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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65455	The trouble and cure of a wounded conscience set out in a sermon preached in St. Mary's church at Gates-head, in the County Palatine of Durham / by Richard Werge ...	Werge, Richard, 1624 or 5-1687.	1685 (1685)	Wing W1367; ESTC R8110	17,292	42

the prophets Hos 6. 5. It is like that Sword Gen. 3. 24. that turned every way to keep Adam out of Paradise so doth the Law in the Conscience of a Sinner forbidding him during his Agony to enter into the Paradise of comfortable thoughts The Law purely considered without any respect had to the Covenant of Grace was given to discover Sin to proclaim Wrath and Curses to the Sinner The Law so considered perswades a Sinner that all those Armies of Plagues and Curses and Sorrows and Sufferings denounced therein shall with an unresistable violence take hold on him and pursue him with that fury as that he shall never be able to abide nor avoid it The Law also being given upon Mount Sinai in Arabia the Ishmaelites Land who descended from Hagar out of the bounds of the Land of Promise considered purely and abstractively from the Covenant of Grace and not as given in subordination and subservenice to the Covenant of Grace is to discover Sin and the wrath of God against Sin and this works terrour in the Sinner Secondly Sin is an occasion of this Guilt is an adjunct of Sin All the world is guilty before God Rom. 3. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 liable to condemnation Now this guilt works horrour and upon this horrour sometimes follows desparation Peracto scelere magnitudo ejus conspiritur as Tacitus said of Nero. When a man hath committed a sin then he seeth the greatness of it that thereby the Law of God is violated that thereby the Justice of God is offended and then he is ready to look upon himself as being excluded from those Gospel-priviledges Adoption Acceptation Pardon Peace Spiritual Life Liberty Grace and Glory in Jesus Christ then he looks upon himself as a Debtor to God bound over to the penalty of his Law which he hath broken and then he is ready to accuse and condemn himself and is over-whelm'd with desperation ready to destroy himself Our Blessed Saviour being a Sinner onely by imputation met with conflicts and desertions and was in an Agony Sin deprives men of God's favour which is the spring of comfort it keeps men from an interest in Christ who is the Consolation of Israel Sin blinds the minde it hardens the heart it deads the affections it alienates men from God it works delusions desperate thoughts horrour of heart and confusion of spirit Sin follows men like an Avenger of Blood Sin is a bitter-sweet like Esaus Mess like the Israelites Quails like Adonjah's Dainties when the Meal is ended then comes the Reckoning When Sin is unmaskt then that which before appeared sweet and beautiful will appear bitter and ugly that which before was delightful will then appear dreadful Oh the shame the pain the gall the bitterness the horrour and hell that a true sight of Sin will raise in the Soul When the Dress is taken off it will appear more vile and filthy and terrible than Hell it self This made Anselme say That if he should see the shame of Sin on the one hand and the pains of Hell on the other and must of necessity choose one he would rather be thrust into Hell without Sin than go into Heaven with Sin Thirdly Satan is an occasion of trouble in wicked men Those Serpents that stung the Israelites were called fiery Serpents possibly in regard of their colour or rather in regard of their effect Serpents biting the Israelites did occasion a burning in their flesh which made a fiery heat in those whom they stung so the old Serpent the Devil doth set the Souls of wicked men on fire so that they think themselves to be burning already and expect to burn for ever hereafter in Hell The Devil is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Adversary he is also called a roaring Lion Pet. 1. 5 8. as an Adversary he will spight men and as a roaring Lion he will affright men The Devil is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Accuser Rev. 12. 10. the Devil doth not onely accuse God to man as Gen. 3. 5. and man to God Job 1. 9 10. but man to himself Satan entred into Judas Luke 22. 3. to accuse and torment him with thoughts of his Blood-guiltiness he is also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from a compounded Verb that signifies to strike through We read of the Fiery-darts of the Devil these Darts he shoots through the Spirits of wicked men and doth infect poison and burn He is called the Envious man Satan from his craftiness Belial for his mischievous wickedness Cor. 2. 6 15. Abaddon and Appollyon Rev. 9. 11. as being a destroyer Belzebub which signifies a Prince of flies because he doth vex and fret a Wounded Conscience even as flies do vex and fret a gaul'd Creature Fourthly Conscience is an occasion of this The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies Conscience is a compound it is derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to see or know and the proposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies with the Latine word Conscientia is quasi cordis Scientia So that the Greek the Latine and the English word Conscience which is derived from the Latine signifies a Knowledge with that is with some other thing even as of the Heart What man knows the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him 1 Cor. 2. 11. Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to which thou didst to David my father Solomon there appeals to the Conscience of Shimei 1 Kings 2. 44. And indeed Conscience is the private Register of mens Actions it is a faithful Monitor within their breasts it is the Eye of the Soul to over-see the whole Occasions and Actions of the Heart and Life it is the Tongue of wicked mens Souls that makes report of the aberrations of their ways The office of conscience is to bear witness Rom. 2. 15. and indeed it is a faithful witness that will not lie Prov. 14. 5. Now the witness of Conscience is according to the qualities of men it excuseth good men Acts 23. 1. and thereupon followeth Peace Rom. 5. 1. It convinceth and accuseth wicked men John 8. 9. it condemns them also Titus 3. 11. 1 St. John 3. 20. aie and it torments them by occasioning shame and anxiety of spirit Levit. 26. 26. Prov. 28. 1. Rom. 6. 21. Grief Trembling and Desparation these are usually the Adjuncts and Concomitants of a perplexed Conscience There are three things considerable in Mans Conscience First The Matter Secondly The Act. Thirdly The Conscequence The Matter of Mans Conscience before the Fall was a Conformity in the whole Man to the whole will of God The Act of Mans Conscience then was to give a true testimony thereof And the Consequence upon Mans continuance in that Estate would have been Peace and Quietness Such a good Conscience would have remain'd in man if he had continued in his entire Estate But by mans Fall his good Conscience was quite