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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

in the entrie of the New-yeere which are as it were foure Preachers to Preach vnto vs the doctrine of Repentance The olde yeere hath bene a yeere of wonders as fitly I may tearme it Witnesse the strange alterations like vnto the variable estate of the Moone As King AHASHVEROSH called to minde out of the booke of Records and the Chronicles the things fore-past Euen so call to your mindes out of the booke of your memories and the Chronicle of the former yeere the thinges which then haue hapned The Lorde hath visited vs the former yeere at diuerse times with foure visitations In the beginning in the middest in the ende Two of them are visitations of sorrow two of joye Two of them haue beene Funeralles two haue bin deliuerances and Coronations Two haue concerned a Prince two a Princely City These haue ben diuersly intermingled sorrow and joye haue followed and kissed each other Sorrow hath begunne the yeere joye hath ended it both joye and sorrow haue walked in the middest To particularize 1 A visitation of sorrowe with the funerals of a Noble Princesse The first hath bene a visitation of sorrowe and the funeralles of a Prince in the beginning of the yeere the Lord first visiting with sicknesse and afterwardes taking away that Noble Princesse of famous memorie that worthie instrument of Gods glory by whose sacred Scepter the faithful Protestant aswel we strangers as the natural inhabitants haue found a secure and fertile nurcery At that time ô the sighes of the righteous ô the cōplaints of the godly ô the feare doubting of many Spemque metumque inter dubij some fearing some hoping 2 Chro. 35 Then as IOSIAS was mourned for by all IVDAH and Ierusalem and IEREMY mourned for IOSIAS al singing men and singing women Euen so all the cōpanies and Orders of the Realme the Princes and the prophets plentifully watered their cheekes euen from the honourable counsailor to him that grindeth at the Mill. This began a little to mooue vs as it were to taste the medicine of repentance for the death of a good Prince is one of the Lords Preachers to make many at that time to pray vnto the Lord that hee would be mindfull of Sion and not permit vs to fall againe in the superstitions of the Antichrist This part of the tragedy ended behold there followed the second alteration the visitation of ioy and mercie the proclamation of a new Prince and afterward his ioyfull Coronation At that time ô the admirable ioy euen from Dan to Bershebah 2 A visitation of ioy with the Proclamation and Coronation of a new Prince from th' one part of the land to the other for this heauenly gift of a noble renowned godly Religious vertuous wise learned Prince a man after Gods own heart and vnfeignedly I may speak a man after our owne heart long desired and wished for in the hearts of the Godly subjects true professours Sorrow in the first visitation was as it were a heauy stone vpon our hearts but in the second visitation hee hath as it were sent an Angell from heauen to speake to the whole Kingdome Feare not In the first the whole land was as it were laid down in the bed of sorrow but by the second there arose a new Sun whose beames were comfortable to the whole land This then hath bin another of the Lords Preach●rs But hath this mooued vs either to continue or to goe forward in the waies of the Lord alas wee haue not altered the colour or haire of our heads nor added one inch to our stature since all these thinges haue bin accomplished among vs our hearts haue bene as the adamant that the impiession of Gods graces haue not entred And therefore there followed the third visitation of sorrow lamentation the deluge of the Pestilence the second Funerall The funeralls of whole families and the funeralles of a Princely Cittie which was as it were going to her graue if the Lord in his mercy had not commaunded his Angel to put vp his sword into the scabberd this was an other kinde of Preacher The consideration of the second visitation 3 A newe visitation of sorrow with the funerals of a princely citie had made vs to say in our hearts with DAVID in his prosperitie Psa 30. I shall neuer be mooued The Pestilence of securitie did beginne to raigne among vs I doe appeale vnto the words speeches of the inhabitants which then were vsed in the Lande and therefore the Lord came and mingled our joy with sorrow sprinckled a little salt ouer the joy of the country and by a mortalitie hee did put vs in minde of our mortality As Christ shewed vnto PETER and the rest vpon the Mountaine when they were in the midst of their joye and that PETER said Let vs make heere three tabernacles as hee shewed I say to them MOSES and ELIAS which were dead men Euen so in the midst of our ioy and glory when wee were saying It is good to bee heere and to make our tabernacles heere euen then he shewed vnto vs MOSES and ELIAS and sent vs a mortallity It was vsuall amongst the Egiptians that in the middest of their feasts solemnities a resemblance of death all trembling and shaking was brought and carryed round about to make them remember it to learne sobrietie Euen so in the midst of our solemnities for the joye of a newe Prince death hath been carried round about the Land that we should not waxe to wanton and forget the