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A03694	The Christian gouernour, in the common-wealth, and priuate families described by Dauid, in his 101. Psalme. Guiding all men in a right course to heauen. Herewith also a part of the parable of the lost sonne. Luke 15. Both expounded and opened by Robert Horn. With the doctrines and vses thence arising. The more particular contents see on the page following.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.	1614 (1614)	STC 13821; ESTC S121133	164,903	442

seueritie here hee sheweth what this Gallant did out of his Fathers house in a strange and farre Countrie where hee had more scope and libertie for his prodigall wayes Hee wasted all sayth the Text. The meaning is when his lusts were his lords so as they might commaund him in any thing and preuaile with him for any purpose all was too little to put into their mouth and hee must onely grinde to them Iob 31.10 The point is when man departeth from the seruice of God doing seruice to his lusts there will bee no spare made of Gods blessings Lust is a great spender it is one of those three things or worse rather then all those three things that will not be satisfied and the fourth that sayth not It is enough Prouerb 30.15 By it Adam lost Paradise and himselfe Gen. 3.11.23 the lusting Israelites lost Canaan by meanes of it Numb 11.5.6 and 14.23.30 and Solomon lost his wisedome and had almost lost GOD by his lusts 1 King 11.4 Absalom did not onely loose all grace but good nature and shame when hee went into his Fathers Concubines in the sight of all Israell 2 Sam. 16.22 Also the Gentiles that followed their lusts how vvere they left of God and common honestie Rom. 1.24.26.27 Likewise Christians so farre as they were followers of their lusts● how vntowardly how negligently did they follow God the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life how did they commaund and carie them from the seruice of God to the base seruice of sinne 1 Iohn 2.16 From whence are warres saith Saint Iames but from the lusts that fight in your members Iam. 4.1 Gal. 5.17 as if he had said this that you are so vnquiet in your selues and passionate against others hath no other cause but your owne distempered affections quarrelling alwayes about somewhat that you would haue or doe toward your profit or pleasure or vvorldly credit and these disorder all the wheeles within you making them to runne by their poyse and weight vvithout any stop of contentment What prophaneth Gods Sabbath● so much as the lust of couetousnesse or lust of vvantonnesse For eyther for our owne markets we neglect and loose Gods markets or wee vnserue God to serue our bellies dancing to the pipe when vve should dance before the Arke The lust of vvhoredome how doth it vvaste the substance and destroy the soule Pro. 6.26.32 29.3 or like a fire that deuoureth all to destruction Iob 31.12 vvaste both body soule 5.9.10 6.33 He that feedeth among the Lillies abhorreth such vncleane Goates The lust of drunkennesse vvhat vvounds procureth it vvhat stripes and scratches and desperate stabbes Prou. 23.29.30 The lust of daunces and lustfull after them how doe they martyr their bodies and fill the soule vvith vvickednesse They who cannot serue God with patience one houre on the Sabbath can serue the Deuill with delight halfe the day some part of the night of the Sabbath which they take vp such lusts Meane while whose Martyrs bee such Gods or the Deuils vvhose day keepe they Gods or the Deuils day and to whom do they dedicate their Sabbaths to God or to the Deuill making them dayes not of holinesse but of their lusts Thus it appeareth that the wicked in their life of lusts make no spare of Gods blessings and may further appeare by these reasons The reasons The first may bee taken from the contrarietie that is betweene such lusting ones and Gods faithfull ones For as the true Christian giues all to God so the carnal man giues all to his lusts Pro. 13.4 Ezech. 