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A19513	Two fruitfull and godly treatises, to comfort the afflicted viz. 1. Of the heauenly mansions. 2. The praise of patience. The first contayning the description of the house of glory: the second the loue of patience, to endure all tribulations and affliction to obtaine that heauenly kindome full of sweet consolation for the godly. By Mr. William Covvper, Bp. of Galloway.	Cowper, William, 1588-1619.	1616 (1616)	STC 5943; ESTC S118545	71,081	312

punishment to the ●…icked which is their due ●…y deseruing but of ●…ace giues that to the ●…dly which hee is not ●…ebt-bound to giue The same tenor of Do●…rine is kept by Bernard 〈◊〉 many places namely 〈◊〉 that notable Treatise ●… hath of that foure-fold ●…bt wherein man stands ●…lieged to the Lord. ●…rst thou art oblieged 〈◊〉 him as vnto thy Crea●…r when thou hast giuen him the whole seruice o●… thy soule and body tho●… hast giuen but his due●… because he created them●… Secondly thou art debter to him as vnto th●… Redeemer who hath redeemed thy life by suffering death for thee wher●… with wilt thou pay th●… debt If thou saist tho●… wilt pay it with good se●…uice how can that be●… seeing all thy seruice ●… not able to pay thy fir●… debt Cum Christo dona●…ro quicquid sum quioqu●… possum nonne istud est sic●… Stella ad Solem gutta ●… fluuium When I ha●… ●…iuen vnto Christ all that ●…am all that I can al is not ●…ke a Starre in compari●…n of the Sunne or like 〈◊〉 droppe in respect of a ●…iuer There is yet a ●…ird debt vpon thee Exi●…nt à te praeterita peccata ●…a futuram vitam tuam ●…hy former sinnes re●…uires of thee a better ●…e in time to come See●…g thou hast but still one ●…ing to pay all thy Cre●…ters Nunquid vt vulgo ●…citur de vna filia duos ●…tuisti facere generos ●…ilt thou as the Pro●…erbe is make two sons 〈◊〉 law of one daughter Beside these there is ●… fourth thou desirest t●… possesse that Citie o●… which it is said Glorio●… things are spoken of thee ●… Citie of our God and t●… haue a roome in the●… heauenly Mansions th●… are in thy Fathers house●… Nonne ad hoc emendend●… totum te quaecunque ●… vndecunque contrahere p●…ter is dare oportebit Mu●… thou not for buying an●… obtayning of this giu●… thy selfe and all tha●… whatsoeuer or howsoeuer thou art able to ge●… it and yet when tho●… hast done all The afflicti●… ●…ns of this present time are ●…ot worthy of that glory to ●…e reuealed Wilt thou ●…hen be so impudent Vt ●…inutum tuum etiam ad hoc ●…onquirendum vel ●…udeas ●…umer are that thou darest ●…e bold to lay out thy ●…alfe-penny to conquere ●…is also seeing it is in●…aged by iust debt to so ●…any before Quis ergo ●…icet se nimium egisse cum ●…ec mille simae imo nec mini●…ae debitorum suorum par●… valeat respondere Let ●…apists blush be asha●…ed to heare this in their ●…aine confidence they ●…ry out of the fulfilling of the Law of the doin●… of workes of supererogation which is more the●… the Law requires th●… they can merit eterna●… life by the worthinesse●… their workes There ●… the answere of Berna●… vnto these men Who 〈◊〉 this that dares say he h●… done that which hee shou●… or more then he should s●…ing no man is able to ans●… the thousand nay not 〈◊〉 least part of that which he debt-bound to doe If it were not so I would haue told you HEre is a confirmation of the first degree 〈◊〉 the Comfort It is no ●…ine word I haue spoken 〈◊〉 you it is true and you ●…all finde it so if it were ●…t so I would haue told ●…u If wee would reape ●…e fruit of this Comfort ●…ee must consider who ●…e is that giues it hee is ●…lled the faithful witnesse ●…e true one God hath gi●…n vs a minde to know him ●…ho is true What his ser●…nts spake of our Lord and his glory they spa●… with a warrant Wee f●… lowed no deceiuable fa●… when wee opened to you●… power and comming of 〈◊〉 Lord Iesus Christ but w●… our eyes wee saw his M●…stie What himselfe spa●… hee spake out of certai●… knowledge and w●… now hee speaketh in 〈◊〉 eares wee shall one 〈◊〉 see it with our eyes rael sung it of old As ●… haue heard so haue we s●… in the Citie of our God a●… so shall we yea wee sh●… see much more then e●… we heard for the glo●… of these Mansions ●…ngue is able to expresse ●…e shall be forced to con●…sse with that Queene of ●…eba that the halfe of ●…e glory of our Salomon●…s ●…s not told vs in our ●…ountry Iames●…d ●…d Iohn got but a transi●…rie glance of