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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02180	A most sweete and assured comfort for all those that are afflicted in consciscience [sic], or troubled in minde. Written by that godly & zealous preacher, M. Richard Greenham. With two comfortable letters to his especiall friends that way greeued.	Greenham, Richard.	1595 (1595)	STC 12321; ESTC S117895	37,612	192

armed souldiers If our friends were the Princes and all the Gouernours of the earth If our possessions wer as long as betweene the East and the west If our meate wer as Manna from heauen If our apparrell were as costly as the Ephod of Aaron If euery day were as glorious as the day of Christs resurrection yet if our mindes bee appalled with the iudgement of God these thinges would little comfort vs. Let experience speake If a troubled minde impayreth not health dryeth not vp the blood consumeth not the marrowe pineth not away the flesh consumeth not the bones if it maketh not al pleasures painfull and shortneth not the life surely no wisedome can councell it no councell can aduise it no aduise can asswage it no asswagement can cure it no eloquence can perswade it no power can ouercome it no Scepter affray it nor inchaunter can inchant it And yet on the contrary if a man languish in sickenes so his hart be whole and is perswaded of the health of his soule his sickenes doth not grieue him If a man bee reproched so he be precious in the sight of God and his Angels what losse hath hee If a man be bannished and yet doubteth not that heauen is his Country and that hee is a Citizen among the Saints it doth not appall him If a man be in trouble of minde and findeth peace of conscience hee will quietly digest his trouble But if the minde bee troubled who dareth meete with the wrath of the Lord of Hoasts who can put to silence the voyce of desperation who will step out and make agreement with the hills to spare vs who dare make a couenant with the diuell that hee would not lay claime vnto vs If then a good conscience helpeth all euills and all other benefites in this life cannot helpe a troubled conscience wee see it true in proofe which here is in prouerbe The Spirit of a man vvill susteine his infirmitie But a vvounded Spirit Who can beare it Againe in all other afflictions we may haue some comfort against sinne this is euer accompanied with sinne A man may be sick reproched imprisoned and banished yet in all these haue a cleare conscience his owne hart telling him that there is no speciall cause of these crosses in him but that hee may suffer them for the triall of his faith or for righteousnes sake and well dooing But when the Spirite is wounded there is a guiltines of sinne and where a mans spirite is troubled hee suspecteth all his wayes hee feareth all his sin he knowes not what sin to begin with it breeds such hurly burly in him that when it is day hee wisheth for night when it is night he would haue it day his meate doth not nourish him his sleep often forsaketh him his dreames are feareful vnto him If he speaketh he is little eased if he keepeth silence hee boyleth in disquietnes of hart the light doth not comfort him the darkenesse doth grieue him To prosecute our comparisons where all other euills are more intolerable because they bee temporall and pursue vs but to death this beeing not cured endeth not in death but becommeth eternall For euen the heathen men thought that death was the end of all misery the perswasion whereof made them beeing in some misery to make an end of themselues and hasten their owne death as Sathan doth make many nowe a daies who are ignorant of hell which is a place of farre greater paines than any they can suffer in this worlde whatsoeuer Howe be it a tormented conscience if before it was begun is now continued or if it was not before now beginneth and neuer endeth world without ende For though true it is that sickenes pouerty imprisonment or bannishment haue ended their terme in death yet a wounded heart which was temporall in this life is nowe eternall after this life that which before death was in hope recouerable is after death made both vncurable vnrecouerable It is good therefore to consider if euen in this life the torment of conscience be so fearefull how much more grieuous is it to susteine it in hell where that is infinite which here is finite where that is vnmeasurable which here is measurable where is the sea of sorrowe whereof this is but a droppe where is the flame of that fire whereof this is lesse then a sparke But to shut vp this argument Some there haue beene who thorowe out all their life time haue been free from all other troubles so as either they felt them not all or else in very small measure and by that meanes neuer knewe what outward trouble meant As for example some men there haue been who for sicknesse neuer knew the head-ache for pouertie neuer knewe what want meant who for discredite were neuer euill spoken of who euer put frō them the euill daye of the Lorde who haue made a league with death as it were a couenant with hell who thought they could crucifie anie crosse rather than come vnder anie Crosse yet they could neuer escape a wounded conscience either in this life or in the life to come True it is that Gods Children doo often escape it but the wicked and such as are borne vnto it as to their sure inheritance the more they flie from it the more it pursueth them If we haue transgressed the Ciuill Lawes the Iudge by bribes may be corrupted if a man haue committed some capitall offence by flying the Countrey hee maye escape the Magistrates hands but our Consciences telling vs that wee haue sinned against God what bribe shall wee offer or whether shall wee flie whether shall we goe from his spirite whether shall wee flie from hys presence If we ascend into heauen is not hee there If we flie to the vtmost parts of the sea is hee not there also There needeth no Paritor to summon vs there needes no Baylie arraunt to fetche vs there needes no accuser to come in agaynst vs sinne will arrest vs and lieth at the Doore our owne Conscience will impanell a Quest against vs our owne heartes will giue in Euidence agaynst vs and our owne iniquitie will pleade vs to be guiltie to our owne faces Now let vs shew how we may preuent it and by what means Gods children falling into some degrees of it for if it rage in extremitie it is an euil vnrecouerable may safely and quietly bee deliuered from it And here a iust complaint is to be taken vp and it is a wonder to be marked if we may wonder at GODS workes that we see so manie carefull and watchfull to auoyd other troubles and so few or none take anie paines to escape the troble of mind which is so greeuous We see men louing health and loathing sicknes in diet temperat in sleep moderate in Phisick expert skilfull to purge and to auoyde such corrupt humours which in time maye breed thogh presently they doo not bring forth sicknes yet to auoyde the