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Title:  Three heavenly treatises, concerning Christ [brace] 1. His genealogie, 2. His baptisme, 3. His combat with Sathan : together vvith deuout meditations, for Christian consolation and instruction / by Mr. William Cowper ...
Author: Cowper, William, 1568-1619.
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the eares of men, who without a voice cannot heare him. Thus the Lord both by his practise and precept hath declared,The Gos∣pell should be preach∣ed in such a language as people may vnder∣stand it. that hee will haue his Gospell, which is a doctrine of Christ, preached to the whole world, clearely, distinctly, and in such a manner, as all may heare it: the practise wee haue here, the precept we haue hereafter: for our Sauiour commanded his Disci∣ples, that what hee told them in the eare, they should proclaime it on the tops of houses; & for this cause,Therefore Christ en∣dued the Apostles with the gift of lan∣guages. did the holy Ghost endue them with the gifts of tongs, that vnto euery people they might speake in their owne language, otherwise one language had been sufficient for all people. Whereof it is euident, that they who deli∣uer this doctrine, either by whis∣pering, or muttering in the eare, 0