Lord. It is storied that when the Emperours were crowned the Sepulchers of dead men were shewed vnto them to make them mindefull of death euen so when our King the former yeere was Crowned the Lord hath shewen vnto him and to vs the Sepulchers of dead men and by the continuall allarum of Bels put vs in minde of death which mindfulnesse as CASSiANVS an ancient writer speaketh is a generall restraint from euil Let this Preacher beloued of London teach you that as IOSEPH of Arimathea had a sepulchre in the midst of his beautiful garden euē so you ought in the midst your prosperity felicity to be mindful of your mortal being The fourth last visitatiō in the end of the yeere hath ben a visitation of joy a deliuerāce frō the Pestilēce as it were a second Coronation A newe visitation of ioy with a second Coronation a Coronation of your citie the Lord compassing it round about with joyful deliuerāce Ps 32. Ps 103.4 crowning it with his accustomed kindnes with mercy cōpassion But of this more at large in King DAVIDS sacrifycing To proceed I told you beloued before that the Lord by the smart-Preacher of his justice and anger hath crossed vs two maner of waies First punishing vs as it were by Retaliation for our glorying in the number and multitude with a diminution Secondly by contraries 2 The second thing where in

the Lorde hath crossed vs namely by contraries The first hitherto I haue amplifyed Now followeth the second obserue them with me how wonderfully the Lorde the former yeere by the deluge of the Pestilence hath in diuers things crossed our expectation First which wee had spoken Secondly expected Thirdly begunne First we had said and expected 1 Encrease of people was expected that the number and multitudes of people should haue bene augmented both in the citie and in the Land and behold there hath bene a just contrarie it hath bene diminished in both ô howe many thousandes haue bene buryed Howe haue the Church-yeardes beene filled vppe that scarce there was no place hath not the Lorde shewen the trueth of that threatning Ier. 7.32 They shall bury in Topheth till there be no place Secondly wee had said and expected that multitudes against the Coronation would come both in the citie and in the Land and beholde a contrary multitudes haue departed out of Both some leauing the citie others the Land Thirdly wee had expected that euen our streetes should haue bene filled with joyes and tryumphs 3 Tryumphs that therein we should haue shewen the signes thereof and behold a contrary they haue bene filled with sorow mourning weeping howling for the funerals which haue walked along them These haue bene the tryumphs of LONDON We expected in our streetes the sound of the Trumpets The tryumphs of the last yere and the sweete harmonie of Musicke to welcome our Prince and behold in steede of them wee haue heard a contrary musicke the continuall knels of Belles to welcome death we expected shewes of tryumphs behold other shewes we haue seene the funerals of dead men who were gone to tryumph in heauen We had begun to builde towards heauen almost as high as the builders of Babell euery one for highest and finest ô the great preparations and diligence in their building and erecting But behold a suddaine alteration a stay of their worke where some had set vp others plucke downe and as the builders of Babel haue bene dispersed euen so ours haue bene scattered Some are dead and some yet left a liue The Lord hath sent some of them from their downe-beds to their dust-beds And as the arrow came suddainly from IEHV his bowe and stroke IORAM euen in his Chariot 2. Reg. 9.28 euen so the Pestilence the Lordes flying arrow Psal 91. hath strooke some euen in the midst of their tryumph he changed our glorie into shame Hos 4.7 and fulfilled that threatning by the Prophet Ier. 7.34 I will cause to cease from the cities of Iudah and from the streetes of Ierusalem the voice of myrth and the voice of gladnesse So that with HESECHIAS Esa 38.17 Thou hast ô London had occasion to say Behold for felicitie I had bitter griefe but it was thy pleasure to deliuer my soule from the pit of corruption Fourthly wee had expected profite Profite and that the traficke should haue flourished moreouer that now we should haue aduentured where before many kept themselues close and durst not How many had brought vp great store of pretious wares thinking that neuer they had had such a time and yet beholde a contrarie the traffick both of the mother-citie of the daughters of the head and of the members hath bene slacke doings little or none no aduenturing litle paying wares esteemed better thē debts and euery one keeping close so that wee haue had occasion to vse the saying of the Prophet Iere. 8.15 We looked for peace but no good came and for a time of health and beheld troubles Further we expected that our shops shold haue bin open in that ioyfull time which were furnished with great riches against the future triumph thinking to reape great profit and beholde a contrary many haue bin lockt vp by reason of a double departure of some out of the citty of others out of this world The Lord hath taken away from vs our markets and faires the greatest stayes of the common wealth and from thee ô London that renowned BARTHOLEMEVV faire and the sportes thereof wrastling and Shooting and insteed of them there