23.5.6.11.12 c. Prou. 7.18 31.3.4 Rom. 13.14 Secondly they that are lusts seruants will doe any thing at lusts bidding and what did this lost Sonne with-hold from his lusts which he serued They that are taken with the net of the whorish woman will they not for her sake bring all to a morsell of bread Prou. 6.26 This yong man in a like matter brought all to nothing Shall I need to goe into a farre Countrie for examples doth not our owne Land so full of whoredomes so poore by vvhoredome and other lusts on which so many haue consumed all their soules and all giue too plentifull vvitnesse to this truth Thirdly all things are vile to that a man doth most affect for if wee loue God best what will vvee not doe for him Phil. 3.8 and if we loue the world best vvhat vvill vve not take from God to giue to it Parents loue their owne children best and therefore they lay vp for them and not for strangers So they that most affect and best esteeme of vile and stinking lusts vvill sacrifice euery precious thing to them Vses If then wee would bee good husbands of grace we must not be vnder the power of our lusts for they fight against the soule 1 Pet. 2.11 that is the saluation of it and graces in it We put bits into our Horses mouths saith Saint Iames Iam. 3.3 much more should we put the bit of Reason into the vnbrideled chaps of lust lest when vvee should turne it from vanitie it turne vs from GOD. That vvee may so doe wee must first mortifie the deeds of the flesh by the spirit Rom. 8.13 Now to mortifie flesh is so to keepe downe the soule in that part vvhich is fleshly that it shall command vs in nothing or to mortifie it is to doe nothing for it in nothing to gratifie it and to take all life from it Not to restraine it a little or a little to hold it in as some doe but after the manner of Gods children to kill it or so to master it that if it will liue in vs it shall liue as an vnderling faintly and droupingly as one drawing to the graue And to mortifie the flesh by the spirit is to set it downe with arguments not from our carnall lusts but from the Word and Spirit for some thinke to drowne their lusts in outward things in which they rather swimme then are drowned and this maketh them to say that if they might be thus rich and thus well reported of and thus seated they vvould desire no more But the sickenesse of desire being vvithin how can things vvithout vs bee the cure of it Is the dropsie cured vvith a parcell of Land with a portion of Money or vvith a braue suite of apparell No verily for such things are no approued Phisicke eyther for dropsie or other disease And he who hauing the dropsie or other sickenesse should say he should be well if he had these things should speake but simply Lust is a dropsie of the minde and will things helpe it that belong onely to the bodie and can properly satisfie the minde in nothing therefore by thy spirit the deeds of the flesh must be mortified that is by following the spirit not by lusting after carnall things Secondly if vve vvill keepe downe lust vvee must vvatch ouer it with

the word that is mightie in operation and sharper th●n any two edged sword Hebr. 4.12 If vve be young men we must cure the dangerous disease of youth by the word Psal. 119.9 if we be men vve must become men of God by it absolute to euery good worke 2. Tim. 3.16 and if wee be olde men it must be the staffe of our age and crowne of our grey haires A third good meane to subdue lust is to consider that wee are out of our Country strangers here in a Pilgrimes life 1 Pet. 2.11 Some vvill not wrestle vvith their flesh in this conflict vnder lust and sinne lest it should abridge their merry dayes but what merry life should a stranger looke for in his far Countrie here and vvhat long life vvhere hee is not certaine of one poore houre and if our life be so vncertaine and must needes bee so vncomfortable vvhat needs such feare of abridging that mirth vvhich wee must not looke for and of not seeing those many merry dayes that vvee doe but dreame of vvee say if wee take this sad course of mortifying our concupiscences and lusts we must not looke to liue one merry day more But let not this care trouble you saith Saint Peter for yee are Pilgrimes and strangers and what know ye if yee shall see one short houre more for Pilgrim● are at night in their Inne and gone in the morning Finally the best meane to mortifie our flesh that is the corruption which is in vs and to master our lusts is to be girt alwayes with our armour of opposition to such enemies and traitours in our owne bodies Ephes. 