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A19506	Three heavenly treatises, concerning Christ [brace] 1. His genealogie, 2. His baptisme, 3. His combat with Sathan : together vvith deuout meditations, for Christian consolation and instruction / by Mr. William Cowper ...	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1612 (1612)	STC 5936; ESTC S1075	105,109	365

the time Some dayes are longer some shorter but all of them are limited and come to their end The Iewes had a faire long Summer day of Grace sixteene hundred yeeres dwelt the Lord with them as with his owne peculiar people and their Father Sem was the first vpon whom God vouchsafed this happinesse and honour as to call himselfe his God blessed be the God of Sem from them hath the Lord remoued to the house of Iaphet and other sixteene hundred yeeres hath hee beene alluring Iaphet to dwell in the tents of Sem offering mercy and grace to their seuerall families according to his wise and gratious dispensation and among the rest he hath also vouchsafed to visit vs. Oh that we knew those things which belong to our peace The course of the Gospell OTher Trees when they grow doe fasten their rootes in the earth and send their branches toward heauen but the Gospell is such a Tree of the Paradise of God as hath the roote of it in heauen for it bred in the bosome of the Father but the branches grow downward to the earth that we may eate of the three-fold fruit which grow vpon it Righteousnesse Peace and Ioy. Wee neede not now to say Who shall ascend into heauen The Word is neare thee If wee be not refreshed with the fruit of that heauenly Paradise the fault must be in the want of good will in our selues not the want of a good occasion seing the Lord hath turned the branches of this tree of life downeward toward vs that the more commodiously we might eate of the fruit thereof The triall of a true Gospeller IN the Gospell there is a truth and a power the truth is embraced by many professors the power is knowne to few Now it is thought religion good enough if a man receiue the truth so great is our corruption not remembring that truth knowne shall but conuince them who by the power thereof are not conuerted to walke after it A golden Rule for the vse of things indifferent ALl things which are lawfull are not alwayes expedient where the lawfulnes is certainely knowne aduise on the expediencie and when thou art resolued of both yet remember it is not good to come vnder the power of any thing custome drawes a carnall man to necessitie that hee cannot want that which he hath beene vsed to haue but so to vse the creature that thou keepe thine heart free vnthralled with the seruitude thereof and ready at all occasions to want it is the perfection of him who hath learned while he walkes vpon earth to haue his conuersation in heuen Three helps to a godly life THere are three things which helpe a man to liue godly as Dauid records who found it by his owne experience Determination Supplication Consideration Determination is first by it we resolue and conclude to liue a godly life Supplication is second for without helpe obtained of God our determinations soone vanish Consideration is the third whereby we examine our selues whether or not we haue done as we determined Determination helps vs to beginne to doe well and this purpose would be renewed euery morning Supplication holds vs forward continuing in well doing and consideration brings vs home when we haue gone astray I may say happy is that man in whose life one of these three is alwayes an actor A spurre to Repentance HEe that goes downe to the graue saith Iob shall come vp no more namely to liue here on earth as he was wont to doe he that goes to a farre countrey goes from his friends in hope to come backe againe it is not so with him that goes to the graue and therefore it is a point of great wisedome in time to doe what thou hast to doe What wee learne not one day we may learne another and so long as wee haue time what wee haue left vndone at one time wee may doe at another but if we dye not well wee shall not returne to dye better where the tree falles there it lyes and such as a man is when hee dies such abides he for euer let vs therefore so liue as learning to die happy is the man who wil not liue in that state wherein he dare not die The gaine of Godlines THe Apostle saith that Godlines is great gaine and the Psalmist that there is fruit for the righteous but what we