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A19678 A sermon of the pestilence Preached at Chiswick, 1603. By the right reverend father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, late L. Bishop of Winchester. Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626. 1636 (1636) STC 610; ESTC S113686 10,201 21

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which the Physitian is to looke unto in the Plague so likewise something for Phinees to doe and Phinees was a Priest And so some worke for the Priest as well as for the Physitian and more then it may be It was King Asa's fault He in his sicknesse looked all to Physitians and looked not after God at all That is noted as his fault It seemes his conceit was there was nothing in a disease but naturall nothing but bodily which is not so For infirmity is not onely a thing bodily there is a Spirit of infirmity we finde Luke 13.11 And something spirituall there is in all infirmities something in the soule to be healed In all but specially in this Wherein that we might know it to be spirituall we finde it oft times to be executed by spirits We see an Angell a destroying Angell in the Plague of Aegypt another in the Exod. 12.13 Esay 37. 36. 1 Chro. 21.16 Rev. 16.2 Plague in Senacheribs Campe a third in the Plague at Ierusalem under David a fourth pouring his phiall upon earth and there fell a noisome plague upon man and beast So that no man looketh deeply enough into the cause of his sicknesse unlesse he acknowledge the finger of God in it over and above any causes naturall God then hath his part God but how affected God provoked to anger so it is in the Text God provoked to auger His anger His wrath it is that bringeth the plague among us The Verse is plaine They provoked him to anger and the plague brake in among them Generally there is no evill saith Iob but it is Iob 5. 6. a sparke of GODS wrath And of all evils the Plague by name There is wrath gone out from 1 Chro. 21.7 the Lord and the plague is begunne saith Moses Numbers 16.46 So it is said God was displeased with David and he smote Israel with the plague So that if there bee a plague GOD is angry and if there be a great plague God is very angry Thus much for By what for the anger of God by which the plague is sent Now for what There is a cause in GOD that he is angry For which sin in generall Hab. 3.8 And there is a cause for which he is angry For he is not angry without a cause And what is that cause For what is GOD angry What is God angry with the waters when he sends a tempest it is Habacucks question Or is GOD angry with the earth when hee sends barrennesse Or with the aire when he makes it contagious No indeed His anger is not against the Elements they provoke him not Against them it is that provoke Ephos. 5.6 him to anger against Men it is and against their sinnes and for them commeth the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience And this is the very cause indeed As there is Putredo humorum so there is also putredo morum And putredo morum is more a cause than putredo humorum The corruption of the soule the a Mica 7.3 corruption of our wayes more than the b Gen. 6 12. corrupting of the aire The c 1 King 8.38 plague of the heart more than the sore that is seene in the body d Rom. 5.12 The cause of death that is sinne the same is the cause of this e Psal. 38.5 kinde of death of the plague of mortality And as the f Ier. 8. ult Balme of Gilead and the g Ier. 48. ●6 Physitian there may yeeld us helpe when Gods wrath is removed so if it be not no balme no medicine will serve Let us with the Woman in the Gospell h Mark 5.26 spend all upon Physitians wee shall bee never the better till we come to CHRIST and he cure us of our sins who is the onely Physitian of the diseases of the soule And with CHRIST the cure begins ever within For Sonne thy sins be forgiven thee and Marke 9 2. then after take up thy bed and walke His sins bee first and his limbes after As likewise when we are once well Christs counsell is sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee As if sin would certainly bring a relapse into a sicknesse But shall we say the wrath of GOD for sins Particular sin indefinitely That were somewhat too generall may we not specifie them or set them downe in particular Yes I will point you at three or foure First this Plague here as appeareth by the 1 Fornication XXVIII Verse the Verse next before came for the sinne of Peor that is for fornication as you may reade And not every fornication but fornication past shame as was that of Zamri there with a daughter of Moab And indeed if wee Num. 25.1 marke it well it fits well For that kinde of sin fornication doth end in Vlcers and sores and those as infectious as the Plague it selfe a proper punishment such sore for such evill Secondly Davids plague of seventy thousand 2 Pride which wee mention in our Prayer that came 1 Chro. 21.14 for Pride plainly His heart was lifted up to number the people And that seemes somewhat kindly too and to agree with this disease That pride which swels it selfe should end in a tumor or swelling as for the most part this disease doth Thirdly Senacheribs plague it is plaine came 3 Blasphemy Esay 37. 36. from Rabshakes blasphemy Blasphemie able to infect the aire it was so foule In which regard Aarons act might be justified in putting odours Num. 16.46 into his Censer to purifie the Aire from such corruption And last the Apostle sets downe the cause of 4 Neglect of the Sacrament 1 Cor. 11.30 the plague at Corinth For this cause saith hee that is for neglect of the Sacrament Either in not caring to come to it or in comming to it we care not how For this cause is there a mortality among you and many are sicke and many are weake and many are fallen asleepe And this is no new thing Moses himselfe his neglect of the Exod. 4.24 Sacrament made him be stricken of GOD that it was like to have cost him his life And hee saith plainly to Pharaoh If they neglected their sacrifice God would fall upon them with the pestilence Exod. 5.3 which appeareth by this that the Sacrament of the passeover and the bloud of it was the meanes to save them from the plague of the destroying Angell in Aegypt A little now of the phrase that their sins are The phrase for sin Their inventions here called by the name of their inventions And so sure they are as no wayes taught us by God but of our owne imagining or finding out For indeed our inventions are the cause of all sinnes And if wee looke well into it wee shall finde our inventions are so By Gods injunction we should In matters of Religion all live and his injunction is You