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A19498	A holy alphabet for Sion's scholars full of spiritual instructions, and heauenly consolations, to direct and encourage them in their progresse towards the new Ierusalem: deliuered, by way of commentary vpon the whole 119. Psalme. By William Covvper ...	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1613 (1613)	STC 5926; ESTC S108977	239,299	430

Christian so profane that when all vices are gathered euery one may say to him Thou art mine Quomodo ergo qui hui●…smodi est potest dicere Christo Tuus sum How then may such a man as he say vnto Christ I am thine Concupiscence Auarice Ambition and the rest vpon iust reasons of seruice done by him to them challenge him to be theirs Of such a man it may be spoken that was said of Constantinus Copronymus Eum nee Christianum esse nee Iudaeum nee Paganum sed colluuiem quandam impietatis That he was neyther a Christian nor a Iew nor a Pagan but a confused masse of all impietie And how then can such a one say to the Lord I am thine But if so they will say let them receiue their answere Away ye workers of iniquitie hee is not alway mine that saith Lorde Lorde Wicked men may so say Sed vo●…e non corde but it is with their tongue not with their heart As Iudas euen then pretended that he was one of Christs when Satan had entred into him but the aduersary iustly might challenge him by the like of these speeches which by Ambrose properly are ascribed to him Non est Tuus Iesu sed mens est quae mea sunt cogitat qua mea sunt in pectore volutat tecum epulatur me●…um pascitur à te panem à me pecuniam accepit tecum bibit mihi sanguinem tuum vendit He is not thine said Satan to the Lord Iesus he is mine his thoughts and cogitations are mine he eats with thee but is fedde by me he takes bread from thee but mony from me he drinkes with thee and sel●…es thy bloud to me A fearfull conuiction of men who giue their word to Christ professing his name but their workes to Satan doing what hee commaunds them These men cannot say with Dauid I am thine O Lord. For I haue sought See here how Dauid qualifies his protestation from his earnest affection to the word of God hee proues that hee was Gods man and his owne seruant It is not wordes but affections and actions which must proue vs to be the Lords Tuus sum quia id solum quod tuum est quasiui I am thine because I sought nothing but that which is thine and how I might please thee Mihi in tuis iustificationibus est omne patrimonium in the obseruance of thy precepts is all my patrimony VER 95. The wicked haue waited for me to destroy me but I will consider thy Testimonies TWo things againe he notes in his enemies diligence in waiting all occasions whereby to doe him euill and cruelty vvithout mercy for their purpose was to destroy him wherin still we see how restlesse and insatiable is the malice of the wicked against the godly Daniel his preseruation in the Lions den was a great miracle but it is no lesse a maruellous vvorke of God that the godly who are the flock of Christ are daily preserued in the midst of the vvicked who are but rauening Wolues thirst for the bloud of the Saints of God hauing a cruell purpose in their heart if they might performe it vtterly to destroy them When we see them disappointed let vs giue thankes with the Iewes If the Lord had not beene on our side may Israel now say If the Lord had not beene on our side when men rose vp against vs then had they swallowed vs quick when their wrath was kindled against vs but praised be the Lord who hath not giuen vs a pray to their teeth But I will consider The cōsideration of Gods word is a strong stay against all temptations See verse 9. 15. 59. 95. 159. VER 96. I haue seene an end of all perfection but thy commaundements are exceeding large IN the conclusion of this Section hee compares Gods word with all other most perfect and excellent things that are in the vvorld and hee sheweth how they shall faile and vanish but the word of the Lord endureth Nihil tam perfectum vel absolutum est omniex parte quod finem suum non habeat Experience lets vs see this to be a truth for there is no day so pleasant but a night puts end to it no Sommer so fruitful but a barren Winter ouertakes it no body so pleasant and liuely but death destroyes it frequent eating and drinking in the dayes of N●…h but the flood came and tooke them all away great mirth among the Philistims vpon their Patrons holy-day but their banquetting house became their buriall The Monarch of Babel that golden head had feet of clay and in the end wormes spred vnder him and wormes couered him All the pomp of the world is like the gourd of Ionas flourishing one day and fading another The wind shall cary away the vngodly like chaffe all their most perfect pleasures are like a light thing bound vp in the wings of the wind which is easily caried away When we come to be men we laugh at those things wee did when we were children for they as wee see take great delight to build houses to themselues in the streets of shells and stones and delight to behold them which albeit they were able to stand yet could they not profit them We are not yet come to the perfect age of Christian men but when we shall be then shall wee vnderstand how foolish now men are whose care is to increase their rents and inlarge their sumptuous buildings Quae ciuem coeli capere non possunt which cannot lodge a Citizen of heauen Let vs therefore so vse this world as if wee vsed it not possessing it so this day as ready to part with it to morrow But thy commandements There 's the other member of the opposition Hee calls the commaundements or word of God exceeding large Quia cos omnes recreat corda corum dilatat qui in angus●…ijs afflictionibus versantur because it refresheth them all and inlargeth their harts who are in distresse and affliction And againe it is so large that it hath none end Propter amplitudinem suam fideles nunquam deseret and the amplitude thereof is so great that it neuer failes the faithfull Worldly riches serue worldly men so long as they liue and make some seruice also in conueying their bodies with a pompous funerall to the graue but there it leaues them and goes no further with them Onely the word of God sustaines the godly against all tentations so long as they liue it conuoies them vnto death and the comfort therof abides with them for euer when they are dissolued MEM. VER 97. Oh how loue I thy law It is my mediditation continually HE insists here still in the declaration of his earnest affectiō toward the word and the notable fruites which he reaped thereby His affection is declared ver 1. Oh how loue I thy law Wherin ye see hee calls God himselfe

