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A44515	Delight and judgment: or, a prospect of the great Day of Judgment and its power to damp, and imbitter sensual delights, sports, and recreations. By Anthony Horneck, D.D.	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1684 (1684)	Wing H2824A; ESTC R215360	126,341	401

wants have the Lord Jesus in thine Eyes regard not so much the poor Man's Nature because he is of the same Flesh with thee nor so much his Relation because he is of Kin to thee nor so much his Country because he is of the same Town that thou art of nor so much his Religion because he professes the same Faith with thee nor so much his Person because he is a Gentleman nor so much his readiness to extol thy bounty as the Love and Charity of the Holy Jesus to thy Soul and Body Have that in thine Eye chiefly when thou openest thy Hand let him be in thy Mind when thou distributest thy bounty this makes thy Charity amiable and acceptable and fit to be proclaimed and commended in this Day And indeed How dost thou know Christian but that thy Saviour may sometimes disguise himself and appear to thee in the shape of a poor Man and wilt not thou give freely wilt not thou give cheerfully wilt not thou give readily since thou knowest not but thou mayest give it to thy Saviour himself And how glorious an Encomium will it be in the last Day to hear him say before the World I was naked and this good Man cloathed me I was in Prison and he visited me The three Angels of Old disguised themselves in the shape of Travellers to try Abraham's hospitality and from hence possibly came the heathenish Fables that their Jupiter came in the Habit of a poor Man to Philemon who entertaining him Jupiter made his House a Temple and the Owner the Priest of it and that Apollo coming as a Traveller to Mydas and being kindly entertain'd by him rewarded his Bounty with vast Wealth and Riches though we have no warrant from Scripture to believe that Christ doth actually disguise himself to us in such shapes and appears to us to try our Charity yet it is no impossible thing and we may piously believe it thereby to encourage our selves to cheerful Contributions lest finding us hard-hearted and ill-natured covetous and incompassionate he deal with us as Jupiter among the Heathens is said to have dealt with Lycaon whom when he came to visit as a guest and found cruel instead of being hospitable he turned him into a Wolf Christ hath threatned the hard-hearted a worse and stranger Metamorphosis for they that will not be like him in doing good shall be doomed to be like Devils to mourn and lament as they and to Eternal Ages too for this is the Sentence Go into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels for I was an hungred and ye gave me no meat c. Mat. 25.41 42. 12. Let nothing discourage you from admiring those men who have always lived in the Thoughts and Contemplation of this future Judgment we admire men for their Parts Abilities and Accomplishments we admire Aristotle for his Learning Archimedes for his Mathematicks Socrates for his Gravity Absolum for his Beauty Achitophel for his Policy Saul for his Tallness Arion for his Musick Asahel for his Nimbleness the Men of Benjamin for their Skill in Slinging Darius for his Gratitude Cicero for speaking Virgil for Poetry Vrbino for Painting c. but these are poor things for our Reason to admire Men that live Day and Night in a sense of this future Judgment live continually in expectation of the Archangel's Trumpet or the Summons of Almighty God these are the Men whose Praise we ought to shew forth in the Gates Let others admire Demosthenes for his Rhetorick I will admire St. Paul who so look'd at the things not seen even at this Judgment as to rejoice in Tribulation and though troubled on every side yet was not distressed though perplex'd yet was not in despair though persecuted yet was not forsaken though cast down yet was not destroy'd appeared to the World as sorrowful yet was always rejoicing as poor yet made many rich as having nothing and yet possessed all things 2 Cor. 4.7 8 18. 2 Cor. 6.10 Let others admire Arcesilaus for his Prudence Scipio for his Fortitude Aristoclides for his humanity Pythagoras for his Philosophy I will admire the Primitive Believers who stood in such awe of this Great Day that their constant Thoughts and Contrivances were how to resist their Adversary the Devil and upon this account stood fast in Faith quitted themselves like Men were strong and always abounding in the work of the Lord. The thoughts of this Day made them vigilant sober heavenly minded despisers of the World charitable kind tender-hearted fruitful in all good works and why should we delude our selves or fancy we need not do so or that they did more then they ought to have done The Best of Men the Wisest Men the Holiest Men that ever lived have been