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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08002	Christs teares ouer Ierusalem Whereunto is annexed a comparatiue admonition to London. By Tho. Nash.	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1613 (1613)	STC 18368; ESTC S113095	114,515	208

hearbes of the field haue withered for want of raine yet will no man depart from his wickednesse Post ouer the Plague to what naturall cause you will I Positiuely affirme it is for sinne For sinne sayd the Lord by the forenamed Ieremy I will smite the inhabitants of Ierusalem and man and beast shall die of a great pestilence I will bring a Plague vpon you that whosoeuer heareth of it his eares shall tingle Eyther take away the cause or there is no remouing of the effect London thou art the seeded Garden of sinne the Seathat sucks in all the scummy chanels of the Realme The honestest in thee for the most are either Lawyers or Vsurers Deceit is that which aduanceth the greater sorte of thy chiefest Let them looke that their ritches shall rust and canker being wet dewed with Orphans teares The Lord thinketh it were as good for him to kill with the Plague as to let them kill with oppression He beholdeth from on hie al subtile conueiances and recognisances He beholdeth how they peruert foundations and will not bestow the Bequeathers free almes but for brybes or for friendship I pray God they take not the like course in preferring poore mens children into their Hospitals and conuerting the impotents mony to their pryuate vsury God likewise beholdeth how to beguile a sely young Gentleman of his Land they will crouch cap in hande play the Brokers Baudes Apron-squires Panders or anything Let vs leaue of the Prouerbe which we vse to a cruell dealer faying Goe thy waies thou art a Iew and say Goe thy waies thou art a Londoner For then Londoners are none more heard-hearted and cruel Is it not a common prouerbe amongst vs whē any man hath cosend or gone beyond vs to say Hee hath playde the Marchant with vs But Merchants they turne it another way and say He hath playd the Gentleman with them The Snake eateth the Toade and the Toade the Snaile The Merchant eates vp the Gentleman the Gentleman eates vp the Yeoman and all three do nothing but exclaime one vpon another The head of Daniels Image was of beaten golde but his feete yron Our head or our Soueraigne is all golde golden in her lookes golden in her thoughts in her words and deeds golden We her feete or her subiects all yron Though for her vertuee sake and the prayers of his dispersed Congregation God prorogeth our desolation for a while yet wee must not thinke but at one time or other he will smyte vs and plague vs. He shall not take away our sinne because wee will not confesse with Dauid that wee haue sinned or if wee doe so confesse wee holde it full satisfaction for it without any reformation or amendment In this time of infection we purge our houses our bodies and our streetes and looke to all but our soules The Psalmist was of another mind for he said O Lord I haue purged and clensed my spirit Blessed are they that are cleane in heart how euer their houses bee infected There were thē in the heate of the sicknes that thought to purge and clense their houses by conueying their infected seruants forth by night into the fieldes which there starued and dyed for want of relife and warmekeeping Such mercilesse Canibals in stead of purging their spirits and their houses haue thereby doubled the Plague on them and their houses In Grayes-Inne Clarkenwell Finsbury and Moorefieldes with mine owne eyes haue I seene halfe a dozen of such lamentable out-casts Their Bretheren and their Kinsfolkes haue offered large summes of money to gette them conueied into any out-house and no man would earne it no man would receiue them Cursing and rauing by the High-way side haue they expired and their Maisters neuer sent to them nor succourd them The feare of God is come amongst vs and the loue of God gone from vs. If Christ were now naked and visited naked and visited should he be for none wold come neere him They would rather forsweare him and defie him then come within forty foote of him In other Lands they haue Hospitals whether their infected are transported presently after they are stroken They haue one Hospitall for those that haue been in the houses with the infected and are not yet tainted another for those that are tainted and haue the sores risen on them but not broken out A third for those that both haue the sores haue them broken out on them We haue no prouision but mixing hand ouer head the sicke with the whole A halfe-penny a month to the poore mans boxe we count our vtter impouerishing I haue heard Trauailers of credite auouch that in London is not giuen the tenth part of that almes in a week which in the poorest besieged Citty of Fraunce is giuen in a day What is our religion all auarice and no good works because we may not build Monasteries or haue Masses Dirges or Trentals sung for our soules are there no deeds of mercy that God hath enioined vs Our dogges are fed with the crumbes that fall from our Tables Our Christian brethren are famisht for want of the crumbes that fall from our Tables Take it of me rich-men expresly that it is not your owne which you haue purchast with your industry it is part of it the poores part your Princes part your Preachers You ought to possesse no more then will moderatly sustaine your house and your family Christ gaue all the victual he had to those that flocked to heare his Sermons We haue no such promise-founded plea at the day of al flesh as that in Christs name we haue done alms-deeds How would we with our charity sustaine so many mendicant orders of Religion as we heretofore haue and as now at this very houre beyond Sea are if we cannot keepe and cherish the casuall poore amongst vs Neuer was there a simple liberall relieuer of the poore but prospered in most things he went about The cause that some of you cannot prosper is for you put out so little to interest to the poore No thanks-worthy exhibitions or reasonable pensions will you contribute to maymd Souldiors or poore Schollers as other Nations doe but suffer other Nations with your discontented poore to Arme themselues against you Not halfe the Priests that haue been sent from them into England had hither beene sent or euer fled hence if the Crampe had not held close your purse strings The liuings of Colledges by you are not increased but diminished because those that first raysed them had a superstitious intent none of vs euer after will haue any Christian charitable intent In the daies of Salomon gold and siluer bare no price In these our dayes which are the dayes of sathan nought but they beare any price God is despised in comparison of them Demas forsooke Christ for the world in this our deceasing couetous world Demas hath more followers then Christ. An old Vsurer that hath not an heyre rakes vp thirty or forty

