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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20782	The iaylors conuersion Wherein is liuely represented, the true image of a soule rightlye touched, and conuerted by the spirit of God. The waightie circumstances of which supernaturall worke, for the sweete amplifications, and fit applications to the present time, are now set downe for the comfort of the strong, and confirmation of the weake. By Hugh Dowriche Batch. of Diuinitie.	Dowriche, Hugh, b. 1552 or 3.	1596 (1596)	STC 7160; ESTC S111947	34,879	82

estate Therfore the Lord sent them the voice of a more terible preacher which shooke both bodies and houses all at once assaying by this meanes to bring their impenitent harts to some shaking feeling and feare of conscience for their sinnes But as Which was felt about the yeare 1580. that Earthquake shewed them so our last Earthquake and other tokens sithens shew vs plainely now the estate wherin we stand which is that we yet continue in our sinnes That we despise the voice of the Gospel neede a more sharp preacher it openeth our securitie it threatneth Gods iustice in seueritie it promiseth our punishment shews vs that it is very neere the last time of warning Happie wee see are they which come when the Lord calleth them for many bee called but few are chosen few come What callings should we looke for more then wee haue had Wee haue had our daughter diseased our sonne sicke our seruant like to die wee haue seene fearefull signes ouer Ierusalem we haue heard of the gatherings of the confederacies and conspiracies of many nations against vs we haue found little faith in our friends little loyaltie in our owne naturall children great falsehoode in friendly face great diuisions quarrels and hartburnings amongst our selues many Malcontent dayly rising and a thousand other such callings besides the consideration of the silly threede of our happie estate depending vpon one and in earthly respects but one onely the vncertaintie of all things when God shall visite vs the turmoyles and hurliburlies that we may long before plainely see if God of his mercy helpe not These thinges are considered of few of many not accounted of and feared of none What will the ende of these things bee Let all the inhabitants of England crie Lord saue our Noble Queene Elizabeth from treason at home and from forraine enemies abroade Lord forgiue her her sinnes and vs our wickednes and graunt if it be thy will that she may yet long and long time in peace and in saftie preserue this her Noble Realme of England Amen Lastly we learne the great mercies of our God For he chideth before he stricke hee warneth before he destroyeth he punisheth not till he haue vsed all meanes to haue vs returne Hee giueth sinners both grace and space to repent and to seeke which waye they may be saued with this sinfull Iaylor The fift and last circumstance The time when he fell to haue this care what hee might doe to be saued He neuer fell to this consideration till the Lord drew him vnto it by his spirit For in the nature of maÌ„ ther is no good thought motion or power to returne from euill to consider and see our sinnes or to lament and be sorrie for them and at the word to seeke for remedy against them but rather a desire will and affection still to remaine in them Therefore Christ said No man can come vnto me except my father draw him This man Iohn 6. 37. 44. 3. 27 had his part of two motions The one outward by the miracle the other inward by the holy Ghost Application Doctrine Where first we see that all our labour trauaile is lost in preaching and opening the Scripture outwardly to the eare except the spirit also preach inwardly to the heart For men are of themselues deafe and dull till God doe open their harts and giue them a new vnderstanding as he gaue to Lidia to this Iaylor and many other Againe we see how naked weake miserable we be of our selues and that if wee were not gouerned and nourished by better power then our owne how quickely miserably wee should perish Therefore this consideration may serue to conquer the spirit of pride in our freewill men when they shall know that in their flesh and humaine nature ther is no goodnes at all that they can performe nothing that is good without him that said Without me ye can do nothing 1. Cor. 4. 7. Act. 20. 35. What hast thou saith Paule which thou hast not receiued We learne that faith is not in the power nature of maÌ„ to beleue or not to beleue wheÌ„ Ep. 1. 18. 19 1. Cor. 12 â— 9 11. it pleseth him but that it is the free gift of God for Christs sake vnto those that are his choseÌ„ For if it were in the nature of man then all Phil. 1. 29. 2. Thes 3 2. men shuld beleue But Al men haue not faith therefore it is in vs a worke supernaturall wrought by the spirite of God onely The want of the presence and working of which spirit in the harts of men makes them that they haue no desire to heare the word and when they doe heare it they take no profit by it for it is saide But the word which they heard profited them not because it was not mixted Heb. 4. 