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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

A CAVEAT to preuent future IVDGEMENTS 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 PSAL. 50.22 Now consider this yee that forget God lest I teare you in peeces and there be none to deliuer LONDON Printed by G. M. for Philemon Stephens and Cristopher Meredith and are to be sold at their shop at the golden Lyon in Pauls Church-yard 1626. TO THE VVORSHIPFVLL AND REVEREND MAtron Mistresse AGNES DANET of Westhope in Shropshire Widow the comforts of this life and the glorie of the next WORSHIPFVLL M rs DANET YOur Obligation vpon Me binds me at least to acknowledgement I with my wife liued with you in house twenty yeeres saue some few weekes Most of which time or saue some few moneths the whole of it I liued Preacher to your Tenants and priuate familie at a Chappell by being there set and left by that rightly worshipfull and truly religious old Gentleman your most kinde husband IOHN DANET Esquire long since with God The instructiōs you receiued that while from me before that while of time from faithfull men elsewhere I doubt not but you remember and will practise for your part and time heere Some testimony you lately gaue in your zealous and constant obseruation of those Fasts which were weekely commanded for London by Royall authority notwithstanding your often infirmities and great yeeres which makes me now vnder your name to send forth this small Sermon and to entitle you to it as to your owne by many interests In regard of the Plagues late fearefull increase in London and other places about and further off there came a commandement from our Augustus King CHARLES that all of the Realme that could or were fit should meete together in a publike weekely Fast on Wednesdaies to beseech the Lord by prayer and supplications vntill it should please him to say as sometime he said to the destroying Angel with his sword ouer Ierusalem it is enough hold now thy hand 2. Sam. 24.16 To this and to vs his Royall Maiesty began in a rare President and so did no more by precept then what he first sealed by practise in his owne high Person The Plague was great and so we fasted and besought our God for it and he was entreated of vs Ezra 8.23 vpon the successe wonderfull in our eares most strange in Londons eyes his Maiesty hath since published his Royall pleasure for publike thankes to God through all the Kingdome All which should moue all of vs of this Land if we haue not lost all life of motion euen now to turne vnto the Lord with all our hearts And therefore for my particular and to set my selfe some steps forward inso good a way I haue left this little pawne in the Sanctuary for mine own engagement Where I desire you Good Mistresle DANET to goe on in the same good way you haue been long vpon and that till you finish your course which that it may be with true comfort to your Blisse eternall I will pray as I daily doe while we haue being together The time cannot be long to you or me which should make vs therfore and I pray God we may be made to redeeme all the good houres of it for the power of godlinesse and a pure conuersation in Christ Which gift also I humbly craue at Gods hands for those you haue Adopted into your family as the charge of your prouidence that to Gods pleasure they may longer yet haue the comfort of you your Tenants in like manner and that whole Neighbour-hood in that light which now you beare vp among them by your life in the Gospel and your beeing in the world He saith Amen vnto it Clon-bury neere Ludlow Iune 1. 1625. Who is yours truly for his best meanes in the Word of Faith ROBERT HORN AN ADMONITION TO ALL ENGLAND More specially to LONDON and other Cities and townes in England where the death of Plague hath lately beene * ⁎ * IOHN 5.14 After these things Iesus findeth him in the Temple and said vnto him behold thou art made whole Sinne no more lest a worse thing come vnto thee THis Scripture is a Scripture of admonition and containeth matter of important counsell which directed to a man whom Christ loosed from his chaine of a long sicknesse concerneth vs to amendment that are sicke of sinne Hee was held in his infirmity thirty and eight yeeres verse 5. some of vs haue beene held longer in the chaine of our sinnes Now after he was cured not knowing by whom he was found in the Temple to wit by Christ who cured him And so hauing strangely and by miracle without meanes receiued health and power to walke he walkes to the Temple the house of prayer and praise probably I thinke I may say purposely to giue thankes for his corporall health and to pray for spirituall Doing so his Physition who had done one good worke vpon him purposing to doe another and better in the cure of his soule returnes after he had for a while withdrawne himselfe and comes to the Temple where he found his Patient Being found there he beginnes instantly the cure of sinne in his soule puts him in remembrance how long a seruant he had beene to sinne vnder an old infirmity and telling him what a blessing he had receiued in his body which was made whole wisheth him to haue care of his soule by breaking off his sinnes or the course he held in them after the course of the world which if he did not would cost him deare for a worse thing then matter of sicknesse would befall him in a worse place at least whom God could not amend with his Rod of correction he would breake with his yron rod punishing him yet seuen times more that is grieuously for his sinnes Leuit. 26.18 Thus I haue opened the Text which is the effect of the miracle here wrought sheweth where Christ found the Man whom he had made whole and what he said vnto him for the first it hath two circumstances as of time when he was found and of person who found him for the second it containeth a precept sinne no more and the reasons perswading it and they are the benefit he had receiued thou art made whole and the perill if he sinned still a worse thing would come vnto him The circumstance of time in this word Afterward or after these things being a word of context and referring to the ninth verse before sheweth what it was that more specially moued this Man at this time to visit Gods Temple and to be found in it and that is the healing of him by Christ vpon a word speaking rise take vp thy bed and walke v. 8. But I wil take vp no longer time either for the further opening of this sentence which is not hard or for the taking in of Texts in coherence with this which is not

