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A04622	A sermon preached at Henly at the visitation on the 27. of Aprill, 1626 Vpon those words of the 9. Psalme, vers. 16.	Barnes, Robert, 1576 or 7-1639.	1626 (1626)	STC 1474; ESTC S114149	18,363	40

A SERMON PREACHED AT HENLY AT THE VISItation on the 27. of Aprill 1626. VPON THOSE WORDS OF the 9. Psalme Vers 16. The Lord is knowne to execute iudgement OXFORD Printed by J. L. and W. T. 1626. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL AND worthily disposed Knight Sir RICHARD BLVNT High Sheriffe of Oxford-shire Grace be multiplied in this world and blessednesse in the world to come VVorthie Sir WHat hath beene formerly offered to your religious Eare is now within a few daies after presented to your iudicious Eye neither doubt I but as then it found attentiue audience with the one so it will now finde kinde welcome and acceptance with the other Only you will imagine what was then delivered by voice can never bee carried so powerfully in papers as in speech Solet acceptior esse sermo vivus quàm scriptus saith Bernard the habit and gesture of a liuing man is the very life of Oratory Yet will I not despaire of that good content a review may bring to a longing spirit The words conteined in the two Tables which God gaue to Moses from the holy mount were first spoken by the mouth of God ere they were written by the finger of God and then carried into the valley to be heard and kept of all the people So may I likewise say of the Gospel voices and prophesies went of the blood of Christ ere ever it dropt out of his veines But if gratious words had not fallen from the mouth of Christ Christians had neuer conceived either the power or vertue of his death For as there is a blood of redemption so there is a word of reconciliation and surely where the word teacheth not there the blood droppeth not You are religiously wise to conceaue whereat I aime to wit that reading preaching and practising of pietie may all goe together like Saul and Ionathan of whom it s said that they were louely in their liues and at their deathes were not divided I am sure they are the best meanes to escape those iudgements I came withall in that Visitation discourse Which I am made beleeue by many of my brethren those of worth so well rellished in the first passage that I must not deny you a review I was never ambitious herein as well vnderstanding mine own meannesse nay my privacie hath beene a second happinesse to me But yet after the Cleargies dinner whereof you were pleased to partake and among the Lords Prophets as before you had spent one houre in the Church so you ioyed to spend another in the Chamber a high argument of an intire zeale so many importunities grew vpon me from some tendering me their hands for the transcribing hereof from others vndertaking you should not faile in regard of that interest they might challenge in me from all iointly soliciting for a generall favour that at length I yeelded to send it assoone as a marriage solemnity was past in my parish for the which I was to be provided against the Sabboth following These inducements though powerfull yet I will ingenuously confesse were not my onely motiues I haue heard also obserued your vnfained affection to the truth when as for it you haue in a māner forsaken your owne and followed S. Ieroms advise to Furia Honour thy father if he doe not separate thee froth the true father Otherwise licet parvulus and as he speakes in another place to Heliodorus Though thy little Nephewe should hang vpon thy necke though thy mother with her haire about her eares and her garments rent should shew thee the breasts wherewith she nursed thee though thy father should lye on the threshold tread vpon thy father to goe over passe away with dry eyes to the banner of the crosse It is the chiefe point of piety to shew thy selfe cruell in such a matter Since I was taken out of that famous Nursery Magdalen College in Oxford by the liberall favour vnder Gods providence of my Right Honourable good Lord and right zealous Patron Viscount Wallingford together with his worthie Spouse my right noble Ladie for the which the Lord of heaven multiply his blessings towards them as also by a second and entire respect of those blessed servants of God M. Edmund Dunch and his religious daughter in law the Lady Mary Dunch now both with the Lord whose memories daily shine in their most hopefull heire on whom Almighty God seemes though in a farre different degree to fasten that promise made to Abraham Thou shalt be a blessing Gen. 12.2 Since I say I was taken from the Vniversitie and planted in these parts I haue beheld faire buildings and sweet seats both on our tops and vallies but for matter of religion much aversenesse or key-coldnesse Moreover the place of authoritie vnder his Maiestie you now beare ouerswaied me not a little for so much paines which though I here came not so welcome to you yet I thank God from my heart when I see men of your qualitie and condition selected for such places I am sure then Religion shall suffer the lesse Sir I haue one boone to craue of you which I earnestly begge and am confident in the obtaining that since I haue beene drawne thus farre what you haue in your hands you would by no meanes let it goe farther nor to any other view but in your presence I am not ignorant how full of molestation the times are that questionings through misinterpretation may occasion much prejudice giue these papers leaue to ly by you as a pledge of my setled purpose to deserue your loue in my readinesse to bestow my paines if you shall request them and to be a continuall petitioner to the throne of grace that you may be kept by the power of God through faith to salvation In him I rest From my study at Greys this 4th of May 1626. Your Worships assured ROB BARNES PSALME 9. v. 16. The Lord is knowne to execute iudgement or By his iudgement he executeth THe Princely Prophet David the sweet singer of Israel in this whole Psalme celebrates Gods praises in respect of his mercies towards the godly judgements to the wicked inviting others by his example to doe the like and finally prayes for the prosperity of his servants and subversion of his enemies I intend no large paraphrase on the whole selecting this bare proposition for the present occasion which brancheth it selfe into these foure particulars 1. The Person the Lord. 2. the attribute Iudgement 3. the commendation executes 4. the end that we might know and acknowledge him The Lord is knowne to execute judgement The Person is of an high elevation and in his visitation takes a full survey of whatsoeuer passeth betweene heaven and ea●th Omnia aperta all things are open to his view Hebr. 4. The iudgement fearefull for God is a consuming fire and its a fearefull thing to fall into his hands Heb. 10.31 The execution iust and free for as he hath a vis●tation in grace and mercy visitavit

