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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03759	A short exposition of the 20. and 21. verses of the third chapter of the first epistle of S. Iohn Containing a very profitable discourse of conscience, and of al the actions, sortes, and kinds thereof, wherby euery man may easily know his estate, wherein hee standeth in the sight of his God, and whether his conscience be good or euill, with all things also belonging either to get a good conscience, or else to releiue it out of trouble, being grieued and wounded, as in the epistle to the reader is more specially mentioned, and in the discourse itselfe clearely expressed.	Howesoun, John.	1600 (1600)	STC 13878; ESTC S116556	26,751	68

as Papists or yet in the common sort of people that in mouth professe Christ but yet in works doe deny him who are all cast into the spirite of slumbering numnes or hardnes of hart who hearing hear not nor seeing cannot perceaue but are sensles and blockish vnto the time that God doth loose the brydle of their consciences and setteth before them their sinnes committed and the punishmente due vnto them Then may we see in many of them how greeuously they are tormented and what sorrowfull ends they doe make while some of them doe hang themselues Some drowne themselues Some cutte their owne throtes some of them doe stogge themselues to the hearts with kniues daggers or swordes And all to rid themselues out of the intollerable and feareful griefe of conscience as they doe falsly suppose vnto whome Iudas and Kain are fearefull patrons and teachers As to that wicked Spaniyard Alphonsus who when he could not by any meanes disswade his brother Diasius by faire meanes from the profession of the gospell to embrace Papistrie anno 1551 hee cruellie murthered him And therefore greeued in Conscience there after did hang himselfe at the councel of Trent The like also did Robert Long a man at armes in Calice a false witnes against William Smyth preacher anno 15●● who grieued in conscience therefore did immediately thereafter runne to the water and drowned himselfe So heauie lay that sinne of false witnesse bearing vpon his conscience And what shall wee say of George Brodway suborned by the councell of Calice about the same time to beare also false witnes against Thomas Brooke Who therefore went about to cutte his owne throate for griefe of conscience when he was stayed to doe the same and the knyfe taken from him wherewith he had wounded himselfe he became stark madde and so dyed Sir Iames Halles also Knight and iustice of the common place for greefe of conscience that he had denied the knowen trueth and embraced papistrie at Queene Maries commande drowned himselfe Gregory the seuenth as witnesseth Benno dyed desperatlie at Salernum of the onely greefe of conscience vnto whome we may adde Latimus Eckins and Thomas Blaverus Scotus who all miserablie and in desperation ended this life for onley griefe of conscience and who list to read moe of this number and of all sortes both of men women he shall finde many that miserablie for griefe of conscience in desperation haue ended their liues in that booke which is intituled Historia Tragica Therefore of all burthens the griefe of conscience is the greatest But heere the question may bee demanded 5 Question why some of all these sortes of people do dispatch thēselus of this life by so violent death and some others againe do dye so quiet or rather sencelesly with out griefe Answere Answer that the cause is in respecte that some feeling no sinne in this life do departe like drunken and brutish swine and waken not out of their hellish sleepe vntill they be in hell and the tormentes thereof fully sease vpon them Some are surcharged with the deadly sleepe of sinne vnto the end of their life and vthers overburthened with sinne are wakened in this life throgh the weight thereof And the others being surcharged ouerburthened with sinne in this life doe dye like barking madde dogges in desperation without Christ and true repentance with Kain Iudas Iulian the Apostate and others Of these two sortes there bee most of the firste in this last age wherein Christ shal finde no faith at his comming but all persons for the moste parte sleeping in that deadly security wherin they shall assure themselues of peace when as nothing is neearer hand vnto them then fearefull and endlesse torment of conscience the worme whereof shall neuer die c. Wherfore the Lord as saith the Apostle commandeth all such to waken and ryse vp from the sleepe of sinne by faith repentance and holie conversation that while they haue time Christ may giue them light Thus much touching the griefe of conscience both in the heathen and also in the prophane and superstitious professors of Religion Secondly we finde that the tormente of Conscience 1 Examples of Gods children Consciēce is a wound which no Physitian can heale euen in Gods children in such as are renewed with his spirit is a greefe intollerable and so greate both in all Christs members vpon whome it is layde and also in their head Christ him selfe that it is heauier then a thousande deaths and yet no wayes to be relieued with any comforte or solace vnder the heauen as all other griefes may bee bee they neuer so great for example let vs take Iob Iob. 3. who for the losse of all his substance authoritie children and health of body neuer shrunk nor quailed vntil his vnhappy friends wounded his Conscience and then he affirmed and complaned that God had fastened in him sharp arrowes sette him as a butte to shute at and made him to possesse the sinnes of his youth So heauie a burthen was this wounded hearte and Conscience vnto him who vnder all other troubles was a patterne of al vprightnes and patience neuer beeing mooued therewith anie thinge at all as it were vntill this griefe did prick him The like may we also beholde in many others of the peculiar seruantes of God as in Dauid Ezechias and Ieremie 2 who neuer did faint vnder any griefe notwithstanding of all their infinite troubles but onely vnder the burthen of a wounded Conscience wherwith when they felte themselues surcharged they then were like Cranes chattering Sparrows mourning and Pellicants casting out fearefull cryes So that with mourning like Doues their hearts did cleaue to the duste and their tounges to the roofe of their mouthes Yea euen the Lorde our Maister and Sauiour Christ 3 the true Image of his Father God and man when in his manhoode he felt this wound his Godhead lurking for the time albeit vnder all his other troubles which hee sustained for our sakes he was couragious yet heerein feeling his fathers wrath for our iniquities the which for them he was to sustaine he complained that his soule was heauie vnto the death and earnestly prayed that if it were possible that that cuppe should passe away from him which was so bitter that while he prayed hee sweate bloud and before he departed this life pitefully cryed three seuerall times that God had forsaken him What a ●●●efe is a ●●oubled ●●nsciēce Of these premises al men may vnderstand that are not a sleepe vnto euerlasting condemnation what a thing it is to possesse a grieued condemning heart or troubled Conscience For there is no sicknes which is not vnto death but Physick is provided or may be had for it no sore but Chirurgerie wil aforde a salue for it Friendship helpeth pouertie hope of libertie imprisonment sute and fauour recouer men from banishment and time and authority weares away reproch