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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15068	Londons returne, after the decrease of the sicknes in a sermon (appointed for the Crosse) but preached in St. Pauls Church. Ianuary 8. 1637. By O.W. p.	Whitbie, Oliver.	1637 (1637)	STC 25371; ESTC S119857	17,928	38

which the Prophet here meanes was primarily a temporall life secondarily an eternall life absolutely the life of Grace by consequence that of Glory So the Chaldee para renders my Text vita donabit nos in diebus consolationis qui venturi sunt in die resurrectionis mortuorū suscitabit nos vivemus coram eo That is wee shall leade a happy life here and a glorified life hereafter these two following one another like the twinnes out of Rebecca's wombe the later laying hold upon the former and more then these two no covetous Jew could desire I cannot stay to shew you how this Prophesie was verified upon Israel Iudah whom the Lord after seventy yeares captivity raised from the graves of Assyrian bondage and brought them back to that Ierusalem which they beheld with as many tears of joy as they remembred with sorrow when they sate down by the Waters of Babylon where again they lived in Gods sight until new sinnes provoked a more consuming wrath and the Romans for crucifying theire innocent Messiah made the Jewes blood as cheape as their mothers teares The few sands which are yet behinde shall run forth in a short review of my Text by way of application and so I le commend you to God Come let us returne to the Lord c. HAd Hosea uttered his Prophesie the last yeare it would have beene hard to say whether hee meant Israel or England the Sceanes are the same onely the Actors differ both of us have beheld a Tragedy commenced in our owne blood Ierusalem bore the first part London the second Lord how are we spoyled said the Prophet of them and may not I say so of this place A City undone and no man the richer Above 1200 slaine and no sword seen Lord how are we spoyled How is Ierusalem become a desolate widow It was the Lamentation of Ieremiah and may it not be revived upon London how was she forsaken not onely of her children but of her God and many moneths sate like Rachel weeping for her children and would not be comforted because they were not Your doores which were used to be opened to your friends were shut up by disease and the very casements whereat you tooke the breath of life did let in death so that wee may cry with Israel The Lord hath torne and the Lord hath smitten us and as the Magicians said of the lice of Egypt Exod. 8.16 They were digitus Dei the finger of God Wee may of our Visitation 't was manus Dei the hand of God and therefore we call it plaga a stroake a blow from heaven Yet see the goodnesse of the most high no sooner had we by the appoyntment of our most gracious Soveraigne run to the second of Ioel and proclaimed a Fast called a solemne assembly and cryed with Israel venite revertamur O come let us returne unto the Lord. But that power who repented of making us did also repent of destroying us and said My Spirit shall not alwaies contend with man least the soules which I have made should faile before me Isai 57. And as Ieremiah cryed God is the health of Israel Chap. 3. so may I God is become the health of London it was not the Frost nor the Snow nor any of natures colds throwne downe from those moving shops of Meteors but Dominus sanauit the Lord hath healed the Lord hath bound us up And now let me direct my speech to you right Honourable and the inhabitants of this City and say in the words of the Saviour of the World Art thou made whole sinne no more least a worse thing happen to thee though yee have escaped the last yeares contagion yet there is a Tophet in Isaiah where plagues are eternall And therefore let every man beginne a reformation at home as those cryed out much more will I every man to his tents O Israel to his conscience O London Now looke to thine owne house David I make no question but much cost and labour has beene bestowed in ayring and cleansing your houses but it is to no purpose unlesse you sweepe out sinne which Solomon calls the plague of the heart turne that out of your shops and consciences it will prove a better antidote than all the Pitch Rue and Franckincense in the World Infect the aire no more with your oathes and courteous equivocations make not your selves worse in belying your wares that they are better the most winning eloquence a trades-man can speake is truth and the best way to thrive apace is to pray Look not upon the next life as Mathematitions do at heaven through a cranney or hole out of a darke Chamber which renders it poore and small not venture your hopes of heaven like Cain to build upon earth Raise not the walls of your houses with the ruine of Gods house or your neighbours nor pay your Lecturers with your Parsons tithes let not the wrack't out blood of the Tenant cry against you nor your workmens wages be kept backe Use not false lights and a deceitfull ballance wherein your soules are put and found too light And beleeve me before it is too late Godlinesse is great gaine and there 's no such policy in this World as to bee an honest man And you my Lord and your brethren to whom the government of this City is committed I know you have taken all the courses that wisedome can thinke of to stay the infection when there is but one way to doe it that is to make your Citizens good but you will say 't is God that must doe this you cannot t is true your part is only to shew them the way by a good example and seeing your spirit is the first wheele whereunto all others are fastned it is necessary that you give a good motion for it is held by some Astronomers that when the Sunne stood still in the time of Ioshuah the Moone and Starres kept the like pause Now if you that are Governours would have the Plague a stranger in the City then see that in your Courts of Iudicature justice and mercy kisse each other Let justice runne downe like water and righteousnesse as the river Amos 5.24 It will clense the City better then all your Conduits let loose upon Sundayes Suffer not the wicked Advocate who plowes lies and exchanges God for a bribe to put Trueth upon the Rack and stretch a Clients cause with delayes as the Shoomaker doth Leather with his teeth these men are our Plagues in the times of health and it put Gods mercy to a stand when in Ierusalem there was not found a man that executed justice Iet 5. How shall I pardon thee for this saith the Lord ver 7. But God hath set you on high to no other purpose then to punish vice beneath you and if you suffer that to rise it will trample you under foote and therefore continue my Lord like a good Moses to stand in the gap pleade before God the cause of his people with your prayers and before his people the cause of God with your sword And let me beseech all that heare me that they would leave no sparkes of sinne raked up in their consciences least the fire of Gods wrath breakes out againe more furiously the next spring Verifie the first part of my Text Returne to the Lord with all your hearts with all your soules and he will verifie the second sanabit hee will heale hee will binde us up And though for two dayes you and your shops and your tradings have laine dead yet there 's a third day wherein God will raise you up and make you live in his sight where Divine protection shall watch over you here and keepe all Plagues from your bodies as the Nurse does flyes from the face of her sleeping childe till you enter into the other vision of God the sight of Glory where our miseries can have no beginning nor our felicity any ending where youth shall not waxe old nor health impaire but these bodies which are now the shops of all diseases shall become as impassible as Angels as subtile as rayes of light as radiant as the Sunne and as swift as the wings of thunder and we shall lead no other life than that of God of the knowledge of God of the love of God and that as long as God shall be God and therefore venite revertamur ad Dominum Come and let us returne to the Lord for hee hath torne and hee will heale us hee hath broken and hee will binde us up After two dayes hee will revive us the third day hee will raise us up and we shall live in his sight Which God of his mercy grant c. 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