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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16330	Instructions for a right comforting afflicted consciences with speciall antidotes against some grievous temptations: delivered for the most part in the lecture at Kettering in North-hampton-shire: by Robert Bolton ...	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.	1631 (1631)	STC 3238; ESTC S106257	572,231	590

the covetous Dwell in a cruell and crafty worldling doth sucke out of the single-heartednesse plaine dealing un-suspiciousnesse of conscionable men for their rising enriching if God crosse it not 3. Hee drawes them by all the baites Hee can devise to all the incentives and preservatives of carnal contentment as to Tavernes Ale-houses Play-houses Whore-houses Gaming-houses to May-games Morrice-dances Church Ales to Cardes to Dice to Dancing to Feasts Wakes Mis-rules Drinking-matches revelliu●s and a world of such sinfull haunts Bedlam-fooleries and Good-fellow-meetings Wherein He is mightily furthered by Wicked Mens impatiency of solitarinesse and their enraged eagernesse of carrying with them to Hell as many as may bee For the first Tho a good man as Salomon sayes bee satisfied from Himselfe dare full well and desires full often to bee alone because the bird of the bosome sings sweetely to His Soule in solitarinesse yet all the Sonnes and Daughters of pleasure have no pleasure at all nay ordinarily are most loth to bee by themselves Solitarinesse puts them into their dumps makes them extremely melancholike and weary of themselves They would rather bee any where in any company any wayes imploide then alone Mistake mee not they can walke by themselves to feede upon contemplative filth speculative wantonnesse adulteries of the heart to plot revenge preferment enlargement of their estate to renew upon their sensuall hearts their youthfull pleasures c. But to bee alone purposely to deale with God and their owne 〈…〉 about their spirituall stare they abhorre 〈…〉 endure it is to them a tor●ure a Racke the very beginning of Hell And that is the reason to decline the tings of guiltnesse and torment before their time why they have so often recourse unto the arme of flesh for refreshing to the mirth and madnesse of wine pleasures and many other fugitive follies That they cast themselves into such knots of good-fellowship appoint so many set-matches of joviall meetings and hunt after such variety of the times entertainment as they call it which they account the very life of their life and without which they would rather bee under ground then aboue it For the second Heare How swagge●ingly they cry unto their companions in iniquity to make haste with them towards Hell Come with us let us lay waite for blood let us lurke pr●vily for the innocent without caus● Let us swallow them up alive as the grave and whole as those that goe downe into the pit wee shall finde all pretious substance wee shall fill our houses with spoile Cast in thy lot among us let us all have one purse Prov. 1.11 c. Come on therefore let us enjoy the good things that are present and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth Let us fill our selves with costly wine and ointments and let no flower of the Spring passe by us Let us crowne our selves with Rose buds before they bee withered Let none of us goe without His part of our voluptuousnesse let us leave tokens of our ioyfulnesse in every place for this is our portion and our lot is this c. 4. And in all these cursed conventicles of good-fellowship and furious combinations for prophanenesse and against Piety the Divell himselfe is ever present amongst them in His Pontificalibus as they say And there disposeth enclines manageth and accommodates all opportunities circumsta●● 〈…〉 mens severall corruptions and 〈…〉 wicked wits to make their meetings as merry as may bee and to put all possible sensuall sweetnesse into their carnall delights 5. Lastly That which is principally for my purpose Besides that like a crafty Iugler Hee casts a mist before the eyes of His slaves and like a false Merchant puts a counterfeite glosse upon the face of sinne Hee also hides away the sting from them and withholds the horrour untill afterward Every sin in it's own nature ever lookes fouler then the Divell Himselfe O that the ougly fearefull and filthy shape of it could bee seene with bodily eyes that thereby it might provoke all men to a mortall and immortall hate and detestation of it The sting is pointed with the keene unquenchable wrath of God the horror is heated with the very fire of Hell And yet ordinarily Satan takes an order by His craft and industry that these never appeare