mercy I beseech you againe and againe take notice of this n●glect ●ay if it may be with your owne and your officers eyes no● referring this reformation to church-wardens but that a more immediate execution both vpon our gentry and inferiours may bring God to be ●●e●y knowne and knowne in his Saints and so I come to my last part and end of all these executions in iudgement that God may be knowne and acknowle●g'd God is knowne Austin reades the words thus Notus est Dominus propter iudicium quod fecit Ierome thus Agnitus est Dominus iudicium faciens the vulgar thus Cogn●scitur Dominus ●ud c●af●ciens and our last translation thus N●tu● se facit Iehovah iudicio quod exercuit but inten●ing one and the same thing that the Lord God hath is and will be knowne by executing iudgement Two words shall dispatch all first a Quomodo how next a Quando when The Quomodo how God is knowne will appeare in the practise of a threefold duty For as one well saith Iudicia Dei sunt commendanda formidanda meditanda Gods judgements first are to be praised and admired The Lord is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his workes they are to be praysed in respect of their greatnes strangenes goodnes Abyssus abyssum inuocat O the deepenesse of his wisedome knowledge how vnsearchable are his iudgements and his waies past finding out Rom. 11.33 We see the effect not causes the middle not the end David that numbred the people is spared and the people numbred are destroied the prophet seduced is slaine by a lion and the lying prophet that seduced him escaped a theefe is saved at the last gaspe and Iudas an Apostle condemned Caesar that hath the worst cause s●cceedes best Pompey that hath the best cause yet speedes worst Gods enemies flourish and are exalted when his freinds mourne and weepe One would thi●ke the word of God prevalent in beating downe enorm ties faster then Sathan could raise them so that where the gospell abounded sinne should not superabound and yet this glorious sunne hath not dispelled all those foggs and mists which haue surged from hell But if the sun cause such a stinke i'ts a signe some dung-hill is nigh let it reflect on a bed of roses there is all swee●nes These presidents occasion some to despaire of others to deny Gods providence but let vs alwaies say Righteous art thou O Lord and iust are thy iudgements His iudgements are sometimes secret sometimes manifest alwaies just One while he punisheth in this life and in these like courts least there should seeme to be no providence others remaine vnpunished least there should be thought to be no ensuing iudgement Secondly Gods iudgements are to be feared If men listen not when he speakes by his word ministers mercies certainely he will be knowne by his iudgements Pharaoh first askes in a kinde of scorne quis est Dominus but after vpon sight of his judgements then digitus Dei est hic this is the very finger of God and againe The Lord is righteous but I and my people are wicked Ex 9.27 The most wicked haue trembled at judgements Baltashars countenance changed at the hand-writing in the wall and Felix at Pauls preaching of righteousnes temperance iudgement to come But if they quake not imputing all to blind chance and fortune it shewes they haue an atheisticall and irreligious heart euen worse then the devills who as St. Iames saith beleeue and tremble Whereas the truely sanctified with David cry out one while from my youth vp till now thy terrours haue I suffered with a troubled mind another while as it is towards the end of the 119 Ps O let my soule liue and it shall praise thee and thy iudgements shall teach me Now last of all Gods iudgements are to be pondered by frequent meditation which in mid'st of tribulation yet comforts the deiected strengthens their faith encreaseth hope I considered thine euerlasting iudgements and received comforts saith the Psalmist But out alas how farre are we from this serious thought how little vse returne we to our soules by these occurrences We haue beene smitten indeede and the hills haue trembled and our carcases haue beene torne and throwne to in the streets for all this Gods anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still Es 5.25 Surely the reason of all is our sleight passing by these iudgements not so often seasoning our retired'st thoughts as there is just cause The wofull occurrences of times haue but the same working in men which a stone hath when it falls into the waters Falling in it maketh a great noise and stirrer the wates very much one waue begets another for a good pretty space at last the motion growes weaker and weaker and the water returnes to his former smoothnes so we heare of diverse fearefull accidents at the first comming we are much moued it runnes from man to man with much swiftnes but on a suddaine when this first addresse is past the matter dyes we are as we were and the iudgement leaues no impression God grant the last yeares plague for want of serious plunging our thoughts hath not found vs this yeare as proane to worke wickednes with greedines as before And thus much of the Quomodo how God is vsually knowne The Quando remaines the time when God thus manifests himselfe Hugo the Cardinall on this Psalme mentions a threefold day Wherein God is knowne to man the day of tribulation of death and the last iudgement He is knowne to some for their salvation wherevpon saith the wise man of the wise man that he sees the plague and auoides it facile laqueos euadit in terris qui habet oculos semper in coelis saith the Glosse But to others for their destruction they fall as a bird in the snare God then is knowne of his seruants here more priuately but hereafter to the whole world more publiquely Luther on this Ps also writes how the Lord is knowne two wayes First outwardly by punishing the vngodly and preseruing the righteous Secondly inwardly through the terrifying of conscience Shall I abridge all into one s●mme Iudges ●e e haue their courts and are knowne in them so God hath three courts to be knowne by 1. of session 2. of conscience 3. of the generall assize This of session is for penalties on our bodies goods good name either in our selues or others Though I will confesse the end of his punishments in this kind is not only for sinne but as in the blindmans case that the glory of God also might be manifested Ioh 9. If herein man chance to escape and this court of outward penalties take such little or no hold on him yet in the second place there will arise perplexities of conscience God is the iudge in this court the conscience the witnes the Devill the accuser the law the triall the deede the euidence the person the prisoner Tell me not of peaceablenes