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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05517	[A comfortable treatise for the reliefe of such as are afflicted in conscience]	Linaker, Robert, 1550 or 51-1618.	1595 (1595)	STC 15638; ESTC S100280	35,666	76

Iesus Christ that gladlie you would come but that your sinnes doe so clogge and loade your heart with sorrow then heare how againe he replies vpon you saying The tired sinner may boldely come to Christ If the case stand so with thee then come in any wise yea therefore the rather come For if thy sinnes doe put thee to paine and be as a heauie burden to bigge for thee to beare come thy way and say them all vpon my shoulders for my backe is broade inough to beare them all were they neuer so many I am well content to beare the whole loade of them mine owne selfe that thou mayest be fully and for euer discharged Matth. 11.28 Marke well that Christ will saue humbled sinners and none other For such sinners doe I call and such sinners onelie will I saue as are in paine and throughlie tyred with their sinnes As for such sinners as haue store of sinnes hanging vpon them and either doe not feele them or care for no helpe I haue nothing to do with them neither will I be any Sauiour vnto them For the whole neede not the physition but the sicke Matth. 9.12 13. I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Thus farre I haue endeuoured to sati●tie your first and maine obiection and to my power aimed at this marke namely to pacifie your troubled conscience with this comfortable and sound persuasion Rom. 5.1 that beeing iustified by faith you haue peace toward God through our Lorde Iesus Christ by whome you haue boldnesse and entraunce vnto God the Father Ephes 3.12 and that by the powerfull working of Gods spirite which is the spirite of adoption which you haue receiued Ro. 9.15 16 18. whereby you crie Abba Father The same spirite beareth witnesse with your spirit that you are the childe of God And if you bee a childe then are you also an heire of God and a ioynt heire with Christ And therefore not I but Gods holie spirite in the Epistle to the Hebrewes whose wordes you ought both to regard and reuerence saieth vnto you in this wise Hebr. 4.17 Let vs goe boldely vnto the throne of grace that wee may receiue mercie and finde grace to helpe in time of neede I beseech you marke aduisedly that the author of the epistle calleth vpon you to goe and to goe boldely Labour to cast off feare when God would haue you bolde But whither would hee haue you goe forsooth to the throne And to what throne You are louingly called to come to a louely throne hanged all ouer with hangings of grace and mercie Not to a throne of iustice of wrath and condemnation but to a throne of grace and mercie It is indeede a throne of iustice of wrath and condemnation but not to you nor anie such as you are The throne against your comming is couered and hanged all ouer from end to end both wide and side with most rich costly cloth of grace and mercy Thē hangings are al of grace and throughout embrodered with nothing but mercie View them your selfe looke vpon them throughly and you shal finde all mercie and nothing els but mercie Therfore you are willed to come to this throne boldly because it is a throne of grace and mercie And that you may knowe before hand what you shall gaine by your comming thither Mercie welcomes you you are told plainly truely you shall find that which your soul most longeth after store of grace and you shall receaue so much mercy as may helpe you when you shall stand in most neede of mercie Thus must is needs be you must needes be welcome for the Iudge is your great frend and otherwise it cannot be because the iudge himselfe who sits vpon the throne is a iudge ful of mercie clad altogether with rich robes of mercy and your great frend who wil shew you all that fauo● that may be For why he is Iesus your Sauiour Matth. 1.21 who will in no case suffer you to miscarie Here is good occasion offered to answere a second obiection of yours The second obiection and answer which is that you beleeue that Iesus Christ is a perfect and an able Sauiour but not your Sauiour The troubled minde cannot apply Christ to it selfe that he saith come but he saith not come to you But I will prooue he speaketh to you as wel as to any other and that as particularly and as plainly as if he shuld call you by your name and say come M. P. E. I speake vnto thee by name First Aduise your selfe well that he that knowes you calls you Esa 43.1 Feare not for I haue redeemed thee I haue called thee by thy name thou are mine you will grant that in those wordes which you finde thus written in Mathew chap. 11. verse 28. Come vnto me all you that are weary and laden Christ Iesus calleth al sinners generally you are one among the rest Therefore he cals you For he saith he came to cal sinners to repentance Secondly in the forenamed wordes he cals such sinners onely particularlie and by name as are wearie and laden with their sinnes Iudge you whether you be called Are your sinnes pleasant to your palat and sweete vnto your taste Doeth the remembrance of your sinnes make you laugh as though ye were tickled when you thinke vpon them Is it the ioy and pleasure of your sinnes which drawes so great store of falt teares from your eies and fetcheth so many deepe sighes from your heart Doe your sinnes lie vpon your conscience like some little light feather or rather do they not presse and holde you downe as a woonderfull weightie burthen If you be in this case then may you know if you will know that which shall doe you good that he speakes to you by name and saith vnto you come boldly and feare not I will ease thee of all those thy sinnes which are so great a burthen to thy conscience and will giue thee a gracious generall pardon in my death and passion Moreouer I will from top to toe couer and cloath thee with the rich robes of mine owne righteousnesse vnto the full assurance of euerlasting life The third obiection followeth The third obiection answer The troubled mind complaines of the weaknesse of faith that your faith is weake and so weake as you are fully perswaded there is no childe of God hath so weake a faith as you haue I perceiue it fareth with you as it doth with one that is greatly troubled with that tooth-ach gout stone or some such strong disease who being in verie great paine in the extremitie thereof cries out that there was neuer any creature in the world so cruellie tormented And why saith he so forsooth because he feeles his own paine and no other mans beside Enery man complaines of his owne paine therefore he speakes of that which himself feeleth and not of