to marrie for mariage is an honourable calling and holy before God It is farre better to be maried and very poore with honestie then to be vnmaried and very rich with dishonestie If you meane to marrie pray vnto God that he will giue you grace well and wisely to gouerne and maintaine a maried life praie also that hee will match you with a godly wife And as you praie so practise by all good meanes to procure the blessings which you praie for Commending your selfe to the pleasure of God be well aduised before you make choise of a wife and when you haue once setled your minde let nothing cause you to repent or forsake your choise I had beene a married man and freed from the flames of lust but that I gaue eare to those that disliked the partie whome I had good cause to like and to loue notwithstanding whatsoeuer they could say against her I was accursed and therefore vnsteadfast in all good courses Beeing determined to marrie a woman hate the thought of making her your concubine before shee be your lawfull wife least God in great displeasure doe lay some one plague or an other vpon you O that you knew what a blessednes it is for a man and a woman to come into the Church before the face of God and his Angels there to be maried beeing both vndefiled I Haue beene a thiefe many waies when I was a child I remember I was giuen to steale apples and afterward I purloined diuers things yea money from my father and mother I bought things and neuer paied for them I did steale bookes and deceiued others by many shifts when I was put in trust to buie any thing for an other I made them beleeue that I paied more for it then indeede I did and commonly took vp much commodities for mine owne vse and left it vpon their reckoning whome I serued specially when I was a young scholler in the Vniversitie where I did much wrong my good friends When I bought any thing I made much adoe to get it better cheape then it was worth dispraising it and promising to helpe the seller to custome I haue bought things for halfe the worth of such as haue wanted money Contrariwise if I sold a thing I falsly praised and prized it at more then it was worth professing that I would not haue parted from it but for neede of money or for loue of the buier I haue made them paie extreamely that were earnest to buie any thing which I had If I found any thing I closely kept it to my selfe yea and sometimes I found things before they were lost Once one found certain monie who seeing me goe that waie thought it had beene mine and therefore gaue it me and I tooke it for mine owne although I lost none I haue taken reward for doing many things which I did not as I ought to haue done I haue not well rewarded many that did for me yea I haue diuers times done euill to them that did good to me In matter of reckoning when some haue not remembred so much as I owed vnto them I paied them according to their remēbrance and kept the residue to my selfe against my conscience I haue taken wages for schooling children and ministring in the Church but did not truly performe my dutie and therefore am a theefe I haue beene giuen to gaming and therein practised deceit which people doe call foule-plaie but before the face of God it is very theft I haue by faire words and pleasing promises gotten many things of others for which I made no recompence I haue set some to worke for me haue paid them too little for their paines I haue beene a broker to helpe one to get goods from an other once I was a meanes to make a man giue house and land from his kinred to an other In performing which worke I wrought with the deuill and practised much deceit I haue borowed things and either not restored them at all or not in so good sort as I receiued them I haue heartned some to trust others by whome they haue beene deceiued I haue many waies wasted and hurt the goods of other folke carelesly couetously and spitefully I haue oftentimes beene very partiall in question touching goods betweene partie and partie because I haue beene ill conceited of the one or well opinioned of the other or thought to be a gainer by the businesse I haue many waies counselled aided and concealed vnrightfulnesse By all these waies and many more which I can not remember Zach. 5.1 2 3 4. I haue beene a theefe and therefore the huge booke of Gods curses written against theeues doth take holde vpon me and will not leaue me till I be brought to naught O ye people of God for Christs sake be carefull to keepe your selues true and iust Doe not get so much as a pinne with an euill conscience for howsoeuer the deuill blindeth you yet one daie you shall see that all naughtie gaine will haue a naughtie end Practise no deceit nor crueltie in buying selling chopping changing borrowing lending gaming or any waie els for God will surely laie his vengeance vpon all that make any vniust gaine or diminish the goods of others Make no commoditie by any trade or practise that hindreth your neighbour or is against a common good Doe not take or hold from any that which in conscience is due vnto them for goods wrongfully gotten or kept from the right owner doe continually crie vnto God for iustice against you Therefore if you haue by any manner of meanes hurt hindred or diminished the good of any yeelde due recompence vpon true repentance to the partie wronged or if he be dead to his heires or if he be dead without heires or you cannot finde the partie to whome restitution is due giue