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The burthen of a loaden conscience: or the miserie of sinne set forth by the confession of a miserable sinner.
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Kilby, Richard, d. 1617.
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1608
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finde fault with them If any thing seeme amisse pray humblie to God that he will mercifully cause it to be amended and doe you carefully endeuour to amende your owne selfe For it may be that your sinne is some part of cause why there is any want of grace in your gouernors This is your best waie and not to speake euill of those which are in authoritie as I haue wickedly done You must honour Archbishopps and Bishops and all Christs ministers as fathers For their office is to feede your soules specially the minister of the parish wherein you liue who in matter of saluation is as a mother to nurce you â—s 2.7 â—11 12 and as a father to traine you and teach you Haue alwaies a reuerent opinion of your minister for otherwise you shall greatly indanger your soules as I haue done If your heart be possessed with a dislike of your minister goe to some other Church to heare the seruice of God vntill you be in a better minde least the ill conceit of the minister make you to mistake and be distasted with that which he preacheth readeth or prayeth For then you should be in a fearefull case and the deuill woulde enter into you and make you loath the holy seruice of God Whiles you liue blesse your selfe from saying and doing any thing that may disable the minister of Christ Luk. 10. â— for that were to despice Christ himselfe If you saie he is thus and thus vnfit for his calling I answear as before if hee be so you are bounde to praie that he may be amended What warrant haue you to iudge Gods minister Take heede I was once a naughtie seruant and therefore doe intreat all seruants to honour them whose seruants they are as if they were their fathers and mothers reuerencing obeying and seruing them faithfully Blessed are all good seruants For whether their masters vse them well or no God will not faile to powre his blessing vpon them But he will surelie punish naughtie seruants and naughtie masters Honour all your friends and well willers for they are or would be as your parents meanes to preserue you Hate my barbarous propertie and neuer be vnkind to any that hath beene kind to you although he be turned from a friend to an enemie One vnkindnesse yea many times a false suspicion of vnkindnesse hath made me dishonour my kind freinds But if you will please God practise the contrary let not many vnkindnesses cause you to forget one kindnesse but let one kindnesse put many vnkindnesses quite out of mind Reuerence your elders and all that are in any gift or grace of God better then you for they are as fathers and mothers vnto you to doe you some good at least by example God made all people in his owne likenesse and their is none so low but that he may one way or other doe you good at least by excercising your patience if he be faultie or your enimie much more by praying for you if you giue him cause so to doe therefore honour all people euen your enemies And let your owne conuersation be wise vertuous least you doe as I haue done dishonouring God that made you your parens that brought you forth and norished you your gouernours that haue the ruling of you your freinds that fauour and further you for you doing euill are a discredit vnto them all yea if your behauiour be not good you dishonour all the world for if you doe respect them as Gods people ought to be respected you will be ashamed that any should see or heare euill of you All parents and bringers vp of children nurture them while they be young to feare God and honor you for so they will be framed to honour all others But if in fonde loue you make your children your fellowes or by ill behauiour cause them to thinke vnreuerently of you how can they kindly performe their dutie vnto you O that parents did so loue their children that their speciall care might be to make them lowely and louely to God and to all people O Lord Iesu I humbly beseech thee to say Amen I am a murderer in heart in tongue in outward works therefore euerlasting life is not in me my heart is full of vncharitablenesse readie to mislike any bodie to surmise euill of them and so to entertaine furious anger hellish hatred and all deadly enmitie my tongue is a sharpe sword wounding euen my freinds yea I am like a foole that blindfoldeth himselfe and hurteth he careth not whom when I conceaue that any is adversarie vnto me I spare no poyson but reuile him bitterly I haue murdered many with an euill eie enuying their prosperitie I haue stricken and flung at others with a murderous mind I haue caused quareling and fighting I haue caused some to loose the meanes whereby they liued I haue hindred others from obtaining helps of preseruing their life I haue greedily kept in store and vainely wasted that through the want whereof many poore haue pined with hunger and cold I haue indangered the saluation of others by ill example liuing among them as one infected with the plague yea many sinnes like plague sores breaking and running out coÌ„tinualy All people take warning by me if you will not be guiltie of murder shunne all the causes and occasions thereof Doe not endure to take any dislike of man woman or child nor be too well conceited of your selfe for then you shall be apt to thinke ill of any bodie O that you knew into how many dangers you put your selfe when you begin to dislike or despise any bodie for euen as when your mouth is out of tast you cannot relish any thing be it neuer so good so if your mind be ill conceited of an other whatsoeuer he saieth or doeth you condemne it But you may say shall I not dislike such as I doe see and heare to be euill I answere first you may by sight and hearing take your tast amisse Luk. 18. as the Pharise did in disliking the publican whose heart was better liked of God then the Pharises that disliked him Secondly although an other be indeede so bad as you see and heare that he is yet you must dislike him none otherwise then for your owne sinnes you dislike your selfe Sorrie you are and much displeased with your sinnes if you be a true christian but yet you hate not your selfe you doe not raile vpon your selfe but louing your selfe you hide your faults So must you doe to others for if you loue them loue couereth a multitude of sinnes But if you hate any of Gods people you are a murderer 1. Ioh 3 therefore take heede Eph. 4.2 follow the counsell of the holy Ghost whatsoeuer cause is giuen you to be angry pacifie your selfe and let not wrath stay long in your heart least you entertaine the deuill who will fill you with hate and desire of reuenge If anie doe hurt you in
