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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

by regeneration Vse 2 But is all honour from God then they that receiue their honour otherwise that is by practising for it or by rising to it but not vpon the ladder of the meanes by which men may clime warrantably to preferment cannot be said to be honoured by God but to haue honoured themselues Such are theeues of Gods honour and great by vsurpation holding their honour in a wrong Tenor and not as the Lords pawne for their honour to come He that offered to Christ the honours of the world hath giuen them to these Mat. 4.8.9 and they haue bowed to him in all diuelish practises for a few vaine titles and a little vaine-glorie which shall not credit them but one day turne to their greater shame before God and his mighty Angels The like may bee said of all great Persons that honour not God in his word and righteous Commandements their honour is not sealed in heauen hauing not learned of Christ to receiue and giue honour Iohn 8.49.54 they haue stained their promotion to the pit of hell and they shall receiue the meete recompence of their errour that is for their short glorie shame endlesse Againe is all honour and degrees of place from God then Vse 3 they sinne against God who any way violate these in Noble Persons and Princes which both confuteth all Anabaptisticall confusion and teacheth how iniurious Papists are to those whom the Lord will honour for they make it an Article of their Faith to submit to Kings no longer then it shall please the Pope to let them haue their honour or to take it from them by dethronization But what hath that Antichrist to do with the honour which hee neuer gaue and with the authority which is by the Lords grant onely for all authority and consequently honour is of God Rom. 13.1 chiefly that which is kingly as all waters come from the sea specially the great riuers Dauid trembled to violate the skirt of Sauls garment 1 Sam 24.6 these prophane the blood of Kings and touch them as farre as their liues by their cruell Ministers as in the two French Henries and our English King Iohn and thinke they may lawfully and meritoriously so doe And therefore the late d In his answer to certaine scandalous Papers Earle of Saluburie said well speaking of Rome that she would play so long with the temporall Soueraignety of Kings that it would bee the glorious worke of Kings to breake downe her walles and strongest defence and let me adde to burne the Whore with fire The fourth promise followeth VERSE 16. With long life will I satisfie him c. A Fourth promise made to the righteous is that when it shall be good for him he shall be filled with dayes and liue to old age As Gedeon was buried in a good age Iudg. 8.32 and Dauid dyed full of dayes 1. Chro. 29.28 and Iob very old after he had seene his sonnes and his sonnes sonnes for foure generations Iob 42.16.17 It is like the Lord made this promise to the Faithfull at what time the Angel cut downe so many in Israel with the sword of Pestilence for the godly might then feare themselues very much that they also should returne to their dust in so great a mortalitie but the Lord healeth that feare with his promise of a long life to those that feare him and with faith call vpon him as if he had said ye shall not onely liue at this timer but when old age shall be a blessing to you liue long and goe to your graues in a ripe and good age your head being deckt with gray haires and your heart filled with righteousnesse This is spoken of the godly such as excell in goodnesse And therefore the doctrine is Doct. long life is a great blessing where it is garnished with grace not made vile by sinfulnesse So olde age was promised to Abraham for a blessing Thou shalt goe to thy fathers in peace and be burted in a good age Gen. 15.15 That is thou shalt be satisfied with the multitude of many and good dayes and liue long and comfortably here When Salomon exhorteth Wisedomes scholler to heare and receiue his words that is to heare them with fruit and diligence he perswadeth it with no other promise then of a long life and comfortable estate in the yeeres of age and peace Prou. 3.1 2. and 4.10 And the Apostle by the promise of the life present 1. Tim. 4.8 must needes meane the promise of long life as the best being as is intended set in the best and most excellent way Obiect Obiect You will say then and why doe good men so commonly liue in trouble and die in youth as they doe Answ The obedience of the best is but in part Answ and what maruaile then if in part onely they be made partakers of outward things as of a long and confortable life and such other promises here Besides such promises are not absolutly but conditionally made to the righteous as if God see it fit and if it be good for them and necessary for the Church that God prolong their dayes otherwise what is wanting in length of dayes is made vp with the immortalitie of ioyfull dayes in heauen And though they liue but a short time yet haue they length of dayes in a sort euery day being a whole Summers day vnto them by the Sunne of Gods fauour that shineth vpon their soules more and more without any going downe Thus it is prooued that long life not abused is a blessing of God and may further appeare The Reasons Reason 1 Old Christians are old Seruitors in Gods family and a good old seruant is preferred before a new by a good master also such hauing liued righteously long must needes be stored with great knowledge and experience which will make them to bring forth more fruit in their age And is not olde age then which is a meanes of this a blessing Secondly length of dayes or long life considered in it selfe Reason 2 is a blessing Prou. 3.16 how much greater where age and goodnesse meet the worme would not die and they gladly would liue longer that liue miserably Yea the godly who of all others haue the greatest preferment by death are loth to lay downe this tabernacle And wherefore all this surely because life is sweet and to flie from death is naturall to man and beast Now if life be so sweet thus fraught with troubles how good and sweet is long life filled with the ioy of the righteous and flowing with riuers of peace Thirdly who weareth a more honourable ornament then he Reason 3 that hath a a Phile. 9. gray head crowned with vertue Christian graces and who is more richly clad then he that is clad in siluer haires of age with robes of innocencie and righteousnesse Esa 3.5 If the one be a blessing that is to weare a crowne and gorgeous cloathing the other is a double blessing that is to be apparrelled

