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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

throne Wherfore there is no cause you should sende vs to outwarde act As to the ancor or refuge of our preseruation Theologus The meaning of Philologus is not héere so exact As doo his wordes make it to seeme by your allegation He doth not meane betwéene good works and faith to make relation As though workes were equiuolent saluation to attaine As is true faith but what he ment I will set downe more playne He did exhort the yongmen heere by him for to beware Least as he did so they abuse Gods gospell pure And without good aduice vsurp of faith the gift so rare Whereby they think what so they doo thē selues from torments frée And by this proud presumption Gods anger should procure And where they boast and vaunt thē selues good faithfull men to bée Yet in their lyues they doo deny their faith in ech degrée Wherfore he saith as Peter saide see that you doo make knowne Your owne election by your workes againe S. Iames doth say Shew mée thy faith and by my works my faith shall thée be shown And wherupon his owne offence he dooth to them bewray Wheras he did vainegloryously vpon a dead faith stay Which for the inwarde righteousnesse he alway did suspect And héereupon all godlynes of lyfe he did neglect Philologus That was the meaning of my wordes how euer I them spake The truth alas vile wretch my soule and Conscience too true féele Theologus What do you not Philologus with vs no comfort take When all these thinges so godlyly to you I doo reueale Especially sith that your selfe in them are séene so well Some hope vnto vs of your health and safetie yet is left we do not think that all Gods grace from you is wholly reft Philologus Alas what comfort can betide vnto a damned wretch what so I héere sée féele tast speake is turned all to woe Eusebius Ah deare Philologus think not that ought can Gods grace outreache Consider Dauid which did sinne in lust and murther too Yet was he pardoned of his sinnes and so shalt thou also Phil. King Dauid alwaies was elect but I am reprobate And therefore I can finde small ease by waighing his estate He also prayed vnto God which I shall neuer doe His prayer was that God would not his spirit take away But it is gone from mée long since and shall be giuen no moe But what became of Cayne of Cam of Saul I do you pray Of Iudas and Barehu these must my Conscience slay Of Iulyan Apostata with other of that crue The same torments must I abide which these men did insue Theologus Alas my friend take in good part the chastment of the Lorde Who doth correct you in this world that in the lyfe to come He might you saue for of the like the Scripture beares recorde Philologus That is not Gods intent with mée though it be so with some who after bodies punishment haue into fauour come But I alas in spirit and soule these greenous torments beare God hath condemded my Coscience to perpetuall greife and feare I would most gladly chuse to lyue a thousand thousande yeare In all the torments and the griefe that damned soules sustaine So that at length I might haue ease it would me greatly cheare But I alas shall in this lyfe in torments still remaine while Gods iust anger vpon mee shall be reuealed plaine And I example made to all of Gods iust indionation Oh that my body were at rest and soule in condemnation Eusebius I pray you answer me herein where you by déepe dispaire Say you are worse here in this lyfe then if you were in hell And for because to haue death come you alway make your prayer As though your foule and body both in torments great did dwell If that a man should giue to you a sword I pray you tell would you destroy your selfe there with as doe the desperate which hange or kill or into flouds themselues precipitate Philologus Giue me a sworde then shall you know what is in mine intent Eusebius Not so my friend I onely aske what héerein were your will Philologus I cannot neither will I tell wherto I would be bent Theologus These wordes doe nothing edifye but rather fancies fill which we would gladly if we could indeuour for to kill wherefore I once againe request together let vs pray And so we will leaue you to God and send you hence away Philologus I cannot pray my spirit is dead no faith in me remayne Theologus Doe as you