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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03698	The shield of the righteous: or, The Ninety first Psalme, expounded, with the addition of doctrines and vses Verie necessarie and comfortable in these dayes of heauinesse, wherein the pestilence rageth so sore in London, and other parts of this kingdome. By Robert Horn, minister of Gods Word.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.	1625 (1625)	STC 13825; ESTC S104237	130,560	160

twelue wil ye also go away Ioh. 6.66.67 as if he had said when all go ye must tarrie and when the world forsakes me forsake the world to follow me The reasons Reason 1 The greatest number take not Gods name for their tower Gods numbers do or should and where the wicked seeke out euill deuices the righteous walke with God in a contrarie way Reason 2 Secondly a good nature will follow his friend in aduersitie and shall aduersitie cause any nature to depart from God Reason 3 Thirdly He hath the words of eternall life and to whom shall wee go if we go from him Ioh. 6.68 Vse 1 Not safe therefore to conforme to the multitudes behauiour in troubles or in them to do as the most do For when Gods hand is vpon a countrie in any common affliction the greatest number waxing wanton against the rod striue to forget the worke of the Lord and care not to remember the operations of his hands Esay 5.12 Should the godly do so Should they feeds without feare Iude 12. because others do so or should they not rather mourne apart with their families and more priuarely one man with another till the calamitie be at an end Zach. 12.12 the greatest part neuer vnderstand nor labour to know Gods ends in punishing a nation with scourges and snares shall the godly therefore haue as little vnderstanding and not heare the rod nor him who hath commanded it Micah 6.9 The most trust in vanitie shall the righteous therefore put their considence in a thing of nought and because not to be singular is the onely garment now in fashion shall they that should not fashion themselues to the world Rom. 12.2 put it on because they will not be singular in goodnesse nor go alone in the narrow way of life so they may like beasts fatted in all abundance of iniquitie follow the heard and droue thinking nothing but that they are going to the pasture when it is to the slaughter-house They are here reprooued who think it the best and safest way Vse 2 to doe as the most not as the best do but it is the common rode of the hypocrite neuer to be seene in a way wherein the greatest number walk not To fashion to times and multitudes hath bin and is like still to be the religion of all times and worlds Protestant Chusa's say which way the world goes will we go 2. Sam. 16 18. They refuse to enter in at the streight gate Matth. 7.13 and choose the wide gate and broad way of the multitude to enter where the most doe and to be where the most are that they may not be hit in the teeth with precisenesse and odious singularitie For the Sabbath they will rather follow the Diuell in a great company to prophane it then God the Lord in a small number to hallow it Their reasons is they must do as all the townes about them do and they say we do but as euery body doth and all the Country doth so as well as we To whom I amswer with a reuerende Writer M. Dod on 4. Com. If they will doe as euery body doth they must looke to speede as euery body speedes and bee cursed for companie if they will sinne for Companie Mal. 3.9 But let vs take heed of companies or of sinning for company All in Sodom saue Lot and his house sinned together and perished together Gen. 19. The whole world saue Noah and his house as they were buried in one graue of lusts so were they buried in one graue of waters Gen 7. And the Angels that fell in companies from heauen went and were cast downe in companies to hell 2. Pet. 2.4 Further what moueth the Lord so from yeare to yeare to strike vs with varietie of Plagues so that for twelue yeares together the land hath not bene without but this large fellowship in sinne For do not sinners in towne and countrie seeke to dash all commandements and rebuks with the force of example And because such and such do so are not their doings a sufficient buckler to warde off all strokes of the Law and directions of the Gospell that teach otherwise and contrarily Doth not the custome of sinne take away the sense and shame of sinne Doth not companie giue it grace and the committers of it boldnesse and where are so few doers of good will it not bee thought shame to do well and what shame to commit iniquitie when the committers of it are couered with a thicke cloud of so many that praise and do the same things sometimes the mountaines hide them or they hide themselues in the practise of the great ones where they liue whose height is ouer them as the high hils and couers them as the great mountaines and then how can they blush Doct. 3 Further in the text we reade these words of particular faith I will say and I will trust and my hope my fortresse my God all which shew that this Man of God did apply the former generall doctrine of Gods defence to his owne particular case and person and therefore teach whatsoeuer generall threatnings or promises we find written in the Scriptures for our learning to apply them more specially to our selues for our humbling or consolation And so when the word threatneth a sinne we must apply as if it threatned it in vs and when it maketh any promise to beleeuers beleeue that the promise so made on condition of the like faith belongeth to vs. For here euery one must be a Prophet to himselfe by laying the line of the word to the state and faring of his owne conscience and mind in things So Dauid directed the point of his owne finne to his owne heart 2. Sam. 24.10 and with that sword which God sent into Israel it was of the Pestilence and mortalitie for three dayes he smote himselfe that made the people to be numbred not Ioab that numbred them 1. Chron. 21.12.17 and in another transgression and at another time he confessed the wickednesse that was done against himselfe that did it Psal 32.5 So Paul doth not onely write himselfe a sinner but the chiefe of sinners 1. Tim. 1.15 Also what vse Ioseph made of his Masters peculiar fauour to him in the house Genes 39.9 such we must make of Gods speciall loue to vs in his word as hath the Lord in great kindnesse magnified his Name toward vs by his word Psal 138.2 it then concerneth vs with Ioseph in continuall thankfulnesse to glorifie or send backe the praise of that his Name and mercy to him by our obedience to his word That woman of Canaan which had the grace to be called the woman of great faith Math. 15.28 did make good vse for an aduantage of that little fauour that was shewed sometimes and to some of the cursed race of the Canaanites which was that God made and would make where pleased him a gleaning of them to saluation and therefore said that they had some of those