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death_n	body_n	law_n	soul_n	4,073	5	4.9506	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18917	An epistle discoursing vpon the present pestilence Teaching what it is, and how the people of God should carrie themselues towards God and their neighbour therein. Reprinted with some additions. By Henoch Clapham.	Clapham, Henoch.	1603 (1603)	STC 5339; ESTC S115088	13,894	26

Enemies hands and that he refuseth because the Churches aduersarie would insult without all mercy The other two should be a Fall into God his hands and that he chooseth because his mercies were great And of these two Famine and Pestilentiall death he chooseth the latter why Some thinke because himselfe might be relieued of Famine and so not die and he coueting to die with the people would therefore choose the pestilence which would as well seize vpon him This is somewhat but I see it not in this scripture After he had seene a fearfull fall of the people he coueted Gods hand to be turned against him but that he was of such mind before that Fall it should not seeme first because his heart before Gad the prophet came to him was smitten with the sight of his sinne whereupon he repented secondly because in his option of the pestilence he expreslie expected some great mercie in the midst of iudgement But the direct cause of electing this Plague was I doubt not diuided at least into these two respects the first ayming at the easinesse of death for to die of famine is a more lingring torturing death And herein appeared Dauids Charitie The second ayming at the Churches enriching with necessaries alreadie possessed for famine would haue deuoured vp all her maintenance And herein was both loue and policie Dauid being a Prophet he could not haue fewer godlie respects in his option Of all these three plagues Sword Famine and Pestilence I conclude the last to bring with it the most mercie If the Aduersaries sword destroy ô the mockings proud insultings filthie prostitutions cruell oppressions accompanying that sword The sword of Romish Babilonians was prest to haue beene drawen within and without vs. How great was the Lords mercie to shut that vp in the scaberd Famine was threatned vpon the death of our late soueraigne Elizabeth for the Rascalitie of our land hoped as Drone-bees to haue spoiled our Hyues as an vnsatiable Hell or graue to swallow vp all How mercifull was God vnto vs that with a crosse-wynd did rather take them vnto Tyburne or consume them in warres without vs Yea how was his mercie great vnto vs in putting farre from vs both the former plagues and in smiting to smite vs with this pestilence that so falling we fall before his hand that is a mercifull Father in the midst of iudgement remembring mercie leauing vs not to lingring deaths whereby we might be more pained and giuing that we haue possessed to his Church whereof we haue bene members Yea where in three dayes the Lords Angell did smite to death 70. thousands of Dauids people loe his great mercie to vs ward he hath not so smitten yet one thousand in full three dayes O that the liuing would lay it to heart and praise God for his mercies SECTION VI. GOd of necessitie being to punish vs and then in stead of sharp rods to smite vs with the pestilence and in the pestilence to destroie so leisurely it should teach vs King Priest and People to be humbled vnder his hand in the free confession of our sinnes admiring his lenitie and fatherlie kindnes God giue vs grace speedily to be humbled And the Lords mercies to vs should force vs to be more mercifull one to another It should teach Magistrate and Minister with Dauid to bide by their charge and to intreat mercie for the sheepe of his pasture till the Angell put vp his viall of pestilence To augment our spirituall deuotions in the openest places as did Dauid who built an alter in Araunahs threshing floore on mount Moriah the place chosen of God for putting his name there whereon after the Temple was builded Yea to put our sacrifices betweene the plague and the Church as Dauid did betweene the falne of Israel and Ierusalem that so the plague may not creepe any further Yea the mercie of God to vs should teach vs all to be helping one to an other not to please our selues in all things to lay downe our liues for the brethren liuing and dying in good workes to the sicke and needie The ninetie-nine are to be left that stand not in such need and the sheepe that is readie to perish we ought to seeke vp Happie is the soule who when his maister commeth is found so working and thrise happie is the soule that hath the body cut downe in such a worke of mercie True it is that for certaine bodily vncleannesses and maladies people vnder the lawe of Moses were to be seuered from the Church more or lesse and yet now no commaundement vnto vs why For that they were a part of the Ceremonial law This may appeare first from the rites secondly from their significations In certaine vncleannesses they were to wash themselues with water and then not before to be held cleane for company For the Leprosie it was censured onely by the Ecclesiasticall Minister and this hee did not till hee sawe it and sometimes not till he had made some fourteene dayes triall and speciall rules he had for the triall Who will say that these rites were not ceremoniall and abolished besides that the Priest had no feare of the leprous-plague during all the time of his probation For their signification it respected the degrees of excōmunication for Soules vncleanenesse Which not only appeareth by many speeches in the new Testamēt alluding to such vncleannesses but also for that the new Testaments church hath power only to excōmunicate for defects in the soule as the auntient Synagogue did for wants in the body These then that will maintaine their flight from the Leuitical lawe do in their fact pronounce all they flie from to be Excommunicate yea with the black Kerem or Maranatha to be excommunicate to the death for not louing the Lord Iesus for to them such a censure only belongeth 1. Cor. 16. 22. Thus such Fleers are left of God to belie scripture and to abuse their brethren which is a worse plague then that they flie from● If they meet now with the Pest in the country let them tel me if so they can die with such peace of conscience as if they died in the city performing workes of mercie to the sick and needie But if they feast and reioyce in the country while the yron enters Iosephs soule in the Citie let them know that God may serue in the last dish sauced with his vengeance We haue sinned together and the hand of God hath come vpon vs togither let vs therefore humble our selues togither before the Lord in fasting and prayer Let Nehemiah and Daniel Magistrate and Minister confesse their sinnes the sinnes of their people and let all the people subscribe saying Amen It is not change of place but change of life that must healp vs. Lord for thy son sake remit all our offences giue vs grace to turne vnto thee with all truth of repentance and for thy holy names sake remoue this same deserued