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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

sisters c. euen as thou also somewhile must smart for others sinnes For thus doe we miserable and wretched men draw one an other into daunger and one of vs is guide and companion vnto another in running headlong to the place of torment damnation This doeth God himselfe affirme when as in the beginning of his decalogue he sayth I am the Lorde thy God a ielous God visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children vpon the third and vpon the fourth generation of them that hau● me So for one sinne of king Dauid there were slame many thousandes of his people and for his adulterie committed with Vrias wife the child which she bore him dyed And againe For the sinnes of the people the Lord setteth ouer them cruell tyrauntes and rauening hypocrites Hely the Priest and all his posteritie was punished for the sinnes of his children Ah what a sea of mischiefes doth euen one sinne bring with it 8 Eightly there is yet one thing behinde to be considered which is most dreadfull and formidable By reason of thy sinnes thou art made guiltie of eternall damnation and after greeuous punishmentes sustayned here in this worlde there remayne yet behinde other tormentes to be suffered in an other and the same much more terrible bitter and lasting For there both bodie and soule together are subiected and adiudged to eternall tormentes and fire that neuer shall bee quenched which God from afore the beginning of the world hath prepared for the Diuell and all the contemners of his precepts and commaundements Now how horrible a thing it is and what an vnspeakable punishment it is euerlastingly to be depriued of the presence face of Almightie God and to burne in hell with vnquenchable fire that shal neuer be consumed there is no man that can so much as conceiue in mind or cogitation Goe to nowe therefore whosoeuer thou art and by this that we haue alreadie spoken of the law of the Lord learne to examine thy conscience and to make perfect tryall and suruey of thy selfe Doubtlesse when thou hast a little while continued and gone forward in this way and course which wee haue heere shewed and attentiuely considered such things as haue beene declared I doubt not but that thou wilt by and by and without delay euen wi●● sighes and teares burst out into this confession O heauenly father J haue sinned against heauen and against thee I am not worthie to bee called thy Sonne I am not worthie to lifte vp mine eves towardes heauen Looke howe much I being once in Baptisme purged from my sinnes in the bloud of thy sonne and sanctified by receiuing the holy Ghost did in the same please thee somuch againe must I needes by reason of my manifolde sinnes since cōmitted displease thee Nowe the sinnes which I haue committed if I should go about to number them they are infinite For there is not one of thy holy precepts commaundements against which I haue not committed many offences sundry transgressions Many be they which I haue committed in acte and deede and such as I haue not actually brought to passe and done yet through my corrupt cogitations and vncleane will I am as deepely guiltie of as if I in act had committed them To be briefe my sinnes surmount the sands of the Sea if I make diligent search and inquirie of the greuousnesse of my sinnes I truely find them haynouser greater than I am able to vtter What say I vtter Nay than I can in mind conceiue or in inwarde cogitation comprehende Certes so often as I looke into and behold with the eyes of my minde my frowarde heart cankered stomack peruerse disposition euer enclined to euil which thou Lord most cleerely throughly seest togither with my desire and delight to performe the same the verie remembrance of my great and greeuous maliciousnesse driueth mee into such perplexitie that I no wayes know whither to turne me Whither Lorde shall I go from thy spirit and whither shal J flee from thy presence Yea this further doth merueilously disquiet torment greeue mee for by my sinnes I haue giuen offence that is occasion of fall and ruine to a great sort of others being harmlesse honest persons Wilt thou Lord as a iust and vpright iudge require the bloud of them also at my hands What shal I further do seeing I haue burdened and spotted my conscience by assenting also to other mens sinnes in not disswading reclaiming them before they did euil in not reprouing and rebuking them after they had done euil Ah how much better had it beene that being a man I had neuer beene so familiar among men What miserie is this I am the cause of an other mans offending an other man likewise to me and thus doe wee all encumber and loade one another with sinnes and dragg pull hale drawe one another into the break-necke fall and lamentable gulfe of eternall damnation If thou Lorde wilt strictly looke what is amisse narrowly enquire of our iniquities O Lorde who shal be able to abide it Moreouer when I do somewhat further consider my sinnes I see a great heape yet behind many mo than now come to memorie manye lewde prankes heretofore by me most wickedly haue been don which I then thought had not been wicked neither can I at this present houre sufficiētly so iudge deeme of them which ignorance blindnesse and infirmitie of mine in this behalf I must needs confesse wil I nill to be imputable vnto me for a most greeuous and haynous sinne And herein I perceiue that although I had committed none euil at all afore yet to haue herein again deserued euerlasting tormentes I had almost sayed why Lord wouldst thou that this naughtie and corrupt ignorance should thus originally be bred in vs and thus still to cleaue vnto vs Alas I haue no sacrifice to offer vnto thee to satisfie for mine ignorance Nowe what shall I say of my negligence in not doing those good works which thou in thy law hast commanded and appointed Or if I haue done any at all yet was it not sincerely done but many wayes infected with hipocrisie and other vices For to omitte a good worke and to doc an ill worke are with thee accompted alike All these things therefore I cōfesse do most vehemently good cause why disquiet and greeue inee For my sinnes are they for which O God thou iustly inflictest greeuous punishments and plagues aswell spirituall and internall as corporall and externall And whereas I dayly finde the same by experience true partly in my selfe partly in others yet such is my blindnesse hardnesse of heart that I am nothing at all as yet mooued thereby vnto any repentance or amendment To al these aforesaid euils there is to be added yet another heap of mischiefs vz that for these sinnes of mine a great many other innocents gyltles persons be ioyntly with me for