it to the poore But if you haue no abilitie to make satisfaction confesse the wrong to the partie whome you haue wronged and praie him to forgiue and at least praie vnto God continually that he will plentifully recompence them whom you haue iniuried powring vpon them his blessings in bodie and soule If you thinke that Christs religion doth not require satisfaction of wrongs you are deceiued Luk. 19.8 for Zacheus instructed of Christ offered that if he had done wrong to any man he would giue to the partie wronged foure times so much as the dammage came to Therefore needes must single satisfaction be due a pennie for a pennie and a pound for a pounde If you ask whether I follow this lesson or no I answer my conscience doth tie me vnto it Therefore some satisfaction I haue made and some more by the grace of God I will make and that which I cannot doe thorough want of abilitie I must craue of God that he will supplie I doe not speake to honor my selfe but to glorifie God who is my iudge and to benefit you who are his people I haue paide twentie shillings at
THE BVRTHEN OF a loaden conscience OR THE MISERIE OF SINNE Set forth by the confession of a miserable sinner Printed by CANTRELL LEGGE Printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge 1608. To all Christened people I Knowing the great honor which Almightie God hath graciously giuen vnto you for you are his children his holy Ghost is in you doe therfore acknowledge my bounden dutie next after God vnto you and accordingly with humble reuerence dedicate this my Confession first to God then to you his deerely beloued children I wrote it in deadly disease of bodie and in dolefull trouble of minde my purpose was to glorifie God and to shew vnto all people the horrible bondage of sinne that they might plainly see it truly feare it and timely preuent it Herein if any shall thinke me ouer-harsh and too too plaine I beseech them to weigh in their conscience what it is to be at the doore of death and the gate of hell terrified with the sight of Gods wrathfull iudgement and in continuall danger of sudden death This is no time to couer or to colour my sinnes but to lay them open that it may please God mercifully to couer them To this ende I doe humbly craue your Christian furtherance in earnest praier to God for my confession and for me For my confession that it may prosper against sinne for my selfe that I may be deliuered out of hell and receiued into your heauenly companie I aske no more but to be the very lowest of all people that shal be saued Which if it shall please the blessed God through your praiers in Iesus Christ to vouchsafe vnto me most vnworthie then shall I be in good hope to liue and set forth an Hallelu-ia that you may praise God for his mercie his maruelous mercie towards you and me Then shall you know the poore sinners name that nowe beggeth the benefite of your praiers Hallowed be the name of God and his blessing be vpon Christened people men women and children for euermore Amen Thus I humbly take my leaue Iune 13. 1608. To the Printer IF any thing which I haue written doe seeme vnto godly learned men not likely to worke well for the destruction of sinne I desire that they will take the paines to amend it so as they will answer their doings therein vnto the Lord Iesus Christ when all purposes and causes shall be brought to light I protest before God that nothing be mitigated concerning me by turning I am into I was c. It is very needefull for a man to know what he is I know none but my selfe I iudge none but my selfe I intreat others to giue me leaue to iudge my selfe because I feare the iudgement of God and would perswade people to feare God that they may escape his iudgement and obtaine his mercie Amen Amen O good Lord Iesu for thy holy names sake say thou Amen The burthen of a loaden conscience ALl Christened people men women and children I sinfull sinner hauing by long and wofull experience found the miseries of sinne am desirous to confesse the same that others may see and speedily turne away from it Therefore I humbly beseech you that for Christs sake you will charitably read or heare this my confession VVHen I was a child and first began to vnderstand and speake then was the foundation laide of all my miserie Because I was not by and by entered into the faith and feare of God but the Deuill had leisure to take full possession of my heart Who so deepely seasoned me with sinne that I haue continued sinnefull euer since yea I am so hardened in wickednesse that although I feele death comming vpon me and may looke euerie houre when I shall suddenly die and be cast into hell fire yet I haue no power to turne vnto God Wherefore I beseech all people to take warning by me let it be your first and chiefest care to liue in the faith and feare of God Beleeue verily for it is most true you are alwaies in the sight of God Hee searcheth out your thoughts and affections he hearkneth to your words he vieweth your behauiour and writeth vp all in a booke with purpose to iudge you according to the practise of your life Beare this continually in minde and be afraide to displease God who shineth ouer your head with such a glorious brightnesse that if it were his pleasure to shewe himselfe openly to the world the sunne that shineth in the skie should be vtterly darkened and no earthly creature could remaine aliue by reason of the terrible sight of his almightie maiestie Blessed are you