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A05188	Three Christian sermons, made by Lodouike Lauatere, minister of Zuricke in Heluetia, of famine and dearth of victuals: and translated into English, as being verie fit for this time of our dearth: by VV. Barlow Bachelar in Diuinitie; Von thüwre unn hunger dry predigen. English	Lavater, Ludwig, 1527-1586.; Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1596 (1596)	STC 15322; ESTC S108382	49,209	164

direct them the only way to vndo them is to leaue them the inheritaunce of such bad purchases And so much for Rich men The poore also which are pinched and distressed for want of victualls with their wiues and children must know there is a dutie for them to God and man First therefore let them thinke that this crosse is laide vpon them by God and so with patience beare it An easie matter to say so you will aunswere but not to doo it I doo confesse that our fleshe can hardly be brought to endure hunger nor patiently brooke in that time to bee tolde of our dutie The belly as Cato said hath no eares Rather giue the hungrie meate then preach to them of patience they wish more to see what to eate then to heare what to doo Yet if they will but consider that this is sent vnto them by Gods will not comming by chaunce or ill fortune they will bee more patient Secondlie they must knowe that God will heare their prayers if they call vnto him faithfully The Lions roaring after their pray doe seeke their meat at God and he giues it them He feedeth the young Rauens that call vppon him much more men Hee is our Father as both in the Lordes Prayer and in the Creede Apostolicall wee daylie confesse therefore perswade wee our selues that hee chasteneth vs for our amendement not for our ouerthrowe but of this before Againe let them remember that they are not the first nor shall bee the last this way to bee afflicted Christ himselfe indured it for our sakes Paule and other the Saints of God haue felt this want and in brief GOD hath promised that neither this nor anie other way hee will tempt vs aboue our strength There is no father so hard hearted that will lay any burthen vppon his childe more heauie then hee can beare or will suffer him to starue when hee may succour him much lesse God who hath more then a fatherly care ouer vs will suffer vs to perish hauing all thinges at his commaund and many wayes to ridde vs from anie miserie euen in the middest of all calamities to assist vs. So that let the poore sort in such distresse demeane themselues well and vprightlie both to GOD and men to God by carefully auoyding those thinges whereby his wrath is prouoked and by dayly requesting his fauourable aid and comfort towarde men those especially which haue relieued them let them bee thankefull and if they bee not able to pay their debts let them intreate their Creditors to bee good vnto them till God make them able for there are verily many good men which by lending giuing suretiship almes-deeds forbearing and forgiuing debts haue got themselues a good report and haue comforted the poore afflicted mary if once thou promise at a day to returne it keepe thy day for herein many debters are to blame pretending charge of wife and children and indeede spending that at drinking and gaming which would both pay their debts maintain their family Let thē also vse good and honest meanes to rid themselues frō Famine laboring with their hands for their liuing and rather beg their bread frō door to door thē by wicked shifts to preuēt their pouerty For this is one of Satan his occasiōs which he takes to prick men forward to all kind lewdnesse Vprores Mutinies Thefts Bawderie and other such filthie gayning occupations all which the godlier sort will carefully eschew An honest matrone if her modesty be tempted by shameles impudēt teachers she casts them off and defies them so should we doe with these sleights of the diuell following the example of Christ who hauing fasted 40. dayes in the desart and then being hungry the diuell tempted him but he gaue him the auaunt with the sworde of the spirit and of Paul whom neither Famine nor death could separate from the loue God in Christ. We should be more faithfull then the Saguntines they had rather die for hunger then not to keepe their promise with their Confederates the Romanes The Patriarks as you heard being vexed this way chose rather to chaunge their country then their Religion A good document for these times wherin religiō is charged as a cause of dearth But if one sort of poore bee cruell to another that is a mischiefe Againe let the poore be prouident in a plentifull haruest to lay vp against a deare yeare not to bee so wastfully giuen to spending as before but eeke it