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cause_n	aaron_n	bring_v	garment_n	18	3	8.5579	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01800	The arke of noah for the Londoners that remaine in the cittie to enter in, with their families, to be preserued from the deluge of the plague. Item, an exercise for the Londoners that are departed out of the cittie into the coutnrey, to spend their time till they returne. Whereunto is annexed an epistle sent out of the countrey, to the afflicted cittie of London. Made and written by Iames Godskall the yonger, preacher of the word.	Godskall, James.	1604 (1604)	STC 11935; ESTC S120518	49,399	68

say of this going So runne that yee may obtaine The third rule is Returne slowly that is continue where thou art a necessarie rule to bee obserued in the going to the the name of the Lord. It is the rule of the spirituall Physitians Ephe. 6. 18. Rom. 12. 1. Thes 5. Pray continually c. As it is prescribed so it hath beene practised the woman of Canaan continued in her prayer and returned not in haste They which are in the Countrey although there bee many things which might mooue them to returne yet for the safetie of their bodies they continue till the plague be ceased So continue in thy prayer by the Lord and be not wearie of wel doing Although three things might haue mooued thy Syrophenician to returne the silence of Christ her back-friends and the odious names giuen vnto her yet these discouragements her poore soule digested obtaining both a cure for her daughters infirmitie and a commendation for her faith O woman thou hast wrought a myracle by the perseuerance of thy prayer and hast giuen to thy Sauiour occasion to doo a memorable act conuenient to his nature glorious to his holy name Let vs at this time follow her perseuerance and although the Lord should seeme to be silent for a time yet let vs not draw backe that wee may receiue a cure both for our soules and bodies and deserue a commendation both by God and other nations and thereby giue occasion vnto the Lord to shew his omnipotent power in the ceasing of the plague and to doo an act in England conuenient to his nature and glorious to his holy name And as Iacob wrastled with the Angel and would not let him goe vntill hee had receiued the blessing So let vs as it were striue with the Lord by our prayers and let him not goe vntill he haue heard vs in that which we aske of him in this afflicted time Let our prayers be now as the showers of the raine if the first showre faileth of watering the earth sufficiently the second the third or the fourth wil fulfill the thirst thereof Let vs be like vnto the widow Luk. 18. and our importunitie will draw him vnto audience but yet let vs hold a better opinion of the iudge of the world then of a common vulgar friend It delighted his eares to heare our redoubled obsecrations and he suspendeth our desires in expectation that we should be importunate to craue The bodily Physitians cannot away with the importunate patient but God King Dauids Physitian loueth the importunate prayer and more acceptable is to him the ende of our prayer then the beginning I would the children of light were as wise in their generation as the wodden Priests 1. Reg. 18. who cried long to Baal yea cut themselues with kniues that they might be heard and what ought not wee then doo to obtaine our suite Let nothing then mooue vs to returne but as the King of the Philistines 1. Sam 6. though they had Calues at home yet they kept the straight way to Bethshemesh and held one path turning neither to the right nor to the left hand neither euer stood still till they came into the field of Iosuah So in our going to the name of Iehouah the affection of our soules bearing the Arke and coffer of our suites though it hath worldly allurements to draw it backe as the Kine had Calues yet let it in the way to the house of God as they to Bethshemesh hold one path of perseuerance turning neither to the right or left hand with wandring cogitations till it commeth into the field and garden of God and there let it remaine Many hauing not continued in the Countrey in their hastie returning are fallen sicke and died So many hauing not continued in this strong bulwarke haue endangered both body and soule And thus much hitherto of the second part There followeth now the third and the last which openeth vnto vs the houshold-stuffe which we must carrie with vs thither noted in the word Righteous As they which go in the country in the time of plague carie with them their houshold-stuffe their furniture those things which are necessarie for their bodies and as Noah entring the arke carried with him necessaries so likwise in our going to this place we must carrie with vs those things which are necessarie for our soules that we may be receiued by the Lord of that soyle and without which wee can not goe thither There are fiue peeces of spiritual houshold-stuffe which are necessary for vs noted in the word Righteous The first is Repentance and holines of life for he that is righteous giueth himselfe to righteousnes And this furniture carried with him Dauid 2. Sam. 24. 11. As they which goe in the countrey haue their reasons why they carrie with them such and such necessaries So giue me leaue in the opening of this furniture to shew you also the reasons which must moue vs to carie them with vs. As for this first the first reason is the prescription of the spirituall Phisitions it is the Apostles precept Let euery one that calleth on the name of Christ depart from iniquitie The second is that we may be receiued for the righteous Lord loueth righteousnesse his countenance doeth behold the iust Psal 11. 7. His eies are vpon the righteous and his eares open to their crye but his face is against them that doe euill to cut off their remembrance from the earth Psal 34. 15. 16. If I regarde wickednes in my heart saith Dauid the Lord will not heare me For as Salomon testifieth the Lord is farre off from the wicked but he heareth the prayer of the righteous Prou. 15. 29. Drawe therefore neere to God and he will drawe neere to you cleanse your handes ye sinners and purge your hearts ye wauering minded Iam. 4. 8. 9. The third is that the bodily plague may cease for how dare we approach vnto the Lord to craue that it might be remooued and yet carie with vs the inward cause thereof let the Physitions maxime heere preuaile remooue the cause that the effect may cease Let vs not as the sonnes of Iacob bring into the presence of our father the garment of Ioseph which we our selues haue beblooded As Aaron could not come before the Lord before he was washed so let vs not goe vnto him before we haue cleansed our selues from infection of the soule And as Iacob Gen. 43. exhorted his sonnes when they were going to Ioseph carrie with you the best fruites of the land and giue them him so let vs in our going to to the true Ioseph Iesus Christ carrie with vs the best fruites of our hearts to offer vp the sacrifice of our prayers our corrupt affections as Abraham left behinde him at the foote of the hill his asses I conclude this first point with the saying of Chrysostome as in a garland it is not enough that the