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A08305	A sinfull mans solace most sweete and comfortable, for the sicke and sorowful soule: contriued, into seuen seuerall daies conference, betweene Christ and a carelesse sinner. Wherin, euerie man, from the highest, to the lowest: from the richest, to the poorest: and aboue all, the sorowfull sinner: maye take such sweet repaste of resolution, to amendment of lyfe, and confirmation of fayth: that (in respect of the heauenlie solace, therin faithfully remembered:) all the pompes and pleasures of this wicked worlde, shall be plainely perceiued to be meere miserie. Writcen [sic], by Iohn Norden.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1585 (1585)	STC 18634; ESTC S110181	160,012	334

to weepe That nowe in griefe doth groane to see it selfe in torments deepe But then ten thousand times I had bene happie in my death Ten thousand times vnhappy now that I enioy my breath Wherefore prepare oh graue in hast to take thy share of mee And death doe thou thy duetie too I yeeld mee now to thee For all my pleasures now are gone my mirth to mourning cheere Is chaūged quite my ioyes are past now gryping griefes drawe neer That greeue my silly soule so sore my corps consume full fast Oh death deny mee not therefore but take mee hence in haste The God that sits in Christal skies hath cast mee cleane away No hope of helpe no hold I haue good death make no delay No pardon due for my desert my sinnes deserue to die I linger like a lothsome wretch in deepe dispaire I crie Come death end my doleful daies deferre it not make haste I loth to liue yet dread to die all hope of helpe is past Solace Oh wretched man what is y e cause thou mournest thus in woe Leaue of to crie and come to mee why doste thou sorrowe so The thrall is great that thou poore wretch doste seeme to sorrow in Shew me y e cause be of good cheare I sollace men in sinne The sinful-man Wo worth if thou be Solace who was yeasterday with mee He was the cause of this dispaire Yea none the cause but hee Solace SAiest thou so Thou art greatly deceiued in deede I am that Solace that for thy cōfort came vnto thee yesterday to call thee from thy foolishnes from thine error and censelesse securitie But thou art that scorner that the wise man meaneth that refuseth to bee reformed For a wise man when he is reprooued departeth from his euill but a foole when hee is rebuked of his error falleth into raging and as it were into a desperate madnes as may appeare by thy frowardnes that art not ashamed wrongfully and most vniustly to charge mee to be the cause of this sorrowe of thine of thy dispayre thou augmentest thy fault in thus rashly accusing mee But it is a Leasson learned long agoe many thousand yeeres put in practise namely the vngodly to finde out excuses according to their owne willes and peruerse conceites As Adam Eue thy great grandsieres did in the beginning when they had manifestly transgressed the Commaundement of their Creatour in eating the fruit forbidden when they were charged with the crime what did they did they vpon their reprehension confesse and say it is so Lord we haue eaten it contrarie to thy will noe but they sought another bye meane to cloake their disobedience Adam for his part sayd The woman whome thou gauest me made me to eate And Eue seeing the matter sayd to her charge sayd it to the Serpents charge thincking to make by circumstance God himself the author of their fall But this iugling could not auaile them their deceitfulnes deceiued themselues and they had al their reward Now to come to thine excuse who to discharge thine owne vnhappines layest the fault on mee that came not to vndoe thee but to reuoke thee from thy miserable blindnes from thine obstinate foolishnes ouerthwart opinion wherein thou were trudging as faste as thou couldest to vndoubted dampnation But I see that Satan hath set a vale before thine eyes that thou canst not see thy friend frō thy foe thou takest light for darkenesse and darkenesse to be light yea darkenesse hath so dimned thy censes that thou canst not comprehend the light For there is no familiaritie betweene light and darkenes But awake thou foolish man that sleepest in darkenes and God shall giue thee light yea I am the light of the worlde he that followeth mee shall not walke in darkenes but shall enioy the light of eternall life The sinfull-man Oh say no more I am vndone I crie but all in vaine In deede I am in darkenesse deepe thy words