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A01629	The true tryall and examination of a mans owne selfe wherein euery faithfull Christian, by looking into his conscience, may most plainely behold his spirituall deformity by nature, described, his actuall rebellion by disobedience detected, his promise breach at baptisme, by ordinary transgression apparantly proued, his lamentable estate through sinne discouered, his wilfull obstinacie by dayly disorder displayed, and lastly howe by earnest repentaunce, and faith in Christ Iesu, he is from all the same clearely pardoned, forgiuen, released and reconciled / done in Englishe by Tho. Newton.	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 11761.5; ESTC S4316	74,045	216

caytife as a treacherous recreant as a faithles promisebreaker as a false hearted wretch vnto God the father as a bloudy cutthrote haling drawing Christ vnto the Crosse anew as an enimy to the Holy Ghost as a mocker of the blessed Aungels as a Traytor to the whole Church as a shamefull runne-away from the holy congregation and finally as a cruell manqueller of thine owne selfe What canst thou now do What way wilt thou take What hope or trust cāst thou haue What land what ground can patiently beare the burthen and weight of thy wretched Carcasse What heauen what sunne what planets what starres can quietly looke on thee or willingly giue shine vnto thee Or what eies rather canst thou or darest thou lift vp vnto heauen The time was when thou wast in excellent good state and wast adorned and endued with right excellent giftes but now through thine owne fault and wilfulnesse thou hast altered thy case and caused those thinges which of themselues were good holsome and to thee most profitable to turne all to thy harme and confusion Truely it had beene better for thee neuer to haue heard of the will and promise of God neuer to haue beene washed and cleansed by the bloude of Christ then after all these to forsake the holy commandements and like a filthy swine to returne to thy wallowing in the mier and as a dogge to lap vp his old vomit Beholde nowe wretched creature that thou art vnto what a dangerous staie thou hast brought thy selfe ● and with what maner of gaping gulf thou art euen ready to be swallowed If the Lord God vouchsafe not in time with mercy to releeue and succour thee it will come to passe that thee by wicked vncleane spirit which was once banished and cast out of the washing of thy newe birth and by the holy ghost will come and take vp his lodging againe in thee and not hee alone but hauing with him seuen other spirites worse then himselfe whereby thy case will be farre worse in the ende then it was in the beginning O wofull case O wretched plight O moste miserable estate Looke well to thy selfe therefore I beseech thee cōsider what thou art acknowledge thy grieuous sinnes and manifolde offences remember the lamentable ende whereunto they will bring thee and therefore bethinke thy selfe night and day and in time seeke for remedy CAAP. 4. Th● 〈◊〉 not be any better way for the true triall and examining of our selues then the diligent and exact consideration of our dealings by the 2. tables of the laws of God commonly called the tenne Com●eundements IT is not ynough for thee to confesse thy self in a generality to haue grieuously offended to haue lewdly violated and broken the couenaunt and promise made with God to haue consented to the suggestions of the Deuill and thine own flesh but it is most expedient for thee if thy minde and purpose bee thoroughly and fully to trie and examine thy selfe to rip vp all thy actions and dealinges to the very quicke and precisely to examine and discusse all those sundry wayes and meanes whereby thou haste any way offended either God or thy neybour Heere be thou sure there will bee layd open before thee a large volume a big booke in the which thou shalt prefectly see all thy detestnble sinnes which bee infinite plainly set down clearely written and apparantly discoucred Heerein shalt thou see store of witnesses against thee and heereby beeing brought to thine aunswere and drawne to the barre of Triall thou shalt bee enforced and will thou nill thou driuen to yeelde accompts for euery seuerall fact in particularty And therefore so much as hytherto hitherto hath beene yet spoken may wel seeme small and of little account if wee well weigh and diligently compare the same to that which yet remaineth vntold and which now shal● be by Gods good grace particularly handled This tryall or examination cannot any way be so commodiouslie and orderly made as by exactly calling vnto our consideration the written lawe o● God with all and singular the members braunches and