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A03695	Life and death Foure sermons. The first two, of our preparation to death; and expectation of death. The last two, of place, and the iudgement after death. Also points of instruction for the ignorant, with an examination before our comming to the Lords table, and a short direction for spending of time well. By Robert Horne. Auspice Christo.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.; Horne, Robert, 1565-1640. Points of instruction for the ignorant. aut	1613 (1613)	STC 13822.5; ESTC S118515	156,767	464

of blood and water so strong and forcible that they ranne down his cloathes and streamed to the ground and yet to say Father not my wil but thine be done And shall we liue at ease in Zion and feed vpon the mountaines of Samaria that is desire an easie and pleasant life when his was so bitter to him and full of deadly troubles or thinke it much to feele a little of the sharpe aire when the whole storme was vpon him a storme so fierce and percing that it rent the vaile of his body from the top to the bottom and be vnquiet in a small shoure who are commanded to possesse our soules in the middes of our troubles when whole floods of his bitter passion could not carry him to the least vnquietnes in all his agonies bloody sweats Fourthly it is the triall of our faith tried or tried at all but where is gold better tried then in the furnace and faith which is more precious then gold where is it tried so as in aduersity or in the furnace of trobles The corage of a Souldier is more seene in warre then in peace and the skill of a skilfull Pilot better discerned in a storm then in a calme So the courage of a Christian is better knowne in the warre of the crosse and when the calme of the soule is turned into a storme of tentations then when the bodie is in health and the soule in no great aduersitie or when all things goe well with a man and he hath euen what heart can wish And as his courage so his wisdome may better be perceiued in a rough Sea then in a calme Riuer that is in a troublesome then in a quiet estate A reproofe to those Vse 1 who because they purge not themselues from an euill and faithlesse feare doe in the day of their trouble forsake their hope and say with the messenger who came from the King of Israel Behold this euil commeth of the Lord wherefore should I attend on the Lord any longer 2. King 6.33 as if there were any crown without a conquest or conquering but by that which is the victorie that ouercommeth the world the grace of patience and worke of faith in those who say with Iob in another place though the Lord kill vs we will trust in him Iob 13.15 as if they should say whatsoeuer comes we wil stil praise him and howsoeuer he doe we wil yet wait vpon him Psal 43.4 If God will haue Daniel to bee the ruler vnder King Darius Daniel must for a time be in the Lions den and the Kings seale must bee vpon it Dan. 6.16 So Gods children shall see their hope but first they must be committed to close prison and haue the seale of sicknesse set vpon the doore of their chambers out of which they cannot passe their soule shall be among Lions and the word of the Lord shall trie them before they goe out before Lazarus bee carried by the Angels to Abrahams bosome blessed Lazarus must bee laid at the Rich mans gate full of sores and diseases Luk. 16.20.22 So Gods children shal be freed from miserie in the kingdome where is no sorrow nor woe and passe from their bodie of death to the bosome of Abraham but they must first taste of the cup of miserie at the doore of death and bee filled with sores and prepared by sicknesse before they can put on this change All teares shall bee wiped from their eyes Apoc. 21.4 but then they must shed them here Also except the wheate corne fall into the ground and there die it bringeth forth no fruit Ioh. 12.24 So Gods children shall flourish for euer the seede of their bodies shall grow before the Lord in the garden of his presence but both it they must receiue this increase and preferment by the help of corruption It and they must be kept in the coffin of the earth and there putrifie as doth the seede of corne before there can be any putting on of the greene garment of the resurrection to eternall life For since the fall of Adam no man passeth to Paradise but by the burning Seraphins Gen. 3.24 nor to the holy Citie but by the Riuers of Babel which must enter into his soule And thus God will trie the patience of his children before hee worke their full deliuerance Much therefore are they to bee condemned who if they may not haue their heauen presently and in this life will rake into a hell of sinnes and world of lusts to haue those delights which they loue better then heauen the pleasures of sinne for a season and so forsake God to inherit desperation An admonition to store our hearts with faith Vse 2 hope patience and the promises of God in his word so shall we be in better case and likelihood to beare what