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The blessing of Iapheth prouing the gathering in of the Gentiles, and finall conuersion of the Iewes. Expressed in diuers profitable sermons. By Thomas Cooper.
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Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.
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they had because they were contrary to the world because they were of this little flocke And Let this comfort the Saintes that wisedome is iustified of her children Nay it shall be iustified of the enemies thereof When Ioseph is tried and his cause is knowne the Princes shall deliuer him and doe homage vnto him Balaam shall desire to die the death of the righteous Pilates Wife shall wish him to haue nothing to doe with that iust man Nay Iudas shall confesse hee hath sinned in betraying of Innocent blood And shall not the Saints iudge the world Is not this the victorie of our faith that it ouercometh the world Shall not this little flocke be preserued blameles vnto the day of Christ Will the great shepheard of our soules loose any that he hath washed with his blood And is the seruant aboue the Maister Is it not our honour to be entertained as Christ Iesus was If we suffer with him shall we not raigne with him Shall wee not treadsathan vnder our feete Shall not death be swallowed vp in victory Shall we not see our desire vpon our enemies Shall we not laugh at destruction and reioyce in tribulation because wee are more then Connquerours through Iesus Christ Meane while least the hope that is deferred should proue the fainting of the soule Are not the Saints Lordes of all the earth Haue they not right to all Haue they not grace to vse all well Haue the wicked any thing but for their sakes though they can beteeme the Saints nothing Is not the small thing that the righteous hath better then great riches of the vngodly Psal 37. Shall not the righteous put on the Rayment which the wicked haue made Iob 27. Doe the wicked heape vp siluer as the dust and shal not the Saints diuide it If they bee in Affliction must not the Saintes pray for them Genes 20. If any trust be to be committed who then faithfull but the Saints If any desperate Iudgement come who then deliuered but the Saints Ebedmelech shall haue his life for a prey because hee spake kindely for the seruant of God and Ieremie shall be deliuered and possessed with the Reuenues and commodities of his enemies He shall haue his liberty to serue God in the land of Iudea when the great ones shall be carried captiues into Babilon and there loose theyr honours and liues Loe thus shall this little flocke preuaile in this life and shall it not also be crowned in the life to come Shall not God wipe all teares from our eyes and crowne vs with eternall happines Oh that wee were wise to knowe our owne strength to vse it to our best behoofe to liue by faith that sence deceyue vs not To see farre off that present things distract vs not To enter into Gods Sanctuarie that we may be kept sound in iudgement to discerne aright of Gods prouidence and to walke in our waies that so wee may not fret at the prosperity of the wicked nor desire to eate of such things as please them That we may not tempt our God by not keeping in our wayes and thereby exceeding the bounds of his prouidence exclude our selues his protection 1. That wee could learne true Contentation in our God in whome we shall be aboundantly satisfied in recompence of any worldly disaster whatsoeuer will not hee be better vnto vs then tenne Sonnes Is not his fauour more worth then all the deceitfull sauours of Princes Are not his riches durable Is there any vexation in his wayes Oh that by prayer and meditatton wee would grow familiar with this glorious God that hee may open his treasures vnto vs and reueale his sweetnes vnto our soules Should wee not be rauished and taken vp into the thyrd Heauens should we know any man after the flesh should wee not discerne all things and yet be iudged of none Should wee not possesse all things euen when in a sort wee haue nothing Should we esteeme to be iudged of men or of mans iudgement Should we be afraide of men Should wee not walke constantly with our God Should not Virginia receiue vs Shall not Ireland bee our sanctuarie to call on the name of the Lorde seeing there it shall be well with vs Nay if wee passe through fire and water will not the Lord be with vs Esay 4◠Who so is wise let him againe consider of these things This little flocke is as deare vnto the Lord as the apple of his eye It is his glorie his delight heere will he dwell for euer And if hee be with vs who can be against vs Could the gūpouder treason take effect shall not Antichrist be confounded shall not Ierusalem be a cup of poyson to all the enemies thereof shall not the Church be a stumbling stone that whosoeuer seeke to remoue it shall be broken in pieces therewith Hath the Lord begun to enlarge vs farre and neere to Virginia and Ireland and are not their hopes in vaine that seek to roote Gods church out of Englād Are not their chalenges vnnaturall and wicked that denievs to haue a Church of God in Englād hath not God wonderfully preserued this little Iland this Angle of the worlde that in former Ages was not knowne or accounted to be any part of the world Hath it not bene the Sanctuarie of all the Christian world Haue not all the neighbor-nations taken hold of the skirt of an Englishman haue they not ioyned themselues to vs because the Lorde is with vs Are they not happily sheltred vnder our gracious gouernment Are they not one with vs in this late renewing and encrease of our blessed VNION So may the Lorde still more vnite vs in the vnitie of the spirit that the bonds of our peace may be more holy and inviolable So may the desire of all Nations be vnto vs that our desires may be enlarged to all nations for their comfort and conuersion So may the Lord blesse all our holie designes farre and neere for the establishing of peace and setting vp the Kingdome of his Christ both abroad and at home So may all the deuices of Antichrist and his Locusts be still confounded So may their eyes rot in their heads in looking for the day to builde vp Babell againe So blesse thou oh Lord the holy meetings of the State that in the continuance and encrease of the libertie of the Gospell wee may secure our libertie and aduance thy glorie we may prouide for the libertie of our posteritie in conueying thy worship vnto them more glorious then wee found it That so in the increase of thy glorie thy Church may be continued and propagated in the happie issue of our annointed thy seruant Iames our gracious King and Gouernour his posteritie euen till it haue accomplished it warfare and be takē vp to glorie Thus is the true Church of God a little flocke Thus shall this little flock be preserued and presented glorious vnto her