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A68918	An excellent new commedie intitutled, The conflict of conscience contayninge a most lamentable example of the dolefull desperation of a miserable worldlinge, termed by the name of Philologus, who forsooke the trueth of Gods gospel for feare of the losse of lyfe & worldly goods / compiled by Nathaniell Woodes, minister in Norwich ...; Conflict of conscience	Woodes, Nathaniel, fl. 1580.	1581 (1581)	STC 25966.5; ESTC S111762	42,953	72

dignitie So that in terris Deus sum saith he In earth I am a God with sinnes for to dispence And for rewardes I will forgiue eche manet of offence I saide to Eue tush tush thou shalt not die But rather shalt as God know euerie thing My sonne likewise to maintaine Idolatrie Saith tush what hurt can carued Idols bring Dispise this law of God the heauenly King And set them in the Churche for men thereon to looke An Idoll doth much good it is a laymans booke Nemroth that Tyrant fearing Gods hande By mee was perswaded to builde vp high Babell Whereby he presumed Gods wrath to withstande So hath my Boy deuised very well Many prety toyes to kéepe mens soule from hell Liue they neuer so euill héere and wickedly As Masses trentalles Pardons and Scala coeli I egged on Pharao of Egypt the King The Israelites to kill so soone as they were borne My darling likewise doeth the selfe same thing And therefore cause Kinges and Princes to be sworne That with might and maine they shal kéepe vs his horn And shall destroy with fire Are and sworde Such as against him shall speake but one worde And euen as I was some what to slow So that not withstanding the Isralites did augment So for lack of murthering Gods people doo grow And dayly increase at this time present Which my sonne shall feele incontinent Yet an other practise this euill to withstand He learned of mee which now he takes in hand For when as Moses I might not destroy Because that he was of the Lord appointed To bring the people from thraldome to ioy I did not cease whilst I had inuented An other meanes to haue him preuented By accompting himselfe the sonne of Pharao To make him loth Egipt to forgoe The same aduise I also attempted Against the sonne of God when he was incarnate Hoping there by to haue him relented And for promotion sake himselfe to prostrate Before my féete when I did demonstrate The whole worlde vnto him and all the glory As it is recorded in Matheus Historye So hath the Pope who is my darlyng deare My eldest boy in whom I doo delight Least he should fall which thing he greatly feare Out of his Seat of honor pompe and might Hath got to him on his behalfe to fight Two Champions stout of which the one is Auarice The other is called Tyrrannicall practise For as I saide although I claime by right The kingdome of this earthly world so rounde And in my stead to rule with force and might I haue assigned the Pope whose match I no wher found His hart with loue to mée so much abounde Yet diuers men of late of mallice most vnkinde Do study to displace my son some way warde meanes to find Wherfore I maruell much what cause of let there is That hetherto they haue not their office put in vre I will go sée for why I feare that somwhat is amis If not to raunge abroad the worlde I will them straight procure But néedes they must haue one to help mens harts for to allure Vnto their traine who that should bée I cannot yet espie No méeter match I can finde out then is Hypocrisie Who can full well in time and place dissemble eithers parte No man shall easely perceiue with which side he tooth beare But when once fauour he hath got and credit in mans hart He will not slack in mine affaires I doe him nothing feare But time doth runne too fast away for me to tarie heere For none will be enamoured of my shape I doe know I will therfore myne impes send out from hell their shapes to show Exit Acte fyrst Sceane 2 MATHETES PHILOLOGVS MY mynde doeth thirst deare friende Philologus Of former talke to make a finall ende And where before we gan for to discus The cause why God doth such afflictions sende Into his Church you would some more time spende In the same cause that thereby you might learne Betwixt the wrath and ioue of God a right for to discerne Philologus With right good will to your request heerin I doo consent As well because as I perceiue you take therein delight As also for because it is most chiefely pertinent Vnto mine office to instruct and teache eche Christian wight True godlynesse and shew to them the path that