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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47484	Pillulæ pestilentiales, or, A spiritual receipt for cure of the plague delivered in a sermon preach'd in St. Paul's Church London, in the mid'st of our late sore visitation / by Rich. Kingston ...	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1665 (1665)	Wing K614; ESTC R4398	31,246	136

corrupts the Will and so poisons all our Intellectual faculties that we cannot see the light of Faith or ardently love God or do any other Act that may speak us living Christians and in a State of Grace Secondly They are alike in their Infection The reason why we shut people up that are Infected and avoid their Company is because they easily communicate their Disease to those that are in health it is so with sin it insensibly creeps upon us The often seeing wicked men repeat their crimes first takes from us the hatred we should bear them and afterward by undiscerned progressions so far work on us that we begin to love and commit the same The Historian observes That Augustus soon perceived the Inclination of his two Daughters by the Company they kept The one affected none but the grave Senators and worthy personages of Rome and the Other none but the loose and debauch'd Gallants We cannot touch pitch but we must be defiled and we cannot converse with wicked men but we shall be tainted with their Impurities Thirdly They are alike diffusive Thucidides in his Description of the Plague of Athens tells us it began in Africa march'd from Aethiopia into Aegypt and so took its course for Athens which was a vast progress And hath not Sin done the like Hath not the Sin of Adam in Paradice spread it self over the whole World and so seized upon the mass of Mankind that we must all confess we are Vnclean and there is none of us righteous no not one Fourthly They are both terrible What a dismal sight is it to see an Army enter by force into a pleasant City and there in a moment by the licentious fury of the Soldiers view those streets floating with the blood of the Inhabitants which in time of Peace used to be strewed with flowers Yet when heat of blood is over some mercy is usually hoped for and many times obtained But the Plague like another Attila the Scourge of God sweeps all before it and seldom gives Quarter Sin does the like yea in a more terrible manner for it erects its Trophies upon the ruine of Souls The destruction of the body is but a momentary pain but that of the Soul is commensurate to the duration of it which is to all Eternity How much reason have we therefore to pray to be delivered from this Executioner that like another Nero loves to perpetuate misery and strikes a wretch ut sentiat se mori Fifthly They are alike in their Symptomes When a man begins to feel some distemper in his head stomach belly or other parts though we apprehend some danger yet we think him not past the benefit of Physick and a possibility of Recovery but if once his body begin to be purpled and the plague spots discover their dismal hue we then quit all hopes and think nothing less than a miracle can recover him Sin also hath her spots and they are as ill boading to the Soul as the other to the body V. 23. and therefore St. Jude in his General Epistle styles wicked men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spots in their feasts of Charity Lastly They are both of a quick dispatch Other Diseases seem to give us some warning that we may set our house in order and by repentance blot out the Score of our sins prodigality but the pestilential sword like the Italian Stilletto carries death upon the point and at its first entrance summons the wounded to his Funeral so that we may now sing in a mournful Dirge Our pleasures cease our joys are flying Death is alive but Life is dying Hence it is that Galen calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of its Mortal quality and Hippocrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of its spreading nature This deadly disease we see lays heaps upon heaps and if the Almighty power puts not a stop to its violent proceedings it will in a short time scarce leave living enough to bury the dead Where God gives it a Commission it runs like fire in a Corn field That passage in Samuel is very remarkable 2 Sam. 24.15 where it is said So the Lord sent a Pestilence upon Israel from the Morning even to the time appointed Some think this appointed time was six hours and of this opinion is St. * Super Psal 37. Ambrose * quaest 37 Theodoret and the Jewish Historian Josephus Others think this appointed time was until night and that at the beginning of the Evening Sacrifice it ceased which St. Hierome followes V. Casp Sanctium in●l Others with Tostatus Abulensis think it lasted three dayes However all agree that it was but a short space in which this Tragedy was acted although the quamdiù is not certain Upon this account the Septuagint reads the Words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If I send Death amongst my people to signifie other diseases by Medical herbs and the skill of Physicians may be Cured but this is an infallible Executioner as sure as death it self And doth not Sin do the same with the Soul Gen. 2.17 In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye not a year after but in the very day thou breakest my Commandement thy sin will prove deadly So Annanias and Sapphyra no sooner lyed to the holy Ghost but at St. Peter's Examination their Consciences became their condemning Jury and their Sentence a sudden Death We have now seen their agreement I shall only say there is this happy dissimilitude that whereas the Cure of the Bodily plague is uncertain that of the Soul plague is infallible if we fly to Christ with a due sense of our misery and seek from his Merits that Alexipharmacon that is an Antidote against the greatest Crimes But I shall desist from speaking any longer indefinitely of Sin and come to those particular ones that in so high a degree have drawn this plague upon us First then The sin that leads the van is our Sabbath-breaking How loud doth this cry in the Ears of God! A sin more frequent impudent and unpunish'd than in those late black days when the greatest were justified by a Law This blessed day is now as much mangled and broken as once the Lord of it was And as the Poet deriding the immoderate dress of a wanton Girl told her that she was minima pars sui so is this day so divided that it is now become the least part of it self and you may seek for a Sabbath in a Sabbath and not find it And whereas it ought to be the greatest Festival and holy Rest now other days are more innocent then this Those we spend upon our Callings and this the more is our shame on our sins In the Primitive times sanctifying the Lords Day was an eminent Character that Christians lived in the purity of their profession When the Question was asked Servasti Dominicam The Answer returned was Christianus sum intermittere non possum I am a Christian and may not

