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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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and not denied by Christ Mar. 2.6.7 and therefore he only can take away sicknes● and send health An instruction to vse such Physitians for our necessitie Vse 1 as by whom we may be perswaded that God who maketh whole will send a message of health vnto vs. And these must be men of good conscience and sound Religion not Popish or of no Religion if wee can choose else it will be said is it not because there is no God in Israel that yee goe to enquire of the God of Ekron for your health 2. King 1.3 God giueth the blessing and can we thinke that hee will inclose it to vs in euill meanes further hauing made our best choise this way we must take certaine religious preparatiues that their physick may haue the better worke vpon vs. And here we must humble our soules with repentance and confession of sinnes yea craue pardon for them and forsake them purposing amendment also we must sanctifie our sicke beds and make them vp by the Word of God and prayer 1. Tim. 4.5 The truth is when a man is made whole good medicines are good meanes vnto it but Gods blessing is it that strikes the stroke of health and recouers him Therefore let those who haue lately felt the sweet fruit of Gods worke in their restorings to health from the wound of Plague bring forth like fruit of thankfulnesse in their turnings to him that hath healed them else better they had died then and that the Plague had taken away their life when it tooke away their health The want of this is often cause that diseases curable in themselues are made incurable by our sinnes which should make vs when God begins his correction by sicknesse to begin repentance by turning to him that smiteth vs when we take physick for our recouery we must not take it as trusting in it but repose on God for health nor must our end of taking it be to put off death further then God hath bounded our terme here for physick can goe no farther then hee hath appointed who puts his staffe into it without which it falls to nothing A reproofe of those who with Asa in sicknesse Vse 2 seeke to physitions and not to God 2. Chron. 16.12 or to them in the first place and to God when there is no other remedie Some neuer call when God bindeth them Iob 1.36.13 bid them pray they list not or cannot and for their sicknesse they fret at it and with Cain say the punishment is greater then they can beare Gen. 4.13 as if they should say God doth not well so to punish them that is so seuerely or so for nothing And so they anger him with their impatiencie who must giue them their health if they euer recouer and increase the wrath going further in but not comming out of sicknesse to health But some insteede of seeking the Lord by prayer seeke to the diuel in some witch for ease of paine or end of sicknesse so did Ahaziah who falling through a lattesse in his vpper chamber in Samaria was so bruised with the fall that he lay sick of it vpon his bed till he died hereupon when he should haue sent to God in Israel he sent to an Idol in Ekron Baal-zebub that is not to God in faith but to the diuell in sinne to know if he should recouer of that disease 2. King 1.2.6 The admonition followeth Sinne no more OVr Sauiour hauing made this Man whole here like a good Physitian tells him what dyet hee should keep to keepe so The dyet prescribed is Sin no more the meaning is not as thou hast done and so he bidds him not to keepe a course in sinne as before and not to returne to the vomit which he hath cast or he wisheth him to looke better to the health of his soule for neglect whereof he had such ill health in his body and to take heede that by the ill dyet of sin he fell not into a relapse This may be our Sauiours counsell where yet he intends not that he can be so free from sin as that he should neuer fall againe for that is impossible in this mid-vaile but intimates that his sicknesse was the fruit of his sin Doct. from whence we may draw this conclusion that the diseases of the body for the most part come from the disease of the minde caused by sin and so God correcteth sin with the whip of sicknesse not alwaies yet most what and commonly I say not alwaies for there are sometimes other causes of sicknesse beside sin not knowne to vs but well knowne to God Ioh. 9.2.3 yet sin ordinarily is cause The first fall gaue vs this bruise and euer since we spat blood through or by meanes of it Indeed a peace since was made betweene God and vs in the seede of the woman Gen. 3.15 but it neuer reached so far as to conclude a peace betweene God and sin and he that was contented to be reconciled to sinners is at emnity with sin hence sin is the proper and kindly cause of Plagues vpon a whole Nation or particular person and so of sicknesses vpon it and him And for generall strokes vpon a Land that sin causeth them it is a plaine case in the book of Lamentations where Ieremy shewing what a folly it is for man so to vexe himself that is so in vaine by mis-iudging of his estate helps to winde him out of the by-pathes of so foule mistakes and directly tells him that being smitten of God hee suffereth iustly the punishment of his sin man suffereth for his sin Lam. 3.39 but more specially in the instance of sicknesses that these also come deseruedly for sin beside the words here the speech of Christ to the sick of the Palsey in which disease his sinne held him doth make plaine as vpon tables Mat. 9.26 for first he forgaue him his sins remouing the cause verse 2. and then he healed his Palsey changing the effect ver 6. God was comming to Iudah with good things in both hands but hee turned away the good came not which their sins hindered and euil things were sent which their iniquities were cause of Ier. 5.25 Eliphaz tells Iob that misery comes not forth of the dust Iob 5.6 and bids him to seeke another mother for it euen the proper mother of miserie which is sin ver 3. The rebellious to Gods ordinances who are foule sinners are threatned for like matter by the Lord himselfe Leuit. 26.15.16 and the Psalmist saith that fooles by which he meaneth wicked ones by reason of their transgression and because of their iniquities are afflicted Psal 105.17 that is afflicted with sicknesse and visited with troubles Psal 89.32 the reasons Reasons In many things we sin all Iames 3.2 and all in some but the least sin doth at the best hand deserue the gentle correction of sicknesse which hauing the owne due deserueth hell and death Rom. 6.23 Secondly the euill of punishment followeth the