untill it appeare unto Him that in all probability the sight of them will sinke their Soules into irrecoverable woe The not feeling then of their spirituall misery is so farre from making them not miserable that it ministers occasion to the Divels malice mightily to aggravate their misery both present and future 2. An other reason why many are not troubled in the meane time tho there bee infinite cause and a world of woe to come is because their consciences by reason of surfet in sinne and beeing drunke with worldly delights as with sweet wine are cast into a dead sleep And there lulled still and lockt full fast in an imaginary Paradise of golden dreames and transitory fancies by the charmes and enchantments of earthly pleasures And if at any time any noyse of terrour sound in their eares from the Lords Trumpeters in the Ministry of the Word so that they begin to stirre then the Divell begins to be stirre Himselfe and to rocke them fast againe with His Syren-songs in the Cradle of security Here therefore wee may take notice of a fourefold conscience 1. That which is both good and quiet when it hath peace with God and with it selfe so that the happy Soule may sweetly sing in it's owne bosome My belov●d is mine and I am His. 2. That which is neither good nor quiet when it lyes forlorne under the sense of Gods wrath and full of horrour in it selfe As that of Iudas Latomus c. 3. That which is good but not qui●t when the pleased face of God doth shine upon it thorow the blood of Christ and yet it feeles not the comfort of that blessed reconciliation As in many new Converts who beeing truly humbled for all sinne cast themselves upon the Lord Iesus and his sure promises for spirituall and eternall life and yet are not as yet sensible of any assurance 4. That which is quiet but not good when it is as full of sinne as a Toade of venome as Hell of darkenesse and all those innumerable sinnes unrepented of unpardoned like so many mad Ban-dogs and fell Mastives tho asleepe for the present will in the evill day especially of sicknesse death iudgement flye in the face of the proudest Nimrod ready to plucke out his very throate and heart and to torment with unspeakeable horrour and yet for all this it is untroubled senselesse and secure This kind of conscience is to bee found I feare mee in the most that heare mee this day and so generally over the Kingdome It doth not in the meane time trouble and terrifie 1. A great number by reason of their ignorance in the

I think in such a Case it may be convenient and that such an One hath thereupon some cause and Calling seriously and impartially to search and trie His spirituall state For which purpose ponder seriously upon such considerations as these some of which may discover unsoundnesse Others His unadvisednesse 1. It may bee the Party is not yet come in truth to that sound humiliation contrition spirituall thirsting resolution to sell all c. required by the reverend Author in that most profitable and piercing Doctrine of Faith quoted before but onely hath passed over them overly not soundly superficially not syncerely and then no marvell tho no true and reall comfort come Informe thy selfe further in this Point and that thou mayst more fully know my meaning in it and be guided aright in a marter of so great waight Ibid. Cap. 2. Of the Author and meanes of Faith And Cap. 5. Of the difficulty of Faith pag. 284 c. 2. Or it may bee howsoever Hee protest otherwise and for all His partiall Legall terrour and trouble of minde His deceitfull heart may still secretly harbour and hanker after some sweet sinne as Pride Revenge strange Fashions Worldlinesse Lust Playes Gaming Good-fellowship as it is call'd c. From which it doth not heartily yeeld resolve and endeavour to make an utter and finall cessation and divorce And assuredly that false heart which regards and allowes any wickednesse in it selfe howsoever it may be deluded with some Anabaptisticall flashes yet shall never bee truly refreshed with ioy in the holy Ghost 3. It may bee tho there was some probable and plausible shewes that the Party was principally cast downe and affected with the heavy waight of sin and horrour of Gods wrath for it yet the true predominant cause of His heavinesse harts-griefe and bitterest complaint was some secret earthly discontentment the restlesse biting of some worldly sting And in such Cases remove this and you remove His paine Comfort Him about his Crosse and you set Him where Hee was And therefore as in all this He continues a meere stranger in affection to the sweetnesse amiablenesse and excellency of Iesus Christ so it is impossible that Hee should bee acquainted with any sound spirituall