me wrapped in woes and subiected to miserie danger and inconuenience O Lord wilt thou thus in thy iustice destroy and make hauoke of thy iust for vs being wretched vniust and miserable caitises Last of all for these my great hainous and manifolde offences knowen and hidden priuie apert there is due yet vnto me after this life after this temporall death another death eternall continuing euerlastingly in neuer dying torments Is thy lawe O Lord being good righteous holy thus become to be vnto me death But I may not nor I ought not O God to ascribe and impute these most wretched miseries and extreeme Calamities vnto thy law but to mine owne peruerse froward and crooked affections and to my generally and entierly corrupted will To my selfe to my selfe I saye must all this miserie be ascribed my selfe only may I thanke for all this heauie plight and wretchednesse O wretch that I am who shall deliuer me from the body of this death Here nowe hast thou as it were a certaine Mirrour or glasse wherein thou maist behold thy self what a one thou art in the sight of God and in Iawe of God accusing thee before the tribunall seate of iudgement In this glasse of the lawe thou maiest behold thy spirituall deformitie and ouglinesse which thou must vnderstande so long to dwell remayne ●oiourne and cleaue vnto thee as thou continuest transgressing the lawe of God through thy greeuous and dayly offences Of Repentance and also of Contrition or Mortification CHAP. V. WHen thou hast nowe thus farre profited and reaped this benefit by the lawe that thou are therby brought to the acknowledgement of thy sinnes the next is with all thy minde and vttermost endeuour to betake thy selfe vnto an earnest and heartie repentance and to flee vnto Christe for succour pardon and forgiuenesse of all thy sinnes and offences Vnlesse wee acknowledge our sinnes earnestly repent vs for the same wee shall as Christ sayth perish And the Apostle Peter setting before the eyes of the lewes their cruell obstinate and wilfull sinnes when as he spake vnto thē saying This Jesus whom God hath made both Lorde and Christe haue ye crucified brought them vnto an acknowledgment of their sins And therfore anon after in the same place when as they by acknowledging their sinnes were marueilously troubled in minde and pricked in heart he replyed vnto thē and sayd Repent ye and amend your liues Therefore it is not sufficient to acknowledge our sinnes but there must followe also an earnest and effectuall Repentaunce with all his circumstances and partes Nowe Repentance is nothing else but an earnest conuersion turning to God of a sinner meekely and humbly acknowledging his sinnes and iniquities And it consisteth summarily in these two points Contrition and fayth as many places of the Scriptures doo plainely and cuidently declare Repent sayth Christ and beleeue the Gospell Where the first mēber signifieth Contrition the second Faith Againe Rep●ntye of your former life for the kingdom of heauē is at hande In which sentence there is likewise both Contrition and also Fayth included Hereunto also is to be referred that which is cyted and alleaged by the Apostle both in his Epistle to the Romanes and also to the Collossians touching mortification and also viuification Contrition therefore setteth before our eies the heauie wrath of God and the punishmentes due for sinne On the other side Faith setteth before vs the mercies of God free pardō forgiuenesse and viuification or quickening againe The one laieth open and discouereth vnto God our wound and disease the other sheweth forth receiueth from God a suppling salue a mollifying plaster a soueraigne recuratiue medicine The one groaneth vnder the burden of sinne sorrowfully bewaileth his heauy plight the other bringeth easement affordeth refection Come vnto me sayth our Sauiour Christ all ye that labour and he heauie laden and I will refresh you To bee short the one throweth down to hell the other fetcheth from thence and lifteth vp to heauen To drawe therefore the effect of all the chiefest and especialest pointes to be considered of in this matter into small roume and briefe wordes Contrition is a most vehement affliction troublesome vexation and perplexed consternation of the mind yea of the whole man caused through remembraunce and acknowledgement of his sinnes also of a feare of Gods heauie iudgements and deserued punishmentes So that all this abashment vexation affliction perplexitie and consternation hath his residence and dwelling in the minde insomuch that although there appeare withall sometimes vpon the sodaine certaine outward tokens externall signes thereof as confession of the mouth teares sighing groaning abstinence from meate and drinke loathing renouncing or contempt of all worldly matters and externall dealings with such like yet because our question in this place is not of counterfeite cloaked dissembled and vnperfect but of true syncere perfect and effectual Contrition we must needes sounde the very depth of the heart and the very innermost and secretest corners of the Conscience And to this end are the wordes of the Prophet Dauid where hee sayth Thou desirest no sacrifice O God though I woulde giue it neyther delightest thou in burnt offering The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirite a contrite and broken hart O God thou wilt not despise And againe Heale mee O Lorde for my bones are sore vexed and my soule is sore troubled And a litle after in the same Psalme I sainted in my mourning I cause my bed euery night to swimme and water my couch with my teares So also Peter remembring and acknowledging howe greeuously he had sinned in denying Christ went out and wept bitterly Seeing therefore that true syncere and not hypocriticall Contrition is a thing meerely internall and spiritual there is no man but well vnderstandeth that it is a spirituall gifte and a singular benefite of almightie God who onely openeth the eyes of our mindes to see and confesse our sinnes and offences If then it bee the good gift of God it standeth euery one of vs vpon incessauntly to craue at the handes of our heauenly father to endue vs seely creatures and miserable forlorne wretches with his grace to vnderstand and bewaile our greeuous sinnes wickednes manifoldly committed For whosoeuer after his transgression fall hath not this contrite spirite this brused and broken heart as the Prophet tearmeth it and this spirituall mortification for his sinnes to such an one it may seeme that the way to all recouerie and amendment is shut vp and stopped For Contrition is as it were a keye that openeth and driueth backe the hidden bolt and openeth the doore which kept vs backe from comming againe to God Neither canst thou alleage for thine excuse that thou lackest time or that thou art not able to perfourine and fulfill so manie harde pointes and difficult workes whereby to testifie and declare thy