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 ...
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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 ...
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Cowper, William, 1568-1619.
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London :: Printed by T.S. for Iohn Budge, and are to be sold at his shops, at the great South doore of Paules, and at Brittaines Bursse ...,
1612.
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Jesus Christ -- Temptation.
Jesus Christ -- Genealogy.
Jesus Christ -- Baptism.
Meditations.
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And set him on a pinnacle of the
Temple.
FOr what end Sathan set our
Lord there,* 1.1 is euident out of
that which followes, that he might
from thence cast him downe. Sa∣than
in his working is contrary
vnto the Lord; for, the Lord casts
downe, to the end hee may raise
vp; so did hee with S. Paul, first,
he cast him to the ground, and
then raised him vp to the honour
of an Apostle: but Sathan if he
raise vp any man, it is for this
end, that he may cast him downe.
It is true, preferment comes nei∣ther
from the East, nor from the
West, but from the Lord, yet
such as come to high places by
euill meanes are said to be raised
vp by Sathan. It were good for
descriptionPage 203
men to abhorre such preferments
with those famous Martyrs, who
when offers of honourable Offices
were made to them, answered;
Nolumus honorem vnde nobis nas∣cetur
ignominia; wee will none of
that honour which breedes vs ig∣nominie:
for, that honour where∣vnto
men come with an euill con∣science,
shall assuredly end in
shame.
Notes
* 1.1
The Lord casts down that hee may raise vp: Sathan by the con∣trary raises vp, that he may cast downe.