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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19513	Two fruitfull and godly treatises, to comfort the afflicted viz. 1. Of the heauenly mansions. 2. The praise of patience. The first contayning the description of the house of glory: the second the loue of patience, to endure all tribulations and affliction to obtaine that heauenly kindome full of sweet consolation for the godly. By Mr. William Covvper, Bp. of Galloway.	Cowper, William, 1588-1619.	1616 (1616)	STC 5943; ESTC S118545	71,081	312

with su●… thankfulnesse as we m●… All the words of the Lo●… should be kept in o●… minde so Dauid did 〈◊〉 haue hid thy promises in 〈◊〉 heart so Mary laid vp ●… words of the Angell her hart no place to k●… Manna without putr●…ction but the Arke a●… no place to keep the w●… with profit but the h●… But as kindly Child●… remember most carefu●… the words of their Fat●… deliuered on his dea●… bed so should wee 〈◊〉 words of our Lord v●… ●…d vnto vs when he was ●…ing to dye for vs. Na●…rall men keepe the Le●…cie or Testament of ●…eir fathers wherein pe●…shing portions of tran●…torie things are bequea●…ed to them they will ●…ot rest till it be confir●…ed and shall not wee ●…cke vp in the Cabinet ●… our heart the Testa●…ent of our Lord wher●… the right of an inheri●…nce that fades not is as●…ned vnto vs he leaues 〈◊〉 not any corruptible ●…ing not the moueables ●… the sons of Keturah nor ●…et the portion of Esau the fatnesse of the earth 〈◊〉 these the Iewels he leaue●… vs Peace I leaue with you my peace I giue vnto you this the tenour of his Le●…gacie or last Will Father●… I will that they whom tho●…hast giuen mee be where 〈◊〉 am with me that they m●… behold the glory which th●…hast giuen mee O what 〈◊〉 comfort is here the Father saith vnto the So●… Aske of me what thou wi●… and I will giue thee th●… Sonne declares his will i●… his Legacie Father I wil●… yea assures vs of his Fathers will Feare not litt●… flock it is your Fathers wi●… 〈◊〉 giue you the Kingdome Here is our right here are he Charters of our hea●…enly inheritance happy ●…re we if we lay them vp 〈◊〉 our hearts and giue no ●…est vnto our soules vntill ●…ee haue the confirma●…ion of them past and sea●…ed by the Spirit of A●…option assuring vs that ●…hey are ours The second Circum●…tance leades vs to consi●…er to whom is this com●…ort giuen To his Disciples ●…ot to the twelue onely ●…ut as afterward the Lord expounds himselfe ●… pray not for these alone but for them also who sha●… beleeue in me through thei●… word This Legacie the●… pertaines not to th●… twelue Disciples onely first preachers of th●… Gospell after Christ Iesu●… but belongeth also to a●… that to the worlds en●… shall beleeue in Chri●… through their word an●… by beleeuing shall b●…come his Disciples b●… vnto none other Th●… consolations of the Go●… pell are not for euer●… man the Gospell is preached to many but th●… peace proclaimed by i●… lights vpon none but th●… ●…ildren of peace New ●…ne is not for old bot●…s and the glad newes 〈◊〉 the Gospell euery man ●…th not an eare to heare ●…em nor a heart meete receiue them When you ●…e into an house salute the ●…e and if the house be ●…rthy let your peace come ●…pon it but if it be not wor●…y let your peace returne ●…nto you And againe If ●…e sonne of peace be there ●…ur peace shall rest vpon ●…m if not it shall returne 〈◊〉 your selues Take heede 〈◊〉 your selues we preach ●…eace in the name of Ie●…s our Commission is sure but not common t●… all if you be the childre●… of Gods good-will our ble●…sing of peace shal rest vpon you if not you m●…heare it but shall not 〈◊〉 partakers of it There no peace saith my God the wicked But as Ie●… answered Iehoram wh●… he demanded Is it peac●… What peace said the othe●… What hast thou to doe wi●… peace Such is the me●… sage that commeth fro●… the Lord vnto all the wi●…ked The same Gosp●… that commeth from t●… Lord with abundance 〈◊〉 blessing to those who a●… ●…s owne bringeth with ready vengeance against 〈◊〉 disobedience The ●…mme of all is eyther ●…nder your selues belee●…ng and obedient Disci●…es to the Lord Iesus or ●…oke not to receiue any ●…rtion of the consolati●…s which he hath left in ●…s Legacie Let not your heart be troubled THE third Circumstance is in these words and it containes the Comfort it selfe Le●… not your heart be troubled I haue fore-warned yo●… of many things which 〈◊〉 know are grieuous vnt●… you I haue told you o●… my suffering that one o●… my Disciples will betra●… me and that the best o●… them