that glory 〈◊〉 Mount Tabor if a ●…nce of it did so rauish ●…em how shall the full ●…ht thereof replenish vs ●…ely let vs pray with ●…t sweet Singer in Is●…ll Remember mee O ●…rd with the fauour of thy ●…ple visit mee with thy ●…uation that I may see the ●…icitie of thy chosen and reioyce in the ioy of thy people and glory with thine inheritance And here againe is to be obserued the perfection of Christs Propheticall office what he hat●… told vs is true and he hath left nothing vntol●… which is needfull for 〈◊〉 to know that wee ma●… be saued So witnesse●… S. Iohn Many other sig●… did Iesus in presence of 〈◊〉 Disciples which are 〈◊〉 written in this Booke 〈◊〉 these things are written t●… we might beleeue that Ies●… is the Christ the Sonne God and that in beleeu●… ●…ee might haue life through is name With him agrees ●… Paul who protests hee ●…ad deliuered to the El●…ers of Ephesus the whole ●…ounsell of God and yet it recorded of him that ●…hen he opened his cause 〈◊〉 the Iewes and Brethren ●…f Rome Hee preached to ●…em concerning Iesus out ●…f the Law of Moses and of ●…e Prophets yet are the ●…duersaries so shamelesse 〈◊〉 to affirme that though ●…ow the Euangelists and ●…postles be ioyned with ●…oses and the Prophets ●…et in all their writings ●…e counsell of God concerning our saluation 〈◊〉 not to be found But admit it were a●… they say that all thing needfull for vs to know were not told vs by ou●… Lord and his holy Pe●… men Who is hee that able to reueale that whi●… the great Angell of t●… Couenant the Doct●… Prophet of his Chur●… hath not reuealed T●… last Booke of holy Scr●…ture is the Booke of t●… Reuelation it is come fro●… the right hand of that ●…ler who sitteth on t●… Throne S. Iohn saw closed with seauen seal●… ●…nd he mourned because ●…one in heauen nor in ●…arth were able to open ●…t yet the Lambe opened ●…t which if hee had not ●…one the Proclamation made by the Angell wit●…esseth that none was ●…ble to haue done it This ●…ame may wee say of all ●…he remanent Bookes of ●…oly Scripture the Lamb ●…ath loosed to vs the Seales of them all hee ●…nely hath opened and ●…euealed them vnto vs. And if any part of the ●…ounsell of God needfull ●…o be knowne for saluati●…n be yet vnsealed not reuealed to vs I pray them tell vs who is he i●… heauen or in earth wil●… do that which the

Ie●… or Iohn who will say being thus sanctified by the Spirit that they should haue beene condemned Hee that pleases to heare more let him ●…urne ouer to his 77. Epi●…tle written to Hugo de ●…ancto victore because ●…ome new vpstart of that ●…ime had taken in hand to ●…roue the absolute neces●…ty of Baptisme out of ●…hese wordes of Iesus to ●…icodemus Except a man ●…e borne of water and of the ●…pirit hee cannot enter into ●…he kingdome of Heauen ●…ernard there improues ●…hat sence and by forci●…le reasons euinces that it is not the meaning of Christ in that place establishing this conclusion that the want of Baptism cannot be pr●…iudiciall to saluation Tantum si aqu●… non contemptus sed sola prohibeat impossibilitas prouiding it be not the contempt thereof but impossibility to get it that causes the want of it And to strengthen his iudgement hee bringeth in the consent of auncient Fathers that were before him Mirror si nouus iste nouarum inuentor assertionum et assertor inuentionum inuenire in hoc rationem potuit quae sanctos latuit pa●…res Ambrosium Au●…ustinum nam si nescit v●…erque profecto idem sensit quod fatemur et nos sentire Legat librum Ambrosu de ●…orte Valentiniam Augustini de vno bap smo lib. 4. I maruell saies he if this ●…ew inuentor of new as●…ertions and assertor of ●…nuentions could find out ●… reason for his new opiniō which was vnknown to the holy Fathers Ambrose and Augustine if he be ignorant of it let him know that both these were of that same minde concerning this point wherof I am let him read the booke of Ambrose o●… the death of Valentiman and Augustine his fourth booke of one Baptism●… These are the wordes o●… Bernard Let Papists be ashamed to lurke vnder the shadow of Antiquity since they are assertors of nouelties and such nouelties as haue beene by diuers ancient Fathers so plainely condemned long before ou●… time The next word here is of preparing I goe saith our Sauiour to prepare This leads vs by the hand to take vp the greatnesse of that glory for it must be a great glory which is prepared by the Lord. And this will