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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

Patriae fines dulcia linquim●s ar●● Their natiue Country with all the pleasures thereof they forsake and are driuen to liue among strangers to seeke their bread in an vnknowne Land to conuerse with such people whose language is riddles vnto them yet there they crie vnto the Lord whose eares as his eyes goe through the world and hee heareth them and brings them home in safety The second are they that haue with Peter bin lockt vp in Prisons and with Ieremy throwne into the Dungeon and fettered not onely in chaines of Iron but which is worse in fetters of darknesse not hauing so much happinesse as to see themselues miserable yet thence from those disconsolate places they crying vnto the Lord he also heareth them and deliuereth them breakes those bonds in sunder and set● their 〈◊〉 in a larger r●●me The third being the Text which at this time I haue chosen to bee the subiect of my weake discourse are they that haue beene brought so lowe with the harbinger of death sicknesse that their soules abhorred all meat and all pleasure is as the gall of Aspes vnto them vnwelcome and vnsauorie yet they also with Hezekiah crying vnto the Lord their strength is renued and there are dayes and yeares added to their liues The fourth are they that goe downe to the sea in Ships and occupie their businesse in great waters Sea-faring men that are neither Inter vi●●s ●ec inter mor●uos betweene the liuing nor the dead and are ready to offer vp their soules to euery flaw of winde and billow of water which assailes them yet these at last are ioyfully deliuered and safely brought to that hauen where they would bee The A●●aebeum or burden of each one is this Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull workes to the children of men It was the saying of Salomon A word spoken in due time is like apples of gold with siluer pictures whose outside is faire but the inside glorious if euer text was seasonable this is now at this time being a liuely description to our eares of what our eyes haue beene wofull witnesses and spectators here is a reall narration and a true demonstration of our owne lamentable estate whether we consider our misery we haue beene plagued and afflicted or the cause of those sorrows our Transgressions and iniquity or the effect of those disasters our fasting and crying vnto the Lord or the happy euent of our humilia●ion and contrition He heard vs in our distresses hee sent his Word and healed vs hee hath spoken and wee haue escaped from the noysome Pestilence Or lastly the good end and conclusion which we all should make our thankfulnesse Oh that men would c. Plus profic●tur cùm in rem presentem venitur when we see and feele the truth of what we heare the words cannot but moue and proue eff●ctuall Illi ●●bur oes triplex c●ra pectus his sinewes are of I●on and his soule of Marble who when he heares the sad relation of those miseries wherein himselfe and his brethren haue beene miserable sharers shall not haue his heart pricked as the Iewes had at Peters Sermon t●lling them their sin past and their iudgement to come so againe that heart is as 〈◊〉 as Brawne and himselfe not worthy the ayre hee breathes in that is not taken with this great deliuerance of our gratious God that hath not his soule rauisht with ioy and indeauours not to expresse the fruites of his gratitude in his life and conuersation in reall acts of charity and obedience For if euer Death triumphed 't was this yeare in the streets of our forsaken City and if euer Mercy againe victoriously ouercame it was now in this sudden and vnexpected declination from the deaths of so many thousands in one weeke to so few hundreds within a few we●kes after it was onely the Lords doing and it ought to bee meruailous in our eyes Wherefore as Tully spake of a booke which Cran●or wrote it was Paruus sed aureolus ad verbum ediscendus with better reason may I say of this Text of Scripture it deserues to bee engrauen vpon the palmes of our hands or rather on the tables of our hearts neuer to bee forgotten to be worne as a bracelet vpon our armes or rather as a ●ron●let betweene our eyes still to bee thought vpon and still to magnifie God for it But because Pleni sumus r●marum as hee in the Comedie and the thought both of sorrow and deliuerance equally slips out of our memories with the sense of them giue me leaue to thrust my finger into an al-most-healed soare to drawe fresh blood from our late wounds to discourse a while of our afflictions that so our extremitie duly and often considered our owne escape and miraculous preseruation may bee more welcome to vs and we more thankfull for it And so I come to my Text. Fooles because of their Transgressions c. The subiect of Dauids song Mercy and Iudgement as of all holy Writ in generall so it is the chiefe matter of this Text in particular heere is Iudgement in the punishing and Mercy in deliuering againe from that Iudgement or rather here is Mercy then Iudgement then mercy againe for what was it that suffered these fooles so long to runne on in the wayes of their foolishnesse till they added Transgressions to their F●lly and Iniquitie to their Transgressions till they heaped one sinne vpon another that their regions were forborne not onely till they were Albae ad messem but Siccae ad ignem white for haruest but drye for the fire till the measure fo their wickednesse was not onely full but heaped vp pressed downe and running ouer but those Viscera misericordiae as they are tearmed the bowels of his compassion his long suffering patience who wills not the destruction of any He could in the infancy of their sin ●aue throwne them not onely to the gates of Death but euen the belly of Hell but yet He stayed and stayed till there was no end of their rebellions so that laes● patientia fit furor patience too long too much abused becomes fury yet a little while and his bow will be bent and his arrowes drawne to the head and He is as it were compelled to strike And yet see and wonder at Mercy in the middest of Iudgement they are not swallowed vp quite of this deuourer they are but at the gates of death He hath chastened them sore but hee hath not giuen them ouer vnto death Hee plagues none ad destructionem sed ad correctionem to amend not to destroy vs loath to begin and yet in the proceeding procuring our good and aduantage O quam vellem nescire literas said Nero in the beginning of his raigne when he was to subscribe for the execution of a Malefactor ten thousand times more loth is our gouernour the Father

