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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

THE SHIELD of the RIGHTEOVS 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 PSAL. 3.3 But thou Lord art a Shield for mee my glory and the lifter vp of mine head PSAL. 91.3 Surely he shall deliuer thee from the snare of the Hunter and from the noisome Pestilence 4. His truth shall be thy Shield and Buckler LONDON Printed for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith and are to be sold at their shop at the golden Lyon in Pauls Church-yard 1625. TO THE RIGHT Worshipful EDWARD WATIES Esquire one of his Maiesties Justices in attendance at the Councell of the Marches of WALES * âŽ * Worthie SIR THe first draught of these meditations on this whole Euangelicall Psalme I sent some yeeres agoe to a friend and louer of a One of the Iustices in attendance at the Councel in the Marches of Wales and chiefe Iustice in one of the welsh Circuits yours Richard Atkins Esquire now with God yet without any meaning then to bring thus vpon the stage of publick iudgement Howbeit if he had ouerliued this purpose in Mee of now sending them abroad into the hands of men I confesse or professe rather they must haue carried his name with them into the world to the Altar of which I did owe the Sacrifice of my best in this kinde which must haue beene so not onely though chiefly in respect of himselfe who was vnreproueable in his place of Iustice and priuate wayes as you know but much in regard of my bond to him while he liued whereof b In my Epistle before my Sermons on Luke 15.13 14 15 16 17. else where I gaue true and plaine signification But being translated since to the house of glory from his house of clay whom could I finde out next fitter vpon iust matter then your worships selfe to receiue the debt I owed him your similitudo morum with him or profession like his your great respect and loue to Me with your esteeme of all who in the Ministerie doe seruice faithfully and with paines may rightly command Mee in this Dedication which I esteeme much lesse then your owne Add vnto this that hauing long knowne you I could neuer finde other minde in you then that which was of the side and part of goodnesse opposing euill and the workers thereof Much else might bee spoken of you particularly and truly to the praise of God but He that seeth in secret will reward you openly This at this time made me bold with your Name which is as an ointment of sweet odour in the Countrie you liue in And so I make humble tender of a mean Commentarie vpon a Psalme of grace the Psalme was Dauids the Speakers God and Dauid God spake to Dauid with good words and comfortable as Zacharie 1.13 and the same Almighty God in the same most gracious Psalme speakes with like comfort to you and to all his by Him Reuerend Beza in his argument vpon it tells what comfort the had by it when hee first heard it sung in an assemblie of Christians It so carried him by diuine rape at that instant that euer after he laid it vp grauen in his heart for as if it had lift him vp from the earth into heauen it rauished all his powers making him to thinke hee heard God himselfe to call vnto him by particular name what that Worthy conceiued by the singing of the Psalme that may your worthy selfe gather by the meditation The Shield of it is large enough to compasse you also with the like mercie If you put on the defence of the Highest this Psalme will guide your wayes to peace and finish your course with much true comfort Thinke therefore Christian Sir in reading of this Psalme what godly Beza conceiued vpon the singing of it and that is that God calleth you by Name meaning to inuest you in these priuiledges of his Saints and to be on your right hand euer wherefore what is here spoken to the Saints reade with faith as spoken to your selfe being a Saint by calling with this meditation you may make your pillow when you shall bee ready to make your bed in the darke and the graue shall bee your house Iob. 17.13 Then shall you goe with much contentment to your bed of earth and in great peace to the Lord. Meane while turne your purer eyes into this excellens Psalme set foot into it rather walke through it in your deeper consideration and then confesse with gladnesse what God hath done for your soule May you not say that God hath been or will bee shortly all that vnto you that the Psalme so comfortable speaketh of for hath not God beene in all remoues your standing house to remooue vnto verse 1. hath hee not beene your hope from your youth nay from your cradle and haue you trusted in him at any time in vaine verse 2. haue not the feete of many beene taken in the Snare or Net of Pestilence and you deliuered verse 3. haue not thousands fallen and you stood verse 7. and haue you not seene your hope when there was nothing but destruction to sinners verse 8 9. haue not the Angels kept the Lords watch about you in your continuall safety to this day verse 11 12. Is not the Dragon of hell and that roaring Lion of the nethermost hell put vnder your feet for euer verse 13. In many troubles haue not you beene quit and not quit onely but raised to place and worship verse 14 15. and for length of dayes though not full of daies for I trust there are many behinde you are not farre from Dauids yeeres of seuenty verse 16. in which space of time I doubt not but you make your short life a short draught of the dayes euerlasting Finaly God hath shewed you his large saluation But these few from the Text of the Psalme may serue as so many fingers to point to much more which your owne experience can better enlarge and gather not to hee set downe in a short Epistle And now to God all-sufficient I commend the remnant of your dayes for his best blessings vpon them vpon your Christian yoke-fellow and vpon all the branches of you both As I am much bound to pray so I will and doe daily for the true prosperity of you and all yours being From Clon-bury neere Ludlow Iuly 1625. Your good Worships for my best seruice in the Gospell ROBERT HORN THE SHIELD Of the RIGHTEOVS PSALME 91. VERSES 1 2 3 c. Verse 1. Who or He that dwelleth in the secret of c. THis Psalme most comfortable and throughout most excellent seemeth to haue binne made at what time the destroying Angell in the daies of King Dauid hauing slaine with the sword of Pestilence so many thousands in so short time as threescore and

