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A19487	The anatomie of a Christian man VVherein is plainelie shewed out of the VVord of God, what manner of man a true Christian is in all his conuersation, both inward, and outward. ... By M. William Covvper, minister of Gods Word.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1611 (1611)	STC 5912; ESTC S108976	153,437	332

and commit my soule vnto God as vnto my faithfull Creator 1. Pet. 4. 19. The Christians last prayer made in the body HOW excellent is thy mercy O God therefore doe I trust vnder the shadow of thy wings Psal. 36. 7. O blessed is the man whom thou dost choose and causest to come vnto thee he shall dwell in thy Courts and shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thine house euen of thy holy Temple Psal. 65. 4. Thou shalt giue him drinke out of the riuers of thy pleasures for with thee is the well of life and in thy light shall wee see light Psal. 36. Send out therefore thy light and thy truth Psal. 43. 3. and let thy good spirit lead me vnto the Land of righteousnesse Psal. 143. 10. Carry mee O Lord by thy mercy and bring me in thy strength to thy holy habitation plant me in the mountaine of thine inheritance euen the place which thou hast prepared and the sanctuary which thou hast stablished Exod. 15. 3. that I may see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the liuing Psal. 27. 13. Turne away my soule from the pit and illuminate it in the light of the liuing Iob. 33. 30. Let me behold thy face in righteousnesse and let me be satisfied with thine Image Psal. 17. 15. For in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at thy right hand are pleasures for euermore Psal. 16. 9. Into thine hands O Lord I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed mee O Lord God of truth Psal. 31. 5. Lord Iesus receiue my spirit Act. 7. The end of the vpright man is peace Psal. 37. 37. As many as walke according to this rule peace shall be vpon them and vpon the Israel of God Gal. 6. 16. A THANKS-GIVING NOW vnto him that is able to keepe vs that we fall not and to present vs faultlesse before the presence of his glory with ioy To God onely wise be glory maiestie dominion and power both now and euer Amen Iude. 24. FINIS THE TABLE The Table of the first Part. Chap. 1 OF his new birth or Regeneration Fol. 1 Chap. 2 Of his new Senses Fol. 14 Chap. 3 Of his new Food Fol. 28 Chap. 4 Of his new Growth Fol. 36 Chap. 5 Of his new Apparrell Fol. 46 Chap. 6 Of his new Names Fol. 56 The Table of the second Part. Chap. 1 OF his inward man Fol. 60 Chap. 2 Of his new minde Fol. 65 Chap. 3 Of his new Will Fol. 78 Chap. 4 Of his Conscience Fol. 87 Chap. 5 Of his Loue. Fol. 99 Chap. 6 Of his Hatred Fol. 110 Chap. 7 Of his Feare Fol. 117 Chap. 8 Of his Confidence Fol. 133 Chap. 9 Of his Ioy. Fol. 141 Chap. 10 Of his Griefe Fol. 150 Chap. 11 Of his griefe arising of a troubled Conscience Fol. 159 Chap. 12 Of his Patience Fol. 166 Chap. 13 Of his Anger Fol. 177 The Table of the third part Chap. 1 Of his outward Man Fol. 190 Chap. 2 Of his Eares Fol. 197 Chap. 3 Of his Eyes Fol. 206 Chap. 4 Of his Tongue Fol. 216 Chap. 5 Of his Eating Fol. 234 Chap. 6 Of his Hands Fol. 248 Chap. 7 Of his Feet Fol. 260 Chap. 8 Of his Company Fol. 269 A short description of the Christians departure out of the body Fol. 280 FINIS Martial 1 Ioh. 1. 8. Act. 8. 22. Act 6. Act. 16. Act. 17. Tertull. Apologet. Aug. de Temp. 215. Gregor mor●… lib. 1. Ber. in Cant. ser. 66. Chrisost. in Math. Ber. in Cant. ser. 15. Aug. de Temp. ser. 17 Basil. hexa●… hom 10. Marke our naturall miserie Behold what a loue the Father hath ●…ewed vs. See the will of God concerning our sanctification a 1. Cor. 15. 50. b Matth. 5. 8. c 1. Ioh. 3. 2. d 2. Cor. 3. 18. e Ioh. 17. 24. f Matth. 5. 36. g Iob. 14. 4. h Iames 3. 8. i Eccles. 1. 15. k Luk. 18. 27. l Psal. 146. 8. m Psal. 107. 34. n Psal. 104. 30. o Rom. 4. 17. p 2. Cor. 1. 9. q Heb. 6. 7. God is the author of our regeneration it is not done by vs. The seed of our new birth is Gods word The manner of his working it vnspeakable 1 Our election is not knowne to vs before our Regeneration 2 Regeneration is the first manifest effect of God his mercie toward man 3 And the first lesson we must learne in Christs schoole 4 Our first generation and our second compared together Iob. 25. 6. Ephes. 2. 