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A44540	A sermon preached at the solemnity of the funeral of Mrs. Dorothy St. John, fourth daughter of the late Sir Oliver St. John, Knight and Baronet, of Woodford in Northamptonshire, in the parish church of St. Martins in the Fields, on the 24th of June, 1677 by Anthony Horneck ...	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1677 (1677)	Wing H2849; ESTC R7942	28,330	40

all true penitents find nor that there is that Hell in it when ever the Conscience awakes which Cain and Saul and Judas found They apprehend God childishly merciful and because he knows their frame forsooth that they are frail and weak he cannot be angry with them for not observing his injunctions They make him a Being without justice and though they could wish he would revenge their quarrel whenever they receive any signal affront of their neighbours yet they would not have him revenge their ingratitude to him and because they would not have him angry with them therefore they believe he will not and from their loose behaviour infer his good nature and please themselves with thinking that he will overlook their wilful errors because their nature abhors every thing that looks like pain and torment But these fancies Sinner are so far from extenuating that they but aggravate thy folly Alas it is not thy unwillingness to suffer that will allay Gods wrath nor thy tenderness to thy self that will make him express less hatred and indignation against thee If unwillingness to endure pain were a sufficient bar to justice what Malefactor would be put to death and if this plea will not serve on Earth sure I am it will be insignificant in the Court of Heaven and as light as sin seems now there will a time come when it will be weightier than Rocks and Mountains Though thou losest the sense of it yet God doth not forget the dishonour done unto him by it and when the monstrous load sunk the Son of God and pressed him that was infinite into a sweat of blood and made the immortal die think what a pressure it will be for thy impenitent soul for from such Christ hath not taken away Gods anger when the whole burden shall be thrown upon thee at the Revelation of the righteous judgment of God VI. Doth the whole Creation hope to be deliver'd from her bondage Then lift up your heads ye mourners of Sion and learn to imitate the Creature in its hope Doth the Creation as it were support it self with this hope from sinking into its primitive Chaos and cannot this hope of your everlasting deliverance keep your hearts from fainting under the darkest providence Behold the Husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the Earth and hath long patience for it until he receive the early and the latter rain Jac. 5. 7. You sow in tears now the day will come when you shall reap in joy It 's but a little while and he that shall come will come The hope of a Kingdom keeps a captive Prince from murmuring and should not the hopes of that Kingdom which fades not away bear up your spirits against despair Have you fought the good fight so long and will you give over now Are you within reach of the Crown and will you lay down your weapons Are you within sight of the Haven and will you suffer shipwrack Behold that Jesus who was dead and is alive and is the King of the Princes of the Earth is hastening to your rescue you 'll see him ere long coming in the clouds of Heaven and all his holy Angels with him your afflictions then will all be changed into Eternal Freedom your waters of Marah into rivers of delight which make glad the City of God your prison into perfect liberty your Lions Den into a Palace your fiery Furnace into the light of God's countenance your Dungeon into Heaven your poverty into plenty your sickness into Eternal health your losses into solid possessions your shackles into kisses your setters into the kindest embraces your bryars into glory your thorns into a Crown O joyful day when this corruptible shall put on incorruption and this mortal shall put on immortality and your rags be changed into splendid robes Who would not suffer a while to enter into that rest Who would be afraid of being destitute tormented afflicted when these storms are all to expire into Eternal Sun-shine The Spirit and the Bride say Come and let him that hears say Come Even so Come Lord Jesus Having thus led you from the Creature to the Creator I must crave leave to lead you back again from the Creator to the Creature viz. To the party deceased And here I could wish I were able to give you that account of her Life and deportment which in all probability you expect upon this occasion But when I shall have told you that it was not my happiness to be acquainted with her before she died you 'll soon pardon my silence in her Commendations And yet I dare not be so injurious to her Memory as to conceal the Character which those that knew her intimately were pleased to give of her Her Piety it seems was great and early and her Soul big with Devotion in an Age which is exposed to the greatest Temptations What Solomon learn'd by sad experience in his latter years she practised in the days of her youth and the fear of God which he found to be the only true happiness when he had run through all the risks of sin she embraced before she had tasted any of the Worlds pleasures She no sooner came to years of discretion but she saw that her greatest interest lay in loving God and understood that to remember her Creator before the evil days do come was the greatest prudence and policy As young as she was her eyes were fix'd upon a better World and it was hard to say which had her greatest care God's glory or her own Salvation Her affection to Goodness appear'd in her when