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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

their time was expired Now then the gift ceassing it is madnesse to retaine still the time which went with the gift that is this annointing or aneiling and more madnesse to make a Sacrament of it as Antichrist hath done most extreame madnes to giue it vnto them only which are a dying which was wont to be giuen to such as did recouer health againe Wherefore as the holy Visitors did then first vse their spirituall exercise which is left for vs to practise and next this extraordinary gift and meanes of healing so let vs carefully and wisely heere call for in the second place the learned Physician the comfortable and ordinary meanes which God hath left vnto vs in nature as long as the World endureth This order that holy Writer Ecclus 38.9.10 11.12 the Godly Preacher commendeth vnto vs in these words My sonne faile not in thy sicknesse but pray vnto the Lord and he will make thee whole leaue off from sinne and order thine hands aright c. and cleanse thine heart from all wickednesse c. Then giue place to the Physician for the Lord hath created him let him not goe from thee for thou hast neede of him the houre may come that their enterprises may haue good successe for he also shall pray vnto the Lord that he would prosper that which is giuen for the prolonging of life Whereas some obiect that in the Pestilence naturall remedies of Physick cannot benefit vs because the causes here cannot be seene or found in nature I answer with M.B. If there come into the Pestilence no naturall causes then these whom the Plague hath infected cannot doubtlesse so much be eased much lesse be healed by naturall remedies But this second to be very false experience and common sense do daily tell vs. Wherefore I affirme that naturall remedies must not be neglected Againe whereas others doe obiect that Physick heere often is seene to haue but small good successe I answere that wee must not say of naturall Preseruatiues that because they doe not benefit one or two or three therefore they cannot helpe any at all It is a bad conclusion for consider that God doth gouerne naturall causes and their effects as it pleaseth him and blesseth them to whom hee will where and when he will And hence it commeth that the infection toucheth not euery one that is in danger of it neither is it deadly to euery one that is infected Others yet more fondly dispute against naturall remedies in this sicknesse and they say that God hath here a more speciall prouidence and he will smite whom he will to death and therfore all remedies are to small purpose These men againe want iudgement I answer that the Lord no doubt when he sent a Famine into Egypt and the Regions thereabout he determined who should die in that Scarcity yet for all this ceaseth not Ioseph with most wise counsell to prouide for the Egyptians and Iacob for his familie The like did Paul in the Sea with the Mariners when he had receiued an answer he should come to Rome safely And Christ knew his time and yet hee went aside often from his enemies hand till his houre came vsing the ordinarie meanes for his preseruation And that no man may stand stifly in his owne rash iudgment Quid Temeritate fortius saith Tully What so foole-hardie or so violent as rash and hastie spirits 1. De natura deorum Heare what that learned Father of euer blessed memorie Master Luther saith of this matter in his * De Peste in Witteberga Ann 1527. Treatise translated out of Dutch into Latine and in English thus much God hath created Physicke and giuen vs a minde and reason that euery man should haue a care of his owne body for health and life whosoeuer will not vse these when as without the hurt of his neighbour hee may the same man betrayeth his owne life and there lacketh little but that before God he is made a murtherer for by the same reason hee may despise meat and drinke rayment and housing trusting too much vnto his faith say if God will he can preserue me without all these things than the which folly this is yet greater that he which after this sort casteth off the care of his body he may hurt and infect others also and so through his negligence he may purchase the blame of a murderer Some men indeed doe as foolish men doe in a common firing which will not come and helpe the Citie but let the fire alone that the whole Citie might be burned namely vpon this trust doubtlesse if God will he can without water quench the fire But friend thou oughtest in no wise so to deale Nay it is vnlawfull and shameful which thou perswadest thy self but rather vse remedies and Medicines and do whatsoeuer any way may helpe perfume thine house orchard or street flie the infected places and so behaue thy selfe as one willing to quench not to maintaine this open fire Againe it followeth in the same Treatise If Sathan by the will of God either by himselfe or his Ministers hath wrought vs this deadly Infection I on the other side before all things will pray vnto God that of his mercy he will take away the same from vs then I will put to my simple helping hand both by perfuming and cleansing of the ayre by vsing of medicines and also in shunning the infection where my presence is not necessarie Lest I might seeme my selfe to haue neglected some thing or to be cause of death vnto others who through my negligence may take harme But if God neuerthelesse will haue mee visited with this sicknesse or call me out of this world vnto his Kingdome yet I haue not done but that which was my dutie neither haue I offended in any thing either against my selfe or my neighbour but where my seruice is needfull there I will let passe nothing of all things which either can or ought to be done of me Behold this is that Godly faith indeed which doth nothing rashly neither tempteth God in any thing Thus then I conclude when thou shalt haue wisely considered and discerned the causes of the Pestilence then turn to God as the Prophet biddeth with all thine heart Ioel. 2.12 with fasting with weeping and with mourning and flee a loft by faith into the secret place almightie shadow and blessed protection of the Lord and there rest patiently as vnder his holy wings euer praying for the increase of faith and patience that thou mayst quietly waite and depend vpon God and for a good Conscience that so thou maist auoide false foolish and wicked feares and cheerefully stand in thy place and carefully call for the Protection of the mighty blessed and holy Angels and for the communion and presence of Iesus Christ so shalt thou chase far away the wicked and vncleane Spirits which are sent of God to poysen and destroy men with the Pestilence And Lastly when thou