circumstaunce● thereof For the lawe of God otherwise called the Decalogue or tenne Commaundementes is as it were ● cleare and bright Glasse wherein we may by and by and at a blush perfectly beholde our spirituall deformitie And of this lawe the Scripture setteth downe vnto vs three speciall vses First as a most wise Guide of our life it teacheth vs what we are to do and what wee are to leaue vndone what wee are to desire and seeke and what we are to loath and forsake The lawe is giuen to the disobedient to the vngodly and sinners c. Teach mee O Lords the way of thy commaundements Secondly the lawe plainely setteth downe before our eies our manifolde sinnes and transgressions and worketh in vs a sorrowfull griefe and earnest repentaunce for the same By the lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne And againe I knewe not sinne but by the lawe For I had not knowen lust except the lawe had saide Thou shalt not lust And a little after O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from the body of this sinne And in the same Chapter When the commaundement came sinne reuiued but I dyed Thirdly the lawe conuincing vs of most manifest guiltinesse and malediction and no way able to satisfie and pacify the wrath of god for the breach of the same biddeth vs for succour to flee vnto our Mediatour Christ who onely and alone deliuereth vs from malediction and damnation and taketh the curse due vnto vs vpon himselfe And againe The lawe is our schoolemaister to bring vs to Christ LET vs nowe therefore in order run ouer the whole preceptes and commaundements of the lawe of God and let vs pause a while at each falling thee to thine answere for euerie particular Commandement how carefull thou haste beene to keepe them and howe truely thou hast discharged thy bounden duety in obseruing and performing them that when thou haste thus sundry wayes founde thine infirmities and throughly considered thy manifolde transgressions thou mayest certainly knowe that vnlesse the Mediator Iesus Christ vouchsafe to cloth thee with his righteousnesse and to impute vnto thee his obedience and performaunce of the Lawe there is no remedy but that thou must needes bee eternallie damned The first Commaundement therefore is this I am the Lorde thy God which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt out of the house of bondage Thou shalt haue none other Gods before my face HEre first I wish thee well and throughly to consider what inward sinnes of minde and conscience lodging only within the secrete corners of thy heart be directly committed against this commaundement Then the outwarde sinnes such I mean as openly break out into action and engender many times great disorders and offences And last of al enter into diligent consideration of all such sinnes as seeme to proceede

this cōmeth often so to passe as by example we will shewe ¶ If thou haue corrupted anye wares or any other thing which thy neighbour is to buy and then sell thē vnto him for good first of all thou knowest that thou herein hast sinned against the ix Cōmandement which forbiddeth thee to giue false witnesse But if thou diddest it with an intent and meaning to rake and scrape a priuate gaine vniustly to thy selfe with the losse and hinderance of an other thou art therein guiltie of the breach of the viii Commandement whereby is forbidden all theft If furthermore in this behalfe thou haue deceiued anie that is thy superiour or that is linked to thee in bloud as thy Father or thy Mother the Magistrate the Minister of the Church thy kinseman c. therein hast thou transgressed the fifth Commaundement of honouring Father and Mother To be short if this circumstance do also concurre that this cra●tie practise were by thee doone on the Sabbaoth day then hast thou heerein incurred the displeasure of Almightie God for prophaning and not sanctifying the Sabbath day Last of all it may bee that in this bargayning and selling some such woordes might passe from thee as might make thee further guiltie For if thou swearest vainely and without cause with an intent meaning to auouch any thing that thou wouldest haue to be beleeued then art thou therein guiltie of the thirde commaundement Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vaine ¶ Thirdly we shall doe well in the examining and dicussing of thy actions to giue thee charge circumspectly to consider euerie particular circūstance to wit the time the place the person the cause the end the maner the instrument c. No man wil denie but that the offence is farre greater hainouser which is committed on the Sabbath daye or at such time as all men for some publike calamitie are in a generall heauines againe when it is committed in the sight