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A01629	The true tryall and examination of a mans owne selfe wherein euery faithfull Christian, by looking into his conscience, may most plainely behold his spirituall deformity by nature, described, his actuall rebellion by disobedience detected, his promise breach at baptisme, by ordinary transgression apparantly proued, his lamentable estate through sinne discouered, his wilfull obstinacie by dayly disorder displayed, and lastly howe by earnest repentaunce, and faith in Christ Iesu, he is from all the same clearely pardoned, forgiuen, released and reconciled / done in Englishe by Tho. Newton.	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 11761.5; ESTC S4316	74,045	216

sisters c. euen as thou also somewhile must smart for others sinnes For thus doe we miserable and wretched men draw one an other into daunger and one of vs is guide and companion vnto another in running headlong to the place of torment damnation This doeth God himselfe affirme when as in the beginning of his decalogue he sayth I am the Lorde thy God a ielous God visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children vpon the third and vpon the fourth generation of them that hau● me So for one sinne of king Dauid there were slame many thousandes of his people and for his adulterie committed with Vrias wife the child which she bore him dyed And againe For the sinnes of the people the Lord setteth ouer them cruell tyrauntes and rauening hypocrites Hely the Priest and all his posteritie was punished for the sinnes of his children Ah what a sea of mischiefes doth euen one sinne bring with it 8 Eightly there is yet one thing behinde to be considered which is most dreadfull and formidable By reason of thy sinnes thou art made guiltie of eternall damnation and after greeuous punishmentes sustayned here in this worlde there remayne yet behinde other tormentes to be suffered in an other and the same much more terrible bitter and lasting For there both bodie and soule together are subiected and adiudged to eternall tormentes and fire that neuer shall bee quenched which God from afore the beginning of the world hath prepared for the Diuell and all the contemners of his precepts and commaundements Now how horrible a thing it is and what an vnspeakable punishment it is euerlastingly to be depriued of the presence face of Almightie God and to burne in hell with vnquenchable fire that shal neuer be consumed there is no man that can so much as conceiue in mind or cogitation Goe to nowe therefore whosoeuer thou art and by this that we haue alreadie spoken of the law of the Lord learne to examine thy conscience and to make perfect tryall and suruey of thy selfe Doubtlesse when thou hast a little while continued and gone forward in this way and course which wee haue heere shewed and attentiuely considered such things as haue beene declared I doubt not but that thou wilt by and by and without delay euen wi●● sighes and teares burst out into this confession O heauenly father J haue sinned against heauen and against thee I am not worthie to bee called thy Sonne I am not worthie to lifte vp mine eves towardes heauen Looke howe much I being once in Baptisme purged from my sinnes in the bloud of thy sonne and sanctified by receiuing the holy Ghost did in the same please thee somuch againe must I needes by reason of my manifolde sinnes since cōmitted displease thee Nowe the sinnes which I haue committed if I should go about to number them they are infinite For there is not one of thy holy precepts commaundements against which I haue not committed many offences sundry transgressions Many be they which I haue committed in acte and deede and such as I haue not actually brought to passe and done yet through my corrupt cogitations and vncleane will I am as deepely guiltie of as if I in act had committed them To be briefe my sinnes surmount the sands of the Sea if I make diligent search and inquirie of the greuousnesse of my sinnes I truely find them haynouser greater than I am able to vtter What say I vtter Nay than I can in mind conceiue or in inwarde cogitation comprehende Certes so often as I looke into and behold with the eyes of my minde my frowarde heart cankered stomack peruerse disposition euer enclined to euil which thou Lord most cleerely throughly seest togither with my desire and delight to performe the same the verie remembrance of my great and greeuous maliciousnesse driueth mee into such perplexitie that I no wayes know whither to turne me Whither Lorde shall I go from thy spirit and whither shal J flee from thy presence Yea this further doth merueilously disquiet torment greeue mee for by my sinnes I haue giuen offence that is occasion of fall and ruine to a great sort of others being harmlesse honest persons Wilt thou Lord as a iust and vpright iudge require the bloud of them also at my hands What shal I further do seeing I haue burdened and spotted my conscience by assenting also to other mens sinnes in not disswading reclaiming them before they did euil in not reprouing and rebuking them after they had done euil Ah how much better had it beene that being a man I had neuer beene so familiar among men What miserie is this I am the cause of an other mans offending an other