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Sermons, English -- 17th century. 2006-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-06 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-06 Ali Jakobson Sampled and proofread 2007-06 Ali Jakobson Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion LONDONS REMEMBRANCER : FOR THE STAYING OF THE CONTAGIOVS SICKNES OF THE PLAGVE : By Dauids Memoriall . AS IT VVAS FOLLOWED in a Sermon Preached in Christs-Church in LONDON , the 22. of Ianuarie . 1626. Vpon occasion of the publique Thanksgiuing , enioyned by his Maiesties Proclamation . By SAMSON PRICE , Doctor of Diuinitie , one of his Majesties Chapleins in Ordinarie . PSAL. 63.6.7 . When I remember thee vpon my bed , and meditate on thee in the night watches , because thou hast beene my helpe : therefore in the shadowe of thy wings will I reioyce . AT LONDON : Printed by Edward All-de , for Thomas Harper . 1626. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR THOMAS COVENTRYE , KNIGHT , LORD KEEPER OF THE GREAT SEALE OF ENGLAND . Right Honourable , IT is the great worke of God , to reclaime from their offences , those whom he loueth , by corrections : To this end as he bestoweth fauours vpon some in anger , as he did Quailes vpon the Israelites : so striketh he others in mercie , that they may be zealous , and repent . The late Pestilence amongst vs of this Citie , and the other infected parts of the Kingdome , bringing wonderfull Plagues , and sore sicknesses : came rushing with such violence , because wee did not serue the Lord our God with ioyfulnes , hauing aboundance of all things ; and because we did not feare this glorious name , The Lord : yet mercie shewed it selfe stronger then Iudgement , and vpon our weake and vnworthy humiliation , the destroying Angel hath in a great measure stayed his hand : Beautie therefore being giuen vnto vs for ashes , the oyle of Ioy for mourning , & the garment of praise for the spirit of heauines , The Lord is to be praised . To this end hath our Royall zealous annointed Soueraigne , sent forth a solemne command : This , to fasten as a memorandum in the eares and hearts of those committed to my poore charge , I endeauoured , By King Dauids memoriall , of what God had done for him . A subiect fit for an Angell from heauen to comment vpon . A THANKSGIVING : All the workes of the Lord praise him : Angels , Heauens , Sunne , Moone , Starres , showers , dewe , winde , Winter , Summer : Wels , Whales , Fowles , Beasts : All holy and humble men of heart desire to remember the Lord. This is here pressed , wherein my only ayme was to speake what was plaine , profitable , necessarie to the glory of God , and good of the people . This Mite I now offer to the Treasurie ( Talents I haue none ) Knowing that in a willing minde , it is accepted according to that a man hath , and not according to that hee hath not , 2. Cor. 8.2 . Whatsoeuer it is , I am emboldened , by your late Noble encouragements , to present it to your Honours acceptation , protection , perusall . It is the ioy of many , that God hath giuen you a large , iust , and faithfull heart : a desire rather to be an vmpire of equity , then a Decreer of seuerity ; and as God hath exalted you , so you remember by your resolute , yet meeke carriage , that God standeth in the Congregation of the mighty , he iudgeth among the Gods. I shall still rest a continuall Peticioner to the throne of grace , that in these slipperie times , all the foundations of the earth being out of course , you may be kept by the power of God , through faith vnto saluation . New Rents 1626. Febru . 10. Your Honours in all dutie to be commanded , SAMSON PRICE . Lord Iesus begin and end . LONDONS REMEMBRANCER BY DAVIDS MEMORIALL . PSAL. 42.4 . When I remember these things , I powre out my soule in me . IT was the confident profession of royall Dauid , when some did striue with him , fight against him , and persecute him : Many are the afflictions of the righteous , but the Lord deliuereth him out of all . The whole Psalme was composed when he came to Achimelech the Priest , crauing bread and armes : A Psalme written ( saith Cassiodor ) for the times of Christians ; A Psalme which Athanasius perswaded Marcellinus to sing vpon any deliuerance : As Dauids afflictions were great ; so were his deliuerances ; consider him a caula ad aulam , from the Sheep-coate to the Scepter ; being sent to follow the Ewes great with young , either by his Fathers neglect , or his brothers enuious conspiracie , and plotting against him : the day consuming him with heat , and the night with frosts ; in danger of Lyons & Beares ; his Father in law vnkinde , Michal his wife froward ; hauing breaches in his family by his Thamar , Ammon , Absalon ; bruises by the pestilence , brunts by warres , which made him water his couch with his teares , and would haue made him mad indeede , as he but feigned when he was before Achish , had not the Lord deliuered him : But his soule truly wayted vpon God , because his saluation came from him . A text vrged by St. Austin against the Donatists : prescribed by Basil as an Antidote , to euery Christian against corrupt passions , that the soule be not made a slaue to lewd affections . Euery creature is to obey the Creator , and may be enforced ; but a voluntary subiection is expected of the reasonable soule of man , that our will follow Gods will , that we desire nothing contrary to his will , that wee encline our hearts to his pleasure . For we are the creatures , hee is the Creator ; we but clay , he the Potter ; wee captiues , hee the commander ; wee seruants , he the Master ; we Schollers , he the Tutour ; and none but the sonne of Belial , that cannot endure the Lord , will seeke to breake his bands : the life of Christ was a life of subiection ; to his Parents , to Magistrates , to the Law , to the Baptisme of Iohn ; yea , hee who was Lord and Master , washed his Apostles feete , not onely because the diuell had supplanted Adam in his feete : or because they were to be his feete to carrie him through the world , and as beautifull feete vpon the mountaines to publish peace , and bring good tydings of good , publishing saluation ; but to giue them an example of humility ; that seeing he washed their feete , they ought also to wash one anothers feete . Hee who was God and man , was subiect , that man might learne to submit himselfe wholy to God. Anima is quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , a breathing : and the tongue of the soule is the Zeale of deuotion : our deuout Kingly Prophet in all humble submission cried out : Vnto thee O Lord doe I lift vp my soule . Happy is hee onely who can say it with the heart of Dauid ; sinne doth not ouer-burthen him ; worldly delight draweth him not backe from the seruice of God ; pleasure boweth him not downe ; couetousnesse doth not make him stoope ; opulencie doth not puffe him vp ; ambition doth not carrie him away . His soule made her boast in the Lord ; because confirmed , strengthened , and able to endure so wonderfully from his power , by which he was whatsoeuer he was . He prayed that God would say vnto his soule , I am thy saluation : For Gods word is his Act , and his dixit a fiat : His soule followed hard after God , because his right hand did vphold him : Hee followed not the allurements of the world , which by vices draw men from the loue of God. His soule kept Gods testimonies ; Neuer did Burgensis so iustly entitle his booke Scrutinium scripturarum , as Dauid might his meditations Scrutinium praeceptorum . His soule wayted for the Lord , more then they that wayte for the morning : Hee that hopeth must hope to the end . Hee prayed that his soule might not be gathered with sinners ; that his soule which was his darling , might be rescued from destruction and the Lyons . This , hath breath breathed into it by the spirit of God , and therefore is euer ready to breath out sighes , groanes , supplications , thanksgiuing vnto God vpon the remembrance of his workes , his mercies , his iudgements , his prouidence , his deliuerances as heere . When I remember these things , I powre out my soule in me . When word came to the King of Niniueh , that God had thundred out a iudgement against that Citie , by the voyce of Ionah , Yet forty dayes and Niniueh shall be ouerthrowne : Hee caused it to