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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

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If a man will not bee said vnto by one or two warnings he can send vnto him by his great ordnance If ficknesse will not amend a land if deare markets cannot there is a worse thing behind And so we see when one affliction can do nothing Doct. God will send many and worse if a light correction will not moue vs he hath a heauier rod and when one cannot many shall This is a plaine case as appeareth Leuit. 26.18 where Moses threatning or God by him obdurate sinners tells them if they will not keepe their hearts softer and more steepe in obedience to him hee will punish them seuen times more that is more and further and that according to their sins The like is threatned against the like persons by the same Moses Deut. 28.58.59 where in the person of the Lord the obstinate and sinners are told that they shall haue as their purchase and merit many strokes and wonderfull yea wonderrously durable if they persist to sinne against that great and fearefull name the Lord their God In the next verse the 60. he holds on with more And in Psal 32.10 the Prophet speakes not of few sorrowes as crooks to pull in the wicked when they offer to breake from God but of many I say therfore go as farre as thou wilt if thou go from God he can fetch thee againe from any of all the quarters of the earth with many yea innumerable sorrowes the reasons Reasons Euen our earthly Parents where a little correction twenty and shall our heauenly Father doe lesse when gentler meanes can doe nothing Secondly for this the Lord hath his store-house of iudgements and a whole treasury of Plagues Deut. 32.34 hee hath a hammer to breake the stone Ier. 23.29 and a rod of yron to breake the horrible sinner Apoc. 2.27 Hee will bee a moth to Ephraim and so consume him insensibly by little and little Hosea 5.12 or if the matter require more haste a Lyon to teare him quickly verse 14. also to the house of Iudah rottennes which comes by degrees verse 12. or if more speede must bee vsed a Lyons whelpe that makes quick worke goes away with the spiole and none can rescue it verse 14. In the booke of the Iudges first God kindles the fire of his wrath selling his people their sin is the price into the hands of a strange Lord but eight yeeres Iudg. 3.8 after hee makes the fire greater and they serued Eglon King of Moah eighteene yeeres verse 14. and after and lastly the fire was great indeed for he deliuered them into the hands of the Philistims 40. yeeres Iudg. 13.1 An instruction to Christians Vse 1 when they feele sorrow after sorrow one crosse after another a greater after a lesser to lay all vpon their owne intractablenesse vnder Gods gentler hand for what maruell where we renew our sins that God should renew his Plagues where we vye there he should reuy and come ouer vs with the same hand that he should punish with increase where we increase the sinne and fetch his blowes often when wee often sinne against him yet as one saith there is great difference betweene Gods children and no children in this manner of dealing for Gods children are first called by the Word if that doe nothing or little they shall be called by some workes of his iustice in others or if they profit not that way they shall feele smart themselues first by light crosses and seldome and after by sharper and more often and if yet they abide in sin they shall be fetcht out as out of the fire with strong and long afflictions but for such as are no children but bastards they must look for one breaking after another till their necks be broken Plague shall follow Plague till the last be executed as vpon Pharaoh God will deale with them as wise fathers doe with gracelesse children he wil lay away the rod and put them out of dores And here let vs the people of this Kingdome take heed the Plague hath beene among vs and hot in London if so many warnings will not serue what shall we looke for but that God should lay away the rod of our correction saying wherefore should yee be smitten any more Esay 1.5 and so put vs out of the dores of his kingdome for euer if the fire of Pestilence cannot purge vs there is a fire in hell will burne vs ye that haue escaped out of the fire of Pestilence consider that yee goe not out of one fire and another fire consume you Ezek. 15.7 An admonition to Christians Vse 2 to pittie themselues by amendment betimes the longer they put off the more they must suffer and what wiseman will not saue his skinne as much as he may if he receaue one blow he wil ward the second and arme against the third Now apply this to thy selfe doth God lightly humble thee that should make thee or should not that make thee when thou art vp againe to looke better to thy waies and to thy feet to set them in Gods testimonies O remember this yee that rise from sicknesse to sinne not to amendment hereby ye do but make worke for another and smarter Visitation A man should come out of sicknesse as gold out of the fornace which is purer by it more shining but many come out worse then they went in who are not Gods gold but Satans drosse afflictions sicknes pouerty paine are the portions of sin from God and rods of nurture in the hands of a louing Father but if the rod of nurture better vs not rather if it make vs worse what hope of vs more then of Salomons foole who being sore and often beaten for his fault it was of drunkennesse would follow it yet more Pro. 23.35 Of such blockishnes and priuation of sense we reade in the wicked Israelites who though strangers deuoured their strength and this was no small affliction yea though gray haires were here and there vpon them and this was no new affliction yet they knew nothing neither sought the Lord for all this Hosea 7.9 no rod no calamitie could doe any good vpon them were these wise for themselues or are they wise that will fall a sleepe in a regardles security while they are in the heart of the sea and far from any shore as did Salomons drunkard who therefore might haue perished without all remedy So for the careles and incorrigible in the hot brunt of Londons last Mortality what wisdome in them that they had no better regard seeing that by such senslesnesse of so fearefull and great a iudgement from God they purchase more strokes to the fooles backe which cannot but bee so when one stroke and such a one can so little moue them or neuer a whit To haue thirty and eight yeeres sicknesse and all that long time to keepe in bed must needs bee a grieuous chaine yet Christ tells this Man of a worse thing in chaines vnder darknes binding to damnation for such a matter I take this worse thing to be Doct. And then we learn hence that corporall paines here should breed care in vs to preuent eternall in the helles for therefore the Lord iudgeth vs here 1. Cor. 11.32 and therefore when we suffer here but for a very short time or rather no time compared to time endles in the ache of a tooth or anguish of other member and yet crie out as if we suffered or should suffer eternally how should this put vs in remembrance feare of that place where those torments wherein the wicked and all that forget God doe and must suffer world without end in euer burning flames of hell should not such an occasion set spurres of care into vs to auoid the worse thing when the thing before was so grieuous and tormenting the reasons Reasons Good reason it should be so for otherwise GOD should loose that labour and we our soules Secondly then is the fittest season for when can a man so fitly remember a smart as when he smarts and when so well minde the torments of hell as when by reason of torments like those he can at no hand minde and remember with pleasure the pleasures of sin that bring downe to hell A reproofe of those who minde nothing in sicknesse but health nor in prison but liberty Vse nor in paine but ease They neuer labour with bodily health to get sauing health nor with liberty from prison the liberty of Sons nor with the ease of the flesh ease and rest from their labours in another world their happinesse stands all of it in their riches their life in their abundance and their reioycings in the fauour of men all their care is not to preuent misery for hereafter but to store themselues with some foolish happines now where Dauid yet in the highest flote of his kindomes felt his sins as a mountaine the pardon of them as the greatest ease worldly Psal 32.1.2 to be shut vp in sin hee esteemed it greater thraldome then to be shut vp in prison and the fauour of God he desired aboue all fauours here Psal 4.6 This vse he made of his sicknes caused by his sin the paine of it put him in minde of worse paines and more intollerable which was his benefit thereby for our imitation I pray God the like mind may be found in those whether rich or poore at whose hearts the Lord knocked by this last calamitie of Pestilence and I pray God it may bee found in all of vs to our amendments Amen ECCLESIAST 7.13 Consider the Worke of God FINIS
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