20 with faith in them that heard it Where wee see a notable relation betweene fayth the word The one can neuer be effectual without the other They goe both together Therefore as soone as there was a fayth kindle in the hart of this Iaylor by the holy Ghost he seekes presently for the word as the body for the soule For as the body is a dead thing without the soule so the word also hath no life effect or motion without faith Now wee see why many Gentlemen Countriemen and others are yet either Atheists â—esters in Religion or despisers of the word because as yet with this Iaylor they haue not receiued the gift of faith c. Here we vnderstand that all shall not be saued against the error of Origen for without faith none can be saued but none haue faith but they onely whome God the father gaue vnto his sonne Christ But hee saith I pray not for the world but for them which thou Ioh. 17. 9. hast giuen me Therefore the elect which are separated from the world that is the reprobate by the free election and donation of God and are garded by the continuall prayer of Christ are they onely that shall bee saued Of which number wee see now this Iaylor by his calling and faith to bee one For Gods election oftentimes lyeth hid vnder a wicked life till the time of their conuersion come which the Lord hath appointed All are not wee see drawne to Christ in one manner for there bee many which professe Religion and talke much of Christ whome God the father by his spirite neuer drew but either their bellie hope of honor vaine glorie c. No maruaile though they belieue not rightly and though they continue not long in a good course Such are many of our earnest Iesuites Papists and libertine professors of the Gospell of Christ Lastly when it is saide that this Iaylor was drawne to this Religion to this godly care and in like manner all the elect wee learne what vnwillingnes what slacknesse what negligence wee vse in our comming to Christ and that wee of our owne nature haue no list affection or good will to come longer then God by his spirite moueth vs and compelleth vs. Therefore if Christ should looke for vs till wee should come of our selues wee should surely neuer see him nor haue any part in him Let vs therefore desire the Lord that as he by his holy spirit drew this Iaylor from the miserable thraldome of ignorance error and iniquitie and planted a desire in him to seeke the truth and by the same gaue him both comfort saluation So in like manner that he will by the same spirite moue our hard hearts to lament our sinne open our blinde eyes to see our imperfection and draw our proude stomakes to humble our affections to the obedience of the word and kindle in vs a loue to like and seeke the same that wee also in our most extremities may by Christ receiue light helpe and euerlasting comfort which the Lord God graunt vnto vs for his deare Sonne Iesus Christs sake to whome with the holy Ghost three persons and one eternall God be al honor power praise glorie and dominion both now and euer Let all praise and glorie be giuen to God alone FINIS

his ignorance saw his owne sinne vnderstoode the vanitie of his masters the Scribes and Pharisies perceiued himselfe to bee in an error humbled himselfe to them whom before he had abused and with teares sought their comfort whom he thought before to be comfortlesse desiring of them to know the right way to bee saued whome a litle before he had condemned as those that helde some wrong opinions c. Applicati âˆ£ on and Doctrine First we see that though God suffered his elect his seruants his truth by tyrants wicked and malicious enemies in our iudgement to bee oppressed ouerborne and troden vnder yet he neuer leaueth nor forsaketh them but is present with them in their prisons in the stockes in the darke and vgly pits hee sitteth with them hee suffereth with them he comforteth them he strengthneth them he heareth their praiers when Psal 34. 19. 145. 18. 34. 16. Act. 4. 31. 12. 10. it pleaseth him to deliuer them the strongest Irons prisons and tyrants in the world shall not be able to hold them And here we are to remember what difference there is betweene the miseries that we feele for the cause of Christ and the torments which are put vpon vs for our owne wickednesse For when we are cast into prison Act. 11. 4 Mat. 25. 40 Zakar 2. 8. Ephe. 1. 22. 4. 13 15. for Christes cause Christ is there with vs when we suffer for him he is grieued with vs for the head cannot be quiet if the body be in paine These haue alwaies such peace and ioye in their conscience that suffer for the truth that when they are whipped they reioyce when they are wounded they are Act. 5. 4. Gal. 6. 17. not agrieued when they are tyed to the stakes they triumph in the middest of the fire the ioy of a good conscience is so great and the earnest desire and assured comfort of the present receiuing of that vnspeakable ioy that will neuer faile makes the greatest torments seeme euen to flesh bloud either verie little or no paine at all knowing assuredly that they could not suffer for Christ Phil. 1. 29 Rom. 9. 29. 2. Cor. 4. 10 Luk. 24. 26. except they were thereunto appointed that they in these passions might bee made like vnto the sonne of God And assuring themselues that assone as they be deliuered from the stincking prison of this filthie carkasse their soule shall be presently in the hand of Deut. 33. 3. Wis 3. 1. 2. Tim. 2. 11 Psal 116. 15 Apo. 14. 