Vice begins to flourish in other persons and she began to shoot out buds of Grace when others look upon 't as a piece of necessity to run out into Sin and Vanity The Word of God was the food her Soul delighted in and she thought no provision comparable to the Bread of Life which feeds men into Eternal content and satisfaction She had learn'd that God was one that did hear Prayers and to address her self to him was not the least part of her employment In these tender years she was already arriv'd to that knowledg which Philosophers formerly attained not unto till they were grown aged and was become Mistress of the greatest vertues at a time when others are apt to laugh at strictness and severity as a mellancholy humor She had already learn'd to scorn reproaches for Righteousness sake and did clearly apprehend that her greatest glory must be Religion and God's favour At those years when others hardly know what Heaven means she had already felt it in her Soul and she could guess at what Angels did above by her praising and magnifying the beauty and bounty of her Maker The fruits of the Spirit which are not seen in others before fifty appeared in her at eighteen and the joys of the Holy Ghost which are not counted modish till fourscore became familiar to her as soon as her reason began to exert it self into action She had already practised to lay up her treasure in Heaven and as if she had foreknown her death she made preparation for it at a time when others make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof What would this Plant have come to if it had grown up to its full height and stature and how glorious would this Tree have been if it had been permitted to spread its branches like the Cedars in Lebanon She that did already like Aarons rod bud and blossom and bear fruit how rich would the fruit have been if it had been warm'd some years longer by the Sun of Righteousness But the flower was too costly for this valley of tears and the soil here below too course for this curious Plant to thrive in God therefore cropt it to transplant it into Paradise and withdrew it from the eyes of men because it was a fitter spectacle for Angels FINIS Some Books Printed for James Collins THe Duke of Albermarl's Compleat Body of Military Discipline Fol. The Great Law of Consideration in order to a Serious Life by Anthony Horneck Preacher at the Savoy Octavo Essays on several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion by Joseph Glanvil Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty Quarto Two Discourses viz. A Discourse of Truth by Dr. Rust Lord Bishop of Dromore in the Kingdom of Ireland and the way of Happyness and Salvation rescued from vulgar Errors by Joseph Glanvil Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty Twelves Bishop Wards Sermons before the King and other occasions Oct. Doctor Parkers Answer to Marvel Oct. Bishop Bramhall's Vindication of the Church of England Oct. Private Conference twixt a rich Alderman and poor Countrey Vicar by Dr. Pettis Oct. 2 Pet. 3. 16. Tertuli lib. 3. adv Marc. Luc. 12. 17 1● Matth. 23. 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diog. Laert. lib. 6. de Diog. De 300 Statuis Demetrii Phalerei null● corrupit aerug aut situs sed omnes vivent ipso eversae sunt Demadis statuae co● flatae sunt in matulas Plutarch de Rei● Ger. praec Tertullian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philo. Voluptas bonum pecoris est Senec. a Campana luxuria perquam utilis ci●itati nostrae ●uit Invi●tum enim artis Hanniba●em illicebris ●uis complexa ●incendum Romano militi ●ibuit Val. Max. lib. 9. ● 1. b Aelian Lib. 5. de Animal c. 40. Max. Tyrius Dissert 21. In Strab. lib. 1● Vid. Trigant Com. de Exped apud Sinas Et Martin Hist. Sin lib. 8. Vid. Plat. in Axioch Job 1. 14. seq 2 Cor. 11. 26. Job 29. 3. 6. 19. c. 31. 4. Vid. Senec. Consil. ad Polyb c. 28. Hom● Via Helmont ●● Sympath Vid. Valer. Max. lib. 5. c. 4. Vid. Olear Rosar p●rs lib. ● c. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Debarim Rabba

's but reason it should have my choisest thoughts and affections And do you charge that with Vanity which alone deserves my industry and care And doest thou talk like a man of reason Sinner If a Beast could speak would not this be his language Hath God given thee no higher faculties Hath not he endow'd thee with nobler desires Are these o●●ward Goods indeed the things thou chusest for thy treasure How brutish is thy Soul that thou canst fancy any proportion betwixt that and the Creature Hast thou a soul capable of grasping a God and dost thou run into the embraces of an Idol Thy soul wants an Everlasting object and are these the things that will endure for ever Thy soul must have an all-sufficient Being in her arms and are these Butterflies that perish in the handling fit to ingross thy affections Thy Soul must have an Anchor that can give it rest and will these thorns and bryars do it Thy Soul must have an individual companion that will never leave it nor forsake it and will these deceitful props stand by it at the great Tribunal Thy Soul must have a friend that must conduct it to Everlasting Mansions and will these miserable comforters that shake hands with it at the brink of Eternity serve for guides Rouse rouse thy slumbering Soul vain Man and let not thine eyes be always shut Thy blindness is not incurable if thou wilt not stand in thine own light thou maist see through all these shadows and burst these entanglements There is certainly Vanity in the Creature and God will discover it to thee if thou wilt but call upon him with the same earnestness that blind Bartimaeus used to Christ Jesus God is pleased with the cry of him that longs to be deliver'd from his misery O the