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A03698	The shield of the righteous: or, The Ninety first Psalme, expounded, with the addition of doctrines and vses Verie necessarie and comfortable in these dayes of heauinesse, wherein the pestilence rageth so sore in London, and other parts of this kingdome. By Robert Horn, minister of Gods Word.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.	1625 (1625)	STC 13825; ESTC S104237	130,560	160

comfort to good Kings and Christian states giuing them great boldnes in the darkest practises of al Popish hellish Mole-warpes whose bookes and other motiues to sedition walke as the Pestilence in the darke for where the Godly can see nothing his eyes behold his eye-lids consider Psal 11.4 That is God sitteh not idlely in heauen but seeth all that is done on earth either wit● open eyes or as if he winked for sometimes he discouereth a secret presently as with open eyes makes vs see it somtimes not presently but at lesure as if he would take time to bring it to light but euen then his eye-lids consider or hee deferreth the matter as if he slept that is his bright eye is vpon their first thoughts that deuise this euill in their hearts There is a league and kindred of wickednesse among bad Subiects and they ioyne with Sampsons Foxes if it be to carrie firebrands to burne the corne-fields of the Church Iudg. 15.4 5. but the foundation shall bee cast downe that they haue laid craftily and in the darke Psal 11.3 or as the vntimely fruite of a woman that hath not seene the sunne Psal 58.8 so shall all their vniust counsels be their pollicies shall faile and their purposes come to naught and hee that sitteth in his Temple in heauen shall bring them out of their holes as he did Faux and the rest of that impious consort that wrought with him at the wall and in the celler that graue of powder made for the buriall of the Gospell an vntimely end shall meete them and the pit which they digged for others shall take themselues but the soules of the righteous shall escape as a bird out of the Snare for it shall be broken and they shall be deliuered Psal 124.7 Another effect of the Pestilence followeth Nor for the * The word signifieth a cutting or sore biting and such as maketh a common slaughter or vniuersall death destruction that wasteth at noone day FVrther this Plague of Pestilence is called the destruction that wasteth at noone day as before it was called the Pestilence that walketh in the darknesse because where God sends it it smites downe in death at all times and in all aires and seasons whether at midnight or at mid-day in an open or close skie in the purest aires or in the foggiest and most troubled Some Writers affirme that it is called the Pestilence that walketh in darknesse because in the darke it worketh more violently then in the day the aire being made groser and thicker by the coldnesse of the night that is apter to communicate it more fully and with more force and that it is called the destructiō that wasteth at noone day because at the time of the noone-sunne the pores of the body as they are more open in the day so they are most open and more penetrable at that time of the day but these two effects of the Plague of Pestilence walking in darknesse and wasting at noone-day are spoken of to let vs vnderstand that for this or any other kinde of warning that God shal giue vs by any of his roddes al times are a like with him night or day darknesse or noone-day also that in deliuering the righteous from the fearefull Pestilence or any other punishment of his hand he cannot be restrained by any impediment of weaknesse in him or strength of the disease in vs be it day or night summer or winter for he can as easily and soone cure a grieuous as slight sicknesse and as presently saue a man from death as any sicknesse can bring him to it the rod is in his hand and the worke of it in his power to smite with it to a correction or to death and he that can doe what he will can doe the same when he will for his power is ouer time that made it Doct. 1 And now where we reade of the Pestilence walking in the darknesse and destruction wasting at noone-day that is of punishments ready at all seasons to come against vs when wee sinne against God we learne that as men offend earely or late night or day God hath Plagues at hand to send vpon rhem at all houres the darknesse shall not hide them nor the light shew them any way to flie from him if they escape one iudgement another shall be ready for them and the last if they continue stubborne ouertake them to destruction as the red sea did Pharaoh and his armies Exod. 14.28 Zophar in Iob sheweth that from what Plague soeuer such flee they flee but from bad to worse from iron weapōs that may strike them downe to a bowe of steele that will strike them through Iob. 20.24 Or if they flee from the sword that may cut them they shall meet with arrowes that will kill them Esay the Prophet sayth there is no escaping to such for if they