augment my paine Solace Thou art deceiued in deede I am the Solace that will ease This doleful plight of thine w t speed and wrath of God appease I am that lambe of God that came by God my fathers heste By death for true repenting soules to purchase lasting reste Although thy sinne the Scarlet doe in rednes farre surpasse My death shall make thy soule as white as whitnes euer was Wherefore returne to me in haste amend what is amisse I am the God that pardons him that true repentant is Therefore giue care attend vnto these comforts of my will Beleeue amend doe not dispayre conuert thy selfe from ill I Knowe oh sinfull man that riches and vainglorie had euen ouercome thee Thou were in a slumber with the sweete lullings as they seemed of that deceaueable Sathan the god of this worlde who hath in such sort blinded thy mind and bewitched thee with vaine and transitorie pleasures that the light of my glorious Gospell which is the power of God shoulde not shine vnto thee By reason whereof the examples of the Iustice of mine heauenly father extended against such as haue their heartes so seared with the hot iron of worldly carefulnes hath mooued thee to this kind of dispaire feeling thy conscience guiltie of the things whereof thou hast beene reprooued And therefore most wrongfully doest thou attribute the cause of thy griefe vnto mee But it is Sathan that thus bestirreth him now to retaine thee in the blind bye-path that he hath hitherto deceitfully drawen thée into beset with so many dilightsome deuises and daintie delicates of the flesh of the minde and of the eyes that he is loath to lose thee he thinkes that if thou once goe from him thou wilt come no more if thou forsake him thou wilt be reteyned into my seruice who wil giue thee better entertainemēt yea though my wages in this world be not gold and siluer though my Liuerie bee not so glorious to the eye and thy dyet so daintie yet I say thou shalt be sure of a good liuing in reuersion which is after this life rent free without any feare of forfeiture thy Lyuery shalbe here the libertie of a free minde and thy Dyet daily meditation of heauenly things Which liuing which Liuery and which dyet I knowe thine old master tels thee are al vaine al ful of seruitude watchings waytings and thraledome and he giues thee both great wages of Gold and Siluer and a great liuing in hand hee giues thee not borde wages but places thee most princelike at his owne Table hee feedes thee with his owne hands but he craues attendāce he is something nice in seruice you must wayte at an inch But then like the master of a good hound he pleaseth thee with many rewards which thou hast accounted a very sweete and pleasaunt seruice but thou hast heard before that it is vayne yea most vayne and very affliction of the spirit

with the plagues of hell yea all the plagues at once But seeke not thou euen so to set my stately state at naught Bee not too bold I am no babe I see what sleightes are sought To sucke the sweete of such as I that haue such wealth at will But showe thy name perchaunce I may attend vnto thy skill Solace My name as earst before I said Is wholesome pure and sweete True Solace for a sinfull Soule whome Sathan luls a sleepe The Rich-man Is Solace then your name in deede For thee then I haue ●ought With great expence with carke and care with all my will and thought And wandred farre and neere about my countrie here and there To settle me in sweetest soyle good Solace showe me where And what may beste delight the minde of him who hath in store A world of wealth yet still I wish with all my heart for more Solace Thy sences foolish man doe erre thy fancie flies too fast Thou feedst thy follie like the flie that fryes in flame at last Doest thou suppose my comming is to solace thee with sinne No no it is to call thee from the error thou art in The Rich-man Why saist thou so Solace I seeke If thou be Solace say I am and I am he that will all pleasaunt thinges obey Want not for gold nor siluer deare ask what thou wilt for fee No price shall passe aske what thou wilt and I will giue it thee Solace I craue not gold nor siluer man thy fees I doe defy These profers doe thy wicked heart oh Sinfull man discry I see thou sauourest all of sinne true Solace is no share For thee nor for such wicked ones that thus affected are Leaue of Leaue of therefore in hast these fond conceits of thine And to mine healthfull counsaile see thine heart thou doe incline Let Sathan sit no more within thy