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A70263	Several sermons upon the fifth of St. Matthew .... [vol. 1] being part of Christ's Sermon on the mount / by Anthony Horneck ... ; to which is added, the life of the author, by Richard Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1698 (1698)	Wing H2851; ESTC R40468	201,926	515

stamped and impressed upon his Soul He imitated God in those two things which one of the Ancients tells us will make us like God viz. speaking truth and bestowing benefits A man of greater simplicity and veracity I never knew and there are multitudes that will witness that he went about doing good He did vow in his Baptism to renounce the Devil the World and Flesh. Some men go no farther All their Religion comes from the Font. This good Man perform'd his Vow he cast out of himself the Evil One and renounced all his Works overcame the World in the noblest sense and subdued and mortified all the sinfull desires of the flesh He was a Conquerour and more than Conquerour He devoted himself intirely and without reservation to the service of his God It was not only his business but his choice and delight his meat and drink I need not say that he was much in Prayers and Fastings in Meditation and heavenly Discourse very frequent in devout Communions in reading and hearing the Word in watchings and great austerities He wisely considered that these were the means and not the end of Religion that these are not godliness but only helps and the way to it He arrived at the end of these things He had an ardent love of God a great Faith in him and was resigned to his Will He had an unspeakable Zeal for his Honour a profound regard to his Word and to his Worship and to all that had the nearest relation to him or did most partake of his image and likeness He was a Man after God's own heart He lived under a most gratefull sense of his Mercies he was governed by his fear and had a lively sense of God's special Care and Providence He had that sense of God's Mercy in giving us his Son to die for us that it was observed of him that when he discoursed of that Argument he used no measure no bounds or limits of his Discourse His heart was so affected with that Argument that he cou'd not put a stop to himself Jesus was his Lord and Master and he had his Life and Example always before him and conformed himself to it in the whole Tenour and Course of his Life His Religion was unaffected and substantial it was genuine and primitive and so great a pattern he was that he might have passed for a Saint even in the first and best times of Christianity He was of the Church of England and a most true Son of that Church and gave the greatest proofs of it Far was he from the Innovations of the Roman Church on the one hand and from Enthusiasm on the other His Writings are a sufficient proof of this I very well know that when the Church of England hath been traduced and disparaged he hath not forborn to make so vigorous a Defence that he lost a very great Man's friendship by it and felt the Effects of it afterwards by the loss of a considerable worldly advantage which he would otherwise have stood very fair for He shewed his Zeal for the Church of England when she was in greatest danger from many Enemies especially from the Church of Rome At that time when some were so wicked as to change their profession and others so tame as to sit still and not to concern themselves when the Enemies were at the Gates for there were too many that professed to be Sons of this Church and do so still who were over-awed and durst not appear with that Courage which God and all good Men might justly have expected from them then did this good Man bestir himself and lifted up his Voice like a Trumpet and undauntedly defended the Church when she most needed it God be praised there were others who did so likewise with great vigour and resolution and great hazard of their liberty and worldly Comforts And many of these had the hard hap to be traduced by their lukewarm Brethren who cry up the Church as if these were not the genuine Sons of this Church It hath not been for the advantage of the Church that those Men have been decried as not genuine Church-men who have done her the greatest service on the other hand some vaunt themselves to be such who have never been any support to their Mother in her greatest distress There are some of these who are like the Images we see in many Churches that are so placed in that bending Posture as if they bore upon their Shoulders the weight of the Building whereas in truth they are only the fancy of the Architect and bear no weight at all The Doctor believed the Doctrine of this Church obeyed her Injunctions and conformed to her Constitutions Headmonished and diligently instructed his Charge kept Multitudes in her Communion and lived up to her holy Rules and was ready to sacrifice all that was dear to him in the World to promote the true Interest of this Church He would not indeed take the Cure of Souls and then put them out to nurse to some cheap and negligent Curate receive the profits and leave another man to take the pains He would not take a Vicarage and swear residence before his Ordinary and afterwards refuse to reside on pretence of some privilege or exempt Jurisdiction c. as very many have done But a Church-man he was notwithstanding Indeed the best of men have been mis-represented And there are a Number of the most useless men that yet in all places are crying up the Church of England but have little regard to her holy Rules I knew two men of the same Faculty in the same neighbourhood They were in their profession very eminent One of these had the Name of a Church of England man the other of a Fanatick And yet it is well known that the first very rarely if at all came to the Church or Communion the other was a great frequenter of both The Doctor was a man of very good Learning He had very goods kill in Languages He had addicted himself to the Arabic from his younger time and retained it in good measure to the last He had great skill in the Hebrew likewise nor was his skill limited to the Biblical Hebrew only in which he was a great Master but he was seen in the Rabbinical also He was a most diligent Reader of the Holy Scriptures in that Language in which they were originally written Sacras literas tractavit indefesso studio This Dr. Spanheim says of him in his youth viz. that he was indefatigable in the Study of the Holy Scriptures He adds that he was then one of an elevated wit of a mind that was cheerfull and covetous of making substantial proficiency And also that he gave a Specimen of it about the year 1659 when he was very young by a publick defending a Dissertation concerning the Vow of Jephtah touching the sacrificing his Daughter This upon his own request and motion he publickly defended with great presence of mind He had very good

