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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

give up my Account with joy and a just assurance of his favour and love who is my Saviour and my Judge Jesus Christ the Righteous Amen 9. The Penitent's Prayer of Resignation or devoting himself to God O Blessed Father by whose Power all things were made and for whose service and pleasure they were created and in resignation to whose holy will all our felicity consists in mercy look down upon a Prodigal thy Grace and Goodness has brought to a sense of his Duty I have sinned against Heaven and before thee and am unworthy to be called thy Child but it is thy will I should return and thou art pleased to receive me as a servant O blessed Father I resign my self to thy service to be disposed as thou seest fittest for me Thine shall be my will I will esteem that wise and holy thou commandest true that thy word promises or affirms just and reasonable thou appointest and will believe it my greatest interest to follow where thou art pleased to call me And here O Lord I offer and present unto thee my Soul and Body to be a holy and a reasonable Sacrifice to thee What thy Grace has made thine let thy Goodness accept and preserve and thy Spirit seal to the day of Redemption for Christ Jesus sake Amen 10. A Prayer for the Church O Blessed Father by whose Wisdom and good Providence thy Truth has been planted and preserved in these Nations In mercy look down upon that Church thy own right hand has planted therein make us so sensible of the advantages of a holy and uncorrupt Faith of the truly pious and decent Worship and the Blessings of uncorrupted and undisguised Truth we enjoy in her Communion that laying aside our Heats and Prejudices we may all study the Peace and Honour of our Holy Mother and our unhappy Divisions give no occasion to the enemies of the Reformation to attempt or hope our Ruine More especially I beseech thee to give me Grace in my place and calling to live an useful Member of this thy Church till thou shalt call me to thy Church in Glory All this I beg for his sake who died for and is the Head of the Church Jesus Christ the Righteous Amen 11. A Prayer for these Kingdoms ALmighty God by whose Providence we are preserved from Confusion and Ruine Forgive our fins and continue thy Mercies towards us and by thy Wisdom and Blessing preserve and secure the Peace and Honour of these Nations Make the Government thou hast established a great Instrument of promoting thy Honour establishing thy Gospel and securing the Peace the Welfare and Prosperity of the People of these Kingdoms and make them so sensible of the Blessings they enjoy thereby that we may all study to be quiet and live in Peace and Love and Piety till thou think fit to receive us to thy eternal Kingdom thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 12. A Prayer for the People of these Kingdoms ALmighty God who seest what ill use we have made of thy great Mercies toward us how we have abused thy Grace and Goodness how we are fallen from that Innocence and Vertue from that Plainess and Integrity that were once the Honour of these Nations and how far that unhappy Spirit of Scoffing Irreligion and Profaneness have prevailed amongst us O Lord if it be thy will put a stop to our Profaneness and let our Wickedness come to an end revive a Spirit of Holiness and Sincerity of Justice and Temperance of Charity and Peace and make us that happy People who have the Lord for our God for Christ Jesus his sake Amen Occasional Prayers to be added On Good-Friday O Holy Father who hast ransack'd thy own bosom for arguments of pity and in thy compassion taken measure by thy infinite and unspeakable Goodness and for thy Mercies sake given thy Son to be a Ransom and a Peace-offering for thy Enemies In Him in whom thou art well pleased look down upon me let his Sacrifice of himself atone for my sins his Blood make my peace and by his Stripes let my Soul be healed O God my God Amen Another Prayer for Good-Friday O Most Holy and Ever-blessed Jesus who wast pleased to die for sinners Have pity and compassion upon me a miserable sinner and that the imitation of thy Life and Sufferings may fit me for the Merits and Blessings thereof let thy Grace and Goodness give a due influence to thy Example let thy exemplary Patience and holy Resignation teach me to resign my self and my will to the Hand and the Will of God in all his dispensations thy Charity to forgive thy Meekness to humble every aspiring thought and preserve a Spirit calm and easie amidst all the Injuries and Provocations that befal me let the Power of thy Death overcome all my propensities to sin and thy Sufferings atone for it and since thou livest for ever to make intercession for sinners and hast promised to save to the uttermost all such as come unto thee Lord hear my Prayers forgive my Sins and save me in the day of Wrath O thou Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Amen For Ash-Wednesday or any other time of Lent O Almighty God who art always ready to give thy assistance to every good thought every honest intention and sincere endeavour to consecrate our selves to thy service yet hast taught us to hope for the Aids of thy Grace in the use of Fasting and Prayer Mortification and Self-denial and all other useful ways of subduing the Lusts of the flesh Give O Lord thy Blessings and Assistance to all that humble themselves before thee accept their Abstinence hear their Prayers and forgive their Sins Bless me O my Father let thy Spirit help my Infirmities and so assist me that my flesh being so subdued to the Spirit my Fasting may be consecrated to thee who seest in secret and thou mayest reward me openly among those who by keeping themselves from the defilements of the flesh shall be fitted to follow the Lamb for ever and ever All this I beg for his sake who fasted for ours Jesus Christ the righteous Amen For the Thirtieth of January O Almighty God who in thy Justice didst suffer these Nations to fall into Anarchy and Confusion and involve themselves in the guilt of innocent Blood the Blood of thine Anointed Look in mercy upon us and forgive our sins especially That of This Day let it never be laid to our charge and do thou spare us when thou makest inquisition for Blood and make us so sensible of our great provocations that we may all turn from the evil of our ways and our iniquities may not be our ruine O do thou who art the God of Peace and Love and Order inspire us all with a Spirit of Holiness and Charity of Meekness and Obedience and make us the People who have the Lord for our God for Christ Jesus sake our Saviour and Redeemer Amen For the

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