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A03693	A caueat to preuent future iudgements: or, An admonition to all England more specially, to London and other places where the death of plague hath lately beene. By Robert Horn Minister of the Word.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.	1626 (1626)	STC 13820; ESTC S116563	23,180	39

God perswade Iapheth to dwell in the tents of Shem Gen. 9.27 But there are many out-lyers and many who when they should dwell in Shems Tent at the times of publike prayer and hearing dwell in the tents of Cham where their other impieties are accomplished and made vp with their scoffings at Noah the Preacher of righteousnesse O how hardly are such perswaded to be in the Temple with Simeon and Anna Luk. 2.27.38 or to be found in the Temple to bee healed as this man whom Christ healed but Iesus seekes them there and they loose him in the world and in wordly lusts of profit and pleasures God and Prince require their presence God vpon paine of death the Prince vpon pain of twelue pence for euery day yet neither God nor Prince can be heard and how shall I So much for the place where this man was found with the circumstances of time and person it followeth to consider what Christ said And said vnto him behold c. IN these words that Christ spake vnto the Man wee haue a precept and reasons perswading it the precept in these words Sinne no more the reasons are two as first the benefit of his health thou art made whole and the threatning of a worse matter if he should sin afterwards as before lest a worse thing come vnto thee for the first of the reasons we haue the benefit it selfe and finger at it in the word behold After our Sauiour had cured this man he presently left him as appeareth in the next verse before now he returnes againe as not meaning to bee long hid that his power might be knowne his strange worke had in remembrance which therefore made him to say behold as leading him by the hand to a deeper cōsideration of what was done vpon him as if he had said thou was 't tyed to thy bed with a long infirmity of eight and thirty yeeres continuance now this tie is loosed by him that said vnto thee rise take vp thy bed and walke v. 8. and now thou art noe longer bound to thy bed but free to God remember and forget not or behold that is intend thy thoughts to this worke of thy cure passing some pause vpon it This I take to be the meaning of our Sauiour in these words behold thou art made whole which teacheth that christians should not passe ouer Gods proceedings towards them in his noble Acts either of mercy or iustice with a carelesse or blinde eye In Psal 32. the word Selah which is a word of attention repeated three times as ver 4.5.7 importeth as much and what God did against Amaleck Gods peoples enemie must as we heard be written in a booke or register Ex. 17.14 and in Deut. 25.17 it must be written what God did that way in sure tables of lasting memory So Samuel taking a stone and pitching it betweene Mizphe and Shen called it by the name of * Eben-Ezer hitherto the Lord hath holpen vs 1. Sam. 7.12 The like stone of help for memorie did the Iewes set vp in an extraordinary holy day to God for his deliuering of them from the butchery of Haman Hest 9.17.18 And Dauid brought his heart to an edge by such diligent booking of Gods daily mercies for fighting the Lords battells he set down as in a commentarie or iust volume the Gests and Acts of euery daies march to the praise of God The book of Psalmes shew's he had the pen of a ready writer this way the reasons One maine end of God Reasons in his strange workes of mercy and iustice is to open our eyes and to prouoke consideration and shall God come so neere in them to euery one of vs and we take no view of him in obiects of so great light Psal 50.22 Secondly he that made all doth all for himselfe Pro. 16.4 that is that his workes might praise him who is onely worthy to be praised Psal 145.10 but how shall we giue him the respects of his power praise goodnes and infinite glory when in his workes that are wonderfull we obserue little or nothing thereafter and when from things that are stranger then we thought of and greater then we lookt for wee draw no matter to admire his wisedome so as we be guided by it or to magnifie his power so as we repose vpon it and heere tell me if it be not a disgrace to an expert workeman hauing made some excellent peece that his friend should passe by with contempt with neglect at least not vouchsafing to looke vpon it To apply therfore is this a disgrace being offered to man who works imperfectly what is it then not to haue in esteeme the workes of God so perfectly wrought And here Salomons counsel is and it is good counsel consider the work of God Eccles 7.13 Thirdly when men comming into some shop behold some curious work they passe by it knowing it made not it self and enquire after him that made it and shall we looking into the shop of Gods workes that are all excellent loose our sight in them neuer looking away to the most excellent work-man IEHOVAH our Creator Fourthly if God doe nothing in vaine then what he doth alwaies to purpose must be thought of accordingly by the assistance and helpe of our best meditation Psal 111.4 An instruction therfore to gather matter from all Gods works Vse 1 especially such as are strangely wrought to our help in this duty when we see iudgements executed in the land we must put them down in our memories as in some book that we may feare and be humbled by them or if God work mercifully in our kingdome as he lately did by quenching so strangely those coales of Plague he cast into London and by opening that Fountaine of trading that was so choakt vp in the last Visitation by Pestilence we must not forget his louing kindnesse to obserue it for his praise whose mercy endureth for euer The Prophet the Author of the 147. and 148. Psalmes was trained vp in this Schoole learned very much by the wisdome and iustice that he found in all Gods workes And surely if we would go to Schoole but to our daily experience in this kinde hauing eyes such as this Man of God had and vsing our diligence so as he did we should not be so foolish ignorant and as beasts before God The very heathen that were without the word and had no other bookes but the workes of God to reade in did in them see somewhat of the true God though not to his glory by the wisedome which is of him Rom. 1.20 And shall we learne nothing of God who haue not only the darke booke of his workes to looke vpon but the booke of a plainer letter the booke of his word to meditate of shal we become more foolish then the wiser sort of the heathen were that onely groped after God in their foolish hearts that were full of darkenesse verse 21. And now to our purpose doe

