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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

their charge I go to my Father wish his blessing to them to rectifie their iudgements moderate their affections with true pietie from faith loue AMONGST THE SAME Papers wee found three short Meditations whereby he comforted himselfe whilest he found his death approching written also with his owne hand and bearing date the seuenth of December 1618. NOw my soule be glad at all parts of this prison the Lord hath set to his Pioners to loose thee Head Feet Milt Liuer are fast failing yea the middle strength of the whole body the stomake is weakened long agoe Arise make ready shake off thy setters mount vp from the body and goe thy way Let me tell you that which I know yea foreknow yet I after others haue foretasted before you Death is somewhat drieric the streames of that Iordan betweene vs and our Canaan runne furiously but they stand still when the Arke commeth Let your Author be cast within the vaile and fastned on the Rocke Iesus Let the end of the three-fold cord bee buckled to the heart so shall yee goe thorow what threds the cord is made of I cannot now tarrie to tell you who knowes but if ye aske God will teach you I saw not my children when they were in the wombe there the Lord fed them without my knowledge I shall not see them when I goe out of the body yet shall they not vvant a Father This faithfull Seruant of God who from the time of his entrie into the Ministerie had alwayes shewed himselfe diligent and painefull in his Calling notwithstanding that his Sicknes grew dayly vpon him was no way deficient in his duties of ordinarie preaching taking great paines also to perfit his Worke vpon the Reuelation which he had begunne and desired greatly to finish it before his dying Besides which studies the griefe he conceiued for the backwardnes of vnruly spirits in giuing obedience to the Articles concluded in the late Assembly and ratified by authoritie to the great disturbance of the Peace of the Church which hee laboured carefully in all his life to procure did hasten him not a little to his end So as in the beginning of Ianuary 1619. his infirmitie increasing hee was compelled to keepe at home and not to goe any more abroad yet as his weaknesse did permit hee gaue himselfe to reuise his writings and dispose of his worldly affaires that hee might bee ready for his passage which euery day hee expected And some ten dayes before his departure hauing his minde freed of all earthly businesse to those that visited him hee manifested a great contentment hee had in his approching death The Wednesday before which was the tenth of February The Bishops some other Brethren beeing assembled at Edenborough for certaine affaires of the Church tooke occasion to meete at his house because of his Sicknesse which hee tooke most kindly and continued with them that whole afternoone giuing very wholesome aduice in matters propounded and shewing himselfe as pleasant and iocund in speeches as euer before Howbeit euen then hee signified to them that his death was drawing neere and declared his minde somewhat disposedly concerning his Successor The dayes following hee kept with all that came to visit him in most holy and Diuine conferences expressing a great willingnes of exchanging this life with that better And vpon Munday which was the fifteenth of February at one of the clocke in the afternoone feeling his strength and spirits to decay after hee had conceiued a most heauenly prayer in the company of those that were by him he desired to be laid in bed for the dayes before he arose alwayes and either walked or sate in his Chamber which being done after he had againe commended himselfe most deuoutly vnto Almightie God he tooke some quiet rest after which he spake not many words but those that hee vttered shew his memory and other senses to haue beene perfect his tongue onely failing him and in this sort about seuen of the clocke at night he rendred his soule to God in a most quiet and peaceable manner His body the seuenteenth of February was interred according to his owne direction in the Churchyard called the Blacke-Friers at Edenborough in the South-side of the new Church and was conueyed to the place by the Earl of Dumsermeline Chancellor and the rest of the Honourable Lords of Councell with the Magistrates of the Citie and many others The Funerall Sermon being preached by the most Reuerend Father in God the Arch-bishop of St. Andrewes THE BISHOP OF GALLOWAY HIS answers to such as desire a resolution of their scruples against the Acts of the last Assembly holden at Perth in the month of August 1618. Mercy grace and peace be vnto all them that loue the Lord Iesus WEe are commanded by S. Peter to giue a reason of that faith which is in vs and so will I No good Christian differs one from another in any Article of faith for our beliefe is a short compend of the Scripture and I haue preached all the Articles thereof I beleeue all As for Papists where they differ from vs see what I haue professed in my writings published in Print and I am resolued to dye in the same minde what that is they may perceiue by the seuen dayes conference betwixt a Catholike Christian and a Catholike Roman By that threefold Treatise vpon the 8. to the Romans By that Anatomy of a Christian. By that Alphabet for Sious Schollers By that Treatise of Iacobs wrastling with God And that of Christs Genealogie And another of his Baptisme And the third of his combate with Satan in the Wildernesse By that which I intituled A defiance to Death By that Preparatiue to the new Passeouer By the Treatises of good newes from Canaan on the 51. Psalme By the Heauenly Mansions and the Praise of Patience By the Conuersion of the Prodigall Sonne By that comfortable Dialogue betwixt God and a troubled Soule And that begun Commentary vpon the Apocalyps beside many others These haue done good to many good Christians and I hope shall doe when I am gone And as for these needelesse controucrsies that make diuers voyces among vs I say some conscientious with little knowledge these I loue others contentious with lesse knowledge these I pitty willing them alwayes to remember that to them who are countentious and disobey the truth and obey vnrighteousnesse shall be indignation and wrath Rom. 2. 1. yet wishing to them mercy and light to illuminate their mindes OF DAYES IN my minde no King on earth no Church may make an Holy-day only the Lord who made the day hath that prerogatiue and he hath sanctified the seuenth Day yet either a Christian King or a Church may separate a day by preaching and that either ordinary as we haue Tuesday or extraordinary for fasting and humiliation or then for solemne ioy and thanksgiuing This is and hath been euer the lawfull practice of our Church and continuall who at

