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A04821	Hallelu-iah: praise yee the Lord, for the vnburthening of a loaden conscience By his grace is Iesus Christ vouchsafed vnto the worst sinner of all the whole world.	Kilby, Richard, d. 1617.	1618 (1618)	STC 14955; ESTC S106533	55,442	148

S. Gregories authoritie in his dialogues lib. 4. cap. 39. and so make a purgatorie matter of it and therefore shall neuer be called into question O how apt are we to deceiue our selues Doth not our Lord Iesus very plainely say these words Matth. 12.36 But I say vnto you that euery idle word that men shall speake they shall giue an account thereof in the day of iudgement 37. For by thy words thou shalt be iustified and by thy words thou shalt be condemnd If in the day of iudgement we shall bee tried whether we be fit to be saued or condemned euen by our words and if euery idle world shal then be brought in question it behooueth them that would be saued to make more conscience of their talke then the prating practise of this world affoardeth Certainly old Nicholas Denuse said very truely Of much speaking come many euills specially three the losse of consideration the dulling of deuotion and the multiplying of sinne I haue time and time perceiued the truth of Denuses words in mine owne selfe Yea euen in preaching when I haue beene more word-full then needs which such shallow preachers as I am be driuen to for lacke of matter the more pitty that people should be fed with winde those three euills haue come vpon me It may be asked what counsell I would out of my poore experience giue vnto weake ministers Vpon my conscience in the sight of God this I say Some goe for ministers which are not capable of that knowledge which a minister of the Gospel necessarily should haue The parish where such a one is should wholly ioyne together housholders men-seruants women-seruants and all that haue any thing in the world to giue for the allowing of him so much yearely maintenance to leaue the Ministerie as he hath by continuing in it yea and for the assuring of it vnto him for the tearme of his life This is much but the saluation of any one soule in the parrish is much more And where an vnable minister is certenly many a soule is in great danger If some should in loue of their saluation put themselues to this charges he that hath title to giue the benefice may put in such an other for it is too well known that many Patrons so they are called that giue benefices are very corrupt and haue no feeling of conscience in that businesse O that they knew what a huge measure of Gods vengeance they pull vpon themselues and vpon their house Sir whosoeuer you are know this for a certain the Sonne of God hath a Nisi prius against you to be tried at the great assizes of the world Then shall come foorth many poore soules cast away by meanes of your corruption and they shall crie out vpon you before the face of God Angels and men saying O Lord this is he that hath caused our damnation for he put vpon vs a man to be our minister that had not the grace of ministration in him I vndertake vpon mine vttermost perill that if faithfull inquirie be made diuerse such corruptions shall be found in Derbieshier yea gentlemen sharing with the minister in things dedicated vnto the Gospels maintenance O base more base and vile then to robbe by the high way side Those Ministers which are capable of competent knowledge but yet haue it not I would humbly intreat that aboue all other businesse whatsoeuer they will giue themselues in the feare of God most hungerly and thirstily to studie for it Though I entred not into the ministerie vntill the third yeare after I was batchelour of art which I confesse was too too soone and though that learned Colledge so I dare say Emanuel in Cambridge did in such fauourable manner approoue mee that my grace to commence Master of Arts was passed in the house before I knewe it or thought of it but I neuer went to commence yet was I glad God knowes to toile my selfe night and day else that lowest degree of sufficiencie which by Gods mercie I haue I should neuer haue had I haue been forced to renew my knowledge of logicke the Art of vnderstanding againe and againe and yet am farre short of perfection Hee that is ignorant of this Art I cannot deuise how hee may bee an vnderstanding Minister In the Latine tongue I was not verie perfect yet some-what readie But to get a little smacke in that learned language the Greeke mine eyes haue foregone much sleepe and been made to smart very often Into the language of Chanaan the Hebrew I haue so little sight as may be yet it cost mee some labour and expence withall By these paines I haue obtained God beeing mercifull vnto me this profit I can make a shift to vnderstand many learned Authors that haue written books verie helpefull for him which studieth Diuinitie Thus I am only able to abide the Churches triall and to passe for a sufferable minister if sanctification be not wanting If any vnable minister being capable of knowledge did but perceiue first his owne want and then the comfort which my soule takes in this lowest degree of abilitie which thorough Gods great mercie I haue attained vnto hee would enforce himselfe night and day to get knowledge so be quickly gone beyond me I would withall mine heart that I beeing no lesse able then I am as sufferably I can not bee were in abilitie ministeriall the very lowest of all the ministers in this Land It grieues mee to consider that some are not onely vnable which they shall find to be miserie too much but also which is much more miserable confidently perswaded of their sufficiencie I kept my selfe in some small measure of good order all that weeke much what by shunning vnnecessarie companie But my terrible disease increased vpon me and so tormented me that the foureteenth of August beeing Sabbath by drinking much new ale to ease my paine I almost ouerthrewe my selfe and was sore afraid least I should haue failed in my ministration Yet see thee admirable goodnes of God! I preached in the forenoone and in the afternoone went sicke and sowning ripe into the pulpit so that I betooke my selfe to the pleasure of God by way of preparation for some dismall successe yea before I spake any word I secretly said thus vnto my Lord Blessed Lord God make way for thine owne good pleasure and glorie and doe what thou wilt vnto mee spare mee not Yet I say againe see the most wonderfull goodnesse of God! there were diuerse of good iudgement yea and a Preacher who I verily beleeue will say they neuer heard mee preach more effectully nor with a more constant voice I must and by Gods grace will knowing mine owne exceeding weakenesse acknowledge it to be a gracious fauour of God In the morning I beeing so sore pained that I could not endure either to reade that which I had prepared to preach or to thinke vpon it did deuoutly promise vnto the Lord that in zeale of his glory I