comfort But I will suppose all to bee syncere and as it should bee Let mee advise Thee then to take notice of thine unadvisednesse 1. Thou art perhaps so full of the want of feeling such a stranger to so much expected and desired ioy and peace in believing and by consequent so drowned in the unnecessary distractions and distempers of a sad heart that thou utterly forgets to give thankes and magnifie Gods singular and incomprehensible mercy for illightening convincing and terrifying thy conscience offering his Sonne raising in thine heart an insatiable thirst after Him and giving Thee spirituall abilitie to rest thy weary Soule upon Him And who knowes not that unthankfulnesse keepes many good things from us and is an unhappy blocke in the way to intercept and hinder the comfortable influence and current of God favours and mercies from being showred downe so frankly and plentifully upon His people And Hee is more likely to bee the more provoked in this Case because thou suffers thine heart to bee lockt up and thy Tongue tied by Satans cunning and cruell malice from praysing the glory of Gods free grace for such a worke of wonder I meane that mighty Change of thine from nature to grace in extolling of which were all the hearts and tongues of all the Men and Angels in Heaven and Earth set on worke industriously thorow all eternitie they would still come infinitely short of that which is due and deserved 2. Or it may be when some One of a thousand upon thy complaint that no comfort comes doth seriously labour to settle thine heart in peace pressing upon Thee for that purpose invincible and unanswer-able Arguments out of the Word of Truth to open it wide that over-flowing Rivers of Evangelicall joyes which may spring to Him that is advised and believes the Prophets abundantly even from the weakest Faith to refresh and comfort it Telling thee that as thine humbled Soule learning upon Christ drawes much heavenly vertue mortifying power and sanctifying grace from him so it may and ought also to draw abundance of spirituall lightsomnesse from that ever-springing Fountaine of life c. Yet notwithstanding all this thou suffers some malicious counter-blasts and contrary suggestions of the Divell to disperse and frustrate all these well-grounded and glorious Messages And therefore it is just with God that thou fare the worse at his hands and fall short of thine expectation because thou gives more credit to the Father of Lyes then the Lord of Truth Sith thou spills all the Cordials that are tendered unto thee in the Name of Christ by His faithfull Physicions thou art deservedly destitute of comfort still Many in such Cases while Gods Messenger who can rightly declare His wayes unto them stands by opening and applying the rich treasures of Gods free mercy in the mysterie of the Gospell and with present replies repelling Satans cavils are reasonably well cheared and revived But when Hee is gone they very weakely and unworthily give way againe to that foule lying Fiend to cast a dis-comfortable mist over the tender eye of their weake Faith and to domineere as Hee did before Tell mee true If thou wert in doubt and distresse about thy temporall state Tenure of thy Lands soundnesse of thy evidence Wouldest thou advise with and take counsell from a Foole a Knaue and an enemy or wouldest Thou make choise of an honest wise understanding Friend I doubt not of thine Answer And wilt thou then so farre disparage divne truth gratifie Hell and hurt thine owne heart as in that waightiest Point of thy spirituall state to consult and resolve with the Divell a Liar a Murtherer and sworne enemy to Gods glory and thy Soules good And neglect God Himselfe blessed for ever speaking unto Thee out of His Word by that Minister which in such a Case durst not falsify or flatter Thee for a World of gold Shall many thousands of worldly-wise men give credit very readily and roundly to Dawbers with untempered morter upon a false and rotten foundation to the most certaine and eternall ruine of their Soules And shall not an humble and upright-hearted Man believe the Prophet upon good ground that the bones which the heavy burden of sinne hath broken may reioyce God forbid 3. Nay but suppose the Party bee truly humbled very thankefull resolute against all sinne labour to believe the Prophets c. And yet no comfort come I say then there is an other Duty expected at thy hands right pretious and pleasing unto God And that is waiting By which God would 1. Set yet a sharper edge and eagernesse more hungring and thirsting greater longing and panting after the ravishing sweetnesse of His comfortable presence with which melting earnest crying dispositions Hee