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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Subject terms
Jesus Christ -- Temptation.
Jesus Christ -- Genealogy.
Jesus Christ -- Baptism.
Meditations.
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descriptionPage 181
It is written.
OF this first we learne, how in
our spirituall warfare, wee
should vse the written word, as
being the sword of that spirit, by
which Sathan is confounded. Of
this first, Papists are conuinced,
who debarre the poore people
from the comfort of the word:
alledging it pertaines to church∣men,
and not to simple people
to reade the Scriptures: where∣as
by the contrary, as Chrysostome
witnesseth, it is much more ne∣cessarie
for them, then for the
other.Qui enim versantur in me∣dio,
& vulnera quotidie accipiunt
magis indigent medicamine: for
they who comes out in publike,
and are euery day wounded, hath
most neede of medicine: yea,
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how can they fight as the good
soulders of Christ, seeing the
armour of GOD is taken from
them, by such as pretends to be
their gouernors: so that in effect,
as if they were in couenant with
Sathan, they deliuer the poore
people of God armourlesse vnto
him, handling them as the Phi∣listimes
did the Israelites, who
left not a Smith among them,
to make them a weapon, that
so they being armourlesse,
might more easily be kept in sub∣iection.
And next, carelesse professors
are also reproued, who being com∣manded
to search the scripture,
that in them they may finde
eternall life; and hauing now
in the reformed church, libertie
granted them to doe so, yet will
not vse it, but willingly interdite
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themselues from the comfort of
the word of the Lord, threatens
the famine of the word as a great
plague.Quid igitur infoelicius,
quam vt, quod deus in panam mi∣natur,
hoc tu iam sponte in caput
tuum attrahas: what more mise∣rable
thing can be then this, to
draw that willingly vpon thine
owne head, which GOD hath
threatned as a curse?
Notes
The word is the sword of the spirit by which we should fight a∣gainst Sa∣than.