leadeth right Vnto Gods kingdome where we shall inherite our saluation Geuen vnto vs from God by Christ our true propitiation But that a better ordered course heerein we may obserue And may directly to the first apply that which insue To speake that hath bene saide before I wel a time reserue And so procéede from whence we left by course and order due Vnto the ende At first therfore you did lament and rue The miserie of these our daies and great calamytie Which those sustaine who dare gainsay the Romish Hypocrisie Mathetes I haue iust cause as hath eche Christian hart To waile and weepe to shed out teares of bloud When as I call to minde the torments and the smart Which those haue borne who honest be and good For nought els but because their errors they withstood Yet ioyed I much to see how paciently They boare the crose of Christ with constancie Philologus So many of vs as into one bodye bée Incorporate wherof Christ is the liuely heade As members of our bodies which wée sée With ioyntes of loue together bee conioyned And must néedes suffer vnlesse that they be dead Some part of griefe in mynde which other féele In bodie though not so much by a great deale Wherfore by this it is most apparent That those two into one bodie are not vnyted Of the which the one doth suffer the other doth torment And in the woundes of his Brother is delighted Now which is Christes bodie may easely be decided For the Lambe is deuonred of the Wolfe alway Not the Wolfe of the Lambe as Chrisostom doth say Agayne of vnrighteous Cayne murthered was Abell By whom the Church of God was figured Isaac lykewise was persecuted of Ismaell As in the Booke of Genesis is mencioned Israell of Pharao was also terrifyed Dauid the Sainct was afflicted by his Sonne And put from his kingdome I meane by Absolon Elias the Thesbit for feare of Iezabell Did fly to Horeb and hid him in a Caue Micheas the Prophet as the Story dooth tell Did hardly his lyfe from Baalles Priests saue Ieremy of that sawce tasted haue So did Esay Daniell and the Children thrée And thousandes more which in stories we may sée Mathetes In the new Testament we may also réede That our Sauiour Christ euen in his Infancy Of Herod the King might stand in great dread Who sought to destroy him such was his insolency Afterward of the Pharises he did with constancy Suffer shamefull death his Apostles also For testimonie of the trueth did their crosses vnder go Philologus Iames vnder Herod was headed with the Sworde The rest of the Apostles did suffer much turmoyle Good Paul

iudged mée to euerlasting payne Oh that my bodie buried were that it at rest might bée Though soule were put in Iudas place or Caines extremitie Gisbertus Oh Brother hast you to the Towne and tel Theologus What sodaine plague and punishment my Father hath befell Paphinitius I run in hast and will request him for to come with vs Gisbertus Oh Father rest your selfe in God and all thing shal be well Philologus Ah dredfull name which when I héere to sigh it mée compell God is against mée I perceiue he is none of my God Vnlesse in this that he will beat and plague mée with his rod And though his mercy doth surpasse the sinnes of all the worlde Yet shall it not once profit me or pardon mine offence I am refused vtterly I quite from God am whorld My name within the Booke of lyfe had neuer residence Christ prayed not Christ suffered not my sinnes to recompence But only for the Lordes elect of which sort I am none I féele his iustice towardes mée his mercy all is gone And to be short within short space my finall end shall bée Then shall my soule incurre the paines of vtter desolation And I shall be a president most horrible to sée To Gods elect that they may sée the price of abiuration Gisbertus To héere my Fathers dolefull plaints it bringeth preturbation Vnto my soule but yonder comes that good Theologus Oh welcome sir and welcome you good master Eusebius Acte fyfth Sceane 2 THEO PHI EVSE GIS PAPHI GOd saue you good Philologus how doo you by Gods grace Philologus You welcome are but I alas vile wretch am héere euill found Eusebius What is the chiefest cause tell vs of this your dolorus case Philologus Oh would my soule were sunke in hell so body were in grounde That angrie God now hath his will who sought mee to confounde Theologus Oh say not so Philologus for God is gracious And to forgiue the penitent his mercy is plentious Do you not know that all the earth with mercy doth abound And though the sinnes of all the world vppon one man were layde If he one only