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conscience_n	end_n	faith_n	unfeigned_a	1,201	5	10.8215	5	false

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A18707	The true trauaile of all faithfull Christians, hovve to escape the daungers of the vvicked vvorld VVhereunto is added a christian exercise for priuate housholders.	Chub, William.	1585 (1585)	STC 5211; ESTC S117145	53,782	143

all but vnto such as doo acknowledge it with thankes gyuing accept it with ioyfulnesse and become his seruauntes in newe obedyence and then they are called iuste or ryghteous by imputation and therefore it is sayde The iuste shall lyue by fayth Nowe because God is knowen to be mercifull Rom. 1.17 there be that follow their owne lustes and appetites and put of from day to day their returning vnto God buylding neyther on fayth nor yet on Godes mercye but on their owne lustye wylles and desires and that buylding cannot stande neyther can that be a sufficient pleasing of God that is done without fayth Yea Iames. and yet fayth of it selfe in some poyntes fayleth that is where it doth trouble or is inconstant Mat. 7.21 as for example The Diuels beleeue but they tremble Agayne Not euery one that sayth vnto mee Lorde Lorde shall enter into the kingdome of heauen but he that doth the will of my father which is in heauen But this fayth fayleth Howe ye shall know true fayth because it tasteth of weakenesse feare and synne The true fayth is tryed by constancie in Trybulation as appeareth in Saint Paul to the Thessalonians 1. Thes 3.5 and by perfecte Loue as appeareth in Saint Paull to Timothye where he sayth The ende of the commaundement is loue 1. Tim. 1.5 out of a pure hart and of a good conscience and of fayth vnfayned The true fayth hath a frée accesse vnto God with boldnesse Eph. 3.12 By true fayth we resist the Diuell and ouercome the world 1. Iohn 5.4 as S. Iohn saith This is the victory that ouercommeth the worlde euen our fayth And Peter saith 1. Pet. 58.9 your aduersary the Diuell goeth about like a roring Lion séeking whom he may deuour whom resist stedfast in fayth by true fayth we are preserued vnto saluatiō as Peter saith Which are kept by the power of God through fayth vnto saluation 1. Pet. 1.5 After all this we must consider that as knowledge goeth before fayth so perseuerance and stedfast continuance followeth after fayth which stedfast continuance hath béen founde in all the godlye Patriarches Perseuerāce Prophets and Apostles vnremooueable and which is so necessary in a christian man and so muche required in a Christian man as fruit is expected of the trée without the which the trée is not estéemed for it is the tryall of a man in temptation or affliction For the Diuell will séeke to remooue hym the world will séeke to shake him the flesh wil seke to weigh his Anker then if he be vnstedfast or if he be not founde to be the good fighting souldier of Christ what auayleth all his christian doctrine yea wat auaileth his sworde and buckler if he run away from his aduersarie as Demostenes Demostenes hauing written in his Target 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 good fortune as who woulde say fortune was his guide yet in the face of his enemie he ranne away so that whether it be in prosperitie to hold fast the Lord and not to be vainely puffed vp in the worlde nor to settle his heart in the world nor to turne his eies away from his poore brethren not to oppresse nor couet or desire an other mans goods This is stedfast abiding in the Lorde in prosperitie Or whether it be in aduersitie to be patient in all tribulations to be thankefull for all crosses and to tarrie the Lordes leasure to suffer euery burden that is layde vpon hym whether it be sickenesse pouertie imprisonment slander or whatsoeuer Christ sayde He that wyll be my disciple must take vp his crosse and follow me He sayd not take his crosse and stande styll or goe backe but to followe hym this is stedfast fayth in aduersity As touching his persecution which is that we shoulde not slyde backe from almightie God there are many notable examples in scripture of it Iosu 1.8 Iosuah sayth Let not this booke of the lawe depart out of thy mouth but meditate therein day and night that thou mayest obserue and do according to all that is written in it The Prophet Dauid sayth in his fyrst Psalme Psal 1.12 Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsell of the vngodly c. But