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A68918	An excellent new commedie intitutled, The conflict of conscience contayninge a most lamentable example of the dolefull desperation of a miserable worldlinge, termed by the name of Philologus, who forsooke the trueth of Gods gospel for feare of the losse of lyfe & worldly goods / compiled by Nathaniell Woodes, minister in Norwich ...; Conflict of conscience	Woodes, Nathaniel, fl. 1580.	1581 (1581)	STC 25966.5; ESTC S111762	42,953	72

this Glasse of vanyties espied his eyes before He God forsooke whereas he ought haue loued him the more And chooseth rather with his goodes to be throwne downe to hell Then by refusing of the same with God in heauen to dwell Suggestion Nay harke Philologus how thy conscience can teache And would deteyne thée with glosinges vntrue But hearest thou Conscience thou maiest long inough preache Eare wordes from whence reason or trueth none ensue Shall make Philologus to bid mée adue What shall there no rich man dwell in Gods kingdome where is then Abraham Iob and Dauid become Conscience I speake not largelye of all them which haue this worldly wealth For why I know that riches are the creatures of the Lorde Which of themselues are good ech one as Salamon vs telleth And are appoynted to do good withall by Gods owne word But when they let vs from the Lord then ought they be abhord Which caused Christ himselfe to say that with much lesser payne Should Camel passe through néedles ey thē rich men Heauē obtayn Hereby Rich men Christ did not mean ech one which welth enioy But those which fastned haue their loue vpon this worldly dust Wherefore another cryes and sayth oh death how great anoye Doest thou procure vnto that man which in his gooddes doth trust That thou doest this Philologus thou néedes acknowledge must Whereby ech one may easly sée thou takest more delight In Mundane ioyes then thou estéemest to be with Angels bright Philologus This toucheth the quicke I féele the wound which if thou canst not cure As mamed in limmes I must retyre I can no further go Suggestion This is the gréef which Conscience takes against thée I am sure Because thou vsest those delights which Conscience may not do And therefore he perswadeth thée to leaue the same also As did the Fore which caught in snare and scapt with losse of tayle To cut off theirs as burthenous did all the rest counsayll Conscience In déede I cannot vse those fond and foolish vanities In which the outward part of man doth take so great delight No neither would I though to me were geuen that liberty But rather would consume them all to nought if that I might For if I should delight therein it were as good a syght As if a man of perfect age should ride vpon a sticke Or playe with compters in the street which pastime children lyke But all my ioyes in Heauen remaynes wheras I long to be And so wouldest thou if that on Christ thy fayth full fastned were For that affection was in Paull the apostle we may sée The first to the Philippians doth witnes herein beare His words be these oh would to God disolued that I were And were with Christ another place his mynde in those words tell We are but straungers all from God while in this world we dwell Now marke how far from his request dissenting is thy mynde He wisht for death but more then hell thou doest the same detest Suggestion The cause why Paul did loth his lyfe may easely be assignde Because the Iewes in euerie place did séeke him to molest But those which in this world obtaine securitie and rest Do take delight to liue therein yea nature doth indue Ech lyuing creature with a feare least death should them accrue Yea the same Paul at Antioche dissembled to be dead While they were gone who sought his lyfe with stones for to destroy Elias for to saue his lyfe to Horeb likwise fled So did king Dauid flee when Saul did séeke him to annoy Yea Christ himselfe whom in our deedes to follow we may ioy Did secreatly conuaigh himselfe from Iewes so full of hate When they thought from the top of hil him to precipitate Wherefore it is no sinne at all a man for to defende And keepe himselfe from death so long as nature giues him leaue Conscience The same whom you recited haue conceiued a further end Then to them selues to liue alone as ech man may perceiue For when that Paul had run his course he did at last receiue with hartes consent the smal death which was him put vnto So when Christ had perfourmed his work he did death vndergoe And would to god thou wouldest do that which these men were contēt For they dispised worldly pomp their flesh they did subdue And brought it vnder that to spirit it mostly did consent Whereby they séeking God to please did bid the world adue Wife Children and possessions forsaking for they knew That euerlasting treasures were appointed them