haue bin wrastling against death the Lords Angels shooting off the Lords arrowes Psal 91. The reason of this all hath been because the Lord would haue vs profit not by our cōmodities but by his chastisements It is reported that the mountaines which are full of golden mines that they are commonly barren and vnfruitefull we by reason of our riches were vnfruitefull and barren in good workes therefore the Lord by his rod would make vs fruitfull and to reape profit for our soules Lastly many had made preparatiōs against the future tryumph to adorne themselues and to meete their Prince and beholde a contrarie some of them haue been adorned with a shrouding sheete and so are gone to meete another Prince in another kingdome to tryumph eternally It hath fallen out ô London with thee and thy inhabitantes as with the Emperour SALADINVS after he had gotten great victories and had tryumphed fell sicke had nothing carried before him to his graue then a shrouding sheete what else haue had many of your inhabitantes Thus then beloued the Lord hath spiced your great ioyes cōceiued in the beginning of the yeere with sorrow and bitternesse If you would know the reason that you shold not forget eyther the Lord or your selues for if you had surfeted of pleasure and receiued to much good it would haue bin as an introduction to worse to come When tydings was brought to PHILLIP of Macedon First that PARMENIO got the victorye ouer his ennemies Secondly ALEXANDER his son was borne And thirdly his Chariots wonne the prize at Olympus all in one day he called vpon fortune to doe him some little hurt to spice his ioyes with bitternesse that they should not make him forget himselfe Euen so ô England seeing that thou hast first obtained a vertuous Prince a wonder of the world secondly victories ouer thy enemies of Ireland thirdly aboundance of Corne and fruits of the earth and that all in one yeere it hath been good that the Lord hath done thee some little hurte and spyced thy joyes with bitternesse that thou shouldest not forget thy selfe That the Lord then hath thus crossed our expectations by contraries to what shall we ascribe it but to this that wee haue crossed his expectation by our sinnes I may vse the Apostles saying 1. Cor. 11. For this many among you are sicke many are dead The Lord of Hoastes hath dealt with thee ô England as TAMBERLAINE the Great in his besieging of cities First he erected white Tents in token of mercy if they would render themselues Secondly if they remained obstinate he erected red Tents in signe of blood Thirdly whē that preuailed no he erected black tents in signe of death Euen so the Monarcke of the worlde hath first erected among vs the white Tents of mercy by the

preacheth also the Lords mercie to England and that in two things First that he hath not sent vnto vs the whole Trinitie of chastisements propounded vnto DAVID Secondly In that he hath not sent the heauiest of them three First our sins did deserue them all three together 1 Of the trinitie sending but one the famine and scarcitie of good workes famine and scarcitie of bread our fighting against the Lord the sword of the enemie the infection of the soule the infection of the body But the Lord who is mercifull hath called backe his anger and not stirred vp all his wrath Psal 78.38 The Low-countries may Preach the Lords mercie towardes England They haue sometimes felt at one time the trinitie of punishments and the former yeeres both warre and Pestilence wee in the meane time feeling but the rodde of DAVID Wee did I confesse expect a heauier judgement wee looked for nothing else but blood-shedding and fighting for a crowne behold we haue nothing but joye peace prosperitie and joyful ringing for a Crowne This our joy in the meane time being spysed with a litle bitternesse Secondly he hath not onely visited vs with one of the three 2 Sending not the heauiest but also with the sweetest and the best vsing not the rodde of reuenge but the scourge of correction And although our sinnes had deserued the heauiest yet he hath shewen to vs that mercie which he shewed to DAVID not suffering vs to fall into the handes of men If he had sent vs famine it would haue made many to haue morgaged their Landes to PHARAOS Gen. 47.20 to haue left the kingdome Gen. 12. Famine as the Prouerbe is is an euill counsellor when hunger had gryped vs it would haue egged men to thefts murthers de●eits Many would haue liued vppon the ayre and their owne moysture and so consumed away and in doing nothing to vse the saying of AVGVSTINE haue come to nothing Mothers you may be Preachers of Gods mercie if hee had sent a famine alas the tongue of the sucking childe had cleaued to the roofe of his mouth for thirst The yong children had asked bread no man should haue broken it vnto them And to vse further the words of IEREMIE the hands of the pittiful woman would haue sodden their own children as they did in the siege of Ierusalem Iam. 4.10 If he had sent vs hostile persecutiō Alas the vnmerciful souldier would haue laied opē your hedges leauiled your houses with the ground emptied you yours of all their possessions Where had bin your cities your wiues your daughters where your temples your Prophets yea where your religion they would haue displayed the banner and set vp the ensigne of the Romish-beast erected the