frighted over-awed supported preserved in goodness by the contemplations of this Day and therefore if we are not it 's no sign that we are wiser then they but that we are more stupid we are all ambitious of participating of their glory and why should we be afraid of taking the way that led them to it These are the men who choose the better part These are the men who though laugh'd at by the World are a Crown of Glory and a Royal Diadem in the Hand of their God and for their Shame they shall have Double and for their confusion they shall rejoice in their portion Their light shall come the Glory of the Lord shall rise upon them They shall break forth on the right Hand and on the left and in Righteousness shall they be established They shall dwell on high their place of defence shall be the Munition of Rocks Bread shall be given them their Water shall be sure Their Eyes shall see the king of Glory in his Beauty they shall behold the Land that is very far off even the Land where Rivers of Pleasure flow where no Tears are to be seen no Sorrow to be found no anguish to be heard of These are the Men which at last shall sit down in the Throne of God and having suffered Hunger and Thirst with the Holy Jesus here shall Eat and Drink at his Table in his Kingdom These Men will at last be look'd upon with greater fear and reverence then now they are and when the bruitish World shall see them advanced to the highest Seats of Bliss and behold that these which once were the most contemptible Creatures shall judge the World with the Son of God they will change their Voices and with the Maltheses be ready to call them Gods whom but a little before they condemned as Varlets and Villains I conclude this discourse with St. Peter's exhortation 2 Pet. 3 9 15. The Lord is not slack concerning his Promise as some men count slackness but is long suffering to us ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to Repentance But the Day of the Lord will come as a Thief in the Night in the which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat the Earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of Persons ought ye to be in all Holy Conversation and Godliness looking for and hastening unto the coming of the Day of God wherein the Heavens being on Fire shall be dissolved and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat Nevertheless we according to his Promise look for New Heavens and a New Earth wherein dwells Righteousness wherefore Beloved seeing that ye look for such things be diligent that you may be found of him in Peace without Spot and Blameless FINIS ERRATA PAge 38. line 13. read Farms p. 4.5 l. 1. r. To let the World see the Bands p. 55. l. 12. r. persons are who are employ'd p. 210. p. 10. r. imitation BOOKS Printed for and sold by Mark Pardoe at the Sign of the Black Raven over against Bedford House in the Strand Doctor Horneck's best Exercise 8 o. Dr. Hooper's Sermon before the King on the Fifth of November His Sermon before the Lord Mayor Sir William Petty's Essay in Political Arithmetick 8 o. His Observations on Dublin Bills of Mortality 8 o. Novels of Elizabeth Queen of England containing the History of Queen Ann of Bullen in Two Parts 12 o. Observations on Feavers 12 o. Plain Man's way to Worship 12 o. Becteri Minera Arienaria 4 o. mdash De nova Temporis 4 o. Holder's Elements of Speech 8 o. Charras Experiments on Vipers in 8 o. Socrat. Eccl. Hist. l. 1. c. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 24.25 Plat. in Phaed. Ps. 8.6 1 Sam. 15.23 Es. 1.3 Lam. 1.12.13.14 Chrysost. Homil 2. in 2 Thessalon Rev. 22.15 Zephan 1.14 15 16 17 18. Prov. 5.11 12. Happy Asectick p. 425 Seqq. Philip. 4.4 Eccl. 2.4 8 10 11. Gen. 4 21. Council Eliber c. 79. Council Constantinop 6. c. 50. Es. 3.18 19 20 21. 1 Tim. 2.9 10. 1 Pet. 3.3 4. De Serm. in monte lib. 2. 1 Tim. 2.9 1 Pet. 3.3 Vid Cyprian de Habit. virg Ed Oxon. p. 95. Esth. 14.16 Cyprian de Habit Virgin 1 John 2.15 16. Rev. 17.4 Tertull. de cult Faemin lib. 2 c. 13. Vid. Celada commentar in Judith c. 10 Plutarch in Apophthegm Aelian var. Hist. l. 8. Rom. 8.9 Rom. 8.5 Platin. in Paul 2. Euseb. lib. 5. c. 15. Gregor Naz. in laudem Gorgon De Habit. virg p. 100. Homil. 31. in Matth. Vid. P. Martyr loc com class 2. c. 11. P. Mart. loc cit Summ. Part. 2. tit 6. c. 6. § 3. De Bell. Belg. l. 1. Hom. 49. in Matth. De vanit scient c. 18. Ps. 119 47. Exod. 23.13 Vid. Gerh. Joh. Voss. de Idol l. 2. c. 8. Matth. 5.13 Ephes. 5.4 Mar. 8.38 Salvian degubern Dei lib. 6. Tertul. de spect c. 15. c. 15. c. 15. c. 16. c. 17. c. 23. c. 23. c. 25. c. 25. c. 26. c. 26. c. 27. c. 29. 2 Cor. 6.4 5. Pro. 7.14 Vid. Dre●●l Tribun Christi l. 1. c. 8. § 5. In Epitaph Paulae Rom. Rev. 21.2 21. Psal. 37.6 1 Pet. 2.23 Matt. 11.22 Luke 6.38