gaine by godlines and what fruit growes on the tree of righteousnes is not well knowne in this life here of all men they who are godly seeme to most miserable because they must suffer many persecutions but as the sweet grapes of the vine tree are gathered in the vintage and the fruit of the husbandmans labour comes home in the haruest so doth the gaine of godlinesse in the houre of death when all other comforts forsakes vs then godlinesse lets vs taste of her fruits peace and ioy in the holy Ghost Grace of thanks giuing AS a vessell by the scent thereof tels what liquor is in it so should our mouthes smell continually of that mercy wherewith our hearts hath beene refreshed for we are called vessels of mercy Sathans defianc● IT makes no matter what our enemies be though for number Legions for Power Principalities for subtilty Serpents for crueltie Dragons for vantage of place a Prince of the Ayre for maliciousnes spirituall wickednes stronger is he that is in vs then they who are against vs nothing is able to separate vs from the loue of God In Christ Iesus our Lord wee shall be more then conquerours A warning to battell HE shall not be in heauen with the Church triumphant who liues not on earth a member of the Church militant I suppose thou hast no enemies without and knowest no externall crosse to trouble thee thy chiefe enemie and most dangerous is the corruption of thy owne heart within thee against which if thou fight not with the daily weapons of the word and prayer thou art a captiue and at a cursed peace with Sathan And yet alas how many are so liuing in securitie neuer grieued nor troubled with their inhabitant corruption Gedeons armie OF thirty thousand men that rose at the sound of Gedeons Trumpet onely three hundreth after triall were found meete for the battell and of many thousands who now at the sound of the Gospel makes a shew as if they would follow Christ in his warfare few wil be found after triall to receiue the crowne for many are called but few are chosen let euery man take heede to himselfe Three most excellent vertues THese are Faith Loue and Patience he who is partaker of them is a possessor of all good which is to be desired for by Faith he possesses Iesus Christ all his blessings by Loue he possesses his neighbour and hath ioy of all the good which is in them and by Patience he possesses himselfe A watch-word for impenitents now vnder grace SInnes done against the Law may be cured by the

the sonne of Dauid 35 Nathan 36 Mattatha 37 Mainan 38 Melea. 39 Eliakim 40 Ionan 41 Ioseph 42 Iuda 43 Simeon 44 Leui. 45 Matthat 46 Iorim 47 Eliezer 48 Iose. 49 Er. 50 Elmodam 51 Cosam 52 Addi 53 Melchi 54 Neri Where S. Mathew cals Salathiel the sonne of Ieconias vnderstand his legall sonne succeding as neerest of kin Salathiel Pedaiah Zorobabel Where S. Luke cals Salathiel the sonne of Neri vnderstand the naturall sonne of Neri S. Mathew reckoneth in this line the forefathers of Ioseph Abiud Eliakim Azor. Sadoc Achim Eliud Eleazer Nathan Iacob Ioseph Ioseph is called by Saint Luke the sonne of Eli because he was his sonne in law S Luke againe reckoneth in this line the forefathers of Mary 58 Rhesa 59 Ioanna 60 Iuda 61 Ioseph 62 Semei 63 Mattathia 64 Maath 65 Naggi 66 Esli 67 Naum. 68 Amos. 69 Mattathias 70 Ioseph 71 Ianna 72 Melchi 73 Leui. 74 Matthat 75 Eli. 76 Marie IESVS CHRIST that blessed seede promised to Adam Noah Sem Abraham Isaac Iacob Iuda Dauid Zorobabel and Mary THus you haue the golden line reaching from ADAM to CHRIST it beginnes at the first Adam and is absolued in the second it containes a roll of the Fathers who through the priueledge of the first borne were ordinary Doctors and cheife lights of the Church till the comming of Christ. Vpon this golden line runnes the whole booke of God he that would read it with profit must remember the course of the spirit of God in the diduction of this line If at any time he diuert from it it is onely to interlace some purpose which may cleare the storie of the line So with the description of the linage of Seth hee adioynes also a description of the house and off-spring of Cham who are not in the line Likewise when he draws the Genealogie of Sem hee entreates of the posteritie of Iaphet and Cham and as hee handles the Historie of Abraham Isaac and Iacob so likewise the historie and posteritie of Nahor Ismaell and Esau. But as we may easily perceiue he insists not in the historie of them who are beside the line but