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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	disease_n	physician_n	1,388	5	8.4138	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15771	A receyt to stay the plague. Deliuered in a sermon by R.W. minister of Gods Word	Wright, Robert, d. 1626.; T. R., minister.	1630 (1630)	STC 26037A; ESTC S111767	11,917	29

prayer must bee ioyned the worke of penitence for such was the practise of Gods people euer 1. Sam. 7.3 The Arke of the Lord being taken by the Phylistines the Prophets exhorts them to repent and turne vnto God and hee would deliuer them and the euent prooued the promise to bee true Which example albeit it concerne a case of warre and so not improper for our times yet the practise may serue as well for this of sicknesse The same Order did Daniel obserue in the Attonement that he made with GOD Dan. 9.5.6 Together with their prayers there is the acknowledgment of their sinnes We haue finned and haue committed iniquity and haue done wickedly yea rebelled and departed from thy precepts and thy iudgements And then he shewes wherein For wee would not obey thy seruauts the Prophets which spake in thy name to our Kings to our Princes to our Fathers and to all the people of the Land Wherein he confesseth that euery one had sinned accusing all excepting none a Congregation of sinners and of sin and therefore all had need of attonement in the Congregation albeit no doubt of it but some had offended more grieuously then other some yet all were guilty So the Prophet Ioel calleth all the Inhabitants of the Land into the House of the Lord to offer vp their prayers and their Penitence Ioel. 1.14 Without which no maruell it is that there can be no attonement but that God doth still keepe man vnder with his heauy hand Iam. 4.2 In another calamity he saith You fight and you warre and you get nothing What 's the reason Because you aske not that 's primus error the first defect Againe you aske and you receiue not why so because you aske amisse that 's the next defect there wants somewhat to their prayers to make vp their attouement The Prophet Ezechiel in his fourth Chapter speakes plainely to the poynt That euen the prayers of the most godly are not aproued of God vnlesse they for whom they pray doe repent Although Noah Daniell and Iob these three men stood vp yet shall they onely saue their owne soules in their righteousnesse So saith God Iere. 15. If Moses and Samuel were before me I would not yet regard this people So that for the Act of attonement albeit the praiers of the faithfull are powerfull yet are they not so powerfull as to releeue impenitent sinners therefore did God Iere. 7. borbid the prophet expressely not to pray for the Israelites Pray not for this people neither lift thou vp thy voyce for them So God reiected the prayers of Samuel for Saul Vpon which followeth this conclusion That if the penitence of the people be not ioyned with the prayers of the Priest the attonement will not be made and so wee must consider of the person of the Priest and no otherwise Which is the fourth circumstance obserued that although 〈…〉 principall Agent to offer vp the Incense of prayer for the people yet not hee onely for them but they with him and for themselues must desire the Lord not to correct in his wrath according to their sinnes but to remember them according to his owne goodnesse True it is that the Commission is deliuered here to Aron but the Congregation were to ioyne with him in the execution The Minister of God is a principall man singled and set a part for the execution of the will of God the declaration of his word the direction of obedience and all religious actions But all the burden of Gods seruice doth not lye vpon him and therefore the wisdome of our Church did well ordaine that in the service of God the Minister should not performe all But that the people should ioyne in the open confession of their sinnes and in the prayers for remission or at the least say Amen to euery sacrifice of Prayer and of prayse performed in the Congregation and yet though they were tyed to this still the chiefe care and duty lyeth vpon the Minister nor must hee bee defectiue whatsoeuer the people be but say as good Samuel sayd 1. Sam. 12. God forbid that I should sinne against the Lord in ceasing to pray for yon And so much in one word may suffice for the attonement and the person Now followeth the reason For there is wrath gone out from the Lord the Plague is begun In such a case as this was the first and principall thing that is to be sought out is to enquire into the Cause that brings it on The cause in this chapter as you haue partly heard was an iniury offered vnto the Priesthood and the presumption of Corah in vilifying both Moses and Aron I take no pleasure in applying the sinne by way of comparison I onely pray that the Sacriledge of this City bee not the principall sinne layd to their charge in this Plague We haue heard enough if any thing he enough God giue vnderstanding hearts to apply and to lay the finger vpon the right soare For too sure we are the wrath of the Lord is gone out The Iudgements of God for sinne and against sinners as they are many in number and diuers in kind sometimes secret sometimes open so they are euer iust and vpon good cause Oculta multa iniusta nulla saith Saint Augustine Yet many to too many are to seeke for the true cause as well as for the consideration of the person from whom Iudgement commeth making rather euery thing then their owne sinnes and euery cause in the course of nature then the God of Nature and the cause of all causes the Author of their punishment Whereof it comes to passe that men thinke all iudgments to be ordinary and none extraordinary or to be the rodd of Gods Vengeance wherewith he punisheth sinners and so neuer apply the punishment either to themselues or their sinne or once cast vp an eye to the Lord that punnisheth Where as indeed two things are principally to be considered in any Epidemicall disease or publicke misery First the cause wherefore and then the hand that smiteth Wherein the iudgement of the World that lookes all to second causes rather then the first and principall is so fowly corrupted that men know not well either where to aske counsell or how to behaue themselues being surprised with any danger taking still the wrong cause for the right and the second for the first Whereas the true cause is the corruption of manners that corrupts our bodies and rottennesse in sinne that brings rottennesse in the flesh But as the Physition for the body hitting vpon the right cause of the disease doth with better iudgement and happier successe cure his Patient So we when we shall finde the true cause of Gods wrath shall the better know what to doe in that affliction and how to auoid it Wherein the first thing to be done is to looke into the Motiue that called out wrath and then vnto the hand that doth execute it For the first that sinne is the