brest to rule thy will Feeding thy fancie with delightes of worldly pleasures ill Looke thou into the Gospell true the word of life and light And thou shalt see as in a glasse thy selfe in sinfull plight The Rich-man What what is this the Solace which thou wilt reuiue withall And winne my sillie Soule in hast from paine and pinching thrall Quite contrarie to my request yea to my sodaine woe I thought thou hadst bin for my tooth but loe thou art my foe Solace No no I am thy faithfull friend and thou a foe to me Which thou shalt well in fine perceaue was cause I came to thee The Rich-man Well well say on proceede to shewe thine whole intent in hast Be breefe I pray the euening comes on vs thou seest full fast Solace Attend thee then let pleasure passe and hearken what I say My Solace shall be sweete in fine if thou my wordes obay AS far as I can perceiue by the circumstance of thy former determination and intended proceedings as also by thine obstinate perseuerance in thy wilfull and peruerse opinion that eyther thou haste neuer heard neuer read or quite forgotten that sacred saying of Iesus Christ in his gospell where he warneth all men to beware of couetousnes And to consider that the safetie of their liues consisteth not in the multitude of their riches and worldly pleasures But thou ere while protestedst that thou knewest neither me nor Iesus Christ then canst thou hardly beleeue his sayings much lesse the sayings of anie other that comes vnto thee in his name whom likewise thou cōtemnedst ere while saying there were of such Preachers store but hearken a little what I will saie when Iesus put forth the parrable of him whose frutes and aboundance so increased that he was forced to enlarge his roomes to cōueie his Graine and store so much increasing either he prognosticated of thée or of some other whose heart was sette on fire with the loue of this world as thine is And therfore assure thy selfe that although he be vnknowen to thée his messengers dispised of thee the peruersitie of thy life thy wilfull rebellion against him is not hidde nor can be concealed from his knowledge nor thy selfe defended from his rod who kéepeth his punishment in store for thee till the fulnes of thy wickednesse be come to an end when according to his Iustice he will turne all thy pleasures into payn thy plenty into pouerty thy wealth into want thy statly pallace that thou intendest to build into a déep bottōlesse dungion thy prospectes of pleasure into horryble darknes in hell thy sweet mellodie musicke into horrible hissing of venemous Serpents and hydious hellish powers and thy singing and mirth into howling wéeping and gnashing of téeth thy swéete smels into stinking and lothsome sauours thy delights of the Thems into the stinking water of Stix in hell And further that of Iustice he shall giue thée in stead of thy gorgeous attire miserable nakednes in stead of thy delicates gurmandies and belly cheare hunger and inextinguishable thirst in so much as thou shalte not haue for golde siluer or friendshippe for wealth or good will as much as one droppe of cold water to coole the heate of thy tormented conscience Consider this and beléeue it for was not he of whome the Gospell maketh mention in case as good or rather in the sight of the world as happie as thou estéemest thy selfe to be Was hée not Rich had he not aboundaunce Was hée not clothed in Riche rayment and gorgious garments of costly colours most sumptuous to beholde fed he not as fine and fared he not as daintely as thou was he not as duely attended on and pleased with as solempne eye seruice as thou was he not glutted with all kind of pleasures and had all the world as it were at his beck and commaundement as much as thy selfe And yet such was the hardnes of his heart the frailty of his fayth and coldnes of his charitie the wilfull stubbernes of his vntamed will that he would not bestow as much as the crummes that fell from his table no not the voidings of his Trenchers vpon poore Lazarus who lamentablely oppressed with hunger and grieued with soares begged at his gate hauing none other reliefe none other help or comforte in that deepe distresse but the poore Curs that licked away the filth that did flow and distill from his Loathsome carcas pitifull to beholde But was for very hunger driuē to yeld vp the ghost whom Angels forthwith caried into a place of vnspeakable blisse the bosome of Abraham where he rested reuiued with Ioye refreshed with comfort released of miserie and richly reliued with all vnspeakable happynes But marke what became of this dainty rich man Death not long after tooke him from his aboundance and left his riches he knew not to whome and the Deuill and his Angels attending his departure as gréedie of so great a pray without delay drew him into the deepe dungion of

