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A04821	Hallelu-iah: praise yee the Lord, for the vnburthening of a loaden conscience By his grace is Iesus Christ vouchsafed vnto the worst sinner of all the whole world.	Kilby, Richard, d. 1617.	1618 (1618)	STC 14955; ESTC S106533	55,442	148

way sufficient for thee Most holy Lord this I verily beleeue therfore in the name of Iesus Christ hencefoorth I will wholly endeauour to please thee Amen The last day of Iulie beeing Sabbath though I was sore tormented I had no remedy but needs must preach my selfe for neither was I prouided of any supply and a Churchwarden came to tell me the parish tooke it in displeasure that I my selfe performed not my dutie That day I preached twise to the great hurt of my body which appeared by many little shreads of skinne which came from me in my water Monday the first of August such a drousie windie weakenes hung vpon me specially in my breast and head that many times I was ready to fall and had much adoe to stand a painfull sleepines was stil comming vpon mee whether I did read or write Monday night I beeing in bed and fallen into a slumber I was so strangely taken as neuer before Some thing seemed to be vpon my backe so to presse me downe that my face was held hard to the pillowe and much winde brake out at the right eare Being very troublously waked I called vpon my good Lord for mercy I perceiued a shiuering windines offering to arise out of my thighes I tooke this by ouerforcing my selfe in preaching vpon the Sabbath day if I be not much deceiued It pleased God that afterward I had some quiet rest but towards morning the cruel strangury came vpon me Alas that there is no remedy for such a filthy tormenting disease a Physitian writing vnto me among other words said thus Know that your disease is incurable The seauenth of August being Sabbath my disease still tormenting me I prayed and vowed thus O most holy and righteous good and gracious Lord God I the most foule and filthy sinner of all the world do here make a complaint of my selfe vnto thy glorious and blessed maiesty that I am not fit to liue in thy sight much lesse to serue thee in the gospel of thy Sonne because I do not walk with thee nor keep my selfe in thy companie as thy seruants doe O be mercifull vnto me I beseech thee I haue heretofore made many vowes that I would enforce my selfe to waite vpon thee But woe is me I haue not kept them now I most humbly pray thee that all my former vowes may be shut vp in this which I am minded to make vnto thee And this it is This day two seuerall preachers will supply my place I beseech thee to blesse them with holy matter hallowed affections powerfull vtterance good successe If I do not from this day forward very conscionably endeauour to hold my selfe to the practise of my foure Rules I wil the next Sabbath day quite put my selfe out of the ministerie yea and openly professe vnto the world that therefore I doe it because my conscience doth certainly iudge mee not to bee fit to preach the Gospell Good Lord this is my vowe If I either reforme my selfe from this day forward or for default thereof leaue the ministerie I breake not my vow If I do neither the one nor the other let me be euerlastingly ●●rsaken of Iesus Christ If I conscionably reform my selfe by thy grace and so continue with thy fauour in the ministerie O that thou wilt be mercifull vnto me touching this horrible disease Then shall I holily and wholly betake my selfe to serue thee as mine hearts desire is to doe If I reforme not my selfe and therefore as my vow requireth leaue the ministerie I aske no more but the destruction of my sin to thy good pleasure and glorie Now blessed Lord I offer vp this vowe vnto thee for an euerlasting deed and thereunto vnchangeably say Amen Be it neuer changed but euer in force betweene thy blessed Maiestie and me Amen That day some came vnto me and what with one matter what with an other caused me to talke at randome as though I had not been in the companie of God When they were gone I cryed God mercy promised to be more mindefull of his presence and fearefull of his displeasure At night some came to me againe and talking of many things mooued me to passe my bounds but not so much as before yet all this while I was not entred into my vowed practise This I did fully perswade my selfe that if I could in companie be mindfull of God and shunne the displeasing of his maiestie I were in a verie faire forwardnes of reformation Mondaie the eight of August I held my selfe vnto my prayers and businesse carefully thinking how I should avoid the great danger of companie and talking I prayed vnto the Lord thus O good Lord thou seest that my disposition is hardened in sinne and most vntoward vnto thy seruice Thou seest also how apt other folke are to further mine vntowardnesse to hinder my repentance I beseech thee that for thine only Sonnes sake thou wilt powerfully breake me from mine vntowardnes prepare me in thy feare to shunne the manifold wickednesse which is one way or another caused by companying and talking Blessed Lord true it is as I take harme by others so they take harm by me for thy mercies sake be mercifull vnto vs and keepe vs from causing any harme one to another Amen Aman. Betweene tenne and eleuen of the clock there came some vnto me about a matter of vnkindnes between certain parties which had not then been called into question if I had concealed a report which in writing was giuen vnto me and which I was verie confidently willed to shewe vnto whome I would It is likely that many an one would haue thought himselfe well warranted to shew it specially if it had concerned him so neerely as it did me I shewed it not but onely told a certaine part of it which caused the comming of those men vnto me After that we had talked of the businesse and they were gone I confessed and prayed thus vnto God O most gracious Lord I did euill in receiuing that paper and worse in speaking of any thing written in it I beseech thee to pardon me and to giue grace that I may neuer hereafter speake any thing of that matter but onely my bounden thanks praise vnto thee through Iesus Christ thy Sonne my Lord and Sauiour Amen In the afternoone vpon occasion I praied thus O most gracious Lord thou seest that by thy goodnesse I goe not out to seeke company I perceiue it is great folly so to doe If any come vnto me and enter into friuolous talke I cannot tell what I should doe Thy spirit saith that in the multitude of words there wanteth not sinne Pro. 10.19 And what great losse of precious time commeth vnto men by vaine idle communication I know by experiēce to my great griefe Most mercifull Lord thou hauing brought me thus farre and broken me from seeking companie from ioyning in emptie words vouchsafe to magnifie thy mercy in making me to preuaile against this impediment

