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A76447	The penitent death of a vvoefull sinner. Or, the penitent death of John Atherton executed at Dublin the 5. of December. 1640. With some annotations upon severall passages in it. As also the sermon, with some further enlargements, preached at his buriall. / By Nicholas Barnard Deane of Ardagh in Ireland.	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.; Atherton, John, 1598-1640.	1641 (1641)	Wing B2014; Wing B2017; Thomason E176_3; Thomason E176_4; ESTC R2358	42,210	46

God Rom. 5.1 They report some Fires no thing will quench them but Bloud T is true of the wrath of God for sinne no thing but the bloud of Christ can appease It was Rehoboams speech to the Israelites My little finger shall be heavier than my Fathers loines T is true in this sence for sinne the least degree of Gods displeasure is more than all the worlds A Man without this peace be hee deckt with Iewels is but like a faire Roome richly hung but wants a Roofe who would make choyce of it for his lodging Such is the man be hee never so gorgeously appareld if hee lyes yet open to the revenge of heaven whose iniquities are not covered Let it bee the prayse of Italy to bee the Garden of the world It is a Christians happinesse to be the Garden of God that the Tree of life is in the midst of him that God is at peace with him 2. Hee hath peace of Conscience The Earth no outward weight can moove yet the stirring of a few unruly vapours within will make some parts to quake There are some men no outward Crosses can trouble but the guilt of some secret sinnes within hath made them y Conscientia peccati est formidinis mater Chrysost Nulla prna gravior paenâ malae cōscientiae tremble The soule of a wicked man is often like a * Esay 57.20 troubled Sea or like the Ship in a storme the Disciples were tossed in but assoone as Christ entred there was a calme So as soone as the Conscience is possest of Christ there is peace Some when they are disquieted in their mindes doe as David wished he could doe Psalm 55.7 When fearefulnesse and horrour overwhelmed him Oh that I had wings like a dove then would J flie away and be at rest Goe travell as if they would out ride the crie of Conscience which they carry with them Some send for Musicke as Saul for a Harper when his evill spirit came upon him Others deale with their Consciences that thus arrest them in Gods name as some have done with the Serjeant make him Drunke and so z Timete ipsū alium enim potes fugere te 〈◊〉 autem nunquā falli potuit fa●a conscientia nunquam escape him These wayes and the like had this our Brother tryed formealy but found no found peace till he thus turned to Christ the Prince of it The Marriners in that mighty tempest rowed hard to get the Ship to land but no means would doe till * Jonas 1.15 Ionas was cast out and then presently the Sea ceased from her raging I have beene a witnesse of strong tempests raysed within his Conscience when he first grew sensible but after ●ee had a Conscientia est cordis scientia est Codex animi in quo quotidiana pec cata conscribūtur disburdn'd it and out with those pressing sins in such salt and overflowing teares in Confession and Repentance he soone found the fruit of that call of our Saviour * Matth. 11.28 Come unto me you that are weary and heavy laden and J will give you rest Having like Noahs Dove strayed from the Arke of Christ hee found no rest for the feete of his Soule till he returned to Christ againe T is a usuall division of these foure sorts of Consciences a quiet but not a good neyther good nor quiet a good but not a quiet both good and quiet The two former he had experience of in his life the two latter neere his death the misery of the one and the happinesse of the other which he had so lately exchanged how sensibly have I heard him expresse apprehending in the deepest degree of his humiliation more true content than in the height of all his sinfull pleasures Chrysostome cals the Conscience b Numisma Dei conscientia in solidis Caesar videtur in conscientia Deus agnoscitur Chrysost Gods Coine wherein as the Kings Image is in his so is Gods instamped in this And therefore as we give that which is Cesars to Cesar so hee exhorts to give this which is Gods to God and a c Conscientia bona est templum Salomonis ager benedictionis hortus deliciarum aureum declinatorium arca foederis Thesaurus Regis aula Dei habitaculum Spiritus gaudium Angelorum Hugo de animâ good Conscience before God and man t is the richest pearle the most invalueable treasure under Heaven S. Pauls glory and joy 1 Cor 1.12 Act. 23.1 3. Thirdly he hath peace with Death a Bee without her sting is more feared than hurtfull T is so with this once freed from the guilt of sinne the d 1 Cor. 15.56 sting of it Hee that knowes he owes nothing flies not the aproach of the Bayliffe He that is assured of the blotting out of the hand-writing that was against him needs not to shun the arrest of death Be it sudden yet t is not untimely to him What a measure of this Christian valour was found in this our Brother after this spirituall sealing hath been * See the Relation pag. 30.31 manifested before many witnesses and needs not any repetition here Onely observe what this blessed change in him had wrought in others of him Hee once wept much by himselfe in private when the tongues of men with good cause were open against him in publike Now teares of all sorts are shed for him publikely when hee had Comforts within himselfe secretly Hee that was hated at his Condemnation is lov'd at his Execution Such as were griev'd at his life are comforted at his Death He began with his owne teares he departs with the sobs of others And I doubt not but what hee sowed in teares hee reapes in joy what was seal'd here on Earth is ratified in Heaven From a Death temporall hee is passed to a life eternall Vnto which God of his mercie bring us all for the merites of his deare Sonne To whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and evermore Amen FINIS These Errors following which by the necessity of the Authors Absence hath happened thou hast here corrected for any other mistakes in the distinctions they are left to thy owne ingenuous apprehension Errata in the Relation Pag. 2. marg l. 37. r. de via p. 4. l. 7. r. their prisoners r. his Throne p. 5. l. 27. m.r. lenit p. 11. l. 18. m. r. admisceat p. 12. l. 33. r. this death p. 14. l. 28. m. Nam r. Now. p. 15. l. 21. m r. Principes l. 24. r. proprijs giratur p. 17. l. 27. m. r. nolle p. 20. l. 19. m. r. gustus p. 22. l. 8. dele and. l. 26. we r. he p. 30. l. 24. r. from you p. 31. l. 9. r. Lord now Errata in the Sermon Pag. 2. l. 12. r. the works p. 7. l. 14. dele yet p. 12. l. 15. m. r. Erasm l. 23. r. triturator p. 17. l. 11. r. as at m. l. 2. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 3. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 34. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 19. l. 1. r. Catechisandis p. 20. m. l. 21. r. speculator p. 24. l. 18. r. give it p. 25. l. 14. r. Now as p. 26. l. 18. dele when p. 31. l. 2. dele to l. 10. r. alis p. 34. l. 20. m. dele p. 35. l. 17 r. often warned p. 37. l. 29. too r. to p. 38. l. 9. r. sore gripes p. 39. l. 4. dele a.