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A19514	Tvvo sermons preached in Scotland before the Kings Maiesty the one, in his chappell royall of Holy-Roode-house at his Highnesse comming in: the other, in the church of Drumfreis at his Highnesse going out: by W. Cowper ...	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1618 (1618)	STC 5944; ESTC S109005	33,356	56

conceiued of the seede of man he is Gnamith Iehoua the companion of Iehoua hee is also as Iob calleth him our Goel or our kinsman Iacob called him Shiloh because he was sent into the world wrapped in the like tunicle which others of the sons of men bring with them when they are borne He is that incomparable Vnio or Margarita a precious pearle as Nazianzen calleth him and why Nicetas and Elias do tel vs quippe qui non nisi summo cum labore at que à perpaucis inueniatur because he is not found but with great labour and few are they who finde him Tum etiam vt ait ille quia vt margarita ex concha aqua conflatur ita Christus diuinitate humanitate constat O what a matter of vnspeakable ioy is heere but I must contract my selfe Man for his transgression receiued this checke from the Lord Ecce Adam factus est quasi vnus ex nobis but now since the reconciliation by Iesus God manifested in the flesh man may reioice and say Ecce Deus factus est quasi vnus ex nobis Doubtlesse this is a strong bulwarke of our faith for since we see that the sonne of God is become the sonne of man clothed with all the infirmities of our nature except sinne since wee see the God of glorie humbled to the ignominie of the crosse why shall we doubt that the sonnes of men shall also be made the sonnes of God and that these vile bodies of ours shall bee changed and fashioned like vnto the glorious body of Christ especially since for no other end became he the sonne of man but to make vs the sonnes of God The last part of the description is heere whom thou has● made strong for thy selfe this as I haue said respecteth his threefold office and his vnction to them all A commentarie for this place is that of Esay I will put my Spirit in him that hee may bring foorth iudgement to the Genti●es And againe The spirit of the Lord is vpon me and he hath annoynted mee hee hath sent mee to preach good tydings vnto the poore and to binde vp the broken-hearted c. what the Psalmist heere calls strengthning the Prophet heere calls it annoynting aud St. Iohn calls it sealing for him hath God the father sealed and what is meant by all these he expounds himselfe yet more cleerely The word was made flesh and dwelt among vs full of grace and truth and a little after God gaue him not the spirit by measure that of his fulnesse wee might all receiue grace for grace Of all these it is plaine how the father is sayd to haue made his sonne strong for himselfe that is hee annoynted him he sealed him he put his spirit into him not in a measure but communicate the fulnes of grace to him that he might be ●rengthened to do vnto vs the office of a King to deliuer vs from our enemies of a Prophet to teach vs the whole counsell of God and of a Preist to offer himselfe in a propitiatory sacrifice for vs. In all these appeared his wonderfull strength passius est vt infirmus operatus vt fortis when hee suffered like a weake man then he wrought like a valiant man then he darkned the sunne then he rent the vaile then hee raised the dead in his death vide infirmitatem filij hominis see the infirmity of the so●●e of man in his victorie vide fortitudinem 〈◊〉 Dei see the mighty strength and power of the ●o●ne of God granum sinapis dum patitur in his ●uff●ring he is like a graine of mustard seede dum resurgit ●●bor est sub qua aues coeli nidificant in his resurrection he is like a tree vnder which the birds of heauen doe build their neasts Euerie way the mighty strength of our strong Redeemer is to be admired but specially his conquest by suffering there did appeare the weaknesse of God stronger then man yea then all these Principalities powers and spirituall wickednesse that were opposite to him It was indeed an exceeding great worke which committed to our Mediatour The man lesus and therefore required a speciall vnction to make him strong vnto it All the Angels of heauen all the men on earth were not able to haue wrought that worke Such a Law was neuer imponed to man nor Angell as was imponed to lesus by his his Fathers ordination willingly accepted by himselfe This was the Law of a Redeemer wherewith Christ was charged and none but hee more many manner of wayes then the Law morall whereunto all are subiect The morall Law had two tables the first commanding the perfit loue of God the next commanding to loue our neighbour as our selues The Redeemers Law hath also two parts both of them commanding much more then is commanded by the morall the first part of the Redeemers law lookes vp to his Father the second lookes downe to his brethren In the first this commandement was giuen him Thou must vindicate the glory of thy fathers mercy and iustice If man bee not punished what shall become of the glorie of my iustice and if all men perish vnder that wrath which is due to their transgression