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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01346	A sermon intended for Paul's Crosse, but preached in the Church of St. Paul's, London, the III. of December, M.DC.XXV. Vpon the late decrease and withdrawing of Gods heauie visitation of the plague of pestilence from the said citie. By Tho: Fuller, Master of Arts in Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge	Fuller, Thomas, Master of Arts.	1626 (1626)	STC 11467; ESTC S102824	32,124	70

all of vs haue some way or other to bring vs to these gates of death here spoken of I am not able to call all the seuerall Arrowes of this quiuer by their proper names but surely the least and most gentle of them is sufficient to rob vs of the best of natures Iewels our life We haue all experience in this kinde of as much as I can relate wee see that all the Cities and Townes of the earth so farre as the line of them is stretched are but humanarum cladium mis●randa consepta and though there is but 〈…〉 yet there are I●numeri exitus but one way of comming into the world yet there are a world of wayes of going out and if any question the cause of these our maladies let him at his leisure but reade ouer the 28. of D●ut and there hee shall see that the sinne of his soule is the onely cause of the suffering of the body It was the word of the Sonne of Syrach Let him that sinneth against his Maker fall into the hands of the Phisition And experience tells vs daily that there are some Diseases which grow vpon men meerely by their sinne and wickednesse Our Sauiour bids vs take heed that our stomacks be not ouer-charged with surfeiting and drunkennesse Plures gulâ quàm gladi● a true though as olde Prouerbe the Graue hath beene as much beholding to Intemperance as any other thing whatsoeuer Whence come our Agues and Feuers and that other which was once out-landish but may now be called our natiue disease not fit to bee named which breedes corruption in the bones and consumes the marrow in the loynes but by excesse and voluptuousnesse For this cause saith St. Paul speaking before of the neglect and abuse of the Sacrament many are weake and sicke among you and many are fallen asleepe For vaine Swearing the whole Land mournes and the Heathen did obserue that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Israelites were discomfited for the offence of Achan But for this disease which thus long hath troubled vs and which if any is particularly meant in this place you shall obserue tha● that neuer came but for some great and grieuous precedent sinne in the 11. of Numbers and 16. there the people were so plagued the cause is set downe their murmuring and impatience one time against God a second time against Moses and Aaron So when Dauid lost 70000. of the same disease the Text saith for his sinne in numbring the people This is called the arrow of the Lord that flyes by day and when this once comes the Text hath it that Wrath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is gone out from the Lord as Moses said to Aaron as if all other diseases were but whipping with Roddes light and slight afflictions this whipping with Scorpions the worst the terriblest the most seuere of all other It is not the Infection of the Ayre nor distemperature of the body nor the heape of Inhabitants nor the Influence of the Stars which Phisitions could or would euer apply this disease vnto but as the Aegyptians said of the Plague of Lice Digitus deiest hic and that for some great some grieuous offence Wherefore let vs all strike our selues with amazement vpon the thigh and say what haue wee done let vs resolue a Christian alteration and reformation otherwise though this bee remoued yet a worse thing will befall vs which surely must be in the other life for heere naught worse can come for see how it is described Their soule abhorreth all meate and they draw neere to the gates of death All pleasure all delights proue hatefull to them nay their necessary foode which should preserue their being keepe life and soule together is loathsome and then no meruaile though they bee neere death for can a fire continue without ●ewell and nature bee sustained without its appointed food But they whom God hath deliuered out of it can better expresse the nature of this disease then my selfe onely thus much it is in the most mortall in all fearefull and vncomfortable when a friend is barred from a friends visite when hee shall haue none to close vp his dying eyes nor to say to him leaue thy fatherlesse children to mee when hee not onely suffers himselfe but it any be so aduentrously kinde to come to see him he may bee a pe●●iduct and an occasion of the like misery to him But wee haue not changed the colour of our haire not added one inch to our statures since our wet eyes and heauy hearts were witnesses of more then what my tongue is able to relate when naught was heard but crying and complaining in our streetes no fights but some carrying others to their graues and not many dayes after others doing the like necessary office for them Gods arme is not yet shortned nor his strength so much weakened but that if wee still sinne hee will surely smite againe The onely way to make a perfect cure is to humble our selues vnder the hand of heauen who hath wounded vs and who can heale vs the Soare is but skinned not perfectly healed without that plaister be applyed this did these in my Text. Then they cryed vnto the Lord in their troubles A whippe for the Horse and a Bridle for the Asse and the Rod is for the backe of a Foole. They haue sinned and smarted and now they feele it and cry for helpe The wilde Asse vsed to the Wildernesse snuffeth vp winde at her pleasure who can turne her backe they that seeke after her will not weary themselues but they will finde her in her moneth Ier. 2. God sees and obserues at all times the vntamednesse of the wicked wearying themselues like an Asse in the by-paths of vngodlinesse but hee takes them in their Moneth and happy are they that are so taken As St. Austin of necessity so say I of miserie Foelix qua in meliora cogit happy misery that driues vs to eternall happinesse Aduersity makes them seeke to that God whom their prosperitie made them forget In the time of their trouble they will say Arise and saue vs saith God Ier. 2. 27. Binde Manasses with Chaines and load him with Irons bow downe his nceke and his backe with bonds and hee will soone know himselfe Pull the King of Babilon also from his Throne lay his honour and insolency in the dust banish him the company of men turne him to eate grasse with the Oxe in the field and he will at last learne to praise the King of Heauen Let Moab settle her selfe vpon her Lees and not be emptyed from vessell to vessell and her sent will remaine in her Ier. 48. doth the wilde Asse bray when hee hath grasse or the Oxe low when hee hath Fodder Iob 6. giue but any of the sonnes of men peace plenty and prosperity all things at his hearts desire let but the Sunne of happinesse still shine vpon him how like Waxe will he