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death_n	life_n	sin_n	way_n	9,518	5	4.8304	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68989	Lord have mercy upon vs the vvorld, a sea, a pest-house, the one full of stormes, and dangers, the other full of soares and diseases : the observance from these, (though especially accomodated to the times of this heavy contagion,) fitted for all times : for all men, and all times are sicke, of the cause of this sicknesse : Lord haue mercy vpon vs.	T. B. (Thomas Brewer)	1636 (1636)	STC 3719.5; ESTC S242	11,491	24

glory of this City that nothing was seene but blacke no more of her brightnes no more of her splendor beauty than of the beauty of the heavens when the darke robe of night over-spreads it Lord have mercy upon us To particularize the calamities of that yeare were needelesse so few yeares have past since we felt it that in husband wife child parents kinsman friend trading or in o●●e sad thing or another many thousads yet living féele it And to make us the more to feele it God again has begun to strike us But like an ●noulgent father he yet hath bin pleased to strike us telling his stroaks by leasure and in that telling us he had rather affright than hurt us As I live saith the Lord I desire not the death of the wicked but that the wicked may turne from his waies and live Ezek 14. 11. For his way is the way to death but the way of the Lord to life and both eternall Lord have mercy upon us Heere God Almighty has strooke one there another there another and a great way off another this wéeke so many another so many one Bill rising another falling the increase bidding flye from sinne the decrease not to flie from the City a command to depart and asw●et invitation to tarry Let every one that calleth on the name of Christ depart from iniquity 2. Tim. 2. 19. Lord have mercy upon us The best flight we can make is to flye from that as fast as we can the farther the neerer to God Every punishment is an Arrow from the qu●ver of God Almighties anger and those aimed onely at sin from which if we carefully flye we remoove the marke and with it evade the danger Lord have mercy upon us My wish to the flight of those that flye is that flying they may thus flye and withall Gods will ever placed in the fore front of all our wishes that they may not as sometimes it happens at a shooting intending to runne from the arrow they see not runne under it and sinke where they seeke their safety Too many so have runne too many beene so over-taken L●t our prayers be one for another that staying or flying living or dying wee may all live and dye in the feare love and favour of Go● our Almighty Creator Lord have mercy upon us It is written of two of the Schollers of I socrates Euphorus and Theopompus that for their difference in the swiftnesse and slacknesse in Learning The one had neede of a Bridle the other neede p●aspu●re But wee had neede of them both every one both of Spurre and Bridle A Bridle to ●ur●e us from running so fast in those courses for which God Almighty pla●ues us and a Sp●rre to pricke us forward to those things that may m●ve him to spare us Lord have mercy upon us And enlighten our understanding make us see what we ought to see and know what we ought to know Which that wee may assuredly doe teach us O Lord to know thée and to know that to b●e able to speake as it is said of Solomon from the Ce●er in Lebanon to the Hysop that 〈◊〉 ●o it of the Va 〈…〉 ●o know all the Creatures and not to know the● their Creator is in knowing of all things to know noth●ng and seeming so wise to bee foolish Lord have Mercy upon us St. Austen tels us That he that knowes thee though these things he doe not know is a happy and a blessed man Hee that knowes thee and these for these is never a whit the more blessed but hee that knowes thee for thee for thy selfe the Fountaine of all our happinesse is happy and blessed for ever Lord have mercy upon us Teach us O Lord to know thee to know thee angry and give us grace to endeavour to please thee Following the counsell of thy holy servant Ho●ea in turning to thee O Lord that so having smitten us thou maist ●eale us having wounded us thou maist make us whole and in thy good time translate us from this Sea full of stormes and dangers this Pest-house full of Sores and Diseases to that Haven and that Habitation where there is no storme or tempest and where Death or Disease never entred Lord have mercy upon us FINIS

3. Man findes nothing in death but his workes and those he must carry with him Reu. 14. 13. The whole World lies in wickednesse Ioh. 1. 19. As vnapt to the doing or bringing forth any good worke as the Thorne to bring forth Figgs or the Thistle to bring forth Grapes In the confines of Life which is death the wicked man finds nothing but the weight of his sinnes committed and his hopes and desires preuented An Example of this our Blessed Sauiour giues us in the Glutton attired in Purple who in the mid'st of the vnutterable Tortures he had to torment him could not purchase a Droppe one droppe of cold water to ease him Lord have Mercy upon us The fift Resemblance In the multiplicity or Multitude of Eminent and Imminent dangers IN the Sea we all know there be maruellous and manifold dangers by Winds by Rockes by Shelues by Pyrates and the like They that sayle ouer the Sea tell of the perills thereof and when we heare of it with our eares we maruaile thereat Eccle. 23. 