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mercy_n	let_v	lord_n	vouchsafe_v	2,838	5	10.6553	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68918	An excellent new commedie intitutled, The conflict of conscience contayninge a most lamentable example of the dolefull desperation of a miserable worldlinge, termed by the name of Philologus, who forsooke the trueth of Gods gospel for feare of the losse of lyfe & worldly goods / compiled by Nathaniell Woodes, minister in Norwich ...; Conflict of conscience	Woodes, Nathaniel, fl. 1580.	1581 (1581)	STC 25966.5; ESTC S111762	42,953	72

they haue don wel it booteth not at all My lyppes haue spoke the wordes in déede but yet I féele my heart With cursing is replenished with rancor spight and gall Neither do I your Lord and God in hart my father call But rather seeke his holy name for to blaspheame and cursse My state therfore doth not amend but ware still worse and worse I am secluded cleane from grace my heart is hardened quight Wherefore you do your labour loose and spend your breth in vayne Eusebius Oh say not so Philologus but let your heart be pight Vppon the mercyes of the Lord and I you assertayne Remission of your former sinnes you shall at last obtayne God hath it sayde who cannot lye at whatsoeuer time A sinner shall from heart repent I will remitt his cryme Philologus You cannot say so much to me as herein I do knowe That by the mercyes of the Lord all sinnes are don awaye And vnto them that haue true fayth aboundantly it flowe But whence do this true fayth procéede to vs I do you pray It is the only gift of God from him it comes alwaye I would therefore he would vouchsafe one sparke of fayth to plant within my breast then of his grace I know I should not want But it as easely may be done as you may with one spoone At once take vp the water cleane which in the seas abide And at one draught then drink it vp this shall ye doe as soone As to my brest of true beléefe one sparkle shall betide Tush you which are in prosperous state my paines haue not tried Doe think it but an easy thing a sinner to repent Him of his sinnes and by true faith damnation to preuent The healthfull néede not Phisicks art and ye which are all haile Can giue good counsell to the sick their sicknesse to eschew But here alas confusion and hell doth mée assaile And that all grace from me is reft I finde it to be true My hart is steele so that no faith can from the same insue I can conceiue no hope at all of pardon or of grace But out alas Confusion is alway before my face And certainly euen at his time I doo most playnly sée The deuils to be about me rounde which make great preparation And kéepe a stirre here in this place which only is for mee Neither doe I conceiue these thinges by vaine imagination But euen as truly as mine eyes beholde your shape and fashion Wherefore desired Death dispatch my body bring to rest Though that my soule in furious flames of fire be supprest Theologus Your minde corrupted dooth present to you this false illusion But turne awhile vnto the spirit of trueth in your distresse And it shall cast out from your eies all horror and confusion And of this your affliction it will you soone redresse Eusebius We haue good hope Philologus of your saluation doubtlesse Philologus What your hope is concerning mée I vtterly contempne My Conscience which for thousands stand as guiltie mée condemne Eusebius When did this horror first you take what think you is the cause Philologus Euen shortly after I did make mine open abiuration For that I did prefer my goods before Gods holy lawes Therefore in wrath he did me sende this horrible veration And hath me wounded in the soule with gréeuous tribulation That I may be a president in whom all men may view Those torments which to them that wil forsake the Lord are due Theologus Yet let me bouldly aske one thing of you without offence What was your former faith in Christ which you before did holde For it is saide of holy Paule in these same wordes in sence It cannot be that vtterly in faith he should bee colde Who so he be which perfectly true faith in hart once holde Wherfore rehearce in short discourse the sum of your beléefe In these pointes chiefly which for health of soule are thought most chéefe Philologus I did beleeue in hart that Christ was that true sacrifice Which dyd appease the fathers wrath and that by him alone We were made iust and sanctified I dyd beleeue lykewise That without him heauen to attaine sufficient meanes were none But to reknowledge this againe alas all grace was