be proclaimed : Let neither man nor beast taste any thing : Let them crie mightily vnto God ; Let them turne euery one from his euill way : and God saw their workes , and God repented of the euill that hee had said he would doe vnto them , and hee did it not . That King was as all great ones should be , carbo & lampas , a coale burning to himselfe , a lamp shining to other men . As hee for Niniueh : so our gracious King CHARLES , seeing the Lord angry with our Citie and Kingdome , and sending out a Preacher vnto vs of the strongest lines to terrifie vs ; by a Pestilence ; sent forth a solemne Edict for a publique Fast through the whole Kingdome : Wee haue seene a blessed effect : and therefore now our gracious Soueraigne with zealous Dauid , willing to haue a Memoriall kept of that late , suddaine , miraculous stopping of the vyals of Gods wrath amongst vs and others , in staying of the Plague ; is this day with his Nobles and Courtiers , assembled to giue publique thankes in the Congregation ; and hath commanded a generall & publique Thanksgiuing to God throughout this whole Realme , for so great and gracious a deliuerance , acknowledging that they are not worthy of future fauors , who are not truly thankfull for benefits already receaued : To this end wee are met . A King hath commanded vs ; and a Prophet is his leader . We haue had sad times , as our Dauid in this Psalme : As the Hart hath panted after the water brookes , so hath our soule panted after God : Teares haue beene our meate : the multitudes with whom we vsed to goe to the house of God and keepe holy day , haue beene taken away : our soules haue bin cast downe ; wee haue beene disquieted ; Deepe hath called vpon deepe ; Waues and billowes haue gone ouer vs : God seemed to forget vs , and therefore haue we mourned . Yet againe , wee are come to appeare before God , and therefore let vs praise him , who is the health of our countenance , and our God ; Let vs remember what is past : as Dauid ; When I remember , &c. My Text sheweth vs the two hands of God ; the one with a wound , the other with a plaister : the one casting downe , the other raising vp : the one killing , the other making aliue ; Both pile vp a Beacon to call vs together , to see what God hath done for vs , and what we are bound to doe vnto God : teaching vs , that though our miseries , troubles , feares , infirmities , Plagues , be as the hoast of the Aramites , a great hoast , yet more are with vs then against vs. Doth God send a sore ? he sends a salue also : sorrow for a night ? ioy in the morning : sobs and lamentations sometimes ? but songs & congratulations afterward : we see it in this Psalme , in this Memoriall : When I remember these things , I powre out my soule in me . The summe of which words is Dauids Memoriall , of Gods mercies , fauours , deliuerances : you may call it , The oblation of the soule : or hope for the Saints : or a forme of thanksgiuing : or the refuge of the afflicted : or the safety of Gods children : or Londons remembrancer by Dauids Memoriall : shewing vs mercie in the midst of iudgement , by our deliuerance from the late great Plague . Wherein obserue 1. A diuine Art of memorie : When I remember these things , 2. A zealous Act of piety : I powre out my soule in me . In the 1. See his commemoration . 2. His deuotion . When I remember these things . The whole verse is darke , as reuerend Caluin obserueth , by reason of the variety of times . It is diuersly rendred : by Aug. haec meditatus sum , I haue meditated vpon these things : By St. Amb. Psalter , Haec memoratus sum , I haue remembred , rehearsed , spoken of these things : Simmachus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : obseruing , or registring , and recalling in my minde . Campensis interprets it of Gods prouidence shewed , and his promises made for the deliuerance of the Fathers before Dauid : Folengius of Gods promises to all his seruants : Valentia of his promise concerning the comming of the Messiah . But others , that Dauid was recounting with himselfe what troubles he was in , when his enemies reproached him in his miseries , as if God had forsaken him , forgotten to be gracious to him ; and in his aduersitie , the abiects gathered themselues together against him to teare him . Hee remembreth that God had brought him out of the horrible pit , of the mirie clay , & set a new song in his mouth . Memorie is taken either for an intellectuall habit left by some act , or for some thing that stickes to the soule , comprehending things past , making an Act of them : It is a resuming of any thing apprehended in the sense or vnderstanding . Sense is for things present ; Hope , for things to come ; Memory , for things past : Memorie , is the lieger booke of the braine ; the Ianus that hath an eye behinde ; the storehouse of the minde : but there is a three-fold memorie . Beneficiorum , This is to be reteined in vs , Exemplorum , This is to be exhibited by vs. Iniuriarum , This is to be relinquished from vs. There must be a remembrance of Gods blessings and benefits : therefore saith the Lord to the Church by Isai : Put mee in remembrance ; Let vs plead together : Remember what I haue done for thee in creation , redemption , preseruation . The best Art of memory is to be humbled at Gods threatnings , and comforted at his promises : for exceeding griefes or exceeding ioyes leaue great impressions in vs. But this memory is hindred by worldly prosperity : as the chiefe Butler forgat Ioseph , a right temporizing Courtier , who partly for feare to moue the King , partly addicted to his owne profit , and serue his owne turne , would make no mention of Ioseph : So the children of Israel called Iesurun , waxed fat and kicked , and then forsooke God which made him , and lightly esteemed the Rocke of his ▪ saluation . Dauid remembred God on his bed , and in the night watches ; whiles others slept and snorted in their sinnes . There is a remembrance of examples : Moyses was a mercifull man , which found fauour in the sight of all flesh , beloued of God and men ; His memoriall is blessed . There is a remembrance of iniuries , whereas the best remedy of an iniury is forgetting . And at Athens it was enacted a decree obliuionis iniuriarum , of forgetting of iniuries , for when Thrasibulus had freed the Citie of thirty Tyrants , and restored it to peace , hee made a Law , that none should remember any iniuries past , which the Athenians call the Law of obliuion : and this we reade of the Emperour Augustus , who though of a most tenacious and retentiue memory : Iniurias tamen cum primis obliuisceretur , could yet forget wrongs as soone as they were offered : To this end is that remembrance : thou shalt not auenge , nor beare any grudge against the children of thy people : that , remember thy end , and let enmity passe : that as when Bees fight , the casting of a little dust vpon them endeth their strife : so the remembrance of our end by common mortality in pestilence or otherwise , still toling for the last gaspe , should ring out the death of malice , & burie all wrongs in the graue of obliuion , neuer to rise vp againe : But I must not forget the remembrance of God , the remembrance of vs here . Hee remembreth his mercie and truth towards Israel : Hee remembreth vs , and visiteth vs , and reuengeth vs of our persecutors : hee taketh vs not away in his long suffering . Hee being gracious and full of compassion , hath made his wonderfull workes to be remembred . Therefore hee commanded that a golden pot of Manna should be kept to remember what bread the children of Israel had in the wildernes : The Sacrament of the Lords supper is a remembrance of the death & passion of our blessed Sauiour . All the feasts enioyned Israel , required of them a memoriall of Gods benefits done vnto them . The twelue Cakes on the pure table before the Lord , were for a memoriall . Dauid appointed the Leuites to record , and to thanke and praise the Lord God of Israel . They that escaped of the sword when they were scattered , were to remember him among the Nations . The two stones vpon the shoulder of the Ephod , were for a memoriall vnto Aaron . Ieremie remembring his afflictions , miserie , and wormewood and Gall , his soule was humbled , yet he hoped . Ionas remembred the Lord , and his soule fainted , when no doubtfull earthly naturall helpe , could release him : when his father , mother , friend , land , sea , his soule , all had forsaken him : yet the Lord tooke him vp , and gaue him better hope . Isai made mention of the louing kindnes of the Lord , and the praises of the Lord , his great goodnesse , and multitude of louing kindnesses . Neuer did Dauid more truly remember Ierusalem : If I forget thee O Ierusalem , let my right hand forget her cunning . If I doe not remember thee , let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth ; a greater torment hee wished not to his enemie in the Poet : Nec possis captas inde referre manus . Sic fit in exitium lingua proterua tuum . God hath plagues in store for them that forget him : They shall bee deliuered into the hands of their enemies , as the Israelites forgetting the Lord , were sold into the hands of Sisera , they wither in their greenesse before any other hearb , their hope being cut of : They forget God , and stretch out their hands to a strange God , and then God searcheth this out : they shall haue their sins set in order before them , and bee torne in pieces , and none shall deliuer them : they haue forgotten God , and trusted in falshood , therefore their skirts shall bee discouered vpon their face , that their shame may appeare : Though then thou forget to take bread for a Iourney , as the Disciples did : or forget thy friend in thy mind , and be vnmindfull of him in thy riches : Remember the Lord. Thy brethren may be put farre from thee , thine acquaintance estranged , thy kinsfolke may faile , and thy familiar friends forget thee ; thy Louers may forget thee and not seeke thee , there may be none to plead thy cause : but the Lord remembreth vs : prouoke him not therefore ; forget not the euerlasting God that brought you vp ; grieue not Ierusalem that nursed you . There are some things that especially affect the memorie , and we shall find all singular in God. Assidnum , Mirum , Cognatum , Dulce , Decorum . Triste , Nouum , Munus , Amor , Aetas , Spes , Timor , Auctor . Are we mindfull of things frequent and vsuall : In God wee liue , moue , and haue our being . Of things wonderfull ? His Name is wonderfull ; The Mighty God , The Euerlasting Father . Of things neere vs or persons alyed ? Wee are all his off-spring . Of pleasant things : O taste and see how the Lord is good ! Doe wee remember Faire , Beautifull , Goodly things ? He is fayrer then the children of men . Sadde and sorrowfull things ? Behold and see if there be any sorrow like that of the Son of God. Gifts ? There is a New-yeeres gift : The Lord hath created a New thing in the earth : A woman shall compasse a man. Loue ? God so loued the world , that he gaue his onely begotten Sonne . Carry wee in memorie our age ? wee are his deare children ; as new borne babes . Any thing we hope for ? No hope to that for the Sauiour , who shall change our vile bodies . Any thing we feare ? There is one wise and greatly to be feared , the Lord sitting vpon his throne . Our Benefactours ? Euery good and perfect gift is from the Father of lights . King Dauid had infirmities and did beare them , but this was his supporter : I will remember the yeares of the right hand of the most High. I will remember the workes of the Lord : Surely , I will remember thy wonders of olde . Wonderfull are the workes of Nature : but more wonderfull are the workes of grace in our Iustification . A wonder it was that the dead was raysed : but a greater wonder that a poore fisherman whose hands were practised in his old torne netts , and feete in the slime and mud of the sea , should haue the power on a suddaine of conuerting soules . A wonder that 's aboue all wonders , that the Creator should become a creature ; with his bloud restore the lost sheepe from death to life ; yet thus He hath remembred his holy Couenant to deliuer vs from our Enemies . Can a woman forget her sucking child , that she should not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe ? they may : yet God will not forget vs. He remembreth vs , that wee may remember him . This made those who receiued blessings vnexspected from God , to keepe some speciall memoriall ; as Leah conceiuing and bearing a sonne , shee called his name Reuben , for shee sayd , The Lord hath looked vpon my affliction , now therfore my husband will loue me . She bare another sonne and called him Simeon , Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated , He hath giuen mee this son also . Hence the name of Immanuel God with vs , Isay the helpe of the Lord , Gabriel the strength of God , Gamaliel the Reward of God : Ieremy the high of the Lord ; Ioseph the encrease of the Lord , Israel preuailing in the Lord , Theodorus the gift of God , Nathaniel the gift of God , Mathew Gods gift , Lazarus the helpe of the God , Raphael the physicke of God , Samuel placed of God , Theophylus a louer of God , Tobias the Lord is good , Zachary the memorie of the Lord. Therefore Hagar hauing an Angel to come to her by the Well , to tell her of Ishmael whom shee should bring forth , the name of the Well was after Beer-lahai-Roy . The Well of him that liueth and seeth me . By liuing , vnderstanding her selfe , that liued after this glorious sight . By seeing , God who seeth our afflictions . Thus Abraham called the place of Isaacs deliuerance Iehouah-ijreh , The Lord will see or prouide , which some take to be a prophecie of the Temple which should afterward be built at Ierusalem , where the Lord would manifest and shew himselfe . Others collect hence an argument of our confidence : all other meanes fayling ; to cast our care vpon God , as Abraham did , who had another sacrifice prouided in stead of his sonne , which he thought not vpon . Thus Iacob hauing visions of comfort rose in the morning , and set vp the stone that he had vsed as a pillow , for a pillar , calling the place Bethel , the house of God ; a pillar not for adoration but commemoration , yet that annointed pillar was a figure of Christ , who is so called of his annointing . As now , he testified his thankfulnesse for the vision of the ladder , so afterwards hauing wrastled with an Angel , he called a place Peniel , The Face of God. For , saith he , I haue seene God face to face , and my life is preserued ▪ that his posteritie might remember the place and vision : he spake with him praesens praesentem , he talked with God present , as Moses with whom God did speake mouth to mouth , and apparantly , not in darke speeches . Thus he being deliuered from Esau , erected an Altar , and called it El-Elohe-Israel , God the God of Israel ; erecting as it were a Chappell vnto God , calling the Altar God , the signe by the thing signified ; so the bread in the Eucharist is called , the Body of Christ : so Moses built an Altar , and called it Iehouah Nissi , The Lord my banner : and Dauid here hath his Memoriall , When I remember . Which is the shame of many in these dayes , and reproueth their dulnesse who are like those Cittizens against whom when a great King came and besieged it , and built great bulwarks against it : a poore wise man by his wisedome deliuered that Cittie , yet no man remembred that poore man. They are like Ioash the King , who remembred not the kindnesse which Iehoiada did to him , but slew his sonne Zechariah the Priest : like Syria that forgetting the God of saluation , had a haruest of desperate sorrowe ; like Babylon , saying , I shall be a Lady for euer , not laying the word to her hart , neither remembring her latter end , and therefore in a moment , had losse of children and widowhood to come vpon her in her perfection ; they drinke and forget the lawe , and peruert the Iudgement of any of the afflicted : Doe not wee forget the things which our eyes haue seene ? Do they not depart from our hearts ? Doe we teach them our sonnes ? The Righteous perisheth , and no man layeth it to heart . We remember the least wrong of another to vs , and forget the greatest of our sinnes against God. We write iniuries in Marble , but benefits in the sand . Wee forget our Founders , Patrons , Benefactors . Wee remember not the hand , nor the day when we were deliuered from the enemy , from the land of Egypt , the house of bondage , the doctrine of Rome : the Spanish Inuasion : wee forget the tossings of the Palatinate , Bohemia , and those sweet Royall Princes liuing amongst Strangers . Euery