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A69170	Salomons pest-house, or tovvre-royall Nevvly re-edified and prepared to preserue Londoners with their families, and others, from the doubted deluge of the plague. Item, a laudable exercise for those that are departed, or shall depart out of the city into the country, to spend their time till they returne. A handfull of holy meditations vsefull and requisite for Gods people ... By the reuerend, learned, and godly diuine I.D. preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is added Mr Hollands admonition, and Mr Phaers prescription for bodily physicke. Also, London looke-backe: a description or representation of the great and memorable mortality an. 1625. in heroicke matchlesse lines, by A.H. of Tr. Colledge in Cambridge.	I. D., preacher of Gods word.; Holland, Henry, 1583-1650? Spirituall preservatives against the pestilence.; Houssemaine, Nicolas de, d. 1523. Régime contre la peste.; Holland, Abraham, d. 1626. London looke-backe.; Phayer, Thomas, 1510?-1560.	1630 (1630)	STC 6176; ESTC S117096	52,379	80

their time was expired Now then the gift ceassing it is madnesse to retaine still the time which went with the gift that is this annointing or aneiling and more madnesse to make a Sacrament of it as Antichrist hath done most extreame madnes to giue it vnto them only which are a dying which was wont to be giuen to such as did recouer health againe Wherefore as the holy Visitors did then first vse their spirituall exercise which is left for vs to practise and next this extraordinary gift and meanes of healing so let vs carefully and wisely heere call for in the second place the learned Physician the comfortable and ordinary meanes which God hath left vnto vs in nature as long as the World endureth This order that holy Writer Ecclus 38.9.10 11.12 the Godly Preacher commendeth vnto vs in these words My sonne faile not in thy sicknesse but pray vnto the Lord and he will make thee whole leaue off from sinne and order thine hands aright c. and cleanse thine heart from all wickednesse c. Then giue place to the Physician for the Lord hath created him let him not goe from thee for thou hast neede of him the houre may come that their enterprises may haue good successe for he also shall pray vnto the Lord that he would prosper that which is giuen for the prolonging of life Whereas some obiect that in the Pestilence naturall remedies of Physick cannot benefit vs because the causes here cannot be seene or found in nature I answer with M.B. If there come into the Pestilence no naturall causes then these whom the Plague hath infected cannot doubtlesse so much be eased much lesse be healed by naturall remedies But this second to be very false experience and common sense do daily tell vs. Wherefore I affirme that naturall remedies must not be neglected Againe whereas others doe obiect that Physick heere often is seene to haue but small good successe I answere that wee must not say of naturall Preseruatiues that because they doe not benefit one or two or three therefore they cannot helpe any at all It is a bad conclusion for consider that God doth gouerne naturall causes and their effects as it pleaseth him and blesseth them to whom hee will where and when he will And hence it commeth that the infection toucheth not euery one that is in danger of it neither is it deadly to euery one that is infected Others yet more fondly dispute against naturall remedies in this sicknesse and they say that God hath here a more speciall prouidence and he will smite whom he will to death and therfore all remedies are to small purpose These men againe want iudgement I answer that the Lord no doubt when he sent a Famine into Egypt and the Regions thereabout he determined who should die in that Scarcity yet for all this ceaseth not Ioseph with most wise counsell to prouide for the Egyptians and Iacob for his familie The like did Paul in the Sea with the Mariners when he had receiued an answer he should come to Rome safely And Christ knew his time and yet hee went aside often from his enemies hand till his houre came vsing the ordinarie meanes for his preseruation And that no man may stand stifly in his owne rash iudgment Quid Temeritate fortius saith Tully What so foole-hardie or so violent as rash and hastie spirits 1. De natura deorum Heare what that learned Father of euer blessed memorie Master Luther saith of this matter in his * De Peste in Witteberga Ann 1527. Treatise translated out of Dutch into Latine and in English thus much God hath created Physicke