and second chapter willeth thee not to loue the worlde nor the things in the world for whatsoeuer is in the worlde is concupiscence of the flesh concupiscence of the eies and the pride of life out of which as out of head-fountaines springe all other euils namely of the concupiscence of the flesh voluptuousnesse of the concupiscence of the eies riches and desire of thy neighbours goods by which came thy first motion to desire Simple thy Tenāts liuing And of the pride of life springeth ambition and desire of honour and to be great in the sight of men out of which sprang thy pernicious and foolish purpose to build c. Agayne of voluptuousnes commeth vnhonest and vncomly thinges of riches wicked thinges and of ambition foolish thinges all which are so linckt and knit together as imbrace one and thou art guiltie of all follow thou one and the rest will follow thee So that here is the case of coueitousnes who by reason of his riches becommeth so loftie that he would bring all other as it were vnder his girdle I goe for proofe but to thy selfe who notwithstanding thine aboundance wast not contented to see poore Simple to liue by thée but most gréedily hast thou eaten him vp and deuoured him of his lyuing to his vtter beggering which gréedy desire of thine I finde accompanied with so many euils and vanities of the minde choaking so the sences with the thornie cares of this worlde that I perceaue thée quite and cleane drawne from the true and holsome seruice of God to the most seruile and sinfull slauerie of deceitfull Sathan The rich-man Oh hold thy peace and say no more my wittes are cleane berest Thy words haue sackt my sences so I haue no comfort lefte Solace Well then adue farewell I will too morrow come againe Sith night is come farewell doe not these words of mine disdaine But think vpon thy former waies which thou hast past in sinne In sine my solace shall be sweet for thee to solace in Godly meditations for him whose heart is infected with coueitousnes Incline mine heart O Lord vnto thy testimonies and not to couetousnes Psal. 119. Oh tvrne awaie my eyes least they behold vanitie and quieken me in thy way Eodem 14. Take away the rebuke that I am affraid of for thy iudgements are great Eodem 42. ¶ A Godly and deuout prayer for the auoiding of Gods wrath against him that hath oppressed the poore to make himself rich fit for euerie riche man· OH most omnipotent and eternal Cod father of all power and knowledg the giuer of all goodnes and iust punisher of the wicked I prostrate my selfe here before the seat of thy meere mercy most humbly crauing pardon for mine infinite iniquities for mine obstinate and wilful rebellion against thy deuine maiesty for running so farre from true obedience I haue gone astray sweete Lord I haue gone astray I haue greedely followed that which I should not wilfully fled frō that which I should haue carefully imbraced O Lord the desires of the world haue vndone mee the pleasures thereof haue pearced mine heart so neare they haue woūded my conscience so sore that vertue faith godlines are chased cleane away I haue streched out mine hands to take that I ought not and withheld them from doing that which I ought to haue done I doe confesse O Lord I cannot deny but I haue oppressed pinched the poore to make my self rich I haue foolishly framed my fantacie to follow fulfill all vnlawfull desires But pardon me oh heauenly Father pardon me and giue me grace with Zache to stand vp restore againe whatsoeuer I haue by forged flatterie by force or violence wrongfully takē frō any body that thou mayst vouchsafe to come and dwell with mee to the comfort of my poore soule say vnto mee sweete Iesus as thou saidst to Zache that this daye saluation shall come into mine house Oh sweete Iesu come thou vnto me which art saluation it selfe a most comfortable sweet and most ioyfull newes it was to him so sweet and ioyfull oh Lord Iesu it will be to me that nowe am tyed with the Fetters of Sathan for then shall I be free that now am in bondage and then I shall be at liberty wherfore sweete Iesu say on not only say thou wilt but come vnto me as I know thou camest to seeke that was