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A01629	The true tryall and examination of a mans owne selfe wherein euery faithfull Christian, by looking into his conscience, may most plainely behold his spirituall deformity by nature, described, his actuall rebellion by disobedience detected, his promise breach at baptisme, by ordinary transgression apparantly proued, his lamentable estate through sinne discouered, his wilfull obstinacie by dayly disorder displayed, and lastly howe by earnest repentaunce, and faith in Christ Iesu, he is from all the same clearely pardoned, forgiuen, released and reconciled / done in Englishe by Tho. Newton.	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 11761.5; ESTC S4316	74,045	216

this cōmeth often so to passe as by example we will shewe ¶ If thou haue corrupted anye wares or any other thing which thy neighbour is to buy and then sell thē vnto him for good first of all thou knowest that thou herein hast sinned against the ix Cōmandement which forbiddeth thee to giue false witnesse But if thou diddest it with an intent and meaning to rake and scrape a priuate gaine vniustly to thy selfe with the losse and hinderance of an other thou art therein guiltie of the breach of the viii Commandement whereby is forbidden all theft If furthermore in this behalfe thou haue deceiued anie that is thy superiour or that is linked to thee in bloud as thy Father or thy Mother the Magistrate the Minister of the Church thy kinseman c. therein hast thou transgressed the fifth Commaundement of honouring Father and Mother To be short if this circumstance do also concurre that this cra●tie practise were by thee doone on the Sabbaoth day then hast thou heerein incurred the displeasure of Almightie God for prophaning and not sanctifying the Sabbath day Last of all it may bee that in this bargayning and selling some such woordes might passe from thee as might make thee further guiltie For if thou swearest vainely and without cause with an intent meaning to auouch any thing that thou wouldest haue to be beleeued then art thou therein guiltie of the thirde commaundement Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vaine ¶ Thirdly we shall doe well in the examining and dicussing of thy actions to giue thee charge circumspectly to consider euerie particular circūstance to wit the time the place the person the cause the end the maner the instrument c. No man wil denie but that the offence is farre greater hainouser which is committed on the Sabbath daye or at such time as all men for some publike calamitie are in a generall heauines againe when it is committed in the sight and face of many honest and graue persons furthermore when it is doone by or against any man in high authoritie moreouer when no manner of alluring occasion went afore to drawe or mooue thee to that euill Therefore we may not slightly passe ouer howe much and how greatly these circumstances doe aggrauate and augment thy fault 4 Fourthly it standeth thee vpon moreouer often and many times to consider with thy selfe and plainely to confesse that thou canst neuer call to memorie all thy sinnes committed and againe that thou canst neuer exactly ynough iudge ●ow greeuous detestable those be which doe alreadie come to thy remembraunce For truely and diuinely hath the Prophet set downe who can vnderstand his faults O clense me from my secret faultes For so standeth thy case that euen where thou least thinkest thou there sinnest most greeuously And the thinges which thou thinkest well and iustlie done are in the sight of God and before the tribunall seate of the highe iudge vncleane vnrighteous and de●ectrue And therefore the Prophet Isaiah cryeth out thus We haue been all as an vncleane thing and al our righteousnesse is as a filthy clout Seeing therefore the case thus standeth it is thy part and dutie plainely to confesse that much ignoraunce remayneth in thee and that the same is in thee a great sinne for the which vnlesse God in mercy do pardon thee hee may hurle thee headlong into eternall damnation 5 Fiftly thou must consider that there is cause ynough to condemne and pronounce thee guiltie for that thou hast not done those good workes which in the lawe are commaunded For looke how many sinnes in euerie particular commaundement are forbidden so many good workes in euery commaundement are commaunded To euery sinne there ought to answere his contrarie and that is some good worke ¶ Now if thou throughly examine thy conscience thou shalt soone espy that thou hast not perfourmed no not the least part and portion of those thinges which the lawe of God requireth at thy handes yea if thou narrowly search euery corner of thy selfe thou shalt finde that either thou hast fulfilled and perfourmed nothing at all or if thou hast perfourmed anye thing yet shalt thou finde it to be vnperfect corrupt and with some manner of contagion infected For all our obedience is maymed lame and vnperfect Wherefore thou must say as Christ hath taught vs all Although we had done all those things that are commanded vs. yet we are vnprofitable seruauntes Againe The wisedome of the flesh is enimitie against God for it is not subiect to the lawe of God neyther in deede can bee Againe in the 7. Chapter I knowe that in mee that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but I finde no meanes to