if ye haue the feare of God before your eies But you are in woefull case if you feare him not O all ye parents and bringers vp of children great is the account which you must make vnto God Therefore so soone as your children be able to vnderstand and speake accustome them to know and feare God Take good heede least the deuill get the first possession of your childrē for he knowing that is little ones are seasoned in the beginning so they are likely to sauour euer after will loose no time nor let passe any occasion to sowe his cursed seede in them This many parents and tutors of children doe little thinke of and therefore giue the deuill leaue to worke his will But doe you minde it and in the name of Christ kindely perswade your children to beleeue in God and to feare him oftentimes telling them what is good and what is naught and that the good commeth of God and naught frō the deuill and therefore if they will loue and practise goodnesse God will loue them and keepe them safe from the Deuill but if they loue and practise naughtinesse God will forsake them and leaue them to the Deuill Why doe so many teach little children to say and to doe that which angreth almightie God the silly children seeing their parents others so much delighted with euill 〈◊〉 setled in beleefe that it is good Thus the deuill is furthered in working the destruction of children But some sa◠that vnlesse children be framed to mirthfull wantonnesse they will not prooue wittie To which I answere the children of God are wittie to saie and doe good the children of the deuill are wittie to say and doe euill nowe consider to whom you doe liken your children to God or to the deuill for like will to like Children giue great heede to that which they see or heare especially in their parents and gouernours therefore all people as you will answer to God be careful what you say or doe before children for they will thinke that they may safely say as you say and doe as you doe Let not childrē be much among seruants for many seruants loue to teach children that which is naught O ye godfathers and godmothers remember that you are bound vnto God for the good bringing vp of your god-children In the beginning of Christian religion people were
folk that if I offer to say grace among them they wil thinke scornfully of me and reckon me a precise foolish bodie I answer first if you be the disciple of Christ you serue a good master be not ashamed of him and his seruice least he be ashamed of you at the day of iudgement Secondly if you for seruing God be ill thought of a blessed soule are you â—tth 9.10 â—â— It is a great fauour of God if hee vouchsafe to giue you the grace to suffer any wrong for his sake For great is their reward in heauen that are any waie persecuted for righteousnesse sake Grace before meate O blessed Lord God I humblie beseech thee to pardon my sinnes and to blesse the foode which it pleaseth thee to giue me that I may be thereby nourished made able to doe thee true seruice in my calling through Iesus Christ thine onely sonne our Lord and Sauiour Amen Grace after you haue eaten and drunken O most mercifull Lord God I am bound to giue thee humble and heartie thankes for thy manifold blessings giuen vnto me and to all mankinde Therefore I beseech the to giue me grace that I may be continually thankfull vnto thee thorough Iesus Christ thine onely sonne our Lord Amen Vse often to say the Lords praier so called because our Lord Iesus Christ made it and taught it his disciples It is a most heauenly praier short and sweete containing all that we neede in fewe wordes Therefore you must say it very leisurely and also vnderstandingly According to my weake vnderstanding I will by the grace of God briefly open vnto you the meaning of the Lords praier O father of Iesus Christ The Lâ— prayâ—ned and thorough him the father of all true Christians of which number I trust that by thy grace I am one Thy glorious maiestie and powerfull greatnesse filleth heauen and earth but in heauen thy ioyfull countenance is to be seene Thy name is holy O let the holinesse thereof be euery day more and more set forth that al the world may honor thee in heart word and deede Thou art the onely rightfull King of heauen and earth but the Deuill by temptation hath made vs rebell against thee O let the kingdome of thy grace come into our hearts and put out Satan for euermore Thine Angels and Saints in heauen doe altogether obey thy will O graunt that we children of men here vpon earth may likewise be obedient vnto thee in all things Our bodies doe daily neede the comfortable supplie of foode raiment lodging and such like O giue vs therefore such continuall comfort as thou knowest we cannot be without and because it is dangerous to our foules to haue too much or too little of worldly goods we beseech thee to giue vs neither more nor lesse but iust so much as by thy grace may best fit vs to serue and please thee Our sinnes doe deserue thy wrathfull vengeance and euerlasting torment in hell fire yet of thy wonderfull mercie thou doest offer vnto vs thy gracious pardon thorough Iesus Christ with condiâ—â—on that we shall heartily forgiue all that â—ffend vs O good Lord we doe forgiue â—hem from the bottome of our hearts and â—s we doe forgiue them and not seeke reâ—enge against them so wee praie thee to forgiue vs and not to late thy heauie vengeance vpon vs. The deuill by meanes of this world and our owne naughtie