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A19487	The anatomie of a Christian man VVherein is plainelie shewed out of the VVord of God, what manner of man a true Christian is in all his conuersation, both inward, and outward. ... By M. William Covvper, minister of Gods Word.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1611 (1611)	STC 5912; ESTC S108976	153,437	332

may reape in ioy through Iesus Christ. Amen The Christians Practise of this Command MY life is wasted with heauinesse and my yeeres with mourning Psal. 31. 10. All the worke wrought vnder the Sunne is grieuous to me for all is vanitie and vexation of Spirit Eccle. 2. 17. Specially because the good I would I doe not but the euill I would not that I doe for there is a Law in my members rebelling against the Law of my minde and leading me captiue to the Law of sinne Rom. 7. O miserable man that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of death ver 24. Woe is mee that I remaine in Mesech and dwell in the tents of Kedar My soule hath too long dwelt with them that hate peace Psal. 120. 5. for I am in daily heauinesse through continuall temptations 1. Pet. 1. 6. therefore I sigh in my selfe waiting for the adoption euen the redemption of my body Rom. 8. 23. And beside this I am vexed euery day with godly Lot by hearing and seeing the vnlawfull deeds of the wicked among whom I soiourne 2 Pet. 2. 8. as Dauid was grieued when hee saw how that transgressors did not keepe Gods law Psal. 119. 158. for which his eyes gushed out riuers of water vers 136. As Ieremie weeped in secret for the sinnes of his people Ier. 13. 17. and as Ezra rent his clothes and plucked his haire off his head and beard when hee heard that the people who came home from the captiuity had sinned against the Lord Ezra 9. 3. As our Sauiour mourned for the hardnesse of heart in the Iewes Mar. 3. 5. and weeped sore because Ierusalem knew not those things that belonged to her peace Luke 19. 41. As Paul had great sorrow and heauinesse of hart for his brethren Rom. 9. 2. and in great affliction and anguish with many teares craued their amendment to whom he wrote 2 Cor. 2. 4. euen so hath my teares been my meat night and day Psal. 42. 3. and I mourne for all the abhominations that are done by others in the Citie Ezech. 9 4. Moreouer as godly Nehemiah was sorrowfull for Ierusalems desolation Nehe. 2. 3. and as the Iewes weeped in Babell when they remembred Sion Psal. 137. 1. As the wife of Phinees was not so sorrowfull for the losse of her husband as for the captiuitie of the Arke and departure of the glory of God from Israell so doe I mourne for the affliction of Ioseph Amos. 6. 6 and mine eyes droppes downe teares night and day for the trouble of Ierusalem Ier. 14. 17. for aboue all things I wish her peace and prosperitie Psal. ●…22 Finally I am sorrowfull with him that is afflicted and I weepe for euery one that is in trouble and my soule is in heauinesse for the poore one Iob. 30. 25. yea with godly Samuel I will mourne euen for wicked Saul 1 Sam. 15. 35. and with louing Dauid for rebellious Absalom 2 Sam. 18. 33. but much more with good Ionathan will I weepe sore if Dauid be reuiled and persecuted 1 Sam. 20. 34. THE OBSERVATIONS OVr ioy in this life is not without griefe and heauinesse so witnesseth Saint Peter we reioyce in the saluation prepared for vs and yet wee are in heauinesse through manifold tentations the like we finde in our owne experience As wine failed euen in that banquet at which Christ was present so comfort sometime is interrupted euen in that heart wherein Christ dwels but as in the one hee turned water in wine in the end so in the other shall he turne all sorrow into ioy at the last The causes of griefe in a Christian are threefold the first is the consideration of that which wee haue beene the second is the consideration of that which we are the third the consideration of that which we would be and are not As for the first so long as a man and his sin are one he neither feeles the weight of it nor the wrath that followes it but reioyceth in that which should be the matter of his griefe but so soone as man by grace is parted from his sin then becomes sin a burden to him and a matter of his griefe which before was the matter of his ioy One example of this we haue in Dauid who hauing committed adultery and going about to cloake it with murther was neither troubled himselfe with this abhominable sinne nor yet would haue others troubled with it and therfore wrote he to Ioab a command indirectly to slay Vriah and there withall subioyned let not this trouble thee but how much it troubled him when God renued him by repentance the 32. and 51. Psalmes doe testifie Another we haue in the Apostle Saint Paul who while hee was in his sinnes persecuted with pleasure the Saints of God but when God sundred him from his sinnes what a griefe that sinne in speciall was to him he witnesseth himselfe I am not said hee worthy to be called an Apostle because I persecuted the Church of God For when the Lord looseth a sinner from his sinne hee bindeth him to a perpetuall hatred of his sinne and therefore is it that when hee hath taken away the guiltinesse of a sinne yet hee will haue the memory thereof to remaine for as thornes which are euill in the garden are good in the hedge to fence it so sinnes which are euill in the affection hindring the growth of grace in the soule are good in the memorie to humble vs for our former sinnes and guard vs against sinnes to come And this godly sorrow for sinne committed being no other but the dolors of our new birth should not discourage Gods children but rather they are to be comforted with it Certainly the Lord our God is best pleased with vs when wee are most displeased with our selues Mourners might not stand in presence of the Persian Kings therefore Mordecai clad in sackcloth got not entrance at the Kings gate but whom doth the Lord comfort is it not those who mourne to whom grants hee most familiar accesse surely to those that are most entirely humbled and cast cowne before him Then are wee most welcome to God and our face most pleasant vnto him when it is watred with the teares of repentance therefore is it his comfortable speech to his Church My Doue which mournes in the clefts of the rocke shew me thy face As for the second the consideration of that which wee are is also to a Christian the matter of his griefe first in regard of our continuall temptations to sinne Sathan euer seeking to recouer his old possession in vs. As Pharaoh followed Israel so Sathan followeth the redeemed man doing all that he can to bring him backe againe to his former seruitude and bondage Secondly also in regard of our manifold crosses and troubles which like vnto the waues of the sea one after another come

