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A69170	Salomons pest-house, or tovvre-royall Nevvly re-edified and prepared to preserue Londoners with their families, and others, from the doubted deluge of the plague. Item, a laudable exercise for those that are departed, or shall depart out of the city into the country, to spend their time till they returne. A handfull of holy meditations vsefull and requisite for Gods people ... By the reuerend, learned, and godly diuine I.D. preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is added Mr Hollands admonition, and Mr Phaers prescription for bodily physicke. Also, London looke-backe: a description or representation of the great and memorable mortality an. 1625. in heroicke matchlesse lines, by A.H. of Tr. Colledge in Cambridge.	I. D., preacher of Gods word.; Holland, Henry, 1583-1650? Spirituall preservatives against the pestilence.; Houssemaine, Nicolas de, d. 1523. Régime contre la peste.; Holland, Abraham, d. 1626. London looke-backe.; Phayer, Thomas, 1510?-1560.	1630 (1630)	STC 6176; ESTC S117096	52,379	80

through the ayre But suffer'd Autumne in the Spring forlorne And ferall Cypresse now had cause to mourne Poppeyes themselues this time in death did sleepe And the Myrrhe-tree had reason here to weepe A funerall Perfume those gaudie flowers Which wont to make Ghirlonds for Paramours Mourn'd in their drouping brauery and spread The ground at their owne deaths as for the dead The Corne grew not as if it meant t'undoo Men not with Plague alone but Famine too Herbs Physicks Soueraignes here infected die And for themselues could finde no remedie The brute Beasts now which Nature to bestow The Excellence on Man did make with low Downe-looking Postures first did feele the rage Of th'Earth-borne Plague and died before their age The long-liu'd Hart this time to die began Before it reach'd vnto the age of Man The faithfull Spaniell by his death did trie The mischiefe of his well-nos'd Facultie And ranging with quicke Sent did soonest proue Th' infectious Malice of the Dogge aboue The lustie Steed scouring in 's Game apace Lights on Deaths Gole in middle of his Race The nimble Fowle as th' ayre it flyes around Flags his sick wings and sinkes vnto the ground Not long before to the remorselesse Skie In sillie Notes haue sung his Elegie The lucklesse Night-Rauens which vs'd to grone The death of others now might Dirge their owne The Snow-plum'd Swan as it did gently ride Vpon the siluer Streame sung forth and di'de Anon the Damp dares breake into the Walls Making a way by thousand Funerals Who can expresse th' astonishment and feare Which doth at entrance of a Plague appeare Euen so the fleeced Heard doth tremble when An Aburne Lyon hungry from his Den Breakes in among 'em then you may behold The pale-look'd Shepheard gaze vpon his Fold With helpelesse pitie the poore Lam-kins creepe Vnder their Dams the sillie trembling Sheepe Stand full of cold amazement at the sight Small hope for mercy and lesse hope in flight Expecting onely which of all shall scape The readie horror of the Lyons rape Other Diseases warning giue before That we may reckon and acquit the Score Of our sinnes Prodigalitie in this We scarce can be resolued whether 't is Sicknesse or Death it selfe so quicke it tries The strength of Nature so soone poore Man dies That many to repose in th' Euening lying Haue made their sleepe true kin to Death by dying Before the Morne Ah! who would then deferre A preparation for this Messenger Of bless'd or curs'd Eternitie What man Would still presume to sinne that knowes the span Of short vncertaine Life Yee gracious Powers That measure out the minutes and the houres Of this our wandring Pilgrimage restraine These sodaine slaughter-men or good God waine Vs from our sinnes that wee may neither feare The rape of Death nor couet to be here O curbe this raging Sicknesse which with sense Bereaues vs of the meanes of Penitence When a dire Phrensie seizeth on the Braine Full of resistlesse flame and full of paine That Madnesse which no cure can well appease Is but a Symptome vnto this Disease Our bloud all fire as if it did portend We were not here to stay but soone ascend When streames of sulphur through our veins do glide And scarce the sense of sorrow doth abide This time how miserable may we guesse Where want of sense is chiefest happinesse When the distracted Soule can scarce deuise How to supply the weakest Faculties Of the disturbed Body but presents Vnto the Eye