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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01252	The comforter: or A comfortable treatise wherein are contained many reaso[n]s taken out of the word, to assure the forgiunes of sinnes to the conscience that is troubled with the feeling thereof. Together with the temptations of Sathan to the contrarie, taken from experience: written by Iohn Freeman sometime minister of the word, in Lewes in Sussex.	Freeman, John, fl. 1611.	1606 (1606)	STC 11368; ESTC S113774	85,859	215

to pardon and to procure the forgiuenes of our sinnes at the hands of his father laid downe his owne life much more hauing power in his owne hands to forgiue vs will giue vnto vs the forgiuenesse of our sinnes Being therefore iustified by his bloud much more being now iustified shall wee be saued from wrath by him For if when we were his enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his sonne much more being reconciled shall we be saued by his life As Paul reasoneth in the fift to the Romans And therefore this first reason may perswade vs that Christ that hath power in his hands to forgiue vs our sinnes will easily be mooued to pardon them 2 Secondly this is farther perswaded vnto vs by the consideration of his practise and behauiour being here vpon the earth which alwaies was most ful of mercy of kindnesse of gentlenesse and of meeknesse who euer came vnto him for sight and went away blind for hearing and went away deafe for speech and went away dumbe for legges and went away lame for health and went away sick for comfort and went away sorrowfull for the forgiuenesse of hi● sinnes and went away a sinner who euer came to the Lord and went away confounded and ashamed The sicke of the Palsey vnto him but for health of the body and he gaue him also vnsought for the health of soule saying vnto him son thy sins are forgiuen thee The woman that was brought vnto him for iudgement being taken in adulterie found mercy at his hand in stead of iudgement and life in stead of death Woman quoth he where are thine accusers hath no man condemned thee neither do I go thy waies and sin no more The Iewes that crucified him and put him being the Lord of life vnto death beleeuing and being baptised into his name for the remission of their sins were receiued to mercie yea hanging vpon the crosse hee praied for his persecutors saying Father lay not this sinne vnto their charge for they know not what they doe His disciples would as Elias haue commaunded fire to come downe from heauen and consumed his enemies but he reproued them saying Yee know not of what spirit you are Such a one is Christ still hee hath changed his place but not his nature his mercie is rather increased with his honour and his meekenesse with his glory The heauens make him not more churlish which were rather hellish than heauenly but more kinde and louing to all that faithfully call vpon him For we must not thinke the God of all glorie to be like vnto corrupt prophane man whom honor puffeth vp and maketh so much the more proude and scornefull by how much the more glorious he is but we must rather take him measure him by the farthest distance therefrom euen by the cleane contrarie therevnto For therefore is the manner of Christ his life with men described that we may know how hee liueth with God That we knowing his meeknesse on the earth might looke for his mercie frō the heauens And this i● the second consideration that may induce vs thereunto 3 Lastly this his mercie and readinesse to forgiue vs may the rather appeare vnto vs by the promises of mercie made vnto all those that come vnto him As namely the●e where he saith come vnto me all yee that are heauie loaden and I will ease you And again standing in the temple in the great day of the feast he cried a loud saying If any man thirst let him come to me and I will satisfie him And again to the woman of Samaria if thou knowest who it were that saith vnto thee giue me water thou worldest haue asked of him and hee would haue giuen vnto thee waters of the well of life of which whosoeuer drinketh shall neuer hunger nor thirst more So that by these promises of Christ both to giue and to forgiue to giue graces and to forgiue our sinnes we are most fully resolued in this point Knowing that that Christ that is able is also w● ling that hath power hath also promised that hath full authoritie of himselfe hath also full will as himselfe to forgiue vs our offences So that Christ hauing full power of himselfe to forgiue our sinnes and we being assured of his willingnes therevnto both by his promise his practise and the bloud of his crosse we may be fully hereby perswaded of the forgiuenesse of our sinnes Oh if a theefe had such assurance of his Iudge or a traitour of his king how would it che●●e his dying soule wee haue this strong assurance of our Iudg of Christ our Lord and King and why doe wee not cheere in the knowledge hereof Oh let no feare of death or sin feare vs so long as the Lord of life and ●ighteousnesse is our King and gouerneth vs it is the Lord that iustifieth and who shall condemne vs it is Christ that dyed yea which is risen from the dead yea which sitteth at the right hand of God the Father who also intreateth for vs. Who shall separate vs from the loue of Christ shall oppression or nakednesse or daunger or sword no we are more than Conquerours by him which hath loued vs as the Apostle teacheth vs in the eight to the Romanes This then is the third consideration of Christ that confirmeth vnto vs the forgiuenesse of our sinnes The 8. Chapter VVherein the forgiuenes of sins is proued by conside●ing Christ as hee is our Physitian that with his own blood cureth and healeth all our infirmities both corporall and spirituall FOurthly the forgiuenes of our sins is argued by considering Christ as a sacrifice for sinne sweet smelling holy and acceptable vnto God as a peace-offering Yea a sinne offering yea as that immaculate and Paschall lambe by whose blood we for euer attaine the forgiuenes of our sins and that in a double respect First for that Christ is that good Phisition who not by the roots of China or the trees of America by Para●elsus his minerals or Gallens his simples but by his owne most precious blood helpeth all our infirmities For the blood of Christ is that purgation that clenseth and purgeth away euen from the verie soule and not from the bodie onely which were but small thing in respect of this all the corruption infection and filth thereof For as S. Iohn saith the bloud of Christ purgeth vs from all our sins that therefore is the onely purger of the soule which worketh according to the Dos or gift of Christ the phisition of the soule strongly vpon the corruptions thereof and bringeth them and expelleth them all quite and cleane out of the same Oh if Galle or Hyppo●rates or Paracelsus or other doctors of phisicke had been consulted with if they had ben sent for to practise vpon the same if they had ministred either pils or potions or confections or boles or electuaries if they had ministred Rubarbe or Cassia or Tamarnidi or the Greeke pill or any such

