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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

intimate Eph. 4.30 31. Secondly This Brotherly Vnity as it is a thing which is well-pleasing to God and delightfull to him so it is also pleasant to our selves who accordingly shall have so much the greater pleasure in it and from it Quarrelsom and Contentious Persons that like Salamanders live in the fire they are oftentimes a very burden to themsevles And those that are not careful to maintain peace with others they want it now and then even in their own hearts and breasts And though strife be pleasing to them so far forth as it best sutes with their sinfull and corrupt nature yet so far forth as it best sutes with their sinful and corrupt nature yet so far forth as they have likewise any principles of humanity in them it must needs be very harsh and unpleasing and troublesome to them and so it is And on the other side Concord and mutual agreement is a great deal more delightfull A man has a great deal of more freedom and contentment in his own spirit when as upon good terms he is in Peace and Love with other men He injoyes himself a great deal more fully and has so much the more inward peace and tranquillity in his own Conscience occasionally from it it is pleasant that is it is pleasing to our selves Thirdly It is also pleasing to others to all men else besides that are standers by and spectators of it Behold how pleasant it is c. It is pleasant to all Beholders He that in these things serveth Christ he is acceptable to God and approved of men sayes the Apostle Rom. 14.18 Persons that are given to contention they are offensive to all that come near them and that are round about them who are troubled and displeased with them But quiet and peaceable persons they draw the Love and respect of all to them it is a most lovely and amiable spectacle Therefore that which is here by our own Translators rendred pleasant is by some others expounded Comely as the Hebrew word Nagnim which is used will very well bear it It is pleasant to the Eye which is refresht with such a sight as this is and thus it is pleasant in reference to all sorts of Persons To God to our selves and to other men And so ye have each Qualification whence it is Commendable to us both from the goodness of it and the Pleasantness Now to set home this point so much the more effectually upon us it may not be amiss for us but very pertinent and seasonable to take notice of it in the Inlargement and Illustration which is here used in this Psalm for the further commending of it to us And that as taken from a twofold similitude The one in the second verse of the oyntment upon the Head of Aaron And the other in the third verse of the dew of Hermon and of that which discended upon the Mountains of Sion First To take notice briefly of the former Illustration in the second verse which is very Emphatical and that in sundry particulars wherein this Fraternal Concord is compared to the Holy Oyle of Anointing which is exprest and described unto us in Exod. 30. First For the Nature and Quality of it It is precious Oyntment Shemen-ha-tou It is not to common and ordinary use Oyl of any Consideration whatsoever but the best and choycest that could be lighted-on Like that wherewith Mary Magdalene anointed Christ before his Passion when she brought forth an Alablaster box of oyntment of Spikenard very precious and poured it upon his head Mark 14.3 Such was this whereunto the Concord of Brethren is compared here in this Scripture To set forth unto us the preciousness and excellency of of it It is a vertue of very rare account and so to be esteemed of by us It is such which carries a good name and Report with it and accordingly like that is also better then precious Oyntment Secondly For the ordering and disposing of it It is compared not to oyl inclosed and shut up in a vessel but to oyl effused and poured forth abroad which is more significant As that which does cast forth a special fragrancy and odoriferousness with it Look how a Box of precious Oyntment when it is broken it does cast forth such a smell as does refresh the nostrils and brains of all such persons as are made partakers of it So in like manner the Unity of Brethren it is very sweet to all that observe it Because of the savour of thy good Oyntment thy Name is an Oyntment poured forth therefore the Virgins love thee as the Spouse of Christ speaks of her beloved Cant. 1.3 Thirdly For the Person whom it refers to It is not the anointing onely of some Levit or Common Priest but the anointing of Aaron himself who was the high Priest of all and therein a special Type of Christ as prefigured and shadowed out in him Lastly As to the Importment and Communication of it It was not oyle which rested onely upon Aarons Head but run down upon his Beard and from thence further to the skirts of his Garments which is a lively description to us of the property of this Grace of Love and Brotherly Agreement It is such as does not rest it self onely in those who are the next and immediate subjects of it but it conveyes it self to many other Love it is of a very diffusive and communicative Disposition It does not ingross all comfort to it self but it imparts it also to its brethren and all that are near unto it they are the better for it yea sometimes which are at a distance from it as in Superiours towards those that are below them in the skirts of the garments as from Christ to all his Members And that 's the first similitude The second Similitude is in the third verse As the dew of Hermon and as the Dew that descends upon the Mountains of Sion Look as Gardens and Fields and Meadows where they want dew and seasonable rain they become dry and barren and unfruitful and on the other side where these are any thing in abundance they are thriving and flourishing So Churches and States and Companies and Societies and the like where they are destitute of Brotherly Concord they are decaying and languishing But where this is any thing upheld and preserved in them they are likely to hold out and continue For there the Lord hath commanded his blessing even life for evermore And so now I have done with the first General Part of the Text which is the sight it self or spectacle propounded in these words how good and pleasant a thing it is for Brethren to dwell together in Vnity The Second with which I will conclude all and that as it were in a way of Application is the Invitation to the Observing of it In the word Behold which is set in the Front of the Text and it is Introductive to all the rest but comes last of all to be handled by