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<HEAD>THE
Declaration and Profe&s;&s;ion
OF THE
REVEREND
Mr. John Kettlewell,
(Who Departed this Life, <DATE>April 12. 1695.</DATE>) Made by him at the Re|ceiving
the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. <DATE>March 23, 1694-95.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>LOoking upon my &s;elf under my pre&s;ent Weakne&s;s, as having but little time
to continue in this World, and waiting patiently for my Change &s;ooner
or later, as it &s;hall plea&s;e Almighty God, in who&s;e hands my times are,
and I de&s;ire they &s;hould be, to &s;end it; I think fit to make, and leave be|hind
me, this <HI>DECLARATION</HI> and <HI>PROFESSION</HI> following.</P>
<P>I profe&s;s firmly and &s;teadfa&s;tly, to Believe the Creed whereinto I was Baptized,
the Holy Catholick Faith, in the Father, Son and Holy Gho&s;t. In which Ble&s;&s;ed
Godhead, I humbly believe, and Religiou&s;ly adore, both the Unity in Trinity,
and al&s;o the Trinity in Unity.</P>
<P>I Profe&s;s to Continue Firm and &s;teadfa&s;t, in the Unity and Communion of
Chri&s;t's Holy Catholick Church. Being freely and heartily ready, to joyn with
all &s;ound Members in the Communion thereof, in all Holy and Divine Offices, as the
Providence of God &s;hould bring them to me, or me to them; to demean my &s;elf
towards them in all things as my Brethren; and to be affected with what befalls
them, as one Member ought to be with the Joy or Grief of another. And as for
tho&s;e who are broken off from the True and Saving <HI>Faith, Wor&s;hip</HI> or <HI>&V;nity</HI> of
this Body; I heartily pity them, and Pray for their Recovery and Re-Union.</P>
<P>And having been not only made a Member, but, by my Ble&s;&s;ed Ma&s;ter Je&s;us
Chri&s;t's ine&s;timable Vouch&s;afement, called to be a Mini&s;ter of His in the <HI>Church of
England;</HI> I do Profe&s;s and Declare, That as I have Lived and Mini&s;tred hitherto,
So I do &s;till Continue Firm, in its <HI>Faith, Wor&s;hip,</HI> and <HI>Communion.</HI></P>
<P>And as for my Deprivation of my Living &s;ince this late <HI>Revolution,</HI> in Compa|ny
with many other Excellent and Pious Per&s;ons, for not taking the <HI>New Oath of
Allegiance</HI> to tho&s;e who Claim'd the &s;ame; As I did, &s;o I &s;till do firmly believe,
That it was on many Great and dreadful Acounts, my <HI>Bonnden Duty</HI> ab&s;olutly to
refu&s;e the &s;ame: And that &s;uch Refu&s;al was, and is, a mo&s;t <HI>righteous and rewarda|ble
Cau&s;e of Suffering</HI> I ble&s;s my God, who was plea&s;ed to Call me, and Enable
me thereby to give a Proof of the Sincerity of my Love, and Preference of him
before this World, by Willingly, and Gladly Quitting a worldly Livelihood for
his &s;ake. And as upon this <HI>Righteous Account,</HI> I parted with my Living, with much
more Satisfaction and Plea&s;ure of Mind, than I at fir&s;t received it with; So, Ble&s;&s;ed
be God's Holy Name, I take the &s;ame <HI>Comfort</HI> and <HI>Satisfaction</HI> therein &s;till.</P>
<P>And as for the mo&s;t unhappy and lamentable Breach of Church-Unity and Com|munion
among Us, By &s;etting up Bi&s;hop again&s;t Bi&s;hop on account of this <HI>New-Oath
of Allegiance,</HI> and for the Continuance and Confirmation of the matter there|of
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in the Publick and Daily Offices and Mini&s;trations of Religion; making both
Oaths, and Holy Offices, as much as may be in all Points &s;ub&s;ervient to this <HI>New-Allegiance:</HI>
In this mo&s;t &s;orrowful Breach of Church-Society; I profe&s;s, That as I
have done hitherto, &s;o I do &s;till heartily and firmly Embrace and Continue in the
<HI>Communion of tho&s;e Orthodox and Rightful Bi&s;hops, and the Clergy and People Ad|hereing
unto them, who have Suffered,</HI> as I belleve for their Steadfa&s;tne&s;s to the Rules
of Righteou&s;ne&s;s in the Refu&s;al of this <HI>New-Oath,</HI> and who keep their Divine Of|fices
