to Repentance and Righteousness and art the Comforter of the sad and wounded soul O do thou open my eyes to see the errors of my ways and my heart to hate and forsake them and let thy Grace and Comforts guide me in all my difficulties and support me in all my trials O Blessed Spirit who knowest the dangers that encompass and the temptations that beset and most easily prevail against me O be thou my Guide and never leave me nor forsake me but from the deceit of my heart from the wiles of Satan and the sad effects of ill Opinions Melancholy and Despair Good Lord deliver me O good God give me not up to my self and withdraw not thy Grace from me but assist and accept my Prayers and my Repentance and hear thy Son that is making intercession for me let his Blood atone for me and by his Stripes let my soul be healed O merciful Father who wouldst have me repent and live and by whose Grace and Aid I have here prostrated my self before thee to confess and bewail my sins and purposed to forsake them O do thou who knowest the deceit of my Heart the weakness of my best Resolutions and the power and prevalence of my corrupt Nature let thy Grace be sufficient for me and the helps of thy Spirit make my sorrow sincere my resolution stedfast and so change and consecrate my Affections that they may never more misguide me O thou that art the Maker and Lover of Souls Hear my Prayer Forgive my Sins Accept my Sorrows Strengthen my Resolutions Confirm my Vows and grant me Repentance to Life Eternal for Christ Jesus sake Amen Amen 5. A Prayer for Grace O Most merciful Father who knowest my inability to do any thing that is good without thee and with what subtilty and diligence the Devil lies in wait to deceive and ruine my Soul O good God let thy strength appear in my weakness and discover and disappoint the designs of the Destroyer and deliver me from the corrupt inclinations of my own nature Thou hast promised to give the assistance of thy Holy Spirit to those that ask it let that blessed Spirit direct and guide to and keep me in all thy ways let it never leave me nor forsake me nor be withdrawn from me but keep me in thy fear and in thy ways till it bring me to thy presence and thy glory through the merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour and Redeemer Amen 6. A Prayer for Faith O Almighty God who art the Author and Giver of every good thing Purge out of my heart all Distrust and Infidelity and every mean and unworthy thought of thy self Lord help my unbelief and beget continue and confirm in my Soul such a lively active and vigorous Faith as may shew it self in Piety and good Works and be effectual to my Salvation among those who have not seen and yet believe that He who is the Author Foundation and Finisher of our Faith and has promised Life to those that believe in and through his Name may at last say unto me Come thou good and faithful servant enter into the joys of my rest which I humbly beg for Christ Jesus his sake Amen 7. A Prayer for Holiness O Almighty God who seest the frailties of my Nature and knowest how great the difficulties how numerous the temptations are that beset me and how hard it is for Man that is born of a Woman to be clean before thee and yet hast declared That without Holiness no man shall see thy face in glory O Lord with an eye of pity look down upon me let thy Grace supply the defects of my Nature and that merciful Providence that watches over us for our good keep back or deliver me from every temptation and that Goodness that is able to consecrate my affections be always ready to direct and guide me in all my designs and ways that thy Holiness may be my aim and thy Glory my desire and the assistances of thy Spirit carry my affections to things above and so purifie me from all filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit that I may be holy as Thou art holy that my Conversation may be in Heaven and a holy and unblamable Life fit me for that state of Holiness that is the reward of the Saints above Hear and answer me O Lord for Christ Jesus sake Amen 8. A Prayer for due preparation for Death and Judgment ALmighty God whose hands have made and fashioned us out of the dust and hast in thy Justice pronounced That to dust we must return again and appointed unto all men once to die and after that to Judgment and by my own frailties and the reproaches of my Conscience hast given me such certain presages of my Death and the Account I am to give that I shall be inexcusable if I be found unprovided for them O good God let the notices thou hast given me keep me always mindful of what I am and what I must be and the thoughts of Death and Judgment so conduct the whole course of my life that when it is thy pleasure to call me I may be fit to die and

contempt and disobedience to his Law and the very last act of it a defiance of the remedy God had tendred to me But if Death make a gentle and easie approach and the mercy of God deliver me from the numberless contingencies that may prevent all possibility of a late Repentance what assurance can I have that what till then had been my choice will not then become my doom or that God will not give me up to a penal hardiness But if God permit me to be sensible of my danger yet with what face can I hope for or ask the assistance of his Grace that I not only not desired but refused and resisted till I am become uncapable of using it to his Honour But if God give me grace to be sensible of my past sins yet this is at the most but one part of Repentance and such as can afford me little comfort when my circumstances put me out of a possibility of reducing my sorrow