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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19413	A very soueraigne oyle to restore debtors; being rightly and seasonably vsed Extracted out of that most tried and quintessensed oyle, by the prophet Elisha. By vertue whereof the vviddovv indebted, (mentioned in the second booke of the Kings) was restored out of debt, and her children released of the bondage whereof they were in danger. Written by Samuel Cotesford, late minister at Stepney: and now newly published by W. Crashavve ...	Cottesford, Samuel.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1622 (1622)	STC 5841; ESTC S108836	64,803	115

so many then as are contented to stoope downe to the holy Word of God in the Ministery of men and to learne thereby soberly to be wise know of a surety that howsoeuer God did limit the times and seasons past wherein those persons whom he had also more specially giuen power vnto as the Prophets and Apostles to worke strangely in and about the things of this life for the confirmation of that Doctrine which they brought vnto the World whereof men being more earthly minded did also take a greater view then thereby to be ledde to the apprehension of the truth in Christ Iesus for euerlasting life yet is not the power of God in his Word any whit abated the more now but rather aduanced to a further and a more eminent working in and about the turning of mens hearts from gazing or looking vpon the things of this life vnto the longing lusting and thirsting after the righteousnesse of God in Christ Iesus to their euerlasting comfort in the Kingdome of Heauen And yet giue mee leaue his care is no lesse for vs now if we feare him then it was in former times and according to his care ouer vs so his power and will yea in prouiding for vs in our wants indeede we are blinde and see it not because wee doe not continually referre our selues in the things we haue or in the things whereby hee hath relieued vs beyond expectation in our distresses we doe not I say referre our selues to Gods prouidence for the beholding of it as we ought for truly howsoeuer he doe not encrease our Pitcher of Oyle so miraculously as we see here he did to the poore indebted Widdow and in that manner yet when he worketh mens hearts towards thee for thy reliefe yea to make thine aduersaries thy friends is it not worth the obseruation He is the same God to vs that he was in Iobs dayes who speaking of the wicked faith Though he should heape vp siluer as the dust and prepare rayment as the clay he may prepare it but the iust shall put it on and the innocent shall diuide the siluer and againe where Salomon saith The riches of the sinner is laid vp for the iust and this he hath done and doth daily performe onely our vnbeliefe our vnthankfulnesse our deadnesse of faith keepes vs from seeing it to our shames But to end this point ordinarily the worke of the Ministery of the Gospell is a greater worke then healing or curing the bodily diseases of men by speaking the word whither from Peter or from Paul or by whomsoeuer although it be indeed miraculous yea as much as the soule is beyond the body in excellency by so much is the holy worke of the Gospell of Christ conuersant wholly in the restoring of the dead soules of men from death to life more excellent for loe now the dead soules of men and women that haue long slept in sinne and haue beene dead as doubtlesse all are vntill by the power of the Word of God they haue life put into them euen the life of the Spirit whereof Paul speaketh when he saith Thus I liue yet not I now but Christ liueth in me and in that I now liue in the flesh I liue by the faith in the Sonne of God who hath loued me and giuen himselfe for me Of this life speakes our Sauiour himselfe Verily verily I say vnto you the houre shall come and now is when the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God and they that heare it shall liue The Vse to be made of these last and former doctrines is this that whensoeuer the word of Faith hath entred the possession of Iesus Christ into our soules whensoeuer you thinke of him meditate vpon him seeke him in your prayers follow after him in the publike preachings of that his most glorious comfortable Gospel be sure so to think of him as of your Sauiour and deliuerer not from bodi●l sicknesses or other perills or dangers of this life but as he is indeed by God his father appointed to saue thee and deliuer thee from hell death and eternall condemnation as a Sauiour of thee from thy sinnes and a deliuerer of thee from those miseries whereinto thou hast ouer-plunged thy selfe in soule and body by thy sinne as Paul the Apostle teacheth thee in these words concerning Christ lesus and the working by the Gospel in all those that beleeue Who saith he hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality vnto light through the Gospell And as againe he saith Iesus Christ came into the World to saue sinners of whom I am chiefe Let the thought of his very name be comfortable to thee from the remembrance of his being first named by the Angel at his entrance