at last The which they thirsting did from them al worldly pleasures cast But thou O wretch doest life prolong not that thou wouldst gods name As dutie binds vs all to doo most chiefly gloryfy But rather by thy liuing still wil t Gods renowne defame And more and more dishonor him this is thy drift I spy Philologus I meane to liue in worldly ioyes I can it not denye Conscience What are those ioyes which thou doost meane but pleasures straing frō god By vsing of the which thou shalt prouoke his heauy rod Suggestion Tush knowest thou what Philologus be wise thy selse vnto And listen not to these fond wordes which Conscience to thée tell For thy defence I wyll alleadge one worthy lesson moe Vnto the which I am right sure he cannot answere well When Dauid by vaine trust in men of warre from God sore fell And was appointed of thrée plagues the easiest for to chuse He saide Gods mercy easier is to get then mans as I suppose Againe he sayeth among the Psalmes it better is to trust In God then that our confidence we setle should in man Wherfore to this which I now say of force consent thou must That when two euils before vs plaste no way avoide we can Into the hand of God to fal by choyce is lawfull than Because that God is mercyfull when man no mercy show Thus haue I pleaded in this cause sufficiently I trow Conscience How can you say you trust in God when as you him forsake And of the wicked Mammon heere doo make your fained frende No no these wordes which you recite against you mostly make For thus he thinks in his destresse God cannot mée defende And therfore by Suggestion fraile to mans helpe he hath leande Marke who say trueth of him or mée and doo him best beléeue Philologus I lyke thy wordes but that to lose these ioyes it woulde mée gréeue Conscience And where Suggestion telleth thée that God in mercies flow Yet is he iust sinnes to correct and true in that he speake Wherfore he sayeth who so my name before men shall not know I shall not know him when as Iudge I shall sit in my seate This if you call to minde it wil your proude presumption breake Againe he sayeth who so his lyfe or goodes will séeke to saue Shal loose them all but who for Christ wil lose them gaine shall haue Suggestion What did not Peter Christ deny yet

staye Hypocrisie What was that Suggestion I praye thée to vs vtter For I am with child till that I do it heare Suggestion A certaine gentle woman did murmur and mutter And for greefe of minde her hayre she did teare Shee will at last kill her selfe I greatly do feare Hypocrisie What is the cause why this gréefe she did take Suggestion Because her Husband her company did forsake Her children also about her did stand Sobbing and sighing and made lamentation Knocking their brestes and wringing their hand Saying they are brought to vtter dessolation By the meanes of their fathers wilfull protestation Whose goodes they saye are already confiscate Because he doth the Popes lawes violate And indeed I sawe Auarice standing at the doore And a company of Ruffians assisting him there Philologus Alas alas this pincheth my heart full sore Myne euills he doth declare myne owne wo I do heare Wherefore from teares I cannot forbeare Hypocrisie Ha ha doth this touch you Master Philologus You neede not haue had it being rulde by vs Suggestion Why what is he thus Master Hypocrisie That taketh such sorrow at the wordes which I spake Hypocrisie One that is taken and conuinced of Heresie And I feare me much will burne at a stake Yet to reclayme him much paynes would I take And haue don already howbeit in vayne I would craue thine assistance were it not to thy payne Suggestion I will do the best herein that I can Yet go thou with me to helpe at a neede With all my heart God saue you good gentleman To sée your great sorrow my heart doeth welnigh bleede But what is the cause of your trouble and dréede Disdaine not to me your secrets to tell A wise man sometime of a fool may take counsell Philologus Myne estate alas is now most lamentable For I am but deade which euer side I take Neither to determine heerein am I able With good aduice mine election to make The worse to refuse and the best for to take My Spirit couites the one but alas since your presence My flesh leades my spirit therfroe by violence For at this time I being in great extremitie Either my Lord God in hart to reiect Or els to be oppressed by the Legates authorytie And in this world to be counted an abiect My Landes wife and Children also to neglect This later part to take my Spirit is in readinesse But my Flesh doth subdue my Spirit doubtlesse Suggestion Your estate perhaps seemeth io you dangerous The rather because you haue not bene vsed To incurre before time such troubles perilous But to your power such euils haue refused Howbeit of two euils the least must be chused