commeth Also to look for trouble and when it is come to possesse it in patience not to breake the Lords bonds nor to cast the cords of his chastisements from vs by a mutinous and distempered soule For the tenure whereby wee hold heauen is the crosse and the great Indenture that is made betweene Christ and his Father runneth in this forme and stile of words All that will liue godly in Christ Iesu must suffer persecution 2. Tim. 3.12 In the drowning of the old world as the waters rose so did the Arke and in the deluge of this world the Arke of the faithfull soule should bee lift vp to confidence and arise to God as afflictions lift vp their waues That is as sicknesses and troubles and afflictions and the whole traine of hell fight against vs so we should fight against them by that victorie that ouercommeth the world 1. Ioh. 5.4 Christ vpon the Crosse as a Doctor in his Church did by his owne example and in his great patience then commend his truth vnto vs who relyed vpon his fathers deliuerance when the snares of death compassed him and the paines of hell caught hold of him and when hee found trouble and sorrow Psal 116 3. Luke 23.46 Esay saith Peace shall come Esay 57.2 but to whom to euery one saith he who walketh before the Lord. That is it shall surely goe well with him at the last who keepeth his vprightnesse and continueth to doe well who persisteth in his good course meeting the Lord in a readie heart and prepared soule Psal 108.1 and who when Christ saith I come quickly doth reply and make answer with all Saints saying euen so come Lord Iesus Apoc. 22.20 that is doe as thou hast said whatsoeuer pleaseth thee contenteth me Some tainted with hypocrisie can abide some short and small troubles but if they continue long and receiue encrease they forsake their patience and further their paine by beating the aire and themselues with their raging and vnquiet sounds till they cause the Lord to lay heauier penalties vpon them and to chaine them faster with linkes of longer and more perplexed troubles And so as the Bird that

more pleasures then at feasts this estate of heauenly life is both a kingdome and a feast A kingdome for they that are in it haue ouercome and shall sit on thrones Apoc. 2.7 A feast yea the marriage feast of the sonne of God in which he shall euer be espoused to the Church his wife The contract is made below the marriage shall be consummate aboue with solemnities vnspeakeable But if these excellent things spoken of the citie of God cannot winne our loue thither remember we the rich man in torments Luc. 16.23 and by this burnt child learne to dread the fire of hell The places are contrarie and all things contrarie that be in them As therefore Heauen is a place of ioyes and honour eternall so hell is a kingdome of shame and perpetuall contempt Dan. 12.2 And now if so great glorie and pleasures so many and so endlesse cannot please you doe but a litte cast downe your eyes into that deepe lake where are nothing but flaming fire palpable darknesse and perpetuall burning and nothing but teares shrikes and outcries of hopelesse and reprobate consciences and nothing but torments and places of torment prepared for damnable sinners where is no intermission of complaints nor end of paine as farre from ease millions of yeeres to come as at their beginning The rich man in torments craued but one drop of water when whole riuers of water would not quench those riuers of brimstone that fed that fire and could not haue it Luc. 16.24.25 And if the rods wherewith God chastneth his children in this life be so smart and galling that they haue brought them downe to the brimme of despaire and so low in affliction that they haue wished for death what smart and galling plagues doe the damned suffer in the torments of hell who are beaten not with rods of chastisement but with an iron rod of destruction in whose confusions remedilesse the Lord will say euen he whom here they despised I will ease me of mine ad●ersaries and auenge me of my fees Esa 1.24 And thus the feare of hell may be reason inough to draw our affections from these things below if the loue of heauen cannot But neither the loue of heauen nor feare of hell can worke in some any little distast of this worldly Egypt that they may eat of this Manna that is hidden Apoc. 2.17 That is of the bread of heauen in the kingdome of heauen A reproofe therefore to those who altogether mind the earth and earthly things Vse 2 not caring for that kingdome that cannot bee shaken Some haue an eye still in Sodome and hoofe in Egypt and so sticke to the place of their banishment in which they take case purpose cōtinuance that they neuer mind their countrey nor affect their remoue vnto it They cloy their stomacks with the grose dinners of this present world and so haue no appetite to the Lambs dinner where Christ being gouernour keepeth his best things last Ioh. 2.10 When we speake to them of peace they prepare themselues to battell Ps 120.7 In heauen is peace and here