5 By nature we haue nothing in vs can profit vs to saluation Bern. in Cant. Serm. 35. Rom. 1. 18. 6 For in a naturall man there is nothing but the blind leading the crooked 7 Nat●…lists boasting of the priuiledges of their first birth are to be pitied 8 Ignorance of the doctrine of Regeneration is now mexcusable 9 By what names Regeneration is expressed in holy Scripture Basil. in Epist. 41. ad Caesar. 10 What Regeneration is 11 Of the change made in Regeneration Ephes. 4. 22. Basil. de Sancto cap. 15. 12 Regeneration of the Soule consists in two 1 The first is mortification of the old man 13 Corrupted nature compared to an old man for three causes 14 Sinfull nature is neuer old in the wicked 15 Regeneration cannot be without spirituall paine and dolour 16 Sathan a great troubler of vs in the worke of our Regeneration 17 But he fights in vaine for God wil finish it Luk. 11. 22. 18 2 The second is viuification of the new man 19 Regeneration of the body consists in two 20 Regeneration will not be perfected til the resurrection 21 Of our parents in the new generation 22 The naturall mother discerned from the stepmother 23 The Church of Rome a strumpet and a stepmother 24 The lawful and kindly sonnes of God discerned from the bastard Naturally wee are borno senselesse of heauenly things Spirituall Senses required to saluation a Luk. 8. 10. b Psal. 119. 88. c Ephes. 2. 8. d Mark 9. 24. e Luk. 17. 5. f Psal. 119. 18. g Hos. 2. 14. h Reuel 2. 29. i Psal. 34. 8. k 2. Cor. 2. 16. l Ioh. 20. 31. m 1. Cor. 6. 17. The Christian by regeneration receiueth the new senses Of hearing Of seeing Of smelling Of tasting Of touching 1 The Christian liues as soone as he is conceiued 2 Sense and motion two principall effects of life In the natural man motion goes before Sense not so in the Christian. 3 No imperfect nor mutilate children borne by the new generation 4 The first Sense restored in Regeneration is Hearing Bern. in Cant. Serm. 28. 5 We must heare the Lord before we see him Bern. in Cant. serm 41. 6 For by hearing our ●…ies are cured and prepared to see God Bern. in Cant. serm 48. Psal. 48. 8. 7 A warning for such as refuse to heare the word of the Lord. Prou. 28. 9. 8 Eares of the man regenerate are internall Reuel 2. Matth. 13. Aug. H●…m 28. 1. Sam. Psal. 85. 8. 9

of Idols which are to be abhorred as the Iewes who called the workes of their owne hands Baali my Lord or as Micah did who when they of Dan had taken his Idols from him he ranne crying and lamenting after them ye haue taken away my gods and what more haue I as if all were gone when they were gone The Ethnickes may make them ashamed who by Natures light saw that this was vanitie Plato disswaded the people from hauing Gods of gold least they should expone them vnto theeues and Fabius when he spoiled Tarentum tooke not away their Idols relinquamus inquit Tarentinis Deos suos iratos let vs leaue vnto the Tarentines their Gods angry at them for these Gods that could not defend Tarentum will neuer defend Rome But the light of the Word doth more cleerly instruct the Christian that the Gods which made not heauen and earth should not haue place on earth except it be to be burnt vnder an oake as Iacob did with them farre lesse will hee giue them any honourable place in his tongue to name them with any reuerence Against the third Commandement the tongue is abused in the vaine idle and vnreuerent vsing of the Name of God to the smallest toy and trifle which doth occurre It was Sacriledge for any man to annoint his owne flesh with the holy Oyle which was appointed for the Tabernacle much more sacriledge is it to abuse the Name of God vnto follyes which are neyther for his glory nor mans edification Yet this abusing of Gods Name in idle and foolish talking is counted a necessary recreation to passe the time withall but why doe not men remember that they must giue an account of idle talking or why are men so prodigall as for to spend the time of Grace which God hath lent them that in it they might be reconciled with him in vnprofitable and vaine sports which doe encrease their enmitie with him No merchant will spend the time of his market any other way but in buying or selling Or will the Husband-man when seed-time comes let it goe by and delight himselfe in matters of smaller importance what folly then is this that the time of Grace wherein wee should make peace with God is passed ouer with vaine and merry talking among