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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19716	The care of a Christian conscience Ten sermons on the 25 psalme, preached in Tewkesburie in the countie of Gloucester, By Richard Curtis.	Curteys, Richard, 1532?-1582.	1600 (1600)	STC 6134; ESTC S111010	79,468	216

tokens of the horrible vengeance that is prepared for them at the latter day You sée then that many men are touched with Gods hand which notwithstanding are accursed For they begin their hell in this world as we haue examples of all them that amend not their wicked life when God sendeth afflictions vpon them but a man shal sée them take a corner and stand barking like dogges although they can do no more yet they cease not to shew continuall madnesse or else they are like horse and mule like restie Iades or finally Psal 32.9 they are altogether ouer-sotted so that they know not their owne harme or miserie I meane as to consider the hand that striketh they will crie out Alas and they féele the blowes yet they thinke neuer the more vpon Gods hand neither know they how it is hée that visiteth them Wée sée then before our eyes that many men are the more vnhappy for being chastised at Gods hand because they profite not in his schoole nor yet take any good by his corrections Let vs assure our selues that when God maketh vs to féele his hand so as wée are humbled vnder it he giueth vs a speciall benefit and it is a priuiledge that he giueth to none but to his owne children When we féele the corrections which hée sendeth vs and also are thereby taught to mislike of our selues for our offences to sigh and grone for them before him and to flie to his mercy for refuge it is a token that he hath wrought in our hearts by his holy Spirite For it is too high a point of wisedome to grow in the mind of man it must procéed of the frée goodnes of our God the holy Ghost must first haue softened that cursed hardnes and stubbornes whereunto wée are enclined of nature euer since the transgression of our first parents Adam and Eue. Let vs marke then out of this branch of Dauids prayer In his great afflictions and trauell vexations both of bodie and Spirit which inward griefes procéeded from the remorse of sinne wherewith he was gréeued and tormented that Gods children are not stubborne vnder his hand but are ouermastered and tamed by the working of the holy Ghost to the intent they should not striue against the afflictions which hée sent vnto them But yet wil this saying séeme strāge after the opinion of the flesh for whatsoeuer afflictions or tribulations fal out otherwise then we would haue them wée terme them aduersities When we suffer any hunger thirst cold or heate wée say that euery one of these is an aduersitie Why so The reason is because wée would willingly haue our owne appetites and desires fulfilled in all things And in good sooth this manner of speach to say that the afflictions and tribulations that GOD sendeth vpon vs are aduersities that is to say things against vs is not without reason Neuerthelesse we must vnderstand the end of them namely that Gods scourging of vs is because of our sinnes And therefore by flattering our selues let vs not beguile our selues Furthermore I haue already preached vnto you not onely that it is requisite for vs to consider that Gods scourging of vs is because he hateth sinne and that his summoning of vs before him is to make vs to feele him to be our Iudge but also that we had néede of him to reach out his armes vnto vs and to shew vs that he is ready to be at one with vs whensoeuer wee shall come to him by true repentance So then we perceiue that they whom God chasteneth are happie notwithstanding that we shunne aduersitie as much as we possibly can Also we shall neuer consent to this doctrine to receyue it with our hearts vntill that faith hath made vs to behold the goodnesse of God which hee vseth towards his seruants when hee draweth them backe to himselfe And that we may the better comprehend this let vs marke what becommeth of men when God leaueth them to themselues maketh none accompt of clensing them from their sinnes Looke vpon a man that is giuen to al euill for example a despiser of God If God permit him and chastise him not you shall see him harden himselfe the Deuill shall cary him still farther and farther and therefore it had béene much better for him that he had béene chastised sooner And so the greatest hurt that can light vpon vs is God to suffer vs to welter in our owne wickednes for then must we néeds rotte away in it in the end Looke vpon mine afflictions Text. Doct. 2 2. Doctr. This example of Dauids teacheth vs that in all our miseries we must séeke reliefe onely at Gods hands The Reason is Because first hée hath so commaunded Psal 50.15 Secondly all power to help is onely in his hands 2. Chron. 20.6 And Iehoshaphat said O Lord God of our fathers art not thou God in heauen and raignest not thou ouer all the kingdoms of the heathē in thine hād is power might none is able to withstand thee The vse is first In all our distresses to séeke only to the Lord and that alone by such lawful meanes as he hath warranted in his word Secondly to reproue them that séeke to be relieued by Saincts Angels or any other in heauen then God alone Also them that séeme to séeke only to the true God but vse vnlawfull meanes to haue his helpe as by Coniurers Witches or such like The holy Scriptures forbid all séeking to Sorcerers Witches Astrologers Enchanters Wisards Fortune-tellers such like All which each séekers vnto them al that any thing trust in thē are abominable before the Lord. These vnlawfull artes hinder the kingdome of heauen They are of diuers sortes all which may most fitly be referred to two heads The first are soothsaiers diuiners wizzards iuglers gessers before what shall come after witches by which all vnlawful artes are forbidden Michah 5.2 And I will cut off thine enchaunters out of thine hand and thou shalt haue no more soothsayers In the Hebrue they are called Ceschaphim and Megnonemin They are called Ceschaphim Iuglers or Couzeners such as with Legerdemain deceiue delude the eie-sight but principally in this place the Prophet meaneth such which by witchcraft that is by Magical artes do hold bewitch the sights of mē that they séeme to do those things which in déed they do not or if they be done by the workings of Sathan they are wrought Of this sort were the sorcerers of Egypt Exod. 7.10 Then went Moses and Aaron vnto Pharaoh did as the Lord commaunded and Aaron cast forth his rod before Pharaoh and before his seruants and it was turned into a Serpent vers 11. Then Pharaoh called for the wisemē It seemeth that these were Iannes and Iambres 2. Tim. 3 8. So euer the wicked maliciously resist the truth of God sorcerers those charmers also of Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments vers 12.