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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44543	The sirenes, or, Delight and judgment represented in a discourse concerning the great day of judgment and its power to damp and imbitter sensual delights, sports, and recreations / by Anthony Horneck ...	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1690 (1690)	Wing H2853; ESTC R8310	130,970	370

Drusilla who was another Mans Wife and enjoy'd that Beauty which his lustful Appetite desired without Lett or control His Greatness bore him out in the commission of the crime and whatever Censures the soberer part of men might pass upon him his Grandeur over-aw'd them that they durst not speak aloud of his Impiety and all men flatter'd him and himself drowned all the internal twitches and stings of Conscience with noise and pomp and multitude of businesses yet behold when S. Paul reasoned of Temperance Righteousness and Judgment to come the Text saith Felix trembled The Sermon awaken'd the notions of Divine Justice that were engraven on the Tables of his Heart made him uneasie put him into consternation and for the present forced him to loath the Bed where his abomination was wrought We are told of a Custom in some Kingdom that the night before a condemned Malefactor is to die a very shrill Trumpet sounds before the Prison-door which is a certain sign that he is to die next day and before whose door soever the fatal Trumpet sounds over night no Prayers no Tears whatever Condition he is of or whatever Figure he makes in the world can save him from being executed It happen'd in process of time that the King who had made this Law after he had streamed out a considerable part of his Life in extravagant Actions on a sudden became serious was often seen to retire into his Closet gave strict Order for extermination of all Vices and though before he had doated on Mirth and Jests and sensual Satisfactions yet these were now all abandon'd and turn'd into a Scene of Gravity and Sobriety Such an alteration we must think must be a very strange surprize to Courtiers who impatient of this change and supposing it to be a Fit of Melancholy took the freedom to ask him what the reason of this Reformation was The Kings Brother especially none of the most Religious sought often to divert him tempting him to see Shows and Plays and Women and such Baits as served either to plant or cherish Vanity in his Mind and Affections but all in vain One Night the King desirous to bring his Brother to a better Sense of spiritual things bids the fatal Trumpet to be sounded before the jolly Princes House who sensible of the meaning of that noise that he was to die next morning starts out of his Bed throws by his stately Robes puts on a ragged Garment weeps Rivers of Tears and a mighty horror seizes his Mind and as soon as it was Day comes to the King in this posture and intercedes for his Life To whom the King said O Brother are you frighted with the sound of this Trumpet which foretels my Subjects approaching and inevitable Death and doth this Noise force you into Tears and Sackcloth and humble Supplications and can you blame me for being serious who know not how soon the Archangels Trumpet of far greater consequence and importance than this will sound in mine ears and summon me and you and all my Subjects to the Judgment-Seat of God and perhaps to eternal Despair and Agonies Go home said he and by my example learn to despise the World and prepare for that Day But this Subject will invite us to a larger Discourse and therefore it will be necessary to enquire 1. What Reason we have to believe that there is a Day of Judgment 2. What there is in that future Judgment that 's able to cast a damp on the Mirth and Jollities of Men especially the younger sort 3. How the Prospect of that Judgment must be managed that it may actually damp and put a stop to these carnal Delights 4. Whether every Man is bound to embitter his carnal Delights with this Prospect 5. Whether upon this account a man be obliged to mind nothing that savours of worldly Delight and sensual Satisfaction 1. What reason have we to believe that there is a day of Judgment Having to deal with Christians at least with men that profess themselves such this Query seems needless for the Scripture which the Christian world pretends to believe to be derived from God is full of Passages of this Nature and assures us that this Belief of a future Judgment is as ancient as the Creation of the World For Enoch the seventh from Adam who in all probability had it from his Ancestors prophesied of these saying Behold the Lord cometh with Ten Thousand of his Saints to execute Judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodlily committed and of their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him Jude v. 14 15. And this Faith hath been followed by all the succeeding Saints Patriarchs Prophets and judicious Men was confirmed by the great Messiah the Lord Jesus and his Apostles who gave us a more lively description of it and hath since been entertained by all the Christian World at least in profession though there are but few that act and live like persons influenced or over-aw'd by that Belief so that if Christians keep close to their Principles it can be no difficult thing to perswade them to believe that which they imbibe with their Mothers Milk and Education advances into an open Profession and daily Declaration But we have seen and do see a strange degenerateness in most Christians and not a few that go under that Name though they do not openly question this Truth yet they either live as if they did or Infidelity reigns secretly in their hearts and it is to be feared that whatever their Tongues may speak in their Minds they are not fully perswaded of it And were such Men willing to be perswaded it should be no contemptible Argument to convince them one would think that the greatest part of the World is of that Belief not only Christians but Jews Mahometans and the Heathens themselves that it is a grand Article of the Jewish Faith none can deny that ever convers'd with them that the Mahometans are stedfast and sincere in their Assertion and clear in this Point any one may see that hath read their Alcoran and that the Heathen World is no stranger to it appears from what their Sybilline Oracles their Philosophers and Poets have professed The Sybilline Oracles indeed are suspected by Learned Men and looked upon as Pious Frauds used by the Fathers thereby to convince the Heathens the better of the Mysteries of Christianity though it will not enter into my head how the Fathers could have confirmed any of their Doctrines from these Oracles if the Heathens they had to deal withal either were not satisfied that those things had been spoken by their Prophetesses or had believed that the Fathers had foisted those Oracles into the Sybils Writings which either were not or had never been there for this would have been so far from being an Argument against the Pagans that the Christians would have laid themselves open in

