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conscience_n	blood_n	purge_v	sprinkle_v	2,278	5	11.3241	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36980	The true and absolute bishop with the converts returne unto him : wherein is also shewed how Christ is our only shepheard, as well as our truest bishop : and also, how lamentable and miserable the condition of those men doth appeare to bee, which are out of Christs fold, out of Christs diocesse / by Nicolas Darton ...	Darton, Nicholas, 1603-1649?	1641 (1641)	Wing D273; ESTC R10864	47,823	62

therefore a cast-way is there no hope of recovery and must I needs bee damn'd Sol. I answer oh no despaire by no meanes in the world but for thy comfort and consolation cast a glaunce upon the parties that are in the Text before thee Once the times was that they were as sinfull and as uncleane as now thou thy selfe confessest that thou art weltring in the bloud of thy crying sinnes they were unnaturall unholy and subject to diverse lusts nay and as far from Christs fold as now thou thy selfe confessest in like manner yea and so much too the text imports from the word eratis c. yee were ye were as sheep going astray but see see the great goodnesse of God Almighty calling them and bringing them who were once darknesse to become light in the Lord and causing them also who were far gone a stray to returne to the Shepheard and Bishop of their soules And therefore be not dismayd but take this for an absolute ground of truth Doct. How that GODS dearest children before their calling in CHRIST may runne astray like lost sheep from the fold of Christ The encouragements therefore now that I have prepared for thee to keepe thee from despaire and that thou mayest not make thy selfe a cast away though thou hast lived all thy life time like a stragling sheep are principally three The first is taken from the absolutenesse of Gods call to have thee come againe to the fold of Christ 3 Encouragements to allure sinners that they do not despaire though they have wandred a long time from Christs fold The second is taken from the sufficiency of Christs sacrifice that he hath made through his bloud and which hath satisfied the fathers wrath though thou by thy going astray hast provoked his justice mightily to take vengeance on thee by reason of thy crying crimes And the last encouragement is taken from the free welcome which thou shalt finde at the Fathers hands when with hearty Repentance thou returnest againe unto the Fold of the Sonne who is the great Shepheard and Bishop of thy soule The first encouragement I say The first encouragment why thou shouldst not despaire though thou hast most grievously runne astray from the fold of Christ is taken from the absolutenesse of Gods call caling thee by all manner of meanes to come away speedily to the fold againe Never did the Hart desire more after the water-brookes Psa 42.1 then doth God desire at this present that thou should returne againe unto him Ho saith he every one that thirsteth come to the waters and you that have no money come notwithstanding Jsa 55.1 buy and eate yea come buy wine and milke c. And againe as if he did extreamely long for the conversion of all that are astray he divulgeth his desire thus cast away all your transgressions and make you a new heart and a new spirit Ezec. 18.31 for why will yee die ô house of Israel as if he should have said thus I do not desire that any one should perish in his going astray I had rather that he would returne and keepe the fold for J have no pleasure in the death of him that dyeth saith the Lord wherefore saith he turne your selves and live for ever And againe I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance ver 32. Oh think not then that GOD doth not call thee because thou art so sinfull so foule and ugly and so generally abounding with the practice of all crying crimes for be assured that it is most true because thou art so therefore doth he out of his meere grace and favour call thee that thou shouldst returne againe unto him For illustrations sake had not David his call to returne again unto the fold after that his hands were bath'd in bloud had not Rehoboam and Manasseth their call from heaven 2 Sam. 12.13 2 Chro. 12. after they had committed most grand idolatries Farther had not Mary Magdalen her call from heaven 2 Chr. 33 Luk. 8.2 Acts 9.4 after she was possest with seven devills Nay had not Saint Paul his effectuall calling too after he had practised persecution upon the Saints Wherfore be not dismaid by reason of thy haynous sinnes as if thou wert past all hope that thou shouldst never see the Shepheard of thy soule againe and that thou canst never come to the sheepfold any more at all for magis proprium est Deo misereri pro bonitate quam irasci pro justitia It is more usuall with God to take pitty upon a poore straying sheepe for his mercies sake than to reject him for ever for his justice sake and therfore he invites all to come for comfort saying Mat. 11.28 Come unto mee all that are weary and heavie laden and J will refresh you Oh then hearken to Gods call and obey his voyce least thine impenitency and ungodly courses provoke the great Shepheard here and Bishop of our soules at the latter day to reject thee indeed and as upon the foolish Virgins to shut the dore upon thee Mat. 25.12 saying Non novi vos J know you not depart from mee yee workers of iniquity The second encouragement why we should not dispaire though out of the fold Isa 62 3. The second encouragement why we should not despaire and make our selves cast-awaies though we have even from our very cradles to this very present ran astray is taken from the sufficiency of our great Shepheards and Bishops sacrifice wherby he hath appeased the fathers wrath in our behalfes treading the Wine-Presse alone and making an atonement for all our sins It may be thou wilt object and say here that thy sinnes are greater than all the worlds besides Ob. and that thou art quite out of conceit that ever thou shalt bee accepted into the fold againe that thou art full of poysonous thoughts full of adulterous actions top full of murthers that thou hast as many blasphemies as ever were in any mortalls bosome as many lusts and deceitfull robberies and as many crying cruelties against God and his Saints and that therefore thy state and condition is lamentable and past recovery To the which I make answer Sol. that if thy case bee as bad or worse yet hast thou no warrant to be diffident of the sufficiencie of Christs sacrifice and the reason is rendred by the Holy Ghost thus If the bloud of Bulls and of Goates and the Ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the uncleane sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh Heb. 9.13.14 how much more shall the bloud of Christ who through the eternall spirit offerd himselfe without spot to GOD purge your Consciences from dead workes to serve the living God Most certaine then and a most infallible and undeniable doctrine is it that CHRISTS sufferings are beyond thy sinnings his merits are beyond thy miseries and therefore be of good cheere and that also for these reasons following First