hauing spoken so much of them as may cleare the storie of the line he lets them alone and returnes to his purpose alway following forth the line till he come to the promised Shiloh THE SECOND TREAtise of Christ his Baptisme THe second ground of doctrine we proposed to be entreted of is the Baptisme of CHRIST wherein we haue as I said before his most solemne consecration to the publicke office of the Mesiah Hitherto hee had liued a priuate life for the space of twentie nine yeares and now beginning to be thirtie years of age hee is manifested vnto the world by doing the great worke of a redeemer for which he came for so Saint Peter reckons all the time of his publicke charge and ministration to haue ben from the Baptisme of Iohn to the day of his ascension Many Kings Preists and Prophets hath God sent vnto his Church since the beginning of the world but neuer one like Iesus the great King high Preist and Prophet of the Church and therefore it is not without cause that exordium tanti officii tot est mistriis consecratum Neuer one was sent to doe such a worke as he and therefore neuer one had such a calling and confirmation as hee for now the heauens are opened the holy Ghost in a visible shape discends vpon him and God the father by an audible voice from heauen doth authorise him The principall end of this Treatise will be to teach vs how Iesus is become ours which is a speciall and necessary point for vs to learne The parts of his Consecration are two In the first wee see how the Lord Iesus by receiuing the Sacrament of Baptisme doth come in our place and roome as our kinsman as the first borne of his brethren as the head of his misticall body in a word as our cautioner acting and obligating himselfe to pay our debt and to fulfill those points of righteousnesse which we were bound to fulfill but could not doe by our selues and so to releiue and redeeme his brethren In the second wee see how the father not onely accepts him as debtor for vs but also designes and ordaines him to this great worke by annointing him with his holy spirit And thereafter in a publicke assembly of the people at Iorden in most solemne manner by an audible voice from heauen proclames him to be that great high Preist by whom onely attonement must be made betweene him and vs. These two ioyned together make vp vnto vs a most sure ground of Christian comfort If first we consider that the Lord Iesus for the loue hee bare to the glory of his father and saluation of his brethren voluntarily steppes into our roome and in our name becomes obliged to his father according to that notable Prophesie Psal. 40. 6. 7. which yet were a small thing were it not that the second followes to wit that the Father of his infinit wisedome finding out in Christ a way to preserue both the glory of his mercy and iustice doth of his speciall loue toward vs not onely accept him but ordaine him to doe the worke of a mediator imponing to him that singular law of a redeemer which was neuer imposed to man nor Angell as we shall here hereafter And here wee learne how by most sure right the Lord Iesus becomes ours to wit by the surest right that can be namely the free gift of God hee is giuen for a Prince of saluation to vs according to these testimonies both of Angels and men speaking by inspiration of the holy Ghost Vnto you this day is borne in the Citie of Dauid a Sauiour which is Christ the Lord. Againe God so loued the world that hee hath giuen his onely begotten sonne that whosoeuer beleeues in him should not perish And againe Christ Iesus is made vnto vs of God wisedome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption Looke then what way any other thing is ours which most properly wee may call ours that same way Christ is ours namely by the free and sure gift of God If we know and beleeue this we shall finde it a most sure ground of comfort to vphold vs in the houre of tentation It is true Gloriatio Ecclesiae est omnis Christi actio Euery action of Christ is the Churches reioycing and comfort but what reioycing shall wee haue in any of his actions if this ground be not first laid that he is ours and what he did hee did it for vs and vnto vs If he had not died for our sinnes and risen for our righteousnesse what could his death and resurrection haue profited vs But here is the ground of all that he is giuen vnto vs of the Father for a Sauiour whereunto most willingly hee condescends and for which worke the spirit annoints him