of that future Judgment and consequently is enough to check and damp the greatest Jollities on this side Hell and though it 's true that it doth not cause the least disturbance in thousands of Men that drink of these stollen waters for men in this Age are as jovial as ever and a Judgment to come frights them no more than an House on fire a Thousand Miles off but sure this is for want of taking the proper way and method which God and Reason doth prescribe and what that way and method is shall be shewn in the following Paragraph 3. How the Prospect of that future Judgment must be managed that it may actually damp and put a stop to these carnal Delights This is to be done no other way but 1. By thinking reflecting and ruminating upon that future Judgment This stands to Reason for except things be made visible to us how shall they move or fright us This future Judgment being out of sight and afar off it must be brought near and set before us and there is no way to do it but by thinking Our Thoughts are the Picture-drawers which make the Land-skip of that Judgment so lively that our Faculties cannot but be signally affected with it These are the Divine Part within us which can make things past and future as present and summon the remotest Objects to become familiar and palpable These are the Glasses in which all that God hath said or promised or threatned becomes visible and with the help of these we may make that Substance which seemed but Air before and condense that into solid Notions which to a carnal Man seemed but Fancy and Wind before These can make us in a manner grasp and feel that which was out of our reach before and make us concern'd about things which we neither see nor hear nor feel with our grosser Organs These can transplant the other World into this and make Eternity appear before us though we live in Tabernacles of Clay To prove this we need only appeal to Experience Behold those pious Souls that take a course contrary to that of the World What makes them afraid of sinning What makes them afraid of running with their Neighbors into Riot What makes them that they dare not do what some of their Carnal Acquaintance and Relations do What makes them mourn What makes them rejoyce in Spirit You see nothing that have reason to mourn for They have a competency they want nothing in the World they have Necessaries and Conveniencies and they prosper in their lawful Undertakings and under some of their greatest Afflictions you see nothing that should make them chearful no outward cause of their Joy but rather all that is about them is an invitation to sorrow and dejection Why They are invisible things that make them mourn and rejoyce and by thinking of them they make them visible and so visible that they are affected with them as much as other men are with Objects that incur into their Senses by thinking they see the Terrors of the Lord and the Affronts they have offered to the Divine Majesty and the Wounds they have given to their own Souls and that makes them weep by thinking they see the Glory that is set before them and the recompence which is promised them and the Right and Title they have to it and that makes their Soul rejoyce So then by thinking this future Judgment may be seen and if it be seen in any lively colours there is no Sinner so stout no Man so perverse no Creature so dull and stupid but it will startle him and put Wormwood into his Cup. When I eat or drink or whatever I do the last Trump sounds in mine Ears and I think I hear the terrible Voice of the Arch. Angel Arise ye dead and come to Judgment saith St. Hierom These Thoughts made him eat and drink with great moderation These brought a holy Fear upon him in all his Actions These kept him from going beyond the Bounds God had set him These struck Seriousness into him in all places These made him as circumspect in the Market-place as if he had been at Church and as devout in the Street as if he had stood at the High Altar And therefore I do not wonder at that Hermit that he became so serious a Man as Antiquity reports him who carried a little Book about him consisting only of four Leaves in which he was always seen reading and after reading meditating in the first Leaf was expressed Christ's Passion and what that Darling of Mankind suffered for poor Mortals during his abode in the World in the second was represented the Process of the future Judgment with the Terrors and Consternations that guilty men will be in at that time in the third were described the Glories of Paradise and of that third Heaven which all holy Souls shall enter into there to possess the Inheritance of the Saints in light in the fourth was drawn to the life the Picture of Hell and of the Miseries which shall await the stubborn and impenitent in the next life These four Leaves were soon read over but they afforded infinite Matter for Thoughts and Meditations and by these his Soul was so warmed that he cared not what became of him here so he might but enjoy the promised Glory and that Life and Immortality Christ had brought to light by the Gospel So true is that Saying of St. Chrysosiom There is no Man that thinks much of Hell that will ever fall into it as indeed there is no Man who makes light of it that will ever escape it For as it is among men they that are afraid of the Penalties of the Law seldom or never feel them for their Fear makes them shun those Actions which deserve them This keeps them from Theft and Rapine from Murder and Adultery from Burglary and Wrong from Violence and Oppression and consequently from the punishments the Law inflicts in such Cases The Plagues and the Stripes they fear make them cautious and whatever their inclination may be the Rods and Axes they fear restrain them whereas those that are regardless of the Mulct bring it upon themselves so it is here the frequent thinking of it is the best Antidote against the Terrors of that future Judgment If the Ninivites had not feared their overthrow they had certainly been overthrown and how could they have feared it if they had not thought of it If the men that lived before the Flood had thought of it and been afraid they would not have been drowned nor would the People of Sodom have been consumed by Fire if they had taken this course It 's a great Misfortune not to think of the fulfilling of Gods Threatnings for he that thinks not of it of all men will be the first that shall have woful experience of it It is reported of Agatho That in his last Sickness falling into a Trance for three days together he lay with his Eyes fixed