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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02180	A most sweete and assured comfort for all those that are afflicted in consciscience [sic], or troubled in minde. Written by that godly & zealous preacher, M. Richard Greenham. With two comfortable letters to his especiall friends that way greeued.	Greenham, Richard.	1595 (1595)	STC 12321; ESTC S117895	37,612	192

A MOST SWEETE AND assured Comfort for all those that are afflicted in Consciscience or troubled in minde Written by that godly zealous Preacher M. Richard Greenham With two comfortable letters to his especiall frends that way greeued Psalm 34. 18. The Lord is nere vnto them that are of a contrite heart and will saue such as be afflicted in Spirit LONDON Printed by Iohn Danter for William Iones 1595. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull Sir DRVE DRVRIE Knight W. I. wisneth continuall peace of conscience RIGHT Worshipfull your zeale to Religion and loue of Learning haue made mee bold to present you with this fatherles Orphane which I hope the rather you will patronage becaus it is the fruite of a godly Parent once with your Worship familiar who liuing taught the Word sincerely and being dead hath lest some monument of his workes necessary to instruct and edifie This first is offred to the worlds view containing all excellent comfort for an afflicted Conscience If you voutchsafe to accept it I haue my desire that boldly made choyce of you for your especiall desert The God of mercie and Father of our Lorde Iesus lengthen your dayes and make your end blessed Your Worships in all dutie VV. I. TO THE READER MAny are the calamities that sinne imposeth vpon the wicked but aboue all other plagues the wound of Conscience is most heauie Touching which the holie Scripture affoords diuers examples both of the wicked that haue mourned without hope and the righteous that haue sorrovved sought comfort The svvetest of sinnes plesure is not vvithout a sharp sting that piercing the Conscience beginneth hell in the harts of the vngodlie and prepareth Gods Children to seeke heauen by vnfained repentance I can not here number all of either sort the Scripture mentioneth I vvil onely touch some that it may appeare how sorrovv and vexation of minde are sinnes hourelie companions Pharaohs contempt of God brought him to hardnesse of hart hardnes of hart to headlong destruction Balaam sinned thorough greedie couetousnes and perished among the vncircumcised the sonnes of Heli sinned fell before their enemies Saul sinned and ended his life on his ovvne svvord Antiochus and Herod blasphemed and vvere smitten deseruedly Iudas betrated and died despairingly All these vvith manie other vvanting comfort for their woūded consciences perished lamentablie vvher on the other side Iob Dauid Hezekiali Peter Zach●us c. confessed their faults sought mercie vvere comforted Their conscienences bring 〈◊〉 assured they wer strong confident and vnremoueable as app●●● in Iob vvho so confidentlie beleeued that for all his miserie he crieth Thogh the Lord kill me yet will I trust in him Dauid also though his soul were powred out as water yet hee commanded it to praise the lord The sicke saith our Sauior neede the Phisition no mortall mā but hath been soule sicke and therfore all men need comfort It is necessarie that he which ministreth to the diseased shuld know the cause of the sicknes that being remoued the medicine may more effectually worke they that minister the woord ought to haue a feeling of their brethrens infirmities that they may bee able to comfort the cast downe conscience stirre the secure soul and weaken the proud thought That the Author of this treatise was such a one appeareth were there no other proofe by it containing such heauenly consolation meeting so with al temptations that for euill there can be no euasion Mercies with iudgments are heere so mixed that neither may he that standeth boast nor he that is falne be wholly discouraged While he liued in this Citie he was an excellent Teacher after his death he hath left among other heauenly labors this comfortable doctrine that preacheth peace to the troubled comfort to the comfortles fauour to the afflicted health to the diseased hope to the humbled grace to the grieued Conscience Which that it maie effect I haue publisht for thy practise Thine W. I. In the title of the Letter against hardnes of hart Robert is set for Richard by the Printers error A MOST sweet Comfort for an afflicted Conscience It is thus written Prouerbs 18. 14. The Spirit of a man susteineth his infirmitie But a vvounded Spirite vvho can beare THis Scripture is not onely worthy to be grauen in steel with the pen of an Adamant and in letters of gold but also to be written and registred by the singer of God his spirit in the table of our harts Which sentence briefely speaketh thus much vnto vs that what trouble befalleth a man his minde vnappalled hee will indifferently beare it out but if the spirit of a man be once troubled and dismayed hee cannot tell how to be deliuered And no maruell for if the mind of man be the fountaine of comforts which ministreth comfort vnto him in all other troubles and if it become comfortles what shall comfort it If it be void of helpe where shall it bee helped If the eye which is the light of the body be darknes how great is that darkenes If the salt which sauoureth all things be vnsauourie for what is it good If the minde which susteineth all troubles bee troubled howe intollerable is that trouble To shew this the better we will first declare how great a punishment of GOD this wound of Conscience is Secondly wee will teach howe this trouble of minde may be preuented and auoyded Lastly we will set down how Gods children faling in some measure into this affliction of spirit may bee recouered out of it For the first the grieuousnes of this malladie is seene either by some due consideration of the persons that haue felt it or by some wife comparison made betweene this griefe of minde and other outwarde griefes incident vnto a man The persons in whom we may consider this wounded spirit are either meerely naturall men or such as bee renued by the spirit of GOD The men meerely naturall are either the Heathen such as neuer knew God in Christ or carnall professors such as haue not professed Christianitie aright If wee looke among the Heathen how many of them haue willingly gone vnder pouertie and haue been content to vnburden themselues of al worldly treasures Howe haue some of them their mindes beeing vnappalled suffred imprisonment exile extreame tortures of bodies rather than they woulde betray Countries Howe many of them hauing deuoured many iniuries and borne outwarde troubles with some ease and with no resistance whilst their mindes were at liberty And yet looke not into the meanest but the best and most excellent men among them euen their wisest Philosophers sweete Orators and exquisite Poets who in bearing and forbearing thought the chiefest point of vertue to consist and yee shall see when some great distresse of minde did wound them some woulde make an ende of it by preparing a Cup of deadly poyson some woulde violently and voluntarily run on the enemies pikes some woulde throwe downe themselues from hye Mountaines some would not sticke to