into the World as is written And thou shalt call his name Iesus for hee shall saue his people from their sinnes Finally thinke and meditate vpon him as vpon an heauenly not an earthly King hee is come for thy good euery way but especially to deliuer thee so as that after the fulnesse of thy deliuerance thou mightest neuer be in danger after his deliuerance being spirituall not corporall heauenly not earthly as he is further described where it is said First vnto you meaning the Iewes hath God raised vp his Sonne Iesus and him he hath sent to blesse you in turning euery one of you from your iniquities Seeke then to him as to one in whom you are begotten againe and in him cast as in a new mould to become new creatures as the Apostle Peter saith Blessed be God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ which according to his abundant mercie hath begotten vs againe vnto a liuely hope by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance immortall vndefiled and that fadeth not away c. For to this end is his comming into the world first to take the burthen of thy sinne lying heauie vpon thee vpon himselfe secondly to discharge thee from the guilt of sinne thirdly to take away the power and strength of sin that after once thou art a true member of that his body the Church whereof he is Head sinne may no longer haue that dominion ouer thee as before Now it followeth in the Text. 5. So shee departed from him and shut the doore vpon her two sonnes and they brought to her and she poured out 6. And when the vessels were full shee said vnto her sonne bring yet a Vessell and he said vnto her There are no more Vessels And the Oyle ceased Now we are come to the third point which is the issue of the meanes consisting vpon the words or command of the Prophet in the obedience of the Widdow This issue of the meanes beeing two-fold the increase of the Oyle and the paying of the debt from that the obedience of the Widdow in these words So she departed from him and shut the doore c. 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right lest at the last shee come and make me weary And so much the more to hearten vs on let vs not forget in our prayers our Magistrates then especially when any of our iust causes are vpon trialls to the which purpose the Psalmist directeth vs in these words Giue thy iudgements to the King O God and thy righteousnesse to the Kings Sonne Then shall hee iudge the people in righteousnesse and the poore with equitie This is the way to keepe our faith vpright in God still to relie vpon him in the blessing of the meanes to vs. Last of all let vs looke backe to Gods former care ouer vs and from an experimentall feeling of that his goodnesse let vs quicken vp our dull and heauy soules ●aying confidently as from the assurance of faith with Dauid Though my Father and Mother forsake me yet the Lord will gather me vp And with the Apostle Paul to testifie of God in this sort Who hath deliuered vs from so great a death doth deliuer vs and in whom we trust that he will deliuer vs. Againe God is faithfull which will not suffer you to be tempted aboue that you be able but will euen giue the issue with the tentation that you may be able to beare it Now let vs proceede to some particular obseruations further to be drawne out of the words of her Petition Thy seruant mine Husband is dead and thou knowest thy seruant did feare the Lord and the Creditor is come c. It is as cleare as the Sunne that her Husband left her indebted and not that shee fell into debt after because the words are inseparably conioyned as also from the custome of creditors who immediately vpon the death of their debtors doe seeke into their estates and with all expedition call home their owne But the thing to be obserued vpon this place in the mention making of her Husband to feare God and therein appealing to the testimony of the Prophet himselfe is this that against the practise of most women shee forgets her pouerty preuailing mightily against the male-contentednesse of her estate or rather the hard estate her Husband left her in and with the comfortable remembrance of her Husbands piety and feare of God shee doth as it were feede and satisfie her selfe The lesson that is taught women aboue others in this place is that in their chaste and sincere loue they ought inasmuch as in them lieth to couer the trespasses of their Husbands especially they failing but in matters of worldly wants or in such like whereof God depriues them for some thing best knowne to himselfe Doubtlesse worldly encombrances doe breede much discontentednesse betweene Husband and Wife where Gods feare ouer-rules not in each to which purpose the Apostle Paul speaketh as by way of comparison betweene the marryed estate and single life The marryed man saith he careth for the things of the World and how he may please his wife which in the things more indifferent of this life to doe is no disparagement to the Husband at all being done in knowledge according also to which the Wife is to walke yea so farre as behoueth her place and that for the nourishing of houshold peace yea as