signes of their abhominatiōs They would haue blaspheamed the God of Israel and said are these the Christians where is their God But nowe beloued they all remaine in their flowre prime the rod of DAVID hath not hindred vs to enter the temple nor the exercises of religion we see our signes and our prophets we enter into the house of the Lord with libertie of conscience there to behold her beautie Psal 27. and to adore the God of Israell in the spirit and trueth Wee strangers An apostrophe to strangers may also bee preachers ô Lorde of thy mercie in the middest of thy justice It is true thou hast much diminished the number of thy litle flock collected in this Kingdome yet better hath it bene for them that are exiled here for the name of thy Sonne for the testimony of thy eternal truth to haue fallē in thy hands then in the hands of mē of whose barbarous cru●lty both they their fore-fathers haue had experience and although they are buried in their exile yet thou hast transported thē in their heauenly father-land Thou which hast brought this vaine out of the Romish Egipt planted it in this land as in another Canaan make it fruiteful returne we beseech thee and now visite it in thy mercie and wee will not goe backe from thee but cal vpon thy name I returne to thee ô Londō preach thou also the Lords mercie he hath not vndon or dissolued thy cōposition nor couerd thee with brambles hee hath not vtterly destroyed thee as Babilon The great Niniuie Troy Ierusalem and the rest of which wee may truely say O iam periere ruina the verie ruines of them are gone to ruine thou standest yet and I hope shalt flourish as much as thou euer didst if the former iudgement mooue thee to repentance I will conclude with a paradoxe Mercie we had desired the former yeere and mercy hee hath also shewen the former yeere A paradoxe the trueth whereof the euent of the former yeere hath manifested yea by the sending of the Plague The Lord hath heard our prayers If this seeme strange to you beloued I will expound the paradoxe In the beginning of the yeere when that Noble Princesse Elizabeth of famous memory fell sicke during her disease wee mourned sighed and lamented We were heauie and much troubled many righteous soules prayed vnto the Lord and in their prayers desired two thinges of the Lord first that if she should come to die that hee would not suffer them to fall into the hands of men Secondly that hee would bee mercyfull to Sion and not dispearse and scatter them but gather keepe together his church and beholde the Lord hath heard our prayers he hath not suffered vs to fal into the hands of men he hath sent a pestilence by which we are fallen into his handes for what is the Plague but a fall into God his hands according to the definition of DAVID Further he hath not dispersed but rather called and gathered many of vs vnto himselfe for what is death else but a gathering vnto our fathers a departure vnto God The Lord hath called many of his children frō Schoole frō the Schoole of this world where they had learned no good he hath called them to that heauenly vniuersity Many had desired to see the tryumphes of the cittie but the Lord in his mercy hath made them to see a better tryumph in that permanent Cittie and heauenly Ierusalem Many had desired to see the Coronation of their newe Prince but the Lord in hss mercy hath made thē to see a better Coronation the Coronation of the Prince of glorie of the true SALOMON Christ Iesus yea he hath made many the royall priest-hood Apo. 1. Thus thē beloued of LONDON I haue amplyfied vnto you the mercy of the Lord which hath onely staied the Angels sword or else it would haue gone forward There is no comparison betwixt the mercy of God and the mercy of men It is reported that MARCELLVS after that his souldiers had conquered SIRACVSA not without the great slaughter of many was so compassionate ouer them that hee went vp to the highest Towre in the Castle with teares lamented the

the increasing of this spirituall infection yet notwithstanding reiected this his counsaile and followed his owne humor and therefore smarted for it for this spirituall Kings euill hath produced the corporal Plague wherewith the whole body of Israel hath been infected from DAN to Bershebah In the effect of the Kings sicknesse three things are to be obserued First it is propounded Secondly chosen The diuision of the second part thirdly sent propounded by the Prophet Chosē by the King sent by the Lord. In the proposition note the persons propounding and the thing propoūded The persons propoūding two in nūber First the principall 1 The proposition the Lord secondly ●he instrumentall the Prophet GAD who accor●ing to the wise Phisition produceth not his own ●easons but the saying of the Lord the supreme ●hisition So saith the Lord The thing propoun●ed is a trinitie of punishments Two of them are ●uch fellowe-like companions that the Graecians ●istinguish them but by one letter calling the Plague 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the famine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Trini●ie may bee reduced vnto a double dichotomie The first Famine or the sword and that either the sword of man which is hostile persecution or the sword of an Angell which is the pestilence The ●econd is DAVIDS dichotomie which he maketh ●imselfe distinguishing