and giuen vs a minde and reason that euery man should haue a care of his owne body for health and life whosoeuer will not vse these when as without the hurt of his neighbour hee may the same man betrayeth his owne life and there lacketh little but that before God he is made a murtherer for by the same reason hee may despise meat and drinke rayment and housing trusting too much vnto his faith say if God will he can preserue me without all these things than the which folly this is yet greater that he which after this sort casteth off the care of his body he may hurt and infect others also and so through his negligence he may purchase the blame of a murderer Some men indeed doe as foolish men doe in a common firing which will not come and helpe the Citie but let the fire alone that the whole Citie might be burned namely vpon this trust doubtlesse if God will he can without water quench the fire But friend thou oughtest in no wise so to deale Nay it is vnlawfull and shameful which thou perswadest thy self but rather vse remedies and Medicines and do whatsoeuer any way may helpe perfume thine house orchard or street flie the infected places and so behaue thy selfe as one willing to quench not to maintaine this open fire Againe it followeth in the same Treatise If Sathan by the will of God either by himselfe or his Ministers hath wrought vs this deadly Infection I on the other side before all things will pray vnto God that of his mercy he will take away the same from vs then I will put to my simple helping hand both by perfuming and cleansing of the ayre by vsing of medicines and also in shunning the infection where my presence is not necessarie Lest I might seeme my selfe to haue neglected some thing or to be cause of death vnto others who through my negligence may take harme But if God neuerthelesse will haue mee visited with this sicknesse or call me out of this world vnto his Kingdome yet I haue not done but that which was my dutie neither haue I offended in any thing either against my selfe or my neighbour but where my seruice is needfull there I will let passe nothing of all things which either can or ought to be done of me Behold this is that Godly faith indeed which doth nothing rashly neither tempteth God in any thing Thus then I conclude when thou shalt haue wisely considered and discerned the causes of the Pestilence then turn to God as the Prophet biddeth with all thine heart Ioel. 2.12 with fasting with weeping and with mourning and flee a loft by faith into the secret place almightie shadow and blessed protection of the Lord and there rest patiently as vnder his holy wings euer praying for the increase of faith and patience that thou mayst quietly waite and depend vpon God and for a good Conscience that so thou maist auoide false foolish and wicked feares and cheerefully stand in thy place and carefully call for the Protection of the mighty blessed and holy Angels and for the communion and presence of Iesus Christ so shalt thou chase far away the wicked and vncleane Spirits which are sent of God to poysen and destroy men with the Pestilence And Lastly when thou

keepeth vs from the Princes court Let not feare keepe vs from the court of heauen Nehem 2● Nehemiah although hee held the cup to the King yet how fearefull hee was to make a request vnto him But as for you O ye righteous soules feare yee not O you little flocke for it is your fathers pleasrue to giue you a Kingdome Luk. 12. Further in time of contagion not only the court but also the other cities townes and villages will not often lodge them that come from contagious places either the Lord of the soile or the magistrate of those places forbidding it but as for that heauenly Ierusalem and the Lord of the liuing thervnto euery one may resort the Lord and magistrate of heauen doth not interdict it Dauid cried vnto the Lord and said thou art my portion in the land of the liuing Psal 142.5 At Rome the housen of the Aediles were alwaies open for all men that they might resort thither to haue their causes heard and so is the house of the Lord for the afflicted soules In some places there are appointed as I my selfe haue seene watchmen with halbards to aske the passengers from whence they come and sometimes to keepe out those that come from infected places but in our going to this place we need not to haue such feare for as Chrysostome saith Hic non est miles assistens qui expellat here there is no Sergiant or Soldier to keepe thee out If the cities of the earth shut their gates before thee thou canst not enter As for that