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B08578	An alarm to all impenitent [s]inners. Or, [T]he spirit of bondage raised up in judgement and allayed in mercy. [D]eclared in a short treatise of the sweetnesse of God's love discovered in the bitterness of his wrath. / [B]y Humphrey Browne ...	Browne, H. (Humphrey)	1650 (1650)	Wing B5114A; ESTC R173186	28,861	90

Psal 50. Paenitens de peccato dolet de dolore gaudet Aug. ●omfort of a Saviour si mihi sint ●ntum linguae I could not ex●resse it for I know by the pulse ●f mine own conscience the ●earful agonies of a sick soul ●ung with the sence of sin con●ientia peccati formidinis mater ●e conscience of sin is the mo●er of fear and albeit to the ●odly it be faire yet it presents ●arful phantasies and hideous ●ectacles to the eyes of sinful ●ules This I know by a late woful ●oyful experience I call it so be●ause blessed be God it proved 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a bitter-sweet unto ●e But first of the bitternesse ●nd then of the sweetnesse Saint Bernard makes mention ●f a four-fold conscience first conscience quiet and good as 1 Tim. 1. 5. and this is a continu● feast Prov. 15. 15. Secondly conscience good but not quie● and this was Davids case in h● complaint thus Thou hast la● me in the lowest pit in darknesse ● the deeps Thy wrath lieth hard u● Psal 88. 6 7 on me and thou hast afflicted ● with all thy waves Thirdly conscience quiet but not good and such a one hath he wh● hearing the words of the curs● blesseth himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though I wal● in the imagination of mine heart ● Deut. 29. 19. adde drunkenness to thirst O qua●ta tempestas est haec tranquillitas what a tempest is this calme what a war is this peace for the that thus would have a peace make a truce without the Broad seal of the King of kings are n● Hos 4. 17. better then Rebels and ma● well expect his fearful march against them though his marc● the longer his assault will be ●e fiercer the longer the ●aught the stronger the shoot setling on our lees of sin we ●r Gods dregs of fury he that ●eeps long in the pleasures of sin ● earth may 't is to be feared Saepe quem tentationis certamen superare non valuit sua deterius securitas stravit Greg. Moral wake in the paines of hell find●g thorney thickets of sharpest ●rrows for rosie beds of his ●eetest pleasures 4. a conscience neither quiet or good and this was my case ●hen the book of my conscience ●as opened and all my sins in ●apitall letters were read by the ●ye of my wofull soul And then sinfull I according to the Con●ents of those records gave sen●ence of damnation on my self Iob. 7. 15. Ier. 8. 3. Iob. 15. 16. ●y soul chose strangling and ●eath rather then my life I that ●efore had drunk iniquity like ●ater as Job speaks do behold ●ustly a torrent of divine wrath ready to overwhelme me t● waters of Marah compasse the litle Isle of man in m● round about and no fre● streames of Heavenly consolat●on could passe through the sa● Sea of these hellish terrours a the streames of my vaine worldly pleasures in the Channell ● presumtion emptied themselv● into the gulph of despaire ● the river Jordan into the dea● Sea Then O then I found a Ephes 4. 22. 1 Tim. 6. 9. Horat. 1. ep ad Lollium Malorum esca voluptas Cato Major my former pleasures to be b● deceitfull lusts foolish an● hurtfull lusts according to th● of the Poet Sperne voluptates nocet empta dolore voluptas despise pleasures pleasure purcha●ed with griefe is hurtfull if an● pleasure was purchased wit● grief surely mine was for whil● I with it as Satans Engine rushe● like an unruly horse into th● battell of rebellion against th● 〈…〉 cred Majesty of my God he Iob. 6. 4. ●ercifull King being provoked ●ts his terrors in array against ●e masters up all my sins before ●y face as threatning to cut ●e off with my own formerly ●eloved but now terrible par●y even my transgressions nay ●ore the high and mighty Lord ●f Hosts discharges in a ful vol●ey all the roaring Canons of ●is irefull and direfull menaces ●gainst me insomuch that the weak bulwarke of all my hope was soon battered down then I hope-less help-less wretch found by woefull experience that the ●ins of Preachers were not only the Preachers of sins to others but also of most heavie judgements to themselves Then I found that I had onely spoke for Jerusalem but wrought for the building up of Jericho Babylon then I found that I had sailed by Satans compasse not Gods b● the false light of his delusion ● not by the Pole-starre of Go● Rev 4. 