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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19413	A very soueraigne oyle to restore debtors; being rightly and seasonably vsed Extracted out of that most tried and quintessensed oyle, by the prophet Elisha. By vertue whereof the vviddovv indebted, (mentioned in the second booke of the Kings) was restored out of debt, and her children released of the bondage whereof they were in danger. Written by Samuel Cotesford, late minister at Stepney: and now newly published by W. Crashavve ...	Cottesford, Samuel.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1622 (1622)	STC 5841; ESTC S108836	64,803	115

so many then as are contented to stoope downe to the holy Word of God in the Ministery of men and to learne thereby soberly to be wise know of a surety that howsoeuer God did limit the times and seasons past wherein those persons whom he had also more specially giuen power vnto as the Prophets and Apostles to worke strangely in and about the things of this life for the confirmation of that Doctrine which they brought vnto the World whereof men being more earthly minded did also take a greater view then thereby to be ledde to the apprehension of the truth in Christ Iesus for euerlasting life yet is not the power of God in his Word any whit abated the more now but rather aduanced to a further and a more eminent working in and about the turning of mens hearts from gazing or looking vpon the things of this life vnto the longing lusting and thirsting after the righteousnesse of God in Christ Iesus to their euerlasting comfort in the Kingdome of Heauen And yet giue mee leaue his care is no lesse for vs now if we feare him then it was in former times and according to his care ouer vs so his power and will yea in prouiding for vs in our wants indeede we are blinde and see it not because wee doe not continually referre our selues in the things we haue or in the things whereby hee hath relieued vs beyond expectation in our distresses we doe not I say referre our selues to Gods prouidence for the beholding of it as we ought for truly howsoeuer he doe not encrease our Pitcher of Oyle so miraculously as we see here he did to the poore indebted Widdow and in that manner yet when he worketh mens hearts towards thee for thy reliefe yea to make thine aduersaries thy friends is it not worth the obseruation He is the same God to vs that he was in Iobs dayes who speaking of the wicked faith Though he should heape vp siluer as the dust and prepare rayment as the clay he may prepare it but the iust shall put it on and the innocent shall diuide the siluer and againe where Salomon saith The riches of the sinner is laid vp for the iust and this he hath done and doth daily performe onely our vnbeliefe our vnthankfulnesse our deadnesse of faith keepes vs from seeing it to our shames But to end this point ordinarily the worke of the Ministery of the Gospell is a greater worke then healing or curing the bodily diseases of men by speaking the word whither from Peter or from Paul or by whomsoeuer although it be indeed miraculous yea as much as the soule is beyond the body in excellency by so much is the holy worke of the Gospell of Christ conuersant wholly in the restoring of the dead soules of men from death to life more excellent for loe now the dead soules of men and women that haue long slept in sinne and haue beene dead as doubtlesse all are vntill by the power of the Word of God they haue life put into them euen the life of the Spirit whereof Paul speaketh when he saith Thus I liue yet not I now but Christ liueth in me and in that I now liue in the flesh I liue by the faith in the Sonne of God who hath loued me and giuen himselfe for me Of this life speakes our Sauiour himselfe Verily verily I say vnto you the houre shall come and now is when the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God and they that heare it shall liue The Vse to be made of these last and former doctrines is this that whensoeuer the word of Faith hath entred the possession of Iesus Christ into our soules whensoeuer you thinke of him meditate vpon him seeke him in your prayers follow after him in the publike preachings of that his most glorious comfortable Gospel be sure so to think of him as of your Sauiour and deliuerer not from bodi●l sicknesses or other perills or dangers of this life but as he is indeed by God his father appointed to saue thee and deliuer thee from hell death and eternall condemnation as a Sauiour of thee from thy sinnes and a deliuerer of thee from those miseries whereinto thou hast ouer-plunged thy selfe in soule and body by thy sinne as Paul the Apostle teacheth thee in these words concerning Christ lesus and the working by the Gospel in all those that beleeue Who saith he hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality vnto light through the Gospell And as againe he saith Iesus Christ came into the World to saue sinners of whom I am chiefe Let the thought of his very name be comfortable to thee from the remembrance of his being first named by the Angel at his entrance into the World as is written And thou shalt call his name Iesus for hee shall saue his people from their sinnes Finally thinke and meditate vpon him as vpon an heauenly not an earthly King hee is come for thy good euery way but especially to deliuer thee so as that after the fulnesse of thy deliuerance thou mightest neuer be in danger after his deliuerance being spirituall not corporall heauenly not earthly as he is further described where it is said First vnto you meaning the Iewes hath God raised vp his Sonne Iesus and him he hath sent to blesse you in turning euery one of you from your iniquities Seeke then to him as to one in whom you are begotten againe and in him cast as in a new mould to become new creatures as the Apostle Peter saith Blessed be God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ which according to his abundant mercie hath begotten vs againe vnto a liuely hope by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance immortall vndefiled and that fadeth not away c. For to this end is his comming into the world first to take the burthen of thy sinne lying heauie vpon thee vpon himselfe secondly to discharge thee from the guilt of sinne thirdly to take away the power and strength of sin that after once thou art a true member of that his body the Church whereof he is Head sinne may no longer haue that dominion ouer thee as before Now it followeth in the Text. 5. So shee departed from him and shut the doore vpon her two sonnes and they brought to her and she poured out 6. And when the vessels were full shee said vnto her sonne bring yet a Vessell and he said vnto her There are no more Vessels And the Oyle ceased Now we are come to the third point which is the issue of the meanes consisting vpon the words or command of the Prophet in the obedience of the Widdow This issue of the meanes beeing two-fold the increase of the Oyle and the paying of the debt from that the obedience of the Widdow in these words So she departed from him and shut the doore c. As the

