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A12977	A sermon preached in the cathedrall church of Worcester vpon Sunday morning, Nouemb. 27. 1636 In the time of pestilence in other places of this land, and now published in the time of the visitation of that citie, with that grevious sicknesse, and by reason of it. By Geo. Stinton,	Stinton, George, b. 1599 or 1600.	1637 (1637)	STC 23271; ESTC S113491	15,854	40

in the twenty third yeere of King Edward the third AN. DOM. 1349. of which I may say as it is said of the hayle in Aegypt Exod. 9.24 that it was very grievous such as there was none like it in all this land since it became a Nation When as the words of our Historian are vix vivi potuerunt mortuos sepelire Tho Wa●singham there were hardly enow left alive to bury the dead and the opinon of many was quòd vix decima pars hominum fuisset relitcta ad vitam that scarce a tenth one in ten of people was left alive Iudge of it by what I shall tell you out of our writers frō but two or three places And first of all our greatest city then not neere so great as now London Stow. in which the Churches and Church-yards being so filled that they could receaue no more a new burying place there where now the great hospitall is was purchased and hallowed The Charter-house and therein more then fifty thousand persons laid and interred in the afore-named yeere In which in another city viz. Norwich in the space of sixe moneths even frō Ianuary the first to the first of Iuly the relation is that there died fifty sven thousand a hundred four persons besides * In quibusdam Religiosorum domibus de viginti vix supererant tantum duo Walsing vid. Stow. in Annal. religious persons And having told this of Norwich let me tell this too of one Town in Norfolke Yarmouth in which is but one Church yet at that time as a Table hanging in that Church hath witnessed seven thousand fifty and two were there taken away But to come to later times and fresher memory let me speake of London againe and to say nothing of the present condition of it of which we have weekely notice give me leave only to reflect upon that dismall time there about an eleven yeares since in which above twenty thousand Families got them gone escaping for their lives as the Angell said unto Lot Vers 17. Gen. 19. and as it is said of the Levite Vers 8. Iudg. 17. departing to sojourne where they could find a place And yet notwithstanding so many leaving that place died of the Plague foure thousand foure hundred threescore and three in one week I here think of the words of Samson when he slew so many at one time Iudg. 15.16 heaps upon heaps At that time there were heaps of Carcasses one lying upon another like dead bones in a Charnel-house and in that valley whither Ezekiel was carryed chap. 37.1 Thus beloved you see how the Pestilence although it walketh in darknes yet it destroyeth in the noon-day and then maketh thousands and ten thousands to fall Ps 91.6.7 It walketh in darknesse invisibly we cannot see the comming of it like the Prince of darknesse Vers 7. Iob. 1. it walketh up and downe in the earth from Citie to Citie from place to place It walketh I say yea more it flyeth it being the arrow that flyeth by day as well as that walketh in darknesse Ps 91.5 And that flying Rowle which the Prophet Zacharie saw chap. 5.1 and of which vers 3. thus saith the Lord of Hosts I will bring it forth and it shall enter into the house of the thiefe and into the house of him that sweareth falsly by my name and it shall remaine in the mid'st of his house and shall consume it Many have been the houses and households which this sicknesse being once in the mid'st of them hath consumed In the 12. chap. of Exodus v. 30. we read that in that great slaughter of the first borne in Egypt there was not a house where there was not one dead But we have heard of diverse houses infected in which have been all dead not one left alive As the Egyptians at that time said we be all dead Vers 33. so haue had many in many houses cause to say for as the Lord threatned by his Prophet Amos thus chap. 6.9 It shall come to passe if there remaine ten men in one house that they shall dye so may I apply and say it hath come to passe if there remained ten in one house that they have all died O the heavy hand O the cruell sword of God Almighty and of his destroying Angell O the deadly Arrowes of his quiver the poyson whereof drinketh up the spirits of men to speak with Iob chap. 6.4 Well might Moses say V. 7.9 Ps 90. We consume away in thy displeasure and when thou art angry all our dayes are gone and fitly may we say Thou in thine indignation hast striken us with grievous sicknesse and by and by In the Psalme in the booke for the fast we have fallen as leaves beaten down with a vehement wind But it is now high time to strike upon another string and to come unto what I proposed in the second place viz. The cause of the Pestilence in the land which I said is the Plague of the hearts of men c. The Marriners in Ionah in that mighty tempest desired to