will deny mee an●… that I my selfe must go●… from you and whither 〈◊〉 goe you cannot com●… now These heauy spee●…hes did no doubt asto●…ish and confound them ●…nd cast down their harts ●…to the gulfe of excee●…ing sorrow and there●…re comes hee in here to ●…ise them vp againe and ●…mfort them But how●…euer the occasion of ●…is Doctrine ariseth of ●…e former premonitions ●…et we may espie in them compleat consolation ●…uen vnto vs by our ●…ord against all that may ●…ouble vs. There are two euils ●…e feare whereof trou●…les men first the feare of sinne next the fear●… of death and that which followes it The wicked in their life time feare nothing more then death ●… Sinne they feare not yea●… it is a pastime to them to do●… wickedly onely they feare Death and Iudgement they cannot eschew it al●… their care is to delay it In their death by the contrary they feare nothing so much as their sinne now they flye death a●… the center of their sor●… rowes then they sha●… seeke it as the remedie o●… their remorses There i●… no death so horrible which they would not ●…illingly imbrace proui●…ed it might free them ●…om the conscience of ●…eir sin yea they would ●…e content to be smothe●…ed quick Mountaines fall ●…pon vs and couer vs. But the godly in their ●…fe feare nothing so much ●…s their sinnes they ●…ourne for former sins ●…nd with good Ezekiah ●…ecount them in the bitter●…esse of their soule they ●…ght against present sins ●…anding with the armour ●…f God vpon them and ●…rough his grace ouer●…ome it they are in continuall feare of sinne t●… come if it renew the for●… they are still making preparation to resist it An●… therefore they feare n●… death at least are not ●… uercome with the fea●… thereof they defie it the prouoke it they preue●… it I meane they know will come but ere it con●… they desire it and are pr●…pared for it ere it be pr●…pared for them Sime●… sight makes them sing ●… meons Song Now Lor●… let thy Seruant depart●… peace and they resol●… with S. Paul I desire to dissolued that I may be wi●… Christ. But indeed fearefull is their estate who at one time haue to fight ●…oth against the terrours of sinne and horrour of death It is a godly po●…icie in the spirituall warfare to diuide your enemies first ouercome your sinnes vanquish them ere ●…he forces of death can ●…oyne with them so shall ●…ou not be afraid to en●…ounter with death for Death is a biting Serpent ●…nd Sinne is the sting

●…ereof take the sting from the Serpent and without danger you may ●…mbrace it Take Sinne away and Death shal n●… be terrible Against both these ●…uils the Lord Iesus he●… furnisheth vs with sufficient comfort against th●… feare of sinne hee sets th●… buckler of Faith whic●… is able to quench the fie●…darts of the Diuell in thes●… words Yee beleeue in Go●… beleeue also in mee Again●… the feare of death th●… graue and all that may follow them hee sets th●… meditation of these heauenly mansions prepare●… for vs and in respect o●… both premits the comfortable Exhortation Le●… ●…t your heart bee trou●…ed For vnderstanding ●…hereof wee must con●…der two things first ●…at our Sauiour here ●…omiseth vs not exemp●…on from trouble next ●…at hee requires not we ●…ould be without all ●…nse of trouble The first ●…euident he hath plainly ●…ld vs In the world you ●…all haue affliction If any ●…an will follow me he must ●…ke vp his crosse follow ●…ee It is a prettie obser●…tion of Chrisostome so ●…one as our Lord was ●…orne Herod persecuted him and slew him in 〈◊〉 members the innoce●… infants so soone agai●… as he was baptised Sat●… tempted him to teach ●… that if wee be such Ch●…stians as in whose he●… Christ is conceiued a●… formed wee must loo●… for persecutions fro●… men for tentations fro●… Satan As a shadow fo●… lowes the body saith M●…carius so Vbi Spiritus 〈◊〉 persecutio pugna T●… second is as cleare if 〈◊〉 should be without sen●… of trouble where we●… the praise of Patience fo●… what commendation is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suffer that which grie●…eth thee not this were ●…orse then Stoica 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is beastly stupiditie not ●…mmended for a vertue ●…t condemned for a ●…ce Thou hast stricken ●…em and they haue not ●…rrowed But the meaning of the ●…xhortation is howso●…uer it be that sore trou●…les be abiding you and ●…at the sense of your ●…ouble will be grieuous 〈◊〉 you also yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let ●…ot your heart be sha●…en and perturbed with 〈◊〉 so that you quit your comfort and