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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

THREE HEAVENLY TREATISES concerning Christ 1 His Genealogie 2 His Baptisme 3 His Combat with Sathan TOGETHER VVITH deuout Meditations for Christian Consolation and Instruction By Mr. William Cowper Minister of Gods Word LONDON Printed by T. S. for Iohn Budge and are to be sold at his shops at the great South doore of Paules and at Brittaines Bursse 1612. TO THE RIGHT Noble Lord Iohn Earle of Montrose Lord Graeme and Mugdok one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuy Counsell in this Kingdome My Lord I Haue beene bold to publish these Treatises vnder your Honourable name not for any light that by them can accresse to that treasure of knowledge which is in your Noble minde but that so farre as I can I might make euident to others for imitation that grace which God hath made so eminent in you I may truely say there is no qualitie which in the iudgement either of learned Ancients or recents hath beene required to complete Nobilitie lacking in you Your honour being not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 onely Noble by birth but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also generous by manners such as retaine yea by vertue encreases the honour of your honourable Fathers It passed among the ancient wise men in a prouerbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because commonly it fals out that children of worthy men comming short of their fathers vertue derogates to their glorie aequat rara patrem soboles And therefore in them qui clariores genere cens●ntur it was euer thought an high commendation maiorum famam sustinere like as no greater shame can be to them of that ranke then when by their ignoble life they quench the light of their noble stock et generi suo dedecori sunt It is now twelue hundreth years since your honourable name hath beene famous in this kingdome but which is much more and wherein in my iudgement it is marueilous the first mention of your Tribe in the story doth not record the rising therof from a small estate vnto an higher as it doth in many Peeres of the land who for their vertue also were aduanced but at the first sight it presents your worthy Predecessor standing in the highest top of Honour wherein a subiect can be for not onely was he then brother in law to king Fergus the 2. but for his Wisedome Valour Manhood by consent of the Nobles both Scots Picts then gathered to battell he was chosen as meetest Chieftaine to demolish that diuision-wall of Abircorne stretching from the East sea to the West built first by Victorine and fortified thereafter more strongly by Gallio both of them Romane Lieutenants but more victoriously first last broken down by the valiant Graeme in presence of both the Kings that so a way might be prepared to their armies to make irruption vpon the Romans for which vnto this day the remanents of that worke beares the name of Graeme his ditch when himselfe is gone Facta ducis viuunt operosaquè gloria rerum Haec manet It is true there are many honourrable families in this land who communicate with you in the same name but that this is the honour of your house is euident not onely by the lands bordering with that wall possessed as yet by your L. and was as the story recordeth one of the motiues why that waighty charge was committed to your worthy ancestors but in this also that the remanant families who come vnder the communion of the same name hold lands of your house from which as from a most ancient stocke they as sproutes and branches haue growne and sprung out And of this as it is euident that your honourable house is more ancient then the Chronicle can declare so doth this greatly increase the glory of it that it hath continued in honour euer since euen to the daies of your noble Father of famous memory who for fidelitie to his Prince loue to his Countrey equity toward all men after he had borne many other offices of honour was in his olde age honored to be his Maiesties high Commissioner and also great Chancellor of this kingdome his house like the open court of Ahasuerus his palace wherein hee banquetted his people euer plenished and patent to such as pleased to resort In a word no lesse honourable in this Kingdome hath your Familie beene then the Tribes either of Leontis or Aeantis among the Athenians for their feates of armes and glorious victories atchieued in battell or among the Romanes these fiue principall families Vitellij Fabij Antonij Potitij Mamilij who for their most ancient discent were called Aborigines But howsoeuer these be great things yet are they not the greatest which doe commend you Virtute decet non sanguine niti It is a miserable pouertie where a man hath no matter of praise in himselfe but must borrow it from others Miserum est aliorum incumbere famae Yea the more honourable the parentage is the greater is the shame of him that degenerates from it and so becomes indignus genere Perit omnis in illo Gentis hono● cuius laus est in origine sola Here then is your greatest praise that as you are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lineally discended of so Noble and ancient a stocke for no writ nor memory of man can record the interruption of your Line so are you the vndoubted heyre of those vertues which shined in them Wisedome declared in doubtsome and difficult matters Manhood tryed as we say in discrimine Truth fit enim quod dicitur your words are sufficient warrants to such as know you Noble manners Veram nobilitatem testantur facies mores these are Insignia numina diuum And beside these beautified with other two rare graces wherunto they in regard of their times could not attain at least in the like measure Pietie and Erudition your honour being learned not onely in the common languages of the most famous countries of Europe but in the three most renowned languages whereby as yee haue attained to the knowledge of liberall Sciences so doe ye stil conserue and dayly encrease it by diligent reading and conference with the learned who for learning are loued and honoured by you Nam quae mox imitere legis nec des●nit vnquam Tecu●…●…rataloqui Tecum Romana vetustas That which the wise K. Salomon said of Beauty without discretion the like may be said of Honour without Erudition It is as a ring in a swynes snout and therefore hath the learned expressed Erudition by the name of humanitie both because the care and study of Sciences is committed to man onely among all the creatures and for that man without Erudition is liker a beast then a man Turpe est viro principi parem dignitatisuae virtutem non afferre And these two Honour and Erudition shine so much the more cleerely in you that they are both crowned with singular and vnsimulate Pietie both professed and practised and that in a time of reu●lting great

