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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65455	The trouble and cure of a wounded conscience set out in a sermon preached in St. Mary's church at Gates-head, in the County Palatine of Durham / by Richard Werge ...	Werge, Richard, 1624 or 5-1687.	1685 (1685)	Wing W1367; ESTC R8110	17,292	42

that would not remove it Dan. 5. 2. Such men in the midst of their greatest delights Singing Dancing and Dalliance are tortured in their Souls As Lemnius speaks Nocte dieque suum gestant in pectore testem Night and day they carry their Witness and Accuser within their breasts So that outward pleasures and delights cannot more cure their Wounded Conscience than a Crown of Gold can cure the Head-ach or a Velvet Slipper cure the Gout A perplexed man in the midst of all outward pleasures riches and honours is like a Book of Tragedies fairly bound up without but black within the Leaves Gold and the Lines Blood no Friends nor Physick no Gold nor Silver nor Favour of Princes no Pleasures of the World can give comfort in such a case neither Crowns nor Kingdoms can give deliverance in such a case There is no Bodily Sickness but Nature by the means of Physick hath provided a Remedy no Sore but Chirurgery hath provided a Salve for it There is no outward misery but there may be some means to relieve it Friendship helps Poverty Hope of Liberty easeth Imprisonment Favour revokes Banishment Time wears away Reproach but none of all these things can relieve or comfort a distressed Soul Pierius makes a continually hot baking Oven the Hierogliphick of a gauled Conscience And the Egyptians made a Mill an Hierogliphick of the same both for continuance and torture A man so perplexed is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a self-Tormentor such an ones Conscience like Titius his Vulture doth continually knaw him That which was feigned of Promethaeus as being bound to a Pillar upon the Mountain Caucasus and an Eagle eating his Liver every day and that which was eaten in the day grew up in the night that there might be no decay of his torment is true in this case it is a Worm that never dieth Such an ones House may be compared to Trophonius his Den where were nothing but doleful Ecchoes and sad Complaints A perplexed wicked man may take to him Pashurs terrible Name mentioned in Jerem. 20. 3. Magor-missabib that is fear round about such an one is a terrour to himself and to all that are about him What shall I say more A troubled Conscience is an Epitomy of Hell an Extract a Quintesence a Compound a Mixture of all Malladies Tyrannical Tortures Plagues and Perplexities Fear Sorrow Fury Grief Pain Terrour Anger all these things come short of it Were I to write a full Description of a Troubled Conscience though I had Melpomene for my Muse and had a Pen of Iron droping Cruelty and had Ink and writing as Bloud yet I could not sufficiently delineate it And therefore in this case I shall do like Timanthes who when he was to draw out the Picture of Agamemnons Grief and was not able to perfect it covered it over with a Veil he Pictur'd Calchas sad Vlysses mourning and Menelaus more sorrowful than either of them but as for Agamemnon whose Daughter Iphiginia was to be sacrificed he conceived his grief and sorrow to be in summo gradu not to be deciphered by Art and therefore he covered his Face with a Veil and left every man to his own conceit about it So in this case being not able throughly to describe the misery of an Afflicted Conscience I shall break off abruptly as to the farther Explication of this point and shall leave every man to his own imagination about it I have done with the Tragical part And now I am apt to think that some drooping Spirits groaning under the pressure of Sin and ready to despond and despair by reason of some present guilt upon them for some foul facts committed are ready to say to me Must we part thus Are there no crumbs of comfort Shall we hear no word of peace Will you let your voice be still like the hoarse sound of a Trumpet in a dead march Shall your Sermon be like Dracoes Laws that begun and ended in death Is there no balme in Gilead Is there no Physician there Is there no way to be reconciled to God and to have a peace within our selves and to have our Wounded Spirits healed Why yes I shall by and by come to the Consolatory part and shall put you into a way to be at peace with God and to have peace within your selves and to have your Spirits calm'd and your Consciences quieted But before I come to lay down any Rules of direction or means to obtain this I shall lay down Motives to perswade you hereunto First God hath promised it The Lord will speak peace to his people Psal 85. 8. Peace shall be upon Israel Psal 125. I create the fruit of the lips peace peace to him that is far off and to him that is nigh Isai 57. 19. that is I will really accomplish that which I have promised in giving peace both to Jews and Gentiles Secondly Christ hath purchased our Peace The chastisement of our Peace was upon him there was a proclamation of Peace at Christ's coming into the World the great Design of Christ was to reconcile God to man and to pacifie mans Conscience Rom. 5. 25. 2 Cor. 1. 5. Thirdly Others have obtained Peace within themselves David who for three quarters of a year was in a Spiritual Lethargie being at length awakened was much perplexed yet was at length restored to the joy of Salvation Mr. Bilney for a whole Year was in such anguish of Spirit that he thought all the whole Scriptures were against him and founded out his condemnation but afterward he was indued with such Strength and Faith that he did not onely confess his Faith in the Gospel but suffered his Body to be burnt for the Gospels sake Luther about the year 1514 was in such an Agony of Spirit that he felt nothing but trembling and fearfulness especially when at Rome upon his bare Knees he was climbing up certain Steps of Pilate's Ladder which the Romanist feigned to be brought from Jerusalem when he was doing this in a Superstitious way as a means to purge his Sins and quiet his restless and troubled Minde by the illumination of the Spirit he came to a right understanding of that Scripture The just shall live by his faith and then he was exceedingly comforted and his mind was pacified and he set about the Reformation and became a wonderful Instrument of God through whom God hath opened the light of his Word to the World Such examples as these who have found peace with God and within themselves should encourage us Fourthly Consider the Misery of a Troubled Conscience A wounded spirit who can bear And a wounded spirit who can declare As the troubles of the Soul are insupportable so they are inexpressible A wicked mans Conscience is the greatest Tyrant and Persecutour to himself he needs no other fury to follow him this is both Accuser and Witness Law and Judge Executioner and Punishment to himself A Soul left to the temptations of the Devil and