can no more then might we can ask at your hand Philologus My prayers turned is to sinne for God doth it disdaine Eusebius It is the falsehood of the spirit which doo your health withstande That teach you this wherfore in time reiect his filthy bande Theologus Come knéele by mee and let vs pray the Lord of Heauen vnto Philologus With as good will as did the Diuell out of the deaffe man goe O God which dwellest in the heauens c. Tush sirs you doo your labours loose see where Belzabub doth come And doth inuite mee to a feast you therefore speake in vaine Yea if you aske ought more of me in answer I will be dumbe I will not wast my song for naught as soone shall one small grayne Of Musterdseede fill all the world as I true faith attaine Theologus We will no lenger stay you now but let you hence depart Eusebius Yet will we pray continually that God woulde you conuart Theologus Gisbertus and Paphinitius conduct him to his place But see he haue good company let him not be alone Ambo We shall so doo God vs assist with his most holy grace Gisbertus Come Father doo you not think good that we from hence begone Philologus Let go my handes at lybertie assistaunce I craue none Oh that I had a sworde a while I should soone eased bee Ambo Alas deare father what do you Euseb His wil we may now sée Theologus Exeunt Phi. Gis Paph O glorious God how wonderfull those iudgements are of thine Thou doost beholde the secret hart naught doth thy eyes beguile Oh what occasion is vs giuen to feare thy might deuine And from our hartes to hate and lothe iniquities so vile Least for the saine thou in thy wrath doost grace from vs exile The outwarde man doeth thée not please nor yet the minde alone But thou requirest both of vs or else regardest none Eusebius Héere may the worldlinges haue a glasse their states for to behold And learne in time for to escape the iudgements of the Lorde Whilste they by flattering of them selues of faith both dead and colde Doo sell their soules to wickednes of all good men abhorde But godlynes doth not depend in knowing of the worde But in fullfilling of the same as in this man we see Who though he did to others preach his lyfe did not agrée Theologus Againe Philologus witnesseth which is the trueth of Christ For that consenting to the Pope he did the Lorde abiure Whereby he teacht the wauering fayth on which side to persist And those which haue the trueth of God that still they may indure The Tyraunts which delight in bloode he likewise doth assure In whose affayres they spende their time but let vs home warde goe Eusebius I am content that after meate we maye resorte him to Exiunt Theo. Euse. Acte sixe scene last NVNTIVS OH ioyfull newes which I report and bring into your eares Philologus that would haue hangde himselfe with coard Is nowe conuerted vnto God with manie bitter teares By godly councell he was woon all prayse be to the Lorde His errours all he did renounce his blasphemies he abhorde And being conuerted left his lyfe exhorting foe and friend That do professe the fayth of Christ to be constant to the ende Full thyrtie wéekes in wofull wise afflicted he had bene All which long time he tooke no foode but forst against his will Euen with a spoone to poure some broath his téeth betwéene And though they sought by force this wise to féede him still He alwayes stroue with all his might the same on ground to spill So that no sustenaunce he receiu'de ne sléepe could he attayne And nowe the Lord in mercy great hath easde him of his payne FINIS step aside push Auarice backwarde HYP. Ambo HYP. tut Father Iotsam HYP. a litle k to hide so great a lubber HYP. he feareth nothīg he thinketh the hangman is dead HYP. he can play too parts the foole and the K. HIP. a popish policye HYP. Antichirstian charitie Vtilitas facit esse Deos HYP. This is sharp argumentes HYP. Praye for your selfe HYP. your kind hart shal rost me a couple of russhes HYP. Not I the lyke of such a cutthrote Coult. HYP. he speketh to you syra HYP. on your face syr HYP. fighteth AVA. indede you say troth HYP. he hath learned logetes HYP frienship for gaine Sep aside Hir hath a goodly grace in swearyng HIP. he is gracelesse alredy HIP. he is Kit carelesse HIP. hatke the practis of spiteful Sumners HIP. and you are one of his sonnes mee think by your head Exeunt Tyr. Auar Cacon.