proper voyce of Sathan Cast thy selfe downe Neuer hath he any word for himselfe or others to bid them mount vp to the Lord but alwayes to draw them downe Hee cast himselfe downe from heauen to hell and if he might would cast downe all Gods Children from the state of grace into the state of condemnation Oh if we could remember that in effect this is the summe of all Sathans temptations Cast thy selfe downe seeking no other thing but our downe-fall disgrace and vtter destruction And yet alas how many are bewitched by him to cast downe themselues and wallow in euery puddle of iniquitie doing those works of vncleannesse which are base and most vnseemely for a Christian who in regard both of his first and second creation is an honourable creature For it is written VVEe haue heard what Sathan craued in this temptation now followeth the reason whereby he would allure our Lord to yeeld vnto him The end of all is to take out of Christs heart the feare of any inconuenience that might befall him by this precipitation of himselfe And this is Sathans customable policie also to steale out of the heart the feare of iudgement which hee knowes God worketh in his owne as a curbe to keepe them from sinne If you eate of the Tree whereof I haue forbidden you saith the Lord yee shall dye No saith Sathan though yee eate of it yee shall not dye Blessed is hee that teacheth his heart continually to feare Let vs therefore keepe this feare that it may keepe vs from sinne It was Iosephs argument to his Brethren I feare God and therefore dare doe you no wrong Feare is called by Gregorie Anchora cordis the Anchor of the heart which holds fast that it be not driuen away by the restlesse waues of temptations Now in this testimonie we haue first to see how Sathan abuseth it and next how were should vse it for our comfort His abusing of it I gather in three things first this is a great abuse to draw any part of Gods Word to serue him in tempting a man vnto sinne seeing it is true of it all which S. Iohn speakes of one part of it My Babes these things I write vnto you that yee sinne not And in this his miserable captiues are become his learned disciples when they vse any sentence of holy Scripture of strengthen themselues or others in a sinne so the Drunkard abuseth that saying of the Apostle to cheare vp his heart to intemperance Drinke no longer water but vse a little wine for thy stomackes sake and thine often infirmities whereas if the Apostle were now aliue hee would change that precept to our belly-gods and giue them the contrary Drinke no longer wine but vse more water not onely for conscience sake but euen for the stomackes sake for Intemperance destroyes euen the naturall life The idle man againe to confirme himselfe in his sinne abuseth that saying of our Sauiour Care not for the morrow and many thinke the lesse of adultery and murther because Dauid was guiltie of them and yet a man commended of God not remembring that the vertues of good men are registred for our imitation but their sinnes are recorded for our humiliation Vt casus maiorum sit tremor minorum that meaner men should tremble at great mens fals This is a piece of Sathans diuellish diuinitie to confirme thy selfe in a sinne by any thing that euer thou heardst or readst in the Word of God Secondly his abusing of holy Scripture is euident in this that rehearsing such a place of holy Scripture as describes the office of Elect Angels and the blessed estate of Elect men who are protected of God by the ministerie of Angels and so might very well haue remembred him of that first happy estate and of his present vnhappy condition whereinto he had fallen by pride yet he makes no profit by it at all hee is not touched with any remorse for his sin nor once moued so much as to lament according as hee had cause Alas that euer I fell from the fellowship of those holy Angels Alas that I should abide in this desperate estate as to impugne the glory of God which cannot be oppugned and to fight against his Saints ouer whom I shall neuer preuaile Nay no such thought or motion enters into his heart This proceedes from his great obstinacie in euill which lockes him vp in finall impenitencie in that sinne which is against the holy Ghost that neyther can he nor will he repent but contrary his light wilfully and of malice hee sets himselfe alwayes a contradicter of the Lord. These are Viae Daemonum praesumptio obstinatio the wayes of damned Diuels Presumption and Obstinacie Propter praesumptionem stare non potuit propter obstinationem resurgere non potest for presumption hee could not stand for obstinacie hee cannot rise the one casts him into the sinne of shamefull Apostasie the other holds him vnder the sinne of fearefull impenitencie and these are the sins into the which Sathan labors most to draw men finding by his owne experience they are most forcible to bring men to the fellowship of his condemnation Wee cannot deny we are guiltie of the first which is Apostasie the Lord preserue vs from the second which is impenitencie And herewithall let vs acknowledge the great loue of GOD towards vs that whereas Apostate Angels haue fallen and shall neuer rise againe and reprobate men haue sinned but cannot repent the Lord hath reserued mercy for vs renuing and raising vs vp daily by the grace of repentance O what a mercy is it we were once plunged with them into the same deepe but the Lord stretcheth out his hand vnto vs to pull vs out from among them and to bring vs to an happy fellowship with himselfe and his holy Angels Let vs reioyce in this kindnesse of our God let vs be thankfull for it let vs daily delight in this grace of Repentance lamenting our apostasies recounting our fore-passed sinnes in the bitternesse of our hearts that so the sense of peace and reconciliation with God in Christ Iesus may be encreased in vs. And againe here is a warning to all senselesse and stupid hearers of the Word of God who when they heare their sinnes condemned are eyther not moued at all or else if they be moued are not mended So Pharaoh had some motion and prayed Moses to pray for him but it was without continuance being choked by the hardnesse of his hart Achab rent his cloaths and put on Sackcloath at the threatning of Elias but his humiliation continued not Foelix trembled when Paul preached but hee proceeded no further Yet euen these may condemne the senselesse hearers of this age who after so long hearing haue beene so little moued And those come ouer-neare vnto the nature of Sathan who is so confirmed in his sinne that no conuiction made by the cleare light of