one may be called Manasseh . Forgetting . This was the sinne of Israel , now of England . Wee are like the strange woman that forgat the couenant of her God. It is storied , that in a great battaile , many being slaine , and the bodies vnburied , there followed a great Plague ; and this so infected men , that they forgat their fathers names , their childrens , their owne names : I am sure our forgetfulnesse of God , and our Idolatrie , brought the last Plague among vs. There was a Plague in this Iland vpon an Ecclipse of the Sun , Anno Dom. 644. when the shauing of the Clergie , Latine , Seruice , Inuocations of Saints , were added ( with other Idolatrous corruptions ) to the Church : whereupon the death of the Emperor Constance followed . Haue not we made an Idoll of this Citie , which hath stood 2733. yeares , and being infected with the number of our people Dauids sinne : boasted of the multitude of heads , riches , buildings : that this was the Imperiall Citie of the Kingdome , Chamber of the King , that with Laodicea wee were rich , encreased with goods , and had need of nothing : that with Tytus our Citie hath beene replenished , the haruest of the time her reuenue , a ioyous Citie : her Merchants Princes , her Traffique the Honourable of the earth . Haue not Parents gloried in the number of their children , and set too much their hearts vpon them ? Haue wee not ascribed our peace to the strength of our arme , and not to him , who teacheth as he did Dauid , our hands to warre , and our fingers to fight ? For this we had a Plague , and as a Pestilence followed Idolatrie , so often a warre followeth . They chose new Gods , there was warre in the gates : As warre followeth ; so famine : When the land sinneth , I will breake the staffe of bread , and will send famine vpon it , and cut off man and beast from it . Such is that threat : If yee will not be reformed , I will send the Pestilence among you , and yee shall be deliuered into the hand of your enemie . A consumption , a feauer , an extreame burning ; the sword , hunger , thirst , nakednesse , want of all things : All these things for forgetting the Lord. Yet : How many doe lightly esteeme this great token of Gods wrath , The Plague which made Dauid pray ? Remoue thy stroke away from me , I am consumed by the blow of thine hand : O Lord thine arrowes sticke fast in mee , and thy hand presseth me sore , when he had the Plague . It made Ezechias complaine , that as a Lyon , so the Lord did breake his bones ; that like a Crane or a Swallow , so did hee chatter ; mourne as a Doue : that his eye did faile with looking vpward ; For morbi natura indomita erat a medijs naturalibus , and therefore God challengeth the cure of it to himselfe . I haue heard thy prayer , I haue seene thy teares , Behold I will heale thee . Hezekiah was sicke to the death , and prayed to the Lord : Isai prayed , the Priests prayed , the Courtiers , the people ; yet hee must pray himselfe : then God spake and gaue most comfortable signes of his fauours : So hath hee miraculously , suddenly , most graciously , stopped the current of his fury amongst vs. Hee hath not dealt so with others . How fearefull was that Plague , in Phrygia , Galatia , Capadocia , Cilicia , when no one remedie could be found for any infected ? That among the Vandals , when according to the Prouerb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , after a famine the pestilence was so great , that the liuing could not burie the dead , and the high wayes were full of carkasses : That vnder Iustinian , when in Constantinople , and neere there abouts , there dyed at least fiue thousand , and sometimes ten thousand in one day . That mētioned by Euagrius , which ran ouer the whole world , when men might haue cōplained , Macies & noua febrium terris in cubuit cohors . It continued 52. yeares : he lost his wife , many of his children , the greatest part of his kindred : whomsoeuer it tooke , it dispatched out of the way . It exceeded all diseases that euer were before . How fearefull was that Plague in Alexandria described by Eusebius ? Now all is replenished with lamentations . Euery man howleth through the Citie : There is no house where a dead carkasse is not found . That in Rome , when , saith Chronicon Fuldense , scarce the tenth man remained aliue ; nay , but ten men in all were preserued , saith Chronicon Isenacense . I leade you too farre . To keepe in our owne Kingdome and neere home . In the Reigne of Edw. 3. there was a Plague in this Kingdome that tooke away more then the halfe of men , and in one yeare of this , in the Charter house were buried aboue fifty thousand : and it dispeopled almost vtterly a great Towne , Wallingford in Barkshiere , bringing 12. Churches to 2. See how much more sparing the Lord hath been of vs : your memory may be fresh , in recalling to minde that Plague , in the beginning of the Reigne of Royall King IAMES , from the 23. of December , Anno 1602. to the 23. of Decem. Anno 1623. wherein there dyed thirty thousand fiue hundreth , seuenty eight ; and this to be stayed , that the next yere there dyed in London & the Liberties ; but foure thousand , two hundreth , sixty three of all diseases : And in this late Visitation , God so manifested his mercie , that from the 25. of August it decreased , from 3344. to 2550. and then to 1672. and then to 1551. and then to 852. and then to 538. And this last weeke but to three ; and Lord let thine Angel not strike any one more among vs with the Plague . Let this remembrance euer be written on the dores of our hearts : Say not as Babylon , I shall be a Lady for euer . Dauid fore-saw a curse vpon it for that pride of heart . Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth the little ones against the stones : It was fulfilled , the enemie came , Natum ante ora patris , patrem obtruncauit ad aras . Let not the Merchant burthen his memorie only with his Creditours , nor the Lawyer with his Clyents , nor the Landlord with his Rents , nor the Husbandman with his Cattell , nor the Captaine with his Souldiers , nor the Physitian with his Patients : but let all keepe a Register of this blacke Plague in red letters , in the Ephemerides of their memory , and the staying of it . It was not the season and coldnesse of the weather that stopped it . Posseuinus writes , that when hee was Ambassadour for the Pope in Moscouia , the Plague which had scarce euer beene heard of before in that Country ( ob intensissima frigora ) by reason of extreame colde , yet killed then many thousands . It was not a Popish Prayer to Saint Roche . Tu qui Deo es tam charus , Et in luce valde clarus , Sana tuos famulos , Et a peste nos defende . God alone is our defense ; forget him not . The wicked shall be turned into Hell , and all the Nations that forget God Study not for a vain-glorious commemoration of thy good workes after thy death . Set God as a seale vpon thine heart , as a seale vpon thine arme . Hee is as a bundle of Myrrhe vnto vs , let him lye all night betwixt our breasts ; neuer breath but remember him ; at morning , noone , and night : at thy lying downe , and rising vp : staying at home , or going a Iourney . This Remembrance shall put vs in minde of our Profession and heauenly Countrey . It shall shut the dore to all vncleane actions . It shall comfort vs when we are alone : Let him bee the α and ο of our remembrance . When the Iewes were building in Ierusalem , the Nations whom Noble Asnappar brought and set in the Cities of Samaria , wrote to Artaxerxes , telling him ; If this Cittie be builded , then will not the Iewes pay tole , tribute , and custome , and so thou shalt endamage the reuenue of the Kings : Because we haue maintenance from the Kings palace ; it was not meete for vs to fee the Kings dishonour , therefore haue wee sent and certified the King. The greatest dishonour to God is to forget him : and would we but Remember what he hath done for vs , wee would not so suffer his Word to be despised , Ministers wronged , his holy day to be prophaned ; and other sinnes to out-braue Authoritie , which in time will pull another plague downe . It was a graue conclusion of the Senatours of Troy , concerning Helena , the worlds wonder for beautie and excellent parts ; That though shee were such a one and vnmatchable , yet Rid her hence , say they , rather then to vs and our