strange obiects strange portents And antique shadowes when the feuerish rage Sets vs on Iourneyes oft and Pilgrimage And entertaines our wild and wandring sight With monstrous Land-schips able to affright A man in 's wits when the deceiued Eares Doe apprehend what ere the Fancie feares The grones of Ghosts and whispering of Sprites The silken tread of Faeries in the Nights The language of an ayrie Picture howles Of funerall Dogs and warnings of sad Owles The Tast distasteth all things and the same Is sweet and bitter when the inward flame Furres the swolne tongue the quick Feeling marr'd Knoweth no difference betweene soft and hard Such a confused Error doth distract The labouring senses so is the Fancie rackt By the dire sicknesse when from place to place The Bodie rolleth and would faine embrace Some Icie cooler but alas the heat Asswaging there ensues a Marble sweat 'Twixt Death and Nature wrestling then appeare Those deadly Characters which th'Ensigne beare Before approching Fate which notice giue None spotlesse die how euer they did liue A sicknesse comfortlesse when we doe feare To see those friends whom we doe loue most deare The Ministers Deuotion here doth sticke By leauing Visitation of the sicke Making the Seruice Booke imperfect when We see a crossed Doore as 't were a Den Of Serpents or a Prodigie we shun The poore distressed Habitation The Death as comfortlesse where not appeares One friend to shed some tender funerall teares Blacke Night 's the onely Mourner No sad Verse Nor solemne flowers doe decke the drearie Herse Some few old folke perhaps for many a yeere Who haue forgot to weepe attend the Beere Such whose dry age hath made most fit to keepe Th' infected without feare but not to weepe Whose kin to death made them not feare to die Whose deafenesse made them then fit companie Vnto the sicke when they were speechlesse growne A miserable Consolation But had you look'd about you might haue seene Death in each corner and the secret teene Of angry Destiny No sport dispels The mists of sorrow a sad silence dwels In all the streets and a pale terrour seizes Vpon their faces who had no Diseases So vsuall 't was before the morne to dye That when at Night two friends left company They would not say Good Night but thus alone God send 's a ioyfull Resurrection If two or three daies interpos'd betweene One friend by chance another friend had seene It was as strange and ioyfull as to some When a deare friend doth from the Indies come Throgh the nak'd town of death there was such plenty One Bell at once was faine to ring for twenty No Clocks were heard to strike vpon their Bels Cause nothing rung but death-lamenting Knels Strange that the Houres should faile to tell the Day When time to thousands ran so fast away Time was confus'd and kept at such a plight The Day to thousands now was made a Night Hundreds that neuer saw before but di'de At one same time in one same Graue abide That our weake Fancies if we did not hold It Profanation here to be too bold Might wonder what being strangers they would say To one another at the Iudgement Day Some by their feare to goe to Church debarr'd Anon are carryed dead vnto the Yard The Church-yards gron'd with too much death opprest And the Earth rests not ' cause so many rest And Churches now with too much buriall fed Fear'd they should haue no meeting but of Dead Death fell on death and men began to feare That men would want to carry forth the Beere The Bearers Keepers Sextons that remaine Surpasse in number all the towne againe Friends here kill'd friends womb-fellowes kill their Brothers Fathers their Sons and Daughters kill their Mothers By one another strange so many di'de And yet no murder here no Homicide A Mother great with Childe by the Plagues might Infects to death her childe not borne to light So killing that which yet ne're liu'd the wombe Of th'aliue Mother to th'dead Childe was tombe Where in the fleshy graue the still Babe lying Doth kill his mother by his owne first dying Her trauaile here on Earth she could not tend But finishes in heauen her Iournies end To others frolicke set vnto their meales Secure of Death slie Death vpon them steales And strikes among 'em so that thence in speed With heauy Cheere th' are borne the wormes to feed To some at worke to others at their play To thousands death makes a long Holy-day Death all conditions equally inuades Nor riches power nor beauty here perswades Old dye with young with women men the rage Of the dire Plague spares neither sex nor age Most powerfull Influence of ruling Starres Which with blinde darts kill more than bloudy Wars Resistlesse Famine greedy time or when The threatfull hand of tyrants striketh men Into pale terrour more than all diseases Ah happy he who heauen least displeases FINIS

