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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03694	The Christian gouernour, in the common-wealth, and priuate families described by Dauid, in his 101. Psalme. Guiding all men in a right course to heauen. Herewith also a part of the parable of the lost sonne. Luke 15. Both expounded and opened by Robert Horn. With the doctrines and vses thence arising. The more particular contents see on the page following.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.	1614 (1614)	STC 13821; ESTC S121133	164,903	442

shall reprooue Cham What Oliues can we gather of our Magistrates when they bee not Oliue trees in Gods house but catching brambles and minde not iustice but scratching couetousnes for if the head be sicke can the heart be merry Esa. 1.5 and if the eye be darke how great is that darknes the eye that will giue light must haue light and they must bee good Magistra●es that will make a good people A consolation against the reproaches that are cast vpon men when they set themselues to feare the Lord and to walk● in his wayes Now they begin to be fooles saith the world nay now they doe wisely saith the Lord. Men say They haue beene taken for sensible wise men but now they dote God sayth They are now sensible good men and take the way for good vnderstanding The world iudgeth them fooles and God calleth them wise Before they ruled by forc● onely now they rule by discretion before as men now as wise men before in darknes or vnregeneration now in the Lord. By perfect way the Prophet meaneth as we heard the way of Religion and true godlinesse by the word which is perfect it is called the perfect law Psal. 19.7 Or perfect law of libertie Iam. 1.25 And perfect will of God Rom. 12.2 because in it is contayned perfectly whatsoeuer is required to righteousnes or mans saluation The doctrine from whence is The holy Scripture and word of God as it is the onely register of true wisedome so it is a most sufficient rule of mans life to instract him in righteousnes and to make him absolute to all good works for this it is called the wisedome of God and the power of God 1 Cor. 1.24 Rom. 1.16 and the whole of it is saide to be giuen by inspiration and to bee profitable that is sufficient for doctrine for rebuke for instruction for correction and therefore is it further sayd to make not the meane person onely but the man of God the Minister himselfe not able in part but absolute and not to some worke or some few works but to all good works 2 Tim. 3.16 Yea so perfect is the word of God that hee that addeth to it addeth to his owne plagues and hee that taketh any part from it taketh so much of his part out of th● Booke of life Apoc. 22.18.19 and in Iude 3. we reade of a faith once giuen that is sufficiently or once for all Indeed the holy Bookes and Monuments of the righteous are as strong Chests and Store-houses wherein God hath reserued alway some precious foode for posteritie neyther may wee reiect the industrie of the Heathen for euen they haue some foode meete for liberall men in matters naturall and politike seruing well if due regard bee had and choyse made for good direction in the things of this present life but these knowledges meerelie humane as those waters of Tema spoken of in Iob ●●yle those that drinke of the Riuer thereof and delight in the Brooke thereof for when men are dryed vp with Gods burning indignation and consumed with a hot fire in their bones because of his wrath these sciences profit not they that goe to Tema haue considered them and they that trauell to Sheba wayted for them yet were they confounded when they hoped and ashamed when they came thither for as waters that passe away they failed out of their places and departed from their way and course Iob. 6.15.17.18.19.20 But the waters and this riuer of the word is a well of liuing water hee that drinketh of it shall neuer bee more a thirst Ioh. 4.14 The other foode contracteth corruption as our naturall foode doth but this is the bread that endureth to euerlasting life Ioh. 6.27 That wisedome is earthly and tasteth of the soyle from which it came but this wisedome is heauenly and from God who abideth for euer The Reasons The word is heere called the perfect way of a Christian the way that will bring him to heauen if hee walke in it and in no other and therefore that which is sufficient that is in and by it selfe sufficient to his saluation Secondly the Scriptures are perfectly holy that is holy in themselues by themselues Psal. 19.8 and perfectly profitable that is profitable by the truth which is in them and profitable without any other truth added to them to instruct to saluation 2 Tim. 3.16 and therefore all other writings supposed necessary are superfluous Thirdly what is perfect but that which is entire of it selfe and needeth nothing Now that which is so entire and independent what lacketh it that it hath not and what can we adde vnto it that is not already in it but so perfect is the word For where the Prophet speaketh of the perfect way it is not meant that he could be perfect that did walke in that way except perfect in account and by endeauour as Gods righteous seruants are said to be but he meaneth the word written which he calleth the perfect way Vses A confutation to Poperie Papists adde to the written truth their vnwritten truths as they call them truths which they affirme to be as necessarie rules of faith to saluation as the Scriptures are and so the Papists require a supply but wherefore a supply when the thing is sufficient That Booke that was sprinckled with the bloud of the Lambe that onely was put into the Arke and fetched from thence Heb. 9.19 and this is the word of faith which we preach Rom. 10.8 Also we reade of a sure word of the Prophets 2 Pet. 1.19 and the same Apostle chargeth the Christians of his time and vs in them to take heede vnto it not to the vncertaine breath of man but to the most certaine word of God for who will walke in a blinde way when hee hath a knowne way to goe in But that place in Mathew is notable to this purpose where an Angell in his message to Ioseph would not vse his owne credit and authoritie for that hee speake but alledgeth Scripture for it Math. 1.21.22.23 Ioseph might haue maruelled that his Wife should bee with childe by the holy Ghost though an Angell had spoken it but when hee heard Scripture for it he beleeued An instruction to Christians chiefely to such as haue charge of others to read much deliberately in the word for it is it onely that can make vs perfect to all good works both in respect of knowledge what ought to bee done and of power to doe it Quest. But may a man be perfect in this life seeing Dauid saith Hee will doe wisely in the perfect way and Christ exhorting sayd Be perfect as your heauenlie Father is perfect Mat. 5.28 Answere No man who is not more then man can and therefore where Dauid promiseth to walke perfectly and Christ exhorteth to bee perfect Dauid meant not that he could be perfect saue in respect of Gods imputation or as he stood in balance with others who were ruder in knowledge