and face of many honest and graue persons furthermore when it is doone by or against any man in high authoritie moreouer when no manner of alluring occasion went afore to drawe or mooue thee to that euill Therefore we may not slightly passe ouer howe much and how greatly these circumstances doe aggrauate and augment thy fault 4 Fourthly it standeth thee vpon moreouer often and many times to consider with thy selfe and plainely to confesse that thou canst neuer call to memorie all thy sinnes committed and againe that thou canst neuer exactly ynough iudge ●ow greeuous detestable those be which doe alreadie come to thy remembraunce For truely and diuinely hath the Prophet set downe who can vnderstand his faults O clense me from my secret faultes For so standeth thy case that euen where thou least thinkest thou there sinnest most greeuously And the thinges which thou thinkest well and iustlie done are in the sight of God and before the tribunall seate of the highe iudge vncleane vnrighteous and de●ectrue And therefore the Prophet Isaiah cryeth out thus We haue been all as an vncleane thing and al our righteousnesse is as a filthy clout Seeing therefore the case thus standeth it is thy part and dutie plainely to confesse that much ignoraunce remayneth in thee and that the same is in thee a great sinne for the which vnlesse God in mercy do pardon thee hee may hurle thee headlong into eternall damnation 5 Fiftly thou must consider that there is cause ynough to condemne and pronounce thee guiltie for that thou hast not done those good workes which in the lawe are commaunded For looke how many sinnes in euerie particular commaundement are forbidden so many good workes in euery commaundement are commaunded To euery sinne there ought to answere his contrarie and that is some good worke ¶ Now if thou throughly examine thy conscience thou shalt soone espy that thou hast not perfourmed no not the least part and portion of those thinges which the lawe of God requireth at thy handes yea if thou narrowly search euery corner of thy selfe thou shalt finde that either thou hast fulfilled and perfourmed nothing at all or if thou hast perfourmed anye thing yet shalt thou finde it to be vnperfect corrupt and with some manner of contagion infected For all our obedience is maymed lame and vnperfect Wherefore thou must say as Christ hath taught vs all Although we had done all those things that are commanded vs. yet we are vnprofitable seruauntes Againe The wisedome of the flesh is enimitie against God for it is not subiect to the lawe of God neyther in deede can bee Againe in the 7. Chapter I knowe that in mee that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but I finde no meanes to perfourme that which is good And I delight in the lawe of God concerning this inner man but I see an other lawe in my members rebelling against the lawe of my minde and leading me cap●i●e vnto the lawe of sinne which is in my members 6 Sixtly thou must cast in thy mind to consider and record the paines and punishmentes which God threatneth and inflicteth vpon those that disobey and transgresse his commandements Of these paines punishmentes and plagues some be corporall and externall some spirituall and internall Of the first sort are barrainesse and steriliti● of the earth hunger and dearth dissentions and warres diseases pestilence banishmentes shipwrackes inundations and ouerflowings stormes calamities burninges c. Of the latter sort are ignoraunce of the scriptures famine of the woorde of God blindnesse of the minde incredulitie and vnbeliefe induration or hardening of the heart deliuerie and giuing vp into a reprobate sense c. A great beadroll of plagues are reckoned vp in the 28. of Deuteronomie But when it pleaseth him the Lorde can and will send many mo than are there expressed For hee daily prepareth and maketh readie newe scourges whips for disobedient men eue● as they dayly commit newe sinnes and offences For alas what miserie doe wee nowe day by day tast and proue what daungers What diseases What other incommodities which as it is to bee thought were not so much as once knowen by the very bare names vnto men in the olde men nor so much as once by any meanes spoken of And withall thou shalt remember and call to minde the examples of such as by the iust iudgement of God are read reported of in the bookes of the sacred scriptures others also to haue been plagued with these punishments either bodily or spiritually and it shall also much further thee to adde hereunto such as thou of thine own knowledge within thy time and memorie hast knowen to haue felt the heauie hande of God 7 Seuenthly it shal be very behouefull for thee to consider that for thy sinnes and offences others linked vnto thee in consanguinitie and kinred are punished namely thy Parentes thy children thy brethren thy