heauenly Ierusalem it is not lockt and although it were prayer as Augustine speaketh is a key to open heauen to bring thee to the presence of God Serm. 226. detemp the Towne and Villages in times of infection although they receiue some yet they will not harbour many and often there is no place for multitudes but so is it not with the name of Iehouah with this strong tower it is not like vnto the bulwarkes of mortall men into the which if too many enter they will hinder one another this fortresse can receiue millions and millions without any impediment Further the temple is also interdicted to the infected for they are commanded by the magistrate to keepe their housen for a time or if they come they are entreated to sit a side but the Lords holy temple aboue in heauen is not forbidden vnto the infected nor to any man it is lawfull for them to go thither and pray and that with the successe of Dauid Psal 18. In my trouble I did call vpon the Lord and cried vnto my God and he heard my voyce out of his Temple 6. A place neere vnto the Citie Sixtly some make a choyse in the plague time of a place which is neere whereunto they may easily goe without any great trouble or cost the name of the Lord is such a place compendious to cut off vnnecessarie labours yee need not to runne farre the Lord is neere as the Prophet speaketh to all them that call vpon him neither will it cost vs any thing mony or merites intercession of friends or gifts Poore men yee that want friendes or money and therefore cannot prouide your selues a place be not dismaide behold here is a place which will cost you nothing It is a place whereunto we may go at all times at dinner time and at supper as Chrysostome speaketh in the day time and at mid-night in thy health and in thy sicknesse the sicke man may ly downe vpon his bed and goe vnto it and when with King Ezekiah he cannot vse the feet of the flesh yet may he vse the feet of the spirit In a moment we can flie thither for as soone as we haue finished our prayer we are alreadie come to this place and to the Lord of this soyle our prayer and God meeting one another in heauen as Iesus Christ and the woman at the Well Ioh. 4. As for earthly places whereunto men resort either they are far off vneasie to goe vnto and that with trouble and cost or expences sometimes we are stopped we must haue Warrants and Certificates of the Parish Church-wardens that our house is not infected before we can be admitted all this trouble we need not in the time of plague in our going to the name of the Lord nothing will stop vs the bodily plague shall be no impediment for wee haue a warrant that we may passe the King of heauen his warrant in the 50. Psalme Call vpon me c. The warrant of the infected and therefore this place is better then the earthly where the fearefull sonnes of men dwell which feare the apparrel houshold-stuffe yea and thy letters I know nothing then to stop our passage but the plague of the soule as the Lord of this soyle telleth vs in the 2. Cor. 6.17 Touch none vncleane thing and I will receiue you Obiection But I heare the weake conscience obiect I am infected with the plague of the soule and therefore it is not lawfull for me to call vpon the name of the Lord it is for the righteous as Salomon speaketh but alas I am vnrighteous and how can I therefore go vnto this strong tower The answer is Answer for thy comfort O weake conscience that Salomon speaketh not of them that are righteous by their owne righteousnesse but by the righteousnes of Christ Iesus such are all the faithful in whose mortall bodies the plague of sin doth not remaine their infirmities being healed by Dauids Physician Psal 103. If yee desire a certificate thereof you haue the Gospell subscribed and sealed by God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost If yee desire a witnesse ye haue a threefold witnesse The spirit the water and the bloud 1. Ioh. 5.8 7. A place where we may haue a Physician Lastly wee make choyse of such places where if need be we may haue good Physicians for we esteeme it a great miserie to be destitute of a good Physician and of meanes to helpe vs in our neede The place of refuge whereunto Dauid fled and wee also ought to flie following his direction hath the best Physician which is both in heauen or earth God the Father King Dauids Physician who hath both health and sicknesse life and death in his power to dispose of them for our good and saluation knocke therefore boldly with the hand of prayer and repentance at the gate of his mercie and thrust in his hands both thy life and health And thus much for the qualities and properties of the place To pray for others is also requisite Further we haue to obserue that Dauid went not to this place of refuge alone but with his whole family for he prayed with the Elders of the people for the people and for the deliuerance of his whole kingdome Herein imitate King Dauid remember in thy prayer thy whole family and the state of the whole kingdome the Tribe of Iudah and