gone I neuer loued him againe with right and sincere harte Neither was thankfull for the same as was ech goodmans part But rather tooke the faith of Christ for lybertie to sinne And did abuse his graces great to further carnall lust what wickednesse I did commit I cared not a pinne For that that Christ discharged had any ransome I dyd trust wherfore the Lord doth now correct the same with torments iust My sonnes my sonnes I speake to you my counsell ponder well And practise that in déedes which I in wordes shall to you tell I speake not this that I would ought the Gospell derogate which is most true in euery part I must it néedes confesse But this I say that of vaine faith alone you should not prate But also by your holy lyfe you should your faith expresse Beléeue me syres for by good proofe these thinges I doo expresse Peruse the wrighting of S. Iames and first of Peters too which all Gods people holynesse of lyfe exhort vnto By sundrie reasons as for firste because we strangers are Againe sinne from the flesh procéede but we are of the spirit The third because the flesh alway against the spirit doo warre The fourth that we may stop the mouthes of such as would backbight The fifth that other by our lyues to God reduce we might Againe they sing a pleasant song which sing in déede and word But where euill life insue good words there is a foule discorde But I alas most wretched wight whereas I did presume That I had got a perfect faith did holy life disdaine And though I did to other preach good lyfe I did consume My lyfe in wickednesse and sinne in sport and pleasures vaine No neither did I once contende from them flesh to refraine Beholde therfore the iudgements iust of God doth mée annoy Not for amendement of my lyfe but mée for to destroy Eusebius We doo not altogether like of this your exhortation whereas you warne vs not to trust so much vnto our faith But that good workes we should prepare vnto our preseruation There are two kindes of righteousnesse as Paul to Romanes faith The one dependeth of good workes the other hangs of faith The former which the world allowes good counts it least of twaine As by good proofe it shall to you in words be proued playne For Socrates and Cato both did purchase great renowne And Aristides surnamed Iust this righteousnesse fulfilled Wherfore he was as iustest man erpelde his natiue towne Yet are their soules with Infydels in hell for euer spilled Because they sought not righteousnes that way that God thē willed The other righteousnes coms from faithe which God regards alone And makes vs seeme immaculate before his heauenly

iudged mée to euerlasting payne Oh that my bodie buried were that it at rest might bée Though soule were put in Iudas place or Caines extremitie Gisbertus Oh Brother hast you to the Towne and tel Theologus What sodaine plague and punishment my Father hath befell Paphinitius I run in hast and will request him for to come with vs Gisbertus Oh Father rest your selfe in God and all thing shal be well Philologus Ah dredfull name which when I héere to sigh it mée compell God is against mée I perceiue he is none of my God Vnlesse in this that he will beat and plague mée with his rod And though his mercy doth surpasse the sinnes of all the worlde Yet shall it not once profit me or pardon mine offence I am refused vtterly I quite from God am whorld My name within the Booke of lyfe had neuer residence Christ prayed not Christ suffered not my sinnes to recompence But only for the Lordes elect of which sort I am none I féele his iustice towardes mée his mercy all is gone And to be short within short space my finall end shall bée Then shall my soule incurre the paines of vtter desolation And I shall be a president most horrible to sée To Gods elect that they may sée the price of abiuration Gisbertus To héere my Fathers dolefull plaints it bringeth preturbation Vnto my soule but yonder comes that good Theologus Oh welcome sir and welcome you good master Eusebius Acte fyfth Sceane 2 THEO PHI EVSE GIS PAPHI GOd saue you good Philologus how doo you by Gods grace Philologus You welcome are but I alas vile wretch am héere euill found Eusebius What is the chiefest cause tell vs of this your dolorus case Philologus Oh would my soule were sunke in hell so body were in grounde That angrie God now hath his will who sought mee to confounde Theologus Oh say not so Philologus for God is gracious And to forgiue the penitent his mercy is plentious Do you not know that all the earth with mercy doth abound And though the sinnes of all the world vppon