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A47293	Death made comfortable, or, The way to dye well consisting of directions for an holy and an happy death : together with an office for the sick and for certain kinds of bodily illness, and for dying persons, and proper prayers upon the death of friends / by John Kettlewell ...	Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing K363; ESTC R39321	119,199	359

dost in great mercy Pity my weakness and provide for it For 't is thy mercy that lays not too much upon me 'T is thy mercy that I am brought down by degrees and am not consumed suddenly 'T is thy mercy that thou wast not soon nor wilt be long angry with me 'T is thy mercy that makes my Bed in my Sickness that considereth my weakness and supporteth me and considereth my Pains and shortneth them and always in due time gives me ease or intermission from them 'T is thy mercy O! dear God that ordereth Comforts for me continually to sweeten my Distresses to me and that makes thee still to be most near unto me at those times when I stand most in need of thee So that altho' I am Sick O! my God yet I am not forsaken For Blessed be thy Name my Griefs are not beyond measure and my Burden is not without help nor my Sufferings without hope and comfort wherewith in thine abundant Mercy thou daily temperest them and sustainest me thro' Jesus Christ my Lord Amen 3. I Bless thee O! most gracious Lord for sending this Sickness upon me which thou sendest to shew thy Love and Care of me and to do me good For if my Body were not sick thou seest my Soul would be sick Yea alas it has been very Sick and this Sickness of my Body comes to cure it For in thus Correcting me when I had gone astray thou art putting an end O! God to my wandring Thou sendest these Sorrows to open my ears to discipline when Mercies would not open them and to reclaim me and set me in the way of Pardon So that this dealing shows that thou hast not rejected me as an outcast or Alien but still lookest upon me with thoughts of Mercy and treatest me as a Son And Blessed be thy Mercy O! Father of Mercies which by these Pains and Sorrows of my Body hast given my Spirit rest from the wearisome importunity and Sollicitations of Lust and Envy Blessed by thou who hast thereby dull●d the edge of my covetous Desires and laid asleep my worldly Cares and brought down my ambitious and aspiring thoughts and humbled Self-conceit by shewing me that I am but sin and folly dust and misery Blessed be thou who hast thereby calld me off from incumbring my self with many things which now I see cannot profit me to mind the one thing necessary and from minding worldly Vanities to spend my thoughts upon thy Laws and Promises and from placeing my confidence in my Self to place it only and wholly in thee And since my Sickness doth thus shew me thy Love and cure my Spirit and set on my Felicity it shall please me O! God when it pains me And I will confess to the Glory of thy Truth and Goodness that thou out of very Faithfulness hast caused me to be troubled even because I need it and because by thy Grace I shall receive much benefit by it thro' my Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen 4. I Bless thee O! Lord for all the innumerable Mercies which I have received from thee most bountifully and seasonably in all States and Conditions of my Life and thro' all the days and years of it And for that I have long received good at thy hands before I am brought now to receive Evil. I owe thee infinite thanks for a Life of health before this Confinement to my Bed of Sickness and for the long and sweet relish I have had of worldly Comforts before my Disease has rendred them unsavory And my present Pains and Sorrows O my God do not make me forget thy past or present Mercies nor go about to lessen them nor shall they by thy Grace ever make me out of humour with thee or unthankful for them Yea instead of giving thee less thanks for them by reason of this change of my Condition I wll give thee more because my present want of them has taught me better how to prize and value them And I do Bless and I will Bless the Lord that gave and Bless him still after he has taken away I Bless thee for that I still injoy much Good and cannot in the least blame thee that I have some evil but thank thee abundantly that I have no more And above all that under all my present Misery I am comforted with the Sense of thy Love and with the Blessed hopes of everlasting Peace and Joy thro' Jesus Christ my Lord Amen VII Prayers for Patience under Sickness I. A General Prayer for Patience O! Merci●ul Lord now I am called to the State of Sickness which is a Tryal of Patience give me Grace to shew Patience under the same that is not to be wearied and cannot be reproved Enable me O! Father to shew a quiet and composed Patience that is without tumult of troubled Thoughts and discontented