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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01252	The comforter: or A comfortable treatise wherein are contained many reaso[n]s taken out of the word, to assure the forgiunes of sinnes to the conscience that is troubled with the feeling thereof. Together with the temptations of Sathan to the contrarie, taken from experience: written by Iohn Freeman sometime minister of the word, in Lewes in Sussex.	Freeman, John, fl. 1611.	1606 (1606)	STC 11368; ESTC S113774	85,859	215

secret counsell and hiddē mysteries of God Giue therfore credit vnto the Lords ministers an● glory vnto God that hath giuen in hi● great loue this blessing and grace vnto thee that thou shouldest continuall● haue abiding with thee his Prophets his Angels at whose mouth thou mai● be certified of the forgiuenesse of thy ●●ns Yea the Lord hath not giuen on●y this name vnto his ministers to con●inue vnto thee the forgiuenesse of thy sinnes but hee hath further giuen vnto them power authoritie vs ministers of the word to forgiue thee thine offences For is those keies of the kingdom of God that the Lord gaue in Peter vnto the Church saying Whose sinnes ye remit they are remitted whose sins ye retaine they are retained whatsoeuer ye bind in earth shall be bound in heauen whatsoeuer ye loose on earth shall be loosed in heauen So that if the Ministers of the Gospell of God shal in the spirit of God and power of Christ forgiue thee thy sinnes if they shall say vn●o thee as Nathan did vnto Dauid The ●ord hath taken away thy sinne or as Christ vnto the sicke of the palsie Sonne by sinnes are forgiuen thee assure thy ●elfe that insomuch as they haue loosed ●hee from thy sinnes on earth the Lord ●ath loosed thee from thy sinnes in hea●en insomuch as they haue remitted and forgiuen thy sinnes they are re●●●●ed and forgiuen indeed And ta●● heed ●hat thou do not as the most part of t●● world doth that depriue themselues o● this comfort and other the like by the contempt and base account of the Ministers of the grace of God beleeue th● Lord and his Prophets saith Iehosophat and thou shalt prosper Despise not this gift which God hath giuen thee for it is one of the principall gifts mentioned by Paul in the fourth of the Ephesians that Christ when hee tooke his farewell from the earth gaue thereunto I speak not these things to maintaine the Popes auricular confession or vsurped authoritie but the lawfull power giuen by God to his ministers and the●fore herein must meet together I meane in the forgiuenes of thy sinne by the minister his discretion thy contrition his faithfulnes thy faith his wisedome thy repentance hi● calling and thy calling his calling must be lawfull thy calling must be true he must be faithfull thou must be penitent he must be faithfull thou must be faithf●ll he faithfull in his office thou in thy conuersion vnto the Lord. And then if these things be ioyned 〈◊〉 ●ether in thee and in him thou mai● 〈◊〉 assured that the Lord in heauen ●●th forgiuen thy sinnes as his ministers on the earth haue pardoned them ●nd that God hath loosed thee in hea●en that art loosed in the earth from ●hy sinnes Thus from the testimonie ●itnes of the ministers of the kingdom of God thou maist approue vnto thine own conscience the forgiuenesse of thy ●ins And this shall be the more strongly confirmed vnto thy soule if thou shalt ●erevnto adde the testimonie of Moses Dauid Salomon Esay Ieremy Ezekiel Da●iel and all the rest of the Prophets the testimonie of Christ Peter Paul Iames Iohn Mathew Marke Luke and all the other Apostles Euangelists holy men of God who as it were out of the dead being dead speak vnto thee auouching and confirming with one voyce one mouth one spirit that thy sinnes are forgiuen and all in offences clean blotted out so that being compassed about with such a cloud of witnesses and those such as are g●eater than all exception wee ought to rest peaceably in the forgiuenes of our sins which these so many and so faithfull witnesses confirme vnto vs. These are the testimonies of men wstich confirme vnto as the forgiuenes of our sinnes The 17 Chapter VVherin is contained the third reason taken from others which is deriued from the Deuill he testifying and in his owne language confirming vnto vs the forgiuenesse of our sinnes THe third reason being taken from others is taken from the testimonie of the deuill who very sufficientlie in his naturall language if we rightly vnderstand the same confirmeth vnto vs the forgiuenesse of our sinnes And therefore for the better vnderstanding of his speech