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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19515	The life and death of the Reuerend Father, and faithfull seruant of God, Mr. William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway who departed this life at Edenburgh, the 15. of February. 1619. Whereunto is added a resolution penned by himselfe, some few dayes before his death, touching the Articles concluded in the late generall Assembly holden at Perth. 1618.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1619 (1619)	STC 5945; ESTC S109006	14,789	34

of my former painfulnes and fidelitie My witnesse is in he●uen that the loue of Iesus and his People made continuall preaching my pleasure and I had no such ioy as in doing his worke Some witnesses also I want not to remaine For albeit my charge was to teach fiue times in the weeke yet this was more that I penned thereafter whatsoeuer I preached whereof some are already extant others by Gods grace if the Lord spare my dayes shall come in their time And in outward things what care I had to see the House of God there honoured the welfare of that people euery way there are monuments standing to witnes for me when I am dead All this time except some little intermissions and breathing times did the LORD still exercise mee with inward tentations O what a vicissitude of estates O what a varietie of combates It were tedious here to set them downe all as they were done and fought but this I must say the end of all and euery one of them were vnspeakeable ioy And once for all in greatest extremitie of horrour and anguish of Spirit when I had vtterly giuen ouer and looked for nothing but confusion suddenly did there shine in the very twinckling of an eye the bright and lightsome countenance of God proclaiming peace and confirming peace with inuincible reasons O what a change was there in a moment The silly soule that was euen now at the brinke of the pit looking for nothing but to be swallowed vp was instantly raised vp to Heauen to haue ioyfull fellowship with God in Christ Iesus and from this day forth my soule was neuer troubled with such extremitie of terrours This confirmation was giuen me on a Saturday in the morning there found I the power of Religion the certaintie of the Word there was I touched with such liuely sense of a diuinitie and power of the Godhead in mercy reconciled with man with me in Christ as I trust my soule shall neuer forget Glory glory glory be to the ioyfull Deliuerer of my soule out of all aduersities for euer In the middest of these wrestlings with God all this time wanted I not combates with wicked men like those Beasts at Ephesus with whom Saint Paul did fight All the time of my residens yeere continued this battell as one left off another still renewing the battell but the greatnes of my inward conflicts made me regard lightly all their outward contradictions and I esteemed them but like the bitings of a Flea I resolued with my selfe It was no maruell to see Satan stirre vp his wicked instruments to disquies mee since I professed my selfe a disquieter of him and his Kingdome yea my cōfort was that I had neuer a controuersie with any of them but for their sinnes God knowes I loued their persons and estates therefore did the Lord assist me the power of his Word hammering downe their pride they were al of them by course brought to the acknowledgement of their sinnes But at length as God turned the heart of Pharaoh and his people from the Israelites when the time came that hee would haue them to remoue out of Egypt so by little and little did the zeale and loue of the most of this people at least in my sense fall away so that at last my battell was not with such as were like the Publicans and sinners for these now were turned my fauourers and comforters but with such as seemed before Iusticiars I meane vnrebukeable men for outward offences These men found I stuffed with such pride selfe-conceit disdaine and intolerable contempt as carried them further frō their dutie then any of the former yea such as aboue others should haue beene my comforters were my crossers That I had cause to say with Micah The best of them are Bryers But I trust it repents them ere now And therefore pray I God not to lay it to their charge I will haue none of my words extended to that handfull there which truely scare the Lord. Now about this time God had opened to me a doore and called mee to the charge of the Churches in Galloway in the South-west part of this Kingdom for being named with others by the generall Assembly of such as they thought meet to be preferred to the Episcopall dignitie whereof I euer acknowledged my selfe not worthy and recommended by the Fathers of our Church it was his Maiesties pleasure to present mee to that Benefice due to the office wherevnto the Church had called me God knowes this was done without my knowledge or seeking directly or indirectly For I could haue been contented all my dayes with a priuate life resolued to giue honour and obedience in God to such as were called to these places after that once it was established by order in our Church and I had considered the lawfulnes antiquitie and necessitie of it among vs. Here was I neither guiltie of Ambition not of any precipitate embracing of it for betweene the date of his Ma presentation and my acceptation there interuened eighteene weekes Yet as the Calling to this Worke was greater then any other whereto I had been led before so greatest opposition was there made vnto mee by men whose lying Libels and carnall contradictions forced me to spend more time vnprofitably then I had done before since my entry to the Ministerie The Lord forgiue them and me also where in the maner of my answering I haue been sharper then became Christian meeknes For as to the matter it selfe vnfainedly I followed my light I esteeme it a lawfull ancient and necessarie gouernment I see not nor haue not read of any Church that wanted it before our time Onely the abuses of it by pride tyranny and idlenes haue brought it in misliking From these euils I pray the Lord preserue his seruants that now are or hereafter shall be called to those places but there is no reason why a thing good in it selfe should be condemned or reiected for the euill of abuse for so no good thing at all should bee retained in the Church And in this Calling how I haue walked and what my care was to aduance the Gospell there I trust I shall not nor yet doe want witnesses In this estate doe I now liue my soule alway in mine hand ready to bee offered to my God where or what kinde of death God hath prepared for me I know not but sure I am there can be no euill death to him that liueth in Christ nor sodaine death to a Christian Pilgrime who as Iob sayes euery day waites for his change yea many a day haue I sought it with teares not out of impatience distrust or perturbation but being weary of sin fearfull to fall into it Concerning those who haue beene my enemies without cause and charged me with many wrongfull imputations from which my conscience cleares me excusing me of these things loue of gaine and glory or such like whereof they accused me The Lord lay it not to