lost to call them home that went astray to accept again of him that wilfully ran from thee like the vntamed Heyfer who being too well fed winch and kick against thee But Lord I vnfainedly lament my disobedience and pray thy grace wherby I may forsake the euill and peruerse immaginations of my heart which haue so bewitched my sences that they are dull to doe good and expert to doe euill forward to vice froward to vertue But alter mine affections sweet Iesu change my desires that in stead of the pleasures of this world I may imbrace the path that leadeth vnto eternall life Washe me sweete Iesu wash me and make me cleane and put farr from me all vngodly gaine make me content with mine owne stir vp in me a willingnes to be ready to giue and glad to distribute slow to lust and willing to leade a newe life kill all concupiscence in mee both of the flesh and of the eyes and of the minde giue me in stead thereof earnest zeale to goodnes true lowlines of he●●t and perfect patiēce ioyned with vnfayned fayth that I may laye vp in store a good foundatiō against the time to come that through thee sweete Iesu I may obtaine eternall life AMEN O Lord increase my fayth THE TVESDAY or second daies conference betweene Solace and the sinfull man Wherein after long perswasion vnderstāding by many examples of the iust iudgement of God against worldly minded men and the greedy desire of wicked gaine beginnes to consider that hee hath greatly erred in reposing his trust in transitorie riches and in his aboundance to sell the ende of all happines And falles into a kinde of dispaire wherein he vttereth his griefe and afterward receiueth comfort Solace shewing himselfe to be Christ c. The sinfull man OH sinfull soule of mine sing forth the dolefull tunes of woe Let sobs sighs let trickling teares from thee like fountaines floe Let groanes in griefe bee nowe thy gaine let sorrow beare y e swaie Let Solace passe for thou hast loste thine health and wonne decaie Oh worth oh worth mee wicked wretch wo worth y e day wherein That my rebellious mind did giue the first consent to sinne Wo worth the day wherein I was seene first of womans eye Would God my life had ended when I first began to crie Then should not thus my silly soule bene wrapt in irkesome woe Nor it haue felt the carefull thrall that now is forste to showe My heart should not haue harborde woe nor cōscience cause

thrall Extende vnto mee wretched wight thy light and loue withall Oh Lorde my God forget mee not hyde not thy selfe from mee Although my flesh do striue to keepe my syllie soule from thee Showe not thyne anger as a foe let mercy be my staye It is no profite Lord for thee to cast my soule awaye Denie mee not a contrite heart a pensiue person poore An wofull wretch a sinfull soule that knocke here at thy doore Uouchsafe to turne thy face to mee forgiue my deedes amisse In feare I doo appeale to thee as one that guiltie is Deale not as my deserts doo craue but as of mercie thou Doost will and still delight to haue all sinfull heartes to bow Showe not thy force against thy foe that faine would come to thee And pardon my Offences all though Death be due to mee Oh plague mee not good Lord so sore I haue no force I fall I neuer wyll offende thee more if thou vouchsafe to call My soule from sinne and to affoord mee Solace sweete againe Loe here I doo against my selfe a sinfull wretch complaine Shame dooth beset mee round about my selfe consume in woe I am corrupt mine heart throughout I wander too and fro From sinne to sinne I run perforce I wander styll astraye Wherfore without thy due remorce I can not but decaye Since first I suckt my Mothersbrest yea since I sawe the daye The subtill Serpent hath not ceast to wrest mine heart astraye In sinne my mother did conceaue this cankred Corps of mine And Sathan seekes Lord to bereaue all that of right is thine He soweth 〈◊〉 and wicked seedes in mine vnstaid brest Wherof doo grow pernitious deedes which breede my soule vnrest Which I as yet cannot auoyde they fixe so fast one mee That frō my youth they haue auoid and keepe me Lord from thee So that I am full bought and sould betwene the Feend and synne And wickednes a thousand foulde myne heart doth lodge within The good I cannot which I would my nature proane to ill Withdraws myne harte frō what it should imbrace w t heauenly skil But Lord in sinne why should I dye syth thy good will is so To heare poor synners whē they crie and them redeeme from woe And giuest them repaste