a teacher of honest things which lesson howsoeuer it concerne specially the elder women yet all women are being come to that holy degree of the married estate not onely to know for themselues but for their Husbands Children Seruants and Neighbours and herein the Apostle Peter doth affirme that the knowledge of the Wife how to walke in all good and due subiection to her Husband and so to doe for there be too many that know and doe not is as an excellent meanes preparatory to draw on an vntoward Husband to the profession of faith to which purpose these words tend Likewise let the Wiues be subiect to their Husbands that euen they which obey not the Word may without the Word be wonne by the conuersation of the Wiues But what if the Wife doe in some good measure of knowledge goe beyond the Husband and able perhaps to direct her Husband God willing it should be so vpon some occasions not ordinarily for the Husband is the Wiues head and Husbands should dwell with their Wiues as men of knowledge Such a Wife had Manoach the Father of Sampson as wee reade such a Wife was Abigal to Nabal that man of Belial few such Wiues but too too many such Nabals I feare this age is replenished with separating to the end Husbands may follow their strange lusts But to goe on herein let not the Wife in her knowledge vsurpe a dominion ouer her Husband nor yet in pride of heart insult ouer him for that is rather to destroy then to build and builders ought good Wiues to be as Salomon teacheth A wise woman buildeth her House This then is required further of a Wife that shee doe carry her selfe in all temperance and sobriety with a meeke and quiet spirit which is before God a thing much set by and therein as a fellow-helper comforter and counsellor so speaking to for her Husband as if he knowing all already and more then she can tel aduise him may be and so stand as his remembrancer seeking with this widdow in al she may the honor credit and estimation of her husbands good name thogh dead much more liuing not admitting thogh perhaps there be some cause any one thogh vniustly to estrange her heart from her Husband The consideration of this Doctrine may serue all good and Christian Wiues either so being or hauing beene Widdowes those especially vnto whom vpon too sudden a change of their estates oftentimes there fall out many discontentments to teach them by all meanes to auoide all vnseemely quarrellous and contentious speeches and no way distemperately to vexe grieue thwart and crosse their Husbands but in all good peace so to carry themselues towards them though perhaps irreligious and farre out of order as that they rather learne to take and so take these troubles of theirs which in want of fore-sight they haue brought vpon themselues as not onely tryals of their faith and patience sent from God but also medicinable corrections for their further amendment If this then be the duty of Wiues to Husbands who feare not God what is then to be required of those Wiues whose Husbands in a good and conscionable regard of them and theirs doe labour in their profession and according to their place to walke according to all godlinesse and piety These I say by the wiues in all mildnesse are much more in all subiection to be yeelded vnto Thus then you see this woman vpon the loue to her Husband not so soone forgotten was comforted to sollicite Elizha in her owne behalfe by an argument drawne from the feare of God that was in him well knowne to Elizha himselfe as shee saith And thou knowest that thy seruant did feare the Lord whereby

Sareptha and his mightie protection which neuer shews it selfe more then when his people are in the greatest danger as in the time when the people of Israel were in the Red-Sea as also whilest in the change of their condition and estates from wealth to pouerty he againe of poore makes them rich by restoring them to their first or former estate as hee did Iob. Thirdly for the taming or restrayning of some one or other sinne God oftentimes meetes with his children after their long security and carelesse regard of the Word calling them to repentance they not repenting by the rod of affliction Whereupon he hauing as Elihu saith set to his seale ordaining it as the pruining-knife to the cutting off the superfluous branches for the causing of them to bring forth fruit the better he faith Then he openeth the eyes of men euen by their corrections which he had sealed Whereby he hauing as the Prouerbe is strooke the nayle to the head the heart and the affections once renewed and changed then hee brings vnder obedience all those wandring lusts which before-time went astray from Gods holy Commandements to the which purpose the Prophet Dauid confesseth as is 119. Psalme Before I was afflicted I went astray as for that of the good man to be mercifull and to lend it rather describeth the true propertie of a good man already inriched for the disposing of his riches to the good of others then otherwise in any vngodly care to get or increase his wealth which by occasion of the next place viz. The wicked man borroweth and payeth not againe as afore is