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A15711	The Christians iewell. Or, The treasure of a good conscience. By William Worship, Doctor of Diuinitie	Worship, William.	1617 (1617)	STC 25985; ESTC S114443	54,901	264

selfe in the surges of temptation is the infallible Truth of Gods Promises For God is not as man that Num. 23. 19. he should lye neither as the sonne of man that he he should repent hath He said and shal He not doe it Hath Hee spoken and shall He not accomplish it Is he not true in him selfe in his words and in his works Is not his Truth sincere without imperfection first without dependance eternall without succession immutable without variation Is not his Word the Ioh. 17 17. Trueth by an excellencie and shall it not remaine in violate when the constant Mat. 5. 18. frame of heauen and earth shall be shaken and dissolued And hath not the Ier. 31. 34. Lord made a Couenant with the Beleeuer and confirmed it by hand-writing 1. Cor. 11. 25. and seales that he will forgiue his iniquity remember his sin no more Then why doe I listen to the deadly Knell of Satan as if I were a fire-brand of Hell without all hope of life and saluation and not rather crie with teares as the Man did in S. Marke Lord Mark 9. 24 I beleeue helpe my vnbeliefe CHAP. LI. Of the Fourteenth Comfort which is the Iustice of God AS out of the Eater came Iudg. 14. 14 meate and out of the Strong came sweetenesse so may there matter of consolation bee fetched from the proprietie of Gods Iustice For first it is neuer executed against the nocent without some mixture of mercie insomuch that the Deuils themselues are not altogether punished so seuerely as they See Hier. Zanch. de Nat. Dei c. 5. deserue Secondly it being against the nature of Iustice that a Debt should be twice payd by the Surety once and againe by the Principall why should I feare the attachment of my person sith my Bonds long Col. 2. 14. since were canceld at Golgotha and nayld to the Crosse of my Redeemer CHAP. LII That all the forenamed Comforts are vneffectual without the Presence of the Holy Ghost BVt in vaine doth Paul 1. Cor. 3. 6. plant and Apollos water vnlesse the Lord do giue increase It is not bread but the Staffe of bread that nourisheth It is the Holy Ghost that is the Comforter euen the Spirit of Trueth Ioh. 14. 16 17. whom the world cānot receiue because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but the Children of God knowe him for Hee dwelleth in them with an vnspeakable ioy which goes a degree beyond Peace of Rom. 14. 17. De Scala Claust Conscience Inexperti talia non intelligunt saith Bernard nisi ea expressiùs legant in libro Experientiae quos ipsa doceat Vnctio Vnexpert men cannot skil of these things nor any but those that expresly reade them in the Book of Experience beeing instructed therein by the Vnction of the Spirit Hanc autem gratiam cui vult quando vult Sponsus tribuit non quasi iure Haereditario possidetur Now the Bridegroome CHRIST IESVS conferres this grace vpon whom he will and when hee will for no man can challenge it as an Heritage The signes sayth Saint Bernard that declare the De Scala Claust presence of the Holy Ghost are chiefely two Suspiria Lachrymae Sighes and Teares O Domine IESV si adeò sunt dulces istae lachrymae quae ex memoria desiderio tui excitantur quàm dulce erit gaudium quod ex manifesta Tui Visione capietur Lord IESV if the teares that are shed in the remembrance and desire of Thee bee so sweete and delightfull how vnspeakeable will that ioy bee that shall bee conceiued in the manifest Vision of Thee Si adeò dulce est flere prote quàm dulce erit gaudere de te If there be such pleasure in weeping for thee Oh what comfort will there be in reioycing in thee CHAP. LIII An Exhortation to the Children of GOD that they striue against their Dumpishnesse and that they be Cheerefull in the Lord. REioyce in the Lord O Psal 33. 1. ye Righteous for it becommeth well the Iust to be thankefull Reioyce in the Phil. 4. 4. Lord alway againe I say Reioyce Sing ye merrily vnto Psal 81. 1. GOD your Strength make a cheereful noyse vnto the GOD of Iacob O Sing Prayses sing Prayses vnto your GOD O sing Prayses sing Prayses vnto your King O giue thankes Psal 47. 6. vnto the LORD for hee is Gracious and his Mercie indureth for euer O giue thankes vnto the GOD of all GODS for his Mercie indureth for euer O thanke Psal 136. 