necessarie And therefore I passe to the Doctrines of this verse their grounds or reasons with their Vse and Application Afterward THat is after this cure wrought and person healed Christ findes him in the house of prayer and returning found him thankefull which Precedent deserueth followers Doct. and teacheth vs after a benefit receiued from God to be thankfull to him greatly after a great benefit and presently after any So Melchizedech blessed God for Lot recouered by Abraham Gen. 14.20 and Moses and the Israelites sang vnto him in praise for the Egyptian yoke broken Exod. 15.1 2 3 c. and the Iewes kept a feast of memoriall for their safety and the destruction of their enemies and of that wicked Haman Hest 9.17 In Psal 51.15 Dauid desireth God to giue him cause and matter and then promiseth to praise God with ioyfull lippes not diuiding betweene the effect and cause Hence further he debates with himselfe about rendring to God in this manner Psal 116.12 and in another Psalme summons all within him to this duty Psal 103.1 The Apostle Paul ioynes with prayer thankesgiuing by an inseparable tie Philip. 4.6 and good reason for as he saith Colos 4.6 praise sets the watch in our prayers without which they would fall asleepe in our mouthes the Scripture is full in this point the reasons Wee sit at an easie rent by such a returne Reasons 1 for what easier then to confesse the liberality of such a Land-lord by taking words vnto vs and by ordering our waies Psal 50.23 Secondly thankfulnesse sanctifieth all our receipts without which they are vncleane vnto vs Exodus 12.14 and no better then stollen waters Pro. 9.17 Thirdly true Christians must stand in some distance from Hypocrites and dissemblers with God the difference stands in point of praise and not of petition for Hypocrites can make a good shew in prayer their necessities and desire of supply will kindle a fire of earnestnesse this way Luke 17.13 but when they should returne with acknowledgement where are they verse 17. Fourthly prayer is a sweet oblatiō to God but the soule of it and that which quickens it is true thankfulnesse Psal 50.23 and heere what the body is without the soule that is prayer for a benefit and no praise for it Fifthly of all the Sacrifices in the Law this of praise was most acceptable to God Psal 50.13.14 which made our fathers in the estate of the Old Testament often and in many words to vow this oblation to God and as it were to enter into bond vnto him to pay it Psal 66.13.14 Ecclesiast 5.4.5 Sixthly if nothing else could moue vs to be thankfull after a benefit yet our owne good by the hand should for the remembrance of an old benefit prepares the way for a new and what eloquence more forcible to draw from a man what wee craue or need then the shewing of our selues thankfull for what we haue had already God sets no other rent-charge vpon all he giues who giues all freely but the old rent of a thankfull heart and of thankfulnesse in our liues and if this be done we shall be sure to be great gainers at Gods hands Seuenthly we are thankfull to men for small matters and shall we be vnthankful to him that giues vs all things shall the wicked Heathen praise their gods of siluer and gold of brasse of yron of wood stone who were made themselues Dan. 5.4 and shall not we praise that God that made vs and all the world The Vse of this is for all England Vse 1 but more specially for London and other Townes and Cities vpon which the Sword of Pestilence hath bin lately laid for should not these be found in the Temple with this man healed by Christ And for London the prime Citie of the Kingdome seeing that so lately the waies of it so lamented being al shut vp Lam. 1.4 which now clap hands for their opening againe and for their being sowen with the seed of man should it not register in marble of remembrance a worke of mercy toward it so singular and so strange should it not cry grace grace vnto it Zach. 4.7 for from 44.63 dead and buried of the mortality of Plague in one weeke in that Citie the Bill fell in few weekes to no lesse then halfe a score yea to foure onely and can such an abatement so wondered at proue as the wonder that lasts but nine daies Rather may not the Citizens and may we not all say this admirable decrease considered as the people of Sion in captiuity after their returne said We were like them that dreame Psal 126.1 Surely we cannot denie that our mouth is filled with laughter and our tongues with songs v. 2. and shall they be empty of his praise who hath done so great things for vs whereof we sing v. 3. When Iosh●●ah had made a great slaughter of Amaleck and his men euen so great and so long as Moses his feeble hands could be held from falling downe which was till the Sunne went downe Exod. 17.12 Gods charge to Moses was that it should be written for better remembrance in a booke and rehearsed to Ioshuah verse 14. This was a great blessing of God and this so great blessing of his must both be written and spoken of was it a blessing bookeable which God shewed to Israel against Amaleck who wasted so many of his weake and feeble people and is it not worthy both to bee spoken of and bookt with letters of lasting praise in our hearts and mouthes that God hath in manner remoued so cleane and quickly from a Citie of so great vse to the whole Realme that Amaleck of wasting Pestilence But our dulnesse hath need of much spurring and and of those nailes that Salomon the wisest King and wisest Man spake of fastned by the Masters of the Assemblies Eccles 12.13 for how soone had we forgotten a worke of this nature a worke all made of mercy by quitting London as now of the mortality of 3300. and odde falling there of a like stroake of Plague in one weeke and in the yeere 1603. This for some yeeres after lay dead and as buried in some perpetuall graue therefore hath God opened our graues againe by killing with the Plague of Pestilence in that same Citie and thereabouts from about Aprill or after to the 15. of December 1625. no fewer then 35417. And I pray God this may be a warning for those of London and of all England to keepe better in remembrance and to better purpose the Acts of Gods mercy and to keepe both them and vs from falling after the like manner of disobedience If it be not and if still we will proue vnfaithfull though the Plague were quite gone God hath other Vultures as one saith to send vpon the carion of a Realme dead in sinnes and trespasses for beside the Plague of Pestilence he hath his glittering Sword which is a grieuous Plague that he can put into the hand