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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19515	The life and death of the Reuerend Father, and faithfull seruant of God, Mr. William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway who departed this life at Edenburgh, the 15. of February. 1619. Whereunto is added a resolution penned by himselfe, some few dayes before his death, touching the Articles concluded in the late generall Assembly holden at Perth. 1618.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1619 (1619)	STC 5945; ESTC S109006	14,789	34

requires it to his child either vpon a preaching day or other day with what warrant a Preacher can deny it I know not OF PRIVATE COMMVNION THe same is my iudgement of Priuate Cōmunion Heere are two words would be well vnderstood Priuate I call it in respect of the publike assembly not of a priuate person Communion it is in respect of many Christians partaking it Where a man hath beene a reuerent hearer of the Word in the publike Assembly and a reuerent carefull receiuer of the Sacrament there if God suspend him by sicknes from doing of that dutie may wee not sit beside him and comfort him by the Word may we not pray together for him and for our selues euen in a priuate Family And why also may we not giue to him and take to our selues the Seales of the Couenant of mercy The particular precepts hereof both for the person and place I take not vpon mee to determine but leaue it to the wisedome of the Preacher OF KNEELING AT THE COMMVNION THe hardest point of all is Kneeling at the holy Communion which is the more misliked because it was and yet is abused by Papists to Idolatrie that vile errour of transubstantiation and worshipping of Bread my soule abhorreth it But it is hard to condemne a thing lawfull in it selfe because it hath been abused For what is so good that hath not or may not be abused Shal not S. Paul bow his knees to the Father of the whole Family in Heauen and in Earth God the Creator because Idolaters bow their knees to the Creature he was not so scrupulous If I should condemne Sitting at the Table should doe wrong to my Mother the Church of Scotland If I should condemne Standing I should doe wrong to that Sister Church of France which hath stood for the Truth to the bloud If I should condemne Kneeling I should do wrong to the Church of England glorious with many Crownes of Martyrdome and many other Churches also I like well that modest iudgement of Peter Martyr who thinkes any of these Sitting Standing or Kneeling lawfull Our Church hath determined that Kneeling seemes the most reuerent forme for receiuing so great a benefit and the rude gesture of many of our People in many parts of the Land requires that they should be led to a greater reuerence of that holy Mysterie taught that by humble Kneeling wee shall at length bee brought to a ioyful Sitting with Him for euer But here it will be obiected to mee that our Lord and his Disciples sate at the Table I answere The Euangelist saith that as He sate at the Table he took Bread and gaue thankes This seemeth to note the time of the Institution to wit after hee had done with the naturall and Paschall Supper not the gesture For why S. Paul prescribing all that is essential in the Sacrament makes no mention neither of Sitting Standing nor Kneeling Yet he sayes What I haue receiued of the Lord that I deliuer to you If he receiued it and deliuered it not hee was not faithfull Which I abhorre to thinke If he deliuered it not then sure he receiued it not This is the soundest most safe course It keepeth all the reformed Churches free from doing against the Word of God For wee must thinke that S. Paul knew certainly the mind of Christ such as are conscientious let them ponder this well the contentious I am not able to satisfie If the expediency bee set aside and the question be only of the lawfulnes my Argument stāds yet vnanswered Whatsoeuer spirituall benefit I may lawfully seeke on my knees with Supplication that same I may receiue lawfully vpon my knees with thanksgiuing But I may lawfully with supplication seeke saluation by Iesus on my knees Therefore I may lawfully receiue it on my knees They answere nothing who say I may not kneele to an Idoll For to Christ I kneele praising him when I receiue the holy Symbols exhibiting instruments of his Body Bloud and it is madnes either to make them Idols as Papists doe or call them Idols as Male contents doe Great murmuring is now against Pastors vvho ply not their tongues to pleasure the humours of people God hath opened their mouthes to preach his Gospel woe will bee to them that open their mouth to prattle against Pastors Hee that rewardeth euill for good euill shall neuer depart from his house saith Salomon My sonne feare God and the King and meddle not with the seditious It is Salomons also Let seditious Prattlers or Libellers whom though I know I spare to name pause vpon this When vnthankfull Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron they both ran to the dore of the Tabernacle and the Lord failed them neuer Hee came downe in the Cloud to protect comfort them Let al the seruants of the Lord doe so when an vngratefull people renders them euill for good remembring that which the Lord said to Ieremy 15. 19 20. Let them returne to thee returne not thou to them They shall fight against thee but shal not preuaile against thee for I am with thee Blessed are yee when men reuile you and persecute you and say all manner of euill against ●ou falsely for my sake Reioyce be glad for great is your reward in Heauen for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you Math. 6. 11. I haue opened my minde according to my light To thē that aske Where was this light before my answere is Remember what is said of our blessed Lord the Latchet of whose Shoo I am not worthy to loose He increased in wisedome Luc. 2. 52. Shall it then be an imputation to his silly weake vnworthy and infirme seruants that they increase in wisedome and grow in knowledge as they are commanded Such as are contentious I leaue tumbling in the tumultuous thoughts of their perturbed minds raging like the waues of the Sea forming and casting out their own dirt and shame For me I rest in the peace of my God through Iesus Christ which blessed be God I enioy A sore famin of the Word of God is at hand for the loathing of 〈◊〉 and murmuring against Moses and Aaron there may be bread but God will breake the Staffe of it preaching of the Word in many parts but without life or power Prattlers lying Libellers Papists or Atheists I commend them to the mercy of God that they may be brought to repeutance Let them reade these words of our Sauiour Math. 7. 6. Giue not that which is holy vnto Dogs neither cast ye your Pearles before Swine Bee not of that number if ye minde to enter into that heauenly Ierusalem I will haue nothing spoken heere extended to peaceable and truely religious Christians of which number God hath a flourishing Church both in this Towne and in other parts of the Land The Lord increase them The Lord grant peace to his owne Ierusalem and haue mercy vpon vs that wee may preuent these and other immiuent iudgements vpon great and small with vnfained repentance FINIS