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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
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