c. God is a single spirit farre excelling the singlenes of any Angel for an Angel as also the soule of man or woman hath three wants of perfect singlenesse First in euery angel there is a beeing for it is a certain seuerall thing There is also in the same angel a possibilitie to bee changed into some other thing yea into nothing because the angel is vnder God and God can doe vnto it whatsoeuer hee will But there is no possibilitie of change in God because hee is vnder none Secondly euery angel is that which it is in seuerall and thereby he differeth and is knowne from all other angels And yet the same kinde of nature whereby hee is that which he is is also in other angels But the nature of God whereby hee is that which he is is wholly and onely in himselfe and therefore it is altogether one and the same with that which he is Thirdly in an Angell vnto his spirituall nature diuerse things are added and ioyned which may also be taken or put away as wisedome holynesse power c. But all perfections are in God as in the fountaine and though they seeme diuerse vnto vs yea some appeare to be quite contrary one to the other as most seuere iustice and most pitifull mercie yet all these things in God are but only one thing and that is his most single nature essence and beeing The truth of this we may in some sort perceiue by the shining sun for it appeareth vnto our eies to bee a very single pure thing all that we can see in it is nothing els but light most exceeding pure cleare and peircing light yet many sundry vertues are in this light It shineth it heateth it quickneth man beast foule fish fruit yea it seemeth to worke contraries as softning wax hardening clay These and many other things worketh the single light of the shining sunne Much more excellent is the God that made the Sunne In his most single nature is all vertue abilitie and efficacie His name be blessed Amen God is a durable spirit not onely without ending for so hath he made Angels and soules yea and so he will make the bodies of men women and children to be after the resurrectiō but also the Lord God is without beginning Therefore Dauid saith vnto him Psalm 19.2 From euerlasting to euerlasting thou art God God is vnmeasurable that is of such an exceeding infinitenes that he filleth yea surpasseth the whole compasse of heauen and earth Ier. 23.24 2. King 8.27 Yet not so that one part of him is one where and an other els where but God is wholly in all the whole world and wholly in euery part and place of the world Then why is it said that God is in heauen And why are we willed to lift vp our hearts towards heauen when we pray vnto him Because his pleasure is to manifest himselfe in glory cheifely in heauen and from heauen Why doth the Bible say that God is with good folke and not with bad Because he doth graciously acquaint himselfe with those that serue him but he will not be knowne that he is in the company of naughty people because he hateth their behauiour Yet he is where they are heedfully marketh all that they thinke say or doe purposing to call them to an account and to give iudgement vpon them accordding to the practise of their liues God is mightie most mighty almightie He is well able to doe any worke of power either by himselfe without meanes as hee made the world or by means as he drownd the world with water Sometime his pleasure is to worke by meanes but aboue the nature power of the meanes as when he clensed a man frō the leprosie by the water of the riuer Iordan 2. Kin. 5.14 Sometime he stoppeth the power of the meanes as when three of his seruants were by a tyrant cast into a most hot burning fierie furnace for hee tooke such order that the extreame burning heat had no power vpon them though it mischeiued those which put them into the furnace Dan. 3 God can work in what measure of power he will The least measure of his power is stronger then all the power of man 1. Cor. 1.25 Hee is able to make the least bit of bread to giue so much nourishment as a whole loafe It pleaseth him sometime to work more by one man then by another yea more by some one then by many other 1. Cor. 15.10 The power of God is endlesse limited onely by his owne will for whatsoeuer his pleasure is to doe that he doth Psal 135.6 This the poore leperous man beleeued when hee said vnto the sonne of God Matth. 8.2 Lord if thou wilt thou canst make me cleane whereunto he graciously answered saying I will be thou clean and presently the Lord touching him with his hand the foule disease was cleane gone God is wise he onely is wise Rom. 16.27 The wisedome of Angels and men is his gift It is hee that giueth wisedome to the wise and knowledge vnto them that know vnderstanding Dan. 2.21 There is no number of his vnderstanding it is endles Psal 147.5 From the beginning of the world he foreknew all things which should come to passe euen vntill the ende c. Act. 15.18 He knew what was the very best way to be takē in making continuing altering doing or suffering any thing Psal 104.24 Though he may doe what he will because he is the most high Soueraigne Lord of all things yet he doth nothing hee suffereth nothing without most excellent good reason and yet I must not thereupon presume to sinne for as hee hath reason to suffer a man to sinne so hee hath reason moouing him to punish the partie that sinneth yea such reason that S. Peter saith the righteous be scarcely saued 1. Pet. 4.18 God will beat sinne out of them before they die God is holy most holy altogether holy pure cleane and free from any staine of euill He cannot be tempted with euill Iam. 13. Then how came it to passe that so many angels sinned and turned to be deuils Also how came mā to be a sinner God made the Angels and the first man and woman very holy and well able to haue kept themselues so if they would Yea but why did he suffer them to sinne seeing that sinne is most contrarie vnto his holy nature Because he thereupon took occasiō to shew his dreadfull iustice in punishing some and the most wonderfull ioyning of mercy and iustice in sauing others The iustice of God requireth that euery Angel man woman and child be tried and iudged by that which is in them whether it be righteousnesse or sinne Rom. 2.11 the righteous to be saued and the sinner damned So hee condemned all the sinning Angels and so he will condemne a great many of Adams children He might haue cast them al away because they are a guiltie corrupted brood not only children of a traytor