know for whose cause that evill was upon them chap. 1.7 being perswaded although being heathens that there was a cause for it extraordinary And Beloved when such an evill as this malum poenae an evill of punishment is upon us it is good and fit to search that we may know for whose and what cause it is S. Paul 1. Ep. 11 30. told the Corinthians that among thē many were weake and sickly and that many slept and dyed But there is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a cause for it for this cause saith he namely for their evill carryage and condition when they came to the Lords Supper When the Sonne of the Widdow of Zaraphath was dead what were her words unto the Prophet O thou man of God! art thou come to call my sinne to remembrance and to slay my sonne 1. King 17.18 Shee tooke her sinne to be the cause of the death of her Sonne and I may truely pronounce that which she spake of to be the cause of the death and slaughter of so many sonnes of men I may use the words of Solomon and most fitly say of the Harlot Sinne that she hath cast downe many wounded yea many strong men have beene slaine by her Prov. 7.26 It is worth the observing what you may find 1. King 16. concerning that wicked king Zimri who burnt a house over him selfe with fire and dyed But what was the cause of such his death It is plainly said there that he dyed for his sinnes which he sinned c. ver 18.19 In the pot of sinne there is death Thou with rebukes doest chasten man for sinne 2. King 4.40 and makest his beauty to consume away c. said David unto the Lord Ps 39.12 And I will make thee sick in smiting thee in making thee desolate because of thy sinnes said the Lord Micah 6.13 As the

plague of his owne heart saying Ps 51.3 I acknowledge my faults and my sinne is ever before me praying in that Psalme thus Create in me a clean heart O God V. 10. He knew his heart had been foule and had need of clensing and therefore prayed for it Purge me with hysope and J shal be clean wash me c. wash me throughly from mine iniquity V. 7. 2. Ps 19.12 and cleanse me from my sinne O cleanse thou me from my secret faults But to make short Let my exhortation be that of the Prophet Jsai ch 1. ●6 Wash yee make you clean put away the evill of your doings and that of S. Iames ch 4.8 Cleanse your hands you sinners and purifie your hearts yee double minded and to make use of the words Ezek. 20.43 Let us remember our wayes and all our doings wherein we have been defiled and lothe our selves in our owne sight for all our evils that we have committed There is one thinge more you know which I must needs say somthing of but now can say but litle which is concerning prayer and supplication to be made by Gods people c. They are the words of S. Iames in his last chap. 14. Is any sick among you Let him call for the Elders of the Church and let thē pray over him Is any infectious contagious sicknes among us Let me say too let the Elders of the Church the Ministers be called unto and upon and they must pray for the people according to the advise Ioel. 2.16.17 being part of the Epistle for the Fast-day Gather the people assemble the Elders let the Priests the Ministers of the Lord weep between the porch and the Altar and let them say Spare thy people O Lord c. and as Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron who were Priests for Moses and Aaron among his Priests Ps 99.6 and said intreat the Lord your God that he may take away from me this death Exod. 10.16.17 So it is the part and duty of the Priests and Ministers especially to intreat the Lord God that he would take away from the people this death and Plague and this they must doe according to my Text in his house his holy places and Temples As David said Ps 68.33 Ps 42.8 that he went with the multitude into the house of God so the Priest and multitude of people who are safe and free must goe together into the house of God and there make prayer and supplication unto him they must as the same David said that he and the people would doe Ps 132.7 goe into his Tabernacle and fall low on their knees before his footstoole and withall according to my Text spread forth their hands there and as the same David exhorted Ps 134 2. lift up their hands in the Sanctuary their hands as Davids were V. 6. Ps 26. being washed in Innocency before they with him goe to the Lords Altar and with those hands the heart being lifted up according to the words formerly cited Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens and thus with David Ps 5. comming into Gods house upon the multitude of his mercies in his feare worshiping towards his holy Temple both Priest people may say with him Ps 48.8 We wait for thy loving kindnesse O God in the mid'st of thy Temple and they may hope and be confident that although as David saith Ps 11.4 the Lords seat is in heaven yet with all as it is there the Lord is in his holy Temple that this Lord will as the same David was assured he would his Ps 18.6 heare their voyce out of his holy Temple and that their complaint shall come