wonderful difference that is betwixt an illuminated and darkned understanding One pities the Creature the other admires it one looks upon it with tears in his eyes the others heart leaps at the sight of it for joy one uses it soberly the other gluts himself with it one sees so much of its weakness as drives him from this barren Wilderness to make his nest among the stars of Heaven the other so adores its beauty that he can be contented to sweat and toil and labour in its service for ever one salutes it as a stranger the other embraces it as a wife one looks beyond it the other sixes his eyes upon it as if he were in an ecstasie So great a difference doth Illumination make and indeed without it you must needs continue strangers to God's designs and your own duty you walk in the dark and see not how the Devil imposes upon you how your Lusts cheat you and how the World cozens you how far you run from Heaven and how near the burning Lake you come you run on blindly upon Eternity and delude your selves with a few formalities of Religion you know not how the case stands betwixt God and your own souls and cannot avoid falling into errors you prepare for endless sorrows and make way for bitter though vain lamentations at last O that I had known in my day what belonged unto my peace but it was hid from mine eyes You delay your conversion because you know not the great importance of it and make light of that which were your eyes but open'd would make you tremble to think what pains you have taken to procure your own ruine II. Men Fathers and Brethren If you do believe that the Creature is subject to Vanity let me intreat you to act like men that do believe it Let your faith be known by your works and let 's but see you live like persons that do despise this Vanity and seek a better World When the primitive Christians O happy O blessed times gave out that they look'd upon this World as vain and transitory their enemies saw that they were in good earnest when they said so for they saw them forget what was behind them and press towards the mark for the high prize of God's calling in Christ Jesus They saw it and thought them mad They saw how they fled from the satisfactions of this World into flames as if those were the fiery chariots they were proud to ride to Heaven in Their faith lay not in talking and as they believed the Creature to be subject to vanity so they raised their thoughts from Earth to Heaven and lived as much above the World as mortality would give them leave They made no more of the honors and preferments of this life when inconsistent with God's honor and a good conscience than they did of glasses and rattles and the Prince that offered them riches to be enamour'd with Vanity as much as he was repuls'd this Heroick answer Offer these things to Children and not to Christians They made their houses Oratories and their dwelling-places were but so many Churches where you might hear the praises of God resounding day and night The husband-man that follow'd his Plough fancied himself in Heaven and sung Psalms as cheerfully as if he had been placed in the Quire of Angels The injuries they suffer'd for the testimony of Jesus they smiled at and they that had an incorruptible Crown to look after justly thought it below them to be concern'd at the slanders and reproaches of a poor envious World as if Heaven had been the Countrey from which they had been banish'd and which they hoped they should be shortly restored unto they made all the provision they could for it secured the riches of another World and bestowed a great part of their goods on Christ's distressed members because they knew they should find them again after a few years in Heaven They believ'd Christ's promises and looking upon him as the Son of God they had as great a confidence that they should be recompenced in the Resurrection of the just as if they had the reward already in their hands They could keep a calm and serene mind under the wars and tumults of this world and while men raged about them they fed upon peace of conscience and joy in the Holy Ghost They used the World as if they used it not and one might see that they had practically learnt the great Lesson You cannot serve God and Mammon This Earth they looked upon as a desert and their perpetual wishes were When shall we come to appear before God in Sion The great things of this World which their Heathen neighbours magnified they made light of and well might they renounce the glories of this Earth when they were assured from the Word of God that they had a greater inheritance laid up for them in God's Paradise They regarded not the censures of their carnal friends and relations and were contented to be made a spectacle to the World and to Ange's and to Men. They rejoyced when they could express their love to Christ and were troubled when the World made any encroachment upon their affections They