and Mini&s;trations Free from all tho&s;e things, which my Con&s;cience &s;ticks at
in the &s;ame; being now about to Receive the Benefit of Ab&s;olution, and the Ble&s;&s;ed
Euchari&s;t, from the <HI>hands of One of them.</HI> I heartily and earne&s;tly Pray for the
Cure, of this mo&s;t Great and Grievous Breach. And when&s;oever the time of
Healing &s;hall come, The Lord, who purcha&s;ed his Church with his own Blood,
put the work of Healing and Re-Union into wi&s;e and good Hands, who, without
Pa&s;&s;ion, or Per&s;onal Prejudices, or any regard to pa&s;t Wrongs, or private Inte|re&s;ts,
&s;hall faithfully, and unbya&s;&s;edly pur&s;ue the Ble&s;&s;ed work of Chri&s;tian-Union,
and be willing and Glad to &s;ee tho&s;e Truths which make for Unity, and will have
nothing el&s;e in their Eyes, but how to Re-Settle this poor Broken Church in <HI>Truth,
Purity, &V;nity,</HI> and <HI>Peace.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE N="&dtristar;" PLACE="marg"><P><HI>The Books which He means are En|tituled, as followeth.</HI> Of Chri&s;tian Prudence, or Religious Wi&s;dom, not degenerating into irreligious Craftine&s;s in TRYING TIMES. <HI>London,</HI> 1691.</P>
<P>Chri&s;tianity a Doctrin of the Cro&s;s, or <HI>Pa&s;&s;ive Obedience</HI> under any pretended In|va&s;ion of Legal Rights and Liberties.</P>
<P>The Duty of Allegiance &s;ettled upon its true grounds, according to Scripture, Rea&s;on, and the Opinion of the Church in An&s;wer to a late Book of Dr. <HI>William Sherlock,</HI> Enti|tuled, <HI>The Ca&s;e of Allegiance due to So|vereign Powers.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A Companion for the</HI> PERSECUTED, <HI>Or an Office for tho&s;e who Suffer for Righte|ou&s;ne&s;s.</HI> London, 1694. <HI>To which may be added, His Companion for the</HI> Penitent, <HI>and for Per&s;ons</HI> Troubled in Mind. <HI>Al&s;o, His Book Entituled,</HI> Death made Comfortable, <HI>Or,</HI> The way to Die well. 1695. Of CHRISTIAN COMMUNION to be held in the Unity of Chri&s;t's Church, and among the Profe&s;&s;ors of Truth and Holine&s;s. 1693.</P></NOTE> As for the Books which I have writ
<HI>&s;ince this Revolution,</HI> to keep up among my
Chri&s;tian Brethren, a Sen&s;e of truly Apo|&s;tolical
and Primitive Morals at a time when
mo&s;t &s;eem'd bent to Start, or take up with any
Shifts or Salvo's to &s;et the &s;ame a&s;ide; for
their worldly Safety: Or, to direct them a|bout
their Civil Obedience, and Comfort,
and Support them under any worldly Dan|gers
or Sufferings for the &s;ame; Or to guide
them in their way of Wor&s;hip, that they
may perform the &s;ame with Purity, and in
the Unity and Communion of Chri&s;t's Holy
Church: I ble&s;s God, my &s;incere de&s;ign in
Writing, and Publi&s;hing them, was with
much Pains, and &s;ome Hazard, to &s;erve my
Ble&s;&s;ed Ma&s;ter; and as I thought, the Great
and Pre&s;&s;ing Needs of his Church and Peo|ple
among&s;t us. And as I truly, and &s;in|cerely
believed all the Points I have Taught,
and Delivered therein, when I Wrote and
Publi&s;hed them: So I do now Profe&s;s,
That after all the time I have had to Con|&s;ider
them &s;ince; and after all that I have heard or met with in oppo&s;ition to any
Matters contained therein, which I think I have duly weigh'd and look'd through,
I do truly and &s;incerely believe them all to be true &s;till.</P>
<P>And all this, I have here Solemnly Profe&s;&s;ed and Declared, for the Benefit and
Satisfaction of tho&s;e, who &s;hall be de&s;irous to know, whether I continued in the
Belief and Practice of the &s;ame things at my Death, which I Profe&s;&s;ed, Taught,
and Practi&s;ed in my Life.</P>
<CLOSER>And to this <HI>Profe&s;&s;ion</HI> and <HI>Declaration,</HI> I &s;et my Hand,
<DATE>this 23 of <HI>March,</HI> 1694-95.</DATE>
<SIGNED>JOHN KETTLEWELL.</SIGNED> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></CLOSER>
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