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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

the good mans death but what is profitable and excellent In the third to the Philippians vers 21. the Apostle calleth this alteration by death not the losse of our body but the change of our vile body that it may bee facioned like to the glorious body of Christ And is there any thing in this but what is excellent and worthy if any thing be worthy our trauell best paines here Iohn speaking of the Saints glorified saith All teares shall be wiped from their eyes Apoc. 21.4 His meaning is that as soone as death shall let them out of the world they shall haue no more sorrow that is sorrow that causeth teares And the same Iohn saith Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord Apo. 14.13 that is they who hauing liued righteously die wel in him are in the hand by the helpe of death leade presently to blessednesse The Saints militant did alwaies with the eyes of faith in the Gospell behold this great honour and preferment by death in the happy ends of the righteous and therefore sighed desiring their house from Heauen 2. Cor. 5.2 for they knew that if it were an honour to be remoued from a base cote to a Princes court it could not but be a double that is singular honour to bee translated from the Cotes of the Earth to the Court of Heauen Therefore they sighed that is could not be merrie till that change should come Paul saith that to be losed to wit from the bonds of his corruptible bodie was best of all Philip. 1 23. which hee would not haue said if any preferment had beene better then that by death which is from basenes into the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God The reasons And further that there is so much good in the godlie mans death which is his change may be and is euident First by the things to which that their happie and blessed change by death is compared as to a hauen that after they haue passed the troublesome waues of the sea of this world carrieth them to their owne key or backe in the which they ride safely to their iourneys end after which they come home to their owne house being strangers here 1. Pet. 2.11 to the medicine that cureth most perfectly the sicknesse of life to the messenger that biddeth them to the marriage dinner of their great King Mat. 22.2.3 to their returne from banishment into their owne countrey and naturall land to their deliuerance from the gaole of sorrow where they are taken with Ioseph out of prison to be set with Princes to the laying downe of their tabernacle and to the putting on of their house from Heauen to a deliuerance like that out of Egypt from the bondage of corruption to the libertie of saints from a land of darknesse to a land where the sunne neuer goeth downe and from a land of destruction to the land of the liuing Now what is there in all these that is not perfitly good and desirable Secondly death abolisheth in the faithfull departed all power of sinning and sting of sinne Thirdly the bodie feeleth no more paine nor shal euer againe be sensible but of that which is excellently good desireable and comfortable and for the soule it shall presently be glorified Luc. 16.22 Fourthly death is but the dore of the soule out of an earthly dungeon such as the bodie is that must be destroied before the wormes into an heauenly kingdome or passage from death to life from a short death to a long life Lastly God executeth his iudgements vpon the damned and purgeth his Church by death An instruction to correct all vnreasonable and faithlesse weeping for our godly friends and brethren departed in the faith of Christ Vse 1 The Apostle to the Thessalonians exhorteth Christians if they sorrow for such not to sorrow for them as men that haue no hope 1. Thes 4.13 When Hester was taken from Mardochay who had brought her vp as his owne daughter to be married to King Assuerus and to receaue the crowne of Queene in the kingdome did he either bewaile or enuie that her great preferment the faithfull are taken from sorrowfullmen to be espoused to Christ and to receaue the crowne of glorie and shall they that liue by such vnmeasurable sorrow and taking on as is too commonly vsed at the graues of their friends vnwish to them in a sort so great happinesse Will a father be sorrie or can he without imputation of enuie repine that his sonne or daughter is with Ioseph taken out of prison to be set with Princes when thou giuest forth thy child to nurse and shee hath kept it long inough should shee because thou takest it home againe complaine thou wilt say she hath no reason for it Then what reason hath any father to murmure against the owner of the child hee taketh for taking of his owne Parents that so lose their children if they may be called lost that are so found are but nurses to them in their absence from their owne fathers house to nurse them with the milke of the