more fitly met withall which words of the Prophet doe not concere those who ordinarily being poore and needy are inforced to borrow directly for the supply of their present wants being also godlily minded vpon good fore-sight and hope of meanes in like manner to make restitution by But it concernes all sorts and degrees both of rich and poore who any way vniustly minded doe take into their hands the goods of other men for their present vse without any purpose of restoring of whom those monsters amongst men who immediately borrowing without need vpon purpose to breake doe by the spoyle of other their creditors inforced to stand at their courtesie for present payment hastily become rich vpon other mens goods Some other there are who vnder the name of a more strict course of godlinesse in the profession of the Gospel then others hauing yet a mind that they liue but are dead being indeed ashamed to acknowledge their mother in whose wombe they had their first conception vnto life these in like manner omitting their honest and lawfull callings being weary of well-doing as busie-bodies whilest they will become planters and reformers of Churches strayning beyond their Last till all cracke againe hauing run themselues out of breath are brought to borrow and this also they hold they may doe not purposing euer to make restitution accounting in their Anabaptisticall community as a speciall point of Diuinitie with them the goods of them of whom they make thus bold with euen the goods of the Church the spoyle of Babel as they tearme it as if they had by some Oracle from Heauen with the Israelites receiued a warrant from God so to doe To omit all other needlesse borrowers for the cunning ingrossement of commodities of all sorts into their hands by way of Monopolie not caring what become of the Common-wealth so they alone may liue to omit all other borrowers vpon vsury to the end they may to a further and greater exacting againe vpon vsury lend All these ioyne them in one are of the number of those and may well so be reckoned of whom Dauid speaketh The wicked borroweth and payeth not againe Out of this which hath beene spoken euery true member of the Church is to learne first for his setled course of conuersing and making trafficke with men That if he desire to haue the report of one that feareth God and that in singlenesse of heart he must take heede as the Apostle Paul teacheth that he oppresse not nor defraude his brother in any matter And then that he trie and examine himselfe by the two looking-glasses of the Law and the Gospel the two parts of the Word of God wherein hee may finde out whether he truly feare God or no a point very necessary to be stood vpon Doubtlesse in the one and first which is the Law he shall find out in himselfe nothing but sin and iniquity and thereby that he stands in the seuerity of Gods extreame iustice in and vnder the danger of eternall death and condemnation In the other he shall find that God according to his owne goodnesse will looke vpon him with an amiable and chearefull countenance and discouer vnto him Iesus Christ his Sonne as the onely washer purger and cleanser of him from his sinne not onely by forgiuenesse but also by his sanctifying Spirit taking away the power of sinne that it shall not rule or raigne any longer in his mortall body to obey it in the lusts thereof And because there is iust occasion offered to speake of this point in these words And thou knowest thy seruant did feare God it is not from the purpose that I set downe thus much more vpon it before euery one that reades it viz. that according as God did worke formerly in men a true care of performance of the duties whatsoeuer of equity honesty or charity between themselues so he measured his owne loue to them-ward by an assurance of faith vnto eternall life accordingly For men are reputed no further to haue profited in the sound knowledge of God according to the rules of the first Table of the Law then they are ready to expresse the same by doing the duties of the second For by this rule did both the holy Prophets and Apostles measure out the assurance of the loue of God to themselues and the people Micah the Prophet expostulating this point with the people of Israel in his dayes who satisfied themselues as they doe now with an outward shew of seruing of God by their sacrifices when in the meane time they were full of cruelty and oppression voide of all mercy to their Neighbours Will the Lord saith he be pleased with thousands of Rammes or with ten thousand Riuers of Oyle shall I giue my first borne for my transgression euen the fruite of my body for the sinne of my soule And thereto he answereth 8. He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what the Lord requireth of thee surely to doe iustly and to loue mercy and to humble thy selfe to walke with thy God And thus must euery debtor yea and creditor also trie himselfe whether he feare God or no euen by the Offices of borrowing and lending according to good and pure loue laide downe in the Word For saith the Apostle Iohn Whosoeuer doth not righteousnesse is not of God