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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

and fiftie false Prophets doth ratifie and confirme both himselfe and his religion and his Doctrine to be of God and from Heauen by hauing power from that God of heauen and earth to commaund the fire to descend from heauen to consume the sacrifice according as wee find it in that his most diuine and holy prayer in these words 36 Let it be knowne this day that thou art the God of Israel and that I am thy seruant and that I haue done all these things at thy commandement 37. Heare mee O Lord heare mee and let this people know that thou art the Lord God and that thou hast turned their heart againe at the last By which it may appeare also that miracles were not to be done at the pleasure of man but at the will and pleasure of God Of which miracles wee reade there are two kindes one pure and the other mixt as one writeth very learnedly of them The pure are they which without meanes or creatures God worketh alone he calleth them mixt where God by the ministry of any of his seruants doth worke strangely in and by creatures as in stretching out beyond nature their vigor or strength in causing them extraordinarily to increase to the seruing of his will at an instant for the good of any of his people The like did our Sauiour Christ himselfe in that kinde of pure and simple miracles when by his Word alone hee commaunded the Deuils and diseases the one the other to come out of them and to leaue the possessed and diseased The like did Peter to the Creeple that was so from his mothers wombe when he said to him In the name of Iesus Christ of Nazaret rise vp and walke But in speaking vpon the counsaile of the Prophet giuen to the Widdow in these words Goe borrow thee vessels abroad and if it shall be further asked by what warrant the Prophet did this to commaund as in the name of God and to assure the Widdow of these vnlikelihoods first to borrow of her Neighbours c. and then how that one full vessell of Oyle should hold out to fill those other emptie Vessels that were borrowed The answere is made by the Prophet himselfe in the 43. Verse of this Chapter where the Prophets Seruant questioning with his Master about the twentie Loaues to be distributed to an hundred men as if they were vnlikely to suffice so many The Prophet replies againe vpon him with a second commaund Giue vnto the people that they may eate For saith Elisha thus saith the Lord They shall eate and there shall remaine So that thus saith the Lord is the Prophets warrant and that beyond Gods Word he went not the sequell of the successe doth manifestly declare he not being able any way to performe so strange a worke to the comfort of this Widdow in her sonnes and the satisfying of the Creditor had not God himselfe graced him with his owne power and as it were stouped downe to worke together with him Mightie then is this word of God where God himselfe inforceth it by his Spirit yea mightily it preuaileth both in that executing his iudgements in iustice vpon the wicked contemners of his seruants as in that where Eliah called for fire vpon the two captaines of the fifties thereafter it fell vpon them As also in that of Peter where Ananias and Saphirah were stroken dead vpon the word immediately spoken by the Apostle for their sacrilegious lying and hypocrisie As also in the strange and wonderfull meanes whereby he extraordinarily worketh by his seruants for the Churches good as where Peter by the power of the Word God working with him to the comfort of the Church raised vp Dorcas from death to life Yea but I heare some say me thinkes Tush the ministry of men vnder the Gospell is weake enough there is none of them all can doe any such strange worke we need not feare their big thunder-bolts are but crackes But the reason of their so blasphemous speeches in their carelesse regard to feare God is because God meeteth not with them in their present sinning as he did with Zimri and Cozbi euen in the committing of fornication together by the hands of Phinehas hee slew them both in their Tents as is written in the Booke of Number 25. 9. They presumptuously thinke and say in their hearts there is no God no Deuill no Heauen no Hell they be but tales that our Preachers doe tell vs But of these like persons the Apostle Peter prophesieth and these are the dayes of the fulfilling of his prophesie This first vnderstand that there shall come in the last dayes mockers who will walke after their lusts and say Where is the promise of his comming c. Thus the Deuill is very busie to with-draw mens mindes yea let euery one obserue it the more the ministerie of the Gospel increaseth the more he rageth by causing men to seeke after that that is not necessary and to leaue vnsought after that which maketh most for the saluation of soule and body eternally For Sathan hath his instruments in euery place who labour to obscure in what they may and to make inglorious the eternall Word of our immortall inuisible and onely wise God in the holy ministery of the Gospell which presages and that truly that he feares that his time is not long but that he is neere and very neere to his vtter and finall casting out Let them therefore know and that speedily and let them assure themselues that the Word of God is no lesse effectuall now neither is his arme any whit more shortened in the powerfull Gospell of his Sonne Christ Iesus although it appeare so to be to the wicked world Onely this is the difference the iudgements of God for I speake now to them onely that make a mocke of God doe not to them appeare so great and heauy because he comes not so immediately and presently vpon their seueral wickednesses committing to execute those his iudgements yea he seemes to them to haue forgotten to bee iust but let them know that not one iot or tittle of Gods word shall fall to the ground for whatsoeuer wants in the execution of these his punishments for the present shall be doubtlesse doubled and redoubled according to the delay and putting off the same so that when he doth or shall strike indeede his hand shall fall so heauily hauing beene long in lifting of it vp and when he beginnes to lift it vp he will lift his rod so high to the fetching of a greater stroke that he will make the proudest Ruffian of them all like to a Potters vessell which he will so breake to shiuers that there shall not be found any one sheard to carrie fire in Thou shalt crush them saith Dauid the Prophet with a Scepter of yron and breake them in pieces like a Potters vessell But what matters it to answer the prophane minded vtterly answerlesse Let