of all comfort and God ●f all mercy to strike much more to kill Hee wills not the death of a sinner but rather their conuersion and saluation And because prosperity doth rather breed corruption then amendment as Ges●urun waxing ●at will kicke and wee see that standing waters will soone grow noysome Aduersity must then succeed as when Absolom could not draw Ioab vnto him by faire intreats he fired his Barley ●ieldes to make him come so that here is the course God blesseth they sin God strikes they pray and then He presently heares and helpes them Thus then my Text falls in sunder First as all Phisitians comming to their Patients examine the cause of the disease so here wee haue the ground and the originall of all our sorrowes our Transgressions and Iniquities 17. Foole because of their Transgressions and because of their Iniquities are afflicted Then secondly we haue the nature of the disease the new Transl●tion saith in generall they are afflicted The old hath it they are plagued which by the symptomes of it may be thought to b●e the same disease vnder which wee haue thus long groaned 18. Their soule abhorreth all meate and they drawe neere to the gates of death Vomiting I am sure is one of the certainest signes of the plague Then thirdly the seeking to the Phisi●ian 19. Then they cry vnto the Lord in their trouble F●u●●hly the cure intended in the same verse applyed in the next Hee saued them out of their distresses 20. Hee sent his Word and healed them and deliuered them from their destructions And lastly the conclusion of all the onely Fee and gratification which our Phisition expects for the cure 21. Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull workes to the children of men These are the parts The cause The disease The seeking to the Phisition the Cure and the discharge or satisfaction As the Prodigall when hee returned to his Fathers house freely confessed hee had sinned against Heauen and against him and was no more worthy to be called his sonne and so reduced all his delinquencyes to these two heads God and Man So are all our sinnes wee can bee guilty of included in these two our Transgressions and our Iniquities our Transgressions as all interpreters doe agree smiting against the first Table and our Iniquities violating the second our sinnes of knowledge our sinnes of ignorance our sinnes of weaknesse our sinnes of wilfulnesse our secret our open sinnes of our thoughts of our mouthes of our hands are all here comprised whatsoeuer the diuell can suggest or to which our hearts can consent or our hands act are all here vnderstood Should I take vpon me to number the Transgressions of our Iudah and reckon vp the particular Iniquities of our Israel I might as easily call all the ●●arres by their names and giue a true and exact accompt of the sand vpon the Sea-shore not onely the ends of the world as Saint Paul saith but the ends of all goodnesse are met vpon this last and worst age of ours The sinnes which in former ages were but in their Infancy are now in ours growne to their full height and strength those which whilome were but in the Egge are now come to be fiery flying Serpents All these wee haue and more of our owne more horrid Euery new day almost brings in a new way of offending Were Salomon now aliue he would recant in that he said He saw no new thing vnder the Sun Et dictum factum quod non prius wee offend both in word and workes in such kindes such fashions as former ages were neuer guilty of the knowledge of and Non habet vlterius quod nostris moribus addat Posteritas Posterity will neuer be able to paralell our exorbitancies As in the time of the Plague wee wondred not so much at those that dyed as at those that escaped so in this generall Infection they deserue no admiration that offend but they that are found innocent vt Pueri Iunonis au●m are wondred at as a Bird of diuerse colours Should euery Leaper in this kinde be enforced as those other Leapers in the old Law were to go out of our Cities and rend their clothes and cry I am vncleane men would swarme in our fieldes like those Grashoppers in Aegypt our Townes and houses should onely be places for Zim and Iim Owles and Ostriches to inhabite in our streetes should bee left so desolate that grasse might there grow and a man should bee more pretious then the purest gold of Ophir Not a man amongst vs but may cry as Dauid did Peccaui nay Stul●è seci wee haue sinned and done very foolishly Stocke and branch Cedar and shrubbe Prince and Priest and People all of vs are digged out of one and the same pit of Adams disobedience and hewen out of that rocke of Infidelity The father of vs all was an Ammorite and our mother an Hittite in sinne haue they begotten vs and in Iniquity haue they produced vs. and we our selues sucke not the ayre faster nor Behemoth drinkes downe Iordane with more greedinesse then we hale on sinne with cart-ropes and pull it vnto vs euen by violence The whole head of man-kinde is sicke and the whole heart faint of this malady There is none that doth good no not one saith Dauid there is none that doth not cuill say I and very euill no not one Salomon at the Dedication of the Temple concluded vs all vnder sinne Omnes aliquid Nemo nullum All of vs offend in some things and some of vs offend in all things The most righteous in all the cluster of man-kinde falls in his happiest day seuen tim●s Hee hath Breuia leuiaque peccata quam●is pauca quamuis parua non tamen nulla so that omnes odit qui malos odit His sword must needs be against euery man that fights against wicked men For our skin cleaues not faster to our flesh nor our flesh to our bones then Transgressions and Iniquities to the hearts and hands of vs all But to reduce my In●ectiue into some method as Caesar comprised his Victories in three words Veni vidi vici So will I reduce all our extrauagancies to three other Corda ora opa our hearts our tongues our hands are the three weapons with which we fight against our God our neighbour and our selues with our hearts wee contemne with our tongues we defie with our hands we worke against the God of Heauen Or if you please because my Text hath but two words Transgressions and Iniquities I will confine my selfe also to two particulars our Transgressions against the first and our Iniquities against the second Table The former Table briefely containes in it foure seuerall Precepts the first whereof commands internall pietie that in our hearts we haue one and but one God alone The second externall worship of

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