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A54962	The Plague checkt, or, Piety will either prevent or alter the property of the plague ... together with sundry other things in a letter written by a friend to sundry of his godly friends ... with respect to the present times ...		1665 (1665)	Wing P2336; ESTC R8032	44,854	85

and momentous The Lion hath roared who will not tremble The Lord hath spoken who can Prophesie Besides let my maine designe I drive plead for me which is Non ad captundam sed ad exprimendam benevolentiam promovendam fidem resipiscentiam not to catch at mans respect and esteem others know how little I deserve it and I know it as well as they My Reverend Brethren can give me my price and so can I of myself its low by agreement on all hands onely I have this to say for my self I am of a self-discouraging Spirit and disposition and cannot put forth my self amongst my betters as some can I think I have been a little disadvantaged upon that accounts but it matters not And if I be a foole in thus expressing my self I say as Paul Beare with me a little in my folly and indeed bear with me It may be further said that I prefix a Title which the following discourse Answers not till toward the last other matters are agitated first and that that suites the Title comes up in the rear To that I say t is true but most of the matters held forth refer to the present sad Providence and have a tendency to promote a due improving and a happy removing of the Plague Besides the Title Page signifies that there are sundry other things held forth besides a Check given to the Plague One thing more in Nature as we say in Schooles that which is Primum in intentione is Vltimum in executione that which is first in intention and purpose prove last in execution and performance why not so here Again it may be you seem to discover a male-contented spirit with respect to the present Times and administrations To that I say I am better known then to be ill affected to Magistratical Government I have all along pleaded and pressed submission to Kings and Magistrates and such as are in Authority over us and that for Conscience sake onely wish that the greatest severity might not proceed against such as desiring to act according to a judicious and well informed Conscience cannot and that meerly out of tendernesse come up in all circumstantials to answer magistratical impositions I meddle not at all with the Laws and Statutes but touch with gentlenesse upon the executive part and those who are betrusted therewith who possibly may not act from that culmnesse and composednesse of Spirit and with that gentlenesse and tendernes that were to be wished especially toward such as would be glad with all their hearts to come up to the most full and compleat subjection that is required and have otherwise learned Christ then to allow themselves in any turbulency or Seditiousnesse of Spirit any immoriterousnesse and refractorinesse contrary to the word of God and inconsistent with a good conscience ●f it be said that I take upon me to deal with persons in the publick Ministry and others also and to advise and counsel them and am I not too busily medling this way too much assuming I say I have been a publick Preacher as well as they and I could give account what approbation I have found from such as have been of highest rank in their way and of their perswasion but I forbear And though I am farr very farr short of their Parts and Abilities yet I may compare with them for years being now an aged man and why may I not be permitted to suggest somwhat to them in a way of Counsel and Advise Job would not despise the Counsel of a Servant If it be said I plead the cause of meeknesse and earnestly presse it but discover a sharp and tart Spirit c. I say that meeknesse and sharpnesse as the occasion may be are not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but may very well consist together Moses and Paul were Eminent and most Exemplary for their Meekness but yet could be hot and quick and did as the Cause required shew themselves men of mettle full of zeal And who would not be zealous very zealous when Athiesme and Prophaness do so Impetuously break in upon us as a Flood When there is so much dishonour done to God such indignities offered to Christ and his Grace such a spirit of Malignity and desperate Opposition made and manifested against the power of Godlinesse Once more it may be said I appear too friendly to Fanaticks I say there are that are so called that are not so indeed I would the definition of such a one were genuinly and properly draw up and given out according to truth and let them wear the Coat that it best fits Let me ever be a Cordial friend to such as fear God honour the King minde real godlinesse and study to expresse the power of it walk circumspectly labour to keep Faith and a good Conscience and their Garments of holy Profession close about them clean upon them not being spotted by the world that make it their daily care to walk with God as Enoch and Abraham did to approve themselves to Christ to keep clear of sin and closs to the ways of holiness making it their design when others shall be found to shame and dishonour they may be found to praise and glory in the appearing and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and such as these the world will hate Maligne Persecute and judge the scum off-scouring of men so Paul and his companions were accounted 1 Cor. 4. 13. We are made the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Purganienta the Excrementa as Erasmus renders the Word Thus I say the World will count them and it cannot do no otherwise blinde besotted World as it is But it matters not God will love them Christ will own them and honour them their Consciences will befriend them and if God love it matters not who hate if Christ be for us it matters not who be against us if the Scriptures be on our side it matters not who rise up in opposition if Conscience be a friend we need not passe though the World be our enemy and all the devils of hell too as to be sure they will They are in the saddest condition that have God and Christ and Conscience and Scriptures against them I have often thought and said it were better for a man to have an Army of Ten Thousand men in Battel array against him then to have one Text of Scripture against him and so might I say of a Saints Prayer My Brethren and Friends I have Done t is a poor Do such as it is accept I told you in the beginning ●he desire of a man is his kindness If I have done anything tending to the glory of my dearest God my Sweetest and most Pretious Jesus any thing that may conduce to the promoting any benefit to your Souls or any other it s enough Now to him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultlesse before the presence of his Glory with exceeding Joy to the onely wise God our Saviour be Glory and Majesty Dominion and Power now and ever Amen FINIS I. am 1. 1. 2. 3. 6. 20. 22. cap. 1. 8. cap. 3. 42. 9. cap. 2. 14. cap. 4. 13. 16. Cap. 3. 39. 40. 41. 42. 28 29. 19. Levit. 26 41 Isaias 26. 9. 1 Kin. 8. 38. Joh. 5 14. Ps 85 8. Lam. 3. 21. 22 23. 24 25 26. Psal 80. 4. Psal 66 5. Psal 75. 8. Deut. 32. 41. Psa 7. 13 14 Deut. 32. 41 Ps 91. Job 34. 31 32. Psal 116. 3 Psal 94. 18 17. Psal 116. 7 9. Psal 6. 4. 5. Isaiah 38. 19 20.