confiden●… in mee Here then is t●… victorie of a Christia●… that no trouble can oue●… come his heart his goo●… may be stolne his na●… be slandered his bo●… may be killed his co●…science may be racked his heart may be shak●… and sore moued but ca●…not be remoued becau●… it is fixed on the Lord h●… Spirit dwels in it and b●… secret grace vpholds i●… Inward temptations cannot do it vnder these it 〈◊〉 the voice of Saints whic●… once was vttered by patient Iob O Lord thoug●… thou wouldst s●…ay me yet wil I trust in thee and by the Apostle We are persecuted but not for saken wee are in doubt but wee despaire not we are cast down but we perish not we are afflicted on ●…uery side but not left in distresse the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies such straitnesse of place as out of which ●…here is no forth comming the godly may be ●…raited with trouble yet ●…euer so but that they ●…aight for an issue some●…me they are without ●…ense but no time altoge●…her without hope of bet●…er Farre lesse can outward tentations doe it 〈◊〉 Though the earth should b●… moued and the mountaine●… fall into the bottome of th●… Sea yet the Christian keeps his comfort God i●… my help and my hope m●… stength in trouble ready to b●… found Vir Deo subditus no●…uit inter transeuntia star●… aduersis non frangitur prosperis non eleuatur hab●…enim pondus desuper ins●…dentis timor scilicet Dei illum cohibet A man subiect to God knowes ver●… well to stand in the mid●… of transitorie things he●… is not broken by aduersitie nor puft vp with prosperity the weight of ●…im that is aboue him ●…eepes him equall and ●…onstant in euery estate ●…o wit the feare of his God restraines him And this inuinsible ●…eart flowes not from a●…y strength that is in ●…an How weake a crea●…re the strongest man is ●…ay bee seene in Peter ●…ppose a pillar of the Church the voyce of a ●…amsell shooke him and ●…ade him deny his Ma●…er All our strength is ●…eere that Christ dwells 〈◊〉 our harts by Faith and he who craues of vs tha●… our heart should not b●… troubled keepes it himselfe defends it agains●… all that will assault it we●… preuaile by the power o●… his might and throug●… him are made more the●… conquerours It is obserued by Philo the heart and the hornes or brain●… were neuer offered in th●… Law leuiticall with th●… sacrifices for they are th●… fountaines secret arke●… wherein lurkes and ou●… of which floweth all impiety but what euer wa●… in the type this is in th●… truth As the heart is by nature the Lord will not ●…ue it yet till the heart 〈◊〉 renewed and giuen to ●…e Lord hee will accept ●…thing can come from ●…an this is the maine sa●…fice My Sonne giue me ●…ne heart This is the se●…et sanctuary wherein ●…od will dwell and with●…t which hee will not ●…ell at all This is the ●…rt of Sion and city of ●…auid which must bee ●…ongly kept or else the ●…manent city cannot be ●…eserued therefore the ●…rd Iesus arming his ●…sciples against trouble ●…gins first at the heart let not your heart be troubled Magnum enim fort●… dinis fundamentum est mus non turbatus ani●… autem nondum supernaf●… datus gratia timidus stabilis nimium est A g●… ground of fortutude i●… heart not troubled therwaies it not beestablished with heaue●… grace is out of meas●… fearefull instable the fore the Apostle when blesseth the Philippia●… prayes that the peac●… God which passeth all ●…derstanding may prese●… their hearts so shall ●… the heart be troubled But here it is demaunded how requires our Sauior of vs that we should ●…t be troubled seeing was troubled himselfe testifies this same Evangelist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now is my ●…le troubled and a●…in when Iesus had said ●…ese things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee was troub●… in the spirit more significantly is the same ●…pressed by S. Marke ●…en hee entred to his a●…ny in the Garden 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee began to be a●…nished and transported the words impor●… strange motion scarly vtterable which sense of that wrath ●… to our sinnes wrou●… in the Lord. The answer is the trouble of our Lord was fa●… different from ours b●… in the end in the maner or measure there for hee was troubled the end hee might kee●… vs that we should not troubled with that trouble which was due to ●… sinnes Other Physitian to cure the deadly dise●… of their Patients prep●… a bitter potion for the ●… may well taste it themselues but the Pati●… must drinke it out our Physitian per●…ing well that the bitcup of wrath would