13. the Lord wher no torment shal touch them that they shal be presently with Christ in his kingdome with whome and for whome they haue suffered and their death being precious in the sight of the Lord they feele that they are most happie of all other that die in the quarrell of Christ Of the other side they which suffer iustly for their theeuerie murder whordome or any other like vice they feele most horrible horror of conscience and torment both of body mind being seperated from Christ and hauing no peace or ioy in their heart by the quietnesse of a good conscience and assured trust in the mercie of God And therfore many of them in their tormentes and death lamentably houle without hope without comfort being without the companie of Christ and so in miserable desperation without especiall grace oftentimes end a wretched life Here wee must remember that God doth often giue repentant hearts to such as haue committed and doe suffer for most vile offences of whome we are to iudge the best Wee learne heere to haue alwaies a sure hope and confidence in the Lord our cause being his that though we alwaies see not his power and will ready to deliuer vs when our fleshe doeth desire it yet let vs assure our selues that hee is with vs and that hee will helpe and deliuer vs when he seeth his time We see how quickly God can pul downe the pride and confound the deuises of his enemies by such meanes as they can neither suspect nor preuent and how quickly he can turne the hearts of the wicked and enemies to cherish and fauour his seruantes and truth if he list We may learne of this Iaylor here a notable The right vse of Gods iudgments lesson which is to make our right and true vse of the iudgements of God when we see or feele them which is that by them we descend into a deepe consideration of our owne estate life and behauiour and see whether these iudgements fall not vpon vs for our pride our wantonnesse whordome murder ignorance ingratitude negligence contempt of Gods truth and euil intreating the seruants of God Which all it seemeth that this man considered for he feeling the Earthquake and knowing that it was the hand of the Lord hee fell presently to view his life the damnable estate wherein hee stoode and the lamentable miserie that hee was to fall into if his life at that instant should haue been taken from him He comes therefore and desireth the true Phisicke not that which comforteth the body but that which preserueth the soule What shall I doe that I may be saued How many of vs in England either high or low haue with our selues entered into this consideration hauing felt the like Earthquakes and many other signes and tokens I doubt not but there be some which haue though it be perchance a little some In all Philippie the Scripture maks mention but of a few which were conuerted thoroughly and made to see and acknowledge their sinne Wee reade that the rulers were moued but this motion proceeded not so farre as to make them to see the estate wherein they stoode Therefore we see that the signes and wonders of the Lord are not effectuall in all but onely in such as are his and were before known in his purpose The cause of this defect is not in the iudgements themselues but in the hardnes and sinne of their froward hearts that see them as the cause why a blinde man taketh no comfort of the sunne is not in the sunne it selfe but in the fault of his owne eyes It may be that many of our Rulers our great men and Gentlemen were at that present when they felt Gods hand shaken vppon them in the last Earthquake moued and troubled in minde but it was such a motion as the proude Pharisies felt which was not so soone suddenly conceiued but it was euen as soone and suddenly forgotten It was not such a motion as the Iaylor here felt which made him see his sinne his imperfections his wicked life and raysed in him a hartie repentaunce for the same and which caused him to giue ouer all other cares as one now wholly mortified to seeke onely the right way how he might be saued For this motion of the Iaylor had the spirite of the holy Ghost ioyned with it which moued inwardly and effectually the heart with the outward motions of the body the other moued but the outward limbes and sences with a suddaine fleshly feare without the spirite of

God For let vs see how many great men gentlemen rich men which before that time were whoremongers adulterers vsurers theeues pirats rackers of rents and and vnmerciful to their poore tenants how manye that were swearers blasphemers Athiests of no Religion neither hote nor colde wantons and libertines haue beene sithens soundly conuerted haue taken an accounte of their liues of their behauiours of their sinnes and haue repented hartely for them and haue come vnto their Preachers and Ministers to learne the right way to be saued and haue euer sithens continued in that godly course which all we see this Iaylor did I know not what other preachers can testifie but for my selfe I can witnesse but of a verie few or rather none There were in some fewe places solemne generall fastes by the Pastors proclaimed many did resorte from manye places perchance many for the noueltie of the matter more then for any touch of conscience but the follie of some the great hypocrisie of a number the short continuance of the good mind the quicke forgetting of these iudgements and the murmuring of manye against these proceedings doe argue plainely that the best of vs all were farre from the perfect inioying of that sweete motion which called this Iaylor to a sorrowfull