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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

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But for my sins against thee my God I must lay my hand upon my mouth for ever for I have nothing to return or answer But the comfort is and blessed shall be my Soul if rightly I lay hold on it that it is thou O my blessed Iesu who hast satisfied for me one drop of whose bloud is enough to satisfie for the sins of a thousand worlds And this being so will thy offended Father be so rigorous as to require the same paiment again Especially will he require it of me a poor a broken and a bankrupt Sinner Canst thou exact the utmost farthing of him who hath not a mite of his own to pay thee The Transition which the Penitent makes from the Acts of Contrition to the Acts of Resolution for amendment of life without which all sorrow for sin is in vain BUT because by thy infinite Mercy O my God thou hast satisfied for me already shall I therefore fold my Arms and sit down and doe nothing towards it Or which is worse shall I goe on Shall I continue in my Sins that Grace may abound Now God forbid No I here resolve rather to die the Death then ever wilfully to sin against thee more I do here resolve utterly to avoid the temptations and approaches towards those former sins which have hitherto so miserably betraied me I do here resolve thy holy Spirit assisting me upon all the duties of a new life to be hereafter more wary in my waies and more constant to good resolutions to love thee above all the pleasures and interests of this life and sadly to consider what an infinite loser I should be if to gain all that my corrupt heart desires I should lose thee If after all this I should be so miserably forgetfull both of my self and thee as shamefully to relapse into any of those sins which I have now repented of I do here once more resolve to abhor and loath my self for it and not to let my Conscience sleep or admit of any rest till I have with bitter Tears and a sharp reiterated Repentance obtained my pardon Having thus far made his Resolution the Penitent betakes himself to Praier AND now O thou great searcher of all Hearts who seest that I am of my self weak and mutable and no better then a Reed shaken with the winde O shew thy strength in my weakness fasten and confirm me in these good purposes and so binde them with Cords unto thine Altar that ● may never start from thee more or be any longer of that Herd whose good resolutions are as a dream in the night or if they last longer they are but as the next morning dew and as soon vanish away O give me the Resolution of thy Servant Joshua I and my house will serve the Lord. O give me the Heart of thy Servant David who so passionately makes his Protestations I will take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sins of unfaithfulness there shall no such cleave unto me I will walk in my house with a perfect heart I have sworn and am stedfastly purposed to keep thy righteous Judgments Lord I am not able to think one of these good thoughts without thee much less to resolve upon them But I who without thee am able to doe nothing may venture to say as thine Apostle did that in thee I am able to doe all things Lord give me the strength to doe what thou requirest and then require of me what thou pleasest Amen After these Resolutions the Penitent prepares himself with an humble Soul and bended knees to beg Pardon O The God of my life and the unexhausted Fountain of Mercy which can never be drawn dry I have now by the assistence of thy holy Spirit gone through though with weak and trembling steps the whole exercise of Repentance for I have confessed my sins and thou hast promised upon my confession of them not to impute them to me I have gone one step farther for I have repented of my sins and thou hast promised again that upon my repentance thou wilt remember them no more and because thy Holy Word hath taught me that a new life is the onely life of a true Repentance I have this day in thy fight and in the presence of all the holy Angels that attend thee in the Conversion of a Sinner made my firm resolution never to fall again into the sins which I have repented of And now what remains for a poor Penitent to doe more but humbly and earnestly to beg thy Pardon The Penitent's Praier O God the Father who canst not be thought so cruell as to make me onely to destroy me Have mercy on me O God the Son who knowing thy Father's Will didst make it thy business to come into the world to save me Have mercy on me O God the Holy Ghost who to the same end didst sanctifie me in my Baptism and haft so often since breathed holy thoughts and motions on me Have mercy on me O Holy and Blessed and Glorious Trinity whom in three Persons I adore as my one and onely true God Have mercy on me Hear me O Lord. Help me O Lord. Save me or else I perish Lord carest thou not that I perish Thou that wouldest have all men saved Thou who wouldest have none to perish And wilt thou now shew thine anger against