The Christians Practise of this Command.
I Had my conuersation in times past, among the Children of disobedience, fulfilling the
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.
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- 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.
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- Cowper, William, 1568-1619.
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- London :: Printed by T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Budge, and are to be sould at the great south dore of Paules, and at Brittaynes Bursse,
- 1611.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19487.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2025.
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will of my flesh, but now the Lord who is rich in* 1.1 mercy, through his great loue, wherewith he lo∣ued me hath sanctified me to do his will, so that now I haue begun both to will and to do, 2 Cor. 8 lamenting that I cannot doe the good, which faine I would, Rom. 7. for in all things I desire to doe thy will O my God, Psal. 40. 8.
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* 1.1
The perfection of a Christian in this life is in a willing of good, rather then doing of it.