24. And so for the world which how full of strange Perills and Dangers the Apostle Saint Paul informes us In Iorneying I was often in perills of Water in perills of Robbers in perills of the Sea in perills among false Brethren 2 Cor 11. Periculum probat Transeuntium raritas ●t pereuntium multitude B●rn The Rar●●y of those that passe safe and the multitude of those that perish proues the perill of this dangerous passage The number of the first very small the number of the last very great Loue the world and it shall swallow thee her louers shee knowes better how to devour then secure for him with whom the ●a●es the betrayes Where bee the Giants where bee the Potentates the Eminent and Famous men of all the precedent Ages Gone All gone through this World through a world of Perils and Dangers Lord have Mercy upon us The Sixth Resemblance In the Multitude of Monstrous shapes that are in it IN the Sea there are many Monsters many Fishes of strange of Admirable shapes and proportions So in the world there be men in their nature condition and actions so strange so preposterous and monstrous they are monsters rather than men There haue bin found in the Sea Fishes that in all points are proportioned to a Souldier armed on Horsebacke And like vnto those on the Land are our Roarers ou● swearing and swaggering Companions alwaies arm'd to doe Murders and mischie●e Others you shall find which haue the face in the place of their feet and their feet in the place of the head And like those are our coue●ou●●oorders our greedy 〈…〉 ritious gripers and grinders of the face of the needy who haue alwaies this earth in their eye and Heauen at their heele seeing to kicke at Heauen and the Heauenly counsell of our Holy A●●stle saying Seeke those things that are above c. minding onely these things below For his God and his Heauen are his Gold and his Coffers and to these hee lookes and no farther Lord have Mercy upon us Others you shall find that haue ● Tongues And like those are many of our Advocates of our Fawners and flattering companions who have one thing in their words and another in their wills those Divels Choristers that sing sweetly but their Notes are honey and poyson The words of the double tongued man may appeare ●e be plaine and simple but they are not so They pierce through even unto the bowels Pr. 18. 8. Lord have mercy upon us Others you shall finde that have swords in their mouthes or the likenesse and resemblance of swords and so many men that have tongues in their mouths like swords with which they are still wounding the same and good name of their Neighbours Behold they brag in their talke and swords are in their lips Psal 59. 7. Lord have mercy upon us Another kind of Fish you shall finde that hath many ●eads And such are such men as are subiect to many ●●●es for so many vices so many heads nay so many Lords and Commanders Covetousnesse is the Lord of the covetous Luxury the Lord of the luxurious Pride the Lord of the proud and E●vie the Lord ●●t●● e●vious The evill and ungodly man serves so many Lords as vices Lord have mercy upon us The seventh Resemblance In the non-abiding or present and speedy passage THe Sea is no place of abiding no place to inhabite ordwell in but the path of a speedy passa●e of a swift and violent travell So this World we have here no place of abiding the Apostle to the Hebrews 13. 14 saying We have here no continuing City but wee seeke for one to come We doe or we should doe for that place to come is our Countrey We are here but lodgers and strangers and like to such we should not forget our Countrey and delight to inhabite strange places but delight in the path to that and kéeps it till we come to our City What this world is or the time of this present life Saint Augustine tells us Nihil nisi cursus ad mo●tem Nothing but a race to Death In which no man can make any stand neither is it permitted to any one to goe either swifter or ●●●wer than another The Race may be shorter or longer but the pace is to all men equall Lord have mercy upon us The Eighth Resemblance In uncertainty IT is not in the power of any man that enters himselfe on the Sea to kéepe in the course hee proposes and arrive at the place he wishes but many times by crosse and contrary winds hee is carryed to that place to which hée would not bée carryed neither in that ●●eane or manner can he came to the Port that hée would doe So in this World it is not in the will of man but in the will and pleasure of the ever blessed Spirit directing to arrive at the ●ort of Salvation or saile to the Haven Heaven It is not in him that willeth neither in him that runneth but in GOD that sheweth mercy Rom. 9. 16. And therefore we ought to pray continually that God would be pleas'd to guide us in the way that may lead us to him It is the counsell of holy Tobit 4. 9. Blesse the Lord alwayes and desire him to direct thy wayes Lord have mercy upon us The Ninth Resemblance In the Sapor Taste or rellish of it VAlde amarum est Mare The Sea is exceeding bitter and yet to the Fish that are in it that there have their increase and nourishment that bitternesse is not bitter but exceeding swéet and delightfull So the World in the direct and very plaine truth of it is exceeding bitter and distastfull yet to the worldling the taste is delightfull and pleasant Nay in such a plenitude such a measure and height delightfull that he can have no sence no touch or conceit of the contrary That bitternesse is onely swéet and in the things of this world flow all the