inclination can easily ouercome vs and tempt vs to his pleasure Therefore we beseech thee that thou wilt not giue vs ouer into his handes but by thine almightie goodnesse preserue vs from Satan and all his partakers For the kingdome of all blessednesse is thine thou art the right owner of all goodnesse all power commeth from thee and therfore all glorie and praise is due onely to thee O father almighty with thy sonne and thy holy Ghost for euermore Be it euen so Amen Pray often and with great deuotion vnto God that all Christian people may be knit together by the holy Ghost in one faith and one charitie and shew forth the mightie power of God in their liues and conuersations that the Iewes Turkes and all misbeleeuing people may thereby take knowledge that Christian religion is the onely true worshipping and seruice of God and thereupon turne to be true Christians For it is not warre nor worldly conquest that turneth people vnto God but the holy praiers and heauenly liues of them that serue God IF God will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine what shall become of me who haue all my life time most grieuously taken his name in vaine euery kind of way For first I professed my selfe a Christian that is a child of God thorough Iesus Christ but indeed I haue been heretofore the child of the deuill because I haue done his will and not Gods will Secondly I tooke vpon me to be a minister of Christ that is a messenger sent of God to ioyne with the holy Ghost in trayning people to be children of God but indeede I ioyned in worke with the deuill to make people his children The verie name and word of God I vsed vainely rashly vnreuerently and vndiscreetly to glorifie and please my selfe not to glorifie and please him All Christians take heede to your selues if you weare the Kings liuerie serue not the Kings enemie You were christened in the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holy Ghost therefore serue God and not the Deuill least it be prooued against you at the day of iudgement that ye tooke Gods name in vaine and so ye be found guilty At that daie neither shall the onely preaching nor the onely hearing of Gods word be allowed for both take the name of God in vaine because the one preacheth and practiseth not the other heareth and doth not the will of God therefore both shall be cast away with this grieuous sentence I knowe you not Matth. 23. Luk. 13 27. awaie from me ye workers of vnrighteousnesse Therefore frame your selues to be obedient vnto your Lord God and doe not think speake write heare or professe his name or his word without due discretion and groat reuerence Doe not make so light reckoning of your God as to vse his name or his word in idlenesse It is idle to call vpon the name of God without good cause and reuerent manner as some will say O God what a iest is this O Iesu who euer hard the like In any such speaking you are too bold with your God It is also a vaine taking of Gods name to praise him in scorning or blaming oothers as some will not be content to say of an idle bodie he liueth idlelie but they will say God be thanked he liueth idlelie O doe not thank God for any sinne because you should so doe him great wrong and of all things he cannot abide it to be noted as the cause of sinne which is farre from his most holy
nature Be not a common swearer for a man giuen to swearing shall be filled with wickednesse You ought not to call God to witnesse vnlesse there be great neede and none other meanes to make the truth knowne O how grieuous it is to heare people old and yong sweare by God without feare of his displeasure Some swear not by God but by their faith and troth by the masse by some Saint by golde and siluer and many others waies But doe not you so 〈◊〉 7. for it is displeasing to God to sweare by that which is not God It is called swearing when any say Gods woundes Gods blood Gods heart Gods nailes Gods foote c. but you shall heare what Christ will call it when he cōmeth to iudgement In the meane time vse no such raging speaches for they grieuously take the name of God in vaine Blesse your selfe from cursing and banning for cursing is the vengeance of God Luk. 9.51 52 53 54. He that wisheth vengeance to fall vpon his verie enemie had neede to be well aduised what spirit is within him Take heede how you heare the word of God that you be not negligent nor contentious nor daintie nor vaineglorious but diligently hunger and thirst for the pure and plaine word of God which if you receiue it in meekenesse is able to saue your soule Some make iestes of Gods word but doe not you so For it is ill iesting with edge tooles Doe not alleadge any part of Gods word but to a good and godly ende and in the feare of God Take heede how you make any vowe to God or how you promise any thing with an oth for whē you haue vowed or sworne your soule is bound Therefore before you vowe consider whether it be pleasing to God and in your power to performe and when you haue made such a vowe rather loose your life then breake it Iesus Christ keepe you from beeing a vow-breaker as I am Mocke no bodie with their pouertie lamenes blindenesse or with any thing which they cannot helpe least you take the name of God in vaine For Salomon saith he that mocketh the poore reprocheth his maker It is a most horrible thing to blaspheme almightie God that is to thinke or vtter any thing dishonourable vnto him It is dangerous in some things to