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A03696 Of the rich man and Lazarus Certaine sermons, by Robert Horne. Horne, Robert, 1565-1640. 1619 (1619) STC 13823; ESTC S104236 106,903 146

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to call to wit too late with this Rich man in hell and not bee heard Prou. 1.24.28 And if they bee not heard how can they bee deliuered and if they bee how can the Scripture be true A terror to those who vse so ill the short time of their repentance seeing when they be gone hence Vse they shall find no way to it though as Esau they seeke it with tears Heb. 12.17 Besides what fooles and how vnwise are they who will purchase eternall torments with so short pleasures May they not say as a King once sayde who being inforced in an extreame thirst of water to yeelde himselfe to the enemie after hee had drunke of the water so dearely bought brake out into these words For how short a pleasure what a Kingdome hau● I lost So what ioyes haue I lost and of what continuance and what miseries haue I gained and how endlesse for lesse then a dish of water What madnesse to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season and after to lye in torments of fire for euer This Rich man would haue giuen the world if the world had beene his to giue to haue beene ridde of his torments but one poore houre or to haue had any little ease of them in hell but if all the Angels and Saints of Heauen would as wee may not thinke they would haue begged of Christ for him they could haue done him no good in that place of torments Therefore while there is hope and while the Lord may bee found let vs seeke him to witte in the way of obedience to the Gospell Esay 55.6 If yee will not come into this place of torments where there is no comming out heare Moses and the Prophets in the olde Testament and Christ in the New Luc. 16.28 Come to Church Heare reuerently at Church and practise carefully when yee are gone from Church Repent yee of your sinnes and that to day that is while yee may call and be heard conuert and bee healed It can be no good husbandrie in you or any to put off your sowing till the time of reaping come and to pay for a few simple trifles the losse of your precious soules for euer O thinke of these things now in these dayes of mercy and while the gate is open striue to enter The soule is more worth then all the world and all riches pleasures and profites are but losse and dung in comparison of it Further to be seuered from God Christ in the torments of hell is a plague aboue all plagues mortall and earthly Now is the time to redeeme thy poore soule I say now because thou knowest not what may happen in an houre and in a moment wee are taken away O therefore now and presently goe about it now and presently abandon thy short pleasures that thou mayest reigne with God for euer in the long life of his saluation And now and presently mortifie sinne in thy earthly members that thy soule may be saued in the day of the Lord and thy bodie and soule may ioyfully meete at the resurrection of all bodies in the kingdome prepared for them and there bee for euer Here wee reade of a great man in Hell or of a great rich man in torments in hell Doct. 3. which teacheth that no wicked ones how great soeuer are for that or because of such eminence exempt from the place and condemnation of hell Therefore Tophet to which hell is compared and the burning Tophet is sayd to be prepared for the King Esa 30.33 I may say for Kings and all in kingly places that doe wickedly And Samuel sayde to all Israel not only if yee doe wickedly yee shall perish but if your king doe wickedly yee and your King shall perish 1. Sam. 12.25 not subiects onely but King and Subiects The Lucifer of Babylon must to hell as well as the meanest in Babylon Esa 14.9.12 that commits iniquity The Reasons The soule that sinneth shall dye Ezech. 18 4. It is spoken of euery soule and person poore and rich Secondly the sinne that it committed is eyther punished in Christ or shall be in th●se that are committers of it whosoeuer they be for vnder other termes God neuer yet pardoned sinne and Christ who tooke vpon him the sinnes of his Elect descended to the hels in the sufferings of his life and death to answere his Fathers iustice and for his peoples faults But are al kings are all great ones in Christ Hath Christ suffered for all that are Noble and for all that are rich and mighty doth not the Scripture say Not many wise not many mighty nor many noble are called 1. Cor. 1.26 Now if many be not and but few are they that are not called must suffer for that and all that which Christ neuer suffered for them and where but in Hell and what torments but of Hell Thirdly he that iudgeth his people with equity and the world with true iudgement Psal 98.9 should goe against his owne rules of doing that which is equall and iust if hee should not reward euery one according to his worke and proceede to iudgement without respect of persons Act. 10.34 But it is blasphemy in an high degree once to thinke that howsoeuer wickednesse among men be in the place of iudgement Eccles 3.16 the Iudge of all the world will not deale iustly An admonition to great ones to serue the Lord in feare Vse Psal 2.11 and not to beare themselues vpon their great wealth aboue that which is meete for how soone fearfully may they bee brought downe in a moment and what will all their glory and riches helpe them when their pompe must descend with them to the pitte of corruption And how can they redeeme their poore soules and what ransome will they giue to God for them when a whole world will not bee taken for the redemption of one soule This Rich man in hell and infinite thousands in hell as rich as he while they liued can say as much now And what difference betweene the poore vngodly and the vngodly rich in hell though great on earth seeing their chambers of fire and burning pitch in the infernall Lake are like saue that their torments may bee and it is like are greater for looke how much they gloryed in themselues and liued in delights so much shall they haue torments and sorrow Apoc. 18.7 Now had it not beene better for such while they liued here to haue liued vnder the nurture of the word to haue come humbly and duly to it and with as great reuerence and loue as the poorest soule But They hated him that rebuked in the gate Amos 5.10 and therfore wish too late with this Rich man in Hell that they had not been such fooles and mad men to crosse their owne saluation So much for the place whither the soule of this Rich man went Now we come to shew what followed there He lift vp his eyes and sawe Abraham a farre off c.