before him and shall enter even into his eares and that according unto the prayer of Solomon Davids sonne in my Text he will heare in heaven his dwelling place and forgive And as there must be publique prayer in Gods house so ought there to be private in our owne and in our private roomes according to our Saviours advise Mat. 6.6 Enter into thy chamber and when thou hast shut thy doore pray to thy Father which is in secret and according to the example of Daniel who in his chamber kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed Dan. 6.10 Both publique and private prayer are now injoyned by our Soveraigne and I trust it will prove a soveraigne remedie for the occasion Let me be bold and say making use of our Saviours words Mat. 17.21 This kind this kind of sicknesse will not goe out of this land but by prayer and fasting We know what hath been the effect of prayer and supplication and that at such a time as this The Lord threatned to smite his people with the Pestilence Moses besought him to pardon their iniquity and the Lord presently said V. 12.19.20 J bave pardoned according to thy word Numb 14. The Lord did smite them with the Pestilence but when Phineas stood up and prayed the plague ceased As we use to read it Ps 106.30 In that great Plague in the time of King David David and the Elders of Israel fell upon their faces and prayed for the people and called upon the Lord and the Lord commanded the Angell and he put up his sword againe into the sheath thereof as wee may read 1 Chron. V. 16.17.26.27 2. King 20.7 21. Once more King Hezekiah was sicke as it is thought and is probable of the plague and sicke to the death and he prayed unto the Lord and hee spake unto him and hee gave him a signe as it is 2. Chron. 32.24 And as we see hence what hath been the effect of prayer at such a time as this so we are told what it shall be and that by the Lord himselfe and that too answering this very petition of Solomon which is my text unto which you will finde the Lords gracious answer in the last mentioned booke 2. Chron. 7. The Lord appeared and said to Solomon J have heard thy prayer and if I send Pestilence among my people if my people which is called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seeke my face and turne from their wicked waeyes then I will heare from heaven and will forgive their sinne and will heale their land v. 12.13.14 from this Lord his Prophet Ioel hath assured us that upon the humiliation of the people upon the teares and Prayer of the priests the Lord will be jealous for his land and pity his people chap. 2 17.18 and the prayer of faith of Gods faithfull people shall save the sicke and the Lord shall raise him up c. saith S. Iames chapt 5.15 and therefore as he saith vers 13. Is any among you afflicted Let him pray And let me say for those among us that are afflicted let us pray for it may be the case is so with some of them that they cannot pray for thēselves Pray for one another that yee may bee healed Saith the same Apostle in the same chapt vers 16. It is the best office that one Christian can doe for another which S. Paul most frequently and earnestly desired might bee done for him and at the hands of those unto whom he wrot begg'd for nothing more earnestly then for that as doe shew those words of his unto the Romās Now I beseech you brethren for the Lord Iesus Christs sake and for the love of the spirit that yee strive together with me in your prayers to God for me chapt 15.30 And therefore as he said unto the Hebrewes chap. 13 19. I beseech you to doe this so let me beseech that this may bee done frequently faithfully humbly heartily Pray for thy selfe out of great necessity For others out of Christian charity Pray that thou maist truly know the Plague of thine owne heart that God would cease it in thy heart and that he would cease and stop it in the land Vse the prayer of the prophet Habbakuk in that chapt where he speaketh of the Pestilence ch 3.2 O Lord in wrarth remember mercy V. 5. that of the prophet Isai chapt 64.9 Be not wrath very sore O Lord neither remember iniquity for ever behold see wee beseech thee we are all thy people That of the prophet Daniel chapt 9.19 O Lord heare O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and doe not deferre for thine owne sake O God! Or that of Solomon in my text Heare thou in heaven thy dwelling place and forgive pray that God would heare in H●●ven his dwelling place the prayers her● made upon Earth his footstoole and that he would heare in heaven the prayers made in heaven for us upon the earth ●● Iesus Christ our Mediatour who ever liveth to make intercession for us By th● blessed Saints out of the altitude of their charity the Church triumphant for the Church militant By the soules under the Altar who cry and say how long O Lord holy and true O thou that hearest the prayers unto thee shall all flesh come Ps ●● Now unto him that heareth the prayers God the Father to Iesus Christ God the Sonne who prayeth for us and to God the holy Ghost be all Honour c. FINIS