speake that of God which is true Because our blinde vnderstanding is not able to see the depth of his wisdome and righteousnesse Therefore it is your safest waie to be thoroughly perswaded that God in whatsoeuer he doth or suffereth to be done is most perfitly wise and righteous and to refraine your minde from prying into the high questions of Gods fore-knowledge and predestination for the more you look vpon the sunne the worse you shall see and the more you seeke into the secrets of God the weaker will your vnderstanding be Whatsoeuer calamitie or miserie falleth vpon you acknowledge your selfe to haue deserued it yea and much more Submit your heart wholly to God and praise him as well for aduersitie as for prosperitie for that is meete and right So you shall best please him and most ease your selfe They that wickedly blame God for any thing which commeth to passe do both wrong his blessed maiestie and hurt themselues Although all things goe crosse and contrarie vnto you yet praise and blesse the name of God continually yea to the death and in dying Neuer despaire of Gods goodnesse but confesse his righteousnesse and your owne vnrighteousnes and so yeild your selfe to his good pleasure I Neuer kept holy the Sabbath day and therefore am full of all vnholinesse I forsooke the Church to followe euerie vaine pleasure or worldly profit I traueiled vpon sondaies in seruice time And when I went to Church the Deuill perswaded me to come late that I might tarrie the lesse while there Comming into Church I tooke no heede that I came into the house of God to pray vnto him and to learne my dutie out of his word and first I leaned vpon a seate or kneeled charily vpō one knee hiding my face or moouing my lippes that others might thinke I praied when indeede I either saide nothing or with no deuotion I little regarded what the minister praied or what he read in the word of God and if there were any sermon I minded not to heare it but wished for an ende of seruice and sermon that I might goe to my dinner and then to my vaine delights As for eueing praier I either lost it or came short vnto it or howsoeuer I made no reckoning of it being wholly giuen to foolish pastime Thus I made sonday the worst day of the weeke and my selfe the worst sinner of all the world But doe you make it the best daie of the weeke that you may be euery Sabbath daie by the grace of God made better and better till at the length you be fit to enter into the euerlasting Sabbath and rest of God in heauen Therefore leauing your worldly affaires and weaning your hearts from all pleasures of sinne you must desirously intend to keepe holy the Sabbath daie Arise early in the morning fall downe vpon your knees and humbly praie vnto God that he will giue you grace to keepe holy his sabbath daie according to his will Prepare your selfe so carefully to goe vnto the Church as if you were to goe out of this world into heauen Be not deckt in your apparell as if you were to plaie a part in a stage plaie or a may-game but come into Gods house as an humble suiter in such Christian plainenesse of raiment as decently may shewe the lowlinesse of your heart least you displease God and his Angels and giue much offence to Gods people yea and hinder your owne deuotion as I haue done Alas I haue beene exceeding vaine and tooke great pride in comming gaily to Church and so I quenched all desire of seruing God desiring chiefly to see and to be seene Come to Church with the first and not with the last least you come too late to speed Be more desirous and more delighted to serue God then to doe any thing els For it is hee to whome you must trust all other things will deceiue you and forsake you If you be diligent to serue God hee will be carefull to saue you he wil loue you he will come vnto you and dwell with you When you enter into the Church humble your hearts kneele downe vpon your knees lift vp your minde to God crie him mercie for your sinnes craue his grace in Christ Iesus that you may truly please him in all that you shall thinke say or doe When the minister readeth the praiers appointed ioyne you with him thinke that which he readeth word by word and at the ende of euery praier say heartily Amen When any part of Gods word is read giue diligent eare as though God himselfe spake vnto you from heauen When the Minister or any other is about to preach pray
finde fault with them If any thing seeme amisse pray humblie to God that he will mercifully cause it to be amended and doe you carefully endeuour to amende your owne selfe For it may be that your sinne is some part of cause why there is any want of grace in your gouernors This is your best waie and not to speake euill of those which are in authoritie as I haue wickedly done You must honour Archbishopps and Bishops and all Christs ministers as fathers For their office is to feede your soules specially the minister of the parish wherein you liue who in matter of saluation is as a mother to nurce you â—s 2.7 â—11 12 and as a father to traine you and teach you Haue alwaies a reuerent opinion of your minister for otherwise you shall greatly indanger your soules as I haue done If your heart be possessed with a dislike of your minister goe to some other Church to heare the seruice of God vntill you be in a better minde least the ill conceit of the minister make you to mistake and be distasted with that which he preacheth readeth or prayeth For then you should be in