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cause_n	heart_n	lord_n	sin_n	2,722	5	4.5112	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10078	Londons remembrancer: for the staying of the contagious sicknes of the plague by Dauids memoriall. As it vvas follovved in a sermon preached in Christs-church in London, the 22. of Ianuarie. 1626. Vpon occasion of the publique thanksgiuing, enioyned by his maiesties proclamation. By Samson Price, Doctor of Diuinitie, one of his Majesties chapleins in ordinarie.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1626 (1626)	STC 20332; ESTC S114330	24,161	47

cordis tuntio pectoris the smiting of the breast is the stamping beating downe and brusing of the heart This hath often teares as in Hannah who was in bitternesse of soule and prayed vnto the Lord and wept sore which is the foode of the soule and which feasted Christ more then all the prouision of Mary Magdalen besides while we eate the bread of sorrow drinking the wine of compunction wee hunger and thirst after heauenly things and shall be comforted This is the constant alimonie of the righteous at dinner and supper in life and death in prosperity aduersity The Prouerb is true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Boni autem valde flebiles viri In this case was Iob when his life abhorred bread and his soule dainty meate When hee complained that his gall was powred out on the ground Thus Dauid when his soule was sore vexed and he cried Thou O Lord how long When his expectation was not satisfied How long shall I take counsell in my soule When hee powred out his complaint before God and shewed before him his trouble but now he is deliuered and his soule is powred out in thanksgiuing How iustly may this condemne many who are so foolish and slow of heart that they neuer stirre vp their soules to the seruice of God but suffer the body like a thiefe to rob it The body is deified but the soule pined and famished no bread of life is sought to strengthen her no Gospell of peace to comfort her no deuotion to cherish her Some sell their soules as couetous vsurious Monsters who for wealth will commit any rauine robberie theft periurie false merchandise simonie There is not a more wicked thing then a couetous man for such an one setteth his owne soule to sale Some cast away their soules as the enuious and furious for nothing The couetous man hath wealth The Epicure pleasure The ambitious proud vpstart honour The Glutton meate and drinke but the enuious man consumes himselfe in pining being a thorne-hedge couered with nettels Some lay their soules to pawne to Sathan that they may swimme in the world prosperously and wantonly running on in sinne so long being deafe to God caring neither for words nor iudgements so soked in sinne that they cannot redeeme these pawnes because they can not repent Yet God crieth by his Prophets Oh doe not this abominable thing that I hate but if we encline not our eare to turne from our wickednes his furie must be powred forth to cut off man and woman childe and suckling and leaue none to remaine Wee may forget but God remembreth vs our Fathers our Kings our Princes and the people of the Land and woe vnto their soule who declare their sinne as Sodome for they haue rewarded euill vnto themselues Which may teach vs to remember the Lord in powring out our soules in all deuout and humble acknowledgement of his mercies least our soules abhorring him his soule loathe vs. It is reported that at a Sermon of Vincentius Ferr one was so moued in spirit that his face shined on the suddaine very glorious O that when we heare the great workes of the Lord wee would stirre vp the graces of God within vs that the Spirit of God might not be quenched in vs. Nothing is more precious then the soule within vs which made Dauid pray Mine eyes are vnto thee O God the Lord In thee is my trust Leaue not my soule destitute Arise O Lord disappoint him cast him downe Deliuer my soule from the wicked which is thy sword O keepe my soule and deliuer me Let mee not be ashamed for I put my trust in thee In a well disposed Christian the body is seruant the soule is Mistris but in an infected person the body is predominant Take heede of this Plague The body is but the weight and burthen of the soule while this oppresseth the soule is in prison Forget not the exhortation which speaketh to you as children Forget not to entertaine strangers for thereby some haue entertained Angels vnawares If we reiect knowledge and forget the Law of our God he will also forget our children O be not as Ierusalem hauing her filthinesse in her skirts she remembred not her last end therefore she came downe wonderfully she had no comforter the enemie magnified himselfe Before we be driuen to remember the Lord in farre countries Let vs set our heart and our soule to seeke the Lord If we returne to the Lord with all our heart with all our soule and pray our supplications shall bee heard our cause maintained and wee shall be forgiuen Remember this late mercy in the midst of Iudgement Extoll the admirable lenity of the Lord towards vs who hath gleaned but some when all feared to be cut downe The yeares are not many since the Lord with a famine did shake many parts of this Land a terrible sword which made Iulius Caesar in all his warres to conquer more by famine then the sword It made Lysimachus in Thracia to yeeld himselfe captiue to Domitian the Emperour it brought vp that bloody Law amongst the Soldiers of Cambises marching toward the Aethiopians that the Tenth among themselues should be killed in the Army to asswage hunger It made the Roman Mothers eate their owne children The Athenians vexed by Sylla to eat the greene grasse of the fields and mosse of the walles Alexander to eate his Camels Elephants and other beasts that carried luggage for the warres the Hymmi to eate their Dogges It made Abraham flye from Canaan to Egypt Isaack to Abimelech King of the Philistines and all the sonnes of Iacob to goe to Pharaoh King of Egypt God like the Physitian maketh vs fast to recouer health Vpon Famine haue wee beene so humbled as wee should haue beene The yeares are not many therefore since the the Lord threatned vs with another sword that of a Barbarous Nation to deuoure vs how soone was it forgotten This yeare therefore the Lord seeing vs wantonly secure and sleeping and snorting in our sinnes drew another sword against many parts of the Land by a Plague This is the snare of the Hunter it catcheth suddenly some walking some feeding some sporting some waking some sleeping It is the terrour by night breeding many terrours and feares in the night the night being a solitary time and solitarines increaseth feares the night being a time of Incendiaries and Robbers which set vpon men vnawares a time of feare in regard of the weaknes of the Imagination or of terrible dreames or sudden affrights a time terrible to trauelers where the least noise amateth them Per noctem metantur agros sonus omnis aura Exterrent pennaque leui commota volucris It is the arrow that flyeth by day Sagitta Angeli mortis quam emittit interdiu the arrow