in Darkness and after all to share in the boundless Inheritance with the Children of Light How unlike thy self wilt thou appear before God if thou come without these qualifications Thou art a Christian but where is the Life of Christ that should be in thee Will the Judge ever take thee for his Sheep when it 's evident thou do'st not hear his Voice How ridiculous is that Man that hangs out a Bush and yet hath no Wine to sell And how foolish is that Apothecary that writes glorious Names upon his Pots when the rich drugs that are named have no being in his Shop And will it not tend to thy everlasting confusion that thou hast had the Name of a Christian and done nothing like a Christian Thus the particular proceedings of that future judgment must be applied to our selves if we resolve that the prospect of a future Judgment shall damp our carnal delights and satisfactions and without using this method we do but trifle and talk of breeding Mountains and bring forth ridiculous Mice play with Religion and are not in good earnest when we say we believe a future account 3. But neither the Reflections aforesaid nor the Application we have spoken of will make any deep impression except all be seconded with earnest Prayer that God by his holy Spirit working in our Minds would make the attempt effectual this must set to its Seal drive in the Nail and clench it The Eternal Spirit must give success to these enterprizes and in vain do we plant or water except he gives the increase He is that anointing which must supple the Soul and Crown all with Laurels and Victory By strength of thought and application the Fort of sin may be assaulted but without this Spirit lends his helping Hand it will never be taken or subdued His Power must overcome the Oppositions our Flesh and the World will certainly make in this case and if he blows upon our Hearts the strong Holds of Iniquity like the Walls of Jericho will fall and nothing can stand before him and he will certainly come in to our assistance if our Prayer and Addresses be fervent and importunate Upon such Devotions the frequent Discourses of this Day of Judgment we read or hear will be so far from bringing the thing into contempt with our Souls that our Hearts will be awaken'd more and it 's impossible we can miscarry in the pious design if with strong cries we apply our selves to him who hath appointed a Day in the which he will judge the World in Righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordain'd whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the Dead Act. 17.31 That which we are chiefly to insist upon in these Addresses is that we may get lively apprehensions of that Day and such apprehensions as no pleasure no folly no temptation of the World may darken or destroy and here let the Soul break forth into such Ejaculations O God Great and Glorious make me deeply sensible of that Day and of that Hour when the Son of Man will come when the Goats shall be separated from the Sheep the Tares from the Wheat the Good from the Bad when neither Prayers nor Tears shall be able to deliver the guilty and polluted Soul from the impendent danger when it shall be said to the humble Friend sit up higher to the proud Fool Give place to him that 's more Honourable than thou art when the Book of Conscience shall be open'd and the Dead Judged by the contents of that Book when the Sinner will not know where to flee and his Spirits will fail him for fear of him that sits upon the Throne O God! Fix these considerations in my Soul strengthen my Faith that I may believe these things unseen without wavering How apt is the World to get between this tremendous Day and my sight Quicken thou mine Eyes that I may see through all impediments into that process and reflect what manner of Person I ought to be in all Holy conversation and Godliness Lord Jesu Great Judge of the World Let the Lines of that Judgment be written so legibly in my Mind that my Soul may delight to read them that nothing may divert me from studying and considering them let this be my chief study and let me feel the same effect that those men did who were converted at thy Apostles Sermon let me be prickt at the Heart and cry out What must I do to be saved Let the thoughts of this Day make a Reformation in my outward and inward Man that it may appear that thou hast touch'd me with a Coal from the altar O God to whom Vengeance belongs shew thy self and disperse my foolish desires Let my Soul feel the transactions of that day as well as believe them Clear my Understanding and enlighten my Mind that I may have a livelier prospect of it I will not let thee go except thou bless me Look down from the Habitation of thy Holiness and visit my Soul Expel the prejudices I have against severity of Life and with the Thoughts of this Day destroy them utterly Let the consideration of this Day so work upon me that my Ambition Covetousness Pride and Anger may tremble at the sight and leave their Habitation and may be ever afraid of