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A03694	The Christian gouernour, in the common-wealth, and priuate families described by Dauid, in his 101. Psalme. Guiding all men in a right course to heauen. Herewith also a part of the parable of the lost sonne. Luke 15. Both expounded and opened by Robert Horn. With the doctrines and vses thence arising. The more particular contents see on the page following.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.	1614 (1614)	STC 13821; ESTC S121133	164,903	442

hauing them haue care to vse them wel Secondly a good man will make choyse of his company which he vseth seldome and shall he be carelesse of the Familie which hee must vse daily Thirdly hee that hopes for benefit by his Orchyard will not runne to euery hedge to fet Grafts from it but will prouide himselfe of the best Grafts and Sciences to make Trees of them and to plant them in his Orchyard Will a man care thus for his Orchyard what good Plants hee doth set in it and in the planting of his Familie will hee be carelesse what Seruants and Officers he doth bring into it If such complaine of vntrusty Seruants and euill Ministers whom can they blame but themselues for doe men gather Grapes of Thornes Mat. 7.16 and can we from a wilde hedge of vnruly people fet the Graffes Sciences of good Officers and good Seruants in a Familie or should we not set them from the Trees of righteousnes in well gouerned houses Hee that setteth Thornes and Bryers and Brambles in his ground must not wonder if it beare Hips and Hawes and Sloes and is it maruell that they who plant their houses with vnfaithfull people should haue vnfaithfull Seruants and who care not to choose the good should light vpon the bad Vses A reproofe to those Masters that haue no regard of grace and Religion in the Seruants which they receiue into couenant but inquire onely what wages they will take and what worke they can doe where if they can doe sufficient worke and will take reasonable wages they seeke no farther be they Papists Atheists Drunkards abhominable Swearers and Swaggerers the worst in a Countrey they will receiue them though they be vnfaithfull to God if they will be faithfull to them which they shall seldome see and though they walke ill if they worke well they will sooner put Christ away then such Here also those great Men are reproued who take so little care to prouide themselues of good followers for though they be good themselues yet if they whom they trust in matters be not good or if they be not trustie bearers vvhom they send abroad as Messengers of their good edge to many their goodnesse is but to themselues and they to whom they wish it are neuer the better for it If then Christian Lord you would haue your credit and true honour communicated you must see that they be faithfull whom you put in place about you For euill officers about great persons as Iuie clasping to the Tree about which it groweth eate out the heart of their Honour and discredit them with the people of whom they should be honoured And though their cisternes were full of honourable courtesies able to refresh a multitude of wearie soules yet should but a few drinke of their fountaines the passages being stopt with earth or with the corrupt mindes of men as vile as earth Therefore as you loue your honour when you finde such Wormes and Cankers of true Nobilitie about you abandon them But must godly Gouernours be so carefull to chuse religious persons whom they must admit to seruice and places about them then it is their dutie to call vpon those whom they keepe in their seruice for duties of religion and the seruice of God The law is plaine in this Exod. 20.10 where it is required not onely that the Masters themselues but that the Masters their Seruants should enter together into the house of God to keepe his Sabbaths and to doe him seruice in the face of the assembly And it is great reason that men should be as carefull of Gods worke as they are of their owne worke and if they will not keepe one that is not true vnto them no reason that they should be Masters of one that is vnfaithfull to God The Queene of the South she her seruants came together to Salomon to heare his wisedome 1 King 10.1.2 How then will it he answered if Masters in Christian Israel shal refuse to bring not from the furthest parts of the earth but from their houses at hand not to Salomon whose wisedome was mortall and limited but to the true Salomon Iesus Christ in whom is all wisedome and treasures of knowledge without measure Colos. 2.3 and not Heathen Seruants but Christians bound in like bonds as their Masters are of promise in their baptisme to forsake the Deuill and all his workes I say if such Masters shal refuse to bring comming themselues such Seruants to such a Salomon to be taught of him what will they answere to him who hath bought their soules as deere as theirs when in wrath he shall bring them to iudgement and in that great iudgement make them to answere not for themselues onely but for all these and for the poorest Kitchen-boy among those whom they shall wilfully suffer to perish by not caring to bring him or to make him come to the waters of life drawne out of the Welles of saluation that he may liue for euer Many complaine of bad Seruants But doe they who make the complaint consider that the greatest fault is in themselues as because their choise was naught and their gouernment as bad after they had chosen You haue taken heere a briar and there a bramble and thorne and set them in your Orchyard and doe you complaine of a bad Orchyard and that you haue neither Apples nor Peares nor Plummes as others haue So you would haue a good family when your care is not to graft it with good Seruants For haue you cared to make your Seruants the Seruants of God that they might be good Seruants to you Haue you set them about Gods worke on his day as you are carefull to set them about your owne worke on other dayes Abraham did so and had good Seruants and they that would haue good Seruants as Abraham had must be good Masters such as Abraham was Now the persons whom the Prophet would make choise of to be in his Court and to serue in the Kingdome are called the faithfull of the Land And that wee may further know what these are he calleth them such as walke in the perfect way that is as walke in the way of Gods word with purpose of heart though imperfectly He saith not they that are perfect in the way but they that walke in the perfect way though sometimes they may trip as they goe yea stumble and fall From whence it is plaine that there is no state of perfection here But the point and thing that I obserue is they that are to be imployed in a publike State or priuate house must be men of conscience and religion fearing God Because Princes and great persons cannot doe all themselues but must haue some to deale for them and vnder them therefore Iethro his counsell to Moses was to prouide some among all the people whom he might appoint to be Rulers ouer thousands rulers ouer hundreds rulers ouer fifties and rulers ouer tennes by whose