on earth is nothing but warre within and without within in our selues without in the world and yet men had rather liue in a field thus swimming in blood then by walking before God dwell in tabernacles of peace A signe that heauen is not there citie nor Christ their head For they that belong to the citie of peace will seeke heauens peace and they that belong to Christ desire to bee with him Colos 3.1 Where the head is there would the body be If then we doe not ascend to heauen by a spirituall life but digge downe to the hels by a carnall if couetousnesse hold vs in the world and the loue of God cannot draw vs out if to be thus absent from Christ be our happinesse and we count it our greatest vnhappinesse to come vnto him by going hence Christ is not our head but he that hath the Dragons head the world is our citie and heauen our strange citie to which either we meane not to come or would not willingly but by the violence of death when we can liue no longer For can Christ bee our head whom wee care no more for and heauen our countrey which we seeke no sooner after Therefore while we are on the earth in our bodies if we will be the members of Christ and the citizens of heauen let vs dwell before God in our soules framed in the forme and manner of a ship which is close downeward and shut to the world but open aboue enlarged to heauen where our treasure is and expectation ought to be So did our fathers who walked with God to whose righteous soules this peace is come and who now are most safe vnder the shadow of their Altar Christ vpon whom whiles they liued they offered all their spirituall sacrifices and now being taken vp to heauen in their soules praise him with ioifull lips continually and follow him in white whether soeuer he goeth A comfort to those Vse 3 who for this peace-sake fight lawfully in all the warre of the world against it They who in such a presse of worldly affaires beeing with Zacheus vpon too low a ground to see Christ doe therefore climbe vp in their affections aboue earthly matters and worldly desires treading the Moon vnder their feete shall heare one day perhaps this present day their sweet Sauiours voice saying Come to mee at once for this day is saluation come to your houses Luk. 19.5.9 And then as God said to Abraham Arise and walke about this Land this is the countrey that I will giue thee Gen. 13.17 So he will one day say to euery child of Abraham Behold thy heauenly land that is the place of thy perpetuall aboad come to it walke about it and liue in it for euer Then wee shall haue that blessing that all our prayers hearing readings in the word and other godly striuings like that of Iacob with the Angell before hee blessed him laboured vnto Gen. 32.26 Herod promised much when he promised halfe his kingdome Mark 6.23 But Christ both promiseth will giue a whole kingdome Math. 25.34 And where among men the elder onely doth inherit here all sons are heires and all receiue not some few Manors and small Lordships but crownes of righteousnesse Rom. 8.17 O then what should let our desires with the tribes of Renben Gad to passe ouer this Iordan of death by the parting not of waters but of soule body to come to our Land of promise Num. 32.3.4.5.6 Iacobs 7. yeeres seemed light vnto him in regard of Rahel for whom he serued Ge. 29.20 And why should the labour trauel not of 7. yeares for it may be as was said we shall not serue 7. dayes we serue not a churlish Laban but a most bountiful redeemer I say why shold this short labor of ours trauell of so short time seeme any thing in respect of that faire

fill in them they haue Gods blessing inwardly in the peace of a contented minde outwardly in so much as is sufficient The wicked who haue them in greater measure haue them not vnder Gods hand nor as his blessings but as stolne wares that they shall answere for because they haue no right vnto them by Christ nor hold them in Capite that is in him Therefore their table is a snare vnto them and their prosperitie their ruine They liue to the encrease of their damnation and they die to take possession of it Fourthly they who with the glorified virgins wait for Christ in the life of the righteous are alway prepared for death when it knocketh Mat. 25.10 to open vnto it And what is a prepared death but an happy death And what followes an happie death but an happy life neuer to die againe Such goe in with Christ to his marriage of euerlasting life We see then that the last houres repentance the common refuge of worldlings as it commeth short of a sanctified life Vse so it seldome reacheth to an happy death or life after death For as the tree boweth before it bee cut downe so it falleth and in the place where it falleth there it shall be Eccles 11.3 That is as we liue so wee commonly die Or shall we thinke that men can easily begin righteousnesse at their last houre and that repentance in that houre is ordinarily good and sound repentance Let them well consider this who put off their conuersion to