againe from heauens high aboue And to repentant hearts full faine thou showest thy selfe in loue Ye thou doest saue through mercie meere those that deserue to dye When they to thee returne in feare oh Lorde now so doe I A thousand times before this daie thy mercies from aboue Haue saued them that went astraie to showe thy zealous loue Our fathers who were longe agoe when they were in dystresse Fell prostrate on their harts and loe thou gauest them redresse Ye whē they were incompast round and no hope to auoyde Thy mercye Lord did so abounde that they were not destroyed Haue mercie therfore Lord on mee oh god on whome I call I wretched synner here to thee on prostrate heart doe fall Ease mee againe let mercie thine myne woefull hearte releeue And let not synne all goodnes mine through loosenes thus bereaue My soule alas in dolefull plight in hope of helpe doth crie Oh Lord extend thy louelie light that shines from heauen hye To guide my silly soule to blisse by shunnyng what is ill High time alas good Lord it is to frame mee to thy will Wherfore extend thy grace againe put foorth thy helpyng hand Let it reuiue what sinne hath slaine and loosen Sathans bande Lorde Iesus come oh come in haste Let Heauens Bowe come down That I a wretched wight at last maye ioye that passing Crowne Which y u by dreadful death hast won through plūging panges on tree In loue to giue the same to those that feare to fall from thee Come come I say thou Solace true and fill mine hart with ioye My sinfull soule with grace renue whom Sathan would destroye No daye no time no minute is deuoyde of wo to mee But oh alas the cause is this I hold mee not by thee If thou absent thy selfe my soule my bones my bodie dust Corrupt with carke of wicked will as Iron doeth with rust If thou absent thy selfe my soule runnes headlong into yll And staggerryng too and fro it reeles and kickes against thy wyll Yf thou absent thy selfe my soule like wretched wight opprest Fast ●ettred in the boultes of sinne lyes groaning voyde of rest Yf thou absent thy selfe my soule sinckes into darkesome thrall But Lord driue darknes far frō mee sende light and loue withall So sinne shal passe and vertue slow within my dolefull brest Oh Iesu come Oh come in haste to set my soule at rest And thus my soule I doo commende into thy bosome sweete On whome I doo in heart depende heere prostrate at thy feete Solace Take heed take heed Oh sinful man let heart and tongue agree Leaue off to sinne repent foorthwith and I wyll dwell with thee Cast of the Cloake that is the cause to hinder thine intent Thy sinne and then in deede I wyll to thy request consent The sinfull man How shuld mine heart toong agree what meanest thou therin I haue at large thou maist perceiue vnfoulded all my sinne Solace I T is not ynough to shew thy selfe onely by outward wordes to be a sinfull man but thou must likewise as I haue tould thée before reforme thy former frowarde and peruerse wayes that is as thou knowest and hast confessed thy selfe heretofore to haue walked in errour in darkenes rebellyng against mine heauenly father So wold I haue thée to cléeue vnto the trueth to follow the light and obey mine heauenly father in performing those things which are commaunded thée For there be some that can make a gay gloze and showe of holinesse by such outward protestation when in deede they are farre from that true inwarde sorrow which causeth repentaunce vnto saluation whose dissimulation and hypocrisie deserueth double punishment The sinfull man Show mee therfore what must I doe and what must I obeye Uoutchsaufe mee grace I doe repent my gaddyng longe astray Solace WEll then for asmuch as the daie is gone and that there is no time to declare it now I will deferre it vntill to morrow and then I will tell thée what thou most doe and what leaue vndone In the meane time forget not to prayse myne heauenly father who hath made thee mée whoe haue redemed thée and the holye Ghoast whoe haue sealed thée as one of the adopted Children that shal be saued The Ende of the Frydaye or Fyfth Dayes Conference An earnest confession of sinnes with a Prayer for the forgiuenes thereof OH miserable and most wretched creature am I prest down oh Lord with so many euils with such notorious sinnes geuous offences heynous crymes manifould iniquities That I confesse my selfe manie thousand waies to haue offended thee and to haue deserued more punishmente then I am able to beare Oh Lorde such is myne vntowardenes my cursed