abuse mispende and commit wastfull follie withall Whether thou haue laughed alowed reioyced in thy young litle ones when thou hast seene them vse pretie sleights craftie deuises slie shifts vain songs wanton daunces and vnseemly gestures yea to vtter filthy tearmes beastly words and odious deedes and hast not for the same corrected them not giuen out any signe or token of thy mislike thereof Whether thou haue discouraged and prouoked thy childrē eyther by words or deedes to be of a desperate minde casting away all hope to run headlong daily from worse to worse Whether thou haue gone about to perswade or else haue compelled thy children to take that trade of life whereunto they felt and confessed them-selues vnmeete and vnapt or which otherwise without great daunger of sinning they could not followe and betake themselues vnto Whether thou haue beene carefull to prouide for thy children according to thine ability some reasonable portions of wealth or haue let them forth to learne some honest trade or occupation whereby another day to be able to liue in some certain stay of life and honestly without blame or shame to earne their liuinges ¶ Layty Whether thou haue yeelded honour and reuerence vnto the Ministers of Gods word together with alcurtesies duties tythes and other thinges whatsoeuer in right due vnto them or by lawe appointed and allotted vnto them in such sort as Iustice and equity requireth as it is meete to do Whether either in malepartly reuiling them in spightfully snarring and barking against them or in wranlingly cauilling and quarrelling eyther at their doctrin or actions words or deedes thou hast purposely intēded gone about to deface discoūtenāce discredit displace or disease them Whether thou haste beene the author to procure others either to think speake doe or deale hardly and vnfriendly against the ministers or the ministrie it selfe ¶ Minister of the Worde Whether thou haste imployed thine whole endeuour to winne the soules of those that haue beene committed vnto thy charge aswel by deliuering vnto them wholesome and sounde doctrine as in shewing good example of honest life blamelesse conuersation in thy self Whether thy care hath beene ouer euery particular person vnder thy cure and charge in diligent teaching of him and mildely requiring of him a confession of his Faith and of the principall points of Christian doctrin sithens it is the office duty of euerie faithful shepherd perfectly readily to knowe euerie sheepe in his flocke ¶ Scholler Whether thou haue obeyed thy Masters rules directions and commaundements Whether thou hast despised contēned him or made a iest at his wholsome godly admonitions eyther in reproching him speaking against him backbiting or hindring him haste procured his hurt and detriment ¶ Schoolemaster Whether thou haste godly instructed vertuously trained vp those Schollers that haue bene cōmitted vnto thee in sound religion good learning And beside in integrity of manners and honest example of life haste gone before them and been a patterne vnto them Whether thou haste rebuked them when they haue done amisse and corrected them after the qualitie of their fault and by gentle treating stirred vp and encouraged those that go forward in doing wel to continue and proceed therein ¶ Subiect Whether thou haste disobeyed the laws statutes and commandements enacted and set forth by the Magistrate Whether thou hast contemned the lawfull Ministers vnder-officers of of the high magistrate whether thou hast euil entreated them or shewed to them any wrongful dealing Whether thou hast deuised any wrāgling shifts or sinisterly of purpose misconstrued the laws statutes acts ordinances proclamatiōs iniunctiōs or other decrees whatsoeuer published en acted authorized by the Magistrate Whether thou haue refused to doe such things as thou haste by the Magistrates authority beene commanded as for example to pay tributes assessementes and subsidies and to beare other common charges with others of thy neighbours Whether by vttering lewd speeches practising treason stirring vp rebelliō mouing sedition exciting malicious enimies or by a●y like meanes thou hast at any time gone about to annoy and put in daunger the Magistrate Whether thou haue patiently borne the lewde and corrupt manners of the euill disposed magistrate and the hard commaundements comming frō him thinking thus with thy selfe that it is oftentimes through the fault of the Subiects that God setteth ouer them rigorous cruell and wicked rulers ¶ Magistrate and gouernor Whether thou haste made any lawes enacted any degrees