appeare the better by a twofold comparison first of the works of God with the workes of man next of the works among themselues As for the first when men of great power make preparation some great thing answerable to their power is expected of them I cease to speake of those workes whereunto the luxurious humours of men haue carryed them without necessitie or any good vse as the Pyramides the Labyrinth and Sphynx of Egypt the temple of Diana the Sepulchre of Mausolus the wals of Babell the Capitoll of Rome and many moe Of all which it is true which Panciroll speaketh of one of them Nulla alia aedificandae Pyramidis causa fuit quam vana stulta ostentatio vt scilicet nec pecunia ipsa nec etiam plebs otiosa esset There was no other cause why the Kings of Egypt builded their Pyramides one whereof was twentie yeares in building three hundred and threescore thousand men cōtinually working therat no other cause saith hee was of all this vnprofitable labour but a vaine and foolish ostentation that neyther their money nor their men should be idle But these as I said I ●…eaue and turne mee to holy Scripture Noah was an hundred and twentie years preparing the Arke No doubt as the Lord commanded him to build ●…t so his wisedome directed him how to build it Here was a long preparation and it produced a great worke it behooued to be a great vessell there were but eight reasonable soules in it Noah the Father Iaphet Sem and Cham his three Sonnes with their wiues but beside these it contayned all kindes of creatures beasts of the earth birds of the ayre male and female Of what huge quantitie it was may appeare by this the Floud continued for the space of a yeare and tenne dayes for it began in the sixe hundred yeere of Noah the second Moneth and seauenteenth day of the Moneth the earth was not dry ney●…her did Noah come forth ●…ll the sixe hundred and ●…ne yeare the second Moneth the twentie sea●…enth day of the Moneth ●…ow from the time the ●…rke began to rest on the oppe of the Mountaines ●…f Ararat it was a quarter ●…f a yeare wanting seauen ●…ayes before the toppe ●…f any mountaine was ●…eene Of this appeares ●…hat a huge Vessell it ●…as Againe great prepara●…on was made by Dauid●…nd ●…nd Salomon for building ●…f the Temple seauen yeares was it a building at this worke he had continually tenne thousand men that by course hewed wood in Lebanon fourescore thousand Masons that hewed stones in the mountain threescore and tenne thousand that bare burdens three thousand and sixe hundred Ouerseers or Masters of the worke and it was a great worke the Kings of the earth maruelle●… were astonished when they saw it The second Temple built after the Captiuitie was nothing comparable to the first It is true Haggie prophe●…ed that the glory of the ●…cond house should ex●…eed the glory of the first ●…ouse but that was not 〈◊〉 respect of the building ●…ut in respect of the per●…nal presence of the Son ●…f God who taught in ●…at Temple yet was this ●…cond Temple so great a ●…orke that the Disciples ●…ondred to see the stones ●…ereof and Titus when ●…ee destroyed it turned ●…im to his Captaines and ●…yed Pugnauit hodie pro ●…obis Deus ô Commilitones God hath this day fough●…en for vs O fellow souldiers for hee perceiued the strength of that hous●… greater then that hee was able to destroy it if th●… Lord had not bin agains●… it Thus you see whe●… men of power make grea●… preparation there fo●…lowes great workes Ahasuerus made a grea●… feast to all the Princes 〈◊〉 an hundred twentie an●… seauen Prouinces for n●… other end but to she●… the riches and glory 〈◊〉 his Kingdome and th●… honour of his Maiestie fo●… the time it lasted to th●… Princes an hundred an●… fourescore dayes to th●… common people it lasted ●…eauen dayes The place ●…as the court of the Gar●…en of the Kings Palace ●…he Tapestrie was of white greene and blew ●…astned with cords of fine ●…innen and Purple in sil●…er Rings and Pillers of Marble the beds were of Gold and siluer vpon a ●…auement of Porphyre ●…nd Marble and Alaba●…er and blew colour If 〈◊〉 great works were done ●…y a worme of the earth ●…o shew the greatnesse of ●…is Maiestie what shall ●…ee looke for from the Lord our God how great must that glory be whic●… is prepared by himself for his Saints of all 〈◊〉 Prouinces not to indu●… for a time but for eu●… and euer Secondly if wee sha●… compare the workes 〈◊〉 God among themselue●… wee