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A01801	The Kings medicine for this present yeere 1604 prescribed by the whole colledge of the spirituall physitions, made after the coppy of the corporall kings medicine, which was vsed in the city the former yeere. Giuen as a new yeers-gift, to the honorable city of London, to be taken in this yeere for the soule, as the other was for the bodie. Herevnto are intermixed, first, the wonders of the former yeer, his triumphs, two funeralls, two coronations, two preachers. Secondlie, Londons and Englands newyeers-gift, to offer vp vnto the Lord for his new-yeers-gift, containing King Dauids sacrificing after the ceasing of the pestilence, necessarie to teach vs the duty of our deliuerance. The whole collected out of the first book of Chr. ch. 21. / Made and vvritten by Iames Godskall, preacher of the vvorde.	Godskall, James.	1604 (1604)	STC 11936; ESTC S118768	100,652	208

it may cōtinue But the Arke of the soule riseth as these waters rise higher and higher towards heauen as also they did the old yeare As your afflictions then beloued haue beene 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so haue they also beene 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both sufferings and instructions Interpret them aright let them put a sensible and liuely feeling into your soules receiue them not as an horse or mule that taketh the branding of an hote Iron which they presently forget Bene pungeris si compungeris saith that hony father BERNARD It is a happy pricking of the body that maketh a pricking in the hart This kinde of affliction as it is reported mooued some of the Heathens to become Christians for in the raigne of Edward the third there fel a Plague in the East Indies which lasted seauen yeares which moued many of them to become Christians How much more then ought it to make vs deformed Christians to become reformed and good Christians If then tribulation come receiue it with thankes keepe it with patiēce digest it in hope apply it with wisdom bury it in meditation it shal end in glory and peace Further The portrature of a wise patient obserue the wisdom of Dauid the patient in the taking in of this medicine hee differreth not to take it in but as soone as hee perceiued that he had gottē the spiritual contagiō that the effect therof was spread through the land behold his hart smiteth he cōfesseth prostrateth himself Follow the wisdom of Dauid ô sons of Adam let not the oportunity slip let both the time cause perswade you As medicines for the bodie must be taken in Six motiues to persvvade vs to this vvisdome in due season euen so the Kings medicine for the soule Six motiues ought to perswade vs not to differ the ●aking in of it in due season First the coūsaile of the whole colledge of the spirituall Physitions Heb. 3.13 Eccle. 12.1 Es 55.6 Ec. 5.7 Ioel. 2.12 Eccl. 38.9 Secondly the vncertainety of the houre of death The experience of the former yeare hath shewed the truth of that Prouerbe As many daies as many liues They who one day carried the deade bodies to the graues were themselues on the morrow carried by others Thirdly the daungers which ensue Three dāgers if it bee not taken in in due season the dangers are three in number First delay doth cast our owne persons in daunger both bodie and soule the bodie in the danger of the fire of the Plague the soule of the fire of hell both of the fire of Gods heauie indignation To quench this three-folde fire wee must take in the Kings medicine in due season Secondly wee cast others in danger doe wee not see that our little children doe as it were suffer with vs and helpe to beare the punishment of our delay and procrastination Thirdly delay encreaseth our disease and lastly maketh it incurable It fareth with the plague of sinne as with a tempest vpon the sea in which there are first little waues afterwards greater volumes of waters and then perhaps surges mounting vp as high as heauen Or it is like vnto the breedes of serpents first an egge 2. a cockatrice thirdlie a serpent To preuent this encreasing take in the Kings medicine betimes Auncient woundes sayth IEROME are not cured in haste the playster must lie long vpon them euen so our olde festered sinnes can not bee done away with a dayes repentaunce The snow ball the more it is rouled the greater it waxeth the more sinnes we commit the more walls of brasse wee builde vp betwixt God and vs so that at last our cryes can not haue passage vnto him nor his mercyes vnto vs. The longer the blowe bee in fetching the heauier wil the wound be when it commeth And the deeper the arrow be drawn in the bowe the deeper it pearceth when it is let flee Sinne creepeth foorth like a canker if in time it bee not medicined As of the sicknesse of the body so of the soule there are criticall dayes knowne to God whereby he doth guesse whether we be in likelihoode to recouer health and