requires it to his child either vpon a preaching day or other day with what warrant a Preacher can deny it I know not OF PRIVATE COMMVNION THe same is my iudgement of Priuate Cōmunion Heere are two words would be well vnderstood Priuate I call it in respect of the publike assembly not of a priuate person Communion it is in respect of many Christians partaking it Where a man hath beene a reuerent hearer of the Word in the publike Assembly and a reuerent carefull receiuer of the Sacrament there if God suspend him by sicknes from doing of that dutie may wee not sit beside him and comfort him by the Word may we not pray together for him and for our selues euen in a priuate Family And why also may we not giue to him and take to our selues the Seales of the Couenant of mercy The particular precepts hereof both for the person and place I take not vpon mee to determine but leaue it to the wisedome of the Preacher OF KNEELING AT THE COMMVNION THe hardest point of all is Kneeling at the holy Communion which is the more misliked because it was and yet is abused by Papists to Idolatrie that vile errour of transubstantiation and worshipping of Bread my soule abhorreth it But it is hard to condemne a thing lawfull in it selfe because it hath been abused For what is so good that hath not or may not be abused Shal not S. Paul bow his knees to the Father of the whole Family in Heauen and in Earth God the Creator because Idolaters bow their knees to the Creature he was not so scrupulous If I should condemne Sitting at the Table should doe wrong to my Mother the Church of Scotland If I should condemne Standing I should doe wrong to that Sister Church of France which hath stood for the Truth to the bloud If I should condemne Kneeling I should do wrong to the Church of England glorious with many Crownes of Martyrdome and many other Churches also I like well that modest iudgement of Peter Martyr who thinkes any of these Sitting Standing or Kneeling lawfull Our Church hath determined that Kneeling seemes the most reuerent forme for receiuing so great a benefit and the rude gesture of many of our People in many parts of the Land requires that they should be led to a greater reuerence of that holy Mysterie taught that by humble Kneeling wee shall at length bee brought to a ioyful Sitting with Him for euer But here it will be obiected to mee that our Lord and his Disciples sate at the Table I answere The Euangelist saith that as He sate at the Table he took Bread and gaue thankes This seemeth to note the time of the Institution to wit after hee had done with the naturall and Paschall Supper not the gesture For why S. Paul prescribing all that is essential in the Sacrament makes no mention neither of Sitting Standing nor Kneeling Yet he sayes What I haue receiued of the Lord that I deliuer to you If he receiued it and deliuered it not hee was not faithfull Which I abhorre to thinke If he deliuered it not then sure he receiued it not This is the soundest most safe course It keepeth all the reformed Churches free from doing against the Word of God For wee must thinke that S. Paul knew certainly the mind of Christ such as are conscientious let them ponder this well the contentious I am not able to satisfie If the expediency bee set aside and the question be only of the lawfulnes my Argument stāds yet vnanswered Whatsoeuer spirituall benefit I may lawfully seeke on my knees with Supplication that same I may receiue lawfully vpon my knees with thanksgiuing But I may lawfully with supplication seeke saluation by Iesus on my knees Therefore I may lawfully receiue it on my knees They answere nothing who say I may not kneele to an Idoll For to Christ I kneele praising him when I receiue the holy Symbols exhibiting instruments of his Body Bloud and it is madnes either to make them Idols as Papists doe or call them Idols as Male contents doe Great murmuring is now against Pastors vvho ply not their tongues to pleasure the humours of people God hath opened their mouthes to preach his Gospel woe will bee to them that open their mouth to prattle against Pastors Hee that rewardeth euill for good euill shall neuer depart from his house saith Salomon My sonne feare God and the King and meddle not with the seditious It is Salomons also Let seditious Prattlers or Libellers whom though I know I spare to name pause vpon this When vnthankfull Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron they both ran to the dore of the Tabernacle and the Lord failed them neuer Hee came downe in the Cloud to protect comfort them Let al the seruants of the Lord doe so when an vngratefull people renders them euill for good remembring that which the Lord said to Ieremy 15. 19 20. Let them returne to thee returne not thou to them They shall fight against thee but shal not preuaile against thee for I am with thee Blessed are yee when men reuile you and persecute you and say all manner of euill against ●ou falsely for my sake Reioyce be glad for great is your reward in Heauen for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you Math. 6. 11. I haue opened my minde according to my light To thē that aske Where was this light before my answere is Remember what is said of our blessed Lord the Latchet of whose Shoo I am not worthy to loose He increased in wisedome Luc. 2. 52. Shall it then be an imputation to his silly weake vnworthy and infirme seruants that they increase in wisedome and grow in knowledge as they are commanded Such as are contentious I leaue tumbling in the tumultuous thoughts of their perturbed minds raging like the waues of the Sea forming and casting out their own dirt and shame For me I rest in the peace of my God through Iesus Christ which blessed be God I enioy A sore famin of the Word of God is at hand for the loathing of 〈◊〉 and murmuring against Moses and Aaron there may be bread but God will breake the Staffe of it preaching of the Word in many parts but without life or power Prattlers lying Libellers Papists or Atheists I commend them to the mercy of God that they may be brought to repeutance Let them reade these words of our Sauiour Math. 7. 6. Giue not that which is holy vnto Dogs neither cast ye your Pearles before Swine Bee not of that number if ye minde to enter into that heauenly Ierusalem I will haue nothing spoken heere extended to peaceable and truely religious Christians of which number God hath a flourishing Church both in this Towne and in other parts of the Land The Lord increase them The Lord grant peace to his owne Ierusalem and haue mercy vpon vs that wee may preuent these and other immiuent iudgements vpon great and small with vnfained repentance FINIS