posteritie ; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : She should abide here for a snare and destruction . The counsell was wise , but Indulgence refusing it : it brought forth twentie foure bookes of Iliads , & an Iliad of miseries . The Philosopher elegantly applyeth it to any vice , seeme it neuer so delightfull . O that wee would banish from vs the vice of our Kingdome , Forgetfulnes of God. O that wee would Remember that from him , we haue whatsoeuer good thing wee haue , and deliuerance from all euill . He giueth his Angels charge of vs , to keepe vs in all our wayes : which charge is not onely begun to be executed in Baptisme , as some would haue it , or when there is the vse of Reason manifested , but in the birth , yea in the conception . Sure it is , they watch ouer vs , and yet all see it not ; and when they see it , it is by the effect of their Ministry : For though their Ministry be certaine , yet the Manifestation of it is extraordinary . He by the heauens giueth vnto vs Influences , least we languish with famine . He feedeth vs with the fruits of the earth . He blessed our Land by the gouernment of famous Queene Elizabeth , who with so long , so great wisedome and felicitie gouerned her Kingdomes , as the like hath not beene read or heard of ( sayd Learned King IAMES when he reigned in Scotland ) either in our time , or since the daies of the Roman Emperour Augustus . Lopez was set on to poyson her by Holt the Iesuit : so was Squire by Walpoole the Iesuite ; Parry was authorized by the Pope to murther her , commended by him for intending it , absolued from all his sinnes for pursuing it , and assured of merit for performing it . And when armed for the point , was confronted by her , amated with her presence , and preuented by him that keepeth Israel and neuer sleepeth . The same Right hand of the Lord , deliuered King Iames himselfe , of blessed and worthy memory , from the blow by the POVVDER-PLOT , a designment like those which He spake of , Plus samae apud posteros quam fidei habiturae , which are and shall be rather memorable for the singularitie , then credible for the horror . A deliuerance of our whole State , and while we haue pennes to write , tongues to speake , a generation liuing , or a posteritie succeeding , wee will report it , and repeate it to God with Dauids Memorandum ; Remember O Lord the children of Edom in the day of Ierusalem , who sayd , Raze it , raze it , euen to the foundation thereof . EDOM signifieth Red , and he was so called , because he desired and longed for the red pottage of Iacob . Doe not they thirst after our bloud ? A generation spoken of by Obadiah : concerning Edom. An Ambassadour is sent : By Isai , a sword is made fat with the bloud of Lambes , and a great slaughter in the Land of Idumaea . By Amos , Thus saith the Lord , for three transgressions of Edom and for foure , I will not turne away the punishment thereof ; because he did pursue his brother with the sword , and did cast off all pittie , and his anger did teare perpetually , and kept his wrath for euer . By Ieremy , I haue made Esau bare , I haue vncouered his secret places , and he shall not be able to hide himselfe ; his seed is spoyled , and his brethren , and his neighbours , and he is not . By Ezekiel , I will lay my vengeance vpon Edom by the hand of my people Israel , and they shall doe in Edom according to mine anger , & according to my fury ; and they shall know my vengeance , saith the Lord God. By Malachy : whereas Edom saith , We are impouerished ; but we will returne and build the desolate places : Thus saith the Lord of Hostes , They shall build , but I will throw downe , and they shall call them , the border of wickednes , and the people against whom the Lord hath indignation for euer : and King Dauid zealously would haue set vpon it , VVho will leade me into Edom ? wilt not thou O God ? wilt not thou O God goe forth with our Hostes ? Let Genebrard interprete it of the Church oppressed by the Turkes ; It shall bee the endeauour of Religious Kings against Rome : there the Edomites , Esauites , Idumeans lurke . Esau came out of the wombe Red , betokening his bloody disposition ; and all ouer hayrie which was extraordinry ; for children vsually are borne only with haire on the head , eye-lids and eye-browes , and afterward it groweth on other parts ; and such hairy conceptions are not without much griefe & trouble , causing loathsomnes in the stomacke , heart-burning and such like . Esau was a cunning Hunter . Esau had three names , Esau of Gnaschah to make , which is passiuely to be taken , comming forth with haire as a perfect man : not actiuely , as though he should be prompt in his businesse . It applieth it selfe , to the Romanists , whose bloudy , rough , turbulent , equiuocating dispositions are most apparant : Hungry Hunters after the true Church of God. Remember those children of Edom ; and remember that God , who hitherto hath preserued vs. Let vs say , He is our refuge , and our fortresse , our God ; in him will we trust . He deliuereth thee from the snare of the Fowler , and from the noysome pestilence . It is a warrant for Gods care , prouidence , help , protection , in any thing that may fall out to the body by naturall causes , wicked men , or our owne corruptions . Let vs euer remember this : Remember not piles of buildings , pictures , paintings , flowers , and other toyes which cannot help , but take that fourefold remembrance . Memento peccati vt doleas . Memento mortis vt desinas . Memento diuinae Iustitiae vt timeas . Memento misericordiae ne desperes . Sinne , Death , Iudgement , Mercie . I powre out my soule in me . It was a comfort that God had deliuered him , and therefore his soule is ( as it were ) melted into ioy , that he was deliuered . God was pacified . He was very glad , his wits were dispersed , and as it were rauished . Hee was enlarged , and scarce can containe himselfe , sorrow being driuen away : As sorrow saith , H. de vict . keepeth in the soule , so ioy powreth it out . Therefore ( saith Dauid ) Trust in him at all times , powre out your heart before him : God is a refuge for vs. The soule is the whole inward man , wherewith this masse of clay is quickned and gouerned , hauing seuerall names according to her seuerall offices in the body . Quickening the body it is called the soule : hauing an appetite to any thing , it is called the will : for knowledge , the minde : for recordation , memory : for iudging and discerning reason : for giuing breath spirit : for apprehending outwardly , sence . The soule is the life of the body , God is the life of the soule , and as the body is dead , when not vegetated by the fiue senses of the body ; so the soule is dead , that is not truly humbled to God. But God is good to an humble soule ; he meeteth it , embraceth it , and God ouer all , blessed for euer , marrieth it . An humble soule hath two wings , Feare , & Hope ; Feare in iudgement , Hope in mercy : so Dauid in his soule powred out in him . Hee confessed , Thy iudgements are good : To the wicked , crosses are curses ; but to the godly , corrections onely of a Father , not to destroy , but to try and purge : and as the Rod maketh , the Scholler learne : so knowledge by affliction is beaten into vs , by pouerty , sicknesse , and the like : And as a woman that hath fore trauaile , when shee is deliuered , reioyceth that a man-childe is brought into the world : so the seruants of God are in sorrow , till by troubles they are made the children of God. Through the Sea and wildernesse , we must passe , if we would goe to Canaan . Herein God is our guide ; hee can make vs as water spilt on the ground , which cannot be gathered vp againe , and expecteth the powring out of our soules in vs. There is a bad effusion , when men no faster receiue the word , but they powre it out againe , as he that earneth wages , & putteth it into a bagge with holes , the brand of Ruben : vnstable as water : But there is a good effusion of the soule , by confession , prayer , deuotion , humility , and teares . To this end is the beating of the breast , as we see in the Publicane . This was the custome of Hilarion , to beate his breast in prayer , as if he desired with his hands to take reuenge vpon his sad thoughts : and surely in the godly , obtritio cordis , tuntio pectoris , the smiting of