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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17297	Conflicts and comforts of conscience a treatise, shewing how the conscience, in cases of deepest distresse and distraction, may recollect it selfe, and recouer solid and sound comfort / collected from priuate proofe, for publike profit, by H.B. ...	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1628 (1628)	STC 4140.4; ESTC S259	75,671	324

when Ioab's messenger brought Dauid word of Vriah's death 2 Sam. 11 ●5 hee made no more of it but returnes Ioab this answer Let not this thing displease thee in the meane time it should more haue displeased thee oh Dauid for the sword deuoureth one as well as another Thus he colours ouer his murther with the chance of warre Or bearing himselfe vpon being King perhaps he might applaude his owne wit in such a prittie inuention being seconded with a successfull execution thinking it better that euen a loyall and innocent subiect should perish then the Kings honor receiue the least blemmish though indeed hereby it was the more fowlly stayned and euen double dyed with that crymsin sinne As though the committing of a new sinne should helpe to expiate the former Or as though for defiling Vriah's wife hee should make amends in taking away his life But thus by going about politickly as hee imagined to hide his sinne of Adulterie hee raysed the Hue and Cry of innocent blood to proclaime and paint it out to all the world In what a fooles paradise was Dauid all this while trow you But the Prophet Nathan puls off the Visar and lets him see his monstrous two-faced sinne He displaies the Arras wherin the whole storie of his sin was liuely expressed which Dauid had all this while kept folded vp and cast by in a corner But now by Gods mercie comming more sadly and wistly to take a view of it he suddainly breakes out into this lamentable voyce I haue sinned against the Lord. 2 Sam. 12 Whereupon and not before he heard The Lord hath also put away thy sinne For as Ambrose noteth wee seldome come to know sinne Lib. de Paradiso cap. 14. till after committed which before we accounted no sinne Yea till wee come to feele the smart of it in the punishment either of afflictions or guilt of Conscience quickned vp or shame of the world or sharpe denouncing of Gods iudgments by his Prophets as here by Nathan to Dauid And perhaps all this while Dauid out of a conceit that his sinne was not made publicke to the world was the lesse troubled in Conscience for it but now beginning to perceiue that publicke notice was taken of it it beg●n the more to work vpon him in regard of the scandall And surely well it so might For of all sinnes those that are scand●lous doe most deepely pierce the heart of Gods Child making there such a wound as is not easily cured but while hee liueth will prooue a heart-sore to himselfe as it hath beene an eye-sore to the world Thus by one meanes or other will God bring his Children vpon their knees if a kindly sorrow vvill not vvorke it a publicke shame shall Thus to returne vvhence vvee digressed effectuall prayer for the pardon of sinne issueth not but from true and vnfained repentance as this from a true knowledge and due estimate of our sinne Though that vvhich helpeth to expresse and vvring teares from Dauid's heart vvas the enumeration of Gods fauours towards him by Nathan deeply aggrauating his sinne and making it out of measure sinfull as we touched before As Peter after his three denials thinkes not yet vvhat hee had done till the Lord lookes vpon him and then the verie reflection of that gratious countenance of his deare Master checking him for his ingratefull disloyaltie yet as the Sun-beame thawing and melting his verie heart frozen by the High Priests fire causeth him to goe out and weepe bitterly The sixt preseruatiue is the example of the Saints 1 Cor. 10 11. Rom. 15.4 who haue beene raised euen from fearful fals Nor stand they for cyphers they are recorded to admonish and to teach that wee through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might haue hope First I say the examples of the Saints fals admonish vs to beware of sin least euen then when we seeme to stand surest we take a fall Secondly they teach vs that if we haue fallen and that in our fairest way where we neuer suspected falling we should not lye still but speedily get vp again Nor let any man be out of hope for the greatnesse of his fall as if it were vnrecouerable For if he looke vpon the examples in Scripture of this nature he shall finde them to be of no meane ranke but of highest eminencie if we consider either the greatnesse of their persons or the grieuousnesse of their fals Dauid as great a Prophet as a Prince and no lesse eminent in grace then in place and calling yet how foule was his fall into those two most fearfull sinnes of adultery and murther and both out of measure aggrauated by the manifold circumstances both personall and reall attending the committing of them Salomon a glorious type of Christ a Iedidiah beloued of God indued with incomparable wisedome yet how fell he by two matchlesse sinnes lust and idolatry wherin also he lay a long time And that which made their sinnes so much the more damnable they both fell in their old age which takes away from them all excuse or plea of youth both of them aboue fifty 1 Kin. 11.4 In time of the Gospell yea in the very corporall presence of Christ Peter though a prime Apostle a chiefe pillar yet how fearefully fell hee into a flat denyall disclaiming and abiuring his deare Master and that with direfull imprecations and execrations vpon himselfe if hee so much as knew him Nor wanted it aggrauating circumstances as his Masters late immediate premonition his owne deliberate resolution and protestation to the contrary a weake wenches breath his owne sibboleth or lisping Galilean language bewraying him his Masters present deplored condition needing rather fast friends to backe him and faithfull seruants about him to own and honour him then such renegadoes to adde to his affliction seeing also this was the last seruice and honour which Peter was like to doe to his liuing dying Lord. Hereunto might we adde many more examples but these may suffice And they are of great moment For bring me euer a childe of God more sanctified then Dauid more dignified then Salomon more fortified then Peter Dauid a King a Prophet Salomon a King a type of Christ the wisest of men Peter an elect a prime Apostle And tell me what greater sinne then adultery then murther But Dauid committed adultery but once thou often Then looke vpon Salomon hee lay a long time wollowing in lust and idolatry But thy sinne is of another nature thou art an Apostate thou hast denied the Lord that bought thee Then looke vpon Peter But he did it for present feare of his life thou for loue of this present world Yet hold to the example that Peters weeping may helpe to soften thy hard heart to repentance But haply Satan may go about to perswade thee that thy sinne is greater then all theirs to driue thee to despaire Indeede Satan is euer in his extreames he either possesses a man that