Gospel and religiously to nurture them for the Lord who by death sends for them home to himselfe when he seeth time and when he so doth haue they cause to complaine of wrong father mother sonne wife husband brother are but lent goods which we must restore when the creditor and hee that owneth them calleth for them And shall we count our selues spoiled or vndone because they are required If one should lend vs a thing of price or thing that is costly would wee for a recompence of the vse of it vpbraid the owner because he sendeth for it or if we should might not he who was the lender iustly say is this my thanks and shall I be recompenced with so great impatiencie for my so great good will So if God should lend vs tenne deare children as he did to Iob and we should be made to part with them all in one day would it become vs with rough words to receaue that supposed losse or would we complaine of wrong where none is offered and where our good is sought and our childrens gaine be vnthankfull if we should may not the Lord of them and of vs iustly taxe our vnthankfulnesse and complaine of wrong May he not say did Iob my seruant so from whom I tooke ten children in one day and in a few daies all the honour and substance that he had did he not rather confesse my vnquestionable right in such moueables and say the Lord giueth the Lord taketh away blessed be the name of the Lord. Iob 1.21 If a great Lord should call vs and our child promising to both much honour and great wealth would we weepe and take on because our child is gone before and we our selues must shortly follow after would we not rather with much ioy so order our iourney and affaires that we also might with as great dispatch as might be receaue such preferment as wee know

Psal 1.5 Thus the doctrine standeth fast being proued in euery part particularly Other reasons may be giuen for further illustration The reasons And first there is great reason that Christ should be Iudge himselfe For he alone is the Sauiour and therefore he alone must be Iudge He that saueth his elect must condemne the world Secondly he is the head of his Church to saue it from harmes and to wring out the dregs of his wrath vpon their heads that harme it Eph. 5.23 Esa 63.1.2.6 And how can he thus deliuer his Church if he be not her Sauiour and thus be reuenged on his Churches enemies if he be not there Iudge Thirdly it shall be a day of ioy vnspeakable to the godly and of terrour importable to the wicked For the godly shall meet the Lord in the 2 1. Thes 4.17 aire The fornace that is appointed to purge the world and to consume sinners shall haue no power ouer such nor the smell of it come vpon them Dan. 3.27 The Iudge will be their Sauiour The witnesses the Angels the Saints and the great inquest of all the creatures will cleere them And who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect Rom. 8.33 The things that they shall be iudged off are condemned in Christ and the sting of conuiction is departed from them to his death who hath conquered all the power of the enemie The tribunall that face of it that is toward them shall put off feare and become a session-house of mercie and of plentifull redemption The sentence pronounced shall send them to their houses of ioy and blisse endlesse and their father will giue them the kingdome Luc. 12.32 But as the godly shal thus heare a most blessed sentence of absolution so the wicked shall then heare their iust sentence of seperation from God Where all things shall make them to melt away with an horrible dread and minister great matter of all feare and terrour in that day For first it shall be a most fearefull thing to see and consider the number of them without number that shall run hither and thither to hide themselues in the holes of the earth The place ground on which they must stand will be fearefull for it shall be all on a flaming fire The Iudge will be fearefull for God is Iudge himselfe The things that they shall be iudged off will be fearefull for their secret and darke vngodlinesse shall then euerie thought of it come to light and be iudged in the sight of fire in the sight of water in the sight of Angels in the sight of all the elements in the sight of men and presence of God the Iudge of quicke and dead on whose head are many crownes and who is clothed with a garment dipt in blood Apoc. 19.11.13 The witnesses will be fearefull which will be their owne griping conscience and Gods all-seeing prouidence the accusing Angels their offended brother and millions of creatures abused by them The bench will be fearefull for it shall be to them a tribunall of iudgment without mercie The sentence will be if any thing most fearefull as that which shall proceed against al vnrighteous persōs in the fearefull forme Go ye accursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the Deuil and his Angels And the fire that to which they are appointed shall