6. grace on this Sea of glasse th● world which made the Sou● ship-wrack by me cry out a● 't were in my ears for vengeance against my soul cast on the Syrte● of a most sad condition as Pau● and Timothie in Asia were presse● 2 Cor 1. 8. out of measure above strength insomuch that they despaired of lif● naturall so I was so pressed with the burthen of my sins above m● strength that I even despaired of life eternall and yet despised life naturall desiring a● I may say to die if there were no heaven who lived as if there were no hell Such an horrour overwhelmed me such a horrour Psal 55. 5. laid hold upon me that as before I lived as if there were no law no justice so now I lay as if there were no Gospel no mercie My sins that cloud of wit●esses Dicit quidem Plato animas hominum daemones esse c. Aug. de civit Dei l. 9. c. 11. against me did so hinder ●e Sunshine of Gods favour ●rom me that I beheld the Sun ●f divine justice without any ●eames of mercy so that I con●eived my soul to be no better ●hen a Devil in my body as ●lato held the souls of men to be Devils separated from the body whereas a sanctified soul is as ●were a certain God dwelling ●n a humane body or a heavenly Anima Deus est aliquis humano corpore vivens Sen. ad Sunil Epist 3. ●ing taking up his mansion in ●arthly cottage Oh such bitter things were written against me by the pen of Gods justice dipt in the gall ●nd vineger of his sore displea●ure that I then possessed the in●quities Job 13. 26. Dan. 5. of my youth which made me tremble as Belshazzar at the hand-writing Me thoughts I read also Mene Mene Tekel Vphar●in I was weighed in the ballance and found wanting eve● of true zeal and pietie whic● crownes Christ ministry I looked therefore on the kingdom o● heaven as divided from me an● M. Blackmore on hell as my right inheritance insomuch that when a learne● Godly minister of London fo● whom I am bound to praise God came to visit me in my extremitie and desired like the goo● Samaritan to powre in oyl o● Luke 10. comfort into my wounded conscience it swimmed as I may say on the top of the overflowing of mine iniquitie and neve● touched my conscience as a remedie All Gospel-salves wer● to me

generall Assizes come out of their graves as Miners out of their pits laden with gold and glory ye like wretched Malefactors shal come out of the dungeon see him whom ye have pierced and receive your just condemnation from him ye shall for a moment Rom. 1. 7. behold the light to make your everlasting darknesse the more grievous to you Therefore now while it is called to day harden not your hearts procrastinate not your repentance Hose 13. 14. least it be hid from your eyes he that promiseth to him that repenteth pardon doth not promise to him that sins repentance Presume not ye which have an houre to day know not whether ye shall have life to marrow Wherefore brethren give diligence to make your caland election sure for if ye do 2 Pet. 1. 10. these things ye shall never fall Draw neere to God with a Heb. 10. 22. true heart in full assurance of faith having your hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience and your bodies washed with pure water Your Loyalty to the King commands you much but your love to God will command Qui sequntus es Davidem peccantem sequaris Davidem paenitentem Ambr. you more and indeed ye cannot well honour the one unlesse ye feare the other And as for my part I must speak to you as Saint Ambrose did to Theodosius excusing a sin because David did the like if any of you have followed me sinning I beseech you to follow me repenting and let your passing an act of oblivion on my ill example put you in remembrance of my precept for as David to Bathsheba and Paul to the Galatians so I to you As the Lord liveth that 1 Kings 1. 29. hath redeemed my soule out of all distresse wherein I trust I had Gal. 4. 19. the pangs of a new birth I travaile in birth againe till Christ be formed in you Now to conclude if any shall say Physician heale thy self Luke 4. 23. or if with my former sinnes I am upbraided as Saint Augustine was In vita Aug. by the Donatists give me leave to answere with that Reverend Father saying Looke how much they blame my former faults by so much the more I commend and praise my Physician who Ier. 30. 13. hath restored health unto me and healed me of my wounds because they called me an Out-cast Therefore having good 2 Thes 2. 16. hope through grace I will sing unto the Lord as long I live I Psal 104. 