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A17297	Conflicts and comforts of conscience a treatise, shewing how the conscience, in cases of deepest distresse and distraction, may recollect it selfe, and recouer solid and sound comfort / collected from priuate proofe, for publike profit, by H.B. ...	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1628 (1628)	STC 4140.4; ESTC S259	75,671	324

contempt towards him when now as a person excommunicated with Anathema Maran-Atha they refuse to conuerse or keepe companie with him when now as the Owle he is abhorred forsaken left desolate disconsolate of all the Birds And all this so much the more grieuous as seeming to bee grounded vpon the peremptorie Canon of the Apostle 2 Thess. 3 6. Now we command you Brethren in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ that ye withdraw your selues from euerie Brother that walketh inordinately c. And againe 1 Cor. 5 11. I haue written vnto you not to keepe companie If any that is called a Brother be a Fornicator or Couetous or an Idolater or a Drunkard or an Extortioner with such a one no not to eat So that most discomfortable must it needs be to a Minister when any way iustly he falleth vpon the vniuersall displeasure of those of his owne Coat being abhorred of them persons by Calling Holy of esteeme Reuerend In such a case then what shall the poor Owle doe Whither retire but into her darke Cell the verie embleme of Hell Or at the best being but as a Sparrow sitting alone vpon the House top Or as a Pelican in the Desert without comfort without resort of friend or Physitian to comfort or cure the bleeding wound Solitarinesse onely affording him this benefit that he may the more freely Ille dolet vere qui sine teste dolet without witnesse bewaile his dolefull condition For to whom shall hee make his complaint or of whom seeke comfort when the whole Colledge of Physitians forsake him as a man whose case is desperate and incureable CHAP. VI. How in this case notwithstanding the poore forlorn Patient may find reliefe YET in this perplexed state whatsoeuer his offence may bee more or lesse this may bee one comfort to him at least in the behalfe of the Church of God that the Ministers thereof should bee so zealous of the credite of their Sacred calling that if any one among them shall by some exorbitancie or irregularitie dishonour the same without any apparent signe of remorse or repentance all are so affected with it as they looke on their Delinquent Brother a farre off as men doe vpon a Plag●y or Leprous person Yea let him account it his happinesse to liue in such a Church whose Sheepherds are so tender of his and their owne vnstained puritie For in such a Church if any such Church bee vpon earth no Minister will euer dare to bee so couetous one of a thousand as to heape vp riches and reuenues one vpon another without number waight or measure more like a Secular Potentate then a Spirituall * Optimus ille Dispēsator que sibi nihil reseruat Hiero●y Stuard or Sheepherd For if so hee must looke to bee not had in admiration for his wealth but * Nogotia●orem Clericum et ex inop●di●ite● e●●●gnobili gloriosum 〈…〉 H●er id Nepot scorned and shunned of the whole frat●rnitie as a man vnwor●hy vnfit vna●le to teach others the way to Heauen who hath taken vp his heauen vpon earth whose whole zeale to recommend Heauen to others is for no other end but that himselfe may inioy the earth alone None of that Churches sacred Order no nor any other prophane Secular will bee so shamlesly a Boon companion to make the Tauerne his Studie the Dice and Cards his Bookes Fortunes boxe the Poores box to which his charitie sacrificeth of his contingent gaines thus spending and spinning out the Thread of his life and liuelyhood and all to make a Cobweb to couer him For if so God forbid he should hope for impunity but let him looke iustly to bee cast out of his Brethrens societie as a prodigious prodigall fitter to keepe Hogges then worthy to sheere the Lords Sheepe No Minister then could euer halt in his Religion be Idolatrously or Popishly affected or any way complie with Neutralitie and Lukewarmenesse in Religion by preaching or otherwayes If so let him looke that all the rest of his Brethren will as one man stand vp against him and oppose him No Minister will bee ambitious haughtily affecting the honor of preeminence ouer his Brethren rather then the burthen of his Office If so let him looke that they all not out of carnall enuy but holy zeale will with their verie lookes humble and abase such a one and with one voyce disclaime him with a Nolumus hunc dominari super nos No Minister will easily walke inordinatly that is as the Apostle applyeth it not working in his Calling or doing the worke of the Lord negligently For if hee do let him looke after admonition to be auoyded of all his Brethren as a Heathen or Publican as our Sauiour speakes According to that of the Apostle If any that is called a Brother be any of these a Fornicatour or Couetous or an Idolater or a Rayler or a Drunkard or an Extortioner or such like with such a one no not to eat In a word then if this be done to one who cannot iustly bee taxed with any of all these who had rather dye then sinne yet through some frailtie or folly hath offended his Brethren though it bee infinitely more offensiue to his owne afflicted Soule and for which hee is like all his life long to wade in this vaile of miserie through a sea of sorrows and flood of teares Then what may another expect that walketh in an open scandalous course without the least touch of remorse much lesse signe of reformation Especially in such a Church whose greatest care and vigilancie is to bee found without spot or wrinckle since the Apostle saith If any man obey not our word note that man and haue no companie with him that he may be ashamed Yet oh that wee would note this Apostolicke caution well and put it in better practise count him not as an enemie but admonish him as a Brother And yet alas for many seueere Censurers where is one brotherly Admonisher For all are ready to condemn to contemne when many times if they knew all they had more need to comfort their deiected and disconsolat Brother if euer themselues tasted of the same bitter Cup of Spirituall discomforts Another mitigation of his maladie may arise from the consideration of the perfect condition of these his Brethren and that as others sinne so it is to bee hoped their owne also in the first place cannot but bee displeasing to themselues and then the comfort may bee that one time or other at last they will looke more fauourably vpon him be reconciled vnto him take him into their bosome againe they cannot bee implacable at least rebuke him in the Spirit of meekenesse as knowing that themselues also may be tempted And thus let me be the obiect of contempt to my Brethren while I may inioy the sight of the vnstainednesse of their perfections and themselues without enuie honoured and admired of all But yet alas these comforts will not come home