euill of sin and God cannot make such a breach in his iustice as to spare for sin when men doe not spare to sin God is righteous and not mercifull onely and therefore Dauids song to him is of his mercy and iustice Psal 101.1 Thirdly God should doe wrong if it were not right to visit mans transgression with the rod and his iniquity with strokes Psal 89.32 but the God of iudgement cannot doe but what iust is and it is iust to giue to euery mother her owne childe that is correction where it is deserued and more where more is due therefore God afflicting for sin it followeth that sin is the deseruing cause of that affliction whatsoeuer An instruction in all we suffer Vse 1 whether by sicknesse or otherwaies to confesse the right father euen that which hath begotten all that with the seede of sin wee must confesse our sins to bee cause of all and learne to profit by the hand to amendment I say then hath God lately crost vs in our trades it is because we traded with sin haue our fields kept their Sabbaths it is because we haue not kept Gods Sabbaths haue they beene full of weedes our hearts haue been fuller of the weeds of sin hath God touched vs in our bodies it is because wee haue so dishonored him in our bodies doth the Land mourne and may we not say because of Oathes the Land mourneth Ier. 23.10 So for euery sorrow we must say this is our sorrow that is that which we are worthy of and comes to the right owner Ier. 10.19 If God lay his finger vpon vs touching vs in our estate with want or in our name with disgrace nay if he lay his whole hand vpon vs smiting vs with the calamities of Pestilence Famin or Sword we must cleare the Lord in al in al say Righteous art thou O Lord iust are thy iudgements Psal 119.137 Dauid when it was told him from the Lord by Nathan that euil should be raised against him out of his owne house that the Sword should be laid vpon it that his wiues should be defiled and the childe die 2. Sam 11.12 pleaded to all this no other defence but I haue sinned against the Lord verse 13. And he confesseth that when all those iudgements should come and be executed vpon him which God by his Prophet had threatned yet God was free and he in fault The like confession made Daniel for the people or rather against the people for the Lord in as fearefull a iudgement as could be executed vpon a Nation Dan. 9.5 6 7 11 12 13 14. which was that the Lord was iust and that they had deserued somuch and more what Dauid Daniel did in a Plague and calamitie the greatest vnder heauen that must wee doe in like manner and iustifie the Lord in all his iudgements for no iudgement is executed which is not executed for sin the law reads the sentence and God giues it if God poure out the dregges of his wrath it is because we are frozen in our dregges of sin Zeph. 1.12 the earth is filled with cruelty before God will fill it with water Gen. 6. and 7. Chap. and Sodom burneth with lusts before God will burne it with fire Gen. 18.20 19.5.24 25. So Iudah serueth sin before God will giue vp Iudah to serue in Babel Shee will not serue the Lord for 70. yeeres therefore shee must serue a strange Lord in a strange Land And now for our selues of this Nation the Lord hath lately broken in by a terrible Plague and shall we think other but that the sins were strong and masculine that called for it and if so should it not make vs in all that is come to confesse Gods righteousnes and our owne open shame because we haue sinned against him Dan. 9.8 should it not make vs to search and trie our waies and to turne againe vnto the Lord or make vs to new-cast our selues that we may be a people holy to God Tit. 2.14 If wee doe not rather if wee will not what hope sin continuing the cause of Plagues but that the effect should follow great Plagues for sin either God must loose his iustice or we perish if wee will not be reformed this was more largely spoken of in my Commentary on Psal 9 1. ver 10. the words there shall no euill c. Doctrine and Vses there A reproofe of those who being vnder the hand of God in their many sins Vse 2 neuer giue God glory by confessing vnto him his righteousnesse and their iniquities against themselues but fret at the rod and open wide against him that striketh with it so did that reprobate Mat. 25.24 who charged his Lord to be a hard man and an vnreasonable taker one that had a very hard law a law that reaped where it neuer sowed if they doe not what he commandeth the law is intollerable and who can helpe it or whose fault is it but his who should haue giuen them better grace so say Reprobates so said Cain and that Gods punishment was aboue the fault Gen 4.13 The Hypocrite when God laies smart vpon him and paies him in iustice for iniquity and for sins fareth like a beast that is sticked hal'd with ropes vsing neither meekenes nor entreaty but with roaring and strugling and straining himselfe doubleth his paine He neuer considers his sin in which he is bound fast vnto iudgement but complaines of his punishment also he flutters like a bird in a Net when God hath caught him but what is gotten by strugling thus vnder Gods hands they that are so impatient vnder the rod must be bound to a forme and what doe we get by running against the rocke and stone of offence but a dashing in fitters with the Plague-sore of a tormented conscience if then we will not bee as the most wicked when wee are in fault we must humbly as the most penitent submit when we haue to do with the Lord reuerencing his iust law and cleering him If hee follow vs with iudgements he is iust or if he reiect vs he is iust holy and righteous If he take away our corne in the time of haruest he may doe it sin prouoking him if hee bring the Plague againe why may he not who taking it away in mercy may in iustice reduce it for sinne if he kill with death we cannot complaine the wages of sinne being in our hands Rom. 6.23 and the issues of it in his The last reason perswading followeth Lest a worse thing come vnto thee THis last reason goeth off with a threatning shot It hath a full charge telling the man whom Christ healed that if he did so againe that is so as before he should not carry it so easily or then it should bee worse with him then euer God hauing an yron rod to breake those whom his rod of correction cannot make better And indeed the Lord hath many iudgments in his store-house that can neuer be emptied