soule is made all flesh is wholly employde in impouerishing and debilitating the flesh Quidam dixit olim diues eram dudum sed tria me fecerunt nudū alea vina venus tribus his factus sum egenus There was a man sayd late he was in rich estate but 3. things haue vndone him froward Dice Wine and Women only from these three things all his confusion springs The third deriuatiue of Delicacy is sloath of which I will say a word or two and so shake hands with all the Sonnes and Daughters of Pride Security the last deuident of Delicacy it includeth in it for Security is nothing but the effect of sloth therfore will I handle both vnder one It is a sinne which is good for nothing but to be Dame Lecheries Keeper when she lyes in He or she that is possessed with sloth is slow in good workes slowe in comming to Sermons slowe in looking after thrift slowe in resisting temptations slowe in defending any good cause And of these fore-slowers it is sayd Those that be neither hot nor cold I will spue them out of my mouth Reu. the 3. There is a certaine kind of good sloth as to be slowe to anger slowe to iudgement slowe to reuenge But there is a sloth vnto iudgement which is also an il sloth As when a poore mans cause hangs so long in Court ere it can be decided that through the Iudges sloth he is vndone with following of it There is a sloth also in punishing sin as when Magistrates will haue their eyes put out with gifts and will not see it but wink at it till they be broad waked with the general cry of the Common-wealth There is a sloth of Souldioury as of those that come from the warres and wil not fall to any thing afterward but cosen begge and robbe There is a sloth of the Ministry as of those that after they be Beneficed will neuer preach Doth the wild Asse bray saith Iob when he hath grasse or loweth the Oxe when he hath fodder No more do a great sort of our Diuines after they haue liuing They haue learned to spare their tongue against they are to plead for greater preferment So haue a number of Lawyers learned to spare their eares against golden Aduocates come to plead to them They cannot heare except their eares bee rubd with the oyle of Angels they must haue a spur to prick on an old dogg a few Spurrials to remedy deafnes Others there are though not of the same order that can neuer heare but when they are flattered and they cry continually to their Preachers Loquere nobis placentia Loquere nobis placentia Speak to vs nothing but pleasing things and euen as Archabius the Trumpeter had more giuen him to cease them to sound the noise that he made was so harsh so will they giue them more to cease then to sound to corupt them then to make them sound feed their sores then to launch them The noise of iudgement which they pronounce soundeth too harsh in their eares They must haue Orpheus melodie whom the Ciconian women tore in peeces because with his musicke he corrupted and effeminated their men Guide saith There are certaine diuels that can abide no musick these are contrary diuels for they delight in nothing but the musick of flattery Mouing words please them but they heare them but as passiō in a play which maketh them rauishtly melancholly and nere renteth the heart The delicacy both of men women in London will enforce the Lord to turne all their plenty to scarcity their tunes of wantonnesse to the alarums of warre and to leaue their house desolate vnto them How the Lord hath begunne to leaue our house desolate vnto vs let vs enter into the consideration therof with our selues At this instant is a generall plague disperst throughout our Land No voice is heard in our streets but that of Ieremy Call for the mourning women that they may come and take vp a lamentation for vs for death is come into our windowes and entred into our Palaces God hath striken vs but we haue not sorrowed of his heauiest correction we make a iest We are not moued with that which he hath sent to amaze vs As it is in Ezechiel They wil not heare thee for they will not heare mei So they wil not nor cannot heare God in his visitation which haue refused to heare him in his Preachers For your contempt and neglect of hearing Gods Preachers euen as S. Iohn Baptist said There was one come into the world more mighty then he that carried his fan in his hand So say I there is one come into the world more mighty then the word preached which is the Lord in this present visitation He carrieth his fanne in his hand to purge his Floore All the chaffe of carnall Gospellers that are blowne from him with euery wind of vanity or adu●…sity he shall purge from amongst you A time of springing and growing haue we had now is our mercifull Father come to demaund fruite of vs. The fruite of faith the fruit of good workes the fruite of patience and long suffering If he find no fruit on vs he wil say to vs as hee sayd to the Figge-tree on which he found nothing but leaues Neuer fruite grow on thee henceforward And incontinent it withered and incontinent Death shall seaze on vs. From the mouth of the Lord I speak it Except in time you conuert and bring forth the fruites of good life the Kingdome of God shall be taken from you and giuen to a Nation bringing forth worthy fruits thereof With the two blinde men that sat by the High-way side when Christ came from Iericho we haue cried a long time Lord haue mercy vpon vs Lord haue mercy vpon vs O Son of Dauid haue mercy vpon vs and loe our eyes haue beene opened the light of the Gospell hath appeared vnto vs But like those blind-men after our eyes were opened after the light of the Gospel hath appeared vnto vs we haue refused to follow Christ. You Vsurers and Engrossers of Corne by your hoording vp of gold and graine till it is mould rusty Moath-eaten and almost infects the ayre with the stinch you haue taught God to hoord vp your iniquities and transgressions till mouldinesse putrifaction and mustinesse enforceth him to open them and being opened they so poison the ayre with their ill sauour that from them proceedeth this perilsome contagion The Land is full of adulteries for this cause the Land mourneth The Land is full of Extortions full of proud men full of hypocrites full of murderers This is the cause why the Sword deuoureth abroad and the Pestilence at home Wicked deedes haue preuailed against vs. How long saith Ieremy shall the Land mourne and the hearbes of euery field wither for the wickednesse of the Inhabitants that dwell therein Our Land mournes for the sicknesse the