haue no end of feare For this fire is a far other thing then the fire of the chimney the fire of Gehenna then materiall fire The vses of this point concerne the godly and sinners Vse 1 It is comfortable to the godly that Christ shall be Iudge and they who haue followed him in the regeneration may lift their head to their redemption at hand when he commeth who will iudge his people with equitie that is with sauour For he must be Iudge who hath communicated to all his seruants the sweete and louing names of his a Mar. 33. mother sisters brethren b Cant. 4.9 10.11.12 spouse c Iohn 15.14.15 friends Now we are his mother if we beare him in the wombe of our hearts by faith as Marie bore him in the wombe of her bodie And we are his brethren and sisters if we loue him as brethren and cherish him as sisters in his weake and despised seruants among vs. And if we keepe our selues to him alone by matrimoniall faithfulnesse we are his spouse wife And we are his friends if we doe whatsoeuer he command vs. We being these and doing thus what need we feare for if we be his mother may we not come to him with as great boldnesse and expectation of successe as did Bath-sheba to Salomon the naturall mother to her Sonne 1. King 2.19 If we be his spouse shall we feare to make him our Iudge who is one with vs in spirituall marriage and by the espousall of faith our husband and friend or will one kind brother feare to make another his Iudge Can he condemne vs to death who hath redeemed vs from death eternall He is our Iudge who also is our aduocate at his fathers right hand and maketh intercession for vs. Art thou afraide that thy Iudge will be vnmercifull O what a vaine feare is that seeing he is thy Iudge who condemned himselfe to saue thee from iudgement who emptied himselfe for thy filling bestowed and spent himselfe for thy restoring and gaue his life which passed out at all the gates of his bodic for the life of thy soule Can the sentence be sharpe that commeth from the throne of grace in the hand of a Redeemer from whom commeth saluation or will he who stood at the barre to deliuer vs go vp to the bench and sit downe in the throne to condemne vs Rom. 8.1 or shall we feare any longer when our aduocate is made our Iudge And when he who came to saue vs may saue or condemne But shall Christ bee iudge Vse 1 The other was not more comfortable to the Saints then this shall bee terrible to vngodly sinners For what a hart-breaking will it bee to the wicked and death beyond all kindes of death temporall to see him who is their chiefe enemie in chiefe place What comfort can it bee to a couetous man or woman to be iudged by him for auarice who limited all his cares to the present day and spake so much earnestly against the morrowes care Or to a proud person to haue him his Iudge who humbled himselfe as a child being God of maiestie and set the low doore of humilitie before the courts of his fathers house Or to fleshly persons to appeare at his barre of iudgement whose whole life was lead in temperance and commandement was that we should be sober Or to Whoremongers and Adulterers whom God will iudge Heb. 13.4 to receiue sentence of death or absolution from his mouth who himselfe was born of a pure Virgin and hath those for his followers who were not defiled with women Apoc. 14.4 Or to the vnmercifull to be

That they that are negligent or prophane commers to the Lords table doe detract from the perfection of Christs body and seuer themselues from the society of his Church So much for our guifts what doe we receiue at the Lords table That which wee receiue there concerneth our selues alone or our selues with others What is that that concerneth our selues alone The strengthning of our faith and memory by the reuerent and right vse of that holy action 1. Cor. 11.24 10.16.17 How is our faith strengthned memory holpen by it By seeing that in the Sacrament 1. Cor. 11.26 Galat. 3.1 1. Iohn 1.1 which we do but heare of in the word namely the particular offering and receiuing of Christ in his body and sauing blood by all beleeuing communicants Somuch for that which cōcerneth our selues alone what is that that concerneth our selues with others It concerneth our growing vp with Christ and our communion with our brethren How doe we receiue our growing vp with Christ Wee receiue it with Christ by spirituall eating and drinking 1. Cor. 10.3.4 and by a more full partaking with him and his graces through faith increased and that vse of his ordinance blessed vnto vs. How doe wee receiue our communion with our brethren By testifying our mutuall agreement 1. Cor. 10.17 inasmuch as wee eate all of one bread and drinke all of one cup. How else By feeding all of the same food bodily and spiritually 1. Cor. 10.4 12.13 Ephes 4.15 and by drawing all life from the same fountaine as the life of grace which heere we receiue and the life of glory which in heauen we shall be partakers