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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19508	The triumph of a Christian contayning three excellent and heauenly treatises. 1 Iacobs wrestling with God. 2 The conduit of comfort. 3 A preparatiue for the Lords Supper. Full of sweet consolations for all that desire the comfortable sweetnesse of Iesus Christ, and necessary for those who are troubled in conscience. Written by that worthy man Master William Couper, minister of Gods word.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.; Cowper, William, 1568-1619. Conduit of comfort.; Cowper, William, 1568-1619. Jacobs wrestling with God.; Cowper, William, 1568-1619. Preparative for the new Passeover.	1608 (1608)	STC 5937; ESTC S117170	143,181	383

Christian bee condemned for louing the gifts of God more then the giuer Let vs therefore beware of this fearefull ingratitude Wee may indeede reioyce in all the gifts the Lord hath giuen vs and they should thankfully be receiued but alwaies with a protestation that nothing giuen vnto mee here bee allowed vnto me for my portion and inheritance and that no contentment euer comes to our hearts till wee obtaine the full fruition of our louing husband Christ Iesus If the Loue of men compelled the Apostle to say to the Corinthians it is not yours but you I seeke how much more should the Loue of GOD compell vs to say to our Lord It is not thy gift but thy selfe O Lord I long for thou art the portion of my soule If thou would●…t giue mee all the workes of thine hands yet shall I neuer haue comfort nor contentment except thou giue me thy selfe therefore O thou whom my soule loueth shew mee where thou feedest where thou lyest at noone for why should I bee as shee that turnes aside to the flockes of thy companions Blessed is hee that hungers and thirsteth for thy righteousnesse for hee shall behold the face of his God and bee filled with his Image for in his presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at his right hand there are pleasures for euermore CHAP. XVII Second triall of Loue. THe second triall of holy Loue is Obedience and a care to serue and honour the Lord in all estates and callings Preachers must bee tried by this rule Peter louest thou mee feede my flocke Gouernours and counsellors in your callings must be tryed by this Can yee say with the godly gouernour Dauid I loue the Lord then will yee also say with him What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits How shall I shew to the Lord my Loue and what shall I doe in my time for the aduancement of his glorie If you loue the Lord then bee nursing Fathers to his Church be faithfull aduancers of his kingdome wise prouisours to remoue the stumbling blockes that hinder the course of his Gospell If yee loue the Lord. Stand vp with Dauid and say Doe I not hate them O Lord that hate thee and doe I not earnestly contend with them that rise vp against thee Surely I hate them with vnfained hatred as if they were my vtter enimies I●… yee honour the Lord as Dauid did the Lord shall blesse you as he did Dauid Dauid sware vnto the Lord that he would not rest till he found out a place for the Lord euen an habitation for the mightie God of Iacob And the Lord sweares againe to Dauid that of the fruite of his bodie hee would set vpon his Throne to raigne after him But if otherwaies there be nothing in you but a care to stablish your selues and your houses with the neglect of the glorie God then remember the curse of Shebna and not the blessing of Eliachim shall be vpon you you shall not bee fastned as a nayle in a sure place but shall be rowled and turned away like a Ball The Lord shall driue thee from thy station and out of thy dwelling place shall he destroy thee for the wicked shall not haue their desire his thoughts shall not bee performed neither shall he be established on the earth but euill shall hunt him to destruction the Lord shall take thee and pluck thee out of thy Tabernacle and roote thee out of the land of the liuing and generally all of you in your callings remember the value of your Christian loue must be tryed by the same touchstone not by your words but by your deedes If any loue me saith Christ 〈◊〉 him keep my commaundements But here also the hypocrisie of this age is cleerely discouered In word they pretend the loue of God but indeede they grieue him with their transgressions as the Iewes they called him king and bowed their knees before him but sp●…t in his face and buffeted him So the bastard Christians of this age call Christ their Lord and bow their knee before him yet they c●…ucisie him and trample his blood of the Couenant vnder their feete they kisse him and betrai●… him with Iudas It is but a Scepter of Re●…d they yeeld and graunt to him for they giue him no command●…ment ouer their affections wherefore great is the controuersie which the Lord hath this day with the men of this generation CHAP. XVIII The last tryall of Loue. THe last tryall of Loue whereof I will speak at this time leauing many other is Bountifulnesse Loue saith the Apostle is Bountifull Experience prooues this euery Louer is a bountifull ●…ower on them whom he loues Yee loue your backes and spare not to cloath them yea with excessiue apparell yee loue your bellyes and therfore are bountifull daily to them in feeding them ye loue your Children and therefore lets them want nothing that is needefull for them yea yee loue your beasts and yee bestow large ly on them onely you say you loue the Lord but wherein are you bountifull toward him It is true that in nothing can a man be profitable to the Almighty saith Iob. But are there no works which should so shine before men that by them our heauenly Father may bee glorified Though works can bee no merits yet are they your witnesses of your Loue towards the Lord Though your goodnesse extend to the Lord yet where is your delight that should bee in his Saints and excellent ones vpon earth Where is your compassion and loue toward the brethren Are not the men of this age like the Fig-tree that haue faire leaues but not so much as one Fig to giue Iesus in his hunger hauing the shew of Godlinesse but hath denied the power thereof rendring words enough but not any fruits at all to adorne the glorious gospell of our Lord Iesus And so if wee might proceede euery tryall of Loue should discouer the hypocrisie and bastard Christianitie of the most part of professors of this age But being forced at this time to conclude I turne me toward you whom I know haue set your hearts to seeke the Lord that I may leaue my last blessing behinde me vnto you being no more purposed ●…o speake to you from this place to you and to euery one of you who can say with Peter in a sincere Conscience Lord thou knowest I loue thee to you here in the name of God I ratifie this priuiledge All things shall worke together for the best vnto you Faint not therefore I beseech you in the course of Godlinesse but be strong in the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ stand fast in the power of his might praying to the Lord continually that hee would stablish that which hee hath wrought in you and bring it forward to perfection And now I commend you to that Grace of God which is able to build you farther and to gi●…e you inheritance among them that are

