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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

will deliuer vs Dan. 3.17 but the God whom wee neuer serued and therefore cannot in iustice deliuer vs but suffer vs rather to perish in that flame that burneth vp the vngodly as drosse And since a confession that there is a God standeth not without a prayer of confession due vnto him they denying the one how can they but be deniers of the other And denying God how can they with comfort looke for the saluation of God Let them consider this who neither at home nor in the assembly once a weeke call vpon God or if their lips goe their heart is not in the businesse of prayer Some cannot pray but in the Church and some will not pray when they are at Church what difference betweene such and deniers of God One sort salutes him not at all and the other with lippes without a heart Further if God should againe send some contagious death and mortalitie among vs what good could these vnprofitable limbes in the Church doe for the remoouing of it what is the King and his throne better I am sure much worse for them for though they cannot not care not to establish it by their prayers they can weaken it by their finnes and send againe for the Pestilence though when it is come they can neither helpe to cure it while it rageth nor the skarre of misery and desolations that it leaueth behind it in particular places and in the common state when it is gone And now that the bloodie Esau of Rome prepare with such crueltie and numbers to deuoure poore Iacob what can these doe but strengthen them weaken the righteous as they do by horrible Atheisme They cannot deliuer themselues and which is worse they cannot but draw the Gospel with vs further into bondage Let God threaten our haruest and corne fields with ill weather and forcible tempests what good doe these wanting the key wherewith Elijah shut the heauen and opening it wider and further by their blasphemies And as they doe no good so as doers of great harme by prouoking the Lord with their monstrous villanies they increase the wrath vpon England Nehem. 13.18 But further the Lord speaking of the righteous saith Hee shall call vpon me that is hee shall goe to no other for helpe in trouble Which was the practise of the Fathers in the old Testament Doct. 2 and teacheth that God onely is to be prayed vnto For God so commanded Psal 50.15 and the godly yea euery Reason 1 one that is godly must so doe Psal 32.6 So Psal 34.6 The poore man cryed and the Lord that is he to whom hee cryed heard him and saued him out of his troubles Thus did good Iehosaphat and the chiefe of Iudah with him for his eyes and theirs were to God onely not to Abraham or any Saint departed 2. Chron. 20.12 And in the New Testament Christ directs vs by forme Math. 6.9 and charges vs by precept Mat. 11.28 to come to no other then to God not to him otherwise then as God The reasons For our approach to any other then to him that is God there is not either in the old or new Testament any commandement or practice and the prayer taught by Christ the most perfect and best that euer was taught doth proue as much Secondly the obiect of our faith must bee the subiect of our Reason 2 prayers Rom. 10.14 That is to him onely we must pray in whom onely we beleeue But this is no other then God Thirdly none can helpe as God can and none can where hee Reason 3 will not And therefore he onely and none but he that is none but he that is God is to be prayed vnto Or from God alone come all the meanes of our deliuerance the wise vsing of them the successe and blessing vpon them therefore to him onely must we go for them by prayer Fourthly Christ hath put the matter out of question who saith Reason 4 in one of his answers to the Tempter Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue Math. 4.10 Out of which answer I reason thus Prayer is a seruice and worthy of God but we must worship and serue God onely and therefore pray to him onely It taxeth Popish Liturgies Vse and formes of Prayer to Saints departed Exceptio 1. But they say that so call vpon the Saints that they pray not to them to helpe them but to speake for them not to be Sauiours but Mediators Repl. But the Apostle tels vs that there is one Mediatour hee speaketh of no mo and therefore but one onely betweene God and Man 1. Tim. 2.5 giuing instance in Christ both God and Man His meaning is that God the Father hath made to Christ the Sonne a Deed of gift of being that one Mediatour betweene him and vs and that euery gift and grant that is made passeth in his name and whatsoeuer is recouered to vs pertaining to redemption is entred in the title and right of him and giuen to vs because we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones Ephes 5.30 This being the Apostles meaning touching that one Mediator who is Christ to entitle other Mediators to his office is a point of forgery and point that argueth all Papists of a great offence against the chiefe roialties of that only sufficient most mild Mediator between God vs the God man Christ Iesus Besides he that will take vpon him to be Mediator that is in this manner to be Spokesman betweene God and vs must be perfectly able to saue all them that come to God by him Heb. 7.25 but what creature bee it the mother of Christ though otherwise a most blessed woman be it I say againe the Mother of Christ or any other that haue died in Christ or for him is able to saue a soule and if not able to saue a soule then not allowed to be Mediatour for it Exceptio 2. But they further say Saints are Mediatours of intercession and Christ and he only the Mediatour of redemption Repl. But this answer is no other then that which was confuted before and it is a distinction without a difference like to that answer of the Physitians wife and it was a wise one pepper is hot in operation Bishop I●-will against Har-ding and cold in working as if operation and working were two things So here mediation and intercession but one thing two names are made diuers that differ not for what difference betweene a Mediatour and Intercessour Is not a Mediator one that laboureth betweene partie and partie and is not an Intercessor the same Exceptio 3. But who that hath offended the Prince commeth directly into his sight and not by some way made for him by his Nobles or some in fauour about him Repl. Be it so and be it granted also that wee dare not come to God offended without a Mediator haue we not a Mediator who as hath beene said is able to saue