of Amen So much for our examination before the Sacrament Prou. 23.1 When thou sittest to eat with a Ruler consider diligently what is before thee A short direction for spending of time well HOw doe you diuide the daies of mans life Into the daies of labour and daies of holinesse What say you of the daies of labour These concerne the workes of our calling or workes of helpe vnto them What be the works of our calling The workes of that trade of life in which God hath placed vs. 1. Cor. 7.10 Ephes 4.1 What must a man doe in these By offering them to God Coloss 3.17 Gen. 24.12.13.14.13 Ephes 4 28. Rom. 12.7 1. Thess 4.11 Genes 5.22 Hee must walke in them neither slackly nor deceitfully but with Christian diligence good conscience following his own businesse with quietnesse and walking with God Then euery one must haue some speciall calling and trade of life to liue in Yea verily Gen. 3 19. Matth. 20.6 2. Th. 3.10 11 12 Rom. 12 4 or he is no sound member of the Christian common wealth but a rotten member in the body of the same that deserueth a cutting off So much for the workes of our callings what say you of the workes of helpe vnto them They concerne duties to be done before the work or that day after What must we do in the morning before our worke Praise God for his mercy the night past Psal 59.16 88.13 Gen. 24 12. and pray vnto him for his further mercy and blessing the day present How shall we praise God By giuing him thanks Ephes 5.20 Coloss 1.10 and by shewing our thankefulnesse How is our thankefulnes shewed Inwardly or outwardly How inwardly By pleasing God in our vnderstanding thoughts desire Prou. 23 26 Col. 1 10 affections and will How outwardly By pleasing him in our words and deedes How in our words When they be gracious alway Col. 4 6. Ephes 4.29 What things hurt this grace of speech Lying Ephes 4.25 Jam. 5.12 Eph. 4.31 5.4 Coloss 3.8 Prou. 26.21 swearing brawling filthy speaking foolish talking iesting that is not comely wrath that causeth strife How in our deedes These are in the duties of our generall callings Rom. 12.4 as we are Christians or our particular trades of life wherein some are Magistrats some Masters and seruants some Marchants Artificers Husbandmen and the like What are our duties as wee bee Christians These concerne God Acts 24.16 or man What are they that concerne God They are in the foure commandements of the first Table Tit. 2.12 called godlinesse What are they that concerne Man They concerne our selues Tit. 2.12 or our neighbour What is that that concerneth our selues Sobriety which is inward Rom. 12.13 and and teacheth vs not to presume aboue that which is meete and outward in our apparell diet outward members and senses What must our apparell be Such as becommeth those that professe the feare of God 1. Tim. 2.10 What call you sobriety in diet That grace of temperance that consisteth in the moderate vse of meats drinkes sleepe Luke 21.34 Rom. 13 13 1. Thess 5.16 and such outward things What sobriety is that which you call sobriety of sense and the outward members Sobriety of sense is a watchfulnes in it 1. Tim. 4 16 Ioh. 31.1 1. Cor. 6.15 and sobriety of the members a chastitie in them So much for the generall duty that concerneth our selues called sobriety what is that that concerneth our neighbour It is contained in the sixe last commandements Rom. 13. ● 9 Matth. 19.18.19 Tit. 2.12 being commandements of the second Table called righteousnesse So much for our generall duties as we be Christians what say you of our particular duties or duties of our trade of life These reach vnto all callings in the Church and common wealth but to our purpose in a family they concerne the husband or wife Parents or their children the Master and his seruants What is the Husbands dutie To dwell with his wife 1. Pet. 3.7 Ephes 5.28.29 as a Man of knowledge by instructing her and by obseruing for her better incouragement the good parts that are in her and to loue her as his owne flesh What is the Wiues dutie To helpe her husband in the duties of the family Gen. 2 18. 1 Pet. 3.2 Ephes 5.22.24 also to feare and to be subiect to him What be the Parents duties They concerne the father and mother iointly or by themselues What bee their ioint duties to their children In their tender yeeres they must instruct them plainely Prou. 22 6 Ephes 6 4. Prou. 23 13 and season them with good things young giuing them due correction Genes 4.2 1. Cor. 7.36.37 2. Cor. 12.14 1. Cor. 7.39 and at more yeeres fit them for some honest calling and when time serues laying vp something for them giue them in Marriage onely in the Lord. So much for the Parents ioint duties what is the Fathers more speciall duty To prouide for his children 1. Tim. 5.2 specially to haue a speciall eye to the sons of his house as the mother must to her daughters What is the mothers special duty To nurse vp her children Gen. 21.7 1. Tim. 5.10 if God haue giuen