for our soules and bodies and deserue a commendation both by God and other nations and thereby giue occasion vnto the Lord to shew his omnipotent power in the ceasing of the plague and to doe an act in England conuenient to his nature and glorious to his holy name And as Iacob wrestled with the Angel and would not let him goe vntill he had receiued the blessing So let vs as it were striue with the Lord by our prayers and let him not goe vntill he haue heard vs in that which we aske of him in this afflicted time Let our prayers be now as the showers of the raine if the first showre faileth of watering the earth sufficiently the second the third or the fourth wil fulfill the thirst thereof Let vs be like vnto the widow Luk. 18 and our importunitie will draw him vnto audience but yet let vs hold a better opinion of the Iudge of the world then of a common vulgar friend It delighted his eares to heare our redoubled obsecrations and he suspendeth our desires in expectation that we should be importunate to craue The bodily Physician cannot away with the importunate patient but God Habak 2.3 King Dauids Physician loueth the importunate prayer more acceptable is to him the end of our prayer then the beginning I would the children of light were as wise in their generation as the wodden Priests 1. Reg. 18. who cried long to Baal yea cut themselues with kniues that they might be heard and what ought not wee then doe to obtaine our suite Let nothing then mooue vs to returne but as the King of the Philistines 1. Sam. 6. though they had Calues at home yet they kept the straight way to Bethshemesh and held one path turning neither to the right nor to the left hand neither euer stood still till they came into the field of Iosuah So in our going to the name of Iehouah the affection of our soules bearing the Arke and coffer of our suite though it hath worldly allurements to draw it backe as the Kine had Calues yet let it in the way to the house of God as they to Bethshemesh hold one path of perseuerance turning neither to the right or left hand with wandring cogitations till it commeth into the field and garden of God and there let it remaine Many heretofore hauing not continued in the Countrey in their hasty returning haue fallen sicke and died So many hauing not continued in this strong bulwarke haue endangered both body and soule And thus much hitherto of the second part The third part containing the houshold stuffe which we must carrie vnto that place There followeth now the third and the last which openeth vnto vs the houshold-stuffe which we must carrie with vs thither noted in the word Righteous As they which goe in the country in the time of plague carrie with them their houshold-stuffe their furniture and those things which are necessarie for their bodies and as Noah entring the Arke carried with him necessaries so likewise in our going to this place we must carrie with vs those things which are necessary for our soules that wee may be receiued by the Lord of that soyle and without which we cannot goe thither There are fiue peeces of spirituall houshold-stuffe which are necessary for vs noted in the word Righteous 1. Repentance The first is Repentance and holines of life for hee that is righteous giueth himself to righteousnes And this furniture carried with him Dauid 2. Sam. 24.11 As they which goe in the country haue their reasons why they carrie with them such and such necessaries So giue me leaue in the opening of this furniture to shew you also the reasons which must moue vs to carie them with vs. As for this first the first reason is the prescriptiō of the spiritual Physicians 2. Tim. 2.19 it is the Apostles precept Let euery one that calleth on the name of Christ depart from iniquitie The second is that we may be receiued for the righteous Lord loueth righteousnesse his countenance doth behold the iust Psal 11 7. His eyes are vpon the righteous and his eares open to their cry but his face is against them that doe euill Psal 66.18 to cut off their remembrance from the earth Psal 34.15.16 If I regarde wickednesse in my heart saith Dauid the Lord