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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

all his waies nor how good he is to them nor how great his power is for them and prouidence ouer them Let them consider this who meane to liue and die in their ignorance and doubt not but they may and do loue God as well or better then most of these Scripture-men doe It were strange they should hauing no meanes of louing him comparable to these and they may as well perswade themselues and tell others that they can and doe loue the Man whom they neuer saw before neither heard of as much or better then that man in whose house and from whose hands they haue receiued innumerable kindnesses and fruits of loue but who will beleeue it so who will beleeue that they that are meere strangers to God by ignorance that are not brought vp in his house as his children are that liue at home with their father nor see his kindnesse in his word and benefits as they daily doe nor grow vp in his presence by the nursery of religion which maketh the godly partakers of the diuine nature 2 Pet. 1.4 should as freely and truly loue God as his houshold children can and which is incredible better then the most doe that haue their education from him and breeding vnder him by his word and Sacraments An admonition to the godly so much as they desire to loue Vse 2 God so much to secke to know him for so much knowledge so much loue they that are contented with sleight knowledge can loue but sl●ightly Hence it is that some in the Gospell hauing tasted how good the Lord is goe from strength to strength till they appeare before God in Zion Psal 84.7 that is at Church in the assemblie or as it was foretold by Dauid runne to and fro that knowledge may abound where others finding no such delight in the banquetting house of Gods graces though the Arke of teaching be placed neere them in a Preachers mouth as in the Tabernacle thereof will take no paines and haue no desire to come vnto it Dauid danced with all his might before the Arke 2 Sam. 6 14. for Dauid was bred in the knowledge of God by his Testimonies but scornefull Michael despised him for it verse 16. for Michal was brought vp in Sauls Court where God and the knowledge of God were great strangers They that in the captiuity knew Ierusalem preferred her and the God in her to their chiefe ioy they that knew not Ierusalem neither Ierusalems-God said in her day raze it raze it to the foundation thereof Psal 137.6.7 So they that know God and his goings in the Sanctuarie Psal 68.24 will loue his presence in the beautifull assemblie the spirituall Babylonians that know neither him nor them will neither seek the Lord nor his face Psal 105.4 but calling Iacob the cast-away and Zion the place which no man seeketh after Ier. 30.17 cast of God and his reuerence and when they should sit vnder the Preachers chaire set themselues in the chaire of scorners and so become rather despisers of God then louers and followers This would be thought of before the decree come forth Zeph. 2.2 that when it is sealed with Plagues for sinne by Pestilence warres dearths in the Land or some other way we may be spared with those that loue the Lord vnfainedly Now is the time to seeke to know God that we may sinde to loue him and when other dayes shall come those times will bee rather for our reioycing then discomfort because we haue obeyed and loued him or because wee haue publikely at Church and priuately at home serued him honoured him in his word and reuerenced him in his Sacraments profited by his counsels and turned at his corrections Quest But some may say Quest how shall we attaine vnto this knowledge of God that we may loue him Answ I haue told Answ and Salomon tels you that you must seeke it that is vse much industry and paines to get it Prou. 2.4 or seeke it as you would seeke for siluer which you will readily do and search for it as for treasures which you will nor faile to doe It is a iewell and wee must thinke none so good Now what paines will a man take to find a iewell and what care to keepe it more plainefully should we seeke this iewell and more deepely hide it in our hearts then all iewels Matth. 13.44 If then we meane to be owners of this excellent iewell of heauenly knowledge we must cry for it by prayer call or enquire after it by conference seeke it by reading search for it by meditation and incline by hearing to it then shall we find knowledge and vnderstand the feare of the Lord Prou. 2.2.3.4 The last duty followeth and diuers promises also made to the doers thereof VER 15. He shall call vpon me c. BEfore it was said that he who loued the Lord with faith and knew him by his testimonies and word should be deliuered it is now further added that he that wil obtaine so great fauour must keepe the path of the meanes vnto it and call in prayer if he will be answered by deliuerance But this must not bee euery kinde of prayer as appeareth by the ioyning together the sentences but that prayer or strong cry of the heart in prayer that is ioyned with knowledge and standeth in loue that is he that will pray with hope must both know the Lord confessing his goodnesse and loue him with relying on his truth For in the law the blind and lame were reiected Mal. 1.8 So now the blind sacrifice of ignorant prayers and the lame of praying weakely and without the affection of confidence in God are no reasonable seruice of him Gods children speake with vehemency saying Abba Father or twice father and not softly as afraid but loude with assurance for they cry Abba Father Rom. 8.15 knowing that what God hath pledged to them by his promise he will not violate Also they pray with vnderstanding knowing that all that pray not with knowledge pray with losse For they cannot watch the successe of their prayers nor tell how they speed not knowing what they prayed for And without this experience who can bee thankefull and without thankefulnesse what can the hope be but losse H● that is not thankfull for an old good turne looseth a new and therefore prayers in a tongue that men vnderstand not such as the prayers of the ignorant in times of Pop●ry were are prayers of hinderance not of comfort or profit The Doctrine therefore that ariseth from this context is they Doct. 1 that will pray aright and with good assurance must know God and loue him But I passe it as not being in the Text and because inough hath been spoken of it already That which these words directly aime at is that they they that will be deliuered must vse prayer the meane of deliuerance And this Prayer is a calling vpon God to wit in Christ darkely then plainely now then to come now