and language I will set thee down but two precepts rules as it were characters by the which thou shalt easily vnderstand the darkest and hardest words in the deuils toong and so shalt in short space become a good languager The first rule shall shew thee when he speaketh the second what he speaketh Concerning the first know for a certain that whensoeuer thou receiuest any answer in thy conscience contrarie to that which is promised or spoken in the word contrary to the forgiuenes of thy sin to the receiuing of the spirit of adoption to the increase of the graces of the holy Ghost to the attaining of the inheritāce of the Saints in light or the possession of eternal life or any such like that then the deuill tempteth thee and speaketh that word and maketh that answere in thy soule For this perswasion and this answer and this word that the Lord wil not forgiue thy sin or giue thee his spirit or eternal life saluation commeth not frō God For the word of God saith the cleane contrarie And we know that the Lord speaketh not one thing in his word and another thing in thy conscience one thing in his scriptures another thing in thy soule Learne therfore this for a true and an infallible precept that whensoeuer thou receiuest an answere in thy self contrary to that which the Lord hath promised that then the deuill speaketh this thou must know to be true althogh the perswasion come from thine owne concupiscence corrupt nature For the Apostle calleth the prick of the flesh which is the motion and worke of original sinne the messenger of Sathan 2. Cor. 12. This then is the first precept by which thou maiest know when he speaketh The second rule which must make thee vnderstand his wordes must make thee first vnderstand his nature which is to lie For it is naturall for the deuill to lie For he is naturally a lyer as appeareth both by the testimonie of Christ in the eight of Iohn whe●e he saith the deuil was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth There is no truth in him as oftētimes as he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own because he is a lier and the father of a lie and also by the practise of the deuil himself who both lied to our mother Eue saying that if shee did eate of the tree of the knowledge of good and euill that shee shuld be like vnto the gods in the knowledge of good and euill and that they should not die and also was a lying spirit in the mouth of the Prophets of Achab and so deceiued Achab and his Prophets Out of this knowledge of the deuils lying nature thou shalt presently picke the meaning of his speeches and

god as muc● as the other If one part be true then a● is true if one bee false the● all is false If thou beleeue one part beleeue als● the other if thou beleeue not the one● beleeue not the other but both in hi● time place if thou beleue not his promises despaire not for his threatnings The second Section I adde further that the Lord considering our weaknesse and how hardly w● are brought to beleeue the stablenes o● his promise and this grace of God in Christ bestowed vppon vs contenteth not himselfe thus barely to haue promised but goeth farther bindeth himselfe with an oath to the performance as of his promises in genera l so of the forgiuenesse of sins which is one speciall thereof as plainely appeareth in the 22. Chapter of Genesis where the Lo●d to shew vnto Abraham and vnto the heires of the promise the stablenesse of his counsell as the spirit beareth witnes swore by himselfe than whom there is none greater to sweare by that because Abraham had not spared his only sonne therefore the Lord would not spare his only sonne or rather as there it followeth that hee would gi●e him a seed wherein all the nations of the Earth should be blessed where we see that the Lord sweareth not only to send into the world his sonne but to giue the blessing vnto all nations in and with him Now by the blessing hee meaneth not onely after this life eternall life and saluation but euē in this life the forgiuenesse of our sinnes according as Dauid describeth this blessing saying blessed is the man whose iniquities are forgiuen and whose sinnes are couered Blessed is hee to whom the Lord imputeth no sinne So that it is manifest that the blessing that the lord swore to giue vnto all nations in one especiall regard concerneth the forgiuenes of our sins and that therfore the Lord hath sworne to forgiue vs our sinnes in and through Iesus Christ our Lord. But yet that we might more reuerence the truth of this his promise he sweareth the secōd time to accomplish them And that in the 54 