Lord than to put any confidence in man yea that it is better to trust in the Lord than to put any confidence in Princes With whom did the Lord euer make a couenāt broke it To whom did the Lord euer make a promise and fulfilled it not Call to mind all the promises of God made in former times in the ages that are past and see if euer he failed in any one iote of his promises He promised to giue vnto Abraham a son and by him a seed that should be multiplyed as the starres as the sand by the sea shore How hard a matter was this and in reason impossible to be performed For if wee consider either the body of Abraham it was dead he being almost an hundred yeares old or rhe deadnes of Saraes womb with whome it ceased to be after the manner of women we shal see the accomplishing hereof to be in the iudgement and opinion of flesh and bloud impossible And therefore howsoeuer Abraham being stronge in faith staggered not through vnbeleefe at the promises of God but laughed for ioy yet Sa●a laughed them to scorn as things not to be hoped for and thereby might through her vnbeliefe haue depriued her selfe of the blessing of God yet the Lord would rather worke miracles alter the course of nature than he would not accomplish that promised seed that he promised vnto Abraham Insomuch that neither Abrahams dead bodie nor Saraes dead wombe no nor Saraes dead faith for so in this regard I may call it could make the promise of God of none effect Again he promised vnto the same Abraham to giue vnto his seed after him the land of Canaan for their possession Now doe but consider with thy selfe how many lets there might haue seemed to haue hindered this that was promised Abraham himselfe had no possession therin at all as Stephen mentioneth no not the bredth of a foot his seede consisted onely in one Isack Those that should be borne of him must be in bondage foure hundred yeares to a strange nation and there they must be euilly intreated The Aegyptians were more in number than they were and therefore able by violence to keepe them in bondage still Pharaoes hart was hardened so that he would not let them goe The redde sea might haue stopped their passage the long and barren wi●dernesse might haue consumed them and beene their graue the fierie Serpents might haue deuoured them the Amalakites might haue ouercome them in battell hunger and thirst might haue pined them away their rebellion against Moses their murmuring against Aaron their idolatrie against God their whoredome with the daughters of Moab might haue razed them out of the face of the earth The townes of the land of Canaan were mightie and walled vp to the heauens The people thereof were of the sonnes of Ana●k euen giants and of a tall stature The people of the Iewes were weake vnarmed not exercised in the warres and that which is more full of vnbeleefe and of a hard heart All these might haue mooued the Lord to haue broken his promise if any thing possible could procure him therevnto but none of all these neither the hardnes of Pharaoes heart nor the power of the Aegyptians nor the depth of the sea nor the barrennesse of the wildernesse nor the sting of the Serpents nor the force of the Amalakites nor the strength of the Cities nor the might of the Gyants no nor the sinnes of the seede of Abraham could make the Lord to chaunge his promise or alter that which hee had spoken with his lipps Moreouer the Lord promised to send his sonne into the world made of a woman of the seede of Abraham and of the stocke of Dauid and by him to redeem mankind Now how many things might haue mooued the Lord to haue broked his promise God himselfe must make himselfe voyde and emptie as the Apostle speaketh he must take vpō him the shape of a seruant and be made the creature he must be a man that should haue good experience of infirmities bee counted so vile that all his people should hide their faces from him he must be subiect to cold heat hunger thirst nakednesse and pouertie he must be tempted by Sathan despised of men tormented of God he must bee whipped and scorned yea hee must bee hanged vpon the crosse and die a most shamefull death he must be made sinne the curse of God for vs he much descend into hell and haue the portion of the reprobate and damned soule for to redeeme vs. All these might haue moued the father to haue pitied and so to haue spared his onely son especially they might haue moued God not so to haue abased himselfe but to haue continued in his owne glory and blessednes But most especially might that prayer that Christ the sonne of God made to his father in the garden where hee intreated him in the bitternes of his soule to remoue if it were possible that cup away from him that is that he might not indure those tormentes and suffer that death together with the contempt and infidelitie of the Iewes haue caused the father either for his sonnes request or the peoples desert to haue repented him and so to haue changed his promise with his purpose But neither the regard of Gods owne glorie in his son nor the abasing nor the abusing nor the miserie nor the torments nor the curse nor the death no nor the damnation as it were I meane the portion of the damned allotted vnto his son nor yet his intreatie nor mans infidelity could bring that to passe What should I stand in repeating of the promise of God made to Noah which was no more to destroy the world with water although no doubt the sins since the flood haue ouerpassed all that euer went before The promise made to Dauid which was that he would giue him the kingdome of Israell which he brought to passe notwithstanding the might the malice the rage of Saule The promise that he made to the Iewes concerning their returne out of the captiuitie of Babilon which when they saw effected they were as it wete one that dreamed and their mouth was filled with laughter What shall I need to repeat euery one when it is manifest that neuer a one euer failed or came to naught Let these suffice to assure thee that that Lord whose promises haue bin euer euen as himselfe immutable and vnchangeable notwithstanding all lets and hinderances will not now begin with thee either by reason of the monstrousnes or multitude or manner of thy sinnes or weakenesse of thy faith to breake his promises and to retaine thy sinnes which he promised to forgiue I do not denie but that thy sinnes might be monstrous and many yea and malicious also and therfore they might seeme to bee great reasons to stay the accomplishment of these forenamed promises but if thou compare them with those mountaines which the Lord ouerpassed and