it is not possible in these dayes sincerely and with good conscience to serue the Lord without some affliction The Apostle or Christ by him saith of the Church of Ephesius when she was something worth I know thy labour and patience and other workes as if he had said that when shee was at the best she had great matter offered for her labour and patience Apoc. 2.2.3 and other vertues by the things she suffered for his name and testimonie And to conclude what part of the world what age in the world from the blood of Abel to our times hath not heard of the cruell martyrdomes of Gods Children for the cause of goodnesse and of the true seruice of God All which shew plainely that the best and godliest in all times haue been vnder the rod and scourge of troubles for their Zeale in good things The slaughters in Spain and Italy the two chiefe seates of the bloody inquisition the huge fires of England France and Flanders into which they cast such multitudes of those that would not fal down before their golden image Dan. 3. 10 11. doe proclaime to all the world how great and many troubles haue followed goodnesse of late yeares besides the times of the Emperours In the ten first persecutions which our Church-stories haue left all wading in blood The third promise followeth And honour * Or glorifie him make him glorious him THis is the third promise which is not simply of deliuerance but of deliuerance with honour And so by an increase more is promised in these words then before to the righteous which is that God will not onely deliuer them but gloriously doe it in their greatest troubles and in an ouerplus of his fauour after raise them to honour as he did Ioseph Iob Dauid Daniel and others And therefore where the Lord saith I will honour him it is as much as if he had said I will alway deliuer him and sometimes set him in the chaire of honour This may well be the Lords meaning in this third thing promised to the righteous For all that are deliuered are not so preferred it is inough that some are and it is certaine that they that are not that is that haue not these glories temporall shall yet receiue when they haue serued their time glory euerlasting The words deliuer the Doctrine plainely Doct. 1 I will honour him saith the Lord Now if it be God that must giue honour or bring to honour we learne that outward honour is Gods blessing and the gift of God It is he that raiseth the poore out of the dust of basenesse and he that lifteth vp the begger from the dunghill of contempt to the seat of glory saith Annah in her thankefull song 1. Sam. 2.8 And Salomon Gods owne King tels vs who set him in the throne of his Father Dauid where he confesseth that Kings are set in the chaire of soueraigntie by God By me saith he meaning God who is there made speaker Kings raigne Pro. 8.15 that is sit on their thrones or benches And by my power and gift or as it is in the Text by me Princes rule and Nobles and all the Iudges of the earth that is not onely the scueraigne but subordinate authoritie is from mee and by my purpose and will Dauid speaketh plainely in another Psalme telling vs that to come to preferment is neither from the East nor from the West nor yet from the South that is from none of the quarters of the world but from God that made it Psal 75.6 For it followeth in the next Verse but God is the Iudge or God the Iudge doth dispose the risings of men who putteth downe one and setteth vp another Verse 7 that is barreth from honour or bringeth to glory The blessed mother of our Sauiour hath a like saying in her Song making the Lord the putter downe of one and the exalter of another Luke 1.52 And though a man bee borne to honour yet it is from God both that he is borne and that he is borne Noble If he after adorne his high place with a good life God for his singular good hath aduanced him but if hee proue wicked as Saul he is not exalted with fauour it is but for the greater fall of the house that it is builded so high Mat. 7.27 Easier had the iudgement of that person beene if he had beene but a shrub in the Common-Wealth then being a Cedar in it to haue had so terrible a downfall It is certain therefore that God is the author of Nobilitie and Soucraignty The reasons In themselues they be great blessings but all blessings great Reason 1 and other are from God Iames 1 17. Secondly Kings and Princes and Nobles are names of order Reason 2 and therefore come from the God of order Thirdly God that made the heauen made the different orders Reason 3 that are in heauen that is in the a Colos 1.16 Angels and b 1 Cor. 15.41 Starres of heauen and therefore that God that made the earth made the Nobles and Princes of the earth for that which was done in the one was done in the other and by the same Deitie and power An admonition to Nobility and Great ones to take their honour Vse 1 and risings thankfully and as a blessing whereof God is Author not resting on that which discends from man and stands only vpon the clay-feete of Pedigree and Auncestors Dan. 2.33 That they may so doe they must labour for that honour which is from God and to which there is no ascending but by staires of his scare for he is a good Gentleman and Noble-man of a good house that adornes his high place with the Ornaments of repentance and sanctified life and though a man be borne to honour yet not his birth but his New-birth giueth him his title to it They that hold their honours otherwise are but vsurpers not holding them in capite that is in Christ by seruing him And here it would be remembred that Nobilitie though a blessing of God yet is but an vncleane thing as one well c Master Perki●s on the Creed saith if they that be borne vnto it be not new-borne to Christ by holinesse and that noble blood before men is stained blood before the Lord till the blood of Christ sanctifie it Neither let the greatest thinke that God hath lift them vp to pull him downe that they should say God hath aduanced me therefore I will doe what I list who should rather say God hath aduanced me that I should honour him not my selfe with my noble parentage for shall I dishonour the Lord with his owne gift or hauing receiued honour from God not seeke the honour which is of God let all therefore whom God hath set vp labour to get a good interest to their noble-birth and places by their new-birth in Christ for better neuer to haue beene borne or to haue beene borne beggers then vnborne to God