man likewise to me and thus doe wee all encumber and loade one another with sinnes and dragg pull hale drawe one another into the break-necke fall and lamentable gulfe of eternall damnation If thou Lorde wilt strictly looke what is amisse narrowly enquire of our iniquities O Lorde who shal be able to abide it Moreouer when I do somewhat further consider my sinnes I see a great heape yet behind many mo than now come to memorie manye lewde prankes heretofore by me most wickedly haue been don which I then thought had not been wicked neither can I at this present houre sufficiētly so iudge deeme of them which ignorance blindnesse and infirmitie of mine in this behalf I must needs confesse wil I nill to be imputable vnto me for a most greeuous and haynous sinne And herein I perceiue that although I had committed none euil at all afore yet to haue herein again deserued euerlasting tormentes I had almost sayed why Lord wouldst thou that this naughtie and corrupt ignorance should thus originally be bred in vs and thus still to cleaue vnto vs Alas I haue no sacrifice to offer vnto thee to satisfie for mine ignorance Nowe what shall I say of my negligence in not doing those good works which thou in thy law hast commanded and appointed Or if I haue done any at all yet was it not sincerely done but many wayes infected with hipocrisie and other vices For to omitte a good worke and to doc an ill worke are with thee accompted alike All these things therefore I cōfesse do most vehemently good cause why disquiet and greeue inee For my sinnes are they for which O God thou iustly inflictest greeuous punishments and plagues aswell spirituall and internall as corporall and externall And whereas I dayly finde the same by experience true partly in my selfe partly in others yet such is my blindnesse hardnesse of heart that I am nothing at all as yet mooued thereby vnto any repentance or amendment To al these aforesaid euils there is to be added yet another heap of mischiefs vz that for these sinnes of mine a great many other innocents gyltles persons be ioyntly with me for

clear conscience toward God and toward men we will endeuour the best we can according to that proportion and measure of skill wherewith the Lord hath endued vs plainely and familiarly to declare beseeching the eternall and blessed Spirite of God who was sent downe from heauen from the Father and the Sonne to teach vs all trueth so to direct our vnderstandinges and to further our endeuours that we may set downe nothing but that which shall be meete wholsome and profitable to instruct Christian consciences withall and moreouer so to moue and enflame the heartes and mindes of all such as shall reade these our dooings that as we simplie and with a desire to profite them haue taken this trauaile in hand so they with the like singlenes and meaning may reade the same and apply all thinges herein comprised to their godly furtheraunce and edification CHAP. 2 The examination and tryall of our owne selues must first beginne at the consideration of our owne corrupt nature WHosoeuer thou be that art inwardly touched with any care of thine owne saluation and doest inwardly groane with earnest desire to stande in the fauour of God and to bee at one with him first of all and before all other thinges I pray thee enter into thy selfe descende into thine owne conscience and make a true surueye of thine inwarde man and thou shalt quickly finde I warrant thee what a suttle craftie Foxe euer hauing recourse to his peeuish nature thou fosterest and keepest within that same fulsome stinking breast of thine The first step to get helpe and the chiefest way to recouer health is for a man to know himselfe In vaine is the medicin ministred where the disease is dissemblingly couered and kept vnknowen Wilt thou therfore that I shall plainly tell thee what maner of person thou art and what disease thou hast I saye thou art nothing else but sinne thou art euery whitte of thee a wretched sinner and guiltie of euerlasting damnation Neuer goe about to denie it seeke no shifts or euasions to gainesay it neither take any exception against it The very woorde of God himselfe doth conuince thee the prickes of thine owne conscience doe ouerthrow thee and daily experience doth detect thee For first the worde of God sayeth thus of thy nature being altogether corrupted and stained thorough the fall and transgression of our first Parentes and of thy sinne which by propagation thou hast from them By one man sinne entered into the world By the offence of one the fault came on all men to condemnation Againe Beholde in iniquitie was I borne and in sin hath my mother conceiued me Againe The imagination of mans heart is euill euen from his youth Againe Euerie man is a lyer Againe I knowe that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing And By nature we are the children of wrath And feelest thou not within thee manifest effectes of sinne to wit the lustes and affections of the flesh leading thee away from God and making thee both vnwilling and vnable to liue vnder his lawe Feelest thou not another lawe in thy members still rebelling against the lawe of thy minde Thou feelest thou feelest no doubt the cumbersome suggestions of sin dwelling in thee continually drawing thee away from doing good