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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19503	Pathmos: or, A commentary on the Reuelation of Saint Iohn diuided into three seuerall prophecies. The first prophecie contained in the fourth, fift, sixt and seuenth chapters. By Mr. William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1619 (1619)	STC 5931; ESTC S108985	231,291	374

nakednesse And againe that in great necessities and distresses hee approued himselfe the Minister of God And in that notable gloriation that nothing is able to separate vs from the loue of God hee would not haue made mention of persecution famine nakednesse if in this life the Saints of GOD were not subiect vnto them But all these miseries end with our mortall life no relike of them shall remaine in the heauen Ibi non est paupertatis metus non ●…gritudinis imbecillitas no feare of famine no sense of sickenesse there nullum cibi desiderium no desire of meate there and how can there bee a want of that whereof there is not so much as a desire Ibi est vita sine morte ibi iuuentus sine senectute lux sine tenebris gaudium sine tristitia voluntas sine i●…iuria regnum sine commutatione There we shall haue life without death youth without olde age light without darkenesse ioy without sadnesse will without all wrong a kingdome without any kind of exchange In this life hunger and thirst commeth not of want onely but of wealth also let there bee giuen thee such abundance as thou desirest yet can it not keepe thee from hunger and thirst and in this appeares the vanity of our life present that it hath need of daily helpe and supply feed as thou wilt now thou becommest hungry ere it be long drinke as thou wilt thou shalt thirst againe yea the abundance of drinke rather increases then quenches thy thirst The same creatures which we daily vse for the helpe of our silly life tell vs if we would heare them that we cannot liue long such a life as they haue they must lose it before they can nourish ours if wee vse them not they putrifie and corrupt of their owne accord and when wee haue vsed them most abundantly yet as I said can they not keepe vs from hungring and thirsting againe Thus the helpes of our life proclaime to vs the vanity of our life it is a vanishing shadow and cannot continue All our life is but a course of exchanges for a time and be sure a very short time a man may say hee hath enough but comes short of that which here is spoken that hee willeth No more If vvcc looke to the Sea it ebbeth and floweth euery day If wee looke to the Moone it waxeth and waineth euery Moneth If wee looke to the Sunne it commeth and returneth euery yeare all creatures teach vs that in our life there is a flowing and an ebbing a waxing and a waining a comming and a going all by a continual change are turned in their course but after this life it shall not bee so any more They shall hunger and thirst no more Hic omnes morb●… laboramus qui tandem ad mortem diducit Wee haue in all estates heere a sickenesse which at length leadeth vnto death sanitas immortalitas erit our sanity or health shall be our immortality there we shall be sicke no more Yet should it warne vs so long as wee liue heere to walke circumspectly It is a point of true Wisedome and Valour inter transeuntia stare Neyther shall the Sunne light vpon them c. That is true which some of the Interpreters haue that the Sunne and heat thereof in holy Scripture is vsed many times to signifie the heat of persecution And it is indeede out of all question that Saints in heauen haue past all danger of persecution but because they expound this of the estate of the Church militant I do but remit them to their owne warrants The simple meaning is that Saints glorified in the heauen shall neither need the commodity of the creature nor feele the incommodity thereof The Sunne is a very excellent creature yea a Mother and Nurse of the creatures by the heate and warmenesse thereof but there wee shall haue no benefit by it we shall surmount the spheare of the Sunne and leaue it vnder our feet yea the face of euery Saint there shall shine like the Sunne in the noone-day That Citie hath no need of the Sunne nor of the Moone to shine into it for the glory of God doth light it and the Lambe is the light thereof Ibi iugis est splendor non is qui nunc est sed tantò clarior quanto foelicior In heauen there is a perpetuall splendor not such as we haue now but so much more bright then this as it is more happy then this Nor any heat They feele no incommodity of the creature the heat of the Sunne intended parches burnes them who are vnder Torrida Zona and to many other people extreme heate of the Sun engendreth many diseases for this cause the Lord prouided for Israel in the wildernesse not to guide them onely but to guard them also from the heate of the Sunne So also hee prouided a Gourd for Ionas to shadow him from the burning heate of the Sunne but no such thing shal be there to trouble vs. VERSE 17. For the Lambe which is in the midst of the Throne shall gouerne them and shall lead them to the liuely fountaines of waters and God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes HE proceedes in the description of their felicity sets downe the great cause thereof to wit that the Lord shal feed them illuminate them gouern cōfort them not by his creatures as he doth now but by himselfe Now great cōfort haue we by the creature we shall not need them there the Lord shall be all in all vnto vs he shall giue vs vitā aternam non de his quae condidit sed de seipso life eternall not of things which hee hath made but of himselfe Q●…icunque hic varia quaeris ipse tibi vnus erit omnia whosoeuer thou art that here seekes many and diuers things remember that there thou shalt haue one for all who shall aboundantly satisfie and content thee The Lambe shall gouerne them The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imports that hee shall do the duty of a Sheepe-heard vnto them and gouerne them as a Sheepe-heard gouerneth his Flock Strange is the manner of speech but comfortable is the matter itselfe that the Lord is here brought in to be a Sheepe-heard or Pastor of Lambes for our Lord hath none in his Flocke but Lambs indeed Feed my Lambes Hee tameth and maketh meek all that are his were they before fierce and cruell like Lyons were they rauening Wolues such as S. Paul was answerable to the bloudy badge of his Tribe Beniamin A rauening Wolfe Before his conuersion it was said of him that he breathed out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord yet from the time that hee became one of Christs he laid aside his cruell nature and became meeke peaceable and patient like a Lambe Take heed aboue all things that we be partakers of