1. 2. 3. the LORD of all LORDS for his Mercie indureth for euer Yea let the Dumbe Isai 35. 6. man Sing and the Lame man leape as an Hart. Hearten vp your selues Psal 42. 5. with the Prophet DAVIDS Apostrophe Why art thou so heauie O my Soule and why art thou so disquieted within me O put thy trust in GOD. Feare not thou woorme Iacob for thy Redeemer Isai 41. 14. the Holy One of Israel will help thee Why shouldest thou say The LORD Isai 49. 14. hath forsaken mee and my LORD hath forgotten me Can a Woman forget her Childe and not haue compassion on the sonne of her Wombe Though they should forget yet will not the LORD forget thee Behold he hath ingrauen thee vpon the palmes of his hands thy Walls are euer in his sight For a moment Isai 54. 8. in his anger hath he hid his face from thee for a little season but with euerlasting Mercie will hee haue compassion on thee Who shall lay any thing to thy charge It is GOD that iustifieth Rom. 8. 33. 34. c. thee Who shal condemne It is CHRIST which is dead yea rather which is risen againe who is also at the right hand of GOD and maketh request for thee Who shall separate thee from the loue of CHRIST Shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednesse or peril or sword No thou maist perswade thy selfe that neyther death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate thee from the loue of GOD which is in Christ Iesus thy Lord. Consider that the Godly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ● th 7. 11. man is a Blessed man and therefore hath his name of Reioycing Consider the saying of Athanasius which is cited by Saint Bernard De modo Bene Viu Ser. 11. Homo tristis semper malitiatur contristat Spiritum Sanctum sibi à Deo donatum A man that is customably sad and dumpish is alwayes hammering some mischiefe and grieueth the Holy Spirit which the Lord hath giuen him Consider that a sorrowfull Pro. 17. 22. minde dryeth vp the bones and riueleth the bodie which is a part of the Image of GOD. Consider that it disableth a man to the performance of the Workes of his Calling

are Good and Euill and first of the Good NOw for the Kindes that I may declare my minde with popular facilitie Conscience is either Good or Euill Good Conscience is that which being inlightned by the Word of GOD Ephes 1. 17 18. 1. Ioh. 1. 7. H●b 9. 14. ● Pet. 1. 8. and purged by the Bloud of Christ from the Guilt and Punishment of Sinne and from dead workes to serue the liuing GOD is cheared vp with ioy vnspeakeable and glorious In this Description are contained the Causes concurrent to the Nature and being of Good Conscience which are Knowledge Faith Repentance Peace of each whereof wee are successiuely to intreat CHAP. XVIII That the knowledge of GODS Word is necessary to the goodnesse of Conscience TO the end the People of Israel might feare the Lord walke in vprightnesse of Conscience before him he is euer calling vpon them to harken vnto his Law which hee commandeth to be written vpon the Posts of their house and Deut. 6. 7. 8. 9. vpon their gates and to be rehearsed or whet continually to their children at home and abroad when they goe to bed and when they ryse in the morning And lest any of them shuld exempt themselues vnder colour of Sexe or Degree or Age hee anticipates with a plain and familiar distribution naming Men Women Deut. 31. 11. 12. Children Strāgers Thus the Prophets also in all matters of Conscience send ouer the People To the Law and To Isai 8. 20. the Testimonie and the Apostle Paul writing to the Colosians Col. 3. 16. giueth charge that the Word of Christ dwell plenteously in them Whereupon Saint Chrysostome very earnestly vrging the practice In Hom. 9. in Epist ad Coloss of this dutie speaketh on this wise Audite obsecro Seculares OMNES comparate vobis Biblia Animae Pharmaca hoc demum malorum omnium Causa est quòd Scripturae ignorātur I beseech you harken All yee that bee Lay-men in any wise get you Bibles the only Physicke for the Soule alas this is the Cause of all mischiefe that men are ignorant of the Scripture Now there are two especial Reasons of this Necessity of the Word to the Goodnesse of Conscience One is because it directeth the Vnderstanding and pointeth it to the middle way betweene the Deut. 5. 32. Right hand and the Left preseruing and staying it in all doubts and demurres vpon warrant of the inviolable truth thereof The other is for that it is a Word of Power working Heb. 4. 