them in two sortes the ●irst is a fall into the enemies hands The other two 〈◊〉 fall into God his hands Iustly thou sufferest ô ●onne of ADAM this trinitie of punishments for the ●hree sortes of sins which are to be found in thee ●he sinne of thought word and deede The Lord ●●ghteth against thee by the hand of man 2 The Kings cho●se because ●hou fightst against him by the hand of sinne ●carcity of bread there is sometimes in the land ●ecause scarcity of good workes in thee is often ●o bee found the infection of the Plague doth ●nnoy thee in thy bodie because the infection ●f sinne hath raigned in thy soule In the second ●ember of the second parte obserue First the Kings choyce secondly the reason of his choice ●n the choyce behold the Kings three vertues his wisdome charitie pollicy his pollicy ayming at the Churches enriching his charitie ayming at the easinesse of death thirdly his wisdome which appeareth in three things for which hi● choice was better than either famine or persecution if we respect first the persō of God secondly the kings thirdly his subjects If the persō of God his glorie by this kinde of punishment is bette● aduanced and that two manner of waies First in regard of the faithful people of God secondly of the infidels and enemies of God By the faithfull it is aduanced in two things making them to looke aboue beneath aboue acknowledging the mighty hand of God beneath the weaknesse and impotencie of man And taketh away a double cōfidence first in our selues secondly i● others In regard of his owne person he chooseth one first that was just and reasonable secondly easiest thirdly best for his soule fourthly one tha● sheweth his charity to his people In regarde o● his subjects it was the best first for their soules secondly for their bodies that either in regard of the paine or of their good name thirdly fo● the common-weale fourthly for the Church The amplifycations of these I leaue to the meditations of the Readers and come to the reason o● the Kings choise For thy mercie is great I will no● dilate euery particular The reason of his choise If you desire a large commentarie vpon the kings reason Read the King● Psalmes and in particular the 103. Psal Which vse as the best interpretour vpon it DAVID vttereth this reason by a double experience of the mercie of God and of the cruelty of man of the latter he hath also had a double experience hauing felt the crueltie and vnkindnes of the father and of the sonne of the Father in SAVL of the sonne either in IBOSHETH or ABSOLON I omit to shew vnto you beloued the difference betwixt the merciful hand of God and the vnmercifull hand of man And I appeale to those kingdomes Prouinces and cities which haue felt this trinitie of punishments propounded vnto DAVID to aske of them whither it be better to fall into the hands of God or in the hands of man because many can answere by experience I will onely aske it of the Low-Countries in the name of all they may speake for they haue had the experiēce of DAVID haue also felt this trinity of punishmēts famine pestilence hostile persecution And note this with me that with DAVID they haue felt the cruelty vnkindnes and barbarous vnmercifulnes of man ●n the father and in the sonne First in the father in that Spanish SAVL king PHILIP of late memorye haue not the Spanish handes destroyed their Cities burnt their Temples dispersed their inhabitants whereof we strangers in this your kingdome dispersed liuing in exile for the name of Christ Iesus are vnto you all eye-witnesse I will not amplifye the Spanish cruelty Horresco referrens Psal 129 onely I say that with DAVID they may speake From my youth of Israel may say they haue afflicted me secōdly in the Sonne in that Spanish ISBOSHETH what haue they not suffered since the death of the father by the barbarous handes of his gouernours let them now answere and I doubt not hauing DAVIDS experience that if DAVIDS choise were propounded vnto thē they would come to the resolution of DAVID Let vs fall into the hands of God not into the hands of men for thy mercies are great O Lord. 3 The executiō The third member of the first part is the execution in which I leaue to your meditations foure things First the effect of the Kings euill a Pestilence Secondly the outwarde cause of that disease the Lord thirdly the inward cause of it the sin of DAVID and of his subjects Fourthly the patits Israel As for the effect it was a diminutiō of people wherin obserue First the equity of punishmēt Secondly the trueth of that rule obserued by the Wise man Wisd cap. 11. 13. Wherwith a man sinneth by the same also shal he be punished Experience hereof obserue in the effect of the kings euil DAVID had sinned in the multitude of the people therfore DAVID is punished with adiminutiō of people The discription of the outward cause deliuereth two things The agent the instrumēt Iehouah his angel In the agēt note the outward cause of the pestilence The Phystions and Naturians out of the booke of nature render a double cause of the Plague an outward and an inward 1 The outwarde cause of the plagu● the one without man the other within man the one prima causa morbi the first cause of the disease the second proxima the next the one placed without in the infectiō of the ayre the other within in the corrupted humours of the body Let vs