Passions A submissive and resigned Patience that is without reluctance to thy Will or Rebellious murmurings A Patience of hope that doth not s●●k under my Burdens nor is driven by ●he smart of my Pains to 〈…〉 Love or Care or 〈…〉 And a Thankful 〈…〉 sensible of my Comforts and Supports as well as of my Sicknesses and that owns all my present Sufferings to be far below my deserts and all my past and present Mercies to be infinitely above them And make me perfect O! my God in this Patience Let me tarry thy leisure and not be hasty Let me wait on thee and not grow weary But bear all whilst I have any thing to bear in comfortable hopes of thy Strength to support my present Weakness and of thy Mercy to ease and deliver me at last either by a more healthful Life or by an happy Death thro' the Merits of Jesus Christ my Lord Amen 2. For Patience without reluctance or Disquietness LOrd I humble my Self under thy mighty hand and submit to thy Visitation I submit my Self willingly and will not strive or make resistance I kiss the Rod instead of Quarrelling with it and accept of it quietly as of the punishment of mine iniquities Yea thankfully as of the Restorer of mine innocence And in this Patience O! Holy Father do thou still continue and preserve my Spirit composed and quiet and easie to my Self Since it is thy Will thus to afflict me bow my Will to thine and make me willing to bear it And bearing it willingly let it not anger or discontent me Yea O! my God I trust to thee to lay no more upon me than I can bear Oh! let that Trust keep me without Fears and Distractions under my Burdens I bear only what I most justly deserve Oh! let that stop me from complaining Nay I bear infinitely less than I have deserved and still injoy abundance of Mercies after I have deserved to lose all Oh! then let me not fall to accuse thee for thine inflictions but rather to accuse my self for my evil Deserts and to thank thee for my most

Adversary shall suggest doubts and suspicions to him in his weakness about any of the Articles of his Faith or points of Religion so far as the doubt comes with any offer of Argument or Reason with it it should have a Rational Satisfaction But if formerly they have been persons of sincere Consciences in that State their doubts of these things are much oftner an irresoluteness owing to their present bodily weakness and Satans Suggestions than an unsettlement of Belief owing to Arguments And then these new doubts and suspicions are to be looked on by the Sick Man rather as Temptations and an advantage taken of his present feebleness and lowness of Spirit which may raise or encrease Melancholly that is naturally apt to make one mistrustful and irresolute and he will guard better against them by Devotion than by Disputation And therefore in this case let him not debate them but reject them and pray against them And think it reasonable to abide by his former perswasions about these matters which he took up in time of Health and Strength when he had both ability and leisure to examine them and not exchange them for Sick-bed Fancys when he has neither 3. To Profess his Continuance in the Vnity of the Church and that as he has lived so now by Gods Grace he is preparing himself to Dye in the Communion thereof And let him often say Lord as I have endeavoured to live so now I profess to Dye in the Communion of Saints and in the one Body whereof thou art the Plessed Head keeping therein to the last the Vnity of the Spirit and the Bond of Peace Amen For I profess thy true Faith O! my God and present unto thee Holy Prayers and a Pure Worship in the Unity and Communion of thy Holy Church Particularly O! Lord I profess this Faith and present this Worship in due adherence and subjection and obedience to those Ordox Pastors whom thou hast set over me in this Church where I live And I profess and present the same in Hearty concurrence and Communion with all other Faithful Christians and Communicating Members of this Body in all other Times and Places and with Brotherly Affection Concern and Intercession with thee for them wheresoever placed or dispersed as well as for my self I am most ready to receive and joyn with them in these professions and in this worship whensoever thy Providence shall bring us together To seek their Communion passing through all places And to own them as my Brethren coming from all Countries And to be heartily affected with what befalls them either Particular Persons or whole Churches and rejoyce in their Prosperity and Peace as one member should in the joy of another Amen And as for those who are broken off from this true Faith and Worship or from the Unity and Peace of thy Church Lord I look upon them with the Bowels of a Brother not with the Insults and Triumphs of an Enemy I pity all Hereticks and pray that they may return to be sound in the Faith I pity all Schismaticks and pray that