are they but sowne like graines of Wheate into the field and husbandry of the Lord which must dye before they be quickned but in the day of haruest shall spring vp againe most glorious and shall be restored by the same holy spirit who now dwels in them and as to our soules they are releeued our of this house of seruitude and that they may depart and turne to him from whom they came therefore haue I compared death to the red sea wherein Pharaoh his Aegiptians were drowned and sanck like a stone to the bottome but the Israelites of God went through to their promised Canaan So shall death bee vnto you O miserable Infidels whose eyes the God of this world hath so blinded that no more then the blinde Egiptians can you see the light of God that shineth in Goshan that is his Church although you bee in it to you I say your death shall bee a sea of Gods vengeance wherein yee shall bee drowned and shall sincke with your sinnes heauier then a Milstone about the neck of your soule to presse you downe to the lowest Hels But as to you that are the Israelites of God yee shall walk through the valley of death and not neede to bee afraide because the Lord is with you His staffe and his rod shall comfort you Albeit the terrours of Hell the horrour of the Graue the gultinesse of sinne stand about thee like mountaines threatning to ouerwhelme thee yet shalt thou goe safe through to the land of thine inheritance where with Moses and Meriam and all the Children of God euen the Congregation of the first borne Thou shalt sing prayses ioyfully to the God of thy Saluation And thus we see how that not onely our present afflictions but Sathan Sinne and Death are made to worke for the best to them that loue the Lord. CHAP. VI. How the plots and imaginations of men worke for the best to the Christian. NOw in the last roome concerning the imaginations of men against vs wee shall haue cause to say of them in the end as Ioseph said to his bretheren You did it vnto mee for euill but the Lord turned it vnto good The whole Historie of Gods Booke is as a cloude of manifold witnesses concurring altogether to confirme this truth I content my selfe therefore for all to bring one When Dauid was going forward in the battaile against Israel with Achish King of Gath vnder whom hee soiourned for a while in the time of his banishment the remnant Princes of the Philistines commanded him to goe backe and this they did for the worse to disgrace him because they distrusted him but the Lord turned it to him for the best Consider Dauids estate now and ye shall see him set betwixt too great extreamities If he had gone backe of his owne accord the Philistines might haue blamed him handled him as an enimie if hee had come forward hee should haue beene guiltie of the bloud of Israell and especially of Saul the Lords annointed who was slaine in that battaile In this strait the wit of man can find him no out-gate but the prouident mercy of God deliuers him in such sort that no occasion of offence is giuen to Saul and his people because Dauid came not against them neither yet could the Philistines condemne him because hee went back by their commaund So notable a benefit did Dauid receiue euen by that same deede wherein his enimies thought they had done him a notable shame and it should learne vs in our straitest extreamities whereunto men can driue vs to depend on the Lord and euer then to hope for an outgate when we see none For such is thy prouidence O Lord whereby in mercy thou watchest ouer those euils that are intended against them that by thee they are turned into good to them And here we haue further to consider that seeing this is the priuiledge of euery one that loues the Lord much more must it appertaine to the whole Church of God It is the portion of Abraham being the father of the faithfull and one of Gods children I will blesse them that blesse thee and curse them that curse thee and shall it not belong thinke wee to all the congregation of the first borne will not the Lord be a Wall of fire round about Ierusalem and the glory in the midst of her will he not keepe her as the apple of his eye Shall not Ierusalem be as a cup of poyson vnto all her enimies and a heauie stone Yea surely all that lift vp themselues shall be torne though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it the weapons made against her shall not prosper euery tongue that shall rise against her in judgement shall bee condemned This is the heritage of the Lords seruants the portion of them who loue him For the Church is the Arke of God which may mount vp higher as the waters increaseth but cannot bee ouerwhelmed the bush which may burne but cannot be consumed the house built on a rock which may bee beaten with the winde and raine but cannot be ouerthrowne The Lord who changeth times and seasons who takes away Kings and sets vp Kings hath reproued Kings for his Churches sake and he gouerneth all the kingdomes of the earth in such sort that their risings fallings their changes and mutations are all dispensed for the good of his Church for there is but one of two sentences wherein all the Iudges of the world may iudge of themselues see cleerly their end Either that which Mordecai said to Ester who knowes if for this thou art come to the Kingdome that by thee deliuerance might come to Gods people Or else that which Moses in Gods name sayd to Pharaoh the first oppressor of Gods Church in his adolescency I haue set thee vp to declare my power because thou exaltest thy selfe against my people How miserable then are they who when they are highest abuseth their power to hold the people of God lowest Haue they not cause to feare least the Lord haue set them vp against him as an object of his power and Iustice if we will marke the course of the Lords proceeding euer since the beginning of the world we shall finde that as he orders the state of earthly power for the accomplishment of his wil concerning his Church so euermore a blessing followes them who are instruments of her good and by the contrary an ineuitable curse followes them who are the instruments of her euill When the Lord concluded to bring his Church from Canaan to sojourne in Aegipt he sent such a famine in Canaan as compelled them to forsake it but made plenty in Aegipt by the hand of Ioseph whom the Lord sent before as a prouider for his Church and by whom Pharaoh was made so fauourable to Iacob that he was allowed to dwell in Goshen but when such time came that hee would