giuen out any commaundements practised any subtil deuises or pronounced any sentences to the ouerthrow and decay of religion to the emblemishing of the honour maiestie and authority of Kinges Princes or to the disgracing of the dignity and state of any ciuill societie Whether thou haste contemned the censures of the Church the rescripts or decrees of thy superiors and whether thou haste wrongly interpreted them craftily by delusion defeated them or by any other way whatsoeuer gone about to empeach reiect or adnihilate them Whether thou haste by any meanes derogated the right or iurisdiction of any other either by pulling vnto thee matters which thou hadst not to deale withall or by procuring meanes and stoppes that they to whose deciding and iudgement in right they belonged shold not haue the trials brought before them Whether thou haste deuised or commaunded any newe impositions and vnaccustomed payments thereby to gratifie and in rich the Prince or to fill thine owne coffers to serue thine owne priuate gaine or moued therevnto by anie other corrupt affection whatsoeuer Whether for Counsailors to direct and aduise thee thou hast made speciall choise of such as bee craftie and cruell persons whose minds thou well knewest so spightfull and enuious that they cared for nothing lesse than either the aduancement of the publike state of the Countrie or the welfare quiet of the subiects onely vsing their craftie deuises to the oppression of them that were honest Whether thou hast laboured to the vttermost of thy power to redresse wicked persons and to banish such vices as thou perceiuedst were crept into the common wealth or otherwise committed by priuate persons Whether thou hast winked at and loked through thy singers at anie publike and notorious crimes as in suffering vsurie brothell houses vnlawfull games such like enormities whereby both the people be infected in maners and their wealth also miserablie d●uoured Whether thou hast taken paines to protect and defende the causes of the good innocent namely the fatherlesse the widow other persons called miserable and comfortlesse especially sith as of all in generall so of these in speciall thou didst solemnly vndertake the guard and protection ¶ Seruant and Handmaide Whether they haue honestly faithfully and to their maisters profit done their worke and businesse Whether to their maisters children kinsfolke and friends they haue bene dutifull and seruiceable in such sort as became them and as they haue beene

truth Whether he haue vsed Sophistrie or anie fraudulent arte to winne credite fame and authoritie to himselfe in the schooles or to drawe vnto him many scholers or thereby to chalenge power ouer others c ¶ Sch●ler Whether he haue procured and gotten or for money bought the title of Maister or obteined Letters commendatorie thereby purposing the sooner to deceiue and blinde the eyes of his Parentes or others to whom he meant to goe There be yet some other driftes policies and shiftes packed betweene the scholer and the Master which by these afore declared may quickely be knowen and found out ¶ Merchaunts Artificers Occupiers and Workemen Whether they haue corrupted any wares and offered them in sale for perfect and good Whether in their barter and bargayning they haue affirmed falsehoode and dissimuled the truth as whē with an oth they doe not sticke to aduouch that their wares cost them dearer thā in truth they did that they brought them to their great costs and charges from places countries farre dista●● off that an other would haue giuen a great deale more that they loose by their selling them at so low price and wish many black curses to themselues swearing and staring if all bee not as they say c. O Lorde who is able to recken vp all the lyes and vntruthes euen vntruely to their owne knowledge and consciences which these sellers doe vainelie lashe and babble out to those that come to buye of them Whether in bargayning or any other action and dealing thou haue promised to perform that which thou hadst no purpose or meaning to accomplish Finally whether in committing any of these aboue rehearsed thou haue giuen occasion to others to commit the like that is to wit whether either by words or deedes against this commaundement thou haue beene the cause of offence and stumbling to others Againe whether when thou hast perceiued and seene others committing the same thou haue secretly in mind assented vnto them neyther reprouing nor staying and letting them when notwithstanding time place hath well serued thee so to haue done The 10. Commaundement ¶ Thou shalt not couet thy neighbors hous● neither shalt thou couer thy neighbours wife nor his man seruant nor his ma●de nor his Oxe nor