neither he that loueth not his brother All which duties of the Law also concerning God and man must be done in like manner wholly and that from a sound heart And therefore if thou shalt soothe vp thy selfe in some duties doing and shalt in the meane while faile in other know this from the Apostle Iames who saith For whosoeuer shall keepe the whole Law and yet faileth in one point is guilty in all Where then the true feare of God is there is first integrity of heart and then whole obedience that is a continuall striuing vnto the performance of all and euery duty with care of doing what wee doe for Gods cause or because of the loue that wee doe beare to God constrayning vs thereunto But because in either getting or keeping a good report whilest men dealet together in matters of this World as in borrowing and lending there be many windings and turnings so that it is hard for a man to passe away without some staine of his credit especially if hee bee one that striueth vnto godlinesse whom all the World seeketh to speake ill of it stands euery man in hand therefore so much the more truly to ●ift himselfe especially when Gods hand is vpon him in this affliction of being in debt He therefore that will not be deceiued in himselfe in looking vpon the Law of the ten Commandements as vpon a looking-glasse wherein he desires to behold the errors of his life let him cast his eye aside and with good care looke into the extreame part of that Glasse euen the tenth Commandement Thou shalt not couet c. Or as the Apostle saith Thou shalt not lust and there shall hee learne this lesson that if hee haue giuen but way to any sinne to make proffer to him and so suffer it to rest and Sathan the first mouer or suggester to sinne with any though neuer so small an entertainment of him yea if he haue but granted time vpon the motion and first suggestion thereunto to demurre and as it were to aduise whether it be best to thinke or not to thinke to doe or not to doe thereby calling the Law of God into question or doubt put the case it be vpon this point of borrowing vpon a deceiueable purpose to serue thy present neede if that party whosoeuer hath not giuen either in the point in hand as borrowing vpon deceiueable purposes or any the like motion or prompting vnto sinne as our Sauiour Christ did vnto Sathan the present auant or auoid Sathan and with Dauid Away from me all yee workers of iniquitie or rather with the same Prophet in the like words Away from me yee wicked I will keepe the Commaundements of my God let him know that hee hath sinned already against his owne soule euen in this that by demurring with Sathan as by way of counsaile-taking he hath giuen him some hope to preuaile at the last which to doe is sinne with God and therefore to this purpose speaketh the holy Apostle Paul Let not the Sunne goe downe vpon your wrath neither giue place to the Deuill For how small soeuer a sinne not to resist sinne vpon the first sight in outward seeming appeares to be because the beginnings of sinne are very deceitful it being a common saying A little is not so much Yet so great it is doubtlesse as once being entred vpon thee hardly after if euer vntill thy dying day will it be got out for the very regenerate haue their sinnes vnder the which they doe continually labour which maketh them goe heauily mourning all the day long and oftentimes to water their couch with their teares as Dauid did who complained saying I fainted in my mourning I cause my bedde euery night to swimme and water my couch with my teares and this doth the looking into this first glasse of the Law cause yea in them who truely feare God But here they must not stand There is another more cleare cristalline and comfortable glasse of the Gospel which also they must with all good speed looke into where they shall euen vpon the very first view so sodainly behold Christ Iesus that onely comforter of them that mourne in Sion and the refresher of those that goe heauily laden vnder the burthen of their sinne and seeke their refreshing where it is to be had for faith in Christ Iesus is the onely marke of that filial son-like and true feare of God without the which faith there is no true feare of God at all and when thou seest him goe to him lay hold on him make thy moane to him shew him thy soares thy wounds certifie him of the foyles thou hast had since thou entredst thy selfe a Souldier vnder his Banner challenge him for thy Captaine acknowledge thy strayings and wandring out of his Campe let him know thy seuerall and particular sinnes hide nothing from him though he know all before it shall be his greater glory and in the end thy greater comfort bewaile his so long absence from thee with the great dangers thou wast in whilest thou wast left to thy selfe Say with the Church in Salomons Song I sought him but I found him not I called vpon him and he answered me not Giue me leaue a little longer because this feare of God as is said Hoc est totum hominis it is all that God requires of man and it is that thou must haue and it is a point whereupon thou must trie and often examine thy selfe euen King Queene Prince Nobles Gouernours Ministers Husband Wife Father Children Masters Seruants I cannot therefore end I am as in a maze giue me leaue yet in a word who is it that as the Church before saith hath not called vpon God often and yet hath not preuailed and what then shall he therefore giue ouer No shall he not still pray Yes Wilt thou aske how long leaue him not vntill he haue mercy vpon thee let not the terriblenesse of thine enemy although he be as a roaring and deuouring Lyon laid downe by the Apostle Peter before thee let it not daunt thee but awaken thy spirits the more the rather and therefore to the purpose it is that the Apostle saith Watch ye stand fast in the Faith quit you like men and be strong And as in the Ephesians Hauing finished all things stand and to thy greater hope of preuailing adde as the Apostle Paul in that very place immediatly after saith thereunto Prayer And pray alwayes saith he with all manner prayer and supplication in the spirit and faint not And howsoeuer euery sinne whereof Sathan will hauing beene the first mouer of thee thereunto be thy accuser shall appeare to thy wounded conscience as a most fearefull and terrible monster greedily and with open mouth gaping wide doe seeke to swallow and deuoure thee vp euen aliue yet as thou fearest God and desirest the report thereof in the World in life in death and after death as this poore