returning Oh tell me that this Day will certainly come and that the Day of my Death will be the Emblem of it Oh assure me of the Terrour of that Day that shall burn like an Oven wherein all that do wickedly shall be Stubble and the Fire shall burn them up that it shall leave them neither Root nor Branch let me not take example by the careless World that put this evil Day far from them Let it be always before me Let my Mind be never free from the contemplations of it Let it mingle with my Business with my Meals with my Converse with my Sleep and with all my Undertakings In every sin I am tempted to let it frighten me in my going out and in my coming in let it continually beat upon my Mind Oh my Lord let me muse upon this Day of Retribution this Day of Recompence this Day of Trouble this Day of Terrour this Day of Joy this Day of Comfort this Day wherein thy Promises and Threatnings will be fulfill'd this Day which must decide the controversy of my Life and Death this Day which will bring to light all hidden things this Day which will revive the good and confound the bad this Day of Consolation this Day of Consternation let me ruminate upon it till thoughts of this Judgment prevail with me to become a new Creature thy Grace must melt my stubborn Heart without thee I can do nothing O relieve me O come in with the light of thy Countenance Stir up my Soul and rouze it from its carelesness Call to me as thou didst to thy People of Old let that Voice sound in my Ears

power of his might resisting temptations growing in grace labouring after a greater hatred of sin a greater fortaste of Heaven a greater conformity to the will of God a greater sense of the love of God c. and he that in good earnest minds these things will have no great desire to busie himself about such pittiful trivial and impertinent things these will be trash and dirt to him and his soul will soar above them and scorn them as the Divels lime-twigs whereby he lies in wait to deceive And though I will not deny but that a man in case of danger and when his life is in jeopardy or when he would pass through a party of his enemies may lawfully disguise himself and by art change and alter his countenance that he may not be known and though a man who hath lately had the small Pox or hath been Sun-burnt or whose face hath been parch'd with Wind may lawfully take care by ordinary helps to reduce his face to his former or native colour and complexion and though we do not judge it against the law of God to hide some great blemish or defect in the Face whereby spectators may be offended and particularly Women that are with Child frighted and though it is not inconsistent with the rule of the Gospel to wash the Face when dirty yet all those paints and additional washes and artificial black spots whereby Men and Women endeavour either to set off their complexion the better to give themselves a more pleasing colour or to mend their meen or to make themselves look more beautiful or to attract the eyes and admiration and sometimes the unlawful Amours of those they converse withal are things which a Christian must be a stranger too When I say men it is not without reason for we read of such a beast as Paul the Second Pope of Rome who whenever he went abroad painted himself that the beauty of his Face might in some measure be answerable to the comeliness of his stature which was procere and tall and it 's to be feared that this effeminacy dwells in too many persons of the masculine Sex at this day However as Women are usually more faulty this way then Men so they give us but small hopes to believe that they are heirs of Heaven while they are so industrious to please men and others here on Earth St. Paul would not please Men no not in the Ceremonies of the Law which were things formerly commanded by God thinking it unworthy of a Christian that had been freed from that Yoke by the Son of God and how unworthy must it be then to please Men in things which God hath never commanded nay by many hints and places discover'd his dislike of How justly may God look upon 't as presumption to alter that Face which he thought fit to create in that shape it is of and what is it but contending with our Maker and expostulating with the Potter Why hast thou made me thus and controuling his art and wisdom while not content with the countenance he hath given we seek to appear in a better As we are Christians sincerity must be our character not only in heart but in the outward behaviour and what sincerity can there be in cheating Men with our Faces and to make them believe that to be natural which we know is counterfeit and artificial We that are naturally prone to pride and levity and lightness of deportment had not need encourage it by such incentives and put Oyl to that fire which without great help is apt to burn into Hell We shall meet with impediments enough from the World and the Devil in our spiritual race it 's madness therefore to encrease those obstacles by new inventions of our own and we that know how apt every thing is to damp our holy fervours had not need add such vanities to extinguish them In the whole Scripture we read of no Women that ever painted themselves but one that was cursed to a Proverb even Jezabel 2 Kings 9. 