a fearefull case and the deuill woulde enter into you and make you loath the holy seruice of God Whiles you liue blesse your selfe from saying and doing any thing that may disable the minister of Christ Luk. 10. â— for that were to despice Christ himselfe If you saie he is thus and thus vnfit for his calling I answear as before if hee be so you are bounde to praie that he may be amended What warrant haue you to iudge Gods minister Take heede I was once a naughtie seruant and therefore doe intreat all seruants to honour them whose seruants they are as if they were their fathers and mothers reuerencing obeying and seruing them faithfully Blessed are all good seruants For whether their masters vse them well or no God will not faile to powre his blessing vpon them But he will surelie punish naughtie seruants and naughtie masters Honour all your friends and well willers for they are or would be as your parents meanes to preserue you Hate my barbarous propertie and neuer be vnkind to any that hath beene kind to you although he be turned from a friend to an enemie One vnkindnesse yea many times a false suspicion of vnkindnesse hath made me dishonour my kind freinds But if you will please God practise the contrary let not many vnkindnesses cause you to forget one kindnesse but let one kindnesse put many vnkindnesses quite out of mind Reuerence your elders and all that are in any gift or grace of God better then you for they are as fathers and mothers vnto you to doe you some good at least by example God made all people in his owne likenesse and their is none so low but that he may one way or other doe you good at least by excercising your patience if he be faultie or your enimie much more by praying for you if you giue him cause so to doe therefore honour all people euen your enemies And let your owne conuersation be wise vertuous least you doe as I haue done dishonouring God that made you your parens that brought you forth and norished you your gouernours that haue the ruling of you your freinds that fauour and further you for you doing euill are a discredit vnto them all yea if your behauiour be not good you dishonour all the world for if you doe respect them as Gods people ought to be respected you will be ashamed that any should see or heare euill of you All parents and bringers vp of children nurture them while they be young to feare God and honor you for so they will be framed to honour all others But if in fonde loue you make your children your fellowes or by ill behauiour cause them to thinke vnreuerently of you how can they kindly performe their dutie vnto you O that parents did so loue their children that their speciall care might be to make them lowely and louely to God and to all people O Lord Iesu I humbly beseech thee to say Amen I am a murderer in heart in tongue in outward works therefore euerlasting life is not in me my heart is full of vncharitablenesse readie to mislike any bodie to surmise euill of them and so to entertaine furious anger hellish hatred and all deadly enmitie my tongue is a sharpe sword wounding euen my freinds yea I am like a foole that blindfoldeth himselfe and hurteth he careth not whom when I conceaue that any is adversarie vnto me I spare no poyson but reuile him bitterly I haue murdered many with an euill eie enuying their prosperitie I haue stricken and flung at others with a murderous mind I haue caused quareling and fighting I haue caused some to loose the meanes whereby they liued I haue hindred others from obtaining helps of preseruing their life I haue greedily kept in store and vainely wasted that through the want whereof many poore haue pined with hunger and cold I haue indangered the saluation of others by ill example liuing among them as one infected with the plague yea many sinnes like plague sores breaking and running out coÌ„tinualy All people take warning by me if you will not be guiltie of murder shunne all the causes and occasions thereof Doe not endure to take any dislike of man woman or child nor be too well conceited of your selfe for then you shall be apt to thinke ill of any bodie O that you knew into how many dangers you put your selfe when you begin to dislike or despise any bodie for euen as when your mouth is out of tast you cannot relish any thing be it neuer so good so if your mind be ill conceited of an other whatsoeuer he saieth or doeth you condemne it But you may say shall I not dislike such as I doe see and heare to be euill I answere first you may by sight and hearing take your tast amisse Luk. 18. as the Pharise did in disliking the publican whose heart was better liked of God then the Pharises that disliked him Secondly although an other be indeede so bad as you see and heare that he is yet you must dislike him none otherwise then for your owne sinnes you dislike your selfe Sorrie you are and much displeased with your sinnes if you be a true christian but yet you hate not your selfe you doe not raile vpon your selfe but louing your selfe you hide your faults So must you doe to others for if you loue them loue couereth a multitude of sinnes But if you hate any of Gods people you are a murderer 1. Ioh 3 therefore take heede Eph. 4.2 follow the counsell of the holy Ghost whatsoeuer cause is giuen you to be angry pacifie your selfe and let not wrath stay long in your heart least you entertaine the deuill who will fill you with hate and desire of reuenge If anie doe hurt you in