his delight is in the lawe of the Lord and in his lawe will he exercise hym selfe day and night Iob sayth Although he kyll me I will not forsake hym Our Sauiour Christ sayth happie is he that continueth vnto the ende By the lawe of reason we ought so long to be the Lordes Heb. 8.13 as the Lord is ours but Christ Iesus is ours yesterday and to day and for euer he findeth vs euery day comforteth vs euery day sendeth to vs his grace euery day encreaseth his blessinges on the earth for vs euery day Euen so euery day we should be faythfull and stedfast seruauntes vnto hym Psal 116.33 The Prophete Dauid desireth the Lord to teach hym the waye of his statutes and he would kéepe it vnto the ende Besides these benefites knowledge New birth Phil. 1. faith and perseueraunce which we gather out of the word of God we fynde the regeneratiō the new byrth or new shaping of our selues for that in déede we were disfigured by reasō of Adams fall and lost the shape of righteousnes true obedience which now in Christ are accepted and nowe we shoulde fashion our selues not according to Adā in disobedience the lust of the flesh but according to the children of God and like our forerunner Christ Iesu as Saint Paul saith 1. Pe. 1.23 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Iesu Of this newe birth the Apostle speaketh Being borne a newe not of mortall séede but of immortall by the worde of GOD who lyueth and endureth for euer O what great comforte do the decayed members of Adam receyue by the word of God when by reading or hearing it they sée their restitution in Christ Iesu how muche we are bound to almightie God for his worde Peace Also in the worde of God we finde peace euen that peace which is concluded by God to vs ward Which as the Apostle sayth Ep. 2.13.14 Passeth all vnderstanding for as much as he was to stoute an enemie to be set agaynst vs great was our ouerthrowe where he was an aduersary and there our Citie was like to be sackte and we confounded in our dwellinges Where the Lorde besieged it but nowe in Christ Iesus ye which were once farre of are made néere by the blood of Christ For he is our peace which hath made of both one and hath broken the stop of the partition wall And he hath commaunded his disciples that into what Cittie Mat. 10.13 towne or house so euer that is worthie that they came into their peace shoulde cōe vpon it This peace if it be well weied and well considered what the value of it is it shal be

clogging accusing pressing down as a heauy lump of lead shaming at condemning our own reasons and wils for giuing entertainmēt vnto sin in asmuch as sometimes ye shal find the tormēts gréeues of consciēce to worke greater sorrow care in our minds thē if we were either in prison or ready to goe to execution and although there bée 2. consciences the good and the bad Two consciences forasmuch as I write vnto the good people of God I will haue to doo but with the conscience of the good referring the other to his continual hardnes And although oftentimes we sée not the conscience of the good by their wickednes of sin for that they are not yet called yet if theyr consciences do not shew her force of accusation no doubt it is imprisoned and so hid in the great heape of corruptiō that though it cannot now speake in the end wil breake foorth that we sée in many disordered personnes in these daies which in the hardnesse of their hartes haue contynued in theyr sinne a long tyme vntouched or vndisclosed Yet in the ende when God wyll call them or sathan bring them to shame or whē no man can iustly accuse them how be it suspect them of euill liuing being called to examinacion before any magistrate then who can better accuse then the conscience who doth first condemn and then strike a great feare in the ende produceth two witnesses that is eyther the stammering tongue or els the blushing face to accuse the guilty wyth hys owne mouth and make him speake although he sée eyther shame to discredite him or the magistrate to punish hym or the Gallowes to confound him Therefore is the conscience called Mille testes a thousand witnesses because it dooth more euidently know that which is hid in him then a thousand men and dooth boyle and burne in the harts of wicked men like a fire As Tully sayth Nolite putare quemadmodum in fabulis sepenumero videtis In oratione pro Roscio eos qui aliquid impie scelera te que commiserunt agitari perterreri taedis ardentibus sua