Now which is the least euill wee will shortlye examine That which part to take your selfe may determine On the right hand you say you sée gods iust iudgment His wrath and displeasure on you for to fall And in steede of the ioyes of Heauen euer permanent You see for your stipend the tormentes infernall Philologus That is it indéede which I feare most of all For Christ said feare not them which the body can ānoy But feare him which the body and soule can destroy Suggestion Well let that ley aside awhile as it is And on the other side make the lyke inquisition If on the left side you fall then shall you not misse But to bring your body to vtter perdition For at mans hand you know there is no remission Beside your Children fatherlesse your wife desolate Your goodes and possessions to other men confiscate Philologus Saint Paul to the Romanes hath this worthy sentence I accompt the afflictions of this world transitorie Be they neuer so many in full equiuolence Cannot counteruaile those heauenly glorie Which we shal haue through Christ his propitiatorie I also accompt the rebukes of our Sauiour Greater gaines to mée then this house full of treasure Suggestion You haue spoken reasonably but yet as they say One Birde in the hande is worth two in the bush So you now inioying these worldly ioyes may Esteeme the other as light as a rush Thus may you scape this perrillous pushe Philologus Yea but my saluation to mee is most certaine Neither doubt I that I shall suffer this in vaine Suggestion Is your death meritorious then in Gods sight That you are so sure to attaine to saluation Philologus I doo not think so but my faith is full pight In the mercies of God by Christs mediation By whom I am sure of my preseruation Suggestion Then to the faithfull no hurt can accrew But what so he worketh good end shall insue Philologus Our Sauiour Christ did say to the tempter When he did perswade him from the Pinacle to fall And saide he might safely that danger aduenture Because that Gods Angels from hurt him saue shall See that thy Lord God thou tempt not at all So I though perswaded of my sinnes free remission May not commit sin vpon this presumption Cardinall What haue you not yet done your foolysh tatteling With that frowarde heretick I will then away If you will tarie to heare all his prattelyng He would surely keepe you most part of the day It is now high dinner time my stomack doth say And I will not lose one meale of my diet Though thereon did hang an hundred mens quiet Suggestion By your Lordships pacience one word with him more And then if he will not I geue him to Tyrrany Hypocrisie I neuer saw my Lord so pacient before To suffe one to speake for himselfe so quietly But you were not best to trust to his curtesie It is euill waking of a Dog that doth sleepe While you haue his friendship you were best it to kéepe Cardinall I promise thee Philologus by my vowed chastitie If thou wilt be ruled by thy friendes that be héere Thou shalt abound in wealth and prosperitie And in the Countrie chiefe rule thou shalt beare And a hundred pounds more thou shalt haue in the yéere If thou will this curtesie refuse Thou shalt die incontinent the one of these chuse Suggestion Well sith it is no time for vs to debate In former maner what is in my minde I will at once to thée straight demonstrate Those worldly ioyes which heere thou shalt finde And for because thou art partly blinde In this respect looke through this mirrour And thou shalt behold an vnspeakeable pleasure Philologus Oh péerelesse pleasures oh ioyes vnspeakable Oh worldly wealth oh pallaces gorgious Oh faire Children oh wife most amyable Oh pleasant pastime oh pompe so glorious Oh delicate diet oh lyfe lasciuious Oh dolourous death which would mée betray And my felycitie from mée take away I am fully resolued without further demeanour In these delightes to take my whole solace And what paine so euer hereby I incurre Whether heauen or hell whether Gods wrath or grace This glasse of delight I will euer imbrace But one thing most chiefly doth trouble mée héere My Neighbors vnconstant will compt mée I feare

throne Wherfore there is no cause you should sende vs to outwarde act As to the ancor or refuge of our preseruation Theologus The meaning of Philologus is not héere so exact As doo his wordes make it to seeme by your allegation He doth not meane betwéene good works and faith to make relation As though workes were equiuolent saluation to attaine As is true faith but what he ment I will set downe more playne He did exhort the yongmen heere by him for to beware Least as he did so they abuse Gods gospell pure And without good aduice vsurp of faith the gift so rare Whereby they think what so they doo thē selues from torments frée And by this proud presumption Gods anger should procure And where they boast and vaunt thē selues good faithfull men to bée Yet in their lyues they doo deny their faith in ech degrée Wherfore he saith as Peter saide see that you doo make knowne Your owne election by your workes againe S. Iames doth say Shew mée thy faith and by my works my faith shall thée be shown And wherupon his owne offence he dooth to them bewray Wheras he did vainegloryously vpon a dead faith stay Which for the inwarde righteousnesse he alway did suspect And héereupon all godlynes of lyfe he did neglect Philologus That was the meaning of my wordes how euer I them spake The truth alas vile wretch my soule and Conscience too true féele Theologus What do you not Philologus with vs no comfort take When all these thinges so godlyly to you I doo reueale Especially sith that your selfe in them are séene so well Some hope vnto vs of your health and safetie yet is left we do not think that all Gods grace from you is wholly reft Philologus Alas what comfort can betide vnto a damned wretch what so I héere sée féele tast speake is turned all to woe Eusebius Ah deare Philologus think not that ought can Gods grace outreache Consider Dauid which did sinne in lust and murther too Yet was he pardoned of his sinnes and so shalt thou also Phil. King Dauid alwaies was elect but I am reprobate And therefore I can finde small ease by waighing his estate He also prayed vnto God which I shall neuer doe His prayer was that God would not his spirit take away But it is gone from mée long since and shall be giuen no moe But what became of Cayne of Cam of Saul I do you pray Of Iudas and Barehu these must my Conscience slay Of Iulyan Apostata with other of that crue The same torments must I abide which these men did insue Theologus Alas my friend take in good part the chastment of the Lorde Who doth correct you in this world that in the lyfe to come He might you saue for of the like the Scripture beares recorde Philologus That is not Gods intent with mée though it be so with some who after bodies punishment haue into fauour come But I alas in spirit and soule these greenous torments beare God hath condemded my Coscience to perpetuall greife and feare I would most gladly chuse to lyue a thousand thousande yeare In all the torments and the griefe that damned soules sustaine So that at length I might haue ease it would me greatly cheare But I alas shall in this lyfe in torments still remaine while Gods iust anger vpon mee shall be reuealed plaine And I example made to all of Gods iust indionation Oh that my body were at rest and soule in condemnation Eusebius I pray you answer me herein where you by déepe dispaire Say you are worse here in this lyfe then if you were in hell And for because to haue death come you alway make your prayer As though your foule and body both in torments great did dwell If that a man should giue to you a sword I pray you tell would you destroy your selfe there with as doe the desperate which hange or kill or into flouds themselues precipitate Philologus Giue me a sworde then shall you know what is in mine intent Eusebius Not so my friend I onely aske what héerein were your will Philologus I cannot neither will I tell wherto I would be bent Theologus These wordes doe nothing edifye but rather fancies fill which we would gladly if we could indeuour for to kill wherefore I once againe request together let vs pray And so we will leaue you to God and send you hence away Philologus I cannot pray my spirit is dead no faith in me remayne Theologus Doe as you can no more then might we can ask at your hand Philologus My prayers turned is to sinne for God doth it disdaine Eusebius It is the falsehood of the spirit which doo your health withstande That teach you this wherfore in time reiect his filthy bande Theologus Come knéele by mee and let vs pray the Lord of Heauen vnto Philologus With as good will as did the Diuell out of the deaffe man goe O God which dwellest in the heauens c. Tush sirs you doo your labours loose see where Belzabub doth come And doth inuite mee to a feast you therefore speake in vaine Yea if you aske ought more of me in answer I will be dumbe I will not wast my song for naught as soone shall one small grayne Of Musterdseede fill all the world as I true faith attaine Theologus We will no lenger stay you now but let you hence depart Eusebius Yet will we pray continually that God woulde you conuart Theologus Gisbertus and Paphinitius conduct him to his place But see he haue good company let him not be alone Ambo We shall so doo God vs assist with his most holy grace Gisbertus Come Father doo you not think good that we from hence begone Philologus Let go my handes at lybertie assistaunce I craue none Oh that I had a sworde a while I should soone eased bee Ambo Alas deare father what do you Euseb His wil we may now sée Theologus