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A gracious reproof to pharisaical saints causlessly murmuring at Gods mercies toward penitent sinners in explication of Luc. 15. 30, 31 / written by John Horne, sometimes minister of Lin Allhallows.
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Horn, John, 1614-1676.
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Throne of God the Camp or Congregation of the Saints as attendants about them Rev. 5.11 and 7.11 bearing the souls of the just when taken hence into rest and peace as in Luke 16.22 c. 5. God hath many servants on the earth furnished with spiritual gifts for profiting the body of Christ as Apostles Prophets Evangelists Pastors and Teachers these are all theirs that obey and abide with him Let no man glory in man for all things are yours whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas not you theirs but they yours 1 Cor. 3.21 Son of man saith God to Ezekiel as both the Hebrew Greek and Latine read it I have given thee to the house of Israel for a watchman c. not them to thee to use as thou pleasest and to exercise Lordship over them but thee to them Ezek. 3.17 and and so the Apostle We preach not our selves but Jesus Christ the Lord and our selves your servants for Jesus sake 2 Cor. 4.5 and he ascended up on high and gave gifts to men and he gave some Apostles some Prophets c. for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body Christ c. Eph. 4.8.11 12. 6. God hath the world as his the frame and fabrick of it and the Government orders dignities and fulness of it This is theirs also All things are yours the world 1 Cor. 3.21 22. The heavens and heavenly influences and Inhabitants He rides on the heavens for Israels help Deut. 33.26 27. their motions and influences the light warmth and influences of the Sun Moon and other Stars the Clouds and their shadow from the Heat the Rain c. and whatever passeth through the air animate or inanimate as also the Air it self they are all for the benefit of Gods obedient Children amongst and with more special eye to them then to other men for their nourishment maintenance refreshing chearing and sometimes for the exercise of their faith patience the Spirit of Prayer c. Psal 74.12 16 17. and 89.12 13 14 15. Deut. 33.27 28. Judges 5.20 Josh 10.11 14. Zech. 19.1 2. the earth and its fulness the Sea and all therein affords them supplies and God out of them and by them Gives meat to them that fear him and will ever be mindeful of his Covenant Psal 111.4 5. besides the manifold occasions that they afford them to admire and bless the Lord as manifestations of his Glory Power Wisdom Providence Mercy Justice Truth c. in his providential ordering of them and their several Hosts Psal 19.1 2 6. and 65.6 7 8. and 104. and 148. and manifold lessons and instructions that they teach and suggest occasionally to us Job 5.8 9 and 12.7 8. Matth. 6.26 27 29 30. Prov. 6.7 8. and 30.24 25 c. And then the orders of the world the Magistrates Kings and Governors and Authorities c. They are the Ministers of God saith the Apostle to thee for good not for mischief and harm Rom. 13.3 4. if thou doest well to protect thee that thou mayest live a peaceable and quiet life in godliness and honesty 1 Tim. 2.2 and if they do otherwise yet it s for good to thee to exercise thy faith and patience and quicken thee up to more mindefulness of the way to the heavenly inheritance and make thee cry more earnestly Arise O God judge thou the earth for thou shalt inherit all Nations Rev. 13.5 6.10 Psal 82.8 and whether they preserve thee from being broken or scower and make thee look brighter thou hast no dammage but benefit by them and so for all other things of the world Believers are the seed of Abraham and heirs and blessed with him and he was heir of the world Rom. 4.13 7. Life is Gods to give and dispose of this is the Believers too he is an heir of life and of the grace of life 1 Pet. 3 8. Spiritual life is his to enjoy and serve God and Christ in and with yea and eternal life is his inheritance nay but this life is his too and not he its as a servant to this life but it is a servant to him to afford him time and opportunity to do his Fathers work in that he may receive the fuller reward and to give him leasure to renew the spiritual things that by any means decay in him that he may come to his Grave as a shock of Corn fully ripe Job 5.26 Psal 39.13 Psal 6.4 5. and 30 9. and 115.17 18. Isa 38.19 John â— 4 Eccles 9.10 and 12.1 8. Yea Death is Gods too in his hand to dispose and it s his Saints too not they its not its Vassals and Captives but it s theirs and for their good sometimes to cut off and destroy their enemies that molest them 1 Sam. 26.10 Isa 51.7.8 15. Sometimes to take themselves from evil men and things and give them rest and peace from their troubles Isa 57.1.2 Rev. 14.13 and the more to exercise their faith in God for the performance of his promises when they see death seems to cut them off and put them out of all possibility of attainment Ezek. 37.11 12. John 11.25 16 40. Rev. 13.9 10. and to give them more experience of Gods power and glory in the Resurrection Ezek. 37.11 13. John 11.4 40. 9. Things present are theirs Whatever God doth and orders now in this present world or time his mercies theirs to incourage them to hope in him his judgements theirs to make them fear and stand in awe of him prosperity their 's to give them advantage to serve God with more chearfulness and adversity theirs to exercise their faith and patience and give them the more experience of Gods care of and faithfulness to them and the sufficiency of his Grace for them yea the very falls of others are theirs to awaken and admonish them to more watchfulness over themselves and others and to exercise charity in pittying them and seeking their recovery Yea all his wayes are mercy and truth to them that love God and keep his testimonies Psal 25.10 10. Things to come as they are Gods in his hand to produce and distribute according to his pleasure so they are theirs in and through Christ for their good both as now proposed in the word of God the everlasting rewards of righteousness to allure incourage and confirm them in the wayes of the Lord to seek and press after him and keep his wayes in the love and obedience of him Heb. 10.35 36 37 and 12.1 2 3. and the unspeakable terrors of the Lord and destruction of the wicked to stir them up to more watchfulness and care lest they should sin against him and depart from him they are but as armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left 2 Cor. 6.7 and 5.1 10 11. and the revelations and accomplishments of them in the time to come The joy glory and happiness to come is theirs to reward and satisfie them the woe and vengeance