SALOMONS PEST-HOVSE OR TOVVRE-ROYALL NEWLY RE-EDIFIED and prepared to preserue Londoners with their Families and others from the doubted Deluge of the Plague Item A laudable exercise for those that are departed or shall depart out of the City into the Country to spend their time till they returne A handfull of Holy Meditations vsefull and requisite for Gods people men and women of all Estates and degrees in these doubtfull dayes whether troubled in body or minde and whether Gods visitation of the Plague increase or decrease By the reuerend learned and godly Diuine I. D. Preacher of Gods word Whereunto is added Mr Hollands Admonition and Mr Phaers Prescription for bodily Physicks Also London Looke-backe A description or representation of the great and memorable Mortality An. 1625. in Heroicke matchlesse lines By A. H. of Tr. Colledge in Cambridge LONDON ¶ Printed by THOMAS HARPER and are to be sold in Greene Harbour by MICHAEL SPARKE at the signe of the Bible 1630. TO ALL YOV The Israel of God that be at London Cambridge or elsewhere beloued of God called to be Saints Grace bee with you and Peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 1.7 with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in euery place both their Lord and ours 1 Cor. 1.2 This comfortable Treatise is commended ⸪ To the judicious Christian READER BEloued The wisest Preacher of a mortall man and of immortall memorie that euer was or shall bee inspired with the spirit of God saith There is a time to weepe as well as to laugh a time to mourne as well as to dance And certes seeing euery man and woman vnder their owne Vines and Fig-trees haue a long time satiated themselues with laughing and dauncing or making merry with their friends doubtlesse now is the time that God calls for weeping and mourning at the least For hath he not shot diuers of his Arrowes and haue not some Bullets fallen from his warning Pieces which Arrowes and Bullets both poysoned with the Pestilence haue hit and slaine some people not onely in and about this populous Citie but elsewhere in the spatious Country also And who perceiueth not that the destroying Angel hath vnsheathed his sword and brandished it ouer vs of this Citie vs of this whole Land Yea the black Horse of the Pestilence with pale Death on his backe hath beene and is est-soones prauncing and trampling in the streets of our Citie at midnight And the Angell hauing wings hath flowne also into the Country and there done as before Now though the sinfull sonnes and daughters of men lie neuerthelesse still sleeping in their sensualites yet the vigilant Watchmen of our English Israel haue discouered both the one and the other That is the faithfull Ministers of the Gospell obseruing this Gods begun iudgement and further threat'ned punishment of the Pestilence they I say haue not spared both in Citie and Country publickly and priuately with feruencie to pray for vs for the preuenting and diuerting of Gods further furious Hand vpon vs and in their preachings with their siluer Trumpets to lift vp their voyces to sound aloud and cry downe the high-crying sinnes of this Citie of this Land Yea diuers of these worthy Ministers haue beene and are so zealous in praying and preaching for Repentance and Perseuerance that their throats are growne hoarse their bodies weak and their healths impaired In so much that vulgar Profanists and Carnallists of the time like as Festus once said of Paul are ready to say much zeale hath made them mad But howeuer for this their assiduitie and indefatigable labour of loue their reward is with the Lord and though the zeale of Gods House doe eat them vp yet they shall once shine as Starres in the Firmament of Heauen Among those reuerend Diuines one hath compiled this comfortable Treatise or to vse its proper Title-phrase hath reedified and prepared this Pest-house or Tower-Royall first built by King Salomon so many hundred yeeres agone before he turned from a Prince to a Preacher If any list to be curiously inquisitiue and aske who or what is the Authour this I. D or to question his attributes of reuerend learned godly Giue me the publisher his friend leaue to answer First that happ'ly his humilitie is