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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15704	Of the conscience A discourse wherein is playnely declared, the vnspeakeable ioye, and comfort of a good conscience, and the intollerable griefe and discomfort of an euill conscience. Made by Iohn Woolton, minister of the Gospell. Anno. 1576.	Woolton, John, 1535?-1594.	1576 (1576)	STC 25978; ESTC S106318	42,432	110

name by periury it will playnely appeare by the difinition of the same An oath is an asueration of a thing possible and lawfull made with the inuocation of Gods name wherein we pray God to caste downe vpō vs his malidiction vengeance if in swearing we say vntruth or wittingly willingly break our oth In bare and naked promises wherein we promise to doe truely it is sayd Let your communication bee yea yea and nay nay but of oathes there are seuere preceptes Thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe but shalt performe thine oath to God Wherevnto he aodeth a fearefull Communication For the lord wil not hold him guiltles that taketh his name in vayne There is no doubt but Gods maiestie and name is wonderfully abused when men ronne into wilfull periury For in that we cal vpon him to be our witnes and Iudge Our wilfull periury denieth him to be a true witnes argueth him of falsehode procureth his plagues and bindeth vs by our owne mouthes to abide the same There can then no greater contumely be done agaynst God nor no more gréeuous crime committed by man then wilfully to make a mock and by word of Gods name where vnto if men adde wilful murder and shedding of innocent bloude they must néedes fill vp euen to the brimme the measure of iniquitie Such men are vngraciouslye ledde and drawne to punishment and vengeance so that among such transgressors you shall skarce finde one that hath in this worlde escape the reuenging hande of almightie God as we may plainly sée by Caine Saule Richarde king of Englande the thirde of that name and infinite other examples Hereof the Poets haue written thus 〈◊〉 Ah miser si quis primum periuria celat Sera tamen tacitas pena venit pedibus The former examples are speciall but when we beholde things more publike and generall we sée a more sorowfull Tragedie For we may reade of them est noble and floorishing Famelies of Princes to haue beue vtterlye rooted vp for wicked murders and periurie And so God doth shewe himselfe to be a defender and conseruer of iustice and pull it ike order and that his pleasure is that the inteynall mocions of mannes mynde shoulde conforme themselues to the working of Gods spirit and also that the external members should be kept within the compasse of good lawes and regiment Which whosoeuer haue broken they haue alwayes bene accounted factious seditious periured and men noted otherwise with vile reproches and infames Such men were the Carthaginenses reputed who vnconstant and slypping in in all their wordes and promises sought still by guylefull and craftie interpretations to illude their othes who at the last being vtterly subdued and their citie sticke and stone consumed euen to the grounde with fyre doe bidde vs beholde the ende of leuitie and periurie Philyp of Macedonia was wont to playe with his fayth as children doe with stickes which was the cause as the wise Ethnickes thought of the suddayne and straunge ruine of all his posterity for within twelue yeares after his son Alexander in the floure of his time died either with poysō or with immoderate drink whose mother wife and two sonnes were murdered of his Nobles neither was ther found anye Patrons of so royall a famely And in our fathers dayes Lewis king of Hungaria induced by Eugenius bishop of Rome brake the league which hee hadde made with Amaruthes the great Turcke and drew that Tirant to bend all his power agaynst Christendome being at that time otherwise busied in the east in which warre Lewis the king with the greater part of his army miserably perished the smart whereof not onely Hungaria feeteth but all Christendome lamēteth at this day And to omit those thinges that histories recorde many examples as well priuate as publique daily experience in mans life do verify the same whereof it came to passe that the old writers appoynted certayne Gods to be reuengers of periury and Homecide For they beholding such dayly examples not without greate admiration iudged that those thinges came not to passe by chaunce and at aduēture but that some diuine power was especially appoynted to be the punisher of Periury wilful murther And hitherto I thought in some priuate callings and condicions of mans life to poynt out as it were with the finger the ioy and solace of a pure and sinerre Conscience and the endlesse vexation and sorrow of the contrary now I will discend to certein questions which men commonly moue about mans Conscience It is demaunded commonly whether an erring Conscience deeth condemne man That is to say whether mans will sweruing and discenting from reason dceriued condemneth a man we must obserue that it is the part of Reason to giue light vnto Will wandring in darrknesse and grosse ignorannce and therefore Wil discenting from Reason disceiued must néedes offend and doe wickedly Hée doth euill I say not in his own nature but because the Conscience so iudgeth of it self albeit it be perfite and good And therfore the diuines playnly affirm that Will discenting from Conscience and Reason whether she be sincere or corrupt in what kind of action soeuer she be busied whether they be good euell or indifferent shée offendeth and committeth sinne And from hence is derided the solucion of that question Whether the Conscience erring excuseth That is whether the Wil consenting with Reason swaruing from truthe offendeth for if Will discenting from Reason deceaued transgresse surely it must néedes folow that the same consenting with Reason doth not offend For of thinges contrary there follow contrary sequelles as not onely Cicero but the Logitians generally and experience prooueth We must herein obserue that as a séemely and comly body is so called when there is right shape and composition of all the reste of the members of mans body and it is the named euell fauoured if in any one hmme or ioint there be nay thing vncomly crooked or lawe euen so that is only accounted good which is absolute and consumate in al partes and so it is named euell when any litle thing wanteth to the perferfection thereof or to speake playnly and briefely Euell proceedeth of special vices and defects but goodnesse of that which is on euery side without fault or blemishe So y in this matter it is enough if either the Will be corrupted or Reason which is the guide and ruler of Will. But this thing wil be playn by the apposityon of an example Those that did both curse the Apostles of Christ committed thē to prysō minding to execute them with most paynfull deathes thought that they offered a most acceptable sacrifice to God euen as Christ himselfe beareth witnesse The time shall come sayth he that whosoeuer killeth you shal thinck he doth GOD good seruice These mens reasons and vnderstanding was merueylously shadowed with darcknes and error and yet their will and intelligence did concurre together And Paule himselfe when