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glory_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	8,378	5	9.6671	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19491	A defiance to death Wherein, besides sundry heauenly instructions for a godly life, we haue strong and notable comforts to vphold vs in death. By Mr. William Covvper, minister of Gods Word.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1610 (1610)	STC 5917; ESTC S120025	84,536	398

takes on it both the tast and colour of the Wine so shall all humane cogitation and affection cease from that which now it is the Lord shall so replenish vs that he shall become all in all vnto vs he shall make vs pertakers of the diuine nature and transchange vs into the similitude of his owne Image And this also should vpholde vs against our naturall feare of death Now we goe to life but through death and wee leaue behinde vs for a time a deere pledge in the power of death for death like vnto a cruell monster● bytes from vs in the by-passing the halfe of vs to wit the bodie wherefore Mors a mor su nomen accepit ●aid Augustine because one part it bytes away and another it leaues behind it but at length when the day of our full victory shall come and the course of the battell changed not a part of death onely shall be deuoured but altogether it shall be swallowed vp in victory VER 5. And hee who hath created vs c. LEast it should seeme that the Apostle in that which he hath saide before were carried away with a vain desire of that which shall neuer come to passe hee doth now prooue by two arguments that it is no vaine desire but such as at the length shall bee fulfiled both in him all the rest of the children of God The first argument is taken from Gods ordinance and appointment the Lord saith he hath appointed vs to immortality and life therefore of necessity we must obtaine it for it is not possible that the Lord can be frustrate or di●apointed of his end If we looke to the first creation wee were created to the Image of God and consequently to be immortal for immortality is a part of the image of God and if we looke to the second creation this same shall bee more manifest for this cause did Christ die for vs that we might liue eternally with him and certainely his death was in vain if that life which he hath conquest vnto vs did not at the length ouercome all mortality and death in vs. But there is yet greater comfort in this argument as it is proposed by the Apostle for hee shewes vs that not onely are wee by Gods ordinance appointed to this end but that the Lord also by his effectuall working in vs aduaunces vs to the same ende for so the worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which heere the Apostle vses imports a present action of our God perfiting in vs our saluation against all impediments In the first creation when once he began he continued working ay and while he finished it and no intervening impediment could stay him from the perfiting of his purpose it pleased him in six daies to absolue it in euery one whereof hee made something to bee which was not before but til he had done all which he would he rested not so is it in the worke of our new creation he hath begunne it and we may be sure hee wil make an end In one day he might if hee had willed perfetly haue regenerate vs but pleases him in many daies and by degrees to doe it alway we are sure that neither Satans malice nor corruption of our Nature can stay him from finishing that which he hath begunne The same God who first command●d light to shine out of darkenesse is hee who hath shined in our harts to giue vs the light of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ and he first made vs of dust giuing life and beauty to that which was dead without forme hath taken in hand through death misery to perfit vs to eternall life The certainty then of our glorification stands neither in vs nor in our desires but in the stability of the purpose of the vnchangeable God of the which it is not possible that hee should be disappointed as to man many a time he proposes to himselfe an ende of his actions whereof he is frustrate hee builds a house and dwels not in it he plants a Vineyard and e●tes not the fruit thereof he betrothes a wife and another marries her but the counsel of the Lord shall stand The Lord of hoasts hath determined it and shall disanull it his hand is stretched out and who shall turne it away wil Satan wil sin will death keepe vs from that glory whereunto God hath appointed vs No no it is not possible what the Lord hath said he will doe blessed bee the holy name of the Lord for euer who hath locked vp our saluation and made it sure in his own vnchangeable purpose It is true indeede that Satan is a restlesse tempter of all the children of God he doth what hee can to impede the work of our saluation but let vs bee comforted hee fights not against vs but against the Lord let vs therfore in the strength of our God fight against him and we shal be sure to ouercome him onely remember that as in some temptations hee is to bee resisted as when he tempts vs to sinne either by presumption or desperation so in other temptations he is to bee despited and reiected as when hee dare suggest that vnto others the contrary wherof he beleeues himselfe as namely that there is not a God nor a iudgement to come in others againe hee is to bee s●orned as not worthy of an answere as when hee charges Gods children with those things which they neuer did as he can craftily abuse their phantasie to troble the peace of their minde for hee that will answere euery shamelesse assertion of Satan shall not haue leaue to doe any other thing But in all these as I said let vs hold fast our former ground of comfort that we feare not for him that is against vs but stand sure considering that the Lord is with vs he that is the enemy of our peace is also an enemy of the glory of God yea which is very comfortable hee was an enemy to God first ere euer he became an enemy to vs and it is onely for the hatred hee hath to the Lord our God that hee hates vs seeking to deface the glory of God which shined clearely in the first creatiō but more clearly in the second creatiō of man but all in vaine for the Lord shall confound him and trample him shortly vnder the feete of his Saints And hereunto also tends it that the Apostle as hee saide before that God is the builder of our house which wee haue in heauen so now he saith that God creats and perfits vs vnto it these two ioyned together ' render vs most sure comfort that the Lord hath not only prepared a Kingdome for vs but also prepares vs for it he reserues in heauen saith Saint Peter an inheritance for vs reserues vs also in earth for it thus all is of him both the place of our glory and

