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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19490	A conduit of comfort Preached at Sainct Iames before the Commissioners of the Vnion of the Realmes. By W. Couper, Minister of Gods word.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1606 (1606)	STC 5916; ESTC S114683	33,427	48

Kingdomes of the earth in such sort that their rysinges and fallinges their changes and mutations are all dispensed for the good of his Church for there is but one of two sentences wherein all the Iudges of the world may iudge of themselues and see clearely their end Either that which Mordecai sayd Ester Who knowes if for this thou art come to the Kingdome that by thee deliueraunce might come to Gods people Or else that which Moses in Gods name sayd to Pharaoh the first oppressor of Gods Church in his adulescencie I haue set thee vp to declare my power because thou exaltest thy selfe against my people How miserable then are they who when they are highest abuseth their power to hold the people of God lowest Haue they not cause to feare least the Lord haue set them vp against him as an Obiect of his Power and Iustice If we will marke the course of the Lords proceeding euer since the beginning of the world wee shall finde that as he orders the state of earthly Power for the accomplishment of his will concerning his Church so euermore a blessing followes them who are instruments of her good and by the contrary an inuitable cu●ss● followes them who are the instruments of her euill When the Lord concluded to bring his Church from Canaan to so●orne in Aegipt hee sent such a Famine in Canaan as compelled them to forsake it but made p●entie in Aegi●t by the hand of Ioseph whom the Lord sent b●fore as a prouisor to his Church and by whom Phar●oh was ma●e so ●auourable to Iacob that he was allowed to dwel in G●shen but when such time came that he would translate his Church from Aegipt to Canaan then hee altered Pharaohs countenance hee raysed vp a new King which knew not Ioseph and turned the Aegiptians heartes away from Israel so that they vexed Israel and caused them to serue by crueltie and all this the Lord did to the end his people should become wearie of Egipt and inforced by violence to make forward to Canaan whereas otherwayes as it well appeares if they had been danted as in the beginning they would haue neglected the promised Land and contented themselues with Onions and Fleshpots of Egipt Thus Pharaoh by his obstinacie bringes on him selfe his iust 〈◊〉 punishment and the Lord workes to his people their vndeserued deliuerance and afterward when the sinnes of his people drew to that ripenesse that they had caused their dayes to draw neare were come to their tear●e the Lord sturred vp the King of Babel as the Rod of his wrath and Staffe of his i●dignation he s●nt him to the dissembling Nation and gaue him a charge against the people of his wrath to take the spoyle and the prey and to tread thē vnder ●eete like myre in the streets and then that the Lord might be auenged of the sinnes of Israel he subdued all Kingdomes round about them vnder the King of Babel that no sloppe or impediment should be in their way to hold off the iudgement from them But yet againe when the Lord had accomplished all his workes vpon Mount Sion and the appoynted time of mercie was come and the 70. yeares of Captiuitie was expired the● the Lord visited the proude heart of the King of Ashur and for his Churches sake he altered againe the gouernment of the whole earth translating the Empire to the Medes and Persians that Cyr●s the Lords annoynted might performe to his people the promised deliuerance All which should learne vs in the greatest changes and alterations which can fall out in the world to rest assured that the Lord wil worke for the good of his Church though the earth should be mooued and the mountaines fall into the middest of the Sea yea though the waters thereof rage and be troubled yet there is a Riuer whose streames shall make glad the Cittie of our good God in the midst of it and therefore it shall not be mooued yea they who should be as nursing fathers mothers vnto the Church of God may forsak her become her enemies but assuredly they shall perish and comfort deliuerance shall appeare vnto Gods people out of an other place The Lord for a while may put the bridle of bondage in the Phi●istines handes to humble Israel for their sinnes but it shall be taken from them and the day shall come wherein we shall with ioy draw Water out of the Welles of saluation and prayse the Lord saying Though thou wast angry with mee thy wrath is turned away and thou comfortest mee Yea Sion shall cry out and showt for ioy for great is the Holy one of Israel in the midest of her and therefore in our lowest humiliations let vs answere our aduersaries Reioyce not against me Oh mine enemie though I fall I shall rise and when I shall sit in darknesse the Lord is a light vnto mee I will beare the wrath of the Lord because I haue sinned against him vntill hee plead my cause and execute iudgement for mee he will bring me foorth to the light and I shall see his righteousnesse then he that is mine enemie shall looke vpon it and shame shall couer him who sayd to mee What is the Lord thy God Now shall he be trodden vnder as the myre in the streete yea so let all thine enemies perish O Lord For the best This best is no other thing but that precious saluation prepared to be showen vs in the last time reserued in the heauens for vs and wherevnto we are reserued by the power of God through Fayth whereof we learne that our best estate is not yet wrought so as it is accomplished it is only in the working sayes the Apostle and therefore we are not to looke for it in this life There is a great difference betweene the godly and the wicked the one enioyes their best in this life the other lookes for it and are walking toward it For if it should be demanded when a wicked man is at his best I would answere his best is euil inough but then a wicked man is at the best when he comes first into the world for then his sinnes are fewest his iudgement easiest It had bin therfore good for him that the knees had not preuented him but that he had ●yed in the bath for as a Riuer which is smallest at the beginning incre●seth as it proceedes by the accession of other Waters into it till at length it be swallowed vp into the deepe so the wicked the longer he liueth Wax●th euer worse and worse deceiuing and being deceiued sayth the Apostle Proceeding from euill to worse sayth Ieremy till at length he be swallowed vp in that Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimstone And this the Apostle expresseth most significantly when he compares the wicked man vnto one gathering a treasure wherein he heapes vp wrath to himselfe against the day of wrath

