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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69170	Salomons pest-house, or tovvre-royall Nevvly re-edified and prepared to preserue Londoners with their families, and others, from the doubted deluge of the plague. Item, a laudable exercise for those that are departed, or shall depart out of the city into the country, to spend their time till they returne. A handfull of holy meditations vsefull and requisite for Gods people ... By the reuerend, learned, and godly diuine I.D. preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is added Mr Hollands admonition, and Mr Phaers prescription for bodily physicke. Also, London looke-backe: a description or representation of the great and memorable mortality an. 1625. in heroicke matchlesse lines, by A.H. of Tr. Colledge in Cambridge.	I. D., preacher of Gods word.; Holland, Henry, 1583-1650? Spirituall preservatives against the pestilence.; Houssemaine, Nicolas de, d. 1523. Régime contre la peste.; Holland, Abraham, d. 1626. London looke-backe.; Phayer, Thomas, 1510?-1560.	1630 (1630)	STC 6176; ESTC S117096	52,379	80

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 doe an act in England conuenient to his nature and glorious to his holy name And as Iacob wrestled with the Angel and would not let him goe vntill he 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 Physician cannot away with the importunate patient but God Habak 2.3 King Dauids Physician loueth the importunate prayer more acceptable is to him the end 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 doe 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 suite 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 heretofore hauing not continued in the Countrey in their hasty returning haue 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 The third part containing the houshold stuffe which we must carrie vnto that place 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 goe in the country in the time of plague carrie with them their houshold-stuffe their furniture and those things which are necessarie for their bodies and as Noah entring the Arke carried with him necessaries so likewise in our going to this place we must carrie with vs those things which are necessary for our soules that wee may be receiued by the Lord of that soyle and without which we cannot goe thither There are fiue peeces of spirituall houshold-stuffe which are necessary for vs noted in the word Righteous 1. Repentance The first is Repentance and holines of life for hee that is righteous giueth himself to righteousnes And this furniture carried with him Dauid 2. Sam. 24.11 As they which goe in the country 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 prescriptiō of the spiritual Physicians 2. Tim. 2.19 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 doth behold the iust Psal 11 7. His eyes are vpon the righteous and his eares open to their cry but his face is against them that doe euill Psal 66.18 to cut off their remembrance from the earth Psal 34.15.16 If I regarde wickednesse 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 Draw therefore neere to God and he will draw neere to you cleanse your handes ye sinners and purge your hearts ye wauering minded Prou. 28.9 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 Physicians 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 Psal 59. the garment of Ioseph which we our selues haue be blooded As Aaron could not come before the Lord before he was washed so let vs not go vnto him before we haue cleansed ourselues from infection of the soule And as Iacob Gen. 42. exhorted his sonnes when they were going to Ioseph carry with you the best fruits of the land and giue them him so let vs in our going to the true Ioseph Iesus Christ carrie with vs the best fruites of our hearts to offer vp the sacrifice of our prayers leauing our corrupt affections as Abraham left behinde him at the foot of the hil his asses I conclude this first point with the saying of Chrysostome as in a garland it is not enough that the flowers be pure and cleane but the hand also which handleth them so it is not sufficient that the words of our prayers be holy but the heart also which conceiueth them 2. Faith The second piece of houshold-stuffe Faith for the righteous is also hee that beleeueth in Christ and is righteous through the righteousnes of Christ the righteous 1. Sam. 24. This furniture carried Dauid with him for as hee had a desire of health and remission of his sinne so hee had also a stedfast faith and confidence that it should be forgiuen him This persuasion of deliuerance and hope of obtaining we must haue with vs enterteining it in our hearts The reasons are first the prescription of the spirituall Physicians it is the Apostles precept Iam. 1.6 Let him aske in faith and wauer not And in the fourth to the Heb. 16. that we should goe boldely to the throne of grace drawing neere vnto him with a true heart in assurance of faith Heb. 10.22 casting not away that confidence which hath recompence of reward Vers 35. t is the counsaile of Christ Mar. 11.24 Secondly carrie it with thee that thou maist receiue that for which thou goest vnto him faithfully Psal 145.18