the Motto of the Plague written over it Lord have mercy upon him The Scripture generally makes him who is dead to Righteousness a very miserable man gives so dismal an account of him that nothing can be supposed more wretched You know the Parable of the Prodigal till he got a hunger and thirst after Righteousness the holy Ghost represents him as a very contemptible person as one sent into the field to keep swine and that would have fill'd his belly with the husks the swine did feed on but none gave unto him Luke XV. 14 15. nay v. 32. he is pronounced a dead man dead to the favour of God and the influences of God's Spirit and to any right to the precious promises of the Gospel so is the man that hath no hunger at all after Righteousness and if his appetite to it be weak and feeble still it s an argument of sickness and neither the one nor the other is a sign of bliss and happiness 2. He that doth not hunger or thirst after Righteousness is a Fool so Solomon tells us Prov. I. 7. For the wisdom he speaks of there is this Righteousness and he that despises it hates his own soul and loves death Prov. VIII 36. than which there cannot be a greater argument of madness and surely this is no sign of blessedness Wisdom indeed such a man hath who is a stranger to this hunger and thirst but it is earthy sensual devilish Jam. III. I5 Earthy i. e. he minds nothing but earth his contrivances are altogether how to compass the contents and pleasures of this life the world is his highest and chiefest good the fashions of this world are the rules of his life he governs himself by the punctilio's of State and Honour and worldly Policy he doth as the world doth and what worldly men say or do he imitates and in endeavouring after temporal advantages he stands not upon the stricter rules of Conscience It is sensual too all his caterings are for the flesh and how to live easie and delicately is all his care He suffers himself to be discourag'd from things truly good by carnal reasons and if his flesh and carnal desires be but gratified he is pleased and more than pleased than with all the comforts of the Holy Ghost His flesh is his sovereign and the Lord that rules in him and its Dictates are the Law he lives by It is devilish too for having no hunger no thirst after Righteousness the Devil is his friend his companion though he sees him not but he may feel him by the suggestions which he yields to and whereby his mind is rendred vain and averse from real Goodness That Aversion comes by the Devils Instigation and in rellishing nothing but what pleads in favour of the brutish part about him he suffers himself to be made a Prisoner to that Conqueror becomes his Slave and Captive and surely such a man cannot possibly be happy and consequently without this hunger and thirst after Righteousness the only thing that can make a man truly wise a man is a stranger to real Bliss to be sure he is not capable of being enrich'd by the Consolations of God nor is God concern'd to fill him in order to this bliss which leads me to the III. Proposition viz. That the happiness of those who truly hunger and thirst after Righteousness consists in being filled Filled How 1. Their very hunger and thirst after Righteousness shall be and is a satisfaction to them For it is a sign of Grace a sign that God loves them a sign that he visits them with the favour he bears to his own people and that they are born again that there is a signal alteration wrought in their natures and that their deceitfull lusts and unruly desires of the flesh are abated in order to a total destruction This hunger and thirst after Righteousness being predominant in them is an item that God's Spirit hath got the better of corrupted nature and from hence flows a calmness and serenity into their Souls and when the enemy beats them out of all their strong holds and they can fasten on nothing to give themselves comfort this hunger and thirst after Righteousness upholds their hope and supports their confidence when they are so weakned that they dare not pretend to St. Paul's having labour'd more than all to the Apostle's invincible patience under injuries to Zacharias and Elizabeth's walking in all the Commandments of the Lord blameless to Anna's serving the Lord with fasting and prayer Night and Day to the faith of the Thessalonians which grew exceedingly to the Galatians readiness to pluck out their own eyes and give them to their Teachers or to the Charity of the Macedonians who did to their Power nay beyond their Power though I say the hungry Soul from an humble sense of her frailty dares not pretend to these Accomplishments yet this Hunger and Thirst after Righteousness in the midst of all assaults of the Devil is the sacred Anchor which she can make use of and thereby preserve her Vessel from sinking so that this very Hunger and Thirst after Righteousness is filling 2. They shall be filled with Righteousness that goodness they did thirst after they shall have great store of all their faculties shall be filled with it and like the rich ointment poured out on Aaron's Head and running down upon his Beard and from thence into the very Skirts of his cloathing it shall perfume their outward and inward Man and fill both their Hearts and Lives what they ask for they shall have what they seek they shall find and the Door they knock at shall be open'd to them They shall find goodness growing in them as the Lilies and spreading its Roots as the Cedars in Libanon Their desire is that God may totally subdue their hearts and accordingly their Souls shall become Temples of the Holy Ghost they earnestly with that every imagination which exalted it self against the obedience of Christ Jesus may become subject to him and they shall have their Heart's desire and the request of their Lips shall be granted them They shall be filled with the spirit by degrees so filled that in time they shall be abounding in the Work of the Lord flourish in the Courts of the Lord's House bringing forth fruit in old Age till they become full of good Works and Alms-deeds as Dorcas was Acts IX 36. and old Disciples as Mnason was Acts XXI 16. The duties they perform but weakly now they shall perform with greater vigour and with their vertues their comfort shall encrease and the consolations of Christ shall abound in them 2 Cor. I. 5. Thus they shall be filled in this Life But is this promise ever fulfilled to any will some say all I shall say is go and ask those who hunger and thirst after Righteousness and they will tell you by Experience in the Psalmist's Language Psal. LXXXIV 11. The Lord is a Sun and Shield he will give