perfourme that which is good And I delight in the lawe of God concerning this inner man but I see an other lawe in my members rebelling against the lawe of my minde and leading me cap●i●e vnto the lawe of sinne which is in my members 6 Sixtly thou must cast in thy mind to consider and record the paines and punishmentes which God threatneth and inflicteth vpon those that disobey and transgresse his commandements Of these paines punishmentes and plagues some be corporall and externall some spirituall and internall Of the first sort are barrainesse and steriliti● of the earth hunger and dearth dissentions and warres diseases pestilence banishmentes shipwrackes inundations and ouerflowings stormes calamities burninges c. Of the latter sort are ignoraunce of the scriptures famine of the woorde of God blindnesse of the minde incredulitie and vnbeliefe induration or hardening of the heart deliuerie and giuing vp into a reprobate sense c. A great beadroll of plagues are reckoned vp in the 28. of Deuteronomie But when it pleaseth him the Lorde can and will send many mo than are there expressed For hee daily prepareth and maketh readie newe scourges whips for disobedient men eue● as they dayly commit newe sinnes and offences For alas what miserie doe wee nowe day by day tast and proue what daungers What diseases What other incommodities which as it is to bee thought were not so much as once knowen by the very bare names vnto men in the olde men nor so much as once by any meanes spoken of And withall thou shalt remember and call to minde the examples of such as by the iust iudgement of God are read reported of in the bookes of the sacred scriptures others also to haue been plagued with these punishments either bodily or spiritually and it shall also much further thee to adde hereunto such as thou of thine own knowledge within thy time and memorie hast knowen to haue felt the heauie hande of God 7 Seuenthly it shal be very behouefull for thee to consider that for thy sinnes and offences others linked vnto thee in consanguinitie and kinred are punished namely thy Parentes thy children thy brethren thy

some certaine places and with certaine appointed solemnities and ceremonies whereby there are commonly committed sundrie lewde attemptes and many lamentable enormities Whether he haue admitted any to bee teachers in the Church which were eyther vnmeete or vnable syncerely and discreetely to deliuer the worde of God or any corrupt and vnsounde preachers that willingly depraue the texts of the scriptures and purposely misconstrue the wordes of trueth to confirme and establish their owne phantasticall or rather phanaticall opinions ¶ He that is called to gouernment in the common wealth be he Prince or Peere Iudge or Lawyer of high calling let him looke well about him whether he haue with all his endeuor and care laboured to promote true religion and to maintaine defende the sincere worship of God Whether he haue countenaunced abetted or mainteined any heretikes Schismatiks Iewes or any false wicked teachers in any thing against the sanctifying of the blessed name of god Whether in giuing sentēce iudgement vpon any matter in all other graue consultations about the affaires of the common wealth he haue nuer remēbred that God is the high Lord and Iudge and him selfe to be but his Minister ¶ They that bestowe their time in Schooles of learning which bee the seede plots and Seminaries both of the Church and common-wealth Doctors Teachers and Maisters Whether they haue carefully trained in the feare of God the youth committed to their charge and syncerely deliuered vnto them the principles and chiefe grounds of fayth and Christian religion Scholers Whether by reading of the bookes of Philosophers and heathen Poets they haue learned to holde any wicked opinions of God Whether they haue in their custody any wicked Pamphlets or bestowe any study in bookes of curious arts and superstitious skill as magicke diuination and such like Whether they reade any bookes of Heretiques iustly condemned by the Catholike and vniuersall Church ¶ Physition Whether beeing with the sicke he haue especially before all thinges exhorted them to haue a firme and vndoubting faith in God without whom no medicine is auaileable and holesome Whether for recouerie of his bodily health he haue aduised and prescribed to his patient any things that be hurtfull and dangerous to the health of his soule as all those thinges are that be not warranted by the worde of God but directly against the remedies which the Lorde hath ordained As when they prescribe vnto them superstitious obseruaunces peeuish calculations and childish mawmetries c. Also when they beare their patient in hand or make him to thinke that some certaine Saints haue power to send also to take away this or that disease as though God were not the onely gouernour of all thinges did not depend on him ¶ Apothecarie Whether he haue superstitiouslie obserued or fondly stayed for choise daies or houres or any other ceremonious rytes in gathering his herbs or other simples for the making of his drouges and receiptes ¶ Merchants poore people and handicraftesmen Whether they haue procured gotten and made any thing or otherwise furnished others with any thing thereby to make them the better able to oppresse or hinder Christian religion and the true worshippe of God As