the Almighties defence finde a most comfortable shadow and refreshing-place from all tyrannie and violence of Men and not sometimes so but euer so Doct. 1 From whence we first learne that no affliction shall bee able to preuaile against those who make the Almighty their hiding place or deliuerer God is a deliuerer in great troubles that is in troubles of sharpest edge and longest continuance Hee that deliuereth our soules from hell can deliuer our bodies from the brands of hell and for the corrections of the righteous they are but the chastisements of a Father and visitation of children whom he receiueth Heb. 12.6 The Prophet Dauid tells vs that though their troubles were great as if they would quell them or many so as none could count them yet he will deliuer them from great or many troubles that deliuereth His from great and small and all their troubles Psal 34.19 And this made him to set the Lord alwaies in his eye who was at the right hand of his slidings and so that is so assistant and strong with him that he could not bee mooued that is perish or fall for euer Psal 16.8 In the 125 Psalme the three first verses it is shewed in what assurance the faithfull are that put trust in the Lord for their safetie when the greatest storme of troubles is vp for there it is said that such shall stand as Mount Sion that is fast and vnmoueable in all changes verse 1. hauing the Hoast of God about them as the Hills about Ierusalem verse 2. by his Angels on their right hand and by his creatures on their left And though his rod bee vpon them by Tyrants whom he will burne quickly with the fire of his wrath yet it is so but for a short time and with some little smart for their eternall curing verse 3. So God speaking by Esay to Israel his seruant and to the seede of Abraham his friend bidds them and the faithfull in them not to feare viz. in affliction either his deliuerance or their perishment for hee will vse his right hand against their enemies and hold their right hand that they fall not the right hand of his iustice shall sustaine his children and beate downe his childrens enemies the winde carrying them away and the whirlewinde scattering them Esay 41.10.13.16 Thus will the Lord be a hiding place to the people whom hee hath chosen to saue them in all their troubles if they set him for their refuge Psal 91.9 The reasons Hee hath promised safety to such Psal 50.15 Reason 1 and what hee promiseth to doe is done or as good as done for his fidelity remaineth for euer Psal 146.6 therefore as of him commeth our saluation so they that trust in him cannot bee confounded Psal 22.4 5. Secondly this may be prooued by a comparison from the lesse Reason 2 to the greater thus if among Men a friend will not reiect his friend that trusteth him neither any naturall father cast of that childe that in his sicknesse shall come vnto him will God doe lesse then a friend and not so much as a father Obiect But you will say Obiect that euen Gods best children are many times put from the shadow and burnt with the Sunne in common miseries that indifferently fall vpon good and bad Answ To which I answer that true it is Answ that Gods best and dearest ones Dauid Hezekiah Iosiah Iob and others haue had their parts with the worlds children in many grieuous sorrowes partly to teach them and vs in them that Gods best people haue fallen into foule sinnes and partly to testifie that by no outward thing it can bee knowne whom God loueth to saluation or hateth to death in this mixt state of things Eccles 9.2 yet to the righteous there is a promise made that if such stormes fall they shall from them passe to a perpetuall calme where the wicked shall go from those stormes to stormie fire and tempest and from Plagues temporall to paine endlesse from first death to second death Againe the sorrowes of the godly are for their purgation the troubles of the wicked for their torment onely being gates to those torments out of which they shall neuer come when God shall send them out from his presence Gods Plagues of Famine Pestilence and other miseries are his draw nets to gather out of the world by death both the iust ones and those that doe iniquitie yet the good are taken out of the net of these common euills for the Lords owne seruice the other to be cast away Mat. 13.48 Therefore when God sends Sicknesse Pestilence Famine vpon a Land Citie or House the net is cast ouer thee either as a sanctified thing to be put in his vessels or excommunicate thing to be put out of his kingdome Vse 1 An instruction to Gods children not to feare distrustfully in any euills that God shall send for he that sendeth the sword sendeth the buckler also he that made the Sunne made the shadow and he that maketh dead maketh aliue If Pestilence bee sent among vs let vs take away our drosse by repentance and the hottest fire of it can doe vs no harme that burneth but the drosse of sin or burneth onely where the brimstone of some sinne vnrepented of doth giue it matter of kindling In the Fornace it selfe if wee serue God as those three seruants of God in Daniel did there is such a countenance of grace with vs and one so mighty to deliuer vs that wee cannot miscarie though it were heated seuen times Dan. 3.25.27 If God breake the staffe of our bread with vnseasonable yeeres and weather we must not giue way to our feare against his prouidence who hath said and wee may beleeue it that he will not faile vs neither forsake vs Heb. 13.5 whatsoeuer our troubles are and though large afflictions deuoure vs as the Whale did Ionah yet God will bring vs to shore yea he that spake to the fish to cast vp Ionah Ionah 2 10. will speake to all our afflictions euen the greatest Whale of them all that they hurt vs not If we crie out of the deepe to him he will heare vs and deliuer vs from many waters Psal 130.1 2. In our long iourney of afflictions we cannot but be sometimes discomforted with the length of the way and slipperinesse of our waies yet let vs send to God in our miseries and he will send to vs by his comforts and when we goe mourning and troubled all the day long walke before him and hee will walke with vs according to his promise and deliuer vs from all our feare Vse 2 A reproofe of those who sinke in shallow troubles hiding their hearts in the meanes that are sent and not making him their secret or hiding place that sent them If God doe but a little crosse them they crosse their armes and wring their hands as men not somewhat troubled but quite vndone or they are caried as with the maine saile into doubtfull