one man were layde If he one only sparke of grace or mercy once had found His wickednes could not him harme wherefore be not dismayde Christes death alone for all your sinnes a perfect raunsome payde God doth not couet sinners death but rather that he may By liuing still bewaill his sinnes and so them put awaye Consider Peeter who thrée tymes his Maister did denye Yea with an oath and that although Christ did him warning giue With whome before tyme he had lyued so long familiarly Of whome so many benefits of loue he did receiue Yet when once Peeter his owne fault did at the last perceiue And did bewaile his former cryme with salt and bitter teares Christ by and by did pardon him the Gospell witnes beares The theefe lykewise and murtherer which neuer had don good But had in mischeefe spent his dayes yea during all his lyfe With lattest breth when he his sinnes and wickednes with stoode And with iniquityes of flesh his spirit was at strife Thorow that one motion of his heart and power of true beliefe He was receiued into grace and all his sinnes defaced Christ saying soone in Paradice with me thou shalt be placed The hand of God is not abridged but still he is of myght To pardon them that call to him vnfainedly for grace Againe it is Gods propertye to pardon sinners quight Pray therefore with thy heart to God here in this open place And from the very roote of heart bewaile to him thy case And I assure thée God will on thée his mercy show Through Iesus Christ who is with him our aduocate you knowe Philologus I haue no fayth the wordes you speake my hart doth not beléeue I must confesse that I for sinne am iustly throwne to hell Eusebius His monstrous incredulitye my very heart doth gréeue Ah dere Philologus I haue knowne by face and visage well A sort of men which haue bene vext with Diuels and spirits fell In farre worse state then you are yet brought into desperation Yet in the ende haue bene reclaimde by godly exhortation Such are the mercies of the Lorde he will throw downe to hell And yet call backe againe from thence as holy Dauid wrightes What should then let your trust in God I pray you to vs tel Sith to forgiue and doo vs good it chiefely him delightes What would not you that of your sins he should you cleane acquite How can he once denie to you one thing you doo request Which hath already geuen to you his best beloued Christ Lift vp your hart in hope therefore awhile be of good cheare And make accesse vnto his seate of grace by earnest prayer And God will surely you reléeue with grace stand not in feare Philologus I doo beléeue that out from God proceede these comfortes faire So doo the Diuels yet of their health they alway doe dispaire They are not written vnto mée for I woulde faine attaine The mercy and the loue of God but he doth me disdaine How would you haue that man to lyue which hath no mouth to eate No more can I lyue in my soule which haue no faith at all And where you say that Peter did of Christ soone pardon get who in the selfe same sinne with mée from God did greatly fall why I cannot obtaine the same to you I open shall God had respect to him alwaies and did mée firmly leue But I alas am reprobate God doth my soule reproue Moreouer I will say with tongue what so you wyll require My harte I feele with blasphemy and cursing is repleate Theologus Then pray with vs as Christ vs taught we doe you all desire Philologus To pray with lips vnto your God you shall mée scene intreate My spirit to Sathan is in thrall I can it not thence get Eusebius God shall renue your spirit againe pray onely as you can And to assist you in the same we pray ech Christian man Philologus O God which dwellest in the Heauens and art our father deare Thy holy name throwghout the world be euer sainctified The kingdome of thy word and spirit vppon vs rule might beare Thy will in earth as by thy saincts in heauen be ratified Our dayly bread we thee beseech O Lord for vs prouide Our sinnes remit Lord vnto vs as we ech man forgiue Let not tentation vs assayle in all euill vs releeue Amen Theologus The Lord be praysed who hath at length thy spirit mollified These are not tokens vnto vs of your reprobation You morne with teares and sue for grace wherfore be certified That God in mercy giueth care vnto your supplication Wherfore dispayre not thou at all of thy soules preseruation And say not with a desperat heart that God against thée is He will no doubt these paynes once past receiue you into blisse Philologus No no my friends you only heare and sée the outward part Which though you thinke