they doe which either aide the Turkes or craue aide of them against their christian brethren And as they doe which sell to the Iewes or to treacherous and hollowe harted Christians any maner of stuffe or instrument whereby to prophane and dishonour the name of God or which do any maner of way minister occasion by theit deuise and sleight to compasse and bring to passe any thing to dimme and empeache the glory of God on earth The second Commandement Thou shalt make thee no grauen Image neither any similitude of things that are in heauen aboue neither that are in the earth beneath nor that are in the water vnder the earth Thou shalt not bowe downe to them nor worship them c. Sinnes inwarde COnsider well whether thou haue not sometime thought that God either would or might be worshipped otherwise then in spirit trueth Whether thou haste not beene perswaded that the inuisible power of God might by some visible Image be the better knowne and so the sooner honoured Whether thou haste any time beleeued or thought that the honour due vnto God was any way bestowable vp on any creature whether thou hast thought any creature able of his own proper power and ability to bring this or that to passe Whether thou haste euer thought that myracles haue bene wrought by Images or that any vertue and power hath beene in them Sinnes outward WHether hauing euer secretely cōceiued in thy mind any wicked opiniōs about the seruice and worship of God thou haue apparantly and openly by any token or signification made publike the same that is whether thou haue built founded or dedicated any Chappel closet oratory or groue to any creature eyther deade or a-liue for worship Whether thou haue assisted any that haue so done Whether thou haue erected and set vp any Images altars representations or purtraitures whether thou haue secretely worshipped or giuen diuine honour to the image of any Saint whom thou hast made speciall choise of to bee thy patron and aduocate or set vp the same eyther in thy Howse in thy Garden or any other place vsing therto either bowing crow ching kneeling censing lighting of tapers offering of gifts or adorning it with garlands and presenting vnto it the firstlings of thy encrease as corne and graine and other oblations with solemne woords and reuerent rites saluting it adressing therunto vsual praiers hoping therby to receiue some benifite or to see some miracle and to be short whether thou hast egged procured any other to doo the like For thy trade of life CAruers Grauers Painters and Image-makers Whether in the making grauing or painting of any Image or picture eyther of man or any other creature they haue shewed all the skill and cunning that possibly they coulde in hope thereby to bring men in loue with their workepeece and so to worship it Handy-craftsmen Whether they haue made or or solde any such thinges as they well knewe their buiers woulde conuert to superstitious vses and Idolatrous worshippings The third Commaundement Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine for the Lorde will not holde him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine Sinnes inwarde WHether so often as thou heardest the name of God vsed in earnest and serious matters thou diddest with a religious and reuerend minde thinke on the ineffable maiesty of God and with thy whole minde deuoutly honor the same Whether when thou haste beene commanded or requested in a necessary and lawfull cause to sweare and take an oth thou haue framed thy self therevnto with such Godly zeale and reuerence as became thee Whether in the time of prayers giuing of thankes lauding and praysing the name of

thy selfe thereunto Whether thou haste beene carefull and diligent earnest and painefull to search out and knowe the true vse of all such things as are taught and practised in the holy assemblies and congregations and whether thou hast for the attaining to the knowledge thereof vsed that industry and diligence which God requireth at thine hands Whether thou hast secretely allowed and approoued any wicked rites or ceremonies and whether thou haste thought them in thine heart by any means worthy to be retayned Sinnes outward WHether thou haue Christianly exercised thy selfe at times conuenient in meditating on Heauenly thinges to thy souls health thereby testifying thy desire and willingnesse to inuocate and call vpon God by fayth and to the vttermost of thy power to frame thy life after that knowledge wherwithal the Lord hath endued thee Whether euery day morning and euening after dinner after supper thou haue humbly and dutifully commended thine estate and welfare to God somwhile crauing at his merciful hands all things necessary for thy life both corporally and spiritually and somewhile yeelding thanks vnto him for the benefites which thou haste already receiued Whether vpon contempt or negligence thou haue foreslowed to goe to diuine seruice place of holy assembly on days appointed by the church for such purposes Whether in those holy assemblies thou haue openly shewed thy selfe from thy very heart attentiuely bent vnto those thinges which were there sayd and done so that it might be well vnderstoode and perceiued that thou camest resortedst thither for none other purpose then only to serue God religiously to learn thy christiā duty Whether when thou didst receiue the holy Communion thou