quemque fraus suus terror maxime vexat suum quemque scelus exagitat amentiaque afficit suae malae cogitationes conscientiaeque animi terrent c. Thinke not as Poets haue fayned that they that haue committed something vngodly or wickedly are vexed and scourged with burning Torches it is our owne guile and our owne feare doth most trouble vs it is our owne wickednes doth torment vs and amaze vs our owne wicked thoughts and consciences that dooth affright vs c. There is a great accusation of the conscience in the hart of the sinner as when the Scribes and Pharisies had taken a woman in adultery they brought her to Christ to sée what sentence he woulde gyue against her because they hadde found in Moses Lawe that such a one should be stoned to death but they dyd it not for Iustice but to tempt him Then he writ wyth hys finger on the ground and said béeing vrged by them for his sentence Let him that is among you without sinne cast the first stone at her And when they heard it Ioh. 8.7.9 being accused by their owne consciences they went out one by one beginning at the eldest euen vnto the last It is most true that Iuuenall sayth ●●t 13 Euasisse putes quos diri conscia facti Mens reddit attonitos et surdo verbere caedit Doost thou thinke he can escape whō the conscience of a moste horrible facte maketh amazed and whippeth with a deafe scourge And as the same Iuuenall saith in an other place Nocte dieque suum gestat in pectore testem But day and night where that he goe or rest hee ●till doth beare a witnes in his brest Conscientia S. Paule speaking of the Gentiles sheweth that they haue the effect of the Lawe written in their harts their consciences bearing witnes Rom 2 15 and as long as we liue in this worlde God graunt that this witnes may alwayes stirre and sting vs till we be ashamed of sin vnlesse after this life it be opened as in an inditement to accuse at the iudgment seate Reu. 20 12 as Iohn maketh mention And I saw the dead both great small stand before God and the (a) That is their consciences bookes were opened and an other booke was opened which is the booke of life the dead were iudged of those thinges which were written in the bookes according to their works Thus we may sée the conscience in thys world that accuseth and the conscience in the worlde to come that condemneth God grant the we may in this worlde so behaue our selues as with Horace to say Hic murus ahaeneus esto This is a brasen wall when a man may knock his breste and say I knowe nothing héere that maketh me ashamed or a feard Miscellan prelect sep● time To● primi He that wyll sée more of the conscience let him looke in the Bishoppe of Exceter hys booke Not in Ally though indéede he wryte of conscience at large But D. Wolton that is now Bishop who wryte larger in his booke called the Conscience dedicated to a godly zealous knight S. Iohn Gilbert mine olde good master louing fréend a fit Patrone for such a booke and title there he shal find inough touching the conscience The third enemy v● to sinne An other most terrible enemy vnto mankind for sinnes sake is death who by reason that our bodye is all spotted corrputed with sinne hath his lawfull accesse vnto mankind and foloweth him step by step from place to place of what estate or degrée soeuer he bée either King Prince Duke Marques Earle lord baron knight or whether he be rich or mighty wise or politike tyll at last he plucketh him downe and depriueth him of life wife children houses lands goods and all those thinges in the world wherin he setled his hart The cause of this his power is that man beeing corrupted wyth sin is rewarded with death a certaine appoyntment of God in our first parent for his sin and disobedience ●n 2.17 As appeareth in Genesis 2. In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death In that he dyd eate he disobeyed and so sinned which sinne hath runne into all hys posterity by discent hetherto ●m 5 12 and shall vnto the worlds ende and that is the cause that Death triūpheth ouer vs in this world in ouerthrowing vs. S. Paul sayth Stipendium peccati mors ●om 6 23 The rewarde of sinne is death Likewise the Apostle Iames sayth ●m 1.15 When lust hath conceaued it bringeth forth sinne and sin whē it is finished bringeth foorth death So that there is no doubt among men but by reason of sinne death hath taken hold in them ●om 5.12 and as sin is entred into all the worlde as the Apostle sayth euen so death