they may return to the Unity and Communion of thy Church And O! Blessed Lord do thou give unto them humble and teachable minds that so they may either all see the way of thy truth or at least that numbers among those who do not may be pitiable and excusable before thee under their Error and mistake of it Amen And as for all the divisions which have rent thy Church into pieces O! Blessed Jesu I do most heartily lament and bewail them My Heart O! Prince of Peace is with them who love to see those Truths that make for Peace and who long and labor to heal thy Churches Breaches I utterly disclaim all bitter Zeal and cruel and Unchristian violence against Persons of different Parties from me I am ready both willingly to see and joyfully to own all that is good and all that is thine O! my dear Lord in any of their Persons or Actings And am Religiously careful not to make any of them worse than they really are by my evil Surmizes but to hope and surmize the best of them which their case and carriage can reasonably bear And I am and through thy Grace O! Merciful Saviour ever will be ready to shew them all Offices of Justice and Humanity and of common Charity notwithstanding their Communion is different from mine Amen And after these things are done to procure God's Peace for the quieting and comforting his Conscience with the lively hopes thereof he may receive the benefit of Absolution And also the Holy Communion which he must not omit if he can have it looking on it both as God's own sure Seal of Remission of his Sins and also as his own Viaticum or Provision by the way to strengthen and support his Spirit and keep him from faintness or failures through all the remainder of his difficult and wearisome passage to the Regions of Rest and Peace And for more particular Directions how to make tryal and discovery of the Safety of his Spiritual Estate before he puts it upon the final Issue if he is desirous thereof I refer him to the Tryal or Iudgement of the Soul in the Companion for the Penitent where I have given him an account and Prospect of this as full and yet as short as I could and which it would be too long here to insert And there also he may meet with variety of fitting forms to instruct him in all the parts of his Repentance and to serve him in makeing a Religious and devout Profession thereof to Almighty God CHAP. III. Of his Carriage and Demeanour under his Sickness and the Virtues thereof viz. Trust in God Resignation Thankfullness AFter the Sick Person has taken this first and chief care for his Soul to make its peace for past or present Offences his next care for it must be to keep it from falling into any new Diseases or that under the burden of a Sick Body his Soul do not fall Sick too As it will do if it grows secure and careless of Duty or regardless of Mercies or is greedy of Life and finds no relish in Prayers or in discourses of another World and falls into impatience and is fretted with fleshly cares and worldly desires all which and the like show his Spirit to be more distempered and more dangerously ill than his Body is To prevent this his next care for his Soul must be to order his Carriage well under his Sickness or to bear the pains and weakness of his Sick bed with Trust in God with Resignation to his will with Thankfulness and with Patience to the end Which Duties tho' they are all necessary under the former Head viz. of making of his Peace yet I shall now consider and treat of them as they are necessary and of greatest use to support his Spirit and recommend his Carriage First he must set himself to bear them with Trust in

within me thy comforts Lord delight my Soul Ps. 94. 19. Glory be to the Father c. 3. On taking Physick Man liveth not by Bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Mat. 4. 4. And it was neither Herb nor mollifying Plaster that restored them to health but thy word O! Lord which healeth all things For thou hast power of Life and Death thou leadest to the Gates of Hell and bringest up again Wisd. 16. 12 13. He that is our God is the God of Salvation and unto God the Lord belong the issues from Death Ps. 68. 20. The Lord hath created Medicines out of the Earth and he that is wise will not abhor them And with such doth he heal men and taketh away their Pains For of the most High cometh healing and he hath given men Skill that he might be honoured in his marve lous works Ecclus. 38. 2 4 6 7. My time is in thy hand therefore I trust in thee O Lord Ps. 31. 14 15. Oh! Send thy word and heal me and deliver me from my Destruction Ps. 107. 20. Glory be to the Father c. V. For Attendants about Sick Persons I. HE that is ready to slip with his feet is as a Lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease Job 12. 5. But to him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his Friends Job 6. 14. For a Friend loveth at all times and a Brother is born for adversity Prov. 17. 