to harken to the holesome counsailes of his lawe or not If then the lorde take his time to giue vs ouer to our selues and the malignitie of our diseases we may say too late as sometime Christ of Ierusalem O that we had knowne the things that belong to our peace but now they are hid from vs. As I will not promise so I dare not presume saith AVSTIN of euening repenters to make all out of doubt the best course is to repent betimes The fourth motiue are the impediments which will hinder vs to take in the Kings medicine if we slip the opportunity the first hāsel of time If it be differed to old age or to sicknesse two impedimentes will be in the way outward and inward First outward impediments thy wife children enuironing thee thy friends whispering in thine eares to make thy Wil and to remember such and such a friend so that repentance being differred will be either nulla vel ficta vel difficilis either none at all or counterfeit or very hard The other impedimentes will be the multitude of thy sinnes feare of death the terrour of the law the obiections of Sathan the accusations of thy conscience True is the saying of AMBROSE nulla seria penitentia est nimis sera sed rarò tam sera est seria No serious repētāce is too late but yet seldom a late repentāce is a serious repentaunce Yong men take in betimes the Kings medicine spend not the strength sap and greenenesse of your youth season your greene vessels with the liquor of Gods spirite and offer vnto him the maidenheade of your youth Old men take it also in due seasō differre it not to the houre of death for if you doe you treade vpon yee which if it be molten with a little heate of Gods anger alas you shall sinke into the gulfe of destruction Yong age trust not to olde age thou leanest vpon a brittle staffe which when it breakes the splinters and shiuers thereof will wound thee Both of you offer not the dregges of your life vnto god leaste yee drinke the dregges of his anger The common saying is true vita breuis ars longa life is short and the arte of saluation requireth a long time of learning Fiftlie your owne diligence beloued of London in the taking in of the bodilie Kings medicine in due season for the preseruation of your bodies ought to put you in minde of the care and diligence which you ought to haue for your soules You haue not differred to take in preseruatiues till the infection had wonne the vitall partes let the health of your soules bee dearer vnto you then the health of your bodies If these fiue mooue you not goe then yee foolishe sonnes of men to the verie beastes aske of them as IOB speaketh

vnto thee not the water of life but the water of death Adde also a good quantitie of that comfortable Triacle of hope with the consideration of the future glorie being sure that thy redeemer liueth and that thou shalt see him with thine eyes Iob. 19.25 Mingle and temper thus well together this patience faith confidence and hope and let the patient that is infected with either of them both vse to drinke this Kings med●cine often let all his life in health or in sickenesse be a continuall repentance and meditation of these things and it will expell the venome of his sinne of impatience distrustfulnesse and immoderate feare But if the filthy botch of impatience distrustfulnesse and immoderate feare doe happen to appeare then insteede of Elder leaues take a good quantity of elders examples the faith of ABRAHAM patience of IOB the hope of DAVID take my brethren the Prophets for an example of patience in suffring aduersitie Jam. 5.10 Further take also the Mustard-seede of Gods word Matth 13.31 with the excellent commandements admonitions promises and comforts contained therein mingle these together consider vpon them make a plaister of them apply it to thy sore it will draw forth the venome corruption of impatience distrustfulnesse and immoderate feare The Mustard-seede as PLINIVS doeth witnesse is both purgativum curatiuum it purgeth the bodie of euill humours and cureth the venemous byting of a Serpent Euen so the Spirituall Mustard-seede of the Word purgeth and voydeth the euill humours of the soule and healeth the venemous byting of that old Serpent the Deuill THE KINGS MEDIcine for this present yeere Collected out of the 2. booke of Sam. Chap 24. and out of the first of the Chron. Chap. 21. THat which the Apostles in the beginning of their Epistles haue wished vnto the Saints of God the same in the beginning of the yeere I wish vnto you beloued of LONDON for a New-yeeres-gift Grace be with you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ Let vs beloued beginne this present yeere with that excellent Prayer of MOSES Teach vs Psal 90. O Lord to number our daies that we may apply our hearts to wisedome That which is reported of the DOLPHINES in the enrie of this yeere may put vs in minde of the state of the former yeere they play most in the Sea when a tempest is neerