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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05517	[A comfortable treatise for the reliefe of such as are afflicted in conscience]	Linaker, Robert, 1550 or 51-1618.	1595 (1595)	STC 15638; ESTC S100280	35,666	76

as snow though they were red as scarlet they shall be as wooll What the offer is you heare and how great it is your selfe is able to iudge euen so large an offer of mercy as none can be greater In one word it is as if the Lord should say O Israel thou hast sinned against me thy good God most grieuously and hast deserued that I should not onely punish thee sharply but for euer cast thee cleane out of my fauour Notwithstanding vpon thine vnfeigned repentance for all thy sinnes past and a resolute and full purpose of amendment hereafter A general pardon offered I am content to forgiue forget them all and to giue thee my gracious generall pardon to acquit and discharge thee of all and euerie one of thine iniquities that not so much as anie one of them shall bee able to condemne thee in this world or in that which is to come Here I pray you consider a little with me The cursed condition of the Israelites the estate and condition of this people at the time of this louing offer and therewith also consider what cause there was why the Lord should shew so great fauour to this people Begin you at the second verse of the forenamed chapter and marke aduisedly what manner of complaint the Lord takes vp against them 1 An appeale to all the creatures of disobedience First hee calles heauen and earth with all the creatures therein to witnesse their rebellion and disobedience against him 2 Vnthankefulnes Secondly he challengeth them of so monstrous vnthankfulnes that it is too too shamefull for he shewes they were so farre gone in this point that the brute beasts euen the oxe and the asse which were dumme and without reason were more thankfull in theire kinde to their owners for their fodder then they were for so many thousands of blessings which he had bestowed vpon them 3 A large inditement Thirdly in the third verse he draws out against them a very substantiall inditement both for words and matter wherein he layes forth all their ill behauiour Esa 1.3 and paints them out in most liuely colours calling them with great detestation A sinnefull nation a people laden with iniquitie a seede of the wicked corrupt children Fourthly 4 A proofe of the inditement hee prooues this inditement and euery part thereof by charging them to their faces with murder and blood by reason of their horrible oppression and crueltie towards all in generall Verse 15.17 but more specially towards the poore the widow the stranger and the fatherlesse all this is done in the fifteenth and seuenteenth verses In the practise of which sinnes and all other kind of filthines they were such exquisite workemen Verse 10. that they were more like the people of Sodom and Gomorra whom the Lord with fire from heauen destroyed then that people whom the Lord had chosen Exod. 29.5 6 and pickt out from all the nations of the world Verse 11.12.13.14.15 to be a peculiar and a holie people vnto himselfe Fiftly they were such hollow hearted hypocrites in all the outward exercises of religion Hypocrits in the seruise of God that the Lord detested all their sacrifices and vtterly abhorred all their praiers as you may reade in the 11.12.13.14 and 15. verses To make an end with so bad a people as lightly could not be worse they were so desperate and hardned in their wickednesse that they were past cure and no hope or verie small if anie at all of the greater part of their amendement because the Lord had assayed by all good meanes to bring them to some goodnes He had wooed them with blessings and feared them with his iudgements Sam. 7.14 he had chastised them often with rods and many times scorged them with the plagues of the children of men Verse 5.6 but all in vaine the more they were corrected the worse they were and grew to be more desperate as appeares out of the fift and sixt verses After all this bad dealing as though they had beene no such leude and gracelesse people or as though they had not offended so grieuously The Lord intreates peace at their hands which had highly offended him nay rather as though the Lord had done them some great wrong he seekes to them wheras they should haue both sued and sought to him that there might be a treatie of peace and a ful reconciliation made betweene them For which purpose he offers in most friendly and louing manerto common with them saying Verse 18. Come let vs reason together Nowe giue me leaue once againe to deale with your conscience in this point Charge your soule with as many sinnes as euer you can possibly call to minde A particular application of the former example in any parte of your life either before or since your calling in ignorance or in knowledge in youth or in age howsoeuer or with whom soeuer you haue committed them eithert by thought word or deed in the light of the day or in the darknesse of the night Bind them all and euerie one of them in one bundle cast them into the one end of the ballance when you haue so done take vp the sinnes of this people put them into the other ende and weigh them together without ante deceit Nay for this once you shall haue leaue to shew your best cunning and see if you can make your ende heauier If you can not as I am sure you can not except you will vse some notable deceit which will be soone found out so as you shall neuer be able to answere it then knowe you and let your conscience also vnderstand A strong reason to proone and perswade that if the Lord saide vnto a wicked people frosen in sinne come hee doeth much more saie to you who woulde so faine leaue your sinne come and againe come let vs two reason together For although thy sinnes be in thine own sight as crimson yet shall they bee made as white as snowe though they bee to thy seeming as redde as euer was the scarlet yet they shall bee as white as anie wooll because they shall bee all so perfectly scowred and washed in the bloud of Iesus Christ Rom. 8. ● as not any one of them shall be able to condemne thee either in this world or in the world to come And that you may bee the more bolde to come behold your sweet sauiour who being made sin for you that you might be made the righteousnesse of God saith also vnto you 2. Cor. 5.21 come Matth. 11.28 Another reason of great weight will you not come when your Sauiour calleth you for your good yea for your further encouragement be offers and is readie to take you by the hand and to go with you himselfe vnto the father for whose sake you must needes be most heartely wellcome And if you shall thus answere your Sauiour