Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	5,115	5	10.1244	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27350	London's remembrancer, or, A true accompt of every particular weeks christnings and mortality in all the years of pestilence within the cognizance of the bills of mortality, being xviii years.	Bell, John.; Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks.	1665 (1665)	Wing B1800; ESTC R24198	19,905	31

causers The two first of these were caused by the people the other two by Kings In the two first I observe that the Scripture makes mention only of the number of the people without particularising what they were that died whether Men Women or Children or all of them In the two latter it makes mention of Men only first in King Davids time of Threescore and Ten Thousand men and in Senacheribs Camp of One Hundred Fourscore and Five Thousand men and I believe that in the two last none but men died for King Davids sin was numbring the men the women were not numbred And in Senacheribs Camp the Scripture sayes plainly that those that died were mighty men of valour Leaders and Captains in the Camp of the King of Assyria 2 Chron. 32.21 And I believe that few or no women followed the Camp so far And although frequently in Scripture where men are spoken of women are included yet I presume that in both these they were wholly exempt From hence I observe that all the Plagues wherewith it hath pleased God to visit this Nation were drawn down upon it by the sins of the people and not by any particular act or crime of any the Kings thereof for I cannot find nor do I believe that any one hath read of a Plague within this Nation which spared either Sex or Age. Now to look home to our selves Let us consider for which of these four causes or whether for all of them God is pleased to afflict us with the present raging Pestilence Although I am confident this Nation is sufficiently guilty of all of them yet I am of opinion that more particularly this Judgment is laid on us for the first of them the sin of Rebellion which extended much farther than that of the Israelites against Moses and Anton for they only murmured they touched not the life of either of them and yet God plagued them for it Our Rebellion extended to the height of Rebellion even to the taking away the life of the best of Kings his late Majestie of ever blessed Memory whose blood doubtless doth uncessantly cry to the Lord for Vengeance For if the Lord punished the sin of Saul a King so severely for shedding the blood of the Gibeonites who were his Vassals and Slaves Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water that neither the lives of himself and his three sons who fell all in one Battel in one day nor the three years of Famine in the Land could appease Gods wrath therefore but that the blood of seven more of Sauls sons must do it May not then this Nation justly expect Gods greatest judgments to fall on the people of it for shedding the blood of their lawful Soveraign For their sin herein was as much greater than Sauls by how much a lawful and good King over three so fair large and populous Kingdoms is greater than a Vassal or Slave And because Murther of all sins is the most hainous in the sight of the Almighty but especially the Murthering of Kings and Nobles therefore God punisheth it with one of his severest punishments I mean with the Plague for God himself accounted three dayes Pestilence equal to three Months flying before the Enemy or three years of Famine Some may Object and say That it is a vain and ridiculous thing to imagine this present Plague to be inflicted upon us for a thing so long past I answer in the words of the Psalmist Psal 9.12 When God maketh inquisition for blood he remembreth them When God will make inquisition for blood there is none can tell but when he doth then he will not fail to remember them that shed it This When hath not at any time since the death of our late Martyred Soveraign come so near as now and therefore I cannot choose but take particular notice of it For God doth not alwayes make inquisition for blood so soon as it is spilt but many times a great while after as may appear by the Gibeonites for Saul slew them in his life time in favour of the men of Israel and Judah and yet God sent a Famine of three years in the time of King David after Sauls death for that a full satisfaction for their blood was not then made by the blood of Sauls Family And when David asked them what he should do for them to make an atonement to the Lord they though slaves asked neither silver nor gold nor Liberty but seven of Sauls sons whom they hanged to cease the Famine Thus much then for supernatural causes I shall now proceed to give you some Causes natural The first and great Cause natural is the infection of the Air and the Rule and Raigning of the Plannets over mens bodies from which proceeds the Contagion of Converse And I conceive that the contagion of the Air doth arise from the unseasonableness of the weather for the weather hath been very seldom since the beginning of the Plague sutable to the season of the year but the Air hath been close and obnubulated insomuch that the Sun hath not had the full power to do its Office which is to exhale all Foggs and malign Vapours c. arising from terrene bodies which corrupt and infect the Air. The second is the inclination of mens bodies to receive and retain the suppressions of the Air. And mens bodies are most inclineable to it when they are disordered by immoderate eating or drinking by heats or colds c. And it is thought by some that things eaten long since may in some measure be introductory to it For some Physitians are of opinion that the unwholsom meat by reason of the great Rot among Sheep eaten by the Poor last Year may now cause so great a Malignity as to prove contagious Now the first and great Antidote and Preservative against the Plague is hearty Repentance and fervent Prayer For Prayer upon Repentance is of all things most powerful with God the many and mighty effects whereof the Holy Scriptures do abundantly declare I shall give one instance of the excellency of it briefly as I had it related to me by a worthy Gentleman my very good Friend as followeth Many years since it pleased God to afflict the Kingdom of France with a Contagious sneezing that might justly be termed epidemical for in a short space it swept away many thousands of people And the King then Regnant took all possible care to abate it by convening all the learned Doctors in his own Nation together with the assistance of some from Neighbouring Nations and all to small purpose for all Philosophie Physical could by no means abate it At length they fell to their Devotions and in a very short space it pleased God to cease it which hath procreated a good Ceremony amongst them ever since used that when any man sneezes all the Company put off their Hats and pray Dieu vous assiste which is God help you the Lord bless you The second or mean Antidote and Preservative against Infection is to take the advice of some learned Physician whether Galienical or Chymical and to do thereafter FINIS