keepeth vs from the Princes court Let not feare keepe vs from the court of heauen Nehem 2● Nehemiah although hee held the cup to the King yet how fearefull hee was to make a request vnto him But as for you O ye righteous soules feare yee not O you little flocke for it is your fathers pleasrue to giue you a Kingdome Luk. 12. Further in time of contagion not only the court but also the other cities townes and villages will not often lodge them that come from contagious places either the Lord of the soile or the magistrate of those places forbidding it but as for that heauenly Ierusalem and the Lord of the liuing thervnto euery one may resort the Lord and magistrate of heauen doth not interdict it Dauid cried vnto the Lord and said thou art my portion in the land of the liuing Psal 142.5 At Rome the housen of the Aediles were alwaies open for all men that they might resort thither to haue their causes heard and so is the house of the Lord for the afflicted soules In some places there are appointed as I my selfe haue seene watchmen with halbards to aske the passengers from whence they come and sometimes to keepe out those that come from infected places but in our going to this place we need not to haue such feare for as Chrysostome saith Hic non est miles assistens qui expellat here there is no Sergiant or Soldier to keepe thee out If the cities of the earth shut their gates before thee thou canst not enter As for that heauenly Ierusalem it is not lockt and although it were prayer as Augustine speaketh is a key to open heauen to bring thee to the presence of God Serm. 226. detemp the Towne and Villages in times of infection although they receiue some yet they will not harbour many and often there is no place for multitudes but so is it not with the name of Iehouah with this strong tower it is not like vnto the bulwarkes of mortall men into the which if too many enter they will hinder one another this fortresse can receiue millions and millions without any impediment Further the temple is also interdicted to the infected for they are commanded by the magistrate to keepe their housen for a time or if they come they are entreated to sit a side but the Lords holy temple aboue in heauen is not forbidden vnto the infected nor to any man it is lawfull for them to go thither and pray and that with the successe of Dauid Psal 18. In my trouble I did call vpon the Lord and cried vnto my God and he heard my voyce out of his Temple 6. A place neere vnto the Citie Sixtly some make a choyse in the plague time of a place which is neere whereunto they may easily goe without any great trouble or cost the name of the Lord is such a place compendious to cut off vnnecessarie labours yee need not to runne farre the Lord is neere as the Prophet speaketh to all them that call vpon him neither will it cost vs any thing mony or merites intercession of friends or gifts Poore men yee that want friendes or money and therefore cannot prouide your selues a place be not dismaide behold here is a place which will cost you nothing It is a place whereunto we may go at all times at dinner time and at supper as Chrysostome speaketh in the day time and at mid-night in thy health and in thy sicknesse the sicke man may ly downe vpon his bed and goe vnto it and when with King Ezekiah he cannot vse the feet of the flesh yet may he vse the feet of the spirit In a moment we can flie thither for as soone as we haue finished our prayer we are alreadie come to this place and to the Lord of this soyle our prayer and God meeting one another in heauen as Iesus Christ and the woman at the Well Ioh. 4. As for earthly places whereunto men resort either they are far off vneasie to goe vnto and that with trouble and cost or expences sometimes we are stopped we must haue Warrants and Certificates of the Parish Church-wardens that our house is not infected before we can be admitted all this trouble we need not in the time of plague in our going to the name of the Lord nothing will stop vs the bodily plague shall be no impediment for wee haue a warrant that we may passe the King of heauen his warrant in the 50. Psalme Call vpon me c. The warrant of the infected and therefore this place is better then the earthly where the fearefull sonnes of men dwell which feare the apparrel houshold-stuffe yea and thy letters I know nothing then to stop our passage but the plague of the soule as the Lord of this soyle telleth vs in the 2. Cor. 6.17 Touch none vncleane thing and I will receiue you Obiection But I heare the weake conscience obiect I am infected with the plague of the soule and therefore it is not lawfull for me to call vpon the name of the Lord it is for the righteous as Salomon speaketh but alas I am vnrighteous and how can I therefore go vnto this strong tower The answer is Answer for thy comfort O weake conscience that Salomon speaketh not of them that are righteous by their owne righteousnesse but by the righteousnes of Christ Iesus such are all the faithful in whose mortall bodies the plague of sin doth not remaine their infirmities being healed by Dauids Physician Psal 103. If yee desire a certificate thereof you haue the Gospell subscribed and sealed by God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost If yee desire a witnesse ye haue a threefold witnesse The spirit the water and the bloud 1. Ioh. 5.8 7. A place where we may haue a Physician Lastly wee make choyse of such places where if need be we may haue good Physicians for we esteeme it a great miserie to be destitute of a good Physician and of meanes to helpe vs in our neede The place of refuge whereunto Dauid fled and wee also ought to flie following his direction hath the best Physician which is both in heauen or earth God the Father King Dauids Physician who hath both health and sicknesse life and death in his power to dispose of them for our good and saluation knocke therefore boldly with the hand of prayer and repentance at the gate of his mercie and thrust in his hands both thy life and health And thus much for the qualities and properties of the place To pray for others is also requisite Further we haue to obserue that Dauid went not to this place of refuge alone but with his whole family for he prayed with the Elders of the people for the people and for the deliuerance of his whole kingdome Herein imitate King Dauid remember in thy prayer thy whole family and the state of the whole kingdome the Tribe of Iudah and