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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36932	A guide for the penitent, or, A modell drawn up for the help of a devout soul wounded with sin	Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.	1664 (1664)	Wing D2660; ESTC R24920	16,487	49

Confessour who not onely stands between God and you to pray for you but hath the power of the Keys committed to him upon your true Repentance to Absolve you in Christ's Name from those sins which you have confessed to him II. You are to remember that you bring along with you to Confession not onely unfeigned Sorrow and Remorse of Conscience for sins past but setled Resolutions for the time to come never to offend in the same kinde again for without this Confession is but a mere Pageant and rather a mockery of God then any effectual means to reconcile you to him III. That having made choice of such a Confessor who is every way qualified that you may trust your Soul with him you are advised plainly and sincerely to open your heart to him and that laying aside all consideration of any personal weakness in him you are to look upon him onely as he is a Trustee from God and commissioned by him as his Ministerial Deputy to hear and judge and absolve you IV. That the Manner of your Confession be in an humble posture on your knees as being made to God rather then man and for the Matter of it let it be severe and serious but yet so as it may be without any inordinate Anxiety and unnecessary Scruples which serve onely to entangle the Soul and in stead of setting you free which is the benefit to be looked for by Confession perplex you the more V. That for the frequency of doing this you are to consult with your own necessities and as your Physician is not sent for upon every small distemper which your own care may rectifie so neither are you obliged upon every failing to be over-scrupulous or to think it a point of Necessity presently to confess it For the Confessor cannot be always present but your God is to whom if you apply your self with Praiers and Penitence confessing in his ears alone what-ever you have done amiss and stedfastly believing that through the merits of your Saviour they shall never be imputed to you you may be confident that your Absolution is at that time sealed in Heaven but the comfortable Declaration of it you are to look for from the Priest Advice concerning Devout Receiving the Holy and Blessed Sacrament I. YOu are first to consider seriously the Infinite Love of your Saviour who not onely offered himself for you as a Sacrifice upon the Cross but that this might never be forgotten by you left the blessed memory of it in his Holy Sacrament which as often as you devoutly and faithfully receive you are effectually made Partaker of all the Merits of his precious Death and Passion II. That for the frequency of doing this if your own Conscience doth not speak home to you you refer your self to your Spiritual Guide who knowing the Temper of your Soul and how you stand disposed may best direct you Onely I shall adde this that the oftner you apply your self to doe it your life will be the purer your heart the chearfuller and the better armed against all Temptations III. That three times in the year at least especially on those solemn Festivals observed by all Christians who have not utterly cast off Obedience to the Church and order in their Devotions you lay aside all excuses and every Sin that then besets you and seriously prepare your self for so great a Blessing IV. That assoon as you wake that Morning and the sooner you awake the better sign it is that your minde is set upon it you rouse your self up with a fervent expectation of Receiving that day the Bread that came from Heaven which whosoever is rightly partaker of shall not perish but have life everlasting V. As for the precedent daies of Preparation how many they should be or how they should be employed you are to refer your self to your Guide who may advise you not to be over-scrupulous of the Time for the Primitive Christians communicated every day and if your life be innocent from great offences you Prepartion need not be long Onely be sure you bring with you Faith and Charity clean hands and a penitent heart which if you do be confident the Master of the Feast will not finde fault with you for want of a wedding-Garment VI. That upon the blessed day of your Receiving you do more vigorously prepare your self by lifting up your Heart and Hands to God and offering up your private Praiers fitted for that purpose with all possible Devotion And that being done you may compose your self in quiet and in silence till the time of the Morning-Sacrifice be come when being called to a more Publick Oratory you may be the fitter to goe with an humble Confidence to meet your Saviour and with that Ardour and Affection as a chast Virgin goes to an holy Marriage VII That during the Celebration of this Holy Sacrament you attend earnestly to what is done by the Priest When he breaks the Bread imagine to your self that you see the Body of your dear Saviour torn and crucified and when he pours out the Wine consider that his Bloud was thus poured out upon the Altar of the Cross and last of all when he that consecrates shall stand before you ready in particular to apply it you may then think that you see Christ himself reaching out his own body and bloud to you to feed your Soul unto Eternal Life VIII That farther you are really to believe the words as they are spoken This is my Body This is my Bloud and not to doubt but that it is effectually made good to you in the Receiving without any dispute at all or scrupulous inquiring into the manner of it which neither Christ hath revealed and neither Men nor Angels are able to pry into IX That the Celebration of these Holy Mysteries being ended you are to retire with all Thankfulness of heart for having been admitted to that Heavenly Feast wherein your Saviour who gave himself for you on the Cross hath now more particularly given himself to you in the Sacrament never to depart from you unless you again wilfully offend him which you are the more earnestly to beware left by frequent Relaples the Sacrament it self prove not onely useless but dangerous to you and your latter end prove worse then your beginnning Advice concerning Fasting I. YOu are to consider Fasting either as a Duty enjoyned by the Church or as a voluntary undertaking of your own Your Obedience is required to the former in every particular as far as it is enjoyned unless the want of Health or some other Accidents may unavoidably hinder you wherein not onely the Bishop may dispense with you but he that hath the charge of your Soul especially if the Necessity be evident II. Besides the ordinary Fasts prescribed by the Church you are advised to set aside some Day either Weekly or at least Monthly wherein you may mourn in private not onely for your own sins and personal calamities but for