33. and Eusebius makes mention of a great instrument of the Devil whereby he sowed heresies in the Church that used this trade viz. Maximilla Even among the Heathen those that did so were none of the best fame and credit in the World such as Poppaea Nero's Wife and others and in Holy writ for the most part this delight is described as meretricious and a quality of Strumpets and Harlots as we see Ezech. 23.40 And certainly neither these examples nor descriptions can be any great inticement to a Christian to imitate such infamous patterns who is to remember those who have spoken to him in the name of the Lord and to follow their faith considering the end of their conversation Heb. 13.7 It was an excellent Character St. Gregory Nazianzene gave of the pious Gorgonia No Gold saith he adorned her Temples no flaxen hair no borrowed locks no artificial curles flew about her sacred Head no flowing Mantles no transparent Vails no looser garb hat wanton'd in the Air no costly stones vying with the brightness of the Stars no Painters arts help'd to grace her noble frame no operator assisted her to countermine the work of God in her and by deceitful colours to hide the curious fabrick of her Face or to prostitute the Divine shape that was in her to wanton and impurer eyes or to vitiate her natural image which was reserved for God and another World by an adulterous fictitious beauty But even then when she was acquainted with all the tricks and modes of ornaments she would acknowledge and own none but whather piety and the harmony of her soul did give her No other Red pleased her but what her modest blushes caused no white but what fasting and abstinence brought into her cheeks and as for Painting and modish looks and borrow'd Beauty she left those impertinencies and vanities to actors and Ministers of the Stage persons who have forgot to blush and are ashamed of nothing so much as of sobriety and gravity This is an example for all Christian Women to write Copies by and though the age we live in hath long ago learned to despise this self-denial as a starcht formality and precise niceness yet that doth not make it of less value before Almighty God who sees with other eyes and is resolved to rectifie these willful mistakes if other means here on Earth will not do it with E●e●●al Vengeance To this purpose St. Cyprian Art not thou afraid vain Woman who makest use of Paint and Washes and such other curious fooleries about thy Face art not thou afraid that thy Creator when thou comest before him will not know thee but exclude thee rather from the promised Inheritance May not he reasonably use the language of a Censor and a Judge and say This is not my Creature here I see nothing of my Image Thou hast polluted thy skin with false applications the hair I gave thee is changed

can I refuse it except I will lose their favour and the Place I hold under them And is this such a bug-bear to fright you from your duty To whom have you greater obligations to God or Man If to God why dare not you prefer his favour before the favour of Men and be guided more by his Laws then by the benevolence of dust and ashes Have not you courage to make a vow and when you are solicited by your Superiours to go cannot you speak out and tell them that you lie under the obligation of a vow not to go and who will be so profane as to desire you to break it Had you rather sin then displease Men or is a poor Creature more terrible to you then he who thunders in the Heavens If you are persuaded in your conscience that to be present at these shews is sinful shall a creatures smiles make you venture the displeasure of the most High And what if you lose something considerable by pleasing God Hath God no ways to make you amends for your losses Hath he no Glory no Kingdom no reward no recompence to redintegrate your fortune If you lose this World for his sake is not the felicity of the next recompence enough But why should you mistrust him even in this present life He that made Moses after he had left the Court of Egypt General of his own Army and advanced Joseph who hated to be great and rich by sin to be Viceroy of the Realm and preserved Daniel in his grandeur for this reason because he would not depart from his conscienciousness is his arm shortned or his strength abated that he can do nothing equivalent to all this Are not the hearts of men in his hand and doth not he turn them as streams of Water How often doth he make it appear to the World that where a mans ways please