6.11.12.13 c. vvhere wee must consider that our lusts fight against vs and that therefore wee be alwayes prouided vpon good and sufficient furniture from the spirit and word of God to fight with them They will neuer be friends till they may command vs therefore should wee make sure neuer to haue peace with them that wee may not be commaunded but rule in our owne house A man will weaken his enemie all that hee can vvee haue no worse enemie then our owne corrupt flesh and if we forget not this to b●ing it downe wee shall be in a good way of subduing this olde man in vs with his concupiscences and lusts Secondly wee here learne that to yeeld to our lusts is to make neither good nor sauing bargaine for vvhat shall wee get by drawing the heart from God and by giuing it to the world and flesh making them Gods They that so doe lust and haue nothing Iam. 4 2. Now to desire and not to obtaine is simple getting no such kill their bodies and damne their soules For when men 〈◊〉 eagerly desire earthly things as Commoditie Pleasures and Honour which is deceitfull they care not how they punish their bodies the couetous vvhat he takes from them the voluptuous into vvhat diseases hee casts them and the ambitious after the shadow of honour to vvhat dangers and kindes of death hee brings them and for their soules they blinde-folde their ●indes and make their hearts fa● and sencelesse so that they can neither discerne spiritual thing nor be moued with them vvhether they be threatnings promises● iudgements or mercies And vvhat i● this but to kill the bodie and to damne the soule and vvhat is gotten● vvhen these are gone Our dutie in this case is to keepe our desires vvithin the bounds of Gods vvill in his vvord For if wee aske any thing according vnto it he heareth vs 1 Iohn 5.14 Rahel vvhen shee would haue had children for her lust the lust of enuie in her had none Gen. 30.1 But vvhen shee asked them to Gods pleasure and prayed for them by Gods word shee had first Ioseph Gen. 30.22 and then Beniamin Gen. 35.17.18 Isaac prayed for a Sonne twenty yeere Genes 25.20.26 after twenty yeeres attendance and vvhen God saw a fit time for him to giue and for Isaac to receaue a Sonne hee gaue him two sonnes Genesis 25.24 Thus God puts off his best children it is that they should put all vnto him and be content to take his vvord for their vvelfare For hee will will not faile them nor forsake them Hebr. 13.5 If then vvee vvill be gainers at Gods hands vvee must submit to him for all our vvelfare vvhere if vve follow our lusts for it vvee shall be as hee that earneth wages and putteth them into a broken bagge Aggi 1.6 The way to catch a shaddow is not to follow it but to flie from it so vvill it follow vs and so the way to haue the world is to denie it and the way to bee rich is to be content to bee poore and the way to haue health is to put all to God for health or sickenesse So saith a good vvriter They then vvho desire the world more then heauen and temporall more then eternall riches and bodily health rather then the soules health take the next vvay both to loose the vvorld and to forsait Heauen to bee poore in vvealth and poore in grace and to haue a sickely body and lepro●● soule So much for the lost Sonnes sinne the punishment of it followeth And when hee had spent all there arose a great dearth throughout that land and hee began to be in necessitie WEE haue heard of the young mans sinne the punishment of it is occasionall and proper or generall vpon the Countrey in these words and particular vpon himselfe and this verse sheweth vvhat end his sinne had as the next declareth what shifts it put him to Heere it is shewed that vvhen hee had consumed all on his lusts vvhich had eaten him vp and had spent his patrimonie vpon Harlots and vvith loose companions in a dissolute life that vndid him God sent an exceeding famine vpon the Countrie that was so riotous and exceedingly vvith want punished him that had so rioted Where it appeareth that this lost young man made choyse of this Countrie as most fit for his young minde to be in being a land of great excesse and fulnesse a land stored vvith Mates of his owne fashion and that was addicted altogether to that wanttonnes that best pleased him For like will to like as the saying is and they that loue vanitie vvill follow it or as thornes folden one in another and as drunkards in their drunkennesse Numb 1.10 so the tie of such fellowship will hold together Prouerb 1.11.14 What a man loueth hee vvill doe and where he loueth he will be But the poynt more directly to the Text aimeth at the punishment of the whole Countrie and of this lost Sonne by a mightie hunger that was sent vpon them The Countrie sinned by a fulnesse of bread therefore the Lord plagued that Countries sin by a famine of bread Where wee see a dearth of Creatures for the abuse of the Creature and a scarcitie of them for their intemperance in them The Doctrine that vvee learne is in what a Land sinneth in