the well of life and in thy light shall we see light O what a loue of God is here discouered vnto vs Angells made Apostasie from God and mercy neuer 〈◊〉 to them to restore them Man also made Apostasie from God mercy is both offered giuen vnto him to restore him Angells left their habitation and are now reserued in chaines vnder da●kenesse to the iudgement of the great day Man is translated from the Kingdome of darkenesse to be raysed vp to the place from which Angels fell And where that state of glory was not made sure to Angels for they l●ft their first estate it is made sure to man wee shall so be placed there that we shal dwel there neuer any more to bee remooued from it so hath the Lord declared the riches of his mercy vpon vs his holy name be praised therefore Now out of all this let vs tak vp in one short Sum the reasons which here moued the Apostle and makes all the rest of Gods children willingly content to remoue out of the body we reduce thē to three First the miserie vnder which weely while wee are in the body Next the Felicity to which we goe when wee remoue out of the body and thirdly the helpes wee haue to carry vs on in this iourney frō the body to the Lord and these are not vnlike those 3. motiues which made Iacob willing to depart frō Canaan suppose it was the Land of promise to the land of Egypt wherin he knew his seed shold be afflicted 1. the scarsity and famine which was in Canaan Next the plenty that was in Egypt whereof Ioseph his beloued sonne was gouernor and dispenser liuing there in great honour notwithstanding that all his fathers house supposed him to haue beene dead and rotten and thirdly the oracle of God warrnting him to goe and the Chariots which were sent by Ioseph to helpe him in the iourney but we haue as I said three greater motiues to make vs willing to goe from this Egypt a land of darkenesse a house of vile seruitude and bondage to our heauenly Canaan For 1. what haue we here in this life but a fe●refull famine and scarsitie of all thinges which are truely good it is not worthy of the name of good which commonly among men is esteemed good non solum quia facilem habeat ad res contrarias conuer●ionem se● quod etiam possessores suos meliores red dere non valeat not onely because it is easily turned into a contrary euil but also for that it is not able to make the possessors there of any better and what a good I pray you can that bee by which he is not made good that possesses it Beatus ille qui post illa non abiit quae assequi miserum est quia possessa oner ant amata inquinant amissa crusiant happy is he that walkes not after these things which to obtaine is a misery because being possessed they burden vs being loued they defile vs being lost they torment vs and truely no better are the best thinges which growe heere in this land of our Pilgrimage and absence from God Our life is but an exchanging of many sorrowes we liue in the body like Israel in the Wildernesse in danger to bee sting'de euery houre with fiery Serpents like Daniell in the Den in danger to be deuoured by Lyons like Lot in Sodō vexed with the vncleannesse which is within vs in our selues without vs in others But were it so that we had abundance of good things in this life yet shold webe cōtent to go from them seeing we know that by so doing we shal exchange for a a better for euen now while we are in by body we may finde the experience that at no time wee haue such ioy in the spirit as when by feruent prayer and heauenly contemplation after a sort wee are rauished and transported out of the body to walke with God and haue familiar conuersatiō with him whereas otherway when the soule comes downe from contemplation to exercice her function by externall senses toward these things which are below then is shee incontinent disquieted with perturbations so that she cannot looke out by the eye and not be infected nor heare by the eare and not bee distracted nor touch by the hand and not be defiled Thus if the soul take a view of the thinges of this world by the senses a world of strange cogitations are wakened in her which quickly againe euanishes if the soule forsaking the familiar vse of the senses by continuance in prayer ascend vnto God Tun● anima non fallitur quando solium veritatis attingit quando se s●cernit ab isto corpore decipiturenim visu oculorum auditu aurium That same reason by which Athanasius did prooue that the Soule liues out of the body may serue to prooue that it shall liue in greatest peace and ioye out of the body Si enim connexa corpori extra Corpus vitam agit corpore enim in lectulo cubante as velut in morte quiescente ipsa naturam corporis transilit For if the Soule euen while it is knit to the body liues a life without the body as may bee seene in that while the body is sleeping and as it were resting in death the Soule transcends the nature of the body howe much more shall wee thinke that out of the body it liues the own quiet and peaceable life deliuered from this waltring Sea of rest●esse temptations wherein it is tossed too and fro so long as it is in the body And as to the second if wee looke to these things which are before vs in heauen there is our most louing Father in whose face is the fulnesse of ioye and at whose right hand are pleasures for euer More there is not our yonger but our elder brother liuing and rayning in glorie he once died for our Sinnes but he is risen againe and gone vp before vs to prepare a place for vs. Since hee is the fairest among the children of men and we haue not yet scene him if we loue him why doe wee not long to goe to him Many also of our beloued are gone there before vs to that assembly and Congregation of the first ●orne wherin are the Spirits of iust and perfect men and to the which all these Sonnes of God which shall remaine behind vs shall shortly bee gathered and shall it be grieuous to vs to remooue to so sweete a fellowlowship when it shall please GOD in our cours● to call vpon vs. And thirdly we haue most notable helpes giuen of God to aduance vs in our iourney for not onely haue wee the Oracle of God to warrant vs from all euill which may follow vpon our remoouing and to assure vs of a ioyfull welcome Come thou faithfull seruant and enter into thy Masters rest And againe Blessed are