repentance and kept him alwaies in a perfect obedience If we consider this we may lament that the Lord in 38. yeares peace and preaching of the Gospel hath not by his grace giuen vnto vs so perfect harts and sorrowfull consideration of our sin neither such desire to seeke him nor such obedience to heare him belieue him and continue with him as at a suddaine hee gaue then vnto this poore and miserable Iaylor but now a happie and ioyful belieuer God graunt that we now seeing our want our imperfections and our blindnesse which is the curse of God vppon our sinne may with this Iaylor be perfectly by the spirite of God moued vpon the sight of our sinne to true repentance to humble hearts to an earnest desire to seeke our saluation in Christ that so we may continue in perfect obedience to the worde of life and vnder the protection of Christ escape those plagues miseries warres and calamities which our sinne rebellion and vnthankfulnesse doe now threaten to pull vpon vs. Lastly this Iaylor receiued no comfort ioye or peace of conscience vntill hee was moued by the spirit of God to loue comfort the preachers of the word to heare the voice of the Gospell and yeelde obedience vnto the same so we learne that we which are sicke are not to hope for health we that are weake are not to looke for strength and we that are wicked are not to promise vnto our selues pardon and forgiuenesse vntill we haue with sorrow confessed and acknowledged our sicknesse weakenesse and wickednes and haue sought helpe at the Lord and his word and haue freely and willingly submitted our rebelling affections to the orders and direction of the same The second circumstance Of whom he demaunded this question Hee came to the poore Apostles The keeper to his prisoners a free-man to them that were in bondage he that before thoght well of himselfe vnto men that were despised c. For now out of all question hee knew assuredly that they were the seruants of God and preachers of the truth Which opinion he had conceiued by this strange and wonderfull miracle which GOD for their sakes had lately wrought It may be marueled why he feeling his conscience sore burdened with feare sorrow griefe and remorse of sinne had not gon for comfort and consolation vnto the great Scribes and Pharisies which before had taught him Surely the spirit of God had secretly made him to see that they were all blinde guides that they were farre out of the right way therfore now at length was well content to forsake them all and to yeelde vnto the manifest truth which at this time appeared plainly and would no longer wilfully stoppe his eares and refuse the proffered grace Wherin hee did maruelously disgrace the whole company of the Priests Scribes Doctors in that hee preferred these mens learning counsell and doctrine before all theirs These being poore men straungers and in the outward shew of the world abiects and the other men rich glorious graue and in the opinion of most men learned and great Rabbies Besides all this he put him selfe in great daunger of excommunication of life and liuing which they had published against Io. 9. 23 34. all such as should enter either acquaintance or familiaritie with them which spake or taught in the name of Iesus whom they had crucified Yet we see that hee casting away all feare and not consulting with flesh and Gala. 1. 16. bloud submitted himselfe happyly to bee a Scholer vnto these Apostles Application Doctrine First we learne in our extremities miseries feare doubts heauie trouble of conscience where we are to seeke for ease helpe and comfort not of the blinded proude and cruel Pharisie which is not acquainted with the motions of Gods spirit but of the pure word of God reuealed and preached vnto vs and of the true preachers and Apostles which leade vs directly to Christ no other When we will take comfort by the word we must not consult with the Papists Torrensis in confess Augustiniana lib. 1. cap. 7. Housius de expresso verbo the Iudasites terming themselues Iesuites for they will tell vs that the Scriptures are hard and obscure and that it is but lost labour to reade them c. But the spirite of God in the Scripture teacheth vs the contrarie that the worde of the Lord is a light Psal 119. Prou. 6. Esay 45. Iohn 6. 2. Pet. 1. vnto our feete and a lanthrone vnto our pathes When wee are troubled with concupisence the first motions of sinne the prickes of Sathan in our flesh which driue the godly to great sorrow we may not goe for counsell Torrens lib. 1. ca. 2. Cathechismus ex decret Cons Trident. in Sacra Baptism and remedy vnto the Pharisaicall Papist for hee will goe about to perswade vs that this Concupisence and the first motions are no sinne in their owne nature neither any sinne at all either in name or substance except Consent go with it which deuilish voice and lie is confuted by the word of God for it is called Enmitie against God it is against the commaundement Thou shalt not lust or couet It confirmes their horrible sin which Rom. 8. 7. Exod. 20. 17 1. Iohn 1. â— Mat. 5. 22. say They haue no sinne Christ accountes the motion of anger a deadly sinne and worthie iudgement Lastly the definition of sinne by Saint Iohn confutes them Sinne is the transgression 1. Iohn 3. 4 of the law Litle comfort shall the weake younglings finde in them which

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