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A03949	Bromelion A discourse of the most substantial points of diuinitie, handled by diuers common places: vvith great studie, sinceritie, and perspicuitie. Whose titles you haue in the next page following.	S. I., fl. 1595.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605. Summa totius Christianismi. English.	1595 (1595)	STC 14057; ESTC S107410	412,250	588

The other is concerning praier A good conscience maketh request vnto God and when we haue an euill conscience with what heart shall we offer vp our praiers to God or how shal they be accepted at gods hand According to that we reade Iob. 11. 13. If thou prepare thine heart and stretch out thine hand toward him if iniquitie be in thine hand put it farre away And therefore Mardocheus is bold to come into Gods presence vnder the warrant of a good conscience Hester 13. 12. Thou knowest saith he all things and thou knowest Lord that it was neither of mallice nor presumption nor for any desire of glorie that I did this and not bowe downe to proud Haman For I would haue bene content with a good will for the saluation of Israel to haue kist the sole of his feete But I did it because I would not preferre the honor of a man aboue the glory of God and would not worship any but onely thee my Lord. And this haue I not done of pride Séeing therefore the ioy of a good conscience is so great well might the wise man say Pro. 15. 15. A good conscience is a continuall feast and the greatest comfort in the greatest trouble and such a comfort that the world cannot giue The ioy and comfort whereof may appeare by the contrary in the wicked For where the want of a good conscience is there is neither ioy nor comfort but feare and sorrow As we reade Prou. 15. 13. A ioyfull heart maketh a cheerfull countenance but by the sorrow of the heart the mind is heauie And Iob. 11. 20. The eies of the wicked shall faile and their refuge shall perish and their hope shall be sorrow of minde An ill conscience bringeth great dumpes and the heart of the people is filled therewith And this is one of the chiefest iudgements that God doth lay vpon the wicked as we may reade Wisd 17. That they were sick and died for feare and they swounded when a sodaine feare not looked for came vpon them For it is a fearefull thing when malice is condemned by her owne testimonie and a conscience that is touched doth euer forecast cruell thinges By the which feare the succours which reason offereth are betraied for indéede no reason can allay the force therof but only the grace and good spirite of God which is farre from the obstinate and vnrepentant sinner Whose hope the lesse it is within the greater doe the tormentes to come séeme vnto them Wickednesse is full of feare and giueth testimonie of damnation against it selfe and a troubled conscience alway suspecteth cruell matters to be imminent and to hang ouer it selfe as it maketh account to haue descrued The miserable estate of a wicked mans conscience is also liuely described Iob. 15 in these wordes A wicked man is prooued all the daies of his life though time be vncertain how long he shall play the tyrant The sound of terror and feare is alwaies in his eares and although it be in time of peace yet he alway suspecteth some treason against him expecting on euery side the sword to come vpon him When hee sitteth downe to eate he remembreth that the day of darknesse is ready at hand for him tribulation terrifieth him and anguish enuironeth him euen as a king is enuironed with souldiers when he goeth to war What can be more miserable then that man that hath such a butchery and slaughterhouse within his own heart What are his fearee how great are his anguishes Suspecting all things doubting their own shadowes fearing euery little noise thinking euery one to come against them that come toward them and others that talke togither to talke of them and their sins Such a thing sin is that it bewraieth it selfe though no man accuse it it condemneth it selfe though no man beare witnesse against it Pro. 28. The wicked man flieth thogh no man pursue him And why doth he flie Because that he hath within his conscience an accuser pursuing him whom alwaies he carrieth about him And as he cannot flie from himselfe so cannot he flie from his accuser but wheresoeuer he goeth he is pursued and whipped by the same his wonnd incurable And wherehence groweth all this feare but only because our consciences shal be our greatest accusers at the day of iudgement as we reade Reuel 20. 12 And I saw the dead both great and small stand before God and the bookes of their consciences were opened and the dead were iudged of those things which were written in those bookes according to their workes Now therfore it appeareth that one of the chiefest ioyes of the godly is the testimonie of a good conscience which is only proper to the godly and vnto the which the wicked can in no sort attaine Without the which there is nothing but the feare of death and damnation Wherefore let euerie one haue care to make a good conscience his only ioy and let all our works be ruled thereby without the which all things no doubt shall go farre out of square The ioy also of the godly consisteth in this that they The glorie of God turne all their ioy to the setting forth of Gods glory According to the example Hamah the mother of Samuel who being in great sorrowe of minde because she was barren and wanted the ioy of children she made her humble and earnest request vnto god to make her a ioyful mother Promising therewithall that if God would vouchsafe to graunt her a child that she would him to the Lord and consecrate him to his seruice Contrary to the course of the wirked and the fashion of the world which perisheth who réferre and apply all their ioy to the fulfilling of their pleasures and the saisfying of their lustes Which thing the Apostle Saint Iames doth worthily reproue in them Chap. 4. 3. 4. Yee aske and receiue not because ye aske amisse that yee might consume it on your lustes Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the amitie of the world is the enmitie of God Whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world maketh himselfe the enemy of God Looke what ye sowe ye shall reape if ye séeke Gods glory ye shall reape honour and if your ioy bee setled in worldly and sinfull matters your ioy shall be turned into shame And herehence ariseth another kind of ioy of the godly Heauenly blessings who counting worldly ioyes but sinne and shame or at lestwise but friuolous vaine haue resolued with themselues to settle all their delight in heauenly blessings and inward comforts and in such things wherin the wicked hath no delight As in praier to God in singing Psalmes in hearing his word in reading his lawe Blessed is the man whose delight is in the lawe of the Lord and who meditateth therein day and night And séeing they are risen with Christ they séeke those things which are aboue their treasure is in heauen where their heart is As for the earth they