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A comfortable corroborative cordial: or, A sovereign antidote against, and preservative from, the horrours & harms of death affording a direction how to live and die, so as to be fortified and fenced against the greatest fears and sharpest sense of that king of terrours. Represented in some observations made upon Rev. 14. 13. Upon occasion of the late death and burial of Mrs. Rebeccah Jackler late wife of Mr. John Jackler of Kings-Lynn in Norfolk, woollen-draper; who deceased Octob. 5. and was buried Octob. 7. 1671. By John Horne, sometime preacher of Gods word in Lynn-Alhallows in the same town. Useful to be considered by all men living in this state of mortality: because there is no man living but must certainly die.
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Horn, John, 1614-1676.
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Heaven and that are in Earth Col. 1.20 so will he reconcile all things to us and make them ours and for us destroying that in all things and all those things and persons that are inflexibly against us Thence the Apostle saith We know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them that are his called according to purpose Rom. 8.28 and all things are yours for your use service or benefit whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or World or Life or Death or things present or things to come all are yours and you are Christs and Christ is Gods 1 Cor. 3.21 22 23. Death is in the Believers Inventory as a parcel of his Goods as one of his Servants or Friends yea and all things too that shall follow after it For all the ways or paths of the Lord are mercy and truth to them that keep his testimonies and his Covenants Psal 25.10 There shall no evil happen to the just Prov. 12.21 He that keepeth the Commandments shall feel no evil thing Eccles 8.5 O infinitely precious Jewel and Pearl of great price the Bread which came down from heaven which whoso eats of shall live for ever Joh. 6.50 51. But yet the being of this Refuge doth not of it self simply secure us against the hurts of Death they that neglect it shall perish without escape however good safe and sure a Defence it is and affords Heb. 2.3 Death will do them this hurt as we have forenoted that it will shut them out from all ways and passages to the after-life it will cut off all further opportunities of seeking for safety in or injoying safety by or from this refuge This Antidote will not preserve from fears or harms of Death unless both taken and kept within our hearts This Elixir will not turn all to gold or good unless injoyed by us or duly applyed This Sun will not shine on us to expel our darkness and refresh and chear us unless we be and walk in the light and virtue of it nor this Shield defend and secure us against Deaths harmful darts no nor from what is indeed the Dreadful thing the second Death unless it be about us and we as it were within its compass no nor will any thing or person else do it besides him For God the Father is in him and not to be approched to or his favour injoyed but in and by him Joh. 14.6 7. Nor is the Spirit but upon him or any other ways to be injoyed then by turning at his Reproofs to believe in and obey him Prov. 1.23 Joh. 14.15 16 17. Acts 5.32 neither is there Salvation in any other Name beside his that was Crucified for us and Dyed for our sins and Rose again for our justification under heaven whereby we may be saved Acts 4.11.12 The Law and its deeds cannot justifie and save us for by it is the knowledge not the forgiveness of sins Rom. 3.20 Riches profit not in the day of wrath it is onely righteousness delivers from death Prov. 11.4 nor will our works or righteousness that are not of the Faith of him profit us Isa 57.12 Philip. 3.8 9. for they that are of the works of the Law are also under the curse Gal. 3.10 11 12. and works of our own devising are of no worth with God Matth. 15 9.10 Nay Paul or Apollos or Cephas cannot save us because not Crucified for us nor have they that Name into which we may be Baptized for the Remission of our sins and receipt of the Holy Ghost to renew and regenerate us and so by consequence not any other man 1 Cor. 1.12 13. the wise Virgins Oyl will not relieve the foolish Virgins that have none of their own Matth. 25.8 9. The just shall live by his not another mans faith Hab. 2.4 and therefore there is as we have also shewed before an absolure necessity of our being in Christ that we may have this blessedness by him in and after Death Unless we be in Christ Jesus He is not made to us of God as to our enjoyment thereof wisdom righteousness sanctification and redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 The Ark saved none from perishing by the Flood but those that were in it nor will Christ save from the second Death or give blessing in this to any out of him He that hath not the Son hath not Life though that Life be given us in him that it might in receiving him be received with him 1 Joh 5.11 12. The Feast though prepared and invited to satisfied not its refusers but they were excluded and cut off from all they had beside for refusing it Luke 14.24 Matth. 22.4 7. yea and being come into he must be abide in too so as to Death and in Death else we yet perish He that draws back Gods Soul will have no pleasure in him Heb. 10.38 A Castle though never so strong will not secure from the potent and vigilant enemy him that either comes not into it or after he hath been in it upon any terms forsakes it And this is useful further 6. To invite and provoke us all with all earnestness and diligence to betake our selves to Christ this refuge and being in him to abide in him to live and dye in him and by no means neglect or forsake him Enter into this rock and hide our selves in the dust of the earth even in the dust of his Death for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty Isa 2.10 Psal 22.14 Death will come upon us sooner or later that cannot be avoided nothing more certain yea it may come suddenly upon the youngest and strongest of us for nothing more uncertain then the time of its coming for surely every man in his best state is altogether vanity Psal 39.5 and though of it self it will not hurt us nor shall we perish in it but be raised up again from thence Yet our retaining our sins and refusing or neglecting to be washed and renewed and so to be partakers of Gods Salvation that will expose us to and pull upon as a second Death yea and this Death will put an end to all possibility of escaping that and be an entrance into that dreadful Prison in which the Debter and Malefactor will be kept safe till the great Assises and then the Execution of the Eternal Judgment will succeed Now is the accepted time now the time of escape and this the way to escape to be found in Christ O then how doth it behove and concern every man to look about him and give diligence with the Apostle to win Christ and be found in him not having our own righteousness but that which is by the Faith of him Object But may some say Can we make our selves in Christ can we enter into him as we will can any come to Christ except the Father that sent him draw him Is it not of God that any man is in Christ Jesus and not of himself why then do you call
