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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

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

For euen as the Worlding who euery day casteth in a peece of money in his treasure in few yeares multiplies such a summe the particulers whereof hee him selfe is not able to keepe in minde but when he breakes vp his Boxe then he findes in it sundry sortes of Coyne whereof he had no remembrance Euen so is it and worse with thee O impenitent man who not onely euery day but euery hower and moment of the day doest multiply thy transgressions and defile thy Conscience hoording vp into it some dead worke or other to what a reckoning thinkest thou shall thy sinnes amount in the end though thou forget them as thou committest them Yet the Apostle telleth thee that thou hast laid them vp in a treasure and not onely so but with euery sinne thou hast gathered a portion of wrath proportionable to thy sinne which thou shalt perfectly know in that day wherein the Lord shall breake vp thy treasure and open the booke of thy Conscience and set thy sinnes in order before thee then shall Thine owne wickednesse correct thee and thy turninge backe shall reprooue thee then shalt thou know and behold that it is an euill thing and a bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God And shalt be astonished to see such a multitude of witnesses standing vp against thee then shalt thou perceiue that these sinnes which thou hast cast behind thy backe the Lord hath set them in the light of his countenan●e and then woe shall be vnto thee for the Lord shall turne thine owne wayes vpon thy head when thou hast accomplished the m●asure of thine iniquitie the Lord shall gi●● thee to drinke of the cuppe which thou hast s●lled with thine owne hand and shall double his stripes vpon thee according to the multitude of thy 〈◊〉 But as to the Children of God i● you will aske When they are at their best 〈◊〉 Pray●e● be God ou● wo●st is away our good is 〈…〉 best is at hand as our Sauiour sayd to his Kinsmen ●o may we say to the Worldlings Your Ti●● is a●●ay but my time is not yet come W●e were at the worst immediatly before our con●●●sion for our whole life t●ll then was a walking with the children of disobedience in the brode way that leades to damnation and then were wee at the worst when we had proceeded furthest in the way of vntighteousnesse for then were we furthest from God Our best began in the day of our recalling wherein the Lord by his Word and holy Spirit called vpon vs and made vs turne our backes vpon Satan and our face toward the Lord and so caused vs part companie with the children of disobedience among whom we had our conuersation before then we came home with the penitent ●orlorne to our fathers family but they went forward in their sinnes to iudgement That was a day of diuision betwixt vs and our sinnes In that day with Israel we entred into the borders of Canaan into Gilgall there were we circumcised and the shame of Aegipt was taken frō vs e●en o● sinne which is our shame indeed which we haue borne from our mothers wombe the Lord graunt that we may keepe it for euer in thanke●ull remembrance and that we may ●●unt it a double shame to re●urne againe to the bondage of Aegipt to serue the prince of Darknesse in Bricke and Clay that is to haue fellowship any more with the vnfruitfull workes of darknesse but that like the redeemed of the Lord wee may Wak●from strength to strength till we appeare before the ●ace o●●ur God in S●on Alwayes this difference of estates of the godly and wicked should learne vs patience Let vs not seeke that in the Earth which our gracious God in his most holy dispensation hath reserue●●or vs in the Heauen Let vs not be like the foolish Iewes who loued the place of their Banishment in Babel better then their home For heere we are not at our best now our life is hid with the Lord and wee know not yet what we shall be but we know when he shall appeare we shall be like him the Lord shall carry vs by his mercie and bring vs in his strength to his holy habitation Hee shall plant vs in the mountaine of his inheritance euen the place which he hath prepared and sanctuarie which he hath established then Euerlasting 〈…〉 vpon our hea●e● and sorrow an● 〈◊〉 shall fl●e away from vs for euer And now till the Lord hath accomplished his worke into vs let vs not faint because the wicked fl●resh neither thinke we haue clensed our handes in vaine because they prosper they are to be pittred rather then enu●ed let them eate and drinke and be merry sure it is they will neuer see a blyther day then that which they see presently they haue enioyed their Heauen in the Earth they haue receiued their consolation in this life and hath gotten their portion in this world Oh what tongue can expresse their miserie And yet as Samuel mourned for Saul when God rei●cted him and Ieremy wept in secret for the pride of his people that would not rep●n● of their sinnes How can we but take vp a bitter lamentation for many of you whom in this time of Grace wee see to be strangers from Grace We wish from our hearts yee were not like the Kinsmen of L●t who thought he was scorning when hee tolde them of a Iudgement to come and therefore for no request would goe with him out of Sodom but ta●●yed while the fire of the Lords indignation consumed them But rather as Sara followed Abraham from Chaldee to Canam so you would take vs by the hand and goe forward with vs from the Helles to the Heauens But alasse the lustes of the flesh holdes you captiue your Sinnes hath blinded you and the Loue of the world doth bewitche you but all of them in th' end shall deceiue you For All the labour vnder the Sunne is but vanitie and vexation of spirit When you haue finished your taske you shal be lesse content then yee were at the beginning you shal be as one wakened out of a dreame who in his sleepe thought he was a possessor of many things but when he awaketh behold he hath nothing Like that Rich man who sayd in his securitie N●w my soule thou hast mickle good for many dayes and euen vppon the next day redacted to so great poue●tie with him that despised Lazarus that he had not so much as a drop of cold Water to coole his tongue with then shall you lament Wee haue wearied our selues in the way of iniqui●ie and it did not pro●ite vs. Alasse how shall I learne you to be wise The Lord when he created man set him in a roome aboue all his creatures and now degenerate man sets euery Creature in his heart aboue the Lord O fearefull ingratitude Do you foreward the