his Asse neither an● thing that is thy neighbours Sinnes inwarde THis commaundement teacheth vs that God forbiddeth condemneth in vs euen all corrupt affections cogitations And therefore condemneth those sins which in our very thoughts may be committed against the afore going cōmaundements namely those that be of the seconde Table Thus we see that not our actions onely but our very frowarde will and corrupt thought is sufficient to make vs guiltie before God And therefore there be many pointes which thou art here● in diligently and warily to call to thy consideration Namely whether thou haue desired the dignitie place office authoritie power glory countenance and calling of any other specially of thy superiour or equal whether thou hast practised any wayes howe to displace him and settle thy selfe in his roome Whether thou hast gone about to hinder from preferment thine inferiour and vnderling Whether thou hast entred into anie deuise with thy selfe how thou mightest bring to passe this peruerse desire of thine in this behalfe These are directly against the fifth commaundement Whether thou hast felt within thee such wicked motions arising that thou hast borne hatred to any or wished any harme to his bodie Whether thou hast long dwelt in anger and malice towardes any man euen vnto an earnest and heartie desire of reuenge Whether thou hast had any determination to pursue with effect these thy cruell desires And this is against the sixt Commaundement Whether thou haue felt thy flesh thy wicked affections inwardly enflamed to desire vnlawful copulatiō with any person either present or absent Whether thou hast entered into deuise how to bring to passe these thy filthie desires This is against the seuenth commaundement Whether thou haue swelled with rancour and enuie at the prosperitie and wealthie state of another wishing the same to be thine Whether thou hast entred into any deuise how to obtaine thy purpose haue thy desire These are against the 8. commaundement Whether vpon an enuions and malitious stomack thou haue bethought thee how to disable empaire and diminish any other mans fame credite dignitie or estimation This is against the ix commaundement Sinnes externall and outward WHether by any signes tokens or argumentes as with thine eyes beckes c. thou haue shewed thy selfe to desire and couet any other mans goodes or to seeke meanes to vndermine and deceaue him Whether thou haue any way so to behaue thy selfe as either by painting pranking or garnishing thy body in bragging boasting or making glorious shew report of thy welth house apparel furniture money or such like thinges that thou hast thereby occasioned and prouoked an other to couet and desire thy body or thy goods In this sorte and by this meanes thou art the cause of vnlawfull and forbidden concupiscences in an other For the trade of life WHether in that trade of life wherein thou liuest thou hast euer haded anie vnlawefull thought will or desire to haue any of thinges in the former commaundementes expressely prohibited to bee brought to effect and actually accomplished And whereas we do not lightly put any of our actions in practise but we first conceiue thē in our mind here doest thou plainly perceiue that in this Tenth Commaundement all those hidden secret and lurking cogitations desires willes and affections for these euer goe before the act or deede are flatly forbidden prohibited and condemned Finally whether by any signes of concupiscence shewed by thee thou haue giuen offence that is to wit occasion of concupiscence to others Againe whether hauing perceiued and noted any signes of cōcupiscence in an other thou haue in thy secrete conceipt allowed and well liked the same ¶ And thus much generally plainly spoken of the sinnes committed against the Decalogue may suffice Now let vs see how thou oughtest hereby to make profitable try all of thy selfe and so to finde out what manner of man thou art 1 First it behoueth thee with al attention of mind to looke into these commaundementes and tables and therin diligently to consider whether thou finde any thing that neerely toucheth thy conscience and person that thou mayest perfectly see what speciall crimes and offences thou art manifestly guiltie of before the tribunall seate of God For to this end properly was the law by God giuen and to this ende haue we collected and framed this treati●e in such sort and manner as thou seest 2 Secondly thou shalt so throughly examine thine actions that thou must looke well about thee and consider againe and againe whether in one and the selfe same action thou haue in many sortes highly offended God that is whether thou haue by the breach of one commaundement transgressed 〈◊〉 For