God and send away by hope of repenting old all those good motions that knocke at the doore of their hearts for a sanctified life One saith well While the Lord speaketh to thee make him answere and while he calleth let there bee an eccho in thy heart such as was Dauids who when God said seeke yee my face presently answered thy face will I seeke Psal 27.8 The Lord hath promised pardon to him that repenteth saith another but that hee or any other shall liue till to morrow he hath not promised Many in their puttings off fare as if they should say Lord let me sinne in my youth and pardon me in mine age But where in the meane season is their walking before God yong that peace may come when they are old And is it not a iust thing that men dying should forget themselues who liuing neuer remembred God Surely let them looke for no better who watch not the stealing steps of death in their tower of repentance in the life of the righteous And if moe things belong to repentance then can bee done in an houre and well in a mans life as to bring forth the buds of it young to beare fruits of it at more yeares to ripen it being man and to gather it toward death in the autumne of fruits how can they thinke one poore houre to be sufficient to bring the seednesse the spring the summer the autumne and full crop of these things together in so short time and how can they hope in such a span of life to prepare themselues for the Lord when so many els of long l●fe afford so scant measure to the best men to set them in a readinesse for him Let vs therefore while wee haue time laying vp treasures in heauen for our soules store vp in the summer of life for the winter of death which will come Prou. 6.8 In our last sicknesse and vpon our death-bed we are fitter to seeke ease for our bodies then mercie for our faults and grace for our soules Besides how fearefull will it be to be taken then by sudden death as by some vnexpected Officer without baile or warning and by it to bee brought to the goale of the earth in the bodie and in the soule to perpetuall prison in the torments of hell Of this more was spoken in the first Sermon and vse of the last doctrine there But shall they who liue well here Vse 2 liue well hereafter that is blessedly then their desperate and cursed errour is confuted who blaspheme the way of righteousnesse saying that it is to no purpose to bee so deuout godly and that they are most wise who giue themselues most libertie in the pleasures and iollitie of life So say the wicked in Malachy it is invaine to serue God Mal. 3.14 And the wicked in Iob say what profit to pray vnto him Iob 21 15. As if they should haue said we may serue God and we may pray to God but there is nothing gotten by it or they speed as well and are as wise that are cold in these matters as they who kindle and are hottest in them But they Prophet here saith that peace shall come that is they shall see the peace of God in heauen who make peace with God here and they that serue him shall raigne before him The wicked are as the chaffe which the wind driueth away Psal 1.4 That is so soon as God punisheth them with the wind of death their hope is gone But the godly haue a sure foundation and no storme either of death or of mans ill will can blow them to destruction whose house beeing builded by God not on the sand of time but vpon a rocke vnmoueable standeth fast in all changes Math. 7.25 The builder vp of Sion is the wise God whose worke abideth for euer Let the vngodly oppose themselues neuer so much they shall not be able to beate down Gods house and death is their aduantage Phil. 1.21 Or if the Princes Palace be safely guarded we must not think that any of Gods houses shall be left without their keepers sufficient watchmen and the righteous shall flourish when the hornes of the vngodly shall be broken And thus it is no vaine labour nor gamelesse seruice to serue the Lord. Doth a good life bring a good death Vse 3 Then the despairing words of Gods children in a troubled skie and when the waters enter into their soul as that God hath forsaken them that God hath cast them off in displeasure that God will not saue them and such like are words of distemper not of reason and iudgement For will God cast away his people The answere is Godforbid The meaning is hee will not Rom. 11.1 Neither can mans changeable tongue alter the decree of God that is vnchangeable Rom. 3.3.4 And we must not iudge of the estate of any man before God by his behauiour in death or in a troubled soule For there are many things in death which are the effects of the sharpe disease he dieth of and no impeachments of the faith he dieth in And these may depriue his tongue of the vse of reason but cannot depriue his soule of eternall life Which may bee spoken also of a troubled soule For as in a troubled water the face in the water cannot bee perceiued which when it commeth to be cleare is manifest so in a troubled spirit the face of Gods mercie seemeth to be changed against vs and to