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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16526	Medicines for the plague that is, godly and fruitfull sermons vpon part of the twentieth Psalme, full of instructions and comfort: very fit generally for all times of affliction, but more particularly applied to this late visitation of the plague. Preached at the same time at Norton in Suffolke, by Nicholas Bownd, Doctor of Diuinitie. And now published for the further good of all those that loue and feare the Lord. Perused, and allowed.	Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613.	1604 (1604)	STC 3439; ESTC S106817	259,956	314

their doings as he promised by the Prophet Malachi where it is thus written hee first complaining of the wicked in the name of the Lord Your words haue been stout against mee yet yee say Malach. 3.13 What haue we spokē against thee Ye haue said It is in vaine to serue God and what profit is it that wee haue kept his commandements and that wee haue walked humbly before the Lord of hostes therefore we count the proud blessed euen they that worke wickednes are set vp and they that tempt God yea they are deliuered Then spake they that feared the Lord euery one to his neighbour and the Lord hearkened and heard and a booke of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and they shall be to me saith the Lord of hostes in that day that I shall doe this for a flocke and I will spare them as a man spareth his owne sonne that serueth him Thus we see that when the Prophet preached and some made a mock of it and those that feared God conferd among themselues to comfort themselues in the waies of the Lord hee did see them both and did remember them and in the day of his visitation would put a difference betweene them and so wee see how God will remember vs for our faithfull seruice and blesse vs for it and to that end according to our capacitie it is said that there was a booke of remembrance written for them before the Lord. That is as among men they that do any faithfull seruice to the Prince it is recorded in writing and put into the Chronicles whereby it commeth to passe that the memory of it is kept as wee see in the booke of Hester when the King could not sleepe Hest. 6.1 hee commaunded to bring the booke of the Chronicles and they were read before him where it was found written that Mordecas had told of Bigtana and Teresh two of the Kings Eunuches keepers of the doore who sought to lay hands on the King And hee said What honour and dignitie hath bin done to him for this And they said There is nothing done for him Then he commaunded Haman to doe him that great honour that is there set down Thus we see how the good seruice that he had done to the King was written and so he was remembred rewarded for it So the Lord doth keepe a more faithfull record of all the good seruices that any of vs haue done vnto him and hee will reward vs for them in his good time and this is that which they pray for in the behalfe of their King When the Lord sent his Angels to destroy Sodome and Gomorrha and the cities thereabout for their horrible wickednes he made it knowne vnto Abraham Gen. 18.17 saying Shall I hide from Abraham the thing that I do Because the crie of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sinne is exceeding grieuous I will go down now see whether they haue done altogether according to the cry which is come vnto me God remembred the prayers of Abraham which he made for Lot if not that I may know Then Abraham began to pray for them said Wilt thou destroy the righteous with the wicked be it farre from thee from doing this thing to slay the righteous with the wicked and the Lord said he would not and so he went on sixe times praying for them and was heard Therfore it is said in the next chapter that whē God destroyed all the wicked he remembred righteous Lot according to the prayer of Abraham and deliuered him For when God destroyed the cities of the plaine Chapt. 19.29 God thought vpon Abraham and sent Lot out from the middest of the destruction when hee ouerthrew the cities wherein Lot dwelled By this example wee see that God remembreth the prayers that wee haue made not onely for our selues but for others yea when they know not of it as hee did the prayers of Abraham for Lot Therefore when wee pray to God wee must not thinke that our words are vanished in the ayre or that they are for the time present only but for the time to come euen for all the daies of our life So that as it is said that the bloud of Abel did speake to God for him when hee was dead and did crie out alowd and was heard Chapt. 4.10 so our prayers that we haue made and seruices that we haue done shall speak to God for vs when wee sleepe and when wee hold our peace and God will remember vs for them euen then when hee punisheth all the wicked round about vs as he did here heare Abraham and deliuered Lot when hee ouerthrew the cities of the plaine wherein Lot dwelled We haue prayed often for this visitation God remembreth the prayers of all men for this plague that God would be mercifull vnto vs in it we must not thinke that because we see not a present end or lessening of it that we haue lost our labour and so grow wearie and giue ouer But let vs assure our selues that so many as haue with true repentance and vnfained purpose of leauing all sinnes that they know and not wittingly please themselues in any that God remembreth their prayers and knoweth what is in them and what they haue done to him as he also knoweth the hard-heartednes and hypocrisie of the rest And as hee doth remember them so hee will in his good time make it knowne to them more and more as hee did to Cornelius when he sent an Angel vnto him and as he did to Abraham when he saw that Lot was deliuered from the destruction of Sodom Hee did remember them before though hee made it knowne vnto them when it pleased him And in time will shew it vnto them As it is written also of Daniel the Prophet who fasted and prayed for the desolation of Ierusalem whilest he was speaking in prayer Gabriel came flying and foretold him Dan. 9.21 about the euening sacrifice and said O Daniel I am now come foorth to giue thee knowledge and vnderstanding at the beginning of thy supplications the commandement came forth and I am come to shew thee So though there the commaundement came out at the first yet God did shew it him at the last euen when it pleased him God must needs remember vs for Christ putteth him in minde of vs. So will he doe with vs but in the meane season we must beleeue that he doth remember vs and take comfort in it And truly it must needs be so that God should remember the prayers of his seruants and all their seruices Rom. 8.34 for they haue a Mediatour and Aduocate in heauen euen Iesus Christ at the right hand of God who maketh continuall request for vs for hee is faithfull to doe it and he is in fauour with God and therfore he will remember vs for his sake For if wee haue put vp any supplication