A companion for the persecuted, or, An office for those who suffer for righteousness containing particular prayers and devotions, for particular graces, and for their private or publick wants and occasions.

Title

A companion for the persecuted, or, An office for those who suffer for righteousness containing particular prayers and devotions, for particular graces, and for their private or publick wants and occasions.

Author

Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.

Publication

[London? :: s.n.],

1693.

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Subject terms

Prayers.

Devotional literature, English.

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Cite this Item

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Contents

• title page
• The Introduction.
• Scriptures for those who suffer for Righteousness.
  • I. For Receiving Persecutions, as Chastisements for former Offences.
  • II. For Receiving Persecutions, as Tryals of our Obedience, and as they bring upon us Losses for Righteousness.
    • 1. To be received with Content∣edness, and with Thankfulness.
    • 2. With free Confession of Christ and his Truths.
    • 3. With Integrity and Prudent Caution.
    • 4. With Steadfastness and Con∣stancy.
    • 5. With Faith.
      • 1.
      • 2.
    • 6. With Trust in God.
    • 7. Against Trusting more in other things, than in God, and fixing too much on Earthly Depen∣dances.
    • 8. With Patience.
    • 9. With Prayer and unwearied Devotion.
    • 10. With Charity towards Per∣secutors.
      • 1.
      • 2.
    • 11. With Charity towards the Persecuted.
      • 1.
      • 2.
    • 12. With Motives and Encourage∣ments to suffer.
    • 13. For Deliverance from Perse∣cutions.
    • 14. For Trust in God, to be pre∣served under the same, and de∣livered from them.
    • 15. An Hymn of Thanksgiving for deliverance from Persecu∣tions.
• PRAYERS for Those who suf∣fer for Righteousness.
  • I. A Penitential Prayer under Perse∣cutions, as they are Chastisements for our former Offences.
    • 1.
    • 2. Out of the Office of Commination.
  • 2. Prayers under Persecutions, as they are Tryals of our Obedience, and bring upon us Losses for Righteousness.
    • I. A General Prayer, for Mercies & Qua∣lifications needful in Suffering-times.
    • 2. A Prayer Out of the Litany.
• Particular Prayers.
  • I. For Integrity, and not seeking to any evil ways for Help.
  • II. For Constancy in Persecuted Duties.
    • 1. Against being turned aside by Worldly Dangers or Losses.
    • II. Against being shaken in mind, or scandalized.
      • 1. By the Defection of others, or by Variety of Opinions.
      • 2. Or, By a Reverence of any Mens Persons.
      • 3. A Prayer for Faith.
      • 4. A Prayer for Trust in God.
      • 5. Against trusting more in other things than in God, and fixing too much on Earthly Dependances.
      • 6. Prayers for Patience.
        • 1. In easie and unwearied endurance.
        • 2. In not envying the success of the wick∣ed, in compassing unrighteous Devices.
      • 7. For Prayers, and unwearyed Devotion under Persecutions.
      • 8. A Prayer for diligent Attendance on Publick Assemblies.
      • 9. Prayers for Godly Prudence and Cau∣tion, in Days of Peril and Persecution.
        • 1. For Prudence.
        • 2. For Integrity therewith.
      • 10. A Prayer for Patience and Charity towards our Persecutors.
      • Particular Prayers for Patience towards them.
        • 1.
        • 2
      • Particular Prayers for Charity toward Persecutors.
        • 1
        • 2.
        • 3 A Prayer against evil Surmises, and for Candor in Censuring those, who either Persecute us, or fall from the way of Righteousness.
      • 11. A Prayer for Grace to turn the same, from carrying on impatience aud anger against others, to carry on amendment of our selves.
      • 12. A Prayer for Charity to the Per∣secuted.
      • 13. A Prayer for deliverance from Perse∣cutions, after one is wearied therewith.
      • 14. Intercessions, or Prayers for others in Times of Persecutions.
        • 1. A Prayer for Persecutors, who at any time, or any where, are oppressing Truth, or Righteousness.
        • 2. Prayers for the Persecuted, who hap∣pen in any place to be suffering for the cause of Truth or Righteousness.
          • 1.
          • 2.
        • 3. Prayers for a Kingdom when in any Time or Place it happens to labour under Persecutions, for any part of Gods Truth, or way of Righteousness: Or, when it is torn to pieces by Inte∣stine Divisions about the same.
          • 1.
          • 2.
        • 4. Prayers for the Church, when in any any Time or Place, it is called to suffer Perse∣cution for Truth or Righte∣ousness.
          • 1. A general Prayer for things needful to the same in such Times of Persecution.
          • 1. Prayers for its Purity and Integrity.
      • 15. A Thanksgiving for any Comfor∣table Cessation, or for Rest and Ease from Persecution.
• SCRIPTURES.
  • 1.
  • 2.
  • 3.
  • 4. An Hymn of Thanksgiving, for Deliverance upon a Trial, or out of Pison.
• Prayers.
  • 1. A General Prayer for all Prisoners.
  • 2. Particular Prayers.
    • 1. A Prayer for the Prisoner for any part of Truth or Righteousness, to use in his Family.
    • 2. Prayers for the Prisoner for Truth or Righteousness, to use for himself.
      • 1. A Prayer for Deliverance from E∣nemies and Prosecutors, when at any time, or any where, he is put in Prison, for any Parts of Truth, or Righteousness.
      • 2. A Prayer for Deliverance, from Frail and Faithless Friends, when they are brought in at such Times, to accuse him for the same.
      • 3. A Prayer for Graces at such times, under his Sufferings and Persecuti∣ons for any ways of Truth and Righ∣teousness.
      • 4. A Prayer for a Mind raised above Earthly Things.
      • 5. A Prayer for Peace with God, and a quit Conscience.
      • 6. A Prayer for Graces needful for him at the Tryal, when he is to be judged for his Stedfastness to Gods Truth or Righteousness.
      • 7. Prayers after Sentence of Condemna∣tion is past upon him, for his Stedfast∣ness to the same.
        • EJACULATIONS.
        • A short Prayer upon his receiving the Sentence.
        • A Longer Prayer afterwards.
      • 8. A Prayer for Dying without Fear.
      • 9. Short Prayers for the Condemned Prisoner for Righteousness, in his last Extremities, or at other times, as he sees cause.
        • 1.
        • 2.
        • 3.
      • 10 A Thanksgiving for Deliverance, when he is brought upon his Tryal for the Cause of Righteousness, or for his being set at Liberty.
• table of contents
  • The Contents of the Office for those who suffer for Righteousness.
  • The Contents of the Office for Prisoners for Righteousness.
• An Advertisement.
• ERRATA.