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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

regenerate man is bound of faith ●…o beleeue that hee is certainely of the number of ●…hem who are predestinated to life let him be accursed This is their comfortlesse Doctrine But as hee who liues ●…eeles life sensibly and ●…an say I liue and hee who hath a Iewell in his ●…and which others see ●…ot can say confidently ●… haue it so the regenerate man iustified by ●…aith hauing receiued the ●…pirit of Adoption called The earnest of our inheritance The witnesse of God who witnesseth to o●… Spirits that we are the so●… of God The seale of Go●… by whom wee are sealed against the day of redēptio●… can as certainly say th●… I haue it And albeit many are deceiued concerning it to thinke with t●… fiue foolish Virgins th●… haue that which th●… haue not is it therefo●… reason to affirme that ●… are deceiued and no●… can be assured Considering that regenerate men haue all the●… securities of their heauenly inheritance giuen th●… from the Lord fi●… Charter secondly Confirmation thirdly Sea●…ing fourthly Possession Our Charter is the word of the Lord and promises made vs in the Gospell of grace There ●…s one clause of our Charter As the Father hath appointed a Kingdome to mee ●…ol appoint it to you There ●…s another Feare not little ●…ocke it is the Fathers will ●…o giue you the Kingdome If reprobate man or Angell would quarrell as no doubt they will in the day of tentation our ●…ight to the kingdome of heauen wee should haue such principall clauses o●… our Charter registred i●… our hearts to produce against them that would disturbe our peace Secondly we haue th●… Lords Confirmation pa●… vpon our Charter O●… this speakes the Apostle ●… So God willing more abundantly to shew vnto t●… heyres of promise the stabilitie of his counsell ha●… bound himselfe by an oa●… that by two immutable thing●… wherein it is impossible th●… God should lye wee might haue strong consolation T●… Lord hath not only spoken the word but hat●… confirmed it with an ●…ath to shew to the heires ●…f promise these are regenerate men the stabili●…e of his counsell let the aduersaries marke this Beside this the death of ●…e Testator hath inter●…ened and hath subscri●…ed the Testament with ●…is owne bloud and confirmed it in our hearts by giuing vs his owne Spirit as his witnesse his ●…arnest and his owne seale assuring vs that the promised saluation is ours And therefore S. Paul speaking to the Corinthians saith The testimonie of God hath beene confirmed in you Truth it is many in our dayes know this Charter and can speake of it who haue not the testimonie thereof confirmed in their hearts but sure his Saints elected called and iustified haue it Thirdly wee haue our Seasing giuen vs when his seruants Preachers of the Gospell as his Deputies and officers in his name seases and infefts vs in his promised Kingdome and this is done vpon earth so oft as they deliuer vnto vs in the holy Sacrament that ●…read which is his body ●…hat wine which is his ●…loud A donation reall ●…s made to vs of Christ and of all that which hee hath conquered vnto vs that which generally is proposed in the word particularly is applyed in the Sacrament to euery true penitent and beleeuing receiuer for it is not a naked signe or symboll which there is put into our hands but an effectuall exhibiting instrument of Christ Iesus and of all that by his death he hath merited vnto vs. Last of all we haue possession of it not onely as wee said hath hee carryed our nature into the heauens possessed it there but hee hath deliuered to vs the keyes of the Kingdome Faith and Prayer by the which when wee knocke hee openeth and giues vs euen in this life an entrance to it that we may after a sort view and behold the glory thereof as Moses from the top of Pisgah viewed Canaan this is a present pledge of that future redemption of the possession abiding vs hereafter when we shal●… more fully inioy it then ●…ow we can Thus haue wee seene in a part what sure and vndoubted warrants Saints called and iustifyed haue of their saluation yet it is to be obserued that this assurance continues not with them alway in a like measure they are many a time exercised with doubtings desertions for their greater humiliation but this is sure true Religion approues no doubting farre lesse prescribes it but rather improues it and by strong arguments taken out of the word strengthens Faith and remoueth all causes of dubitation furnished by infidelitie But that I may eschew repetition he that lists may read this matter entreated at greater length on the eight to the Romanes where we haue also proued that Saints called once by grace and iustified by Faith are sure of finall perseuerance Verse 3. And though I goe to prepare a place for you I will come againe and receiue you vnto my selfe that where I am there ye may be also FOllowes now the third degree of the Comfort The ●…isciples yet might haue ●…aid Lord it is a great ●…omfort to heare of the ●…any Mansions which ●…re in thy Fathers house greater yet to heare that ●…hou wilt goe and prepare them for vs but this this is still the matter o●… our feare we are clothe●… with mortall and corruptible bodies which shortly must be turned into dust and ashes and with in them wee haue sinful●… soules how shall we the●… be able to inherit these Mansions To this ou●… Sauiour answeres I wil●… come againe and receiue you that where I am there yee may be also your ascending vp to the mansion places of my Fathers house is not a worke to be done by you or by the power of nature it is a work to be done by me I will receiue you and no power of the gr●…ue of the earth nor of hell shall be able to hold you from mee For this cause when the Apostle had prayed for the Ephesians that God would open their eyes and let them see the riches of that glorious inheritance prepared for the Saints he subioynes incontinently another prayer that God would open their eyes to see that exceeding greatnes of his power toward vs that beleeue These two are requisite for our compleat comfort first to know the greatnesse of that promised glory next to know that the great power of God will bring vs vnto it Hee will performe his promised kingdome I will come againe This is an Article of our faith acknowledged by Angels Yee men of Galile why stand yee gazing into heauen This Iesus which is taken vp from you shall so come as yee haue seene him taken vp into heauen Beleeued by Saints Vnto them that looke for him shall hee appeare without sinne the second time vnto saluation but scorned by mockers according to the prediction of