not Also I spake too farre Therefore comming into my chamber I confessed and prayed thus O my good Lord I haue doubly offended in medling with other folkes busines in speaking beyond the compasse which any whome it concerneth ought to haue kept himselfe within Good Lord conuert me and forgiue me Amen The 17. of Iuly being Sabbath I was in the morning sore tormented with the strangurie yet by the goodnes of God in the forenoone I preached Also after dinner I went and prayed with an olde aged good woman widow Milborne the mother of my faithfull friend Raph Milborne deceased At euening prayer after the second lesson I asked a youth three or foure questions touching a foundation-point of religion and briefly made plaine his answers After all this I was in great danger of a relapse for I was intreated to go thither where I should very grieuously haue displeased God and that through mine owne wickednesse But by the grace of God much against mine owne will I refused to goe Whereas I made mention of my faithfull freind Raph Milborne I intreat the gentle reader and hearer to take knowledge from me of certain notable properties that were in him very plainly to be seene He was religious towards God and that not by way of schisme dissention I meane but in peace Hee loued his minister yea he loued all ministers that were for the present state of the Church and of conscionable behauiour Hee was dutifully kind vnto his aged parents for he sustained them both vntill his fathers death then his mother vntill his owne death and by his will tooke order for her maintenance so long as it should please God to giue her the continuance of life At his death he gaue portions vnto many brothers and sisters to a many of their children He was of behauiour very temperate discreet and patient He was farre from the disposition to drinke and domineere in tauernes and ale-houses he did often chide me because I was sometimes forward to goe and other times easie to be drawen vnto such places It were pittie that the memorie of these vertues should haue bin buried with him for I knew hardly any one of his rank euery way for goodnes matchable with him Some may be ready enough to commend themselues though an indifferent man shall haue much adoe to find any thing that is worthy of commendation in them Therefore at his buriall I took this text Prou. 20.6 Most men will proclaime euery one his owne goodnesse but a faithfull man who can find Wednesday the 20. of Iulie I was so beyond measure tormented in the water passage and so burned in the soles of my feet that I was forced to stand barefooted and barelegged yea hauing a vessell of new drinke standing by me with a bagg of purging powder in it for my body could not els be kept from deadly costiuenes I drank glasse after glasse kneeling vpon my knees and calling very lamentably vpon the name of God They that at any time haue drunke healths kneeling had they seene me vpon my knees weeping and praying and drinking would haue bin terrified from that barbarous fashion of theirs Friday the 22. of Iulie I was in the afternoone taken with a deadly paine vpon my left side and therewithal an extreame windie faintnes oppressed the lower parts of my breast so that mine heart was continually ready to faile This held me vntill it was wel nigh midnight I lying full of pain and calling vpon the name of the Lord. Then had I some rest vntill morning and then it beganne againe This praier I oftentimes made vnto the Lord while I was in torment O most gracious God if it be thy good pleasure that I shall in most humble and zealous repentance glorifie thy name vouchsafe for Iesus Christs sake to rebuke this my disease But if it please thee not to make that vse of me because I am most exceedingly vnworthy and vnfit to doe thee any acceptable seruice then most blessed Lord withdraw thine hand from me and let me die For why should we liue any longer to displease and dishonour thee and to cause any more euill vnto my brother and sisters the children of Adam Holy Lord yet I heartily wish glory vnto thy name and all good vnto thy people So I bequeath my selfe vnto thy pleasure My sinne be destroyed thy will be done and blessed for euer be thy name Amen Amen Towards night I felt some ease in my side and breast but was pained in my kidnies The foure and twentieth of Iuly beeing sabbath one supplyed my place at Church and I kept at home That day some came vnto me with whom I fell in talke and by that meanes forgat both the presence of God and the holinesse of the day Monday morning I was sore tormented so that my feete burned very painfully specially the right foote I dranke great plenty of small beere and yet burned stil In this sore torment I praied thus O the fountaine of right goodnes kindnesse and mercy I the most hainous of all thine enemies vpon earth in this my greiuous misery haue none to flie vnto for help but onely thee O holy Lord I haue sinned against thee I haue sinned O I haue sinned and most vnsufferably prouoked thine Almighty maiesty to destroy mee with most wrathfull vengeance And doe I now in my selfe-wrought misery come a begging to thee for ease yea blessed Lord for I haue no whether else to goe therefore I throw my selfe down before thy face humbly crying thee mercie and saying O righteous Lord here lieth thine enemy a great traytor to thy kingdome and glory crauing mercy at thy most mercifull hands and beseeching thee not onely to pardon me thine owne vengeance but also to releeue me in this tormenting misery which I in sinning against thee haue brought vpon my self euen by the wicked disordering and distempering of my bodie Againe me thinkes thou sayest vnto me Ah thou wretched man doe not I shewe thee great mercy in sustaining thy dying life and calling thee vnto me Why doest not thou come nearer vnto me why doest thou not continually set me before thy face and submit thy selfe vnto my pleasure Thou knowest thou art short of this and therefore if thou expectest grace from me come nearer vnto me for thou art yet too farre off to receiue comfort into thy soule O my Lord God I come drawe mee and I will come I will continually minde thee feare thee and call vpon thee Amen Thursday the 28. of Iuly I beeing horribly tormented prayed thus O most gracious God thou seest that this painfull and loathsome disease will greatly hinder me in thy seruice O therefore that it would please thee to ease me of it and to lay some other iudgement vpon me so great as this but not so shameful and hinderous Me thinkes I heare thee say yet againe I tell thee thou sinner when thy seruice pleaseth me my grace shall be euery