such and for some reasons in his Christian wisedome he desires not to haue the Phylacterie of his Name expressed and it being so he is not the first of Gods people that hath desired his name to be obscured in a comfortable and vsefull worke Secondly for his attributes let me also answer for the first they that know him doe know him so to be for the two latter let his labour it selfe answer and witnesse for him To conclude Whosoeuer the Author is or whatsoeuer I the publisher am Know this courteous Reader that it was written and is published for mine owne and thy Christian solace and comfort now in a requisite time of a begun Sicknesse and Mortalitie the meditation wherof in our best healths will doe vs doubtlesse no hurt And who knoweth Yes the Lord knoweth whether it may be his Swan-like Song this writing mine For who can number vnto himselfe any more dayes or houers Lord teach me so to number my dayes that I may apply my heart to wisedome in labouring to make my peace with God And for my paines in publishing hereof let me craue your Prayers And so I betake you to God and the good Word of his Grace which is able in sicknesse in health in life in death in Citie or Countrie to build you vp further and to giue you an Inheritance in Salomons strong Towre-Royall among them that are sanctified Farewell in Christ H. D. A Post-script to the Reader SInce God began this yeere his Visitation and to shake his Rod of the Pestilence ouer vs I haue obserued an errour among the sonnes of men viz. They haue beene and are very diligent in enquiring after the weekly Bils of mortality and they that could first obtaine the Bill from their Parish Clarks haue acknowledged to be most beholden vnto them and I will not simply condemne this their diligence But come we to enquire what vse they haue made of this their double diligence and prime-intelligence If they haue found an increase of the number haue they humbled themselues in Prayer endeauouring to depart from their sinnes to trauaile to this Towre-Royall in the sequell for safetie Surely no few or none haue so done the increase happ'ly hath deiected them made them murmure and proiect to flee to their Country-houses here or there and peraduenture to send beforehand their Wiues Children and Houshold-stuffe yea very carefull they haue been are for this their bodily safegard Againe on the other side if they haue seene by the Bill a decrease in the number how many nay how few haue returned to God by the way of thankfulnesse for such his great mercy forbearance I feare and it

keepeth vs from the Princes court Let not feare keepe vs from the court of heauen Nehem 2● Nehemiah although hee held the cup to the King yet how fearefull hee was to make a request vnto him But as for you O ye righteous soules feare yee not O you little flocke for it is your fathers pleasrue to giue you a Kingdome Luk. 12. Further in time of contagion not only the court but also the other cities townes and villages will not often lodge them that come from contagious places either the Lord of the soile or the magistrate of those places forbidding it but as for that heauenly Ierusalem and the Lord of the liuing thervnto euery one may resort the Lord and magistrate of heauen doth not interdict it Dauid cried vnto the Lord and said thou art my portion in the land of the liuing Psal 142.5 At Rome the housen of the Aediles were alwaies open for all men that they might resort thither to haue their causes heard and so is the house of the Lord for the afflicted soules In some places there are appointed as I my selfe haue seene watchmen with halbards to aske the passengers from whence they come and sometimes to keepe out those that come from infected places but in our going to this place we need not to haue such feare for as Chrysostome saith Hic non est miles assistens qui expellat here there is no Sergiant or Soldier to keepe thee out If the cities of the earth shut their gates before thee thou canst not enter As for that heauenly Ierusalem it is not lockt and although it were prayer as Augustine speaketh is a key to open heauen to bring thee to the presence of God Serm. 226. detemp the Towne and Villages in times of infection although they receiue some yet they will not harbour many and often there is no place for multitudes but so is it not with the name of Iehouah with this strong tower it is not like vnto the bulwarkes of mortall men into the which if too many enter they will hinder one another this fortresse can receiue