will not heare me For as Salomon testifieth the Lord is farre off from the wicked but he heareth the prayer of the righteous Prou. 15.29 Draw therefore neere to God and he will draw neere to you cleanse your handes ye sinners and purge your hearts ye wauering minded Prou. 28.9 Iam. 4.8.9 The third is that the bodily plague may cease for how dare we approach vnto the Lord to craue that it might be remooued and yet carie with vs the inward cause thereof let the Physicians maxime heere preuaile remooue the cause that the effect may cease Let vs not as the sonnes of Iacob bring into the presence of our father Psal 59. the garment of Ioseph which we our selues haue be blooded As Aaron could not come before the Lord before he was washed so let vs not go vnto him before we haue cleansed ourselues from infection of the soule And as Iacob Gen. 42. exhorted his sonnes when they were going to Ioseph carry with you the best fruits of the land and giue them him so let vs in our going to the true Ioseph Iesus Christ carrie with vs the best fruites of our hearts to offer vp the sacrifice of our prayers leauing our corrupt affections as Abraham left behinde him at the foot of the hil his asses I conclude this first point with the saying of Chrysostome as in a garland it is not enough that the flowers be pure and cleane but the hand also which handleth them so it is not sufficient that the words of our prayers be holy but the heart also which conceiueth them 2. Faith The second piece of houshold-stuffe Faith for the righteous is also hee that beleeueth in Christ and is righteous through the righteousnes of Christ the righteous 1. Sam. 24. This furniture carried Dauid with him for as hee had a desire of health and remission of his sinne so hee had also a stedfast faith and confidence that it should be forgiuen him This persuasion of deliuerance and hope of obtaining we must haue with vs enterteining it in our hearts The reasons are first the prescription of the spirituall Physicians it is the Apostles precept Iam. 1.6 Let him aske in faith and wauer not And in the fourth to the Heb. 16. that we should goe boldely to the throne of grace drawing neere vnto him with a true heart in assurance of faith Heb. 10.22 casting not away that confidence which hath recompence of reward Vers 35. t is the counsaile of Christ Mar. 11.24 Secondly carrie it with thee that thou maist receiue that for which thou goest vnto him faithfully Psal 145.18

hast vsed all the meanes before shewed for thy spirituall comfort and helpe thou must neglect no ordinance nor helpe of God in nature both for thy cure and preseruation The wicked indeed inuert and peruert this order as did Asa and therefore no meruell if they receiue often a curse insteed of a blessing for if Physicke giue them health of body their soules notwithstanding are neuer cured or made any better by their chasticements but they daily gather more strength to commit sinne with boldnesse LEt the Rich seeke for the godly wise and learned Physician and take heede of wicked ignorant bold Empyricks which kill many men and yet feare nothing because they be not called to their accompts according to good Lawes for this cause prouided And let the poorer sort with good aduise and counsell if they can haue any vse Maister Phaers medicines in his short but learned Treatise of the Pestilence which hee wrote of purpose for the benefit and comfort of the Poore I haue added a few medicines of Master Phaers which may serue at a need and by Gods grace do some good when better counsell is wanting A most precious Electuary against the Pestilence for the Rich. TAke Cynamome elect one ounce Terra sigillata 6. drams fine Mirre 3. drams Vnicorns horne one dram the seed and rind of Citron roots of Dyptany Burnet Tormentille Zedoary red Corall ana drams two yellow Saunders 4. scruples red Saunders 2. scruples White bene and red Flowers of Marygolds ana one dram Iuory raced Scabious Betonice Offininis tunicae appellatae seed of Basile the bone of a Stags Heart Saffron ana two scruples make a fine powder and ad vnto it of Bole Armoniake Preparate two ounces White sugar three pound and with a Syrup of Acetociate Citri make a goodly Electuary and keepe it in a Glasse Or this forme with lesse cost and quantitie Take of the roots of Dictamu tormentil bole armonick Prepared that is washed with water of Sabious Terra figillata ana 6. drams of the root of Gentian and of the root of butter-burre of Betonie called in the shops Betonice tunica Ana 2. scruples red Sanders one scruple Iuerie raced the barke