I doubt not but the Statute prouided against Drunkennes calleth such Drunkards By Idlenes the second sinne I meane such a sin as is contrary to an honest vocation by Idle persons such sinners as follow no trade but the wicked trade of Gaming and Drunkennes or the Beggers wandering trade Such persons are Idle persons and not the members but the diseases of the Common-wealth Also the houses which harbour such are no better then Bawdes to all manner vice and lewdnes Such houses of vnnecessarie resort being without number in no order should be shut vp by the Magistrates key specially such as are kept at Townes ends or in corners blinde Lanes for greater conueniencie of receiuing late conuaying away earely persons of most infamous life God blesseth a mans lawfull trade Man in it but this blessing they cannot hope for who liue in no calling or sinfully in a wicked calling Moses keeping sheepe saw the Lord Exod. 3.1.2.3.5 This excellent Man of God whose Psalme this is was taken from the Sheep-folds to be King Psal. 78.70.71 Lidia in her honest trade hath the benefit of her conuersion Act. 16.14 And in Q. Maries time there was almost no trade Mechanicall so base but some were called out of it to suffer for Christ. But how many Roysters Tiplers Gamelters good-fellowes e mbraced the Stake hot flames of fire in those raging dayes And for Carding houses Dicing-houses Tipling-houses Brothell-houses what Chappels are these to serue God in and of what trade are they who keepe them that they may say they liue in a trade with comfort to be saued Also these houses and such trades of life what doe they but multiply Rogues and Theeues who though they haue nothing to liue vpon in a lawfull course yet goe gay and haunt Alehouses day after day This cannot be borne out but by some bad dealing Therefore you who haue your Princes Sword and Oath put into your hands for such matters as you tender the glorie of GOD the welfare of your Countrey your Soueraignes glory and the saluation of your owne soules be zealous against both Drunkennesse and Idlenesse and let not those houses stand open that are open I●nes to one or both And what I haue sayde of these I would haue to be sayd of all other works and workers of iniquitie And so I come to that which the Prophet meaneth by the wicked of the Land All the workers of iniquitie c. THe wicked which the Prophet before spake of he here by an exegesi● or exposition calleth the workers of iniquitie By which he meaneth such as giue themselues ouer to wantonnesse to worke al vncleanenesse euen with greedinesse Eph. 4.19 and such as commit sinne not vnwillingly but with purpose of heart From whence this Doctrine is taught that euery doer of euill is not a wicked person but he that doth euill and will doe it Dauid had many faults so haue the best Men for in many things we sinne a● Iam. 3.2 yet they are not to be numbred among the wicked Zacharie and Elizabeth were both sinners yet the Scripture calleth them not wicked but iust persons and persons iust before God that is in Gods account iust and concerning the Law vnreproueable that is vnreproueable by Man Luk. 1.6 Paul likewise after his conuersion had a bodie of death but no body of wickednesse Rom. 7.24 The Reasons First the doer of euill may doe euill against his will or as caried to it by some violence and yet be a good Man and so opposite to one that is wicked and doth purposely offend for hee is no sinner vvho in truth and deede desireth to be none Secondly hee is a wicked person not who sinneth but vvho is of the trade and vvorke of sinne and vvho is led by it as a Dogge in a line after his Keeper Also hee that worketh sinne 1 Ioh. 3.8 that is that followeth it as a man doth his trade is a wicked sinner But hee that doth euill sometimes doth not so offend and vvhen a good Man offends ●t is not his worke but the sinne that dwelleth in him Rom. 7.17 and can hee who thus is rather ouertaken by sinne then an ouertaker of sinne be properly called wicked Vses Here we see what may be thought of those who when they behold or heare of the frailties of Gods children iudge them as wicked as themselues vvho daily offend and with greedinesse and excuse their wilfull wickednesses by the vnwilling slippes of those that are sory that they doe euill But it is one thing to haue sinne in vs and another thing to haue it raigning in vs as it doth in the workers of iniquitie who giue their willes affections and members as seruants vnto it Indeede no man can say his heart is cleane Pro. 20.9 and sinne dwelleth and hath dwelt and will dwell in the best that euer vvas is or shall be begotten by Man But sinne is in the godlie as an ill Tennant that they would but cannot put out and the godlie are in sinne as a Malefactor in prison that is in hold and vvould be at libertie So it is not with the wicked for they without striuing willingly serue sinne make it their trade and occupation and delight in nothing more then to doe euill They liue by it as a man doth by his meate and walke in it ordinarily as Trauellers by the way Sinne raigneth in them Rom. 6.12 and by such regiment expelleth all voluntary goodnesse it selfe onely hauing the Kingdome and glory They wallow in sinne and rise not from vnrighteousnes And these the Prophet calleth the wicked of the land An instruction therefore to put difference betweene the sinnes of Gods children and the works of iniquitie in Saethans children Both may doe euill but both doe not euill in like measure nor with like minde therefore the one sort ●re and may be called the doers of euill the other wicked The place followeth out of which the Prophet purposeth to destroy these wicked of the Land From the Citie of the Lord c. BY the Citie of the Lord in these last words of the Psalme the Prophet meaneth Ierusalem which is called the Citie of the great King Matth. 5.35 for as the Lord out of all the world chose the Land of Canaan to bee his portion so out of all Canaan he chose Ierusalem to be his place where he vvould put his Tabernacle and set his Temple Deut. 12.5 and 1 King 8.29 Metaphorically hee meaneth by the City of the Lord the Church of God and so the reformation of the Church shal be his first and chiefest care The Doctrine is in all reformation● the Churches should haue the first place The Commaundement which Christ giueth Mat. 6.33 First seeke the Kingdome of God and his righteousnesse belongeth to all teaching them vvith their first care and best meanes to promote the glorie of GOD in his Church This Dauid practised himselfe 2 Sam. 6. 14.15 7.1.2 and