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A81867 The soules soliloquie: and, a conference with conscience As it was delivered in a sermon before the King at Newport in the Isle of Wight, on the 25 of October, being the monthly fast, during the late treaty. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Brian Duppa, Ld. Bp. of Salisbury. Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662. 1648 (1648) Wing D2666aA; ESTC R782 14,229 24

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God cast me off for ever will he be favourable no more is his mercy clean gone doth his promise faile for evermore hath he forgotten to be gratious hath he shut up his tender mercy in displeasure Nay hath not the Son of God felt as much Were they not his words upon the Crosse My God my God why hast thou forsaken me What then can we vile wormes expect He that could hide his face from thee O blessed Saviour how shall he ever turne againe his face to us Yea but saith Saint Bernard that turning away his face from him is become the onely cause that he will look on thee Since that time saith that Father if God troubles thee it is that thou shouldst pray to him if he flyes from thee it is that thou shouldst find him Origen knew as much when he said Discedit Deus meus sed expecto iterum venit sed elabitur elapsus redit sed nondum teneo My God forsakes me often but still I wait for him againe he comes but againe he vanisheth and againe I have him though I cannot hold him Saint Cyprian knew as much when he likened the accesses and recesses these commings and goings of God to the quick flashes of Lightning the entrance and departure sudden for Heavinesse may endure for a night but as sure as the morning Sun shall arise so sure shall thy morning joy for joy comes in the morning And so from this way we passe unto the third a way rather to look on then walk in for this is Cains way nec Bona nec Tranquilla a Conscience that is neither Good nor Quiet An ill Conscience is a sleeping Lion as soone as it awakes it murthers or like a Match laid to fire a trayne of Powder it burnes dimly on till at last at one fearfull clap it blowes up all For this is the Devils method first he makes us senselesse we feele not sinne at all next he makes us desperate we feele our sins too much In the senselesse Fit we live as if there were no Hell in the desperate Fit we die as if there were no Heaven But make haste to get out of this way all ye that love your soules Doe but conceive of God that he is not such an one as by any absolute peremptory decree hath either designed or ordered or sealed you to damnation before-hand nor such a one that necessitates any of you to perdition but as that communicable diffusive good that hath so often proclaimed he would have All men saved For though at the Tribunall of your unquiet Consciences your sins stand up against you as a Cloud of witnesses though the Evidence be brought in the Accusation proved the Sentence given yet as the condemn'd Felon at the Bar hath his Booke to save him so God this day reacheth out to every one of you a Booke that learned unlearned all may read in the Leaves of it the pure flesh of your blessed Saviour the letters of it drawn in blood the pens that wrote it thornes and scourges the clasps of the Book Nailes the binding the wood of the Crosse and the Title of it Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jewes Reade then O desperate sinner Reade but in this Book thy Miserere mei reade it with a lively and active faith and though thy soule be even at the brink of death the Sentence shall be reversed thy Accuser shamed thy Pardon sealed and thy Conscience quieted God I say shall snatch thee as a brand out of the fire and pulling thee out of this way shall direct thee to a better the way that we are now to speak of tam Bona quam Tranquilla a Conscience as well Good as Quiet As the end of all motion is Rest so the last of these waies the end of my Sermon is the way of rest where the day is a perpetuall Sabbath the diet a Continuall feast a Conscience Quiet and Good too Sure this must needs be the Paradisus sine gladio which Saint Bernard speaks of the Paradise without a sword or Temp●●m Solomonis sine Malleo the Temple built without the noise of an Hammer This none but this is the spirituall Arke of the Covenant the Court of God the Closet of the Holy Ghost what shall I adde But I have a already said more then Saint Augustine did for he had but named the Peace of Conscience to his Auditory and they were so moved with it as if in those few words he had shewn them all the joyes of Heaven Beloved my desire shall be to leave you so affected to leave you all in love with a good Conscience So far in love with it as to prefer it infinitely beyond whatever else in this life is deare unto you But the hearts of Men are in thy hands O God to thee therefore we turne our prayers warme us all we beseech thee with the comfortable beams of thy mercy inflame our cold affections raise up our downe-cast souls speak in thy soft whispers to the wounded Conscience in thy lowd thunder to the seared Make the Good Conscience Quiet and the Quiet Conscience Good that thy Judgments may Reclaime the one thy Mercies may Relieve the other and thy Everlasting favour Crowne us All world without end Amen Amen Lord Iesus THE END