sparke of grace or mercy once had found His wickednes could not him harme wherefore be not dismayde Christes death alone for all your sinnes a perfect raunsome payde God doth not couet sinners death but rather that he may By liuing still bewaill his sinnes and so them put awaye Consider Peeter who thrée tymes his Maister did denye Yea with an oath and that although Christ did him warning giue With whome before tyme he had lyued so long familiarly Of whome so many benefits of loue he did receiue Yet when once Peeter his owne fault did at the last perceiue And did bewaile his former cryme with salt and bitter teares Christ by and by did pardon him the Gospell witnes beares The theefe lykewise and murtherer which neuer had don good But had in mischeefe spent his dayes yea during all his lyfe With lattest breth when he his sinnes and wickednes with stoode And with iniquityes of flesh his spirit was at strife Thorow that one motion of his heart and power of true beliefe He was receiued into grace and all his sinnes defaced Christ saying soone in Paradice with me thou shalt be placed The hand of God is not abridged but still he is of myght To pardon them that call to him vnfainedly for grace Againe it is Gods propertye to pardon sinners quight Pray therefore with thy heart to God here in this open place And from the very roote of heart bewaile to him thy case And I assure thée God will on thée his mercy show Through Iesus Christ who is with him our aduocate you knowe Philologus I haue no fayth the wordes you speake my hart doth not beléeue I must confesse that I for sinne am iustly throwne to hell Eusebius His monstrous incredulitye my very heart doth gréeue Ah dere Philologus I haue knowne by face and visage well A sort of men which haue bene vext with Diuels and spirits fell In farre worse state then you are yet brought into desperation Yet in the ende haue bene reclaimde by godly exhortation Such are the mercies of the Lorde he will throw downe to hell And yet call backe againe from thence as holy Dauid wrightes What should then let your trust in God I pray you to vs tel Sith to forgiue and doo vs good it chiefely him delightes What would not you that of your sins he should you cleane acquite How can he once denie to you one thing you doo request Which hath already geuen to you his best beloued Christ Lift vp your hart in hope therefore awhile be of good cheare And make accesse vnto his seate of grace by earnest prayer And God will surely you reléeue with grace stand not in feare Philologus I doo beléeue that out from God proceede these comfortes faire So doo the Diuels yet of their health they alway doe dispaire They are not written vnto mée for I woulde faine attaine The mercy and the loue of God but he doth me disdaine How would you haue that man to lyue which hath no mouth to eate No more can I lyue in my soule which haue no faith at all And where you say that Peter did of Christ soone pardon get who in the selfe same sinne with mée from God did greatly fall why I cannot obtaine the same to you I open shall God had respect to him alwaies and did mée firmly leue But I alas am reprobate God doth my soule reproue Moreouer I will say with tongue what so you wyll require My harte I feele with blasphemy and cursing is repleate Theologus Then pray with vs as Christ vs taught we doe you all desire Philologus To pray with lips vnto your God you shall mée scene intreate My spirit to Sathan is in thrall I can it not thence get Eusebius God shall renue your spirit againe pray onely as you can And to assist you in the same we pray ech Christian man Philologus O God which dwellest in the Heauens and art our father deare Thy holy name throwghout the world be euer sainctified The kingdome of thy word and spirit vppon vs rule might beare Thy will in earth as by thy saincts in heauen be ratified Our dayly bread we thee beseech O Lord for vs prouide Our sinnes remit Lord vnto vs as we ech man forgiue Let not tentation vs assayle in all euill vs releeue Amen Theologus The Lord be praysed who hath at length thy spirit mollified These are not tokens vnto vs of your reprobation You morne with teares and sue for grace wherfore be certified That God in mercy giueth care vnto your supplication Wherfore dispayre not thou at all of thy soules preseruation And say not with a desperat heart that God against thée is He will no doubt these paynes once past receiue you into blisse Philologus No no my friends you only heare and sée the outward part Which though you thinke