the breast , is the stamping , beating downe , and brusing of the heart . This hath often teares , as in Hannah who was in bitternesse of soule , and prayed vnto the Lord , and wept sore : which is the foode of the soule , and which feasted Christ more then all the prouision of Mary Magdalen besides : while we eate the bread of sorrow , drinking the wine of compunction , wee hunger and thirst after heauenly things , and shall be comforted . This is the constant alimonie of the righteous , at dinner and supper , in life and death , in prosperity & aduersity . The Prouerb is true , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Boni autem valde flebiles viri . In this case was Iob , when his life abhorred bread , and his soule dainty meate : When hee complained that his gall was powred out on the ground . Thus Dauid when his soule was sore vexed , and he cried , Thou O Lord how long ? When his expectation was not satisfied : How long shall I take counsell in my soule . When hee powred out his complaint before God , and shewed before him his trouble : but now he is deliuered , and his soule is powred out in thanksgiuing . How iustly may this condemne many , who are so foolish and slow of heart , that they neuer stirre vp their soules to the seruice of God , but suffer the body like a thiefe to rob it : The body is deified , but the soule pined and famished : no bread of life is sought to strengthen her : no Gospell of peace to comfort her : no deuotion to cherish her . Some sell their soules : as couetous & vsurious Monsters , who for wealth will commit any rauine , robberie , theft , periurie , false merchandise , simonie . There is not a more wicked thing then a couetous man , for such an one setteth his owne soule to sale . Some cast away their soules , as the enuious and furious , for nothing . The couetous man hath wealth : The Epicure , pleasure : The ambitious proud vpstart , honour : The Glutton , meate and drinke : but the enuious man consumes himselfe in pining , being a thorne-hedge couered with nettels . Some lay their soules to pawne to Sathan , that they may swimme in the world prosperously and wantonly , running on in sinne so long , being deafe to God , caring neither for words nor iudgements , so soked in sinne , that they cannot redeeme these pawnes , because they can not repent . Yet God crieth by his Prophets : Oh doe not this abominable thing that I hate : but if we encline not our eare to turne from our wickednes , his furie must be powred forth , to cut off man and woman , childe and suckling , and leaue none to remaine . Wee may forget : but God remembreth vs , our Fathers , our Kings , our Princes , and the people of the Land ; and woe vnto their soule , who declare their sinne as Sodome , for they haue rewarded euill vnto themselues . Which may teach vs to remember the Lord , in powring out our soules in all deuout and humble acknowledgement of his mercies , least our soules abhorring him , his soule loathe vs. It is reported , that at a Sermon of Vincentius Ferr : one was so moued in spirit , that his face shined on the suddaine very glorious . O that when we heare the great workes of the Lord , wee would stirre vp the graces of God within vs , that the Spirit of God might not be quenched in vs. Nothing is more precious , then the soule within vs , which made Dauid pray : Mine eyes are vnto thee , O God the Lord , In thee is my trust . Leaue not my soule destitute . Arise , O Lord , disappoint him , cast him downe : Deliuer my soule from the wicked , which is thy sword . O keepe my soule , and deliuer me . Let mee not be ashamed , for I put my trust in thee . In a well disposed Christian , the body is seruant , the soule is Mistris , but in an infected person the body is predominant : Take heede of this Plague : The body is but the weight and burthen of the soule : while this oppresseth , the soule is in prison . Forget not the exhortation which speaketh to you as children . Forget not to entertaine strangers , for thereby some haue entertained Angels vnawares . If we reiect knowledge , and forget the Law of our God , he will also forget our children : O be not as Ierusalem , hauing her filthinesse in her skirts ; she remembred not her last end , therefore she came downe wonderfully , she had no comforter , the enemie magnified himselfe . Before we be driuen to remember the Lord in farre countries : Let vs set our heart and our soule to seeke the Lord : If we returne to the Lord with all our heart , & with all our soule , and pray , our supplications shall bee heard , our cause maintained , and wee shall be forgiuen . Remember this late mercy in the midst of Iudgement ; Extoll the admirable lenity of the Lord towards vs , who hath gleaned but some , when all feared to be cut downe . The yeares are not many since the Lord with a famine did shake many parts of this Land ; a terrible sword , which made Iulius Caesar in all his warres , to conquer more by famine , then the sword . It made Lysimachus in Thracia to yeeld himselfe captiue to Domitian the Emperour ; it brought vp that bloody Law amongst the Soldiers of Cambises , marching toward the Aethiopians , that the Tenth among themselues should be killed in the Army , to asswage hunger : It made the Roman Mothers eate their owne children : The Athenians vexed by Sylla , to eat the greene grasse of the fields , and mosse of the walles : Alexander to eate his Camels , Elephants , and other beasts , that carried luggage for the warres : the Hymmi to eate their Dogges : It made Abraham flye from Canaan to Egypt ; Isaack to Abimelech King of the Philistines ; and all the sonnes of Iacob to goe to Pharaoh King of Egypt : God like the Physitian maketh vs fast , to recouer health : Vpon Famine , haue wee beene so humbled as wee should haue beene ? The yeares are not many therefore , since the the Lord threatned vs with another sword ; that of a Barbarous Nation to deuoure vs ; how soone was it forgotten : This yeare therefore the Lord seeing vs wantonly secure , and sleeping , and snorting in our sinnes , drew another sword against many parts of the Land , by a Plague : This is the snare of the Hunter , it catcheth suddenly ; some walking , some feeding , some sporting , some waking , some sleeping : It is the terrour by night , breeding many terrours and feares in the night ; the night being a solitary time , and solitarines increaseth feares ; the night being a time of Incendiaries and Robbers , which set vpon men vnawares ; a time of feare , in regard of the weaknes of the Imagination , or of terrible dreames , or sudden affrights : a time terrible to trauelers , where the least noise amateth them . Per noctem metantur agros , sonus omnis , & aura Exterrent , pennaque leui commota volucris . It is the arrow that flyeth by day : Sagitta Angeli mortis quam emittit interdiu , the arrow of the Angel of the Lord sent forth in the day , cōming swiftly , striking suddenly , wounding deadly : It is the Lyon , Adder , Dragon : No beast for strength cōparable to the Lyon ; so no disease so deadly as the Plague : such as the Aspe biteth , are smitten with a numnes throughout all partes , and there followeth coldnesse , gasping , heauinesse in the head , sometimes heat and burning in the body : Are not such Symptomes in the Plague : A Dragon tearing in pieces with all violence , sparing none ; which moued Reuerend Beza being sicke of the Plague at Lausanna , not to suffer Caluin & Viret , those zealous Lights to come to him when they offered it freely , least they should bee infected , because hee preferred the benefit of Gods Church , before his owne particular comforts . The Plague is Gods hand , Iad Iehouah , because the might and power of God is more manifested in this then in other punishments . O let not this hand be out of our sight , but as that hand that wrote at Balshazars feast ; and thereupon his countenance was changed , his thoughts troubled him , the ioynts of his loyns were loosed , and his knees smote one against another : so let the remembrance of this great late Plague humble vs , and make vs mourne ; but vpon the deliuerance , Let vs powre out soules in vs , and let vs reioyce . It was a sanctified remedie , which reuerend M. Greenham vsed , being often in his publick Ministery and priuate conference , troubled with a suddaine failing in his memorie : so