Angels veil their faces by whose only Fiat the Chaos was un-masked and to whose bounty all the several species of creatures owe their Beeing I will hear from heaven forgive and heal your Land Other Physicians either out of hope of gain or to buoy up their credits and repute in the World promise those cures which they can never perform But here is one whose Word is his Deed that Archetypal verity who having the Issues of Life and Death in his hand when he promises Life cannot be guilty of a Lye and when he threatens death upon impenitency will surely inflict it So then here is a Conjunction of the whole Trinity in the Cure promised the perfection of which will appear in three particulars 1. God will cure us corporally When he sent his beloved Son to preach the Gospel of Eternal Life many heard him but were little moved with the Excellency of his Embassie but when he came to those sensitive and ocular demonstrations of his power the healing of the Sick and feeding the Multitude by miracle many then were induced to believe in him S. Matthew tells us that he healed all that were Sick At his word the Blind found eyes the lame flung away their Crutches the Paralytick and such as were troubled with an effusion of Blood found that virtue proceeding from him which effected their cure If the touch of his garment were so balsamical that of his voice had a greater power for Lazarus though rotting four days in his grave at Christ's first call quitted his cold Mansion and conquered Death surrendred his Prisoner at the Command of this great Prince The Platonist say Lumen est Vmbra Dei Light is but the shadow of God and I may very well affirm that the Learned'st Physicians are but shadows of this Sun of righteousness when he appears with healing in his wings Have we the plague spots upon us If God will be our Physician their very redness shall serve for a blush to confess their impotency when he bids them vanish Does a Feaver burn us or a Dropsie drown us One word of his mouth will prove a Julip to cool our veins and a Sluce to let out that Lake of humours which would engulph us If we be once penitentially quallified He will hear us He will heal us Let us therefore look upon this Visitation with a Spiritual eye Let us that God yet spares learn to be better lest those Princes of Peru in America meer Heathens at the day of Judgment rise up against us who accounted Sickness Nuncios coeli quibus se ad Deos acciri dicebant God's Messengers by which he would draw them to himself as Nierembergius reports He brings us into the School of Affliction Hist Nat. that we might learn Wisdome And as he will heal us so he will the diseases in the creatures that contribute to the maintenance of our Lives Is the Air infected He will purge it Is the fruit blasted He will stop Mildews and what ever hinders a plentiful Vegitation Doth the Murrain consume Cattle That shall likewise cease In a word whatever impleads our temporal enjoyments upon our Repentance like Dust shall be driven away before the Wind. 2. God will cure us Spiritully The wounds of the Soul are infinitely more considerable than those of the Body and therefore David who as St. Chrysostom speaks was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One that lived as strictly in his Kingly Pallace as in a Cloyster cries out Ps 41.4 Heal my Soul for I have sinned against thee And indeed he had great reason to do so for he that had victoriously encountred the Lyon the Bear Goliah and an host of Men was now broken by a feminine temptation and become guilty of those Soul-wounding Sins Adultery and Murther Now as David made his Address to God the only Soul-Physician so let us for he can certainly restore and heal This Soul-cure he will perform First By healing our irregular affections which can by no less powerful means be effected than the communication of his Grace For if Adam in Paradice richly furnished with supernatural gifts continued but a poor while in that purity and excellent condition how much less can nature wounded with Sin without the assistance of supernatural endowments recover her former purity I shall not deny but a vigorous reason may help a man to acquire those virtuous habits which may cause a promptitude in the affections to virtuous actions yet those Acts of virtue will be so poor and imperfect that they can never bring him to eternal felicity Actions that spring from Grace do as far excel those that are the Issue of Nature though never so morallized as fruits that are ripened in the woods and fields by the beams of the Sun do those that are brought forth by artificial fires Grace changes the affections powerfully and renders them as it were new affections according to St. Paul If a Man be in Christ he is a new creature Not that our affections in this life are totally healed by grace there will be lusting of the Flesh against the Spirit in the most gracious persons but those Insurrections and Tumults are rather suffered by God as a Tryal than a destruction to his children Inordinate affections shall be so healed in this life that they shall lose their Empire though not their Beeing when they begin to rebel Grace will be able to subdue and triumph over them Secondly By healing our Vnderstanding At first when man enjoyed his Integrity the Vnderstanding did naturally apprehend truth with the greatest facility and as when our eye looks upon some curious piece of Painting Sculpture or any other beautiful object it is highly pleased so the Vnderstanding when it look'd upon Truth received great Satisfaction and the more sublime and excellent the Truths were the nobler caresses she found in the contemplation of them But novv alas a dismal chaos hath invelop'd the Vnderstanding yea that Science that vvas so brisk and sparkling in our first Parents and should have been the inheritance of all their posterity is utterly lost Our ignorance is such that vve are not able to judge of supernatural Truths and therefore God vvill cure this defect in us by Divine Illumination He vvill set up in our Souls the bright Tapers of his grace vvhereby the fogs and mists of Infidelity shall be dispell'd and such a certainty vvrought in us as is essential to true Faith Thirdly By healing our Wills The Phylosopher's Maxim is here true Corruptio Optimi est pessima The Will being the supreme faculty of the Soul had once a natural power to love God but being novv wounded by Sin the wounds in it are of a deadlier nature than those of the other faculties Thus Sins of Malice are deeper wounds than those of Infirmity or Ignorance and therefore one excellently said That nothing fri'd so much in Hell as the perverse wills of Men. God will heal this wounded part also by his