Exeunt Phi. Gis Paph O glorious God how wonderfull those iudgements are of thine Thou doost beholde the secret hart naught doth thy eyes beguile Oh what occasion is vs giuen to feare thy might deuine And from our hartes to hate and lothe iniquities so vile Least for the saine thou in thy wrath doost grace from vs exile The outwarde man doeth thée not please nor yet the minde alone But thou requirest both of vs or else regardest none Eusebius Héere may the worldlinges haue a glasse their states for to behold And learne in time for to escape the iudgements of the Lorde Whilste they by flattering of them selues of faith both dead and colde Doo sell their soules to wickednes of all good men abhorde But godlynes doth not depend in knowing of the worde But in fullfilling of the same as in this man we see Who though he did to others preach his lyfe did not agrée Theologus Againe Philologus witnesseth which is the trueth of Christ For that consenting to the Pope he did the Lorde abiure Whereby he teacht the wauering fayth on which side to persist And those which haue the trueth of God that still they may indure The Tyraunts which delight in bloode he likewise doth assure In whose affayres they spende their time but let vs home warde goe Eusebius I am content that after meate we maye resorte him to Exiunt Theo. Euse. Acte sixe scene last NVNTIVS OH ioyfull newes which I report and bring into your eares Philologus that would haue hangde himselfe with coard Is nowe conuerted vnto God with manie bitter teares By godly councell he was woon all prayse be to the Lorde His errours all he did renounce his blasphemies he abhorde And being conuerted left his lyfe exhorting foe and friend That do professe the fayth of Christ to be constant to the ende Full thyrtie wéekes in wofull wise afflicted he had bene All which long time he tooke no foode but forst against his will Euen with a spoone to poure some broath his téeth betwéene And though they sought by force this wise to féede him still He alwayes stroue with all his might the same on ground to spill So that no sustenaunce he receiu'de ne sléepe could he attayne And nowe the Lord in mercy great hath easde him of his payne FINIS step aside push Auarice backwarde HYP. Ambo HYP. tut Father Iotsam HYP. a litle k to hide so great a lubber HYP. he feareth nothīg he thinketh the hangman is dead HYP. he can play too parts the foole and the K. HIP. a popish policye HYP. Antichirstian charitie Vtilitas facit esse Deos HYP. This is sharp argumentes HYP. Praye for your selfe HYP. your kind hart shal rost me a couple of russhes HYP. Not I the lyke of such a cutthrote Coult. HYP. he speketh to you syra HYP. on your face syr HYP. fighteth AVA. indede you say troth HYP. he hath learned logetes HYP frienship for gaine Sep aside Hir hath a goodly grace in swearyng HIP. he is gracelesse alredy HIP. he is Kit carelesse HIP. hatke the practis of spiteful Sumners HIP. and you are one of his sonnes mee think by your head Exeunt Tyr. Auar Cacon.

mercy did obtaine Where if he had not of the Iewes he should haue tasted death Philologus Euen so shall I in tract of time with bitter teares complaine Suggestion Yea time inough though thou defferst vntill thy latest breath Conscience So saieth Suggestion vnto thée but Conscience it denyeth And in the ende what so I say for trueth thou shalt espye And that most false which Conscience shal in secreat hart deny Philologus Ah wretched man what shall I doo which doo so playnly sée My flesh and Spirit to contende and that in no small thing But as concernyng the euent of extreame miserie Which either studie to auoyde or els vpon mée bring And which of them I should best trust it is a doubtfull thing My Conscience speaketh truth mée think but yet because I feare By his aduice to suffer death I doo his wordes forbeare And therfore pacyfy thy selfe and doo not so torment Thy selfe in vaine I must séeke some meanes for to eschew These griping gréefes which vnto mée I sée now imminent And therfore will no longer stay but bid thée now adue Conscience Oh stay I say Philologus or els thou wilt it rue Philologus It is lost labour that thou doest I will be at a point And to inioye these worldly ioyes I ieoparde will a iont Exit Phil. Sug. Conscience Oh cursed creature O fraile flesh O meat for wormes O dust O blather puffed full of winde O vainer then these all What cause hast thou in thine owne wit to haue so great a trust Which of thy selfe canst not espie the euils which on thée fall The blindnesse of the outward man Philologus shew shall At his returne vnlesse I can at last make him relent For why the Lord him to correct in furious wrath is bent Exit Consciencia Acte fyfth Sceane 3 HYPOCRISIE SVch chopping cheare as we haue made the like hath not bin séene And who so pleasant with my Lorde