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cause_n	bring_v	see_v	time_n	1,974	5	3.2254	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48905	Lamentatio civitatis, or, Londons complaint against her children in the countrey shewing her weaknesse, poverty, and desolatenesse ... : as also a brief account how many died in the years 1529 [i.e. 1592], 1603, 1625, 1630, 1636,1637, 1638, 1646,1647 1648, with this present year 1665 : likewise several preservatives against the infection.		1665 (1665)	Wing L277; ESTC R41449	25,022	49

one think my Tradesmen should goe if but for their profit sake But the Devil knows their minde that skin for skin and all that a man hath he will give for his life But yet Gods servants have ever preferred his service their calling before their own lives Moses would rather suffer affliction with his Brethren then live in Pharaohs Court Vriah would not lie with his wife nor eat nor drink unto mirth while Gods Host was in the field And Solomon saith It is better to go to the house of mourning then feasting But these are all too little to perswade you till I set before you your faults as well as mine own defects Which are these Unkindnesse Uncharitablenesse Distrustfulnesse Your unkindnesse appears in these foure particulars First in disgracing me Secondly in your Countrey-merriment Thirdly in your leaving me desolate Fourthly in not paying your debts Your disgrace appears in leaving my streets bare my Temples emptie my shops shut up Beside you have made my savor to stink in the Countrey through your rashness their ignorance Secondly your unkindness appears in your jocound behaviour in the Countrey at whose lightness those Sylvans wonder as at people more unnatural then themselves Me thinks you should fear least benumming death might creep on your Angles which I see conveyed along my streets for your pleasure like the sleepie venome of the Cramp-fish Or while you shoot in pastime you should feare least the arrow that flyes by day should aim at you in earnest You bewray the weaknesse of your affection to me and your fellow brethren your unsensiblenesse of Gods hand and your shallownesse in Religion even by this Thirdly have you not adventured me to the common spoyle If God did not watch the Citie If I had not one Sonne left me whose care hath shewed him a Father to me how might my doors be broken open my Chests ransackt mine Obligations torne my Bonds canceld You will not beleeve this yet some of you I fear me will be sensible of it God continue him in this care and reward him for it You have fastned your doors with Padlocks some have Powder to blow them open When you return complain not what you have lost least I smile at your folly and seem to pitie your misfortune Fourthly have you not left some of your debts unpaid by which I should be relieved never considering what may become of you and yours and then how your Creditors hearts must be turmoild to seek after their own Hath not many of you carried away the better part of your estates in money and sowed them by the high-way as the Lord hath scattered your bodies I could name some but time will bring them to light To this adde your uncharitablenesse and then see whether I speak without cause which first appeares in not relieving the poor who like a Cripple cannot follow your nimble Coursers I am not ignorant that some have given out of their superfluitie others out of pure charitie but the most have not and so the little which is left is consumed and like Pharaohs kine we seem never the fatter for what is this among so many Secondly it shewes it self in condemning the poor that they are so obvious to the Plague as if God had a quarrel against none but them I know they are for the most part ill livers intemperate of tongue and appetite grosse feeders and such as disorderly thrust themselves into danger all this may conspire to their ruine by preparing their bodies for other diseases as well as the Plague for this disease takes hold of them more then others because they be most in number but my penny-fathers have not all scaped it nor the finest feeders and therefore your judgment of the poor is somwhat too harsh Thirdly It appears in not assisting me in your prayers It may be you will say that you doe in private if I had seen it here I would have more easily beleeved it for many of you are gone where you minde little of Preaching though you have fat pasture And how you will forget your dutie when you are not taught it I may justly feare Other inconveniences you have brought about as discouraging those that stay they weakly conceiving that they are but dead men Some are of a stronger temper but yet Comes in via pro vehiculo est your company might have been a great ease unto them Again by your departing indiscreetly how have you disjoynted the Countrey with fear procured rough usage to your selves and caused me to fare the worse for your sakes for I can scarce get provision from the Country and so my misery is doubled But though you have forsook me I could never think you would have forsaken your God but rather received evil at his hands as well as good But you have either in this distrusted Gods will that he will not save you or else his power that he cannot save you the Plague being a disease of a depopulating nature or else you mistrust that this Plague came by some accident and so it doth Catch that catch may every one that comes neer it But my Saviour saith That a Sparrow falls not to the ground without the will of your heavenly Father But you will say that you take your flight as a means to bring Gods will to passe in saving you you say well if you can prove it Doe you think that God will save none that stay Or that he will spare all you that be abroad I dare not say so I fear you would faine wrest Gods will to yours I grant that evil things coming from the hand of God may and ought to be avoided when God shewes a man a gap to go out at but this must not be the Gap of our own phantasie When God leaves a man a lawful gap he doth not crosse some positive point of Religion And if the case be doubtful then are we to bend our selves to that course which may sute best with the Analogie of Faith and not to our own particular except that particular hold also in as full grounds of Religion as the other course Therefore in all such passages we are to observe that what we do be not against piety charitie nature civil policie as that we decline not from God from our neighbour from our kindred nor from the Common-wealth And these wholsome Rules my reverent Sonnes have laid down in former times though misconceived of some of their followers who willing to please their own nature have catched something from them not observing their whole intent I make no doubt but in general and open punishments you may and ought to shift for your selves by removal as in famine Abram did and in persecution from one Citie you may flie to another saith my Saviour But in an uncertain punishment wherein none can assure themselves absolutely in going or staying of life and death when Religion and Nature rather invites us