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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07937	The complaint of a Christian soule Containing certaine remedies and comforts against the trouble and conflict of conscience. Newlie written in meter.	Muschet, George, poet.	1610 (1610)	STC 18307; ESTC S119581	8,541	24

THE COMPLAINT OF A CHRISTIAN SOVLE Containing certaine remedies and comforts against the trouble and conflict of Conscience Newlie written in meter PRINTED AT EDINBVRGH BY RObert Charters Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie M.D.C.X. TO THE MOST NOBLE AND HIS singulare good Lord IOHN Earle of MONTROSE Lord Grahame one of his Majesties privie Counsell we wishe long life with incresse of honour in the feare of the Lord ALthogh most Noble Lord I as one ever mindfull of your L. honorable place and of that dewtie we all ought therevnto did not lacke a will to haue saluted your L. with some fruites of my travelles this long time ago but finding in my selfe that great want of graces which my Muse should haue granted and not being bould to haue presented my selfe emptie into your presence as also fearing if I had offered anie thing that my barbarity and incongruous speech should rather haue moued your L. to mislike me for my homelines then otherwise to haue receiued me in fauour for the same Yet being long tosted betwixt two extremities sometimes calling to minde the dewty I was bound to and sometimes remembering how I was alwaies vnable because of my manifold defects to haue satisfied the least point of your worthie desire haue in end thoght better to be rude then vngrate and so much the more because of the excellency of the theam proposed vnto me I must with your favour althogh not with such learning as you merite nor with such holines as the mater requyres take the boldnes as to acquaint your L. mith my small beginning and to speeke a little of this subiect concerning a troubled soule and of the comforts against the conflict of conscience as a thing prescrived vnto me for the tyme being in the same agonie my selfe for my owne priuate content and to avoide the tediousnes of ill imployed tyme I was perswaded by some who had a great interest to the disposition of my will to publish this little scrole to the world that others might reape some profite thereby and be fortified against the feare and apprehension of the gilt of sinne and certainly the worthines of the subiect mooued me to yeeld the more easily to their desires Yet knowing that students in their beginning how worthie so ever haue but a cold welcome in a forren land without the support and countenance of some great worthie personage as also fearing my imperfections in handling this sukiect might happely blemish the excellency of the worke and giue some dstiaste to the curious reader I haue therefore in my boldnes directed it to your L. as a patron hoping ye will rather be a preses to defend my weaknes then to cavell or oppon against such tender propositions For since all that I haue done rather proceedes of loue and bounden dewry then any santasticall toy or desire of renoun I must therefore commit all my slips and ignorances to your L. subsidie looking rather to be acceptable for my good will then to be loathed for that quhilk is inlaiking in me and thought vnsavorie for that quhilk in due affection is done So I haue presumed to shrewd both my selfe and my labours vnder your L. protection besceching you receaue these strangers as you vsually do all men with a gratious and a gentle eie and to accept of my poore endevours as a testimonie and a pledge of my humble dewty and service that by your L. honourable acceptance and exemple others may be drawne to entertaine them kindely and bid them the better welcome so shall your L incourage me to some stronger attempt and bind me to continew alwaies promising certemly if mymuse shall afford any better things thereafter neither shall your person nor your place be forge but as my taient incresses your L. shall know MY greatest reverence is not halfe my dew For more nor all my worth thy worth requyres By my attempt I wishe there might ensew But some contentment to thy hie desires And as before the Sun no darknes bides Thy Sunnie cies my imperfections hides Vertue quhilk dwels into the inward thoght Makes good the seed what ever be the smell The outwarde glosse some time doth seeme but noght Quhill as the inward stuffe doeth much excell Gold thogh not finde some men do well esteeme I rather loue to be then so to seeme Your Lordships humble oratour in Christ M. George Muschet THE PREFACE AS it is a great happines to fle al vicious extreams and to hold a commend able mediocritie so it is a miserie quhilk we cannot sufficiently lament to see in thir latter daies amongst men quhilk make profession to beleeue in a better life some who haue so sold them selfe to the loue of this world that they seeke not for an vther and some who are so violently caried away with the feare and apprehension of Death so that vpon any shew of alteration in their health there is nothing to be heard bot strange sighs and grones the witnesses of abject thoghts and the vnworthie contesting of a soule that wolde dispute with God The remedies against so great mischieues are very necessary and I hope this treatise following will furnish some-what for the purpose gathered not in the bogs and mures of humane wisdome but in the garden of life quhilk is the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles of the ever-living God The savory juce of the quhilk remedies digested in our soules will make vs neither be too much rejoisd with the pleasures of this world neither too much feard to passe out of this world but that with a holy care a vigilant feare and a filiall reverence we shall haue the eies of our soules and eares of our heartes open to the voice of the Lord crying to all mankinde Sonnes of men returne yea it wolde cure vs of that lethargie palsie and spirituall apoplexie where-with so many poore soules are daily infected quhilk never thinking of death are dead living or rather are as the dead quhilk bury the dead noknowing what the kingdome of God is neither hauing any care to be of it or to procure or advance it This juce will free vs from that feare quhilk congeils our spirits and from that frencie quhilk makes vs doubt of our saife delivery and from that spirituall melancholy quhilk subverts all true judgement in vs and thrusts vs as it were in a brutishe childishnes estranging vs from these things quhilk should cause most joy and consolation in vs. This present collection is the box conteining the precious oyle the quhilk being carefully digested by you will I hope produce some profitable effect Bot to giue you some greater taist of the samin and to shew the summe or this little scrole In thir few vnadvised lynes there is breeflie or as it wer in a certaine a bridgment set down two things the one is the vehement calamitie quhilk proceedes not from a sleeping soule but from the feeling disease and excessiue