chapter of the Prophesie of Esay where the Lord speaketh after this maner saying This thing is vnto me as the waters of Noah For as I haue sworne that the waters shall no more couer the whole earth so haue I sworne that I wil not bee angry with thee nor rebuke thee though these hi●les should fall downe and these Mountaines be mooued yet my kindnesse shall not depart from thee nor my league be remoued In which wordes as the Lord bindeth himself by outward sac●amēts so by an absolute oth to the continuance of his loue to his-ward and also to the accomplishing and fulfilling of the league of his peace which is that league or couenant before mentioned made with Abraham or rather that which is expressed in the 31. of Ierem e one speciall clause or article whereof as in the same place appeareth that the Lord will forgiue our ●niquities and thinke neuer any more of our offences so that hereby it appeareth euidently that the Lord hath sworne by himselfe that God hath sworne by God and that not once but twice euen againe and againe to performe his promise made vnto vs concerning the free forgiuenes of all our sins and our offences This therefore is that oath of the Lord which when thou art brought to doubt of the forgiuenes of thy sinnes thou shouldest set before thine eies still hauing rerourse therevnto to strengthen thy faith in the promises of God And that after the example of the Prophets Apostles and holy men of God as Za●harie in the first of Luke who remembreth to assure himselfe of the mercie of God shewed to his fathers his deliuerance from the hands of all his spirituall enemies as sin hell and the deuill and the remission of sins afterward mentioned the oath which he swa●e to our forefather Abrahā which was that he would grant vnto vs that we being deliuered o●t of the hands of our enemies should serue him without fear in righteousnes and true holynes all the daies of our li●e And also as the Apostle to the Hebrews and 6. chapter who to perswade them to bee followers of thē that through faith patience inherited the promises alleadged that oath with the which the Lord bound himself to Abraham and the heires of the promises to performe fulfill his promises that thus thou hauing the same oath that they had to confirme thy faith shouldest as they haue strong consolation hauing thy refuge to lay hold vpō that hope of mercie that is set before thee and so tarying patiently enioy the promises of mercie which therefore with a ful persuasion of faith thou mais● looke for because the Lord hath tyed himselfe with an oath to accomplish the same For an oath as the fore-mentioned Apostle testifieth is with the Lord an immutable thing that is such a thing as cannot bee changed The heauens as the Prophet Dauid saith shall waxe old and as a garment will the Lord chaunge them The Sunne shall loose her light and the Moone shall bee turned into blood before the great and fearefull day of the Lord. The Hils shall remooue the foundations of the earth shall shake The earth it selfe shall perish with the works that are therein but the promises of the lord established by his oath are immortall and cannot be changed Vntill therefore thou see the earth consumed and the elements melt with feruent heat nay though when thou seest these things dissolued yet know that the oath of the Lord is exceeding constant that there is no end nor change thereof For it is immutable Nay as the same Apostle farther in the same place addeth it is such a thing as it is impossible that the Lord should lye therein So that that Lord to whom al things els are possible who can by his word at one instant create all things make things that are seene of those things that doe not appeare giue life vnto the dead and againe with a word consume all thinges whatsoeuer That God I say to whom all things els are possible euen to him this one thing is impossible which is to lye against his oath And therefore if it shall come into thy minde that it may be that the Lord will not do as he promiseth know for a certaintie that it may not no nor cannot be that the Lord should breake his promise or his oath It is in possible for him hee cannot doe it It is such a thing as is immutable wherin it is impossible that the Lord should lie The oath therfore of the Lord should bring an end to thy fear and to thy doubting Especially considering that an oth for confirmation is among men an end of al controuersie For euen in the s●spition of the wiues honestie an oath must cleare the woman and satisfie the husbands iealousie In the matter of contract or hire if the partie that borrowed his