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A58347 A call and patern for true and speedy repentance being an abridgment of those many severe sermons by Thomas Reeve ... intituled God's plea for Nineveh. Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672. 1683 (1683) Wing R692; ESTC R33984 87,424 108

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the Lord your God hath blessed you and ye are as the Stars of Heaven for Multitude yea that ye are a great People that cannot be numbred Ye know your Bounds but do ye know the vastness of your Inhabitants Ye have the double Blessing amongst you the Blessing of the Basket and the Store Deut 28.5 and the Blessing of the Brest and the Womb Gen. 49.25 What a large Ordinary is this City what a spacious Bed-Chamber what a Spring of People is there here The Breath of Life never stirred quicker in such a quantity of Ground Nature here doth shew her Organizing Art and this is one of her gendring Receptacles The Myrmidons were so many that they were said to be begotten of Pismires this City doth so abound with People that it may be called one of the Ant-heaps of the Earth Living Persons do here so abound that they seem rather to be struck out then brought forth their increase is so plentiful that they come up like Spring-flowers to garnish the City or that they were rained down from Heaven Oh Look about you and see if these persons be your Treasures how fast your Mint doth go and what incredible heaps ye have in banks ye are the Skin'd and Flesh'd City the true Corporation indeed for here are enow to make up not only a body Politick but a Republick of Bodys if all your Bodys should appear at once you 'd scarce have street-room enough they would adorn the City more than Hangings of Arras at your Publick shews your Suburbs do vy Multitudes with the City But are the People Treasures are you affected with these Treasures Have ye done honor to the Lord of the Mine that the City is sprinkled scattered heaped and wedged with these Treasures Did all the Bells in the City ever Ring the Trumpets Blow and the Wind Instruments play I mean your thankful Lips make Melody to the Lord for the People No I doubt ye have forgot your People that though they dayly Face you and their Clappers strike in your Ears yet that ye are both Blind and Dumb in extolling God for this favour What Hecatombs have ye ever offered for this numerous Blessing Have ye ever sung Hosannah in the highest for this high Mercy I question whether ye have an Altar in the City for this Service for that Persons in great Multitudes are a great Blessing ye may see it here by Nineveh who had it mentioned as her great Felicity to reckon Persons by Thousands wherein are six score thousand Persons 2. This shews your present Blessing that you are preserved in your Thousands Ye are yet a populous City and the Lord God if it be his Blessed Will make you a Thousand times more as you are Deut. 1.11 But if the Arrow that flyeth at Noon-day should glide among you A 2d Plague how many wounded Breasts would there be If Hippocrates were among you with his pretious Odours and sweet Oyntments to perfume places If Mindererus were shooting off Guns in every Street to dissipate the Air. If Quercitan and Avicen were prescribing the strictest Rules of Dyet if Galen and the whole Tribe of the most expert Physicians that ever lived were teaching you to make Pills Electuaries Pomanders Cordials c. to make new Fires and Fumigations of Storax Calamint Labdanum and an hundred other Materials to expel ill scents yet they may be all ineffectual to prevent that irresistible stroke For I am not yet resolved with Vido Vidio That Kindred take the Infection sooner from one another than from Strangers because of the assimilation of Blood nor with Minderer us that Virgins are more subject to it than married Women because the Spirits are fluid and retained and so apt to putrify nor that a Man being well Dieted may escape Infection because Socrates if it be true lived in many Plagues being a Man of high Temperance But I hold that a Plague is the Hand of God as David called it and the Sword of the Lord as Chron. 21.12 So that when where or by what means God will strike is uncertain but 't is certain wheresoever God doth lift up his Hand he will strike home Is there any thing more terrible than the Pestilence No 't is the noisom Pestilence Psal 91.3 and if this stench come up into your Nostrils ye are gone 't is a Weapon so sharp that 't is able to leave a Nation without an Heir for I will smite them with the Pestilence and d●s-inh●rit them Numb 14.12 If this pale Horse come to Neigh in our Streets he 'le dash many Thousands into their Graves Numb 16.49 14700 dyed in one Plague and Numb 25.9 24000 dyed in another And 70000 dyed in a third 2 Sam. 25.15 The Ectenae a people of Boeetia with their King were all destroyed with a Plague so the Hyantes and Aeones came in their stead to people the Land At Rome in the Reign of Commodus there dyed for a great while 2000 Men a day In Africa there dyed in one Plague 1100000. Under Gallus's there dyed so many in the East West and South that many Countrys seemed so destitute of Inhabitants and for a long time remained uninhabited which occasioned St. Cyprian to write his Book de Mortalitate In this City how often have there dyed ten and twenty thousand in one Plague In Edward the thirds time in the space of one year there were buried in one Church commonly called Cistertians above 50000 persons how many then were buried elsewhere And may not the like happen again God's hand is not shortned there are now more people among you and more sins If the Pestilence doth once discharge how many will be slain at one Shot it will chase men out of their Dwellings as if there were some fierce Enemy pursuing them and shut up shop-doors as if Execution after Judgment were served upon Merchants There will then be no other Musick than doleful knels nor no other Wares carried up and down but dead Corps it will change Mansion houses into Pest-houses and rather gather Congregations into Church-yards than Churches the Markets will be so empty that scarce Necessaries will be brought in a new kind of Brewers will set-up oven Apothecaries to prepare Diet-drinks People are afraid to eat Meat lest they should eat it out of infected Shambles or to wear Rayment lest it should be stitch'd up with the Plague they shall lye down without the least Spot seen upon them and rise up with GOD's Tokens upon them yea with the Carbuncle scalding in the Flesh like a Fire-coal They shall walk well out from their Houses and drop down before they get home again In the time of a Pestilence Fly quickly go far and return slowly every Disease turns into the Plague Come not nigh thy soundest Friend within the distance of two Cubits nor within the distance of infected Persons the space of six Cubits beware lest the Wind blow upon thee from him or lest there be any Sun Fire