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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19490	A conduit of comfort Preached at Sainct Iames before the Commissioners of the Vnion of the Realmes. By W. Couper, Minister of Gods word.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1606 (1606)	STC 5916; ESTC S114683	33,427	48

shaken with the wind in our necessities wee hasten to be our owne prouisors in our dangers wee wil be our owne deliuerers and euery way we become the caruets of our owne perdition wee haue so much the more to beware of this precipitation because the dearest seruants of God haue fallen through it into fearefull sinnes against the Lord their God and breed great vnquietnesse vnto them selues When Dauid was in extreame danger in the wildernes of Maon he said in his feare that all men were lyers O what a blasphemie that doing the promises of God made to him by Samuel the Lords Prophet were but lyes and how many times thought hee in his other troubes that God had forgot to be mercifull and had shut vp his tender mercies in displeasure But when he saw the end then was he compelled to accuse him selfe to giue glory to God to say I should haue been dumbe and not opened my mouth because thou didest it I sayd it in my feare but now I see Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saincts As this precipitation made Dauid to stumble fall so will it carry vs also to the like inconuencience too except we beware of it For if we should looke to Lazarus in the dunghill full of Byles Sores hauing no comfort but from the Dogges and compare him with the Richman cloathed in Purple and fareing daintily euery day What can we iudge but that Lazarus is the most miserable of the two yet tarry while the Lord haue ended his worke and Lazarus be conueyed to Abrahams bosome and the Rich glutton be gone to his place then shall the trueth appeare manifestly All thinges worke together for the best so them that loue God Let vs learne therefore to measure the euent of thinges not by their present condition but by the prediction of Gods word Let vs cleaue to his Promise and waite on the Vision which hath his owne time appoynted it shall speake at the last and shall not lie though it terry let vs waite for it it shall surely come and not stay Let vs goe into the Sanctuarie of God and consider the end there shall we find and learne that there is no peace to the Wicked how soeuer they floorish for a time and that it can not be but well with them that feare the Lord. Marke the vpright man and behold the lust for the end of that man is peace but the transgressors shal be destroyed together and the end of the Wicked shal be cut off So both in the troubles of the Godly and prosperitie of the Wicked are we bound to suspend our iudgment till we see the end All thinges worke together O what a singular priuiledge hath the Christian that not onely Afflictions but all thinges whatsoeuer workes for the best and not onely so but they worke together for the best to him Many working instrumentes is there in the world their course is not one they communicate no counsels yea their intentions often times are contrary yet the Lord bringes all their wayes to this one ende To the good of them that loue him Where 〈◊〉 they be in regard of place what euer they be in regard of persons what euer their purposes be how soeuer disagreeing amongst them selues yet such is the power and prouidence of that supreame gouernour our heauenly Father that All of them workes together to the good of them that loues him And herein doth his Power and Wisedome appeare more clearely then in the tempering of this great vniuerse making Elements of so contrary qualities to meete together agree in one pleasant harmony For the illustration of this let vs marke but one example for all Iaacob sendes his sonne Ioseph to Dothan to visite his brethren his brethren castes him into the Pitt Reuben relieues him the Marchants of Midian buyes him and selles him againe to Poliphar his Mistris accuses him his Maister condemnes him the Butlet after long ingratitude recommendes him and Phara●h exaltes him O what Instruments are heere and how many handes are about this one poore man of God but how doth the Lord direct them all yea beside their owne intention to further Iosephs aduancement in Aegipt for his owne good and the good of his Church But now to the particulars There is nothing in the world which workes not for our weale All the workes of God all the stratagems of Satan all the imaginations of man are for the weale of Gods Children yea out of the most poysonable thinges as Sinne and Death doth the Lord draw healthsome and mediciuall preseruatiues to them that loue him All the wayes of the Lord sayth Dauid are Mercie and Trueth Marke what he sayth and make not thou an exception where God hath made none All none excepted But be thou strengthened in Fayth and giue glory to God saying with the patient Iob Albeit the Lord would slay mee yet will I trust in him Sometime the Lord walkes in the way of anger seeming angie with his Children and to walke stubbornly against them which hath mooued them to powre out the like of these pittifull Lamentes The arrowes of the Almightie are vpon me sayth Iob the venlme whereof doth drinke vp my sp●rit and the terrours of God fight against mee Thou settes mee vp as a marke against thee and makest mee a burden to my selfe Thy indignation lyeth vpon mee sayth Dauid Yea from my youth I haue suffered thy terrours doubting of my life For felicitie I haue had bitter gri●fe sayd Exechia for the Lord like a Lion brake all my bones so that I did chatter like a Swallow and mourne like a Done I am troubled on euery side sayth the Apostle hauing fightings without and terrours within And yet in all these the Lord hath a secret way of mercie wherein he walkes and workes for the comfort of his Children which albeit for the present wee can not perceiue and can see no other but the Lord hath taken vs for his enemies yet in the ende wee shal be compelled to acknowledge it and confesse with Dauid O good was it for mee O Lord that euer thou correctest mee Therefore also sayd the Apostle The Lord is maruelous in his Saincts And the Apostle cryed out O the deepenesse of the riches hath of the Wisedome and Knowledge God! how vnsearchable are his iudgementes and his wayes past finding out His glorie is great when hee worketh by meanes his glorie is greate● when he worketh without meanes but his glorie shineth most brightly when he worketh by contraries It was a great worke that hee did open the eyes of the blind man but greater that he did by application of Spittle and Clay such meanes as are meeter to put out the eyes of the seeing man then to restore the sight to a blind man So he wrought in the first Creation causing Light to