the worst that these or any other troubles like these can doe is to preferre vs to our inheritance and liberty where here wee serue but a ward-ship and are incumbred daily These make our way for vs to saluation and when we duly consider this how can we be moued Vse 2 A confutation of that enuious Doctrine in Poperie which because it would haue the common people in the point of saluation to rest in an infolded faith beleeuing as the Church beleeueth that is contingently but not with knowledge nor certainty must needs breed dangerous offences in temptation for if wee shall stand suspitious of that which must bee our greatest comfort in troubles and which we haue vnder the seale of Gods promise what shall stay vs in the afflictions and crosses of our mortall life when the remedie is denied what shall cure vs and when wee see death and no saluation that is no assurance of it after death what comfort can wee haue to suffer here and hereafter for cuer Vse 3 A terrour to worldly minded men whose portion is in this life They neuer thinke of nor care for heauen but haue their hearts buried in the graue of worldly things what wil such do and whither will they turne them when affliction and anguish shall come vpon them Prou. 1.27 and their end draw neere the sight of saluation cannot comfort them for that cannot comfor them that they cannot expect and the feare of damnation must needs trouble them for that cannot but torment them that they must needs inherit as their portion for euer Doct. 2 Lastly it is called Gods saluation Mine saith the Lord that is that which is originally only from Me. Where we learne that that eternall life is the gift of God or his only worke and gift therefore is it called by Esay as here His saluation Esa 25.9 and of the Lord he saith He will saue vs Esa 33.22 hee and no other The most blessed Virgin calles him her Sauiour Let the Papists note that she must haue a Sauiour and this must be and be no other then God her Sauiour It is that grace of God that bringeth saluation saith Saint Paul Tit. 2.11 that is It is God who by grace or the doctrine of grace in the Gospel bringeth it And to spare further labour in a matter wherein both the Testaments are so plentifull the very words of the doctrine are the same Apostles owne words The gift of God is eternall life through Iesus Christ Rom. 6.23 where hee sheweth that saluation is a gift and what is freer then gift and giuen of God for Christ that is a gift whereof the authour is God and the purchaser Christ the Sonne of God The Reasons For when Adam was once falne from Gods image in Paradise and being driuen by guilty conscience had fledde to the weake succour of leaues and bushes for a hiding place against him and the storme of his iustice the good Angels could not but abhorre vs and the other creatures how could they but become enemies to vs and therefore no will in them to haue saued vs if they could onely the fountaine of mercy God the Father of Christ and our Father in Christ looked toward vs and his eye onely pittied vs in this blood of our pollution Ezech. 16.5.6 then he made his couenant of Saluation with vs in the seed of the woman by a person that should come of woman that blessed seed that should breake the Serpents head Gen. 3.15 That is Christ that should destroy the deuill and hath already destroyed him In all this what haue the creatures done Nay what could they doe Secondly he onely is giuer of life that can raise from death to Doct. 2 life this can no creature Angel or other doe that is doe by his owne Name and power Acts 3.12.16 Acts 9.34.40 or hee that will giue life must deliuer from death but none can saue from death but he that hath the keyes of hell and death Apoc. 1.18 this is no creature Also none can saue from death but hee that can deliuer from sinne that causeth death But what creature can so doe what creature 〈◊〉 can deliuer from an infinite sinne Doct. 3 Thirdly if God onely did not giue life the Scriptures which speake of a Sauiour would not as they doe speake of him onely but of helpers with him in the point of saluation But the Scripture speakes of no Sauiour but the Lord nor Giuer of life but Him Esai 43.11 61.10 12.2 3. Ioh. 10.28 Act. 4.12 And surely if he did not saue vs who onely is the Sauiour our dayes would be short and cut off quickly for the torments of hell Satan and our owne corruption swaying vs thither but the the arme of Gods salvation able and only able to ouer-master Satan and our owne vnruly old-Man doth both stay vs from destruction and keepe vs in the path of life Vse 1 A confutation of that doctrine of the Papists which in the grace of life will haue godly men to bee takers with God or ioynt-purchasers making him but a Sauiour in part and them partly their owne Sauiours but is this because he is weake to saue by himselfe Zacharie in his Canticle calleth him the horne of Saluation in the house of Dauid Luke 1.69 That is the strong and mighty Sauiour in that house But they make Zedekijahs hornes 1. Kin. 22.11 hornes of iron and instruments of vanitie to ioyne them for the batterie of the Kingdome of Satan with this horne of our saluation To his good will they ioyne their free-will and their good workes to his great worke and to his intercession the intercession of Angels and Saints departed and set their posts by his posts Ezech. 43.8 putting their old cloth in his new garment wherein is no breach nor defect But hee that made this wedding dinner is a King Math. 22.2 3. And what want is there at a Kings Feast specially at the marriage of his elder sonne and what shot doe Kings take of their seruants when they haue feasted them therefore they pay nothing that sit downe at this Supper Esai 55.1 Apoc. 22.17 neither bring any dish vnto it that is dish of halfe purchase Eternall life as hath beene said euery part and whit of it is the gift of God Vse 2 But is saluation Gods and the gift of eternall life Gods gift then Christians must walke so and so behaue themselues that they may comfortably with their last breath expect this gift of eternall life being in the way of the same by a godly life and holy death For God doth not giue his saluation to those who neither care to liue in obedience nor prepare to die in faith And to lose saluation is to be in worse case at our death then the beasts that perish For when they die their misery ends with them but when reprobate man dies his misery begins that shall neuer haue end For hee hath millions of yeares without