denied themselves in all superfluities that they might have the more to give to pious uses nay would not allow themselves conveniencies that they might be in a better capacity to cloath the Naked They stooped to the meanest offices and were not ashamed to converse with men of the lowest rank as with Brethren They laid aside their grandeur to obey the precepts of the Gospel and would not suffer any outward respects to take them off from a close adherence to God's will They would visit Hospitals and with their own hands dress meat for them that lay upon the bed of Languishing This World seem'd so contemptible to them that they prayed day and night to be deliver'd from it and it might be truly said of them that the World was crucified unto them and they unto the World And thus they despis'd the vanity of these sublunary objects and by despising believ'd it Disparage not your great immortal Souls Beloved Hearers they are capable of another happiness than this World can afford and when God hath provided for them Angels food and bread of Heaven why should you feed them with trash and husks to impoverish and weaken them for ever Arise Christians and depart for here is not your Rest. Advance into yonder regions of Bliss and live there where you may hope to live for ever Let the World be your Slave and God your only Master Let it not be said that your Souls are subject to Vanity as well as your Bodies and do something to convince the World that you dare to have your conversation in Heaven The Creature was made subject unto Vanity on purpose that you might flee away from it and breath after a more solid good Will you do less than Pagans Will you fall short of Men that never heard the Gospel Will you sink beneath those that never had any other light but what the glimmering Candle of Nature gave them Can you see Philosophers contemn this Vanity and dare you be in love with it Shall a Diogenes to shew how little these things which sensual men admire ought to be valued take as much delight in his Tub as Xerxes in his Babylon and in dry bread as much as Smindyrides in his sauces in ordinary spring-water as much as Cambyses in his richer fountains in common Sun-shine as much as Sardanapalus in his purple in his staff as much as Alexander in his Spear and in his Mallet as much as Craesus in his treasures Shall a Pagan look on these outward glories as unworthy of his affections and will you suffer yours to be entangled with them Shall a Plato a Socrates an Agesilaus a Spartan look upon these outward things as dross and dung trample them under his feet look upon them between anger and scorn and think it below a Creature made after the image of God to dote on Earth and dust and can you that pretend to have learn'd Christ and pretend to be followers of the humble self-denying Jesus come behind Heathens whom you call Blind and Wretched Will not they be your Judges one day Will not their temperance and abstinence condemn your greediness after these perishable objects Will not they shame you that did more by the strength of nature than you with all the encouragements of the Holy Ghost Will not this aggravate your neglect and change your Rods into Scorpions Will not this make your furnace hotter Will not this fill your faces with greater confusion Will God let your unprofitableness under the richest means of grace go unpunish'd And doth the clearest manifestation of Heaven add no weight to your guilt and stubborness If you turn the grace of God into wantonness will God play with it do you think as you do It was a Mahometan King could cause the following words to be written upon the Gates of his Pleasure-house and the story saith his Life was answerable to the grave Sentences This World will not continue long it 's pride and lustre will soon be gone Remember Brother and apply thy heart to him who only intended this World for our Inn. Let not thy life be united to this bitter sweet for it hath drawn in many first jested with them and then butchered them If thy Soul can but come away from her prison pure and undefiled and reach the Mark it 's no great matter whether thou diest on a Throne or on a Dung-hill O Christians delude not your own souls God is resolved they shall be withdrawn from this world while you live here or they shall never arrive to the inheritance of the Saints in light God is resolved they shall be loosened from this Earth even in the midst of your strength and health and plenty and liberty or they shall never ascend his Holy Hill Away then with those fond conceits that glue your hearts to things below Let God be the great and dear object of your souls Let the rivers of your delight run all into that Ocean For him spend your strength your labour and your care Make room for him in your hearts and whatever hath had supremacy or priority there pull it down and shew it the ruler it must for the time to come obey Breath after another Country where true and lasting pleasures are where the presence of God makes hearts chearful and ravishes souls for ever where the society of Angels gives content and endless bliss shuts out all imperfection and vanity and as they say of Boleslaus King of Poland that he used to wear his Fathers Picture in his bosom and whenever he was to do any thing of moment he pull'd out the Picture lookt upon it and begg'd of God that he might do nothing unworthy of so great so good so wise a Father so you let the Landskip of that celestial Country hang always before your eyes and whatever you are doing whether you are rising or sitting down whether you are walking or standing whether you are travelling or conversing with men still look upon that Pourtraiture and let this be your resolution to do nothing unworthy of that Heaven you are aiming at And then when you come to die and no friend no relation no acquaintance no riches no honours no children can give you ease this remembrance that your mind hath been endeavouring to extricate it self from the vanity of the creature and that you have lived like persons that have indeed looked for a City which hath foundations this remembrance I say will give you ease this will make you die with joy at the kiss of God as the Jews say of Moses and enable you to triumph over death O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory But thanks be to God that gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. III. The Creature is made subject unto vanity but what shall we say to those that subject the creature to greater vanity than ever it was condemn'd to The Idolater that melts his Gold and makes a God of