a Worm against a Leaf against a Vapour that vanisheth before thee O remember how short my time is and deliver not my Soul into the Power of Hell For alas what profit is there in my Bloud or who shall ever give thee thanks in that bottomless pit No let me live in thy sight let me live O my God that my Soul may praise thee Forget me as I have been disobedient provoking thee to anger and regard me as I am distressed crying out to thee for help Look not upon me as I am a Sinner but consider me as I am thy Creature A Sinner I am I confess a Sinner of no ordinary strain but let not this hinder thee O my God for upon such Sinners thou gettest the greatest glory O remember for whose sake it was that thou camest from the bosome of thy Father and didst let thy self down so low as to be content to be born of thine own humble handmaid Remember for whom it was that thy tender Body was Torn and Scourged and Crucified and thy precious Bloud shed Was it not for the sins of the whole world and shall I be so narrow-hearted to my own Soul or so injurious to thy Glory as to think that in all this crowd thou hast particularly excepted me Or which is as great a dishonour to thee can I possibly imagine that thou diedst onely for Sinners of a lower kinde and leftest such as I am without remedy What had become then of him who filled Ierusalem with Bloud What of the noted Woman who had lived in a trade of Sin Nay what had become of thine own Disciple who
with Oaths and Curses thrice denied thee O how easie is it for thee to forgive for it is thy Nature How proper is it for thee to save for it is thy Name How suitable is it to thy onely End of coming into the World for it is thy Business And when I consider that I am the chief of Sinners may I not urge the Father and say Shall the very chief of thy business be left undone Mercy Mercy good Lord. I ask not of thee any longer the things of this world neither Power nor Honours nor Riches nor Pleasures No my God dispose of them to whom thou pleasest so that thou givest me Mercy O that I could hear thee once say as thou didst to him in the Gospel My Son be of good chear thy Sins are forgiven thee How would my drooping Spirits revive at such a Sound and my now wounded Soul break forth into Hymns and Praises and Hallelujahs for a Mercy so utterly undeserved of me and which the Angels which fell could never hear of But O my weak Soul what dost thou fear or what dost thou scruple at For thou art not yet in such a desperate condition but thou maist expect that what was said to him may possibly be said to thee Nay be confident though it be with a mixture of fear and trembling that if thou dost not act the part of an Hypocrite all this while thy Saviour stands ready at the very doors of thy Heart to breath the very same words in a heavenly whisper to thee Be of good chear thy Sins are forgiven thee Return then unto thy rest O my Soul for thy Sins are forgiven thee Onely take this Counsel along with thee Sin no more lest a worse thing fall unto thee O that I could never sin against thee more never purposely deliberately wilfully sin against thee more And for those sins of daily Incursion those over-familiar corruptions of my nature which thou hast not yet given me strength enough to conquer Lord either subdue them to me by degrees or lay them not to my charge But wherein soever my Conscience most accuseth me therein O my God be thou most mercifull unto me Save me O God as a Brand snatched out of the Fire Receive me O my Jesu as a Sheep that hath wandred but is now returned to the great Shepherd and Bishop of my Soul The Iubile of the Penitent Soul after the sense of Pardon obtained REjoice over me O God the Father that this thy Child was lost but is found was dead but is alive again Rejoice over me O God the Son that thy loud Cries and Tears and bitter Agonies which for my sake thou enduredst upon the Cross were not so unhappily lost as to be cast away in vain upon me Rejoice over me O God the Holy Ghost that thy so many secret and powerfull touches have at last got the upper hand of me Rejoice over me O ye holy Angels a great part of whose Ministery it is to rejoice at the Conversion of a Sinner Rejoice over thy self O my Soul that thou hast received so much grace from Heaven this day as sadly to confess thy Sins seriously to repent of them and stedfastly to resolve never to be guilty more of so much brutishness as to be likened to the Dog that returns to his Vomit or to the Swine wallowing in the Mire The Petinent closeth all with this short Praier LEt this day O my God be noted in thy Book Do not thou forget my Praiers nor suffer me to forget my Resolutions For though I am weak though I am unworthy though I am unprofitable yet I am thy Servant And here upon my bended Knees I humbly beg of thee that I may live and die so Lord hear my Praiers and let my cry come unto thee Lord pardon my Praiers and let not my coldness and wandrings and infinite unworthiness turn them into Sin Lord hear my Praiers and let my cry come unto thee Amen Amen FINIS