of the Angel of the Lord sent forth in the day cōming swiftly striking suddenly wounding deadly It is the Lyon Adder Dragon No beast for strength cōparable to the Lyon so no disease so deadly as the Plague such as the Aspe biteth are smitten with a numnes throughout all partes and there followeth coldnesse gasping heauinesse in the head sometimes heat and burning in the body Are not such Symptomes in the Plague A Dragon tearing in pieces with all violence sparing none which moued Reuerend Beza being sicke of the Plague at Lausanna not to suffer Caluin Viret those zealous Lights to come to him when they offered it freely least they should bee infected because hee preferred the benefit of Gods Church before his owne particular comforts The Plague is Gods hand Iad Iehouah because the might and power of God is more manifested in this then in other punishments O let not this hand be out of our sight but as that hand that wrote at Balshazars feast and thereupon his countenance was changed his thoughts troubled him the ioynts of his loyns were loosed and his knees smote one against another so let the remembrance of this great late Plague humble vs and make vs mourne but vpon the deliuerance Let vs powre out soules in vs and let vs reioyce It was a sanctified remedie which reuerend M. Greenham vsed being often in his publick Ministery and priuate conference troubled with a suddaine failing in his memorie so as by no means he could recouer himselfe in those things he purposed to speak He would presently groane in his heart and humble his soule vnder the holy hand of God O let vs with groanes lament our dull forgetfulnesse of the great workes of God Socrates complained that after the vse of letters the Art of memorie decayed for the care which before was had in heart and memorie afterward was put in bookes and that which was committed to the minde was after put in trust in writing O let that flying rowle of Gods iudgement which lately hath gone ouer the face of the whole earth and cut off so many and entred into houses and remained in the midst of them and consumed the houses with the timber and the stones euer be in our memorie Bookes not vsed gather dust and memory not imployed will be dull and heauie Sathan desireth to deale with vs as Heringius did with Bamba his predecessour a King of the Gothes who gaue him a draught of drinke whereby he lost his memory Let vs often meditate vpon the workes of God Reade and Pray To reade and not to meditate is vnfruitfull To meditate and not to reade is dangerous for errours To reade and meditate without prayer is hurtfull Let vs not be as Ephraim who knew not that God healed them He it is that hath drawne vs with cords of a man with bands of loue Hee hath taken off the yoke on our iawes He hath layde meate vnto vs He turneth away his anger is as dew vnto vs Hee maketh Israel growe as the Lilly cast forth rootes as Lebanon his branches to spread his beauty to be as the Oliue tree reuiue as the corne and growe as the Vine All the wonders he doth are to confirme our hope raise vp our faith and nourish our loue to him To remember him is like the delight which the Apostles had at the transfiguration of Christ It is sweeter then the hony and the hony-combe It is sweeter then the remembrance of Iosias which was like the composition of the perfume made by the Art of the Apothecarie sweet as musicke at a Banquet of wine If we haue a minde to remember God comfort will be neere in the mouth and in the heart Nothing is more ready then this remembrance It is an easie medicine a speedy cure a pretious cordiall It remoueth sadnesse heauinesse melancholly and bringeth with it ioy in the holy Ghost Let vs then in the day of our gladnesse offer sacrifices for a memoriall before our God In the way of Gods iudgements let vs waite for him Let the desire of our soule be to his name and to the remembrance of him Let vs looke into the perfect law of liberty and continue therein not being forgetfull hearers but doers of the worke that wee may be blessed in our deedes And this is the worke of the day of our whole liues to powre out our soules in vs. O let vs then enter into a couenant to seek the Lord God of our Fathers with all our heart and with all our soule Then hee will set his Tabernacle among vs his soule shall not abhorre vs hee will be our God Then being instructed his soule shall not depart from vs wee shall not be left desolate His soule shall delight in vs To this end are his mercies offered and his deliuerances continued How miraculously hath he of late deliuered many of vs as he did the three children in the fierie furnace when some were constrained to flye from this mountaine of Moriah to the little hill of Hermon as Dauid where they could not looke out but messages of Death and the encrease of the Plague in black bills was brought vnto them when in this Citie the dolefull Bell ringing out there was wringing of hands shrieking in the most places there for a Father here for a Mother there for a Husband here for a Wife there for a Master here for a Seruant there for a Mistresse here for an Handmayde there for Children here for Kinred Wee expected triumphes for the Coronation and alas in stead of these had Funeralls of dead men who being weary of the earth went to triumph in heauen But behold men cried vnto the Lord in their trouble and hee brought them out of their distresses Hee made the storme a calme and the waters were still Let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemie and gathered from the East from the West from the North from the South when they wandred Hath the Lord remoued his anger Let vs remoue that which was and is the cause of his anger The Plague of the body being ceased let not SINNE the plague of the soule continue Sweepe your houses from swearing auoyd the company of the vngodly get the inward marke of Gods Spirit by making your Election sure Let your selues bloud of enuie hatred malice couetousnesse and all vncharitablenesse Beware of dogges Infidels as Christ calleth the Gentiles in his speech to the woman which was a Syrophenician by Nation It is not meete to take the childrens bread and to cast it to dogges Beasts without reason forsaking the Creatour to worship the creature Ignorance of the true God and blindnesse of heart were in the Gentiles the Nurses of Infidelity and brochers of Idolatry These make men runne headlong like the swine of the Gergesits into