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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15711	The Christians iewell. Or, The treasure of a good conscience. By William Worship, Doctor of Diuinitie	Worship, William.	1617 (1617)	STC 25985; ESTC S114443	54,901	264

and take them vp roundly that denie them not led so much hereto by any loue to God as out of desire to benefit themselues but if they perceiue that the people sinne immediately against GOD or else oppresse and wrong one another they respect that little or nothing at all CHAP. LVIII Of the Fourth kinde of Euill Conscience which is the Cauterized THere is a Conscience worse then all the former which S. Paul calleth 1. Tim. 4. 2. Seared because it is bereft of life and sense and motion as an arme or leg that is cut off from the bodie and burnt with an hot iron This kinde of Conscience is found in none but obstinate Heretickes and hainous Malefactors such as in Scripture are said to be Vines of Sodome and Gomorrah to be Deut 32. 32. fat and grosse and laden with fatnesse to adde drunkennesse Deut. 32. 15. Deut. 29. 19. 1 Kin. 21. Isaiah 5 18 Zeph. 1. 12. Ier. 3. 3. zach 7. 12. to thirst to sell themselues to worke wickednesse to draw sinne with Cart-ropes to be frozen in their dregs to haue Harlots fore-heads and hearts of Adamant These are they that are said by the Schoolemen to be Habituati in malo Accustomed to doe Euill and being Black-moores will not Ier. 13. 23. change their hue though you wash them with Sope and Nitre This hard and irrelenting De Considerat l. 1. Quid est Cor Durum Quod semetipsum non exhorret c. heart is thus described by Saint Bernard An hard heart is that which feares not it selfe because it feeles not it selfe It is that which is not rent with compunction nor softned with pietie nor moued with prayers which yeeldeth not to threats and growes tough with scourges vnthankfull for benefits vnfaithfull in counsels in iudgements cruell in vilenesse impudent vnfearefull of danger vncourteous to the gentle vnreuerent in Gods worship vnmindfull of things past negligent of things present improuident of things to come And that I may winde vp all in one word Ipsum est quod nec Deum timet nec hominem reueretur It is that which feareth neither GOD nor man like the Vnrighteous Luke 8. 2. Iudge decyphered in the Gospell CHAP. LIX Of the Steps and Degrees that lead to this Searednesse of Conscience THere are saith Gregorie In Pasto Cura three principall Staires that descend to the chambers of Death Suggestion Delectation and Consent the first is effected by Satan the second by the Flesh and the third by the Soule Suggestione peccatum agnoscimus Delectatione vincimur Consensu ligamur By Suggestion we take notice of sinne by Delight wee are vanquished by Consent inthralled S. Augustine sometimes Confes 8. 5. makes this Gradation Will Peruerse Desire Custome Tom. 10. Hom. 27. Necessitie and sometimes this Suggestion Delectation Consent Perpetration De Conscien Saint Bernard maketh seuen Descents into Hell Importabile Graue Leue Insensibile Delectabile Desiderabile Defensibile In effect thus much First Sinne is Intolerable then Heauie then Light then Past feeling then Delightfull then Desireable then Iustifiable From all these places and some other of the like nature wee may obserue Eight seueral Degrees which I reckon thus in their order The First is the Suggestion 1. to sinne against which we must arme our selues with watchfulnesse and Gouernement of the Senses For there were two things that vndid DAVID Otium Oculus Idlenesse and his Eye And here we must remember that Suggestion Bern. De Conscien without Ingestion that is A temptation offered without yeelding to it is not Vulnus but Corona no Wound but a Garland The Second Degree is 2. Cogitation which is Ad peccatum dispositiuè in the way to Sinne if it bee not preuented For as Saint Ad Paul Eustoch Ierome writeth the Deuill when he meanes to take vp his lodging is woont to send a Thought before to trie whether hee shall bee welcome or no. So that a wicked thought as the same Father noteth is Primogenita Diaboli Satans Eldest Daughter Now the Thoughts of Man as S. Bernard De Conscien distinguisheth them are either Burdenous such as thrust themselues vpon the minde vnavoidably or Affectuous belonging to the pleasure of the bodie or Obscene as being in the nature of vncleane dregs or Idle as the imagination of Birds flying in the Ayre or Curious tending to the exploration of secrets or Suspicious inclining to sinister interpretation or lastly Distentorie when the reason is stretcht ●o the contemplation of farre-distant Regions or to the speculation of causes or else to worldly negotiations The Third Degree is Delight 3. whereby an euill thought receiued and re●ained in the minde inueigleth the will and laies a bait for it And this tickling of the affection if it bee dwelt vpon is a Mortall Sinne euen by the verdict of the Schoole-men themselues Pet. Lomb. l. 2. Dist 24. which must stirre vp euery one to be circumspect in this case to which end tendeth that Historie which Saint Ierome records in the life of Paulus concerning a godly yongman a Souldier of Decius who being at the commandement of the Tyrant laide vpon a fine Downe-bed and tyed downe hand and foot with silken Towels was most dangerously inticed by the kisses and imbracements of a beautifull Harlot and being not able to breake away from her as Ioseph did Gen. 39. 12 from his wanton Mistresse to check himselfe in the occasion of pleasure he bit off his tongue and spit it in her face The Fourth Degree is 4. Consent or Resolution to venter vpon the Action And here the Diuell that Prince of Darknesse bindes a Napkin close to the sinners eye lest he behold the danger ensuing and sets a Skriene betwixt him and Hell-fire that hee may not feele the least heat of it Of this Determination to commit sinne S. Bernard thus De Jnter Dom. c. 19. writeth Solus Consensus reos nos facit etiamsi aliquid impediat ne opera subsequantur Consent alone makes vs guilty before God though the fact intended be neuer accomplisht The fift Degree is Operation 5. which may be called the Birth of sinne For now Iam. 1. 15. Ps 7. 14. the Brat lies wralling in the lap which before was silent In Serm. de vilic Iniq. and concealed Habet opus vocem sitam saith Bernard Euery euill worke hath a kind of voice whether it be done Contra Naturā aut Contra Legem aut Contra Consuetudinem Against Nature Law or warrantable Custome The Sixth Degree is Custome 6. in euill which hath brought the profane to such an haunt Vt iam non modò placeat peccatum sed assidue placeat That he doth not now only delight in sinne but doth nothing else but delight in it Thus Consuetudo vertitur in Naturam The Habit is growne to a Necessitie Hic Peccator foetet Hic Bernard Quatriduanus