17. And if your Soul were in my Souls stead I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief Job 16. 4 5. But my Brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook and as the stream of brooks they pass away As Brooks that are blackish with Ice wherein Snow is hid What time they wax warm they vanish when it is hot they are consumed out of their place Now ye are nothing you see my casting down and are afraid Yea you dig a pit for your friend Job 6. 15 16 17 21 27. II. Whether one member suffer all the members suffer with it or one member rejoyce all the members rejoyce with it 1 Cor. 12. 26. Distribute then to the necessity of Saints and weep with those that weep Rom. 12. 13 15. And he that sheweth mercy let him do it with chearfulness v. 8. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shew'd towards his Name in that ye have ministred to the Saints and do Minister Heb. 6. 10. I was sick and ye visited me In as much as ye have done it to the least of these my Brethren ye did it unto me Mat. 25. 36 40. And this is pure and undefiled Religion to visit the Fatherless and Widows in their affliction Jam. 1. 27. And the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning for by the sadness of the Countenance the Heart is made better That is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart Eccles. 7. 2 3 4. Glory be to the Father c. VI. An Hymn of Thanksgiving for Recovery from Sickness IN my wrath I smote thee but in my favour have I had mercy on thee Is. 60. 10. The Lord hath chastned me sore but he hath not given me over unto death Ps. 118. 18. In love to my soul he hath delivered it from the pit of corruption for he hath cast all my sins behind his back Is. 38. 17. O! Lord my God thou hast considered my trouble thou hast known my soul in adversities Ps. 31. 7. Thou healest the broken in heart and bindest up their wounds Psal. 147. 3. And I cryed unto thee and thou hast healed me And hast turned for me my mourning into dancing thou hast put off my Sack-cloath and girded me with gladness To the end that my Glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent O! Lord my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever Ps. 30. 2 11 12. My Mouth shall shew forth thy Righteousness and thy Salvation all the day For I know not the numbers thereof And my Lips shall greatly rejoyce when I sing unto thee and my Soul which thou hast redeemed Psal. 71. 15. 23. O! Sing unto the Lord ye Saints of his and give thanks at the Remembrance of his Holiness Ps. 30. 4. And ye that fear the Lord trust in the Lord he is their help and their shield Ps. 115. 11. To the upright he maketh light to arise in the darkness Ps. 112. 4. For his Anger endureth but a moment in his Favour is Life Weeping may endure for a Night but Joy cometh in the Morning Psal. 30. 5. I will offer the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving and will call upon the Name of the Lord Ps. 116. 17. And I will pay thee my Vows O! God which my Lips have uttered and my Mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble Psal. 66. 13 14. I will not hide thy Righteousness within my Heart I will declare thy Faithfulness and thy Salvation I will not conceal thy Loving Kindness and thy Truth from the great Congregation Psal. 40. 10. I will pay my Vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his People In the Courts of the Lord's House in the midst of thee O! Jerusalem Praise ye the Lord Psal. 116. 18 19. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World without end Amen PRAYERS FOR THE Duties and Needs OF SICK PERSONS I. A General Prayer for things needful under Sickness O! Almighty and most Righteous Lord who makest sore and bindest up and in whose Hands are the Issues of life and death Give me Grace to look upon this my Sickness as of thy sending ●nd to own both the justice and the mercifulness of thy Visitation and of my suffering therein and to look up to thee for strength to bear and for Grace to profit by the same It comes O! My God as thy scourge for my sins which is to make me see them and avoid them And as thy Medicine to cure my Spiritual Diseases and repair in me the Decays of thy Grace And as thy Fiery Tryal which is to prove my Virtues and to purge away my Dross And Lord Let it not miss of serving and effecting in me all these Gracious purposes And make all my thoughts under the same to be only thoughts of Love and Thankfulness of Holy Resignation and Obedience unto thee and of humble hope in thy Mercy And suffer me not to fall into impatience or mistrust of thy Love and Gracious promises or into any evil and indecent carriage which will add to my guilt if I die or to my remorse and shame if I live Temper my Sorrows also O! Father to my weakness and support me under them by thy Comforts And direct and recompence the labours and kindness of