the Lord he makes his very enemies to be at peace with him Nay how often do these generous selfdenials work by Gods providence upon Superiours and they that at first sollicited a man to do that which was vain and contrary to the Laws of Religion when they see him resolute in his conscienciousness how often have they been persuaded to reflect upon themselves at least to have a better opinion of the person who fears God more then them What you have often told me that from this way of reasoning it would follow that it is unlawful to write or to read a Play will deserve some consideration As for the writing of it though Poetry be a thing lawful and commendable and is sufficiently warranted by the writers of Divine Poems in Holy writ yet that will not justifie all the subjects Poets pitch upon and a consciencious man will take as much care that the subject he writes of be grave and serious at least innocent as he would do of his discourse in common conversation I do not doubt but that writing things obscene and filthy and undecent and contrary to good manners and whereby others may be Scandalized and either drawn into sin or harden'd in it is as bad as speaking of them Without all peradventure a man may be witty without being profane and exercise his fancy to the edification of readers without launching out into things at which Nature and Religion teaches us to blush and I need only put you in mind of what the incomparable Mr. Cowley saith in his Preface to his works speaking of the admirable subjects that the Scripture affords for the exercise of Wit and Poetry It is not without grief saith he and indignation that I behold that Divine science employing all her inexhaustable riches of wit and eloquence either in the wicked and beggarly flattery of great persons or the unmanly idolizing of foolish Women or the wretched affectation of scurril laughter or at best on the confused and antiquated dreams of senseless fables and metamorphoses As for reading of modern Plays he that considers what an aversion from seriousness and better things the reading of them causes in the younger sort will find no great reason to encourage them in such trifles but rather to disswade them all he can from studies of this nature and though I believe that a grave serious man whose senses are throughly exercised to discern betwixt good and evil may lawfully peruse them to see the humour of the Age and to know how to obviate and confute the debaucheries and errors which are growing and tending to the ruin of good manners as skillful Physitians may meddle with poison to make antidotes of it yet to persons whose understandings are slippery and weak whose passions are stronger then their reason and who have already too great a tincture of sensuality and consequently may easily encrease the ill humour by such divertisement they ought to be forbid by those who have the care of their education These Sir are my thoughts of the Query you proposed to me and though the Letter be somewhat long yet I hope the arguments I have laid down are not impertinent That they are liable to exceptions I question not being sensible that it 's easier to cavil then to answer and where men are resolved to maintain the vain humour they have imbibed from conversation they will always have something to say against the most sober truths and assertions The drift and design of the Gospel is certainly on our side if any be fond of preferring the dictates of flesh and blood or the suggestions of the world before the mortifying lessons of our crucified Redeemer all that we can say is this that we would have healed Babylon but she would not be healed I shall only add my wishes and prayers that what you have read here may be a means to bring you to a noble sense of a better World and convince you that the way to attain a future bliss is very different from that which leads to sensual delights and satisfactions Our natures are generally too prone to gratifie the flesh and we had not need add fewel to the fire but to do all we can to quench that which is already kindled that after our selfdenials here we may reign with the self-denying Jesus with whom we cannot live hereafter except we suffer with him here and endure the loss of the pleasures of sin for a season nor sit with him in his Throne except we continue with him in his tempations here And I am persuaded that did you live more in Heaven and gave your self time to meditate on the things which are not seen Did you incorporate those everlasting joys with your mind and riveted the belief of that endless bliss into your very spirits that your faith might be the substance of things unseen and the evidence of the treasures hoped for you would despise these shews and glories of the world as much as you do value and esteem them now and would be so far from stopping your ears against the reasons I have given that