what shall become of the glory of my mercie The Lord Iesus hath in wonderfull manner preserued them both for in him the inuiolable strictnesse of his Fathers iustice hath beene manifested in that he spared not his own sonne bearing the burden of our transgression many fearefull examples of diuine iustice hath been seene since the beginning of the world but neuer one like vnto this And many great mercies in all ages hath hee shewed to his seruants Noah in the arke Lot in Zoar Israel beyond the red sea may stand for examples but neuer a mercy like this was manifested in the world that the Lord gaue his onely begotten to the death that such as beleeue in him might haue eternall life There was the riches of the glory of his mercy wonderfully declared Thus did the Lord fulfill the commandement of the law of a Redeemer and preserue the glory both of his fathers iustice and mercy The other part of the law respected his brethren concerning whom this commandement was giuen him thou must loue thy brethren not as thy selfe onely but more then thy selfe thou shalt purchase them life by thine owne death thou shalt saue them who haue lost themselues thou shalt redeeme their inheritance which they haue solde without a price and as their neerest kinsman and first-borne of thy fathers familie according as thou art bound thou shalt pursue the murtherer that slue him to wit the Diuell he is without all citie of refuge reuenge thou their bloud vpō him like another Abraham thou must bring home againe Lot out of the hands of that Tyrant Chedarlaomer all this the Lord Iesus powerfully performed for the father

they not trust in them Adrichom descrip Hierus 2. Sam. 23.39 Psal. 44.6 Psal. 73. Psal. 27.10 Prou. 18. Ambros. They can neuer be secured to whom the Lord is not a ●uretie Psal. 27.1 What a great Maiestie the Lord Ichoua is Mysterie of the Trinitie to be reuerenced Pisul● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dangerous to search in the diuine Maiestly more then is reuealed Pisida in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The name of Ieho●a somtime shortly set downe in Scripture 1. Cor. 4. B●rn in Cant. Ser. 31. Noz●an Orat. 2. de Theol●g The same name sometime enlarged by circumloquution Zaac● de diuinis attribu●●● l. ●●3 Bern. in Cantica Ser. 31. Ec●l●s 1.4 Heb. 1.11 12. What a great comfort we haue in this that our God was is and wil be Math. 22.32 Iob. 14. The second circumstance to whom is this promise made Iam. 5.16 Iohn 4.10 Aug. de temp Ser. 226. Prayer of Saints is neuer powred out in vaine Prayer compared to the Elephants snowt and why Pier. H●erogl de Eleph C●rysest in Mat. ●om 23. Prayer a maruellous kinde of husbandry 1. Sam. 7.6 Psal. 56.8 A notable encouragement to Prayer Psal. 126.5 2. Cor. 9.6 Dauid his Prayer is in two verses God his answere is in six Ephes. 3.20 Aug. de Temp. Born in Cant. Serm. 83. The Lord alwaies giues more then we can craue 1. King 3.11 Gen. 18.23 24. c. The third Circumstance is of the benefite promised to wit Preseruation Psal. 77.4 Psal. 121.4 Zach. 2.8 The word imports that as the lid of the eye couers the eye so the Lord preserues his owne Gen. 15.1 Iob. 1.10 The power of diuine preseruation most euident in our King Psal. 144.10 Romish Rabsache and his Tulipantic Frogs not to be feared Psal. 21.7 The promise of preseruation is of●●n rep●at●d For remedy of our ignorance A●a● 16 〈◊〉 3● 27 For a remedy of our diffidence Heb. 6. Gen. 21.32 The fourth circumstance is of the qualities of this preseruation first it is totall secondly it is perpetuall Psal. 121. ● 7 Arnobius in Psal. Hilarius expound● this place too strictly 1. Tim. 4.5 Basile Chr●s●st Euthim. expound it more iudiciously Man his l●fe is a comming and going In respect of the naturall course of it Iob. 1 21. 1. Tim. 6.7 Act. 1.21 Eccles. 6.4 Heb. 13.14 Nazian de ●ominis vililale Gregor moral lib. 25. Seneca In respect of the personal actions of men in their life De●t 28.6 For our life is a turning in a circular motion Herodot l●b 1. Nazian Beside that which is common to all men the office of a King is called A going in and out before the people Deut. 31.2 Numb 27.17 1. King 3.7 A godly and religious Ruler is a great blessing to a people Ex. Aenca Sil●●o 〈◊〉 de●ad 1. 〈◊〉 1. Fulg●m●●d T●e●do● S●n●torem E●●● 6. 2. Kin. 13.6 2. C●ro● 30 9. Eccl. 10 17. Iob. 8.7 Nehom. 5.13 Nehom. 5.19 The office of a King is full of labour and care Pier. ●●●og lib. 1. cap. 4. He is like the Lyon who sleeping looks vp and is alway mouing euen when he rests The Royall Office can not be borne out without the Royal vnction A warning to vsurpers of the Royall calling Sardanapalus Dom●●●●n loitering and idle Empero●●s Plat. Good Ichosaphat a conscientious and laborious King 2. Chron. 