as is Philologus His recantation he hath made and is dispatched cleane Of all the griefes which vnto him did séeme so dangerous Which thing you know was brought to passe especially by vs So that Hypocrisie hath done that which Sathan did intende That men for worldly wealth should cease the Gospell to defende What shall become of foolish Goose I meane Philologus In actuall maner to your eyes shall represented bée For though as now he seemes to be in state most glorious He shall not long continue so eche one of you shall sée But néedes I must be packing hence my fellowes stay for mée Shake handes before we do depart you shall sée mée no more And though Hypocrisie goe away of hypocrits héere is good store Exit Hyp. Acte fyfth Sceane 4. PHILO GISBERT PAPHI COme on my Children deare to mée and let vs talk a while Of worldly goodes which I haue got and of my pleasant state Which fortune hath installed mée who on mee chéerely smyle So that into the top of whéele she doth mée eleuate I haue escaped all mishaps of which my Conscience did prate And where before I ruled was as is the common sorte Now as a Iudge within this Land I beare a Rulers port Gisbertus Indéede good father we haue cause to praise your grauitie Who did both saue your selfe from woe and vs from begging state Where if you had perseuered still as we did feare greatly Your goods from vs your Children should to Legate bene confiscate Our glorious pompes then should we haue bene glad for to abate Paphinitius But now not onely that you had for vs but also haue Such offices whereby more gaines you yeare by yeare shall saue Philologus I was at point once very neare to haue bene quite forlorne Had not Suggestion of the flesh from folly mee reclaymed And set this Glasse of worldly ioyes my sight and eyes beforne The sight wherof did cause all thinges of mée to be disdained I thought I had felycitie when it I had obtained And to say trueth I doo not care what to my soule betide So long as this prosperitie and wealth by mée abide But let vs homewarde goe againe some pastime there to make My whole delight in sport and games of pleasure I repose Horror Nay stay thy iournay héere awhile I doo thée prisoner take I shall abate thy pleasures soone yea to soone thou wilt suppose Philologus What is thy name whence commest thou wherfore to me disclose Horror My name is calde Confusion and horror of the mynde And to correct impenitents of God I am assignde And for because thou dost dispise Gods mercy and his grace And wouldst no admonytion take by them that did thée warne Neither when Conscience counsailed thée thou wouldst his wordes imbrace who would haue had thée vnto god obedience tru to learne Nor couldst betwéene Suggestions craft Conscience truth discerne Beholde therfore thou shalt of mée an other lesson heare Which wil thou nil thou with torment of Conscience thou shalt beare And where thou hast extinguished the holy Spirit of God And made him wery with thy sinnes which dayly thou hast done He will no lenger in thy soule and spirit make abode But with the Graces which he gaue to thée now is he gone So that to Godwarde by Christes death reioysing thou hast none The peace of Conscience faded is in stead whereof I brlng The Spirit of Sathan blasphemy confusion and cursing The Glasse likewise of vanyties which is thine onely ioy I will transforme into the Glasse of deadly desperation By looking in the which thou shalt conceiue a great annoy Thus haue I caught thée in thy pride and brought thée to damnatiō So that thou art a patterne true of Gods iust indignation Whereby eche man may warned be the like sinnes to eschew Least the same torments they incurre which in thée they shall view Philologus O painfull paine of déepe disdaine oh griping gréefe of hell Oh horror huge oh soule supprest and slaine with desperation Oh heape of sinnes the sum wherof no man can number well Oh death oh furious flames of hell my iust recompensation Oh wretched wight oh creature curst oh childe of condempnation Oh angrie God and mercilesse most fearefull to beholde Oh Christ thou art no Lambe to mée but Lion fearce and boulde Gisbertus Alas deare Father what doth moue and cause you to lament Philologus My sinnes alas which in this Glasse appeare innumerable For which I shall no pardon get for God is fully bent In furie for to punish me with paines intollerable Neither to call to him for grace or pardon am I able My sinne is vnto death I féele Christes death doth me no good Neither for my behoofe did Christ shed his most precious bloud Paphinitius Alas deare Father alas I say what sodaine chaunge is this Philologus I am condemned into hell these torments to sustaine Gisbartus Oh say not so my Father deare Gods mercy mighty is Philologus The sentence of the righteous Iudge cannot be cald againe Who hath already