12. mightily vpon the affection eyther to the battering of the heart in pieces in which regard it is compared Ier. 23. 29. to a Hammer that breaketh the stone or else to the refreshing of it when it is bruised in which sense it is likened to the dropping Hōny Psal 19. 10 Therefore when wee shall reade the thundering Sentences of the Fathers either in their Apologies of the Christian Faith or Exhortations to the obedience therunto wee must not rest in the applause of their Rhetorick but ascribe the power to that Word which made Foelix tremble or rather to Acts 24. 26. the Lord the Author of that Word The like be affirmed of the incomparable sweetnesse of the Bible euery Leafe whereof is be-sprint with Honie-dew For whereas Ps 119. 103 it is reported of Saint Ambrose by Paulinus that Paulinus ad August wrote his life that lying in his Cradle the Bees were seen to flye in and out at his mouth if he literally vnderstand it I cannot easily concurre with him in opinion but if hee meane it of his mellifluous tongue I willingly imbrace his iudgement yet with this Corollarie that Ambrose had all his Ambrosia from Scripture And here we may take a iust estimate and scantling of the Holinesse of the Rom●n Bishops who haue shrin'd vp Ladie IGNORANCE for a Saint haue painted her face and caused her to speake fierc●ly out of the window to her Opposites forgetting that ere long she shal be thrown downe and trampled vnder foot O the innumerable soules that haue perished in Securitie and Despaire because these Iehoiakims haue Ier. 36. 23. cut their Bibles in pieces with their Pen-kniues and cast them into the fire O Conscience thou maist take it on thy death that thou art murdred by Conscience euen by those that vaunt themselues for thine only Champions and Defenders O wicked Church where Ignorance Errour Ambition and H●pocrisie are the foure Cardinall Vertues whereon the frame of Religion turneth CHAP. XIX That Faith is necessarie to the Goodnesse of Conscience THE conclusion of S Paul is very memorable Rom. 5. 1. Being iustified by Faith wee haue Peace toward God through our LORD IESVS CHRIST For it being generally granted vnlesse by the Sacrilegious Pelagian that the poyson of Originall Sinne transmitted from our first Parents hath spred it selfe ouer all the powers of the soule it must needs follow that Conscience beeing a principall part thereof is corrupted and defiled And because the Guilt of sinne binding ouer vnto punishment is that sharp-pointed sting that woundeth vnto Death can wee euer find redresse and succour but by looking vp to the Brazen Num. 21. 9 Serpent Is there any remission of sinne without bloud Is there any bloud that is Expiatory but Ioh. 3. 14. Heb. 9 22. Christs Will the bloud of Bulls and Goats asswage the pang of a tormented Conscience Will the sending out to the God of Ekron 2 King 1. 2. helpe it Will the precious heapes of the Gold of Hauilah releeue it Will the comfortable Iulep and Trochiske restore it Will the Perfumes of the Garden the straines of Musicke the charme of Oratorie or the These Comedies were of all other most pleasant See Ierome Ad Nepotian sporting Scenes of Atella preuaile with it Nay can Delight her selfe delight it Nay can the Songs of Angels recouer it May not the Conscience in her agonie iustly cry out to these as Iob did to his friends Miserable Iob. 16. 2. Comforters are you all For surely these poore and outward refreshments are no more auaileable for the curing of the Impostume of the soule than a Plantinleafe layd vnto the legge for the remoouall of the Megrimme CHAP. XX. That Repentance is necessary to the goodnesse of Conscience REpentance is so necessary to the constituting of Good Conscience that till sinne bee remooued and newnesse of life begunne the Soule can neyther bee Purified nor Pacified Therfore is King SALOMONS Psal 45. 10. Spouse intreted to forget her Fathers House Grande miraculum saith Saint Ierome Ad Eusto De Cust Virg. P●ter filiam cohortatur ne meminerit Patris sai A strange miracle the Father exhorts the Daughter not to remember her Father And lest that moytie of Repentance might seeme sufficient it presently followeth that the Kings Daughter is all glorious Psal 45. 13. within that is inriched beautified with alspirituall graces