19.4 Such a King hath God in mercy set ouer vs trauailing from one end of the Kingdome to the other for discharge of his Office I●sh 10.12 A wish that his Maiesty might bide with vs but limited At least the tokens of his presence in reformation of our euils may bee left behinde him Psal. 72.6 7. P●●l 72.3 Sa●r●ledge an euill in the h●a●t of this K●ngdome hurtfull to all the es●ates thereof To Nobles Great men Psal. 83.11 12. No word here of deiection of e●ection● Ge● 41 21. To the Gentry Common● Most of all to an ancient Church like to perish through pouerty Antiquity of the Church of Scotland shortly touched and by the way Psal. 2.8 The Churches of Scotland and England receiued not the Christian faith from Rome Baron a●ales For the meaning o● this place See Baron a●al●s a●no Ch●i●● 183. T●r●●ll aduersus Iud. ●os ca. 78. 1. C●r 9.11 The conclusion wherein the remedy of ●●c●ledge before called the Kings E●●l is referred to a touch of the Kings hand G. il 2● 12 And the King committed to the blessing of God His Maiesties comming in was welcommed with a promise The two Kingdoms his Maiesty called his two Twinnes in his Parliament speech at Edenberough Now his going out is accompanied with a Prayer This Psalme hath two Prayers For the Church For the instruments of her diliuerance and these are of two sorts The true and Spirituall Redeemer of the Church Hieron in hunc Psal. The typicall and temporall Redeemers thereof Cyrus Zerubb●●el c. These two agree well together Heb. 11 9.10 First then here we h●u● a pr●ier ●or the M●●s●●h ●●●●●nt a● Probam The Church in all ages longed for him Galat. 4 19. But the neerer the time of his exhibition came the more his Saints looked for him Luke 2.38 The Messiah is heere three wayes described He is called the Sonne of God his right hand and that in three respects In respect of his maru●●●ous generat●on in hoth his natu●es Na●●an ●r●t 4. de silio His vnspeakable gen●ration as God Heb. 1. Luke 1.34 His maru●llous generation as man noted in these three names giuen him 1 C●r 15. Cant 4. Dan. 2. Iren. lib. 3. co●t Val●nt The Messiah is called the Son of Gods right hand in respect of God his speciall loue toward him Exod. 15. Psal. Nazian orat 7. de compos disserend ratione Euery Christian is a sonne of Gods right hand but not as Iesus is Matth. 3.17 The Mess●●h is a Son of Gods right hand in respect of his willingnesse to obey his father Psal. 40.8 Iob. 4 3● The second point of the Messiah his description is The Sonne of man Zach. 13. I●b 19. Nazian 〈◊〉 23 ad I●lia● Nicetas S●●l in Nazian Elias in Nazian ●ra 8. de pace What great comfort haue we in this that the Sonne of God is become the Sonne of man Philip. 3.21 The third point of the description of the Messi●s that God hath made him strong for himselfe to doe the office of a Redeemer Esay 61.1 Io● 6.27 Iob. 1.14 Iob. 3.34 Christ made strong for his office by annoynting sealing powring of the Spirit vpon him Aug. de Temp. Ser. 107. The strength of Christ appeared in his greatest weaknesse Aug. Ser. de Sanctus Luke 13.19 There was neuer such a work committed to Angel or man as that which was laid on Iesus The Law of a Redeemer was enioyned to him which requires more then the Law morall As the Law moral had two tables so hath the Law of the Redeemer two parts The first looks vp to his father and binds him to vindicate the glory of his fathers iustice mercy The second lookes ' downe to hisbrethren bindes him to vindicate them from all their enemies We haue seene how this pra●er is competent to Ch●ist the true and princip●ll Redeemer of his Church Now it is competent also to secondary instruments raised by God for the good of his Church For good Kings are sons of Gods right hand otherwise then common Christians are And it agrees also to them that God ha●h made them strong for himselfe All strength dignity is from the Lord. 1 Sam. 2. Psal. 144. But not alway vsed for the Lord. Ierem. Hosea 13.6 Men aduanced to honour by God haue need to take heed that they be for God Nazian oral 12. de s●ipso Otherwise God will doe for himselfe but against them Hosea 4.19 Hosea 5.7 Hosea 9.11 Hosea 13.3 Happy are they who returne to the Lord that which they haue receiued from him Ezech. 34.26 Psal. 89 21.22.23 Psal. 18.25 The Church of old w●en they prayed for themselues prayed for their Kings 1 Tim. 2.1 For the King his good estate brings good to his people Aug. de Ciuitate De● lib. 4 cap. 3. Elias in Nazian o●at 7 de compos disser r●t ●am●nt 4.20 Such swe●t harmonie should be betweene P●●nce and people as w●s betweene Dauid and his subiects 1 Chron. 21.17 2 Sam. 18.3 The conclusion wherein this prayer is applied to ●ur Soueraigne Ancient Israelites vsed it for their Rulers and we should vse it for our King Since both his word works ●●●nesses th●t he is giuen vs a sonne of God his right hand A notable speach vttered by his Maiestie in the Castle of Edenbrugh witnes him to be such a one Psal. 20.4 Workes witnesses also throughout the Kingdome But most euid●nt in Drumfreis and the whole South borde● For restitution of true Religion For singular peace they enioy now being deliuered from their oppressors Psal. 147.4 Plin. lib. 10. cap. 32. These benefits were acknowledged with such publike acclamations as forced the Preacher to stay till the people had ended A speach to the Nobles of England With an exhortation Plaut in Pseud. Ouid. 5. trist An admonition A commendation Plat. lib. 3. de ●ep Pers. Sai●r 5. A warning to his Maiesties Cubiculars and Domestiques Coloss. 3.22 Psal. 101.3 1 Chro. 12.18 Psal. 20.1 Genes 15.