shall be peace exactors righteousness and very much to that purpose the whole chapter is full of marrow and fatness it drops like the dropping of a honey comb the 21. and 22. Chapters of the Revelations also speak at a very high rate and tell us of new Jerusalem comming down from heaven as a bride made ready for her husband Of a City that shall be of a glorious constitution and that all things shall be made new and very much to this purpose which I conceive doth as the other passages before mentioned referr to a state in this life I cannot but mention the second of Peter chap. 3. We according to his promise look for a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness and scripture which I have cause to remember with a most thankfull acknowledgment of a mercifull providence ordered out to my self When I had preached over the whole Chapter to that Verse and had ingaged to the verse and preached one Sermon upon it and had a more numerous multitude of Auditors Ministers and others then ordinary upon the account of the Argument which the Text led me unto After I had preached that Sermon which was at seven of the clock in the morning of the Lords-Day according to my ordinary course that very day there was some disturbance in the City and it is known what was performed by them and what after proceeding there was on the part of the Powers then in being ingaged I then was to the prosecution of the Text the next Lords day it was apprehended that it was no way safe for me to proceed in the discourse but that it was my wisest course either wholy to wave it or at least to intermitt the prosecution of it for a time I disputed the matter within my self commended my cause to God in a way of Prayer and thereupon I judged thus that if I should baulke my Text which I had handled in part and was falln upon in course having preached upon the whole foregoing part of the Chapter I should do great disservice to my Lord and Master and cast the whole Congregation under disappointment which would expect to hear what I had further to say upon the point and it would turn to my prejudice so to do I brake by the help of grace the force of the temptation proceeded in my course gave some tollerable satisfaction to my Auditors had some good approbation of my Labour and all was well very well I had peace the people profit but this by way of digression For the apprehension and opinion concerning a more glorious State of the Church here on earth I own it and conceive that the Scriptures alleadged with multitudes more give abundant ground for it For the opinion concerning the Thousand Years and the personal reign of Christ I know it hath great patronage from learned and godly men Others are of a different apprehension and judg it to be more proper to interpret the fore alleadged Scriptures of a glorious estate in the world to come In the heaven of glory I mean Whatever the difference between them be and however the interpretation proceeds I wish there may be no litigant spirit among the learned and godly concerning it knowing that it is Melius dubitare de occultis quàm litigare de incertis as was the speech of Austin of old and whatever our expectations be whether of a more glorious estate here on earth or of a perfect estate of glory in heaven let you and me set our hearts to make the best preparation we can for the appearance of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ and that we may appear with some suteableness to the future productions of former predictions for may we not think there will be occasion to say with respect to the performan ce of these things which are purposed concerning the Church of God in a way of mercy and grace and to cry out as Balaam did with respect unto dreadfull productions in a way of judgment and severity as in Numbers 22 23. alas who shall live when God doth this and what will it avail us to see new Jerusalem coming down from heaven as a bride in her beauty and bravery and our selves found in a state of deformity and beggery in rotten raggs to have New Jerusalems L●ght and Glory breaking out and have neither eye to see it nor shoulders to bear up under the weight of it to have all things made new and nothing of newness of heart to have the marriage of the Lamb kept and we no wedding garments to be found on us There is a letter lately come forth to publick view bearing the Earl of Marleboroughs name which I had an account of by a manuscript I hear it is now in Print whether with any variations and amplification I cannot say what I heard I judged Primo auditu to be Verbum Scriptum viro nobili dignum he therein asserting pleading the reallity substantiality of Religion and Godliness which many too many at this day most impudently insolently audaciously in suam perniciem give judgment upon as a meer fancy and humane device as if that Athistical spirit had a stamp of truth upon it Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor fear and fancy have given the first being to God and Religion and so they sleight it disgust it decry it making nothing of it O! Monsters of men in quibus ne mica sanae mentis ne granum salis men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith as Paul speaks is it not my friends a time for God to work when men make void his Law Psalm 119. and not onely his Law his Institutions and appointments but himself and his very being too Is it not time for God to appear and awake to Judgment after a long time of silence and his seeming to be a sleep to vindicate and plead his Name his Cause his World his Worships as now he hath begun to do no wonder that at this day he answer us out of the Whirl-winde as he did his servant Job who had made a little too bold with God that now he hath drawn his Sword and bent his Bow put his Arrows upon the string and let them fly on every side and what would we have him to do tell me my friends for I would be willing to know what entertainment this Letter of the Earls finds how it takes on one side or other especially on the part of the Grandees Gentry what judgment they make of it and whether it be a Ludibrium or a Documentum a matter of scorn or a Scholiast by which they are willing to be animadverted upon both as to their persons and manners whether they slight it and set light by it as stramineu● quid stercorcum quid the issue of a fanatick friendlike brain or to be solid and judicious of a profitable improvment and such as hath a tendencie to move and provoke men to consider more seriously of