of the rest stands those who beside the outward calling of God by his Word are called also inwardly and effectually by his Holy Spirit These are Christes litle Flocke the few chosen the communion of Saincts the Lords third part so to speake with Zacharie the two partes shall be cut off and die but the third will thy Lord ●ine as Siluer and Gold of them will the Lord say This is my people and they shall say The Lord is my God It is a great step in deed that wee are brought from the vttermost Circle vnto the second but it is not sufficient to saluation yea rather they who stand in the second Circle hearing the voyce of God call them to repentance and yet harden their heartes and will not follow the Lord may looke for a more fearefull condempnation then they who are in the vttermost rancke of all Waightie are those warninges of our Sauiour Sodome and Gomorah shall be in an easier estate in the day of Iudgement then they to whom the Lord hath spoken by his word but they would not receiue it and that double stripes are for him that knowes his Maisters will and doth it not Content not your selfe therefore with this that yee are brought within the compasse of this visible Church and made partakers of an outward Calling that yee haue been Baptized in the name of Iesus and communicated at his holy Table for not euery one that sayes Lord Lord shall enter in his Kingdome except yee find also the Lords inward and effectuall Calling that the arme of his Grace hath drawen you within the compasse of this thirde Circle and so brought you to be of his owne third part and set you downe among the generation of them that seekes the face of God and therefore forsakes their ●innes that they may find him Then we see this excellent Priuiledge is restrained to them who are called inwardly and therfore let vs yet a litle consider it This inward Calling is the communication of Christs sauing Grace wherby the minde is inlightned the heart purified by Faith the affections sanctified and the whole man reformed For as the Lord by his Gospell offers to his Children Righteousnesse and Life so by his holy Spirit he giues them that iustifiyng Fayth and openeth their heart to receiue that Grace which is preached and proclaymed to them in the Gospell So then this worke of our Calling is altogeather the Lord● It is his prayse that he calles thinges which are not and makes them to be The Lord that commanded light to shine out of darknesse hath giuen to our minds the light of the knowledge of his glorie in the face of Christ Iesus he it is that creates in vs a new heart and putteth a new spirit into our bowels that we may walke in his Statu●es The Lord promised that he would call many of the Gentiles to the spirituall Ierusalem to suck out the m●●ke of the breastes of her consolation be delighted with the brightnesse of her glory shall I cause others to be fruitfull said the Lord remaine barrē my selfe and this his gracious promise hath he most aboundantly performed in our dayes this name be p●aysed therefore As this worke is onely the Lordes so he restraines it onely to them who are his owne The outwarde Calling is extended to all but the inwarde Calling makes a particular separation of a fewe from the remanent where it is wonderfull to see the distinction which is made betwix● man man in all ranckes estates by this effectuall Calling of two Brethren as Iacob and Esau of two Prophets as Moses and Balaam of two Kinges as Dauid and Saul of two Apostles as Peter and Iudas of two Theeues th' one is taken th' other reiected and thus the Arme of the Grace of God goes through to euery corner of the earth according to his pleasure culling out by his Word from among the remnant of the world those who belong to this Election This Grace of God it enters in a Land and not into euery Cittie it enters into a Cit●ie but not into euery Familie ye● and it will enter in a Familie and yet not come to euery person of the Familie of husband and wife of maisters and seruants of parents and children of brethren and sisters often times the one is taken the other is left It came to Iericho and weyled out Zacheus It came to Philippi and weyled out Lidia and the Iaylor It came to Nero his Court and not to him selfe It entered into the Familie of Narcissus and yet past by Narcissus himselfe It is the worke of God and maruellous in our eyes The Gospell is preached to many but the Blessing brought by the Gospell lights onely vpon the Children of Grace And hereof aryseth this dayly distinction which we see betweene man and man all heare alike but all haue not Fayth all are not edified alike Some forsake their sinnes and followes the Lord others forsaking the Lord walkes on in their sinnes As the Lord gouerneth the raine and makes it fall vpon one Cittie and not vpon another so hee dispenseth the deaw of his Grace that he makes it drop downe vpon one heart and not on another And of this I would wish that so many of you as yet are strangers from Grace should learne to know your miserable state What a fearefull thing is this that God hath conuerted so many in the Cittie wherein thou dwellest yea perhaps many in the Familie wherein thou remaynest and yet his Grace neuer lighted vpon thee but thou art lest in thy old sinnes Consider it rightly I pray you If the Lord should do to you as he did to Israel in the dayes of Athab causing it to raine for three yeares and a halfe on all the Landes about you but not vpon your Land would you not conceiue in it a sensible cursse of God vpon you O Hypocrite thou that canst discerne the face of the Skie and take vp the tokens of Gods anger in the creature canst thou not discerne the state of thine owne soule nor apprehend this for a sensible cursse that 30. or 40. yeares the showers of sauing and renewing Grace hath descended vpon many people round about thee but neuer vpon thy selfe thou possessest thy old sinnes and keepest still a hard a barren a fruitlesse heart What shall I say to thee to cut thee off from all hope of Mercy and so send thee to despaire I haue not that in commission the Lord hath his owne time of Calling and can when he will of Saul a persecutor make Paul a Preacher But one thing I can certifie thee of So long as thou art in that state mourne if thou wilt thou hast much cause of mourning for if this effectuall Calling by Grace go by thee in time to come as it hath done is time bygan it is an euident declaration that thou art a man reserued to wrath and