10 1 2 4. and many of his holy Prophets and the Evangelists and Apostles divers of them were employed in this Exercise whose Writing he owns also as his own and therefore saith Have not I written to thee excellent things Prov. 22.20 And I have written to them the great things of my Law Hos 8.12 And it may be minded yea and must be acknowledged that in some respects this way of conveying over knowledge unto men hath the preheminence in divers respects above that of speech both as 1. It may be preserved a longer time what is this way imparted when as the voice of words pass away into the air after they are uttered and so knowledge may be and hath been transmitted this way to after ages and generations long after those that have uttered those truths by words of mouth are dead and gone And this use of Writing or end of Gods making use of it or commanding it to be used is expresly signified by himself for not onely did Moses write the Law and deliver it to the Priests as a means to acquaint with it and with the works of God therein mentioned those that had not known them even the children to be born commanding them to that purpose at the end of every seven years to read it to all the people men women and children and the strangers within their gates Deut. 31.10 11 12 13. but also God ordered Moses to write the Song mentioned in the same Chapter that it might be a witness for him against the children of Israel that it might not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed vers 19.21 And the Lord bade Isaiah go write it on a Table and note it in a Book that it might be for the time to come or for the latter day even for ever and ever that this is a rebellious people c. Isa 30.8.9 See also Psal 102.18 2. This way the knowledge of things and of Gods Works and Words may be made known to many more then they can by any ones audible voice be declared to as in all these Nations we have this way the declarations of those things brought to us that were done in Israel and Judah and the words spoken in those places are this way brought to our cognizance yea by this way things spoken in secret yea or when we can have no opportunity to speak our minds to any body what we would speak may be conveyed abroad and made publick and things spoken in the ear as divers of our Saviours Parables may be published all over the World Yea and 3. This is a more safe and certain way of conveyance of knowledge Words may be mistaken and misrelated by those that hear and would relate them many things in that way may be and often have been added omitted or altered But what it written remains fixed and may without addition omission or alteration be read and transcribed Thence it is said I have written to thee excellent things that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth and that thou mayest answer the words of truth to those that send to thee Prov. 22.20 21. Bless we God for so excellent and useful a gift and for the great good things made known to us thereby and take we heed of abusing or being harmed by it for as God ordered it for great good and profit to men so Sathan who can create nothing himself but lyes abuses and leads his followers to abuse this as all other gifts of God to Gods dishonour and mens destruction and scarce any so much as this while it is made use of to propagate and keep on foot all manner of lyes and mischievous devices as is too evident But now as every Act must have its object or matter about which it is exercised so this writing must be of something to be written And indeed the thing that God commanded to be written is generally something both true as it is said That which was written was upright even words of truth Eccles 12.10 As also the Lord ordering the things concerning the New Jerusalem to be written addes this as a reason For these words are faithful and true Rev. 21.5 And also of weight and usefulness for the generations and people to whom they are ordered and for whose sake written and so it is said Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our instruction that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope Rom. 15.4 and they were written for our admonition 1 Cor. 10.11 and write the vision and make it plain upon tables that he may run that reads it That he may be encouraged and strengthend to run with patience the race set before him Habak 2.2 And so here is 2. The matter to be written some faithful and useful matter to be preserved for the benefit of after ages Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord c. Wherein there is 1. A heavenly Oracle Doctrine or Assertion viz. That the Dead that dye in the Lord are henceforth blessed 2. A Confirmation of this Assertion or Doctrine And that both 1. By Authority or Testimony the highest greatest and most indisputable Yea saith the Spirit 2. By Proof or Demonstration or Reason alledged and that also is two-fold viz. 1. That they may rest from their labours 2. And their works do follow them or follow with them I shall endeavour to consider them briefly in this order with some Application 1. The Doctrine commanded to be written and accordingly written is That the Dead that dye in the Lord henceforth are blessed or are henceforth blessed Wherein we have 1. The subject of the Assertion or that whereabout it is and that is The Dead 2. A qualification of this Subject rendring it the proper Subject asserted of and that is That dye in the Lord. 3. The thing asserted or these and that is That they are blessed 4. The time from whence either the Subject asserted of or the thing asserted of them commenceth for it may be either way construed either the dead that dye in the Lord henceforth and so it 's a more special limitation of the Subject asserted of or the Dead that dye in the Lord generally or whensoever are henceforth blessed 1. The Subject is the Dead not the Living And this term the Dead is spoken of variously in the Scriptures according to a various way of dying as there are that are dead in sins and trespasses but they are not blessed therefore not here meant Eph. 2.1 4.18 And there are that are dead to sin and ought so to reckon themselves 1 Pet. 2.24 Rom. 6.11 And dead to the Law for seeking righteousness thereby and having their hope and confidence therefrom Gal. 2.19 20. And these are in a sense blessed or in the way to it And there are that are dead in the body and as to natural life as Abraham is dead and the Prophets be dead Joh. 8.52 And that is