he was persecuted and sore oppressed for his profession yet no trouble could make him swerue from the testimonies of God Trouble is the best tryall of true Religion Non est magnum si tune a Dei testimonijs non declines cum te nullus persequitur It is no great thing to cleaue vnto the testimonies of God when none pursues thee for it when authority allowes it when honour and prosperitie follows it it is no great praise then to professe it When the Lord gloried of his seruant Iob that he was an vpright man fearing God c. Satan replied And what maruell Doth Iob worship God for nothing He knew there were many hyrelings temporizers in the world that worshipped not God sincerely and therefore would not continue in it He thought Iob to be one of these Lay now thine hand vpon all that he hath and he shal blaspheme thee to thy face But he was deceiued for the more he was crost the neerer did he cleaue vnto the Lord. Let vs remember as S. Paul hath warned vs We haue not yet resisted vnto the bloud neither yet that which S. Peter cals The siery tryall haue we endured And yet what a shame is it to see how many moued by the naked example of the Apostles are becom colder in Religion An euident argument that they were neuer truely religious for if they cannot stand against offences how should they stand against oppressions and persecutions What persecuters they were and what was the kinde of persecution Dauid expresseth not Basil thinkes Quod quacunque sibi acciderant omnia hoc Psalmo congessit that what-euer befell him of any trouble eyther by Saul or Absalom or vncircumcised Nations among whom he soiourned all is gathered together in this Psalme which containes eyther prayers he made when he was in trouble or prayses he gaue when God deliuered him out of trouble or else spirituall gloriations of that strength constancy which God gaue him to indure it Properly there is but one persecuter of all the godly this is Satan the enemie of Gods glorie of our saluation Vnus persequutor est sed multos habet ministros but he hath many seruants instruments vnder him some inuisible some visible and according as they are so is the kinde of persecution eyther bodily or spirituall There is an euill spirit of fornication another of auarice another of pride Hi sunt persequutores graues these are fearefull persecutors Otherwise the Apostle would not say Flie fornication if the spirit of fornication were not a pursuer Many are stout in the outward persecution qui occulta hac persequutione ceciderunt who by this secret persecution haue beene ouercome Hi tibi hostes cauendi hi grauiores tyranni per quos Adam captus these are the enemies whō thou must eschew these are the most grieuous tyrannes by whom Adam was captiued and thou art to beware of them By visible enemies also Satan fights against vs but these are not so dangerous as the other yet for the present more displeasant let vs not bee discouraged with them Si multae persequutiones multae et probationes If our persecutions bee many so are our trialls and probations tryals I meane both of our sinceritie and of the truth of God If Daniel had not by wicked men beene cast into the denne of Lyons and the three children by Nebuchadnezzars fury into the fiery furnace then should not their constant affection towarde God and his truth power in preseruing them haue beene so clearely manifested Tibi ergo prodest quòd multi persequutores sunt vt inter multas persequutiones facilius inuenias quomodo coroneris The more waies thou be persecuted the more wayes hast thou to bee crowned for by many tribulations doe wee enter into the kingdome of heauen VER 158. I saw the transgressours and was grieued because they did not keep thy word ALbeit his trouble were great by the restlesse malice of his enemies and his dangers oftentimes desperate yet he protests none of these went so neere his heart as the dishonour of God and contempt of Gods word The glory of God shining in his word is dearer to the godly then their liues and they haue no pleasure to liue but melt away for griefe when they see wickednes and idolatry exalted pietie and true religion trode vnder foot This made good Eliah desire that the Lord would take him out of this life this made Dauid pine away for griefe And it may condemne many who if so be their owne estate be peaceable they will not disquiet themselues with griefe for any dishonor that by impiety of wicked men is done vnto God See ver 136. VER 159. Cōsider O Lord how I loue thy precepts quicken me according to thy louing kindnes THis verse containes a protestation of his great loue toward the word of God for probation whereof hee appeales to the testimony of God desiring the Lord to consider if it be so or not It is an argument of a good conscience when a man dare present his heart vnto God and desire him to looke into it Nemo dicit vide nisi qui iudicat se si videatur esse placiturum No man saith to God Looke vpon me but he who knowes that God will like him when hee lookes vpon him for hee that doth euill hates the light and an euill conscience dares not stand before God but hides the selfe so farre as it can from him as we see in Adam But sith so it is that the knowledge of our estate cannot be hid from the Lord but wee must be presented naked before him it is but vanity now to hide our wayes from him Woe be vnto them that seeke in deepe to hide their counsell from the Lord their waies are in secret and they say who seeth them But He that made the eie shall hee not see Wisedome rather craues that wee should lay open our hearts to the Lord in time walking so in a good conscience before him that we might be bold to say with Dauid Looke vpon mee Lord and consider me How I loue He saith not consider how I performe thy precepts but how I loue them The comfort of a Christian militant in this body of sin is rather in sinceritie and feruencie of his affections then in the absolute perfection of his actions He failes many times in his obedience to Gods precepts in regard of his action but loue in his affection still remaines so that both before the temptation to sin and after it there is a griefe in his soule that hee should finde in himselfe any corrupt will or desire contrary to the holy will of the Lord his God and this proues an inuincible loue in him to the precepts of God Thy precepts He saith not that he loued Gods promises onely for euery man hath a liking of these but his precepts also Naturally