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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

super filium hominis quem confirmasti tibi id est ipsum Mediatorem Saluatorem nostrum Secondarily it is a Prayer for all Typicall and Temporall redeemers whome this people expected for perfiting their promised deliuerance as Cyrus Nehemiah Zerubbabel and such like we will then first see how this is a Prayer for the comming of Christ and next for his Deputie-Powers here vpon earth raised vp for the comfort of his Church The one of these is not repugnant to the other nay they agree very wel together as the Type and the Truth Such as were spirituall and truely religious among that people rested not in the temporall promises which were made vnto them but by them ascended vp and layd hold on the spirituall Abraham contented not with earthly Canaan hee dwelt in it as in a strange countrey for hee looked for a better And heere no doubt the godly Iewes do in such sort pray for their deliuerance from Babel that their desire looketh vp with an higher eye for their redemption from sinne and Sathan by Iesus Christ. In all ages the Saints haue greatly longed for their Sauiour In the Reuelation the Church is figured by a Woman trauelling of childe for Ecclesia semper ●●lier est virgo the Church is alway a Virgin and alway a trauelling Woman It is true one member of the Church to wit the blessed Virgin Marie brought him out a very man like vs in all things except sinne yet all his Saints both before and after the Incarnation haue their owne conception and trauelling whereby they bring him out for still Saints are in trauelling till Christ be formed in them yea they shall not rest nor be deliuered till by his second appearance he perfit them and as to them who were before the Incarnation sure it is so soone as the Messia was promised the Church by faith conceiued him she trauelled crying for him by praier as earnestly desirous to see him as a woman desires in due time to see the birth of her wombe at length by patiēce in the fulnes of time she broght him out Abraham saw his day a far off reioyced that a childe was to be borne vnto him in whom all Nations of the earth should be blessed And which is the point the godly in this verse long for him and pray for his Comming and the neerer the time drew wherein he was promised to be exhibited the more desirous were they to see him All the faithfull of that age looked for Redemption in Israel Of that number was Ioseph of Arimathea hee waited for the Kingdome of God also Anna and Simeon waited for the consolation of Israel then was Simcon content to die when he got in his armes the promised seede of the woman and saw with his eyes the saluation of the Lord. And thus haue we the first and principall meaning of this praier which the Church maketh for the Messia He is heere shortly three wayes described first hee is called the Sonne of Gods right hand Secondly he is called the sonne of man And these two especially respect his person Thirdly hee is called One whom God hath made strong for himselfe And this touches his office As to the first hee is called the Sonne of God his right hand for three causes first in respect of his maruellous generation in both his natures Illin● patris expers hinc matris in the one without a father in the other without a mother Natus quidem est he was borne indeed of a woman but in respect of his mother he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without a father Idem etiam genitus est hee was also begotten of his father but in respect of his father he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without a mother thus euery way was hee The sonne of Gods right hand As God he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the brightnesse of his fathers glory and the engrauen Image of his person As hee is man hee was conceiued and formed by the right hand of God so the Angell told Marie the power of the most high shall ouer shadow thee therefore in respect of his maruellous humane generation Irenaeus obserues these three stiles to be giuen him First he is called The second Adam a very man as the first Adam was yet not begotten by a man as the first Adam was not begotten by a man Secondly he is called Flos campi a flowre of the field not a flowre of the garden not set or planted by a Gardner but springing vp of the owne accord without the labour or industrie of man Thirdly he is called A Stone cut out of the mountaine without hands he came of the same masse whereof all mankinde is but no man helped his generation 〈◊〉 he is called The Sonne of God his right hand 〈…〉 singular loue and fauour which the father carrie● toward him for the right hand of God in holy scripture ●●he● signifies his power as in the song of ●●jes and M●iam at the red sea thy right hand is 〈…〉 ●ower thy right hand hath bruized thine enemies Or then it signifies his fauour and his loue At thy right hand are pleasures for euermore both these are taken vp by Nazianzen Manus symbolum est affectionis actionis the hand is a signe of his working and will the right hand put for his good will and pleasure the left hand by the contrary for his displeasure So shall the wicked stand at his left hand vnder the reach of his power but not within the compasse of his fauour It is true euerie Christian man is also the sonne of Gods right hand by nature his name is Ben-oni the sonne of sorrow but his father hath changed his name with his estate called him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sonne of the right hand But in a more speciall sense doth this stile belong to the Lord Iesus for with a note extolling him aboue all his brethren he is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that son of mine that beloued 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in whom I am well pleased through whom I accept others to bee my sonnes and for whom I loue all these whom I loue Thirdly he is the Sonne of the fathers right hand in respect of his most perfit obedience and ready willingnesse to do in all things the will of his father I desired to doe thy good will ó my God when he told his Disciples that hee had meat to eat which they knew not they vnderstood not what he meaned but he expounds himselfe My meat is to doe the will of him that sent me and to finish his worke In the second part of the description they call him The sonne of man hee is in such sort the sonne of God that he is also the Sonne of man not begotten by man as wee haue said before yet formed and