they haue don wel it booteth not at all My lyppes haue spoke the wordes in déede but yet I féele my heart With cursing is replenished with rancor spight and gall Neither do I your Lord and God in hart my father call But rather seeke his holy name for to blaspheame and cursse My state therfore doth not amend but ware still worse and worse I am secluded cleane from grace my heart is hardened quight Wherefore you do your labour loose and spend your breth in vayne Eusebius Oh say not so Philologus but let your heart be pight Vppon the mercyes of the Lord and I you assertayne Remission of your former sinnes you shall at last obtayne God hath it sayde who cannot lye at whatsoeuer time A sinner shall from heart repent I will remitt his cryme Philologus You cannot say so much to me as herein I do knowe That by the mercyes of the Lord all sinnes are don awaye And vnto them that haue true fayth aboundantly it flowe But whence do this true fayth procéede to vs I do you pray It is the only gift of God from him it comes alwaye I would therefore he would vouchsafe one sparke of fayth to plant within my breast then of his grace I know I should not want But it as easely may be done as you may with one spoone At once take vp the water cleane which in the seas abide And at one draught then drink it vp this shall ye doe as soone As to my brest of true beléefe one sparkle shall betide Tush you which are in prosperous state my paines haue not tried Doe think it but an easy thing a sinner to repent Him of his sinnes and by true faith damnation to preuent The healthfull néede not Phisicks art and ye which are all haile Can giue good counsell to the sick their sicknesse to eschew But here alas confusion and hell doth mée assaile And that all grace from me is reft I finde it to be true My hart is steele so that no faith can from the same insue I can conceiue no hope at all of pardon or of grace But out alas Confusion is alway before my face And certainly euen at his time I doo most playnly sée The deuils to be about me rounde which make great preparation And kéepe a stirre here in this place which only is for mee Neither doe I conceiue these thinges by vaine imagination But euen as truly as mine eyes beholde your shape and fashion Wherefore desired Death dispatch my body bring to rest Though that my soule in furious flames of fire be supprest Theologus Your minde corrupted dooth present to you this false illusion But turne awhile vnto the spirit of trueth in your distresse And it shall cast out from your eies all horror and confusion And of this your affliction it will you soone redresse Eusebius We haue good hope Philologus of your saluation doubtlesse Philologus What your hope is concerning mée I vtterly contempne My Conscience which for thousands stand as guiltie mée condemne Eusebius When did this horror first you take what think you is the cause Philologus Euen shortly after I did make mine open abiuration For that I did prefer my goods before Gods holy lawes Therefore in wrath he did me sende this horrible veration And hath me wounded in the soule with gréeuous tribulation That I may be a president in whom all men may view Those torments which to them that wil forsake the Lord are due Theologus Yet let me bouldly aske one thing of you without offence What was your former faith in Christ which you before did holde For it is saide of holy Paule in these same wordes in sence It cannot be that vtterly in faith he should bee colde Who so he be which perfectly true faith in hart once holde Wherfore rehearce in short discourse the sum of your beléefe In these pointes chiefly which for health of soule are thought most chéefe Philologus I did beleeue in hart that Christ was that true sacrifice Which dyd appease the fathers wrath and that by him alone We were made iust and sanctified I dyd beleeue lykewise That without him heauen to attaine sufficient meanes were none But to reknowledge this againe alas all grace was gone I neuer loued him againe with right and sincere harte Neither was thankfull for the same as was ech goodmans part But rather tooke the faith of Christ for lybertie to sinne And did abuse his graces great to further carnall lust what wickednesse I did commit I cared not a pinne For that that Christ discharged had any ransome I dyd trust wherfore the Lord doth now correct the same with torments iust My sonnes my sonnes I speake to you my counsell ponder well And practise that in déedes which I in wordes shall to you tell I speake not this that I would ought the Gospell derogate which is most true in euery part I must it néedes confesse But this I say that of vaine faith alone you should not prate But also by your holy lyfe you should your faith expresse Beléeue me syres for by good proofe these thinges I doo expresse Peruse the wrighting of S. Iames and first of Peters too which all Gods people holynesse of lyfe exhort vnto By sundrie reasons as for firste because we strangers are Againe sinne from the flesh procéede but we are of the spirit The third because the flesh alway against the spirit doo warre The fourth that we may stop the mouthes of such as would backbight The fifth that other by our lyues to God reduce we might Againe they sing a pleasant song which sing in déede and word But where euill life insue good words there is a foule discorde But I alas most wretched wight whereas I did presume That I had got a perfect faith did holy life disdaine And though I did to other preach good lyfe I did consume My lyfe in wickednesse and sinne in sport and pleasures vaine No neither did I once contende from them flesh to refraine Beholde therfore the iudgements iust of God doth mée annoy Not for amendement of my lyfe but mée for to destroy Eusebius We doo not altogether like of this your exhortation whereas you warne vs not to trust so much vnto our faith But that good workes we should prepare vnto our preseruation There are two kindes of righteousnesse as Paul to Romanes faith The one dependeth of good workes the other hangs of faith The former which the world allowes good counts it least of twaine As by good proofe it shall to you in words be proued playne For Socrates and Cato both did purchase great renowne And Aristides surnamed Iust this righteousnesse fulfilled Wherfore he was as iustest man erpelde his natiue towne Yet are their soules with Infydels in hell for euer spilled Because they sought not righteousnes that way that God thē willed The other righteousnes coms from faithe which God regards alone And makes vs seeme immaculate before his heauenly