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A19515 The life and death of the Reuerend Father, and faithfull seruant of God, Mr. William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway who departed this life at Edenburgh, the 15. of February. 1619. Whereunto is added a resolution penned by himselfe, some few dayes before his death, touching the Articles concluded in the late generall Assembly holden at Perth. 1618. Cowper, William, 1568-1619. 1619 (1619) STC 5945; ESTC S109006 14,789 34

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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE REVEREND FATHER and faithfull Seruant of GOD Mr. WILLIAM COWPER Bishop of Galloway who departed this life at Edenburgh the 15 of February 1619. WHEREVNTO IS ADDED A RESOLVTION penned by himselfe some few dayes before his death touching the Articles concluded in the late generall Assembly holden at PERTH 1618. LONDON Printed by George Purslowe for Iohn Budge and are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard at the Signe of the Greene-Dragon 1619. THE PREFACE IT is profitable and considering the times we now liue in very necessarie that the liues deaths of Gods faithfull seruants such as was this worthy Person be registred and commended to Posteritie as well for examples to the liuing that they may know how to walke in a good Conscience before God as to preserue the fame of the righteous after their death from the reprochful detractions of the wicked And this last charitie towards our Brethren departed requires of vs then especially when the wrong done vnto their memories tends to the discrediting of the seruice wherein they were by God imployed in the time of their life For though it be true that lyes and calumnies can neuer long preuaile and that Truth by some rightly called the Daughter of Time will at last breake forth as the light and shine as the noone day to the iustifying of them that haue feared the Lord and beene carefull to approue their courses vnto him yet in the meane while preiudices may possesse the minds of many not euill affected and while they lacke better information by mis-reports they may be made to thinke and speake of persons and matters otherwise then they should Neither can we be excused if wee shall keepe silence and forbeare to giue witnesse vnto the Truth when peruerse men take such libertie as we see to vent lies both by speech and writing onely to confirme others in wicked and rebelli●us courses This respect albeit there had been no other is a sufficient reason for the publishing of this Discourse written by that faithfull Seruant of God of himselfe some two yeeres before his departing and since found amongst his papers for as in his life there wanted not enemies to charge him with many false imputations whereof himselfe did often complaine so yet after his death when humanitie it selfe might teach them not to disquiet the ashes of the dead they forbeare not to lay vpon him and the manner of his death false and foule aspersions albeit no man while he liued did walk in all his wayes with a b●tter conscience nor any of the Saints of God did euer conclude his dayes more peaceably and with better Resolution Concerning his life which was not idle or fruitlesse as his writings already come forth and others that shortly will see the light may sufficiently witnesse wee remit you to this Discourse penned by himselfe as it seemes when he found his sicknes beginning which put an end to his dayes And for his death whereof there were many witnesses the forme and manner thereof we haue annexed to stop the mouthes of vngodly men and giue all that feare the Lord an example of dying and occasion of thankefulnes to Almighty God who vouchsafed so mercifully to rid his seruant of the miseries of this life and receiue him to his ioy and that place of felicitie where we are perswaded now he rests THE LIFE AND DEATH OF W. COWPER BISHOP OF GALLOWAY This Discourse was penned by himselfe on the first of Ianuary 1616. MY life hath not beene such that I am ashamed to liue longer if my gracious God haue any further seruice to employ mee withall in his Church Neither am I so desirous to liue but yet I am willing and heartily content to remoue out of this body that I may be with my Lord freed from these restlesse tentations which on euery side haue sore pressed but through his grace neuer oppressed me In my younger yeeres I was trained vp with the wrestlings of God from my youth I haue borne his yoke exercised with his terrours yet so that many a time his sweet consolations haue refreshed my soule In my old days men haue risen against me but without a cause betwixt these two my dayes are spent my Witnesse is in heauen Hee knoweth that in euery state of life my heart was euer toward the Lord it was my ioy to serue him and my griefe when I sinned against him Being of the age of eight yeere old about Martimas I was carried by my father from Edenborough to Dunbar Schoole I could not write nor read any Latine then I tarried there till my twelft yeere euen then did the Lord beginne to acquaint my heart to seek him we went two two to the Church he put then this prayer in my heart euery day in the way Lord bow mine care that I may heare thy Word In the Schoole many a time haue I turned on my face seeking from God knowledge and vnderstanding In the space of foure yeeres and lesse I learned the whole course of Grammar wherein God made me to prosper not inferiour to others in the company with me From thence I was called by my Parents to Edenborugh and in the entry of my 13. yeere sent ouer to S. Andrewes and passed in course of Philosophy there in the 16. yeere there made I not such progresse in knowledge as I had done before in my other Studies either mine age not being capable of it or my wise and mercifull Father not thinking it expedient for me yet euen there was the seede of grace still working in me inclining me to a carefull hearing and penning of Sermons and Theologicall lessons as I could haue occasion to heare them And heere Satan working in corrupt nature sought many a time to trap mee in his snares intending in my young yeeres to giue mee that wound that night haue beene a marke of shame to me in my old age when the Lord should call mee to doe his Worke but as on the one part I felt my weakenesse compared with the strength of corrupt nature so though then I could not discerne it afterward I had proofe it was the Lords preuenting mercy that kept me from being an offence vnto his Church It is his mercy that he pardoned the vanities and ignorances of my youth and his mercy also that he preserued me in all my life from any that could make me a shame to his Saints or a scorne and reproach to his enemies Hauing passed my course in S. Andrewes at the age of sixteene yeeres I returned to my Parents in Edenborough I was pressed by them to enter into sundry sorts of life I liked not for my heart still inclined to the study of holy Scriptures wherevpon I resolued to goe into England where I euidently perceiued the Lord going before mee and prouiding for me at Hoddesdon within eighteene mile of London my meane portion which I had being all spent I speake it to his glory that