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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19493	Three heauenly treatises vpon the eight chapter to the Romanes Viz. 1 Heauen opened. 2 The right way to eternall glory. 3 The glorification of a Christian. VVherein the counsaile of God concerning mans saluation is so manifested, that all men may see the Ancient of dayes, the Iudge of the World, in his generall iustice court, absoluing the Christian from sinne and death. Which is the first benefit wee haue by our lord Iesus Christ. Written by Mr. William Cowper, minister of Gods word.; Heaven opened	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1609 (1609)	STC 5919.5; ESTC S108989	320,789	380

and stand before mee in this house where my name is called vpon before your eyes behold euen I see it and will for this cause cast you out of my sight But here seeing it is for Saints onely that the Spirit requests what shall then become of mee may the weake Christian say who am the chiefe of all sinners To this I answere that in vs who are militant here vpon earth both of these are true wee are sinners and we are Sai●ts but in sundry respects If we say we haue no sinne wee lye and the ●ruth of God is not in vs. And if our aduersary say that there is nothing in vs but sinne hee is also a lyer That therefore we may know how these are to be reconciled let vs consider that the Euangelist Saint Iohn saith hee that is borne of God sinneth not and in the same Epistle speaking also of men that are regenerate and borne of God he saith if wee say we haue no sinne we deceiue our selues The Apostle Saint Paul speaking of himselfe in one and the selfe same place affirmes that he did the euill which he would not and yet incontinent hee protests that it was not hee but sinne dwelling in him The resolution of this doubt will arise by considering that in the Christian man are two men the new man and the old the one the workmanship of God the other the workmanship of Sathan the one but young little weake in respect of the other like little Dauid compared to the Gyant Goliah Yet the new man who is weakest hath this vantage that he is daily growing whereas the other is daily decaying the life of the new man waxeth stronger and stronger the life of the old man weaker and weaker the one tending to perfection the other wearing to a finall destruction Now the Lord in iudging of the Christian lookes not to the remanents of sinne in him which are daily decaying but to the new workmanship of his owne grace in him which is daily growing according to it he esteemes iudges and speakes of the Christian from it hee giues vs these names as to call vs Saints righteous c. not counting with vs what wee haue beene neither yet weighing vs by the corruption of sinnefull nature which remaines in vs but according to the new grace which in our regeneration hee hath created in vs He sees no iniquitie in Israell and it is his praise to passe by the transgressions of his heritage But the Christian by the contrary in iudging of himselfe he lookes most commonly to that whereunto the Lord lookes least his sinnes are euer before him the old man is continually in his sight as a strong and mightie Gyant whose force hee feares whose tyrannie makes him to tremble and by whom hee finds himselfe detayned vnder miserable thraldome farre against his will and therefore all his care is how to subdue this tyrannie how to quench his life and shake off his dominion in this warfare hee sighes complaines and cryes vnto God with the holy Apostle O miserable man who shall deliuer me from this body of sinne But because so long as this old man hath a life hee neuer rests to send out sinnefull motions and actions which doe greatly greiue the child of God therefore is it that hee esteemes himselfe a miserable creature yea and the chiefe of all sinners Thus yee see how it is that God accounts his children Saints and they account themselues Sinners Where againe Saint Iohn saith that hee who is borne of God sinnes not and yet that hee who saith he hath no sinne is a lyer both of these is true He that is borne of God that is the new man sinneth not for sure it is that all the sins which are committed by man are either done without the knowledge of the new man his vnderstanding being as yet so weake that he doth not know euery sinne to be sinne or then if he knowes them to be sinnes they are done without his consent or approbation yea they are done sore against his will so that the new man in the sinnes which are done in the body is a patient not an agent So that as an honest man captiued by violence and against his will compelled to behold wicked and abhominable deedes which he would not so much as looke to if hee were free so is the new man detayned in the body as a captiue and compelled to looke vnto that which he loues not that is to the sinnefull motions vnruly lusts and affections of his corrupt nature whereunto he consents not but protests against them and for their sake becomes weary of soiourning in the body so that Ioseph was not more weary of his prison nor Ieremie of his dungeon nor Daniel of the company of Lyons nor Dauid more weary of his dwelling in the tents of Kedar than is the new man weary of his abiding in the bodie Hee is like Lot in Sodome whose righteous soule was vext day by day by hearing and seeing the vnclean conuersation of the Sodomites hee is like Israel in Aegipt kept in most vile slauerie by the tyrannie of Pharaoh sighing and crying he is like the godly Iewes holden in captiuitie in Babell many things they saw there done to the dishonour of God which they no way approued and many things they would haue done that they had no libertie to doe So this new man perceiues many sinnefull motions and actions brought in vpon him by a superiour power which are a griefe vnto him and vexation of his spirit And this is the greatest comfort of the new man that whatsoeuer good he doth hee doth it with ioy and on the contrary euill that is done in the body it is a griefe to him to see it yea he protests against it O L●rd this is not I but sin that dwels in me thou knowst I like it not I allow it not I wish from my heart there were not done in mee any thing that might offend thee Onely happy and thrice happie is the man who with the holy Apostle is able to say so Thus yee see in what sense the Godly are sayd by the Euangelist in one place not to sinne and in another not to be without sinne The Lord worke this holy disposition in vs that the life of sinne may daily be weakned in vs. According to God Wee haue last of all to marke here that those petitions which flow from the Spirit are according to Gods will and therefore as concerning temporall things because wee know not absolutely what is the will of God whether health or sicknesse riches or pouertie be most expedient for vs wee are to pray with a condition if it be his will● but as for those things which are directly against his will it is a great mockery if it be done with knowledge or otherwise a grose impietie to seeke them from him It is written of Vitellius