flee from the noise of the feare they shall fall into the hole of the pit and they that come out of the pit that is that come out safely the snare shall take them or the snare of death that will hold them fast shall be vpon them So that here they are way-laid by three kinds of destruction Feare and the Pit and the Snare feare comming from enemies the pit from sicknesses the snare from the snares of death that shall compasse them so as they shall not escape Esa 24.17 18. The meaning is that the hand of God can no way be auoided by sinners in one destruction or another and the Prophet alludeth to the taking of wilde beasts who if they get from the dogges as it were the noise of feare may fall into pits made for them and there be taken or auoiding these runne into a snare and there be hampered and held till their throat be cut In Amos also wee read of such a matter for who would not thinke that a man escaping to his owne house from a Lion that followed him and from a Beare that met him should be safe and well But in that house there is a Serpent that bites him to death Am. 5.19 Therefore there is no security but in God or by turning to God in our comming home to our Father The Reasons of the Doctrine are One of the names of God is The Lord of Hoasts and the Lord who if he will haue an enemie to come vpon a Land need but to Lisse for him Esay 5.46 Or famine to afflict the Land need but to call for it Psal 105.16 If he do but send it comes be it Pestilence or Sword Leuit. 26.25 What shall I say He hath Armies of Iudgements and huge hosts of plagues to meet with sinners in their way till hee haue either humbled or destroied them He hath sharpe arrowes in his Quiuer a glittering Sword in his hand a reuenging hand in his wrath and noisome Pestilence among his treasures and therefore what hope to rebell without assurance to be destroied Luke 19.27 Secondly God should want a

the waters that they saw God and were afraid Psal 77.16 and of the earth that it beheld his lightnings and shooke verse 18. these see him in his iudgements and feare nothing and in times of Plague behold him in many deaths which are lightnings before their owne death and shake neuer a whit But Gods children being taught in a better schoole must make another and a better vse of his patience towards them and iudgements in the world not imputing their safetie to chance or proudly to their worthinesse as if they had beene no such sinners as they vpon whom the tower of those deaths fell slew them Luk. 13.4 but ascribing all to God that spared them and confessing before him and the sonnes of men how iustly he might haue donne as much or more to them but that hee would haue them to liue to praise his name and to confesse his truth that had made them to follow others to their graues who might haue followed them to theirs Secondly this example of Gods bearing with vs should be an Vse 2 inducement to vs to beare one with another If he forgiue vs in the ten thousand talēts we must not tak our brother by the throat in the hundred pence Mat. 18.27 28. nor where God setteth vs at liberty for great matters imprison our brother for a trifle my meaning is where God beareth with our weake faith and accepts vs in it notwithstanding that we will not trust him further then we see him nor without some paune it is our part much more to beare with some things in our weake brethren being men as wee are subiect to like infirmities Iames 5.17 hee that is strong ought to beare the infimities of the weake Rom. 15.1 the Apostle saith ought or must as if he had said it is his duty and part to beare them And one of the commendations and not the least that Eliphaz giues to Iob is that he strengthened the weary hands and knees that bowed downe Iob. 4.3 4. as if hee had said he refreshed them being wearie and being weake was a piller of stay vnto them or he was tender of them and did not breake them in their brusings for the way thus to beare is to haue tender bowels which the Apostle Saint Paul intimates where in doing of this hee bidds vs to consider our selues Gal. 6.1 as if hee should say that this consideration of our frailtie if it be impartiall and earnest as it should be will make vs to practise this duty with meeknesse for then wee consider our selues in them that their case may bee ours and that as they haue fallen so may we but when wee consider that God in reproouing and afflicting man doth descend to his weaknesse Psal 78.39 and that Christ became like to vs in all things that we might be touched with a sense of others infirmities as he was of ours Heb. 4.15 how can we but handle their Soares gently and with the spirit of meekenesse whose wounds bled before vs and should not bee strained but bound vp with our tenderest compassions And here spirituall men should remember that they were once carnall and old men not forget that once they were children they that haue passed the temptations of youth should call to minde what difficulties they mett with in the passage