her wings and this similitude our Sauiour himselfe vseth speaking of the like affection to his people Math. 23.37 the meaning is that God is to his Church as a Hen to her chickens when any danger is neare For then he spreadeth the feathers of his fauour ouer her and then he carrieth his tender Church on high vpon the wing of his prouidence from troubles at hand Deuter. 32.11.12 Esay 46.3.4 The Hen when any danger is toward her yong brood by some sharpe tempest or aires or deuouring birds of the aire casteth her wings abroad for their preseruation So when any thing is threatned to Gods little ones by the tempests of the time by boisterous aires and by Satans outrage in wicked persons those impure not fowles of the aire but beasts of the earth God very presently and most graciously draweth them into a secret couer as it were some broad wing of safetie from all iniuries of men and diuels And this he doth by an extraordinarie worke or ordinarily by his word in the mouth of his seruants which is the wing that hee spreadeth ouer them and call by which he clocketh them to himselfe in this world The Doctrine that ariseth from hence is God still watcheth his Church to hide her in his prouidence against all troubles and harmes Doct. And what can the raine and flouds do against her whom hee hath builded vpon himselfe Math. 7.24.25 But the people that trust in Iehouah are so builded and he attendeth them with his eyes Psal 32.8 and at euery turne helpeth their wandrings He goeth in and out before them himselfe and knoweth all his owne by name Ioh. 10.3.4 He hath grauen them vpon the palme of his hands that is he can no more forget them then a man can forget that which he hath continually in hand and their walls are euer in his sight Esay 49.16 that is he alwaies looks vpon them to remember them with some turnes of his fauour and how can they be better watched or surer kept Men that watch a Citie must sometimes sleepe But hee that keepeth Israel will neither stumber nor sleepe Psal 121.4 The Reasons Reason 1 If birds can do this to their yong much more God if they that haue but receiued this tendernesse much more God that gaue it Or is not God nearer to vs then yong ones are to their damme We being members of his owne bodie and the apple of his owne eye Zachr 2.8 Reason 2 Secondly this text that compareth the prouidence of God I meane that by which he watcheth ouer his Church and peculiar people to the eye and wings of the Hen that are euer readie to succour her young doth proue that as his care is alway watchfull for their safetie so his power doth neuer sleepe while their safetie is in question Vse 1 A reproofe of fearefull persons who crie out and faint in light troubles as if they had no helper and who tye the prouidence of God to the things they see drowning their best eye sight in floods of vnbeliefe because they see not their hope The little finger of that heauy hand that was vpon Iob in the top of Gods fauour and losse of all outward things doâ—h more wring them and more vnsettle them then the whole did him who yet yeelded to God when the storme was at the worst saying though he kill me I will trust in him Iob. 13.15 that is in God who hath broken me almost vnto death Some binde the helpe of God so to one friend that if they loose him they count all lost with him some so limit his stoâ—e to one yeeres crop that failing of that they fare and take on as if his whole store-house were emptied some so rest in these vncertaine things of health beauty riches worldly credit and fauour this and that childe which thy loue rather aboue God then in him that if he take away one or more as they be affected to one or many they dispairefully giue vp all and neuer looke for merry houre againe and some if God cast them downe by sicknesse that hee may take them vp by his gift of health fret and charge God as if there were no heauen hereafter These and the like fearefull and vnbeleeuers both discredit Gods prouidence and falsifie his truth for how can they that be thus minded beleeue that God hath a continuall eye of care ouer them and large wing of defence for them when changes come A comfort to good Christians teaching them to expell distrustfull Vse 2 feare in all alterations though their enemies bee neuer so mighty yet he who is their defence on their right hand is mightier and they shall stand inuinsible against all men and diuels that would hurt them Mat. 16.18 Wisdome hath builded her house vpon so many and sure pillers of Gods defence that the whole and euery stone in it standeth as mount Zion Prou. 9.1 Psal 125.1 that is euery Christian as well as the whole Church of Christians is partaker of the safeties of Sion Euery true Christian is a liuing stone in this house 1 Pet. 2.5 and therefore if any such Christian as it were stone should be pulled downe the whole would come after Quest You will say but they are wronged Quest and sore thrust at and sometimes slaine Answ To which I answer first for their wronges Answ that it is not meant that no man should wrong them but that no mans wrongs should quell them and for assaults it is certaine they haue been and shall be assaulted daily but God will put vnder his strong hand that they shall not be ouercome 2 Cor. 4.8 9. and Christ denieth not but Men may kill their bodies yet the comfort is they that kill their bodies cannot damne their soules when they haue gone so farre they can goe no farther Mat. 10.28 Wisedome foresaw all this and therefore did she build her Castle so strong Prou. 9.1 If then the world be thy enemie because thou shewest thy selfe in a good cause feare it not nor all that it can make against thee for he that is in thee is greater then he that is in the world 1 Ioh. 4 4. his power is alwaies exercised for thy preseruation hee that set thee on worke will helpe thee and who is so mighty as the Almighty If God send sicknesse say it bee that of the Pestilence which is alwaies fearefull and for the most part deadly and if this sicknesse so sent light vpon thee thou hast no reason to cast away thy confidence in the greatest terrors of it for if with Dauid when by Absalom his rebellious sonne he was banished from the Arke and Tabernacle thereof at Ierusalem thou resigne vp all into Gods hands thy life or death as pleaseth him 2 Sam. 15.25 26. thou haft as good assurance as may be being kept by that visitation as by a chaine from the Arke of the publick Ministerie and from the Tabernacle thereof the great congregation either to bee restored

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