and still egging thee forwarde to commit euill Thou feelest I say the wofull effectes of originall sinne euen a minde voide of the feare of God Thou feelest thy selfe not to loue God with all thy hart with all thy soule with all thy strength as thou oughtest to doe and as thou art bound to doe Thou findest in thy selfe and proouest by experience that thou art besieged and besette with sorrowe griefe heauinesse and infinite other like vexations of thy soule Moreouer thou canst not but see these our bodies are subiect to innumerable miseries thou seest the number of diseases assaulting vs the extremitie of famine pinching vs the ramping rage of hunger afflicting vs the miserable plague of thirst distressing vs thou seest death with his gryping pawe daylie catching haling and making hauocke of vs. And all these are punishmentes appointed of God for sinne originall Through sinne death entred into the world To be short thou feelest and findest a iust punishment deserued plague euen in these outwarde thinges The earth bringeth forth thornes brambles thystles noisome weeds many hurtfull thinges besides It bringeth forth no good thing vnlesse it bee tilled manured with great labour Finallie what thinges soeuer for the maintenance and sustentation of this our fraile transitorie life are requisite and needefull the same are we of necessitie driuen to seeke procure with continual cares and troublesome toile All these discommodities and all other miseries whatsoeuer wee must knowe and wee ought to knowe to be sent vnto vs and inflicted vpon vs as a penaltie or amercement for originall sinne Cursed saith God to the first transgressour Adam he the earth for thy sake in sorrowe shalt thou eat of it all the daies of thy life thornes and thistles shall is bring forth to thee and thou shalt eate the herbe of the fielde in the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bread Now therefore aswell by the authority of the word of God as by the sense and feeling of such calamities and miseries as euery man euidently seeth findeth in his mind in his body and in the outwarde thinges of the worlde I thinke thou art sufficiently perswaded yea too too plainely conuicted that thou canst not but wil thou nil thou thou must needes confesse thy selfe to be a sinner born that thou art guilty of euerlasting damnation euen in this respect for that thou art a mā issued descended from that first man Adam yea although thou thy self in al thy life haddest actually cōmitted none euill When all these thinges are well imprinted in thy mind and that thou art throughly resolued and perswaded that all this afore spoken is true the best and next way for thee to take that desirest and meanest to examine thy selfe is diligently to consider these pointes following First to bow the knees of thine hart before the tribunal seat of God to cōfesse thy faultes sins to submit cōmit thy selfe wholly vnder the mighty hand of God ready to abide his diuine pleasure if in the seuerity of his iustice rather than in his mercy he will deale with thee according to the tenour of that sentence of incurring eternall death which hee pronounced vnto man before his fall Whensoeuer sayth he you shall eate thereof ye shall die Then as often as thou feelest the effects of sinne and the punishments thereof such as wee haue alreadie saide continually to bee perceiued seene and felt in our mindes in our bodies and in all our thinges subiect to our outwarde senses so often call to remembrance that the same ought to serue thee as tokens and to put thee in

out of that trade of life wherein thou liuest Sinnes Inwarde COnsider well with thy selfe whether thou haue not nowe and than conceiued some erroneous opinions in thy minde of the onelye true and eternall God whereby thou haste beene drawen and moued either to some godlesse doubting or to some curious questioning Whether thou be ignoraunt or vnready in any of those cheefe points of doctrine Faith and Religion which al Christians are bounde to knowe and vnderstand Whether thou haue secreatly in heart or otherwise priuily assented to any manner of iustly condemned heresie Whether when thou hast seene the wicked to floorish in their ruffling deuises and to haue the worlde at will whereas on the contrary side the godly haue beene and are commonly afflicted with aduersitie when thou hast seene manie thinges to come to passe in the worlde disorderly thou haue thereupon doubted of the prouidence or wisedome of God Whether thou hast beene alwaies certainely perswaded in thy conscience that aswell aduersitie as prosperitie and trouble aswell as quietnes is sent by the good wil of almighty God and whether in all seasons thou hast thou hast put thy whole trust and confidence in him onely Whether thou haue patiently suffered all daungers that haue come vnto thee without any murmuring against God or kicking against his fatherly chastisement whether thou haue entirely therein resigned thy will to his diuine pleasure accounting and confessing thy selfe worthy of those greater scourges Whether when thou hast beene in great daungers and perills thou haue had any distrust that god either would not or could not deliuer thee By the ●ne thou hast derogated from the goodnesse of God by the other from his power But both the one and