12.48 The more men haue the more men haue to answere for and the more wealth the more billes of debt to further either their saluation or condemnation by Gods iust iudgement An admonition to all Vse 2 vpon the penaltie of damnation to giue to Gods poore as God hath giuen to them and blessed them God hath so cōmanded Deu. 15.11 He that giues all commands vs to giue to all that stand in need Esay so saith and sheweth why His reason is the poore are our flesh Esa 58.7 Brethren are neere but our selues are nearere One brother may doe for another but who is so vnkind that he will not doe for himselfe It is a fruite of the spirit to couer the naked with a garment Ezech. 18.7 but signe of an ill spirit to vncouer him or to keepe his couer from him And he is no good man who hauing two coates will not giue one rather then see his brother perish for want of one Luk. 3.11 Our Sauiour who being rich made himselfe poore to make vs rich will haue vs to giue almes of such things as we haue Luk. 11.41 That is he requireth vs to giue almes either in money or in that which is money worth And therefore in Luk. 12.33 he bids vs sell that we haue that we may haue to giue to such as neede For some might say I would willingly giue something to Christ in his poore but I haue nothing to giue Therefore saith Christ you say you haue nothing to giue but haue you nothing to sell no corne in your Barne no stuffe in your house If any rather then your brother should perish sell it and when it is sold giue it to him Neither doth Christ simply command this but with promise of a recompence who may command without it For he saith Giue out of these bagges and I will giue you other and better bagges And it is sure if we lay vp a penny in heauen we shall find a pound there he that scatters there shall find a large increase If we sowe anything vpon Christ Iesus the seede of reliefe that is cast vpon him is bestowed vpon a thankfull soile it will returne with vsury what we lay out vpon it Christ is no barren ground and a cup of cold water sowen vpon him will rise to the great haruest of a cup of glory Also and further for the temporall returne the Lord by Esay tels vs that If we refresh the hungry and troubled soule hee will satisfie our soule in drought and make our bones fat and we shal be like springs of water whose waters faile not Esa 58.10 Heere are very large promises and he that maketh them is faithfull for is it not a great blessing of God to be prouided of springs of water in a great drouth is not the fatting of the bones in some common leannesse sent vpon others for a punishment something worth Is it not good prouidence to lay vp that in our daies of plenty which will be sure not onely to come againe but to watch the time when for our neede it shall be most welcome to vs and who would not giue so to receiue againe But all this is promised here by the Lord vnder the broad seale of his word And why should wee then be so slacke in the liberall laying out of something for an euill day why should we feare to cast our bread vpon such waters where it will be found againe and to make God our pay-maister by giuing to his poore Prou. 19.17 seeing all that we so giue shall be repaid so surely and with such increase But further to prouoke vs to a worke of charitie so gainfull and so commanded let vs remember that it is not onely a deede of mercy but worke of iustice to giue to Gods poore so saith Dauid Psal 112.9 where he telles vs that a good man is alway doing good and that his righteousnes that is worke thereof abideth euer and not for a while or for a few good fits By righteousnes he meaneth the worke of mercy to the poore which hee calleth not changeable but constant mercy and he calleth it righteousnes because it is not an arbitratie but commanded duty nor at our owne choise which we may doe or leaue vndone but straightly enioined And therefore as the rich haue right to the maine estate by Gods bounty so the ouerplus and that which they may spare is the poores by vertue of that donation That therefore which they may spare is not their owne but the poores from whom if with this rich man and merciles they withhold the crummes of their superfluitie with him they may cry when there shall be no bearing Looke I am 5.1 I tell thee the poore haue as good right to the waste bread of thy estate as thou hast to the full table it selfe and it is ratified to them by the same authoritie that the larger portion is sealed vnto thee But heere standeth the difference as (d) M. Io. Down who hath written fully and excellently of this argument in his booke of beneficence one saith God hath giuen vnto thee thy riches immediately but to them he giueth theirs mediately by thee But to proceede a little farther Christ Iesus in his last day of iudgement wil pronounce that to be done to himselfe which is done to his poore Math. 25.40 and contrarily that to be taken from him which is denied to them v. 45. Now tell me if Christ himselfe should come to begge lodging of thee wouldst thou not giue him lodging and if need were the vse of thine owne bed When a poore Christian doth as much it is all one as if Christ did so by him and therefore what thou deniest to a Christian thy Sauiour will take as denied to himselfe in that Christian and say Forasmuch as yee did it not to the least of these yee did not to me therefore shall yee goe into euerlasting paine as the righteous shall passe to life eternall Mat. 25.45.46 But lest any should thinke himselfe not to be charged with giuing because he is not rich the Apostle S. Paul sheweth that this duty belongeth both to rich and poore Eph. 4.28 Where the poore labouring man is commanded to practise loue and the duties of loue vpon his needy brother And if we would haue an example for it we haue a good one in the poore widow who cast her two mites into the coffer of the poore which was all the substanc● that she had Mar. 12.43.44 God will haue the poore therefore to spare somewhat of their pouerty to the comfort of Christ in his needy members Now if these arguments and examples cannot moue vs let vs knowe that the iudgements are certaine and will come that are threatned against all mercilesse rich men such as Di●es heere The Lord so abhorreth this crueltie of turning away from the poore that he threatneth it as one of Sodoms sinnes with fire and brimstone from heauen Ezech. 16.49 And as he that