as by no means he could recouer himselfe in those things he purposed to speak . He would presently groane in his heart , and humble his soule vnder the holy hand of God. O let vs with groanes lament our dull forgetfulnesse of the great workes of God. Socrates complained , that after the vse of letters , the Art of memorie decayed ; for the care which before was had in heart and memorie , afterward was put in bookes ; and that which was committed to the minde , was after put in trust in writing . O let that flying rowle of Gods iudgement , which lately hath gone ouer the face of the whole earth , and cut off so many , and entred into houses , and remained in the midst of them , and consumed the houses , with the timber and the stones , euer be in our memorie . Bookes not vsed gather dust , and memory not imployed , will be dull and heauie . Sathan desireth to deale with vs , as Heringius did with Bamba his predecessour , a King of the Gothes ; who gaue him a draught of drinke , whereby he lost his memory . Let vs often meditate vpon the workes of God , Reade and Pray . To reade and not to meditate , is vnfruitfull . To meditate and not to reade , is dangerous for errours . To reade and meditate without prayer , is hurtfull . Let vs not be as Ephraim , who knew not that God healed them . He it is that hath drawne vs with cords of a man , with bands of loue : Hee hath taken off the yoke on our iawes : He hath layde meate vnto vs : He turneth away his anger , is as dew vnto vs : Hee maketh Israel growe as the Lilly : cast forth rootes as Lebanon : his branches to spread : his beauty to be as the Oliue tree , reuiue as the corne , and growe as the Vine . All the wonders he doth , are to confirme our hope , raise vp our faith , and nourish our loue to him . To remember him , is like the delight which the Apostles had at the transfiguration of Christ . It is sweeter then the hony and the hony-combe . It is sweeter then the remembrance of Iosias , which was like the composition of the perfume made by the Art of the Apothecarie : sweet as musicke at a Banquet of wine . If we haue a minde to remember God , comfort will be neere in the mouth and in the heart . Nothing is more ready then this remembrance . It is an easie medicine , a speedy cure , a pretious cordiall . It remoueth sadnesse , heauinesse , melancholly , and bringeth with it ioy in the holy Ghost . Let vs then in the day of our gladnesse offer sacrifices for a memoriall before our God. In the way of Gods iudgements , let vs waite for him : Let the desire of our soule be to his name , and to the remembrance of him : Let vs looke into the perfect law of liberty , and continue therein , not being forgetfull hearers , but doers of the worke , that wee may be blessed in our deedes . And this is the worke of the day , of our whole liues , to powre out our soules in vs. O let vs then enter into a couenant , to seek the Lord God of our Fathers , with all our heart , and with all our soule . Then hee will set his Tabernacle among vs , his soule shall not abhorre vs , hee will be our God. Then being instructed , his soule shall not depart from vs : wee shall not be left desolate . His soule shall delight in vs : To this end are his mercies offered , and his deliuerances continued . How miraculously hath he of late deliuered many of vs , as he did the three children in the fierie furnace : when some were constrained to flye from this mountaine of Moriah , to the little hill of Hermon , as Dauid , where they could not looke out , but messages of Death , and the encrease of the Plague in black bills , was brought vnto them : when in this Citie the dolefull Bell ringing out , there was wringing of hands , & shrieking in the most places : there for a Father , here for a Mother : there for a Husband , here for a Wife : there for a Master , here for a Seruant : there for a Mistresse , here for an Handmayde : there for Children , here for Kinred . Wee expected triumphes for the Coronation , and alas ! in stead of these , had Funeralls of dead men , who being weary of the earth , went to triumph in heauen : But behold , men cried vnto the Lord in their trouble , and hee brought them out of their distresses ; Hee made the storme a calme , and the waters were still . Let the redeemed of the Lord say so , whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemie , and gathered from the East , from the West , from the North , from the South , when they wandred . Hath the Lord remoued his anger ? Let vs remoue that which was , and is the cause of his anger . The Plague of the body being ceased , let not SINNE the plague of the soule , continue . Sweepe your houses from swearing ; auoyd the company of the vngodly ; get the inward marke of Gods Spirit , by making your Election sure : Let your selues bloud , of enuie , hatred , malice , couetousnesse , and all vncharitablenesse . Beware of dogges : Infidels , as Christ calleth the Gentiles in his speech to the woman which was a Syrophenician by Nation . It is not meete to take the childrens bread , and to cast it to dogges . Beasts without reason , forsaking the Creatour to worship the creature . Ignorance of the true God , and blindnesse of heart , were in the Gentiles the Nurses of Infidelity , and brochers of Idolatry . These make men runne headlong , like the swine of the Gergesits , into the maine Ocean of all vncleannes , and filthinesse of fornication . Beware of contemners of the Gospell , called dogges by Christ : Giue not that which is holy vnto the dogges , such as will fully resist the truth , and barke at the Ministers of the word : Beware of Schismatickes , who though they be not altogether so dangerous as the Bloud-hounds of Babylon , yet are they very troublesome , tearing the Church , and running themselues , & drawing others from the Church , and so from Christ : Neuer goe abroad , but with the Pomander of faith , full of the sweet spices of good workes . God hath beene mindfull of vs , and can encrease you more and more , you and your children : The dead praise him not , but the liuing must blesse him : O therefore that men would praise the Lord for his goodnes , and for his wonderfull workes to the children of men . An Eucharistical song , euer to be repeated for any blessing , as Bernard presseth it , speaking of the custodie of Angels : O that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse , for Dauid repeates it , v. 15.21.31 . Let them exalt him in the congregation of the people : Not because , as Hugo : Princes , forget to exalt God , but magnifie themselues : but that all must exalt him , high and lowe , rich and poore , olde and young , Princes and Subiects : And exalt him with a song in the Churches . Amongst other songs , take that especially , O giue thankes vnto the Lord , for he is good , for his mercie endureth for euer . O giue thankes vnto the God of Gods , for his mercie endureth for euer . O giue thankes to the Lord of Lords , for his mercie endureth for euer . A Psalme , which being sung at the consecration of the Temple , the fire came downe from heauen , and consumed the burnt offering , and the sacrifices , and the glory of the Lord filled the house . A Psalme which Iehoshaphat appointed singers among the Inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem , in the wildernesse of TEKOA to sing , and then the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammor , Moab , and mount Seir , which were come against Iudah , and they were smitten . Let vs not vncharitably censure those that are gone downe into silence , by the arrowe of the Plague . Learned Gesner dyed of the Plague ; a little before his death calling for some of his papers in his Studie , giuing a charge , that the world should not be depriued of them : He that wrote of Stones , Gardens , Libraries , Measures , foure footed beasts , Birds , Fishes , of Hearbs , Chirurgerie , Measures , Medicines . Francis Iunius , the glory of Leyden , the oracle of Textuall and Schoole Diuinitie ; rich in Languages , subtill in distinguishing , in argument inuincible , dyed of the Plague : A fixed starre in the firmament of that Church ; a hammer of Heretiques , Champion of the truth , the honour of the Schooles . I could name some of your owne religious Diuines in this Citie , who dyed of the Plague , for whom the Congregation may mourne , and would God