or tookno notice of his better condition and greater obligements through his Fathers love and freeness towards him which therefore the loving meek and wise Father for curing of his distemper mindes him of saying Son thou art ever with me and all that I have is thine and what 's a Kid or a fatted Calf to an Inheritance that in his distemper was forgotten by him Peevish frowardness and passionate envious distempers are no good guides or counsellors for us to listen to or to be led by in our judgements or goings they see where they should be blinde and are blinde where they should see It is not for us to take notice of our services and obedience but God who is the wiser and best estimator of them and will not undervalue or underweigh them one grain nor come short in the least reward of any thing truly acceptable in them but is ready to reward them like a bounteous King so as to shew his riches of liberality far above any inward excellency they have in them It is for us and more behooful and profitable to minde and take notice of his love and goodness to us to quicken us up to and in our duties and obedience and to preserve us from proud and haughty miscarriages and froward repinings and murmurings at his dealings with us or others The minding Gods goodness to us will beget and nourish love and obedience in us to him and then we shall not need to minde how dutiful and obedient we are to him but rather shall see cause to confess our selves in all we do unprofitable servants to him that have done nothing but what his goodness already extended challenges and makes due from us and so that we cannot challenge any thing of due debt or merit further from him yet he will also such his goodness minde to reward us with rewards undeserved by us and exceeding glorious But as this proud and froward distemper made him overlook the goodness of his condition with his Father and his obligations to him so it blinded him also from seeing what was meet to be done for and toward his returned Brother and the equitableness of his Fathers carriage towards him which therefore his Father to cure him and argue him by reason and judgement out of his distemper mindes him of also It was meet that we should make merry and be glad That by his fatherly authority and wisdom he layes down as a certain truth to be received and believed by his Son as an Oracle proceeding from his more perfect understanding and unerring wisdom teaching his Son who in duty ought to hear his Fathers Instruction about what was meet and not to take upon him to correct his Father and be an instructor and teacher to him The over-eying and over-weaning of our graces services doings duties c. are very apt to yea very certainly and necessarily do puff us up with spiritual pride and that lifts us out of our places and makes us ready to disanul Gods Judgment and condemn the Almighty to justifie our selves and make our selves righteous As God sayes of Job sinning in that way of sin through that root of spiritual pride Job 40.8 and instead of learning of God and Christ to lift up our selves against them quarrel with them and set our selves to inform and teach them doing as St. Peter dâ—… who after he had heard Thou art 〈◊〉 and I will give to thee the Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven by and by lifted up himself as high as the Pope would be upon that Scripture lifted up by men to after and correct his Masters sayings and doings going therein before him and not coming after him him as Disciples and learners use to do to their Masters Mat. 16.18 19 22 23. yea taking him aside and rebuking and advising him as if his Keyes of the Kingdom gave him authority over him and his Doctrine too as the Pope practices upon that pretence with Christ and his Institutions thereby proving himself to be and to deserve the name of a Satan as Christ gave to St. Peter upon that account and we may very safely by the by observe this truth that while the Pope or any else under pretence of having the Keyes of the Kingdom given them do take upon them to alter and correct Christs sayings or doings his Ordinances and Institutions as they do in the order and manner of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper amongst other things coming in with their non abstante though Christ ordered thus yet that notwithstanding we order it otherwise though Christ ordered and the Apostles practised the receit of the Supper in both kindes yet we for all that order it to be received in one kinde only though God hath forbidden the worship of Images and Christ came not to dissolve his Fathers Laws yet we command them to be made and worshipped c. While I say the Pope and his Councils or any else do thus they are so far from being the Rock Foundation or the Head of the Church that they are Satans enemies and adversaries to Christ and his Church and so plainly Antichrists Yet this the pride of gifts places offices and services puffs up men too usually to But the Father would have his froward Son here reduced into better order and as Christ said to Peter come behinde him and hear and learn of him not argue against him and rebuke him as here he did opposing his Fathers practice and order of making merry for his lost Son found again It was meet that we should make merry and be glad Prepare a feast for mirth and make mirth outwardly at it and be glad too inwardly and in heart But he doth not only instruct him and teach him or by his Fatherly wisdom and authority dictate so much to him but also demonstrates the truth of his doctrine by solid and sound reason that he might as well inform his judgement and make him see the truth of his saying with his own eyes or understanding as it were as well as assure him of it upon his own authority and the authority of his saying which ought for it self to be received because he is the Lord though he gave us no other account of it and indeed this is one great difference between the Law and the Gospel The Law delivers precepts from God barely upon the account of his authority Thou shalt do or not do thus for I am the Lord But the Gospel insinuates things to us and perswades us to them by reason as laying down the grounds and reasons why that we might offer to God A reasonable service Rom. 12.1 whence also as Christ is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by a name signifying not only word but reason John 1 1. So they that believe not the Gospel are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Absurd or unreasonable men 2 Thess 3.2 and so I say here the better to convince him that he doth not impose upon him meerly by his