the holy and sacred Scriptures which if I may be so bold to use the phrase like faithfull suffraganes or surrogates are supporters and helpers to the Bishops flock For instance sake when any wounded conscience is terribly skared with the affright of sin then speak Christs suffraganes even the holy Scriptures viz. that we have an Advocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for all our sins Rom 8.1 If again death and damnation tell us wee are damn'd then speake Christs suffraganes even the blessed Scriptures namely that there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus In a word when Sathan sets upon any within the jurisdiction of our Bishops See telling them they are but lost sheep and under the shaddow of death then speake Christs suffraganes even the supporters of his poore flocke that they are delivered from the power of darkenesse and translated into the kingdome of Gods deare Son Col. 1.13 Thirdly The third agent of comfort which our Bisho● useth in his Diocesse for to comfort his people withall is his register book or the third agent of comfort that our Bishop hath for to support aid and comfort his little flock the Church is Regestum his Register booke wherein heavens records are most purely kept and preserved and this Register book I hope without any offence either to the Bishop of our soules or else to any of his beloved sheepe of his blessed Pasture may be adjudged of us to be liber vitae the book of life Which Register book of our blessed Bishop that I may speak all in a word is extraordinarily helpfull and comfortable to the whole Diocesse I meane to all Christs Saints that are members of the same and that for these three reasons following 1. Because all Christs Lambs all his deare Saints all the sheepe of his Pasture yea all that love him and are labourers in his sacred Gospell have their names there recorded Phil 4.3 2. Because their names being once there entred they shal never be cancelled out they shall never be obli●erated but Christ will confesse them before his Father The fourth agent of comfort which Christ hath in his D●ocesse are his powerfull proctors v●z His sufferings and temptations which sollicits his Churches cause and before his Angels Rev. 3.5 3. Lastly because they shal be adjudged and because they shall have sentence past upon them by their soule-saving Bishop according to the records that are found therein Rev. 20.12 Fourthly or the fourth sort of comfortable agents that our Bishop hath for to speake for his Church and flock are procuratores are his powerfull Proctou●s which my brethren under him he being the grand Advocate of heaven and earth doe continually in the presence of his Father sollicite his Churches cause and these procuratores these powerfull Proctors are generally two viz. 1. Sanguis passiones his bloud and sufferings 2. Temptationes his Temptations which hee endured when he was on earth First I say againe the first Proctour that the Bishop of our soules the grand Advocate of heaven and earth The first proctour to sollicite Christs Churches cause is his sufferings hath for to sollicite his Churches cause in the presence of the eternall Father is sanguis passiones is his bloud and sufferings Oh his death and Passion my brethren is a powerfull pleader in the eares of the great Iudge yea their pleadings and sollicitations are so full of power and truth that they prevaile with the eternall Father to commiserate his oppressed Church and thereupon saith the blessed Spirit speaking of the efficacy of our Saviours bloud namely Heb. 12.24 that his bloud speaketh better things for us then that of Abel Yea and againe Heb. 9.13 14. If the bloud of Bulls and Goates and the ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the uncleane sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh ô how much more shall the bloud of Christ who through the eternall spirit offered himselfe without spot to God purge your consciences from dead workes to serve the living God The second proctour to sollicite Ch●ists Churches cause is his temptations Secondly or the second Proctour that the Bishop of our soules hath for to sollicite his Churches cause in the presence of the eternall Iudge is temptationes is his temptations that he endured for us when hee was on earth Oh my brethren as his wounds plead for us that we may be made whole as his stripes plead for us that wee may not bee beaten as his shame pleades for us that we may enjoy honour so his temptations plead for us that wee may not bee tempted above our strength but that we may have through his merits an happie issue out of all according to the saying of the sacred Spirit namely In that he himselfe hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them that are tempted Heb. 2.18 Lastly or the last agents that our Bishop useth for the good of his Church and flocke The last agents of comfort for Christs diocesse are the Apparitours hee useth are Apparitores are his Apparitours whose office it is to summon all his flock to appeare before him either in the Court of conscience here where hee sits as chiefe or in the great Court of Heaven hereafter where he sits as Iudge And these Apparitors in the generall we finde to be three The three Apparitours which our Bishop useth for to summon al his Diocesse to appeare before him 1. Reprehensio Sanctorum the due reproofe of his Saints 2. Castigatio filiorum the chastisements he sends his sons 3. Vox tubae ultimae the sound of the last Trump The 2. first of these summon our Bishops flock to appeare before him in the Court of conscience here wherupon they make a conscience of their lives to come and the third which we may call Apparitor Apparitorum to wit the great and generall Apparitor of all namely vox tubae ultimae the sound of the last Trumpet summons them to appeare at the great Court of Heaven hereafter to heare then their judgment that shall last for ever First then againe I say the first Apparitor The first Apparitour that our Bishop useth to summon his flock that they may appeare before him in the Court of Conscience here where he sits as chiefe is reprehensio Sanctorum is the due reproofe of his Saints Witnesse that one example for all namely Acts 2.41 our Apostles three thousand soules who sometimes were ranke geerers of our Bishop and his Gospell too Oh my brethren for illustration hereof what I pray made those madde Cretians at the first to appeare such good Christians at the last what summoned them now to appeare in the Court of conscience and that before him whom they had contemn'd and scorn'd when before all their life time they made no conscience of what they did at all ver 12 13. What makes them to appeare now full