the other be directly against his promises Whether thou haue beene puffed vp with pride and arrogancie for the gifts that God hath bestowed on thee glorying therefore in thy selfe rather than in God and for the same hast disdained thy brethren For all pride tendeth to the hinderance of the glorie of God Whether for the obtaining of saluation thou haue ascribed any part therof either to thine owne or to any other mans merites and haue not depended wholly and onely vpon the merites of Christ and his diuine mercie Whether thou haue addicted thy minde to any manner of thing then to God For that thing is to euerie man his God which he chiefly loueth and specially delighteth in whether the same be Angell or man or what creature else soeuer Whether thou haue doone suche things as serue for the honour of god syncerely and simply for the l●ue thou bearest vnto God himselfe and not for any other ends whether thou haue done such thinges vnfeinedly with all thy heart with all thy minde with all thy strength For without a sincere meaning thy seruice and obedience is hypocriticall and being vnperfect it maketh thee guilty Sinnes externall and outward THese sinnes doe proceede also all of them from the heart For they are first inward and internall but when they burst out into act then are they also outwarde and externall and the more hainous and greeuous are these in this respect for that thereby our neighbour is hurt aswell as our selues and by our euil example is moued and brought to sinne Call to remembraunce therefore and consider whether thou haue euer shewed thy selfe by any sign or token to haue fauoured and allowed any vnsound opinions concerning God or matters of Fayth and whether thou haue euer gone about by perswasion to drawe others to the same thy erronious conceites and wilfull assertions Whether in the causes and pointes of Christian religion thou haue at any time spoken otherwise with thy tong then thou hast inwardly thought and beleeued in thy heart as though thou thoughtest it ynough so that thou keepe thy conscience a right to God that otherwise it mattereth not at all what thou saydest or vnsaydest confessedst or deniedst before men as time and place occasioned thee This is an horrible offence and a plain preferring of men before God and this is a sinne against the holy Ghoste Whether thou haue euer and in euery place so framed thy life and directed thy actions that all men might perceiue and knowe that thine earneste purpose and intent vvas to sanctifie the name of the LORDE GOD. Whether for the auoiding of any euill or obteyning of any good thou haue trusted to the helpe protection and furtherance of Aungelles eyther good or badde or of menne or of anye other creature what-soeur as though they were able to haue holpen thee aswell as God For there is none to bee inuocated sought vnto for helpe but God onely Whether for the procuring of any thing either good or badde thou haue vsed any vnlawfull meanes or superstitious damnable helpes Of which sort bee the obseruation and choise of daies of Planetarie houres of motions and courses of starres mumbling of prophane praiers consisting of wordes both straunge and senselesse adiurations sacrifices consecrations and hallowinges of diuerse thinges rytes and ceremonies vnknowen to the Church of God toyish characters and figures demaunding of questions and answers of the dead dealing with damned Spirites or with any instrumentes of phanaticall diuination as basons ringes cristals glasses roddes prickes numbers dreames lots fortunetellinges oracles soothsayings horoscoping or marking the houres of natiuities witchcraftes enchauntments all such superstitious trumpe●● Hereunto is to bee referred the paustring mawmetrie and heathenish worshipping of that domesticall God or familiar Angell which was thought to be appropried to euerie particular person the enclosing or binding of Spirites to certaine instruments and such like deuises of Sathan the Deuill Whether thou haue wilfully willingly throwen thy selfe into any dangers when as no necessitie draue thee thereunto whereunto wherein thou diddest directly tempt God For thy trade of life IN euerie mans peculiar trade of life hee doth many and sundrie kindes of waies transgresse this first cōmandement as namely ¶ He that hath taken vpon him the charge and ouersight of the Church of God let him well weigh and consider whether hee haue carefully discharged his duetie both in doctrine life so that the glorie of God by him thereby hath beene the rather fauoured and propagated and the consciences of many effectually stayed comforted Whether in matters touching God and Christian religion hee hath set foorth and vttered in the Church any thing doubtful and vncertain in steed of certaine trueth and vndoubted veritie Whether hee bee spotted and infected with any heresy or vnsound opinion Whether he haue at al times to the vttermoste of his ability and skill endeuoured to beat downe and confute all corrupt doctrines Whether he haue patiently winked at quietly suffered any rytes wherein hath bene eyther apparant superstition or otherwise any notable offence and inconuenience As gadding and raunging about with procession conuenticling in corners superstitious vsage of holy water pilgrimages and vowes to be perfourmed in