the losse could be as easily supplyed , as lamented . Resolute Camillus , dyed of the Plague , hauing saued his vnthankfull Country from the Veians , and after from the Galles . Iob had the Plague , when he had vl●us ex caliditate , that Botch which proceeded from that burning heate in his body ; and as it is probable , beneath the reines , betwixt the thigh , and the belly , or bowels , which is the flanke or graine ; into which place , the confluence of vitious corrupt and malignant humours commonly betake themselues , as being one of Natures Emunctories , and a part prepared for euacuation of Impostumation , by reason of the tendernesse and rarity of the skinne , and other passages : All his body ouer was almost a plague . Let vs aboue all sores , fl●● the plague of sinne : It is in vaine to purge our houses , cleanse our streetes , perfume our apparell , vnlesse we beware of the Infections of the soule . We haue liued to meete againe our friends ; O let vs not by our corruptions make them Gods enemies . Wee haue vowed to bee new creatures , in Christ Iesus , when wee were vnder the rod ; Remember that , Aegrotus surgit , sed pia vota valent . Take this Antidote against poyson ; IVSTICE will strike vs with greater Plagues , being deliuered from the former , if we mocke it with broken deuotion . O let our thankfull hearts testifie our contrite spirits . Let the house of Iudah the Royall COVRT remember this deliuerance , and acknowledge that God can breake those who will not bowe . Let them banish those Moaths and Mice , of Flatterers , Epicures , doubling professours , bad counsailours , who clime high to fall foule ; and let not that olde writing vnder the picture of Ignatius Loyola be forgotten , Cauete vobis Principes , Be wise O yee Princes . Let Moses and Aaron , Prince and Priest , remember that the Lord is their helpe and guide : and as the Priest hath beene zealous to pray : Spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most pretious bloud , from Plague and Pestilence ; so now let them sing , Glory be to God on high , and in earth peace , good will toward man. Let Samuel among the Prophets , and the young children of the Prophets remember this deliuerance ; Their buildings haue beene stately , Reuenues large , Students many ; but they haue beene scared , feared , driuen thence , yet now the voyce of ioy and health is in their dwellings , OXFORD hath bin visited , and CAMBRIDGE threatned . Let vs of this Citie especially remember this : Great deliuerances should haue great remembrances . Now againe , your Ierusalem is as a Citie compact againe : Now are the Tribes come vp againe . Now againe , here are the Thrones of Iudgement , the Thrones of the house of Dauid ; Vpon which , Lord let there be euer men of courage , fearing thee , dealing truly , hating couetousnesse , that they may appeare confidently before the great Parliament of heauen . Let vs all take vp that of our Prophet : Blessed be the Lord , because he hath heard the voyce of our s●pplications . The Lord is our strength , and our shield , our heart trusted in him , and we are helped ; therefore our heart greatly reioyceth , and with our song will wee praise him . The Lord is our strength , and the sauing strength of his Annointed . Saue thy people , and blesse thine inheritance : feede them , lift them vp for euer : that so being comforted after our affliction , raised vp after our detection , and cloathed with immortality after this mortality , wee may hereafter with the Angels round about his Throne worship him , saying Amen . Blessing , and glorie , and wisedome , and thankesgiuing , and honour , and power , and might be vnto our God , for euer and euer , AMEN . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A10078-e130 Re , 3.19 . De. 28.27.58.59 . 2. Sa. 24 16. Js . 61.3 . Amb. de Theodosio Aequitatis Iudex nonpaenae arbiter . Ps . 82.1 . Notes for div A10078-e870 Ps . 34.19 . 1 Sa. 21.1 . Euseb . Bas . Ps . 78.71 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Gods hand shooke his house from the foundation . Bas . 1. Sa. 21.13 . Ps . 62.1 , 3. Co. lit . Potil . c. 18. Bas . hom . Ie. 2.20 . Am. l. 1. de Sac. c. 1. Gre. 18. Mor. c. 19. Js . 52.7 . Jo. 13.14 . Bar. se . 45. in c. Ps . 25.1 . Greg. in Ps . vlt. poenit . Ps . 34.2 . M. Ro● 1. singular . c. 13. Ps . 35.3 . Ps . 63.8 . Hil. Ps . 119.129 . Ps . 130.6 . Aug. Ps . 26.9 . Ps . 35.17 . Jon. 3.4 . Gr. in Ez. ho. 1 Procla . Ia. 22. V. 1. 3. 4.5 , V. 7. 9. 11 2. King. 6.14 . Euth , Niceph. Hesych . Euseb . Bas . Theo. Amb. Aug. Ruff. Cassiod . Psal . 35.15 . Psa . 40.2 . Gab. Biel. d. 27 q. 2. act . 1. l. 1. Ar. de mem . 43.26 . Ge. 40.23 . Musculus . Ps . 63.6 . Ecc. 45.1 . Sen. Plut. praec . Reip. Jer. Gutter . de Treio in Euang. l. 3. ex Sueton. Le. 19.18 . Ecc. 28.6 . Pli. l. 11. c. 17. Ps . 98.3 . Ie. 15.15 . Ps . 111.4 . Ex. 16.32 . Lu. 22.19 . Le. 24.7 . 1. Chr. 16.4 . Ez. 6.9 . Ex. 28.12 . La. 3.20 . Jo. 2.7 . Is . 63.7 . Ps . 137.5.6 . On. iulbin . 1. Sam. 12.9 . Iob. 8.13 . Psal . 44.21 . Psal . 50.22 . Ier. 13.26 . Mat. 16.5 . Ecc. 37.6 . Iob. 19.14 . Ier. 30.13 . Baruc. 9.8 . Hugo in Psal . 105.22 . Act. 17.28 . Isa . 9.6 . Ib. 16. Psal . 34.8 . Psal . 45.2 . Lam. 1.12 . Ier. 31.22 . Ioh. 3.16 . Eph. 5.1 . 1. Pet. 2.2 . Phil. 3.21 . Eccl. 1.8 . Iam. 1.17 . Ps . 77.10.11 Hil. 2. de Trinit . Ruffin . Lu. 1.74 . Isa . 49.15 . Gen. 29 32. Vers . 33. Philo. Gen. 16.14 . Gen. 21.14 . Chald. Par. Calu. Gen. 28.19 . Aug. l. 16. ciu . 38. Gen. 32.30 . Mercer . Num. 12.8 . Gen 33.20 . Exod. 17.15 . Vse 1. Eccl. 9.14.15 2. Chr. 24.22 Isa . 17.11 . Isa . 47.9 . Pro. 31.5 . Deut. 4.9 . Is . 57.1 . De. 6.12 . Ge. 41.51 . pr. 2.17 . Vincentius in speculo . histor . C●●tur . 7. c. 13 Since the building of London . Re. 3.17 . Is . 23.8 . Ps . 144.1 . Iud. 5.8 . Ez. 14.13 . Le. 26.25 . De. 28.22.48 . Ps . 39.10 . Ps . 38.1.2 . Is . 38.14 . Iun. annot . in 2. Re. 20. 2. Ki. 20.5 . Dr. Prideaux in a learned Sermon on it before King JAMES . 2. Chr. 32.24 . Euag. l. 2. c. 6. Cent. 5. c. 3. Procop. l. 11. de bello Perfico . Euagr. l. 4 c. 28 Hor. l. 1. Od. 2. Euseb . l. 7 c. 21 Anno 1213. Sa. Dan. Anno 1348. Cambd. Barksh . Anno 1602. The red Crosse . Vse 2. Is . 47.9 . Ps . 137.9 . Virg . En. 2. De rebus Moscouieicis fol. 11. Dr. Rain . de Idol . l. 1. c. 6. s . 7. Ps . 9.17 . Ca : 8.6 . Ca : 1.13 . Naz. Or. 1. de Theol. Ezra 4.12.14 . Homer . Iliad . Ar. Eth. 1. c. 9. Ps . 91.11 . Or to : 5. in Mat. primas . Heb. c. 1. Mr. Greenham in graue couns . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Praef : ad lect , Quodl . l 1. Stow : Card : com : his letters . Liu : Dec. 1. l. 2. Ps . 137.7 . Ge. 25.30 . Obad. 1. Is . 34.6 . Am. 1.11 . Ie. 49.10 . Ez. 25.14 . Mal. 1.4 . Ps . 108.11 . Ge. 25.25 . Perer. Ge. 25.7 . Ps . 91.3 . R. Salo. l. 3. c. 52. dubiorum . Scounda pars . Vatablus . Gen. Note . Thom. Calu. Ianfe Genebrard . Pintus . Ps . 62.8 . Aug. de Ecles . dogmatibus c. 34. Bar. sc . 3. ex minor . Id. se , 68. in ca. Id. in sent . Ps . 119.39 . 2. Sa. 14.14 . Agg. 1.6 . Ge. 49.4 . Cyr. Lu. 18.13 . Hier. in viia. Aug. in Ps . 31. 1. Sa. 1.10 . Luctu anima pascitur , cum ad superna gaudia flendo subleuatur . Gr. 5 Mor. 7. Job . 33.20 . Iob 16.13 . Ps 6.3 . Ps . 13.2 . Ps . 142.2 . Vse 1. Ecc. 10.9 . Ie. 44.4 . Is . 3.9 . Vse . Zac. 11.8 . Lor. in Ps . 17.9 Ps . 141.8 . Ps . 17.13 . Ps . 25.20 . Se Ep. 101. Heb. 12.5 . He. 13.2 . Os . 4.6 . La. 1.9 . Zac. 10.9 . 1 Ch. 22.19 . 2. Ch. 6.39 . Anno 1587. Eus . Jose . Q. Curt. Anno 1588. &c. Psa . 91.3 . Ps . 91.5 . Metonimia , ab Effectu . Euthym. Rickel . Eugub . Geneb . R. Kim . Silius Jtal. v. 5. Chald. v. 13. Pli. 8.15 B. depeste . 2. Sa. 24.14 . Da. 5. Greenh . graue Couns . p. 23. Zac. 5.4 . Sen. Os . 11.4 . Os . 14.5.6.7 . Bar. se . 4. de asc . Ecc. 49.1 . Nu. 10.10 . Is . 26.8 . 2. Ch. 15.12 . Le. 26.11 . Ie. 6.8 . Js . 42.1 . Application . Munster . Ps . 107.29 . v. 23.4 . Mar. 7.26 . Ath. or de Idolis . Lact. l. 2. di . Inst . Mat. 7.6 . Ansel . Ps . 115.12 . Ps . 107.8 . Bar. se . 12. in Ps . ●0 . v. 32. Hugo . Bas . Theod. Ps . 136.1 . v. 2.3 . Cassiodorus . 2. Cb. 7.1.3 . 2. Cb. 20.22.23 . Thuanus . Reuerend Bezaes family had the Plague foure times . Arg in Ps . 91. Au. 3. ciu c. 17. R. Mordechai . Gnlen . 1. c. Particula . 6. de oculis . Chrys . Tincae & Sorices Palatij . D Hall. Dec. 5. Ep. ● . Ps . 115.10 . Ps . 122.3 . Ps . 28.6 .