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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03695	Life and death Foure sermons. The first two, of our preparation to death; and expectation of death. The last two, of place, and the iudgement after death. Also points of instruction for the ignorant, with an examination before our comming to the Lords table, and a short direction for spending of time well. By Robert Horne. Auspice Christo.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.; Horne, Robert, 1565-1640. Points of instruction for the ignorant. aut	1613 (1613)	STC 13822.5; ESTC S118515	156,767	464

haue appeared to the world and are manifest to vs why should wee arraigne the Lord of any slacknesse or make question of the day that is so farre spent alreadie in the signes that wee haue spoken off But these matters are further opened in the Sermons that follow to which I humbly pray you and the Christian Reader in you to haue duerespect Not for want of better treatises in this kind for there are many after some of which I haue gleaned with poore Ruth in this small worke as after the men whose hands were full Ruth 2.15 but because they containe nothing in perswading to the power of godlinesse but what is written and what the word which is written doth teach for instruction to a godly life Accept therefore I pray you what is here offered by you vnto many and take in good part my endeuour therein So with many vnfained praiers for your true and full welfare which I vnfainedlie wish to you your yoke-fellow and all yours in the world and in the Lord I rest Your worships poore Nephew humbly at commandement for all christian duties ROBERT HORNE THE FIRST SERMON ECCLES chap. 12. vers 1. Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth before the euill dayes come and yeares approach wherein thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in them THis Booke of Ecclesiastes was written by Salomon after hee was fallen from the good way of vertue to the high way of sinne and prophanenesse forgetting his God and forsaken of Wisedom whereof hee had great gifts when he was young and when hee followed the wisedome which is of God And he calleth it the Booke of the Preacher as if he should haue called it the Booke of his Retractations His end of writing it was That it might remaine in the Librarie of the holie Ghost as a testimonie vnder his owne hand of his turning from God by errour of life and of his returning to him by repentance where hee sheweth hauing seene all things in his wisedome that men can neuer bee happie in or for these things wherein the men of the earth repose chiefe happinesse And this hee teacheth by his owne deere-bought experience for hauing tried all things as mirth and wiues buildings and beautie and riches and honour and the like he confesseth that as a Horse in a mill after he had gone in his long circuit or blind maze of twentie yeares prouing conclusions and trying nouelties hee found himselfe to be where he was at first and further from God and goodnesse at the end of his wearie course than at the beginning wherein he had proceeded to destruction if God by his mercifull arrest had not stayed him Therefore returning into the fauour of God and wearied with the errours of his foolish way he concludeth in this Book that all is vanitie vnder the Sun More specially in this Chapter hauing in the former disswaded his young man from that follie that had almost vndone him and raigneth in young yeares wishing him not onely to flee the concupiscences of youth and all habit of mind in them but to giue no way to his corruptsenses lest they proue baits to catch him and hookes to choke him being taken with present destruction and certaine death he here sheweth him the meane by which this young man and all men may escape so great daunger and that is a carefull walking in the sight of God and obedience to God in the sight of men furthered by remembrance For as the forgetfulnesse of God is a great attractiue to sinne so they sinne not so commonly nor greedily that remember their Maker So much in general for the occasion and author of this worthie Booke and subiect of this Chapter So I come to the words now read And they containe an exhortation and the reasons by which it is amplified The exhortation is to remember wherein two things may be considered the person to bee remembred and the time of remembring him The reasons are likewise two the first is taken from the impediments that old age giueth to Gods seruice the other from the incommodities of mans last sickenesse The exhortation standeth thus If thou wilt constantly doe the works of holinesse to God neuer let it slip out of the meditation of thy heart that God doth require of thee by right of creation that thou godlily serue Him all the daies of thy life And the doctrine from hence is Doctr. 1 The remembrance of God that is the hauing of Him alway before vs in His infinite holines wisdome goodnes power truth is a speciall meane for religion and His true feare in our waies Thus Dauid reasoned I haue set the Lord alwaies before me that is God was euer in my mind to serue Him and feare Him therefore I shall not slide that is God hath set my feet vpon a rocke and in the slipperie waies of such as forget God I shall not be moued He considereth that at all times and in all places God was present with Him both as a Lord to surnay His waies left he should slip grosely and as a Father to comfort Him when He slipt of infirmitie therefore Hee kept his heart in continuall awe preparing it for the Lords presence The Lord all sufficient requireth of Abraham that He would walke before Him Gen. 17.1 that is that He would make Him the Arbiter of His thoughts the Interpreter of His words the Lord of His waies and commit all His doings to Him and then will Abraham without all question make the Lord His feare and doe all His workes in His name In Micah this is the Question wherewith shall I come before the Lord and bowe my selfe before the high God Mic. 6.6 that is how shall I please God in my waies and rest on His will and the answere is made by Micah or rather the Lord by Him Hee hath shewed thee O man what is good and that is to humble thy selfe to walke with thy God verse 8 the meaning is that thou shouldst alway set Him in thy sight beleeuing that He doth guide and gouerne thee And surely when wee behold the Lord in His promises of reconciliation that He is at peace with vs of sanctification that He will renew vs and of prouidence and safetie that for our good He will watch ouer vs being at our right hand by His Angels and at our left by His creatures we cannot chuse but reuerence and loue Him at least feare to sinne against Him because of His infinite goodnes and power In the 116. Psalm the Prophet Dauid after some notable cause of thankfulnes for His deliuerance from death so neere by Sauls pursuit because He would remember by obedience what God did for Him in that wofull houre doth promise to walke before the Lord that is diligently to attend do His cōmandemēts in the Land of the Liuing that is alwaies on Earth specially in His temple It is euident therefore that this hauing of God in our sight