out to the vtmost It is true which is common Sparing is the best husbandrie but if it be at the bottome that thrift is too late Manie deceiue themselues by thus reasoning there are Hospitals and Spittles built for the poore thus to be relieued is a miserable cōfort which to want would be more credite and hearts ease and hee that spendes himselfe out of house and home in hope of an Hospitall is more fitte for a Prison then for a Spittle By this which hath beene spoken we vnderstand what euery man in his seuerall place and dutie and all sortes iointly ought to do in any publike or priuate Famine or Dearth If there bee anie godly men which hope of no amendment of mens liues yet let not them bee wearie of well doing following the example of the wicked For if Noah and Lot and other iust men had corrupted themselues with the worlde they had also perished with the world Now in the last place by the way of comfort let vs heare the most pleasaunt promises of God wherin he offereth aid and assistance to his children in these afflictions auouching if wee heare his worde and walke in his wayes that he will nourish vs in the time of Famine and as Deut. 28. to the despisers of his law and will hee threatneth hunger so on the contrarie to the obedient and faithfull hee promiseth to open the treasures of his goodnesse to giue raine and faire weather in due season and to blesse the labour of their handes And Leuit. 26. that the earth shall bring forth increase and they shall bee satisfied with bread and in this Chapter God at the request of Salomon promiseth to heare the prayers of the people thus afflicted calling vnto him in that holie Temple Eliphas in the booke of Iob. sayeth That the Lord preserueth from death in Famine and from the Sword in battaile Prou. 10.3 The Lord will not famish the soule of the righteous A sentence of sweete comforte agaynst this grieuous temptatiō then which scarce can bee a greater For wee are euer in feare least wee pine for hunger and the nearer wee are to death the more wee doo feare this want and therefore a sentence to bee fullie weighed and regarded Nowe him dooth Salomon call a Righteous man which putteth his trust in the Lord and followeth his vocation carefullie and honestly still preferring the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse Psal. 37. The kingly prophet Dauid saith In the perillous time they shal not be confounded

and in the daies of dearth they shall haue inogh And presently after I haue beene yong and now am olde yet neuer saw I the iust man forsaken nor his seede begging bread Although the iust bee mercifull and lendeth yet his posteritie shall not want Againe Psalme 33. Beholde the eye of the Lorde is vppon them that feare him to deliuer theyr soules from death and to feede them in the time of dearth Againe Psalme 34. The Lions lacke and suffer hunger but they that feare the Lorde shall want no manner of thing that is good Manie are the testimonies of the Prophetes wherein God sheweth that if his people turne vnto him with heartie repentaunce hee will giue them plentie As O see the second Ioel the first and second Amos the second Zacharie the eight Malachie the third In which places God sheweth that hee will relieue vs if we do repent Zach. 10.1 Aske yee of the Lorde raine and it shall bee giuen you Matth. 6. Christ though he forbid all anxietie and distrustfull care for the things of this worlde yet hee promiseth all vnto them that first seeke his kingdome Neither are they bare promises but armed for our comfort with manifold examples shewing how God hath fed manie and freed more in the time of such distresse Hee preserued Moses in the Mount Sinai without either meate or drinke fortie dayes togither He fed Eliah at the brooke Cherith in the Wildernesse and sent him foode by Rauens relieuing an hungrie man by the helpe of deuouring foules So dealt hee with the Widowe of Sarept●●● for giuing the Prophet that one loafe of bread which she had left albeit she looked for no other but death whē that was gone neither the meal in her barrell nor the oile in her cruse fayling till the Famine ceased Which example for the excellencie thereof our Sauiour repeateth Luke 4. And againe the same Prophet beeing persecuted by Iezabel was fedde by an Angell in the desart in the strength of which meate he trauailed fortie dayes and 40. nights to the Mount Horeb. God when hee brought his people out of Egypt that you may see more generall examples of his prouidence fedde and preserued them in the wildernesse straungely fortie yeares togither insomuch that their Garments were not all that while worne giuing them Manna from Heauen appoynting them their daylie stint and portion When they wanted fresh water hee