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A44565 One hundred select sermons upon several texts fifty upon the Old Testament, and fifty on the new / by ... Tho. Horton ...; Sermons. Selections Horton, Thomas, d. 1673. 1679 (1679) Wing H2877; ESTC R22001 1,660,634 806

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see Brethren together in Vnity All very lovely and amiable c. That which is written without upon the ●alls of your Porch let it be especially ingraven upon the Tables of your Hearts viz. Concordila nutrit Amorem What 's Heaven hereafter but a dwelling together in Vnity Let us begin it and Anticipate it to our selves by dwelling so here These words here in the Text as they lie before us in this present Psalm they seem to be uttered not onely Dogmatically but Narratively not onely as of somewhat to be but as of somewhat which was so indeed in the event And answerably let me beg of you that it may be applyed to your particular persons and your particular Societyes that it may be said occasionally from the seeing and observing of you Behold how good and how pleasant a thing it is in good earnest for Brethren to dwell together in Vnity And you should do it so much the rather as your Example will be ready and likely to provoke many others besides to the like Conversation God having honoured your selves to be the prime and chief Company of the City that which is herein done by you will have an influence upon all other Societies who by your love and concord and Unity and Christian agreement will unite in love amongst themselves And thus it shall indeed prove according to the words of the Text. Like the precious Ointment which was poured upon the head of Aaron and ran down upon the skirts of his Garments or like the dew of Hermon and that descended upon the Mountains of Sion where the Lord will command his Blessing even life for ever more So much may serve for this time and for this Text. SERMON XXVII Psal 139.18 When I awake I am still with thee It is the Great advantage of a Christian which he has above other men that he has his Friends alwayes about him And if the fault be not his own need never to be absent from them In the Friendship and converse of the world we use to say Friends must part and those which have the delight and satisfaction in one anothers Society they must be content to leave it and to be taken off from it But this is the Priviledge of a Believer that undertakes Communion with God that it is possible for him alwayes with Him Again in Humane Converse and Society we know it is ordinary for Friends to dream that they are in Company with one another But when they awake they are a great way off But a Christian that converses with God and has his thoughts fasten'd upon Him When he awakes he is still with him which is that which is here exhibited to us in the Example of the Prophet David THe Explication of this Text in hand does very much depend upon the true and right Notion of one main and principal Term which is considerable in it And that is the word awake which does admit of a Various Interpretation and may be taken especially three manner of wayes In the Natural sense In the Moral sense and in the Mystical First Awaking is sometimes yea most commonly taken in the Natural signification for the recovery from Bodily sleep as Gen. 28.16 it is said of Jacob that he awoke out of his sleep And the like is said also of Sampson in Judg. 16.14 That he awaked in the like manner Secondly Awaking is sometimes also taken Morally as it signifies a recovery from sin Thus it is frequently taken in Scripture as Eph. 5.14 Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the Dead and Christ shall give the light 1 Cor. 15.34 Awake to righteousness and sin not And in Rom. 13.11 And that knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our salvation nearer then when we believed And 2 Tim. 2.26 That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Divel that they may awake Thirdly Awaking is sometimes also taken in a Mystical signification for the recovery out of a state of Affliction and especially out of a state of Death Thus our Saviour of Lazarus Joh. 11.11 Our friend Lazarus sleepeth but I go that I may awaken him out of sleep which though the Disciples understood of Natural rest as it is there signified yet Jesus meant it of his death as it is there also exprest As Death is a kind of Sleep so is the Resurrection a kind of awaking inanswerableness unto it now we may take this word here in the Text in either of these significations but I shall chiefly fasten upon the former as that which is most genuine and proper and with that will I now begin by taking it in the Natural signification When I awake sayes David that is when I cease from sleep and bodily rest I am still with thee Now there are two things which this holy man does here especially intimate and declare unto us The one is his Disposition and the other is his Priviledge His Disposition in order to Duty and what was required of him And his Priviledge in order to reward and what was vouchsafed unto him we may look upon either of them First Take it as to his Disposition and so there is this in it That it is the care and Indeavour of a Good and Gracius heart when he awakes to be still with God When I awake I am still with thee It is Davids Profession of himself as a Representative of all other good Men. Now it is requisite we should explain what is meant by being with God and how far forth a Christian when he awakes is said to be with him There is some Obscurity both in the Time design'd as also in the state it self which is fasten'd upon it How it is said When I awake And how it is said I am still with thee First For the Time Designed When I awake This may be taken two manner of wayes Hypothetically or Emphatically First It may be taken Hypothetically or Indifferently When I awake that is when I am not asleep and so hindred by the necessities of Nature As if he had said thus There is no time that I doe not injoy thee but when I doe not injoy my self And so it sounds as much as this That a good Christian is continually with God upon all occasions A Godly man is careful to be with God in every performance and in every condition Quando is as much as Quandocunque When that is whensoever A Christian whatever he is doing that is not sinful he is still with God In Solitariness in Company in the Duties of Religion in the works of his Calling yea in his seasonable Refreshments and Recreations when he awakes he is still with God And this again according to a twofold Explication First Dispositive in regard of his Habitual inclination Look as it is with Lovers who bear a strong Affection to each other they are said to be with one another wheresoever they are Anima non est