and they that haue gotten the shoare think of the sea which they haue escaped for thus beholding others in the glasse of themselues not as they are but as they haue beene they shall bee better able to shew this meeknesse to all men because they themselues were Doct. 3 in times past vnwise disobedient deceiued seruing lusts and diuers pleasures hatefull and hating one another Tit. 3.2 3. But when God visits his Church with a Plague wee may not call it as here the Plague of the wicked and if he then make vs rather to behold it in others then to see the worke of it in our selues it is that wee should bee the more compassionate toward them in that humiliation where we learne to shew pitie to those whom God hath any way humbled in his Church for we must behold their miseries otherwise and with other eyes then wee see the Plague of the wicked Moses had this pitifull and tender heart whom the glory of a Kings Court could not make to forget his brethrens burdens Exod. 2.11 Heb. 11.25 26. So though Ruth might haue gon backe to her countrie with her sister-in-law yet would she not let her mother-in-law go alone in her affliction but went with her foot by foot in all her trouble from the Land of Moab to the Land of Israel Ruth 2.15.17 Daniel in the captiuitie was in no bondage himselfe but highly in fauour with the King yet so long as Gods people were in distresse and Gods Temple in desolation hee could not bee merry but sorrowed and wept Dan. 10.2 3. and Zealous Nehemiah a great man in the Kings Court and fauour and in an Honorable Office very neere the Kings Person could not hide the griefe of his heart from breaking forth in his countenance nor take any comfort in those great Honours he held from the Kings immediate Grace and bounty then so long as his brethren were in aduersity the house of the Sepulchers of his Fathers lay waste Nehem 2.2 3. the like tender bowels had worthy Vriah vnworthily dealt with by Dauid 2 Sam. 11.11.15 and Mordecai a man of sorrowes for the sorrowes of his Nation and Hester the Queene who was in great heauines for Mordecai for them Hest 4.1.2.4 The reasons Reason 1 We should be followers of God Ephes 5.1 and practise mercy as he is mercifull Secondly that affection which is naturall to the eye doth teach Reason 2 vs this duty for the eye that is made to see the griefe of the creature is made to weepe for it so it is in the naturall bodie and so should it be in the mysticall of Christ Thirdly we are one anothers members 1 Cor. 12.27 now members of one body should all suffer together reioyce together v. 26. Reason 3 Fourthly if we beleeue the communion of Saints we cannot Reason 4 denie to take part with them in weale or wo. For as when two or mo are partners in a Trade they partake indifferently with the losse and gettings that arise of that society so Christians in this society and trade of spirituall members should recken the Churches good their good and the Churches miserie their Plague and that which is spoken of the whole holdeth in euery member therefore if a neighbours house bee visited as in time of Pestilence it should moue vs as if ours were so if our neighbour be in trouble as if we were troubled in him and if he mourne as if we sorrowed A reproofe of the incompassionate and vnlouing priuatenesse Vse 1 that hath been in many toward a Citie or Towne shut vp with the Plague as with Gods owne Key For some haue had no bowels

giuen and taken be neglected Thirdly their manner of keeping vs as it is set downe in the Reason 3 text cannot but promise great assurance For is not the little child safe while the Nurse carrieth it in her armes or beareth it in her hands So while these Nurses so beare vs can we be in danger but our Nurses on earth may fall these Nurses the Angels cannot Fourthly our protection is deliuered with a charge to the Angels Reason 4 that nothing be lacking as if the Lord should haue said I charge ye that ye looke well to all these little ones that I commit to your keeping see that none of them perish and vse your power in the safetie of them all First here is matter of thankfulnesse throughout all the Churches Vse 1 whose safetie is prouided for by so honourable a guard about them It had beene sufficient security to haue beene cared for by Gods prouidence and being to passe the seas of this troublesome world to haue had his Letters that is word for our safe conduct to our countrie but that God should giue vs besides his prouidence to keepe vs that hoste which is so glorious and neere himselfe to be alwaies about vs as if he should vouchsafe vnto vs not his princely Letters onely but his royall Nauie to bring vs safe to our heauenly Port and Land this must needes abundantly secure vs and expell all feare This is grace indeede and great riches of grace which should make his praise to bee heard his name to be excellent in al the places of his dominion If mens spirituall eyes were open they that are spirituall might see the Diuell and his Angels with a whole hoste