therefore I will reioyce in the workes of thy hands O Lord Psal. 92. 4. THE OBSERVATIONS MAn by his fall lost not the naturall affections which GOD created in him but the rectitude and holinesse of his affections which now are moued in him no otherwise then members in a paraliticke body to wit out of order Neither doth the grace of Regeneration take away from man naturall affections but onely the peruerse inclination and disordered motion of them by restoring them againe to their originall rectitude and holinesse What the Nature of ioy is may better be felt then can be defined It is an affection of the soule whereby the soule vpon knowledge of some good eyther present or to come is inlarged as saith the Apostle or exalted as saith the Psalmist Ita vt animam prope exilire ad exterior a prorumpere dicas This ioy is eyther Naturall such as is the ioy of men vnregenerate or Spirituall such as is in the regenerate The Naturall man againe hath his ioy eyther in the gifts of God wickedly abused by himselfe or else in the baites of Sathan cunningly disguised for the Naturall man doth in such sort vse the gifts of God that hee neyther seeks nor finds comfort in God who gaue them and this is Idolatry to set vp in thy affection the creature before the Creator beside this he vseth not the creature after the will of him who gaue it but after the lust of his owne will and this also is sacriledge to abuse that to wicked and prophane ends which God created good and holy And hereof it comes to passe that vnto the wicked the good creatures become the meanes of their greater condemnation yea and oft-times also of their present confusion in this life The Lord most iustly suffering them to perish in the abuse of that creature wherein they reioyced more then in him and of this daily examples haue we before our eyes Thus Haman like a foole reioyced in his preferment specially that hee was bidden to the Banquet by Queene Esther not knowing that the same was the beginning of his fall thus Achitophel thinking by his wit to beare out an euill cause was snared thereby himselfe so Absalom carnally reioycing in his beautifull haire found it at length a rope to hang himselfe so the Philistims eating and drinking before Dagon and reioycing to make a play-foole of blind Sampson had their banquetting house by him made their buriall Yet the other obiect of their ioy is worse by which they ioy in the disguised baites of Sathan couered with a shew of deceitfull pleasures that endure but for a season but vnder it lurkes the hook that slaies them to death that endures for euer here is a most lamentable case to see men with a carnall ioy swallowing vp the pleasures of sinne which will be their perdition Lachrymarum causas tripudiantes peragunt ridentes mortis negotium exequ●…ntur In this they are like Birds which lay downe their heads to take vp the cornes of Wheat cast to them by the Fowler but see not the snare which hee hath spread ouer to take them or like the Fish in the pleasant streame of Iordan taking pleasure in that same water which carryeth them that they know not of into the salt sea where incontinent they die As also this ioy arising of the pleasure of sinne is not vnproperly compared to the light of a candle which in burning consumeth that same which nourisheth it till at length both of them die together and the light end in darknesse and stinking smoake It is euen so with carnall ioy which consumeth by degrees those same things which nourish it as outward substance and strength of bodie and then being consumed it selfe endeth in fearefull anguish and perturbation But the ioy of the man regenerate hath these three properties first it is a great and solide ioy for he neuer layes it vpon any small thing God is the matter of his ioy secondly his ioy is internall whereas the heart of the wicked euen in laughing is sorrowfull the heart of the godly in mourning is ioyfull thirdly it is eternall and endures for euer where the ioy of the wicked is but like a point wherin there is no continuance The obiects of a Christians ioy are as I said first God and then those benefits which of his loue and mercie slow from him to vs in Christ Iesus these are either principal or secondary Principall benefits wherein the Christian reioyceth are Election Calling Iustification Sanctification deliuerance in tentations which breedes experience and experience begets and encreaseth a sure and liuely hope of our Glorification which maketh our ioy to abound Secondary benefits are also the matter of the Christians ioy according to that Deu. 26. 11 Not so much for the gifts themselues as for that they are giuen of God tokens of his fatherly loue and pledges of better things to come Where it is to be marked that in one and the selfe same externall gift where the Naturall man is onely delighted with the goodnesse of the thing it selfe the Spirituall man is much more refreshed with the sense of Gods loue from which the gift came then he is with the gift it selfe The Censure But the want of this disposition proues that all are not Christians indeed who vsurpe the Christian name CHAPTER X. Of his Griefe The Lords Command BLessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted Math. 5. The sacrifices of God are a contrite Spirit a contrite and a broken heart the Lord despiseth not Psal. 51. 17. Set a marke on the fore-head of them that mourne and cry for all the abhominations that are committed in the Citie Ezech. 9. 4. It is better to goe to the house of mourning then to the house of banquetting because this is the end of all men and the liuing shall lay it to his heart Eccle. 7. 4. Mourne yee therefore with them that mourne for if one member suffer allought to suffer with it 1. Cor. 12. 26. But be not grieued with the Lords correction for he correcteth those whom he loueth Prou. 3. 11. But concerning them who are asleepe sorrow not as others doe which haue no Hope 1. Thes. 4 13. The Christians Prayer for Grace to obay this Command O Lord thou to whom heauen is for a throne and the earth for a foot-stoole and yet hast said in thy word that thou wilt looke vnto him that is of a poore and contrite spirit and trembleth at thy words create I beseech thee in me a cleane heart and renue a right spirit within mee fill my head with water and make mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I may weepe both night and day recounting my former sinnes in the bitternesse of my heart and so may now sow in teares that after this I