willed Moses to strike the Rocke so that the verie Cattle drunke their fill and beeing wearie of Manna and longing for flesh he gaue it them in aboundaunce and verie plentifullie For the Scripture sayth There went a winde foorth from the Lord and brought Quailes from the Sea and let them fall vpon the Campe a dayes iourney on this side and a dayes iourney on the other side round about the host and they lay the thickenesse of two cubites vppon the earth and the people gathered them night and day and he that gathered least gathered ten Homers full In the time of Elizeus he rid the Samaritans from an extreame Famine agaynst all hope where you haue an excellent example of a great Duke that would not beleeue the Prophet foretelling of this straunge plentie who for his distrust sawe it as the Prophet had said but inioyed it not 2. Reg. 7. Howe miraculouslie did Christ feed thousandes with little fiue loaues and two fishes Mat. 14. seuen loaues and a fewe fishes Matth. 15. and yet baskets of fragments remaining a miracle often repeated for the confirmation of our faith But you will say Christ now adayes worketh no such wōders He doth but we careles of them do not obserue them Cast an account of your dayly expence for things necessary lay it to your commings in and see if God do not blesse you much with a little I am sure that many haue wōdred how they should be able to defray so many charges laid vpon them as nowe adaies they are put to hauing so small takings but by the blessing of God It is recorded in the Chronicles of Austria that Fredericke the Emperour hauing surnmoned a Parliamēt at Collen to which resorted an huge multitude of all sorts he fearing that all the bread in the Citie would not suffice them and so the Parliament to be broke of willed that account should bee taken of all the prouision of bread and compare the loaues with the men and they found the number of loaues to be by many fewer then the persons yet the next day euerie man hauing eate his belly full there was much bread stil remaining In the Annales of Stumpsius there is a memorable example of Gods present assistance in extreame Famine In the yeare 849. in Germany among the Citizens of Turing one was purposed to flie with his wife and children and to trauaile abroad for succour of himselfe and them as hee passed through a wood being euen mad for hunger he prouides himselfe to kill and eate his sonne and being now at his childs throate with his knife on the sodain as God would haue it he spies two wolues praying vpō a Stag presently he leapes to them driues thē away refresheth himselfe and his with the new killed venison Sigebertus records it too only differing in one yeare In Anno. 1570. In Bauaria it rained corne of which much bread was baked A singular testimonie of Gods prouident presence The like was done in Naples Anno. 722. And in Vasconia anno 828. But albeit these promises be true and iust yet are they not so to be vnderstood as though we should vtterly bee without the crosse since that euen the Prophets and Apostles haue felt the smart of hunger For in these as in other things God dealeth as he pleaseth He maketh vs hunger that we may be the more feruent in prayer and againe though he keepe vs short of these earthly things yet he giueth vs greater gifts Faith Hope Patience this being one of our comforts which shall be the conclusion of this discourse which was our Sauiour his Prophecie Math. 24. Luc. 21 that Famine is one of the forerunners to the last day of iudgement whereby wee haue good cause to lift vp our heads and reioyce because that day draweth neare Wherein beeing deliuered from this and all other miseries and calamities whatsoeuer we shall there be euerlastingly crowned in his eternall kingdome To which he bring vs who hath bought it dearly for vs. FINIS Iob. 1.22 Luc. 12.42 Esa. 50.4 Ioh. 16.1 Rom. 12.11 For so I reade it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not as some doo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Caelum nudum sudum Macro Sat. lib. 2. cap. 3. Plat. M●● 2. Parts of Prayers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil. The Diuision How dearth and famine differ The kindes hereof Almanacke makers Grace at meales Diuers meanes by which Famine commeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Locusts Hayle VVhether Coniurers can raise stormes Raine The vermin of a realme VVarres Venery VViues Children Staffe of bread Perambulatians The second part Contempt of Gods word 2 Priuate gaine 3 Periury and oppression 4 Couetousnesse 5 Crueltie 6 Pride 7 Surfets 8 Neglect of tyth paying Parents VVhy the godly are thus distressed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Sam. 7.3 Iam. 4.2 Zurick