THE BVRTHEN OF a loaden conscience OR THE MISERIE OF SINNE Set forth by the confession of a miserable sinner Printed by CANTRELL LEGGE Printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge 1608. To all Christened people I Knowing the great honor which Almightie God hath graciously giuen vnto you for you are his children his holy Ghost is in you doe therfore acknowledge my bounden dutie next after God vnto you and accordingly with humble reuerence dedicate this my Confession first to God then to you his deerely beloued children I wrote it in deadly disease of bodie and in dolefull trouble of minde my purpose was to glorifie God and to shew vnto all people the horrible bondage of sinne that they might plainly see it truly feare it and timely preuent it Herein if any shall thinke me ouer-harsh and too too plaine I beseech them to weigh in their conscience what it is to be at the doore of death and the gate of hell terrified with the sight of Gods wrathfull iudgement and in continuall danger of sudden death This is no time to couer or to colour my sinnes but to lay them open that it may please God mercifully to couer them To this ende I doe humbly craue your Christian furtherance in earnest praier to God for my confession and for me For my confession that it may prosper against sinne for my selfe that I may be deliuered out of hell and receiued into your heauenly companie I aske no more but to be the very lowest of all people that shal be saued Which if it shall please the blessed God through your praiers in Iesus Christ to vouchsafe vnto me most vnworthie then shall I be in good hope to liue and set forth an Hallelu-ia that you may praise God for his mercie his maruelous mercie towards you and me Then shall you know the poore sinners name that nowe beggeth the benefite of your praiers Hallowed be the name of God and his blessing be vpon Christened people men women and children for euermore Amen Thus I humbly take my leaue Iune 13. 1608. To the Printer IF any thing which I haue written doe seeme vnto godly learned men not likely to worke well for the destruction of sinne I desire that they will take the paines to amend it so as they will answer their doings therein vnto the Lord Iesus Christ when all purposes and causes shall be brought to light I protest before God that nothing be mitigated concerning me by turning I am into I was c. It is very needefull for a man to know what he is I know none but my selfe I iudge none but my selfe I intreat others to giue me leaue to iudge my selfe because I feare the iudgement of God and would perswade people to feare God that they may escape his iudgement and obtaine his mercie Amen Amen O good Lord Iesu for thy holy names sake say thou Amen The burthen of a loaden conscience ALl Christened people men women and children I sinfull sinner hauing by long and wofull experience found the miseries of sinne am desirous to confesse the same that others may see and speedily turne away from it Therefore I humbly beseech you that for Christs sake you will charitably read or heare this my confession VVHen I was a child and first began to vnderstand and speake then was the foundation laide of all my miserie Because I was not by and by entered into the faith and feare of God but the Deuill had leisure to take full possession of my heart Who so deepely seasoned me with sinne that I haue continued sinnefull euer since yea I am so hardened in wickednesse that although I feele death comming vpon me and may looke euerie houre when I shall suddenly die and be cast into hell fire yet I haue no power to turne vnto God Wherefore I beseech all people to take warning by me let it be your first and chiefest care to liue in the faith and feare of God Beleeue verily for it is most true you are alwaies in the sight of God Hee searcheth out your thoughts and affections he hearkneth to your words he vieweth your behauiour and writeth vp all in a booke with purpose to iudge you according to the practise of your life Beare this continually in minde and be afraide to displease God who shineth ouer your head with such a glorious brightnesse that if it were his pleasure to shewe himselfe openly to the world the sunne that shineth in the skie should be vtterly darkened and no earthly creature could remaine aliue by reason of the terrible sight of his almightie maiestie Blessed are you if ye haue the feare of God before your eies But you are in woefull case if you feare him not O all ye parents and bringers vp of children great is the account which you must make vnto God Therefore so soone as your children be able to vnderstand and speake accustome them to know and feare God Take good heede least the deuill get the first possession of your childrē for he knowing that is little ones are seasoned in the beginning so they are likely to sauour euer after will loose no time nor let passe any occasion to sowe his cursed seede in them This many parents and tutors of children doe little thinke of and therefore giue the deuill leaue to worke his will But doe you minde it and in the name of Christ kindely perswade your children to beleeue in God and to feare him oftentimes telling them what is good and what is naught and that the good commeth of God and naught frō the deuill and therefore if they will loue and practise goodnesse God will loue them and keepe them safe from the Deuill but if they loue and practise naughtinesse God will forsake them and leaue them to the Deuill Why doe so many teach little children to say and to doe that which angreth almightie God the silly children seeing their parents others so much delighted with euill 〈◊〉 setled in beleefe that it is good Thus the deuill is furthered in working the destruction of children But some sa◠that vnlesse children be framed to mirthfull wantonnesse they will not prooue wittie To which I answere the children of God are wittie to saie and doe good the children of the deuill are wittie to say and doe euill nowe consider to whom you doe liken your children to God or to the deuill for like will to like Children giue great heede to that which they see or heare especially in their parents and gouernours therefore all people as you will answer to God be careful what you say or doe before children for they will thinke that they may safely say as you say and doe as you doe Let not childrē be much among seruants for many seruants loue to teach children that which is naught O ye godfathers and godmothers remember that you are bound vnto God for the good bringing vp of your god-children In the beginning of Christian religion people were