into practice for tho's God who knows the heart and does sometimes accept the will for the deed when that will is sincere yet He only is a competent Judge of that sincerity and not the Christian unless he have time to try it by his practice So that the best assurance the late Penitent can have of the truth of his sorrow is at the most but the assurance he has of the sincerity of his heart which is deceitful above all things What madness is it then to venture Eternity on that which is but the shadow of a well-grounded hope a shadow that may flie away in a moment a shadow that the Harbingers of Death so frequently remove from us that if God had made a promise to accept the sorrows of dying persons to all the ends of Repentance the methods by which Death makes its approach would very often render it ineffectual by putting it out of the power of dying persons so much as to remember what they had done Thus the Christian views the precipice and beholds the dangers of those delays corrupted Nature or the flatteries of the world would lead him to and concludes it as necessary to be always provided for it as it is certain he is to die and looks upon it as his most important care not to lose the happy minute on which an eternity of Bliss or Misery depends but the danger of a sad Eternity keeps him always upon his guard and the consideration that the justice of God or the frailties of his Nature may in a minute ravish from his power the opportunity to make his peace possesses him with a steddy resolution to live over his sorrows his vows and promises and endeavour that the practice or fruits of true Repentance amendment and doing better may fit him for the change God and Nature have made inevitable 2. His Reflections on Judgment 2 COuld I hide my sins in the dust would the same kind Fate that closes up mine eyes hide me to eternal Ages or the Grave spread night over all my actions could I lie forgotten there and share the portion of the Worm that must then be my brother or could that corruption and rottenness that are to be my sister and my mother entitle me to an everlasting oblivion and neglect a short-liv'd shame and the uneasiness and dishonour of doing an unworthy action might possibly be too little to restrain my unruly passions But whilst my Lust thus fondly entertains me my Reason breaks through the scene of Folly the regret every sin leaves behind it the secret pleasures of well-doing the seeming inequality in the dispensations of Providence the indelible notices of the Divine Being and Justice give me such certain presages of a future Account that amidst the charms of sin I find something like St. Jerom's sound To Judgment something that spreads a secret pleasure or regret through my Soul for actions unknown to all the world and leaves such impressions upon me that 't is as easie to put off my Nature and cease to be whilst I am as to deliver my Soul from the apprehensions of a future Judgment But had Nature been silent He that made and governs the world has given us a prospect of futurity and shewed us how he will rectifie the seeming inequalities that appear in the conduct of human affairs and with an impartial hand deal Reward or Punishment to all his Subjects But can nothing be hid from the discerning Eye must my youthful follies must the elaborate sins I have spun so fine as to carry the face of Virtue to the world pass the censure of just Omniscience must my varnished Lusts my gilded Passions and my painted Sins be stripped naked and thus appear to the Judge of Secrets must my avowed Impieties and customary Sins my known and unobserved Omissions every tumor in my Passions every indecency in my Words every foolish Thought be brought into Account and will God enter into Judgment for them must the follies I did not dare to trust to a mortal eye nay scare to the censure of my own conscience be proclaimed to Men and Angels must I answer to God for every Mercy I have abused every opportunity of Repentance I have lost for every instance of that patience and forbearance that have been vouchsafed to me in vain Good God! what must a sinner do If thou wilt be extreme to mark all I have done amiss I cannot answer thee one for a thousand and how then shall I stand in judgment and yet I cannot flie from nor avoid or illude it If I climb up into Heaven thou art there if I go down into Hell thou art there also Thy Omnipresence frustrates all my hopes of flying on the wings of the morning and thy Power the kindness of the Mountains should they fall upon me From thy presence then I cannot flee from thy Spirit I cannot hide me and which is more dreadful not the least of all my fins But whilst this dreadful prospect fills the soul of the Penitent with confusion and horror the comforts of the blessed Spirit that ever watch the motions of the wounded soul break in upon him and carry his thought to new reflections on the compassions of his Judge He remembers that he who must come to call him to Account is the same blessed Person that died to save him and in charity to him came from Heaven to shew him how to flie from the wrath to come and has offered him his hand to conduct him to his arms Thus his fears resolve into a nobler passion and his confusion breaks up in resolutions to accept the tenders of his Lord to measure all his future actions by a regard to this great Account and this one thought That his Lord may come in a day or an hour that he looks not for him and appoint him his portion with unbelievers is guard to all the rest the flatteries with which his Lust or Vanity used to possess his fancy appear empty Dreams the charms of this