of Citron of red Corall of the bone of a Stags heart of tho root of Zedoary ana halfe a dram of most pure Pearles of both kinds of been ana 2. scruples Fragmentorum quinque lapidum pretiosorum ana one scruple Amber good Vnicornes horne ana halfe a scruple of Gold and Siluer leaues three of each mingle all these and make a fine powder If the Pestilence come with great excesse of heat take one dram and drinke it vp in Rose water and Vineger but if you feele it cold take it in a draught of White Wine and couer you with clothes so that you may sweat as long as is possible for without doubt it is a present remedie as I my selfe haue oftentimes proued For the Poore the best I find is this TAke the root called Petasites in Latine in English Butter-burre growing by the water-side drie it and make fine powder of it and giue it the sicke If the Pestilence commeth with heat take 3. drams of it in Rose-water and Vineger but if it come with a cold giue it in a draught of Wine and cause the partie to sweat as long as he or she can well endure it If a Botch appeare to ripen it TAke Mallowes and the roots of Holyhoke and Onions as much as shall suffice wash them and seeth them in water and afterward bray them in a Morter with powder of Linseed Fenugreke and a good quantitie of Swines grease fresh laying on the plaister euery day once To breake the Botch SOme lay on it a Plaister made of Figges which was King Hezekiahs plaster and therefore not to be despised adde sowre leauen and Raisins without Kernels brayed and incorporate altogether in oyle of Camomill To mundifie the Botch AFterward mundifie thesore with a salue made of yelkes of Egges fine Barley flower and a little Honey or oyle of Roses For incarnation of the place LAst of all for the perfect incarnation Take the iuice of Daises and with a little waxe make a soft ointment and vse it or you may lay thereto an other salue incarnatiue as yee are wont to doe in other cleane sores LONDON LOOK-BACKE The Description of the late great memorable and prodigious Plague 1625. ⸪ GOod God! what poison lurkd in that first fruict Whose surfet left vs wretches prostitute To such a world of sorrow Not confin'd Onely to teare and cruciate the minde With sad remembrance of the blisse wherein We might haue liu'd but see the cruell Sin Spares not our soules weake houses both doth spred From viler parts vnto the nobler head A thousand Maladies which now alas Through each small In-let of the Bodie passe Remorslesse Enemies and batter downe The clayie bulwarkes of our Mud-wall'd towne Our throat is like that vast breach which doth bring In like the Troian Horse dire surfetting When in the Stomach like the Market-place The foes let loose dare spred themselues and trace Through all the Citie some are ready first To breake the Sluces which doe raging burst And drowne low buildings some with flaming brands Fire holy Temples some with Swords in hands Sharpe-pointed-Iauelins Malls and poisonous darts Make Massacres through all the trembling parts Of the distressed Fabricke no controll Can barre'em but they will assault the Soule It selfe almost while each small-breathing Pore Betrayes vnto the foe a Posterne Dore To enter in at euery crawling veyne Affords him harbour and doth Entertaine The bloudie Enemie each Muscle Nerue And Filme makes him a Fortresse to preserue His longer Durance till the guest at last With ruine payes his Host for all that 's past How many such foes thinke you secret lye When hundreds of them ambush in one Eye Which is the Lanthorne and the Watch and Light Keepes Centurie for all the Bodies Night As soone may I exactly number all The fainting leaues that in an Autumne fall The Creatures of the Summer or the Store Of wilder insects which old Nilus shore Each yeare produceth as with Iudgement show How many fierce and bold diseases flow Vpon this wretched Carkasse when each yeare New troupes of raging Feuers domineere That know no name Each boy can nigh expresse Diseases now to Pose Hippocrates Happy that age of gold not onely cause It had no vice and so no need of Lawes When Nature was their Solon and the want Of Knowledge to doe ill did make them Ignorant Of the Redresse not bless'd alone in this Although the ayre and earth increas'd their blisse But that an able Bodie was combin'd In a sweet friendship with a harmelesse mind They knew no Physicke though their drugs did grow Then in full vertue able to bestow Health on this age because they Knew not how To get those Sicknesses which men Know now The Ague with a hundred names the Aches More than the