33 34. will sing praise to my God while I have my being My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord. I will labour to lighten Duo suut tibi necessaria conscientia fama constiencia propter rem fama propter proximum Ambr. Epist ad Constantin in my life and thunder in my doctrine that by the one I might beate downe vice by the other approve and improve vertue Two things will I hold necessary for me towit a good conscience a good name the one to edifie my neighbours and the other to comfort my self in both will I seeke Gods glory in neither mine own praise I desire Sic vivendum est tanquam in conspectu ●ivamus sic cogitandum tanquam aliquis pectus intimum prospicere possit Sen. lib. de Moribus so to live as if mine enemies were still beholding me I will not as if I were borne under the Planet Mercurie through Gods grace that worketh in me be good with the good and bad with the bad but labour by a pure conversation to confirme the good and convert the bad or else eschew them for I may have a bad acquiantance but I will never have an incorrigible companion I will be afraid of sinning not as a servant but as a sonne I will more feare the displeasure of my God as a loving Father then his dreadfull menaces as a severe Judge I will by Gods assistance Heb. 10. 13. hold fast the profession of our holy saith without wavering and if any prevailing power shall vote in opposition to it I will pray for their conversion but not act with them to mine own confusion I had rather suffer for the Gospel then let the Gospel suffer for me God may give mine enemies leave to make no conscience of my Ship-wracke but I trust he will never give me 1 Tim. 1. 19. leave to make Ship-wracke of my conscience The testimonie whereof is that I resolve to feare Prov. 24. 21. God and the King and not meddle with them that are given to change My soul longeth for the consolation of Israel in the restoring the beauty of holinesse Revel 9. in the sanctuary which is polluted with Hereticks and Schismaticks that cloud the glory of our Church as locusts coming out of the smoke of the bottomlesse pit As Solomon saith the Prov. 30. 27. locusts have no King So these locusts will have no mortal King on earth but the King over them is the Angel of the bottomlesse pit whose name in the Hebrew is Abaddon but in the Greeke Apollyon Rev. 9. 11. Be not thou of their councell O my soul neither enter into their path but avoid it passe not by it turne from it and passe away Prov. 4. 15. My ambition shall be to imbrace truth and my studie to learne Christ in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge as in a Divine celestial Col. 2. 3. Academie I will looke on other learning as the trimming but on this alone as the vesture of my soul other arts and sciences are Vae tibi Aristoteles laudaris ubi non es c. cruciaris ubi es Aug. called liberales but they cannot liberare me ab inferno free me from hell therefore that knowledge shall be to me the most precious which is the most gracious and saving I care not by humane learning to be as a Meteor advanced above the height of an ordinarie capacity so I may by learning Christ be as a Starre fixed in the Orbe of grace above the beggarly Elements of naturall abilities Neither do I speake against humane learning which I esteeme in the positive but only in the comparative When I mention the Sublime Raptures of a soul which is Christs Pupill the Sunne of naturall light and humane understanding must suffer a grand Eclipse I will ever account him the best scholler who is the best Christian preferring an Abcedarian in Gods O Economicks before a profound Sophie in the worlds Politicks And concerning outward estate I deem that the best which God declares by his dispensations so to be if heaven be entailed to my soul I am rich enough for had I all things in the world without hope of that I were very poor Whilst I am in the world I will take heed that the world come not into me I will esteeme it as my servant not my master as my road not my home as a wildernesse not a Canaan the pleasures thereof shall be my Vacation not my Terme God alone shall be the delight of my soule who is the soul of my delight and so do I desire to finish my course in the Church Militant that the High Priest Jesus Christ may give me a blessed induction into the Church Triumphant In confidence whereof One thing have I desired Psal 27. 4. of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the daies of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his Temple I had rather Psal 84. 10. be a door-keeper in the house of my God then to dwell in the tents of wickednesse For I have put off Cant. 5. 3. my coat how shall I put it on I have washed my feet how shall I defile them Gloria in excelsis Deo FINIS