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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47000	The black book of conscience, or, God's high court of iustice in the soul wherein the truth and sincerity, the deceit and hypocrisie of every mans heart and ways is judged and discovered by their consciences : very seasonable for these times wherein wicked men, under pretence of liberty of conscience, take liberty to sin and blaspheme / by Andrew Iones.	Jones, Andrew.	1663 (1663)	Wing J906; ESTC R29450	10,659	26

Heaven nor Hell Whose God is their belly and whose end is destruction as S. Paul saith Phil. 3.19 who declare their sin as Sodom and hide it not Wounto them saith the Lord they have rewarded evil to themselves Isa 3.9 this may be said of thousands among us whose countenance testifie against them their wanton carriages painted faces naked breasts powdred locks 〈◊〉 other antick fashions testifie against thousands both of men and women the they do little mind this great truth that conscience can and will declare all their doings to God Proud Hamans drunken Nabals and whoring Jesabel declare their sin as Sodom hide it not and as for Conscience they turn him off But in these miserable wretches know this as the prophet saith Wo unto them who have reward●● evil unto themselves They have made a long black bloody vill for conscience to open again●● them at the last day of the term of their lives a● soon as ever their souls are departed from the●● bodies sentence shall be passed against them according to the light and testimony of the●● own consciences Séeing then Conscience will give testimon● of every ones ways let us not slight Cons●●ence let us not stop the mouthof Conscien●● séeing Conscience can and will speak and t●●● us what we are Many there are that go about to stop the mouth of conscience when Conscience deals plainly with them and tels them of their sins Oh they cannot endure to hear of that but remember the miserable end of Judas what said Judas his conscience to him Thou hast betrayed thy Lord and Master for a little Silver Ali covetous wretch But could Judas his silver stop the mouth of his conscience No Judas his conscience so terrifies him that he flung in the money again and so went and hanged himself So likewise remember the fearful estate of Spira and many others whose consciences made them to possess the wrath of God here on earth A wounded spirit saith Solomon Prov. 8.14 who can bear a tormenting and condemning Conscience who can endure O there is no resisting of conscience it is Gods Vicegerent in the soul When conscience speaks threatning language to many for such and such sins they séek to turn conscience out of doors but because they cannot possibly do this they strive to stop his mouth by running wilfully into sin like men that desperately give up their souls to the devil and so make shipwrack of faith conscience soul and all for ever and then follows as we have seen by woful experience self-stabbing self-hanging drowning or poisoning or some such like accursed ends Oh consider this all ye that forget God and make no conscience of your ways you undermine your own salvation Many men deal with conscience as Felix did with Paul Acts 24.25 they will hear conscience so long as it speaks good but when conscience tells them thorowly of their sins their darling sins then they have enough of conscience and so puts him off till they he better at lesure When there was no King in Israel every man did what was good in his own eyes so where there is no conscience alive in the soul men lives as they list but yet for all this conscience will speak home at last If thou art a drunkard or an adulterer or an unjust dealer or whatsoever sin it is thou art guilty of conscience will make it known and if at last conscience doth condemn thou shalt never be saved But on the contrary though men and devils say thou art an hypocrite or the like yet if thou hast the testimony of thy conscience God will own thee as just and righteous One dram of the peace of conscience is worth a thousand worlds What would the damned in Hell give for a little of this lasting jay this peace which passeth all understanding the want of which is hell yea worse then hell Think upon this O ye great ones of the world who live in pleasure Remember that there is a conscience and that there is a God and that thou hast a precious immortal soul which if thy conscience witness against shall be thrown-into Hell You that eat the fat and sweet of the earth and drink wine in bowls and cloath your selves in silks remember this that conscience takes notice of all thy ways of the pride of thy heart of the vanity of thy life and setteth all down in his Black Book You that like the harlot in Prov. 7. cry Let us take our fill of love and pleasure consider that all these things must have an end when all is done the Bell must toll and you must all dance after deaths pipe who are now stnging and swinging your selves in worldly pleasures and delights O if God should say to any soul of you as he did to the rich fool in Luk. 12.20 This night shall thy soul be taken from thee It shall little advantage you then to weep and cry O that I were out of these Infernal and external Flames O that I had hearkened when time was to the voice of Christ and my own Conscience The Sighs and groans of dying men are often very sad but the cryes and groans of the damned in Hell can never he imagined or expressed O constder this you that sin away Conscience that quaff and drink away conscience accompanying one another in sin take heed you be not one day found to weep over one anothers backs in hell Certainly whole coachfuls of gallants will be tumbled down into hell The Lord awaken your sleepy dead consciences before you go hence be no more seen What pitty is it that persons that bears the Image of God and are as it were in outward glory and beauty Gods above others what pitty is it that such beauty should come to be embraced by ugly loathsome devils in Hell Thousands there are that court and sport pin and paint away their time whose end is to be burned and shall at last perish in hell Fruitless Fig-trees they are that bear nothing but leaves Cut them down saith God and cast them into the fire To perish in a prison or on a dunghil is nothing to dye for want of food is nothing Lazarus died so whilst Dives with his delicious fare dyed on his hed of down and was cast into hell You that lye upon beds of Ivory and have your hangings of needle-works if you get not Christ and a good conscience hell shall be your fare and devils your companions to torment you for ever and who shall be able to stand in the day of the Lords wrath And who can dwell with everlasting burnings Companions in sin shall be companions in Hell and those who can sport andp lay one with another shall in Hell drag and torment one another and curse the day that ever they saw one another and cry out one of another O what miserable wretches were we to lose the heaven of heavens for a little vain delight the love and favour of God for the love and favour of wicked rompanions in whose presence we more delighted then in the everlasting love of God whose pleasures are pleasures for evermore What prefitteth it now that we have had our Wine and our Musick our fill and our sull of earthly delights O wretched creatures that we are who shall deliver us from this dying death these miserable torments Wo unto us we have rewarded evil to our own souls we are tanished for ever from the presence of the Lord and have utterly lost that inward peace of conscience the want whereof addeth torments to our torments and maketh us in our misery more excéeding miserable Now the Lord give every one of us this peace this joy which that we may all have The Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep our hearts and minds in the love and knowledge of Jesus Christ And the blood of Christ wash and purge our consciences from dead works that we may serve the living God Which that we may all do The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us all Amen FINIS Courteous Reader THere is lately published an excellent and profitable Sermon called Christs first Sermon or The necessity duty and practice of Repentance opened and applied Also Christs last Sermon or The everlasting estate and condition of all men in the World to come Likewise the Christians best Garment or The putting on of the Lord Jesus Christ The Christians blessed Choice Also Heavens Glory and Hells Horror or the parable between Dives and Lazarus opened and applied And the School of Grace Very godly Books and are but three pence a peece price There is likewise nine other small Books all of them very godly and comfortable for thy soul One is entituled Englands Faithful Physitian The second Dooms-day at hand The third The Dreadful Character of a Drunkard The fourth The Fathers last blessing to his children The fifth The sin of pride arraigned and condemned The fixth The Plain-mans-plain Path-way to heaven The seventh Peters Sermon of Repentance The eighth The Charitable Christian The ninth Death Triumphant All very necessary for these licentious times each of them being but two pence price They are to be sold by Eli. Andrews at the white-Lyon neer Py-corner FINIS