millions and millions without any impediment Further the temple is also interdicted to the infected for they are commanded by the magistrate to keepe their housen for a time or if they come they are entreated to sit a side but the Lords holy temple aboue in heauen is not forbidden vnto the infected nor to any man it is lawfull for them to go thither and pray and that with the successe of Dauid Psal 18. In my trouble I did call vpon the Lord and cried vnto my God and he heard my voyce out of his Temple 6. A place neere vnto the Citie Sixtly some make a choyse in the plague time of a place which is neere whereunto they may easily goe without any great trouble or cost the name of the Lord is such a place compendious to cut off vnnecessarie labours yee need not to runne farre the Lord is neere as the Prophet speaketh to all them that call vpon him neither will it cost vs any thing mony or merites intercession of friends or gifts Poore men yee that want friendes or money and therefore cannot prouide your selues a place be not dismaide behold here is a place which will cost you nothing It is a place whereunto we may go at all times at dinner time and at supper as Chrysostome speaketh in the day time and at mid-night in thy health and in thy sicknesse the sicke man may ly downe vpon his bed and goe vnto it and when with King Ezekiah he cannot vse the feet of the flesh yet may he vse the feet of the spirit In a moment we can flie thither for as soone as we haue finished our prayer we are alreadie come to this place and to the Lord of this soyle our prayer and God meeting one another in heauen as Iesus Christ and the woman at the Well Ioh. 4. As for earthly places whereunto men resort either they are far off vneasie to goe vnto and that with trouble and cost or expences sometimes we are stopped we must haue Warrants and Certificates of the Parish Church-wardens that our house is not infected before we can be admitted all this trouble we need not in the time of plague in our going to the name of the Lord nothing will stop vs the bodily plague shall be no impediment for wee haue a warrant that we may passe the King of heauen his warrant in the 50. Psalme Call vpon me c. The warrant of the infected and therefore this place is better then the earthly where the fearefull sonnes of men dwell which feare the apparrel houshold-stuffe yea and thy letters I know nothing then to stop our passage but the plague of the soule as the Lord of this soyle telleth vs in the 2. Cor. 6.17 Touch none vncleane thing and I will receiue you Obiection But I heare the weake conscience obiect I am infected with the plague of the soule and therefore it is not lawfull for me to call vpon the name of the Lord it is for the righteous as Salomon speaketh but alas I am vnrighteous and how can I therefore go vnto this strong tower The answer is Answer for thy comfort O weake conscience that Salomon speaketh not of them that are righteous by their owne righteousnesse but by the righteousnes of Christ Iesus such are all the faithful in whose mortall bodies the plague of sin doth not remaine their infirmities being healed by Dauids Physician Psal 103. If yee desire a certificate thereof you haue the Gospell subscribed and sealed by God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost If yee desire a witnesse ye haue a threefold witnesse The spirit the water and the bloud 1. Ioh. 5.8 7. A place where we may haue a Physician Lastly wee make choyse of such places where if need be we may haue good Physicians for we esteeme it a great miserie to be destitute of a good Physician and of meanes to helpe vs in our neede The place of refuge whereunto Dauid fled and wee also ought to flie following his direction hath the best Physician which is both in heauen or earth God the Father King Dauids Physician who hath both health and sicknesse life and death in his power to dispose of them for our good and saluation knocke therefore boldly with the hand of prayer and repentance at the gate of his mercie and thrust in his hands both thy life and health And thus much for the qualities and properties of the place To pray for others is also requisite Further we haue to obserue that Dauid went not to this place of refuge alone but with his whole family for he prayed with the Elders of the people for the people and for the deliuerance of his whole kingdome Herein imitate King Dauid remember in thy prayer thy whole family and the state of the whole kingdome the Tribe of Iudah and