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A01801 The Kings medicine for this present yeere 1604 prescribed by the whole colledge of the spirituall physitions, made after the coppy of the corporall kings medicine, which was vsed in the city the former yeere. Giuen as a new yeers-gift, to the honorable city of London, to be taken in this yeere for the soule, as the other was for the bodie. Herevnto are intermixed, first, the wonders of the former yeer, his triumphs, two funeralls, two coronations, two preachers. Secondlie, Londons and Englands newyeers-gift, to offer vp vnto the Lord for his new-yeers-gift, containing King Dauids sacrificing after the ceasing of the pestilence, necessarie to teach vs the duty of our deliuerance. The whole collected out of the first book of Chr. ch. 21. / Made and vvritten by Iames Godskall, preacher of the vvorde. Godskall, James. 1604 (1604) STC 11936; ESTC S118768 100,652 208

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that his slaying Angell returne not The wise man Pro. 23.23 teacheth you wise mē wisedom giueth counsaile to you counsellers Buy the truth that is spare no cost to purchase truth but sel it not that is bee not hired for anie mony to forgoe the truth Set not your wisedōe eloquence conscience and all to sale Giue not sweet taste to the bitter sower with your sugred eloquēce Let not your fined tongues faire pretenses cunning gloses goodly circūstances of speech vphold bolster out the vniust cause Be not caught with birdlime for vnto this doth AVSTIN cōpare the receiuing of bribes by which your wings are pinioned so that ye can not flie Officers Iohn Baptist Luk. 3. giueth you a good lessō Be cōtēt with your stipēd vseno extortiō Principally 5. London it doth appeale vnto thee ô London which hast suffered the greatest brunt in this assault least the lords Angell returne again offer vp vnto him which hath shewen thee mercy this new yeers gift as you haue bin diligēt the former yeere to take in the Kings medicine for the body so be not now negligent to take in the Kings medicine for the soule A certain heathen man after that he had seen a suddain shipwrack of all his worldly goods and had bin exercised with diuerse afflictions brake forth into these speeches wel fortune I see thy intent thou wouldest haue me become a philosopher euen so ô Londō hauing receiued the old yeer a shipwrack of thousands of thy subiectes and hauing bin visited with much bitternes say vnto the almighty wel lord I see thine intēt thou wouldst haue me to becom zealous religious to enter into a meditatiō of the life to come Let both Nehemias Daniel magistrat minister within thy wals cōfesse their sins Let euery citizē in particular say as Ionas did I know that for my sake this great tēpest hath bin vpō you It is reported that the Delphiās had murthered Aesop had cōcealed their sin but being visited with mortality they begā to confesse it yea caused it to be proclamed by noise of criers that they had done it In like māner ô Londō hauing cōmitted diuerse sins hauing bin visited with mortality cōfesse thē now proclame thē reueale thē vnto the lord let the graues that shroude so many corpses let the tears of the widdows and desolate orphanes yet remaining mooue you vnto repētāce As the rod of Moses made water to proceed out of the rock so let the lords rod wring from our stonie hearts some drops of remorse The voice of the Lord Londons Echo spoken as it were from heauen hath bin heard within thy walls to mooue thee vnto repentance make now answere to this voice with a sweete resounding echo into heauen in this manner Thy voice I will heare and thy call I will obey Greatnesse will not stoupe but at great iudgements a great one thou hast felt the Lorde hath not onelie brused the heele of the body the poorer sorte but he hath reached the head the rich and mighty among vs. First yee the 24. elders apply this soueraigne balme to your sore Secondly Merchants from henceforth become christian merchauntes to buye the pearle of Gods word take Christ with you in your shippes that the tempeste of Gods anger arise not remember the shippe where IONAS was in and haue no fellowshippe with Atheistes papistes and prophane Esaus cleare your eies with the eiesalue of plaine dealing You that haue beene crushing Zacheus and gripple pennie fathers in this gold-sick age haue ripped vp your brethrens entrails for mony as Sāpson searched the lions carkasse for honie be no more wealth-deuouring vermins grind not the faces of your watrie-faced brethren breake off your crueltie as the Spinster doth her thread intending to drawe it out no longer Take heed Mich. 6. that the treasures of wickednesse be not found in your houses any more neither a scant measure which is abominatiō to the lord who iustifieth not the wicked balāces the bag of deceitfull waights Tradesmē labour not any more so much for the meat which perisheth but for the food which endureth for euer Ioh. 6. Citizēns in generall seeing the lord hath knocked at your proud palaces shake from you the setled lees of your long cōtinued iniquities and because two principall haue lodged within your wals walked along your streets pride gluttony cure them now according to the method of the kings medicin by two cōtraries humility tēperancy Put on the royal indumēt of Dauid which is humilitie and let not your daughters walk more with outstretehed neckes as the daughters of Sion Esa 3. Return not in the city you that are departed with your painted faces opē breasts monstrous verdingales long staring ruffes leaue thē behind infect not the city with them any more that they produce not againe the same effect Returne not with your superfluous feasts rather from henceforrh inuite Christ Iesus prepare him a feast by faith mercie Many of you haue been depriued a long time of the enioying of one anothers fellowship during the time of the pestilēce A profitable admonition but now being returned cōming togither again abuse not your meeting after this lōng separation by quaffing dācing banquetting spend it in the prayses of him who hath brought you home againe Drunkard search not out thy drunken cōpanion aske not whither he liueth to associate thy self with him Whoormonger seek not thy harlot carnall man for thy cōfederates renew not that wicked bād league take the last farwell of them cōmunicate no more with those vnfruiteful workes of darknesse Eph. 5.11 We haue feared the former yeer to draw our breath in the streets least wee should haue drawn in infection let vs this yeere fear to draw in the infection of sin The former yeer wee haue vsed followed many good orders to stay the bodily infectiō purged our housē clensed our streets perfumed our apparell had vpon our doors bils red crosses shūned infectious places let out the corrupted bloud abstained frō euil meats emptied our housen of dogs ayred thē with fire caried in our hands diuerse cōfections of art such more what ought wee not thē to do this yeer to stay the plague of sin Let vs purge our housē frō spiritual infectiō remoouing the false ballāce smal waights Spirituall orders to be followed this yeere in the citty coūterfait lights sweet words sowr deeds threasures of wickednes Let vs wash cleanse our streets frō pride swearing blaspheming perfume our apparel with modesty humility shun places infected with drūkards gluttōs adulterers Let vs haue vpon the doors of our harts other bils 1 the mark of the spirit rom 8.2 the blod of the lāb Of which we need not to be ashamed Let vs also let out the corrupted bloud of hate enuy concupiscēce abstaine frō the fleshpots garlicke of Aegypt Let vs