of wicked men in continuall assault against them they might see themselues to goe continually in danger and euery step in death but that the strength of heauen goes with them and is there not matter in all this for the praise of God with heart and mouth In the yeere of our Lord 1588. the bragging power of Spaine could doe nothing against vs that came to destroy vs and to roote out our memoriall for the Lord kept our coasts by his Angels and what could they doe against such keepers should not this be remembred and should it not be remembred how the Angels haue encamped about defended this Realme against so many hostes of diuels diuels-children that more then 60 yeers haue sought by innumerable engines of Treason and threatnings of death to haue made it a Sepulcher of Christian carkesses for the Gospels sake that is yet among vs And let it not be forgotten what the Lord did so lately by his Angels in the mouth of our Soueraigne for the discouerie of the powder-plot Thus we haue been and are at this day kept safely by the Lord in the hand of his royall Angels for which grace of his what can wee giue to him lesse then praise in our mouthes and obedience in our liues continually Vse 2 A comfort to the righteous who in this that the Angels are their mighty keepers haue a spirituall preseruatiue of great vertue against all Plagues that come whether of sword famine or contagious Pestilence They that walke in the waies of the Lord when others runne out haue promise in a common euill of particular safety if it be expedient for them the Angels attend them for that purpose and the Lord knoweth how to deliuer them as he did Lot when he meaneth to turne a whole Sodom of filthinesse into ashes Gen. 19.16.22.29.2 Pet. 2.7.9 If God send Pestilence or famine or any other euill in the hotest Plague and greatest dearth that he sendeth they neede to feare nothing that haue reuerenced his truth and done his will keeping themselues vnspotted of abuses and sorrowing for the abuses they could not helpe for hauing such Leaders as the Angels are they shall not walke where the Plague walketh or if they doe they shall walke in the aire of it without danger hauing in these mighty ones about them so strong a counterpoison against it and when some dearth is sent the Angels will one way or other see them prouided for that the Scripture may be fulfilled which saith doe good and thou shalt be fed assuredly Psal 37.3 So when any other euill commeth God will not forget the loialty and good seruices of his people who hath put them all downe in a better and more lasting booke of record then was that which Assuerus kept for a remembrance of such Subiects as had deserued well of him Hest 6.1 2. but will defend such by his Angels as hee hath marked with fauour for speciall deliuerance in the euill day or else how should so many of the godly and few of the wicked escape in a towne visited with the Pestilence seeing the sicknesse is as infectious to one as to another and seeing that at the first beginning of it and before it was knowne or suspected both one and another went indifferently together into the house then infected with it The case is plaine the good Angles beare as many in their hands as God will haue them to deliuer from perill of death or common infection at such times Obiect You will say it often falles out otherwise Obiect in the visitation of God by Pestilence for the most wicked haue beene deliuered from it and the godly taken away Answ First it must bee remembred what was said before Answ which was that the godly shall be deliuered if it bee expedient for them and then not deliuered from that Plague they are deliuered from a greater by it euen a Plague of Plagues a most accursed life full of sinne fraught with miseries and dyings without end and number And for the wicked though they escape them they are not deliuered properly but repriued for a time to be more tormented hereafter either with that very death or with some other of a more horrible kinde or with euerlasting death in hell or they are reprieued till another visitation or to their day of assize in their deaths-day or day of generall iudgement But to make the ioy of the righteous full let it further be considered that the good Angels are stronger to saue then the euill are to destroy for are the euill great in power the good are greater then they the good hauing the fauour of God which the euill haue not are they old and subtle to inuent hurt the good are as old and more wise to preuent it can they cause Pestilence by venemous exhalations and dearth by some tempests the good can purge the aire that they haue poisoned and make a calme where they made a storme are they strong and full of might as they are full of might so they are fuller of feare and feare abateth strength also the good are stronger then they and voide of feare because without siune that causeth feare doe both worke from God yet they worke with great difference the good as voluntaries the euill as sl●ues