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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44507	A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the Eton-scholars at St. Mary le Bow on November 18, 1679 by Thomas Horn.	Horne, Thomas, 1627?-1688.	1680 (1680)	Wing H2813; ESTC R30339	15,428	36

of the Husbandman and the Artificer the Art of Trafficking and the power of gathering Riches the conduct of Warriours is from the same Blessing on the Labours of Men. Isa 28.24 Doth the Plowman Plow all day to Sow Doth he open and break the Clods of his Ground Says the Almighty in Isaiah Who taught him the way Vers 26. His God doth instruct him to discretion and doth teach him God likewise changes his People of Israel lest when they enter into the good Land and dispossess their Enemies and grow Rich Dcut. 8.17 18. they should say in their Hearts My Power and the might of my Hand hath gotten me this Wealth But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God for it is he that giveth thee Power to get Wealth The wisdom of the Captains the valour of the Soldiers the victory in the day of Battel the power of getting Riches when they were setled came all from the same bountiful hand There is an imperceptible Spring that guides our motions and secretly gives speed and happiness even to our thoughts And though the Operation be smooth and silent yet it is not therefore the less powerful for the mightiest Operations are most unobservable Our blessed Saviour speaking of the Spirit of Regeneration compares it to a breath of Wind John 3.8 of which one cannot tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth One cannot say lo here it comes or lo there it goes We cannot sec at what passage the good thought entred nor observe how the good Spirit infuses a pious desire so is every one that is born of the Spirit The Power by which the Gospel conquered Nations and subdued mighty Kings was not a boisterous force but a calm might The Kingdom of Heaven cometh not by Observation The great ruling Powers in nature are as undiscernable in their way as irresistible We see the Sun-shine and we feel indeed his warmth but we discern not how he enters into the Bowels of the Earth how his little Atoms steal into the secret pores of Plants how he impregnates Nature with new life He seems to our Eye to stand still when he cometh forth like a Bridegroom out of his Chamber and rejoyceth as a strong Man to run his Race and works wondrous things as he goes We feel not how our own Spirits move how they start and fly as quick as we think from one end of our Nerves to the other If we say go they are gone and our Limbs are moved but how we know not We do not feel them run we cannot find their Channels and Posts we cannot discern the meaning of our Commands over them how they reach them and are applied to them Neither are the Springs of our own thoughts apparent to Observation So undiscernable and so puissant is the blessing of God on the studies and labours of Men. How else came it into the Plowman's mind to venture the first Experiment of flinging his Corn away into the Dirt What skill in the Laws of Nature what Rules in Logic would assure him that he should see a rewarding Resurrection of it again any more than if he sowed a Pearl or a Diamond He did not learn it from the springing of the scattered Seeds of the first voluntary Crop of the Earth Psal 129.6 7. for these are but as the Grass upon the House tops which withereth before it groweth up wherewith the Mower filleth not his hand nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom It was his God that did first instruct him to Discretion and did teach him From whence else came the Invention of the many unaccountable Medicines in Physic The many Arts which Men seem rather to have stumbled on by chance than found by strength of Reason and Method Such as the Notes in Music Printing Prospective Glasses and the like Whence comes it to pass that one Age is Learned and another Dark Or how came this days public thought into your minds passed by by so many of our Predecessors There is an unseen Hand that guides all our thoughts and reasonings which gives you your powers to manage your Studies Trades and Business which over-rules the success of all and orders them to your private and the public ends as God pleases While this unseen Spring moves in our setting out and all the course of our Life the effects of careful Institution of Children are very great and useful and will appear in some measure in these following instances 1. For first Discipline teaches them to learn to live by Government to gain some sway over their own desires it keeps them within compass and in order which puts a manliness into the Mind and a good composure in their Thoughts The very disusing them from the fond Caresses of home from the tenderness of the Parent and the compliance of the House which makes them peevish and untoward in their Humour unsatiable in their Desires cross and unruly and lays the Foundation of a miserable life the very disusing them I say from these expectations teaches them to content themselves with less and inures them by little and little to self-denial one of the happiest portions in this life The fear of a watchful Eye over them takes away that negligent loosness of Spirit which is apt to sway in that Age and begets Care and Observation They are apt also through fear to grow quick in observing the measures of Justice and Equity because they quickly feel the smart of the contrary in their Governor and are ready enough to complain of it and because also their own Injuries are frequently called to an account 2. Good Education lays the Principles of sound Knowledge which though small at first at last becomes great and useful The Masters leading their Observation as they read of great examples and wise sayings their illustrating and helping them to gather into their Store-houses profitable Propositions instilling also frequently their own good Counsels furnishes them with a greater Treasure than themselves are aware of for though the Seeds be little and scarce resemble the after-Fruit yet they increase and branch forth as their Reason grows and what seems to lie buried at first and unobserved even by themselves sprouts forth of it self afterwards And opportunity awakens the Memory and shews the usefulness of the Note as a Proposition in Mathematics gives a clearer sight of the fulness of an Axiom which at first reading seemed to have little in 't And this is the more advantagious by reason of a certain strange but natural readiness in Men to remember the first impressions of their Childhood in so much that the things which we heard or saw when we were Children return more quickly to our thoughts oftentimes than what we met with but a few days since 3. That which fructifies all the Knowledge they have got and is of more profit than the bare stock gained at School is the enlarging and strengthening the faculties of the Soul the impowering her to