vsedst thy selfe so as became thee in diligent noting and considering the true vse and right effectes of the same Whether thou bestowedst those days wholly in Godly vertuous exercises aswell at home as abroade namely in reading the scriptures in distributing almes in visiting and comforting the sicke in trayning and instructing with Godly doctrine thy family and folks and in such the like commendable dueties Or whether rather thou hast abused mis-spent and prophaned the same in banquetting tippling gaming filthy talking dissolute dealing c. For the trade of life MInister of the Church Whether in doctrine in administratiō of the Sacraments other holy rytes and vsages thou haste added taken away or altered any thing contrary to that which the holy Catholique Church by authority and warrant of the sacred Scriptures doth witnesse to be alowable pleasing vnto almighty God and consonāt vnto his diuine worde Whether in the deliuery and administration of those thinges which are certainlye knowne to bee instituted and propunded according to the will of God thou haue executed and celebrated the same with a deuour religious willing and vndaunted mind and also with a seemely grace comlinesse And whether thou haue beene very circumspect and heedefull least thy negligent remisse dealing therin shoulde bring the same into contempt among the people and not to be regarded and esteemed according to their worthinesse Whether thou haue approoued and obserued anie ceremonies or traditions against thy conscience Whatsoeuer is not of fayth is sinne Whether thou haue bidden any superstitious holy daies or appointed any other obseruations whereby might growe any danger eyther for corruption of manners or finally of offence to others Whether thou haue permitted and suffered Games Playes Enterludes Pageants or Sights to be shewed frequented and kept in the Churche Church-yard or other place appointed for holy exercise And whether thou haue suffered the vessels instruments furniture and goodes of the Church seruing for ecclesiastical purposes to be loosely conuerted and put to any prophane vses Whether thou haue admitted any notorious wicked liuers to the blessed Communion and whether thou haue debarred and put back from the same any whose sinnes are hidden and not manifestly knowne Whether thou haue at any time abused the seueritie of Ecclesiasticall Discipline specially and namely Excommunication or the power of binding and loosing onely to serue thy corrupt affection vsing the same in dādlyng wise with too much lenitie or whether when thou oughtest at any hande seuerely to vse it thou haue altogether neglected and omitted it Whether thou haue eyther preferred wincked at or suffered any such within thy charge as negligently deal in matters of religion or bee remisse and secure in their offices by whō the quiet state and good order of the Church is disturbed Whether thou haue sought all possible meanes and euery way diligentlye endeuoured thy selfe to plant in the heartes and mindes of all persons vnder thy charge and cure the cheef pointes and principall grounds of religion namely the Catechisme which euery Christian is bounde to learne and know perfectly Whether thou haue laboured and done thine endeuour to redresse such disorders and faults as are crept into rytes and ceremonies whereby the good ordinaunces and constitutions of the Church do generally grow into contempt or be quite abolished ¶ Gouernours of the common-wealth Prince Peere Judge Whether thou haue assisted the Ministers of the Church desiring to remoue banish errors and superstition and bene willing also and ready to aduaunce and establish godly orders for the good quiet gouernment of the same Whether thou haue any wayes infringed the right of the Churches or violated and taken away their priuiledges and immunities ¶ Teachers and schoole-masters Whether thou haue suffered the younger sort to be absent from the Church or haue discouraged disswaded or called them away from reading the Scriptures and bookes of Godlinesse specially on the Sabboth dayes Whether on the same dayes thou haue giuen them leaue to vse games playes and exercises for the time and quality eyther vnmeete or vndecent Whether thou haue disswaded any from the studie of diuinity and from the Ecclesiasticall ministerie which were meete and fitte thereunto and woulde haue profitablye proceeded therein haddest not thou by counsell drawn them frō their good purpose ¶ Schollers Whether on the holy days and other set dayes and houres they reuerently giue themselues to the reading of Godly and holy books and to other vertuous meditations and exercises ¶ Scriuener or Notary Whether hee haue endited drawen or written or caused to be endited drawen or written any billes bonds or other writings whatsoeuer on the Sabboth dayes Whether hee haue made any such whereby Religion or the dignity of the Church might any way be empaired and diminished ¶ Tauerner Whether on the Sabboth days and especially in the time of diuine seruice he haue suffered any disorder in drinking and tipling within his house and whether he hath made a common practise or custome at such times and on such dayes to sell his wines c. ¶ Merchant Whether on the Sabboth day he hath bartered bargayned cast vp his reckonings and written his accounts Chapman Whether on such dayes times he hath set open his