men Beside this by rash and vnnecessary swearing this Commandement is broken An oath saith the Apostle is the end of all Controuersie it is the last refuge whereunto Truth runneth for credit for three wayes haue wee to confirm our speech first affirmation or denial when this is not credited then we goe to asseueration when this also can haue no place then we goe to swearing but that which is the last band of Truth now men commonly doe make it the first Yea many not content in simple manner to sweare by the Name of God as if that were too base a thing for such hautie spirits as theirs are proceed in their blind presumption to more horrible oathes by the bloud the wounds and the body of the Lord by which they were redeemed thereby proclaiming to all the world that the loue and reuerence of God was neuer in their heart It is recorded of a certaine Iudge who hauing three of the children pleading before him for the goods of their defunct father he tooke vp the dead body and set it to them as a mark promising that which of them shot neerest his heart should be made possessor of all his goods whereupon the first did shoot the second also but the third refused whom for that cause the Iudge adiudged to be possessor of all his fathers goods as the most kindly and naturall sonne of the three Thus as Salomon tryed the right mother by her kindly affection toward her Childe so this Iudge tryes the right childe by his kindely affection toward his father But if the professors of this age were tryed by this rule many of them would be found to be none of the sonnes of God for they spare not to shoot the venomous arrows of their blasphemous speeches against the heart of their heauenly Father against the blood the wounds and the body of their blessed Redeemer for so Leuit. 24. 11. the blasphemer is said to haue pierced the heart of God The offences of the tongue against the fourth Commandement are especially two the first is rash vttering of prayers or praises without sanctification or premeditation going before Be not rash with thy mouth neither let thine heart be hastie to vtter a thing before God The other is speech in hipocrisie whereby men draw neere to God in their mouthes while they are farre from him in their harts the Lord loues truth in the inward affections and delighteth to be worshipped in spirit and truth otherwise if we haue him in our mouthes and not in our hearts fearefull is our recompence for hee shall haue vs in his mouth to spue vs out not in his heart to keepe vs for euer with himselfe Thus wee see how the tongue is abused to transgresse the Commandements of the first Table but here the vnrulinesse thereof rests not it proceedeth also against the second Table for the tongue which is not rightly ordered toward God will neuer be reuerent toward men nor spare to dishonour euen those whom most of all they are bound to honour There are three comely ornaments of our speech toward all men first truth secondly loue thirdly meekenesse and modestie For first wee should see that wee speake the truth secondly that we speake it in loue thirdly with meekenesse But in speaking to our superiors wee ought to ioyne the fourth which is reuerence if wee be not silent in the presence of our betters as El●…hu was at the presence of the ancients at least let vs speake with reuerence as Sarah is commended for that shee spake reuerently to her Husband Against the sixt commandement the tongue is an instrument of transgression many wayes for moe are slaine with the tongue then with the hands as Daniels accusers flew him with their false accusing tongues when they durst not stir him with their hands Therefore Dauid compares an euill tongue to the venome of Aspes to Iuniper coales and to arrowes and indeed it is worse then any of these As for the venome of Aspes ther are Antidotes to preserue thee from it but what will keep thee from the sting of an euill tongue not Innocency it selfe And Iuniper coales though they be very hot burne none but such as touch them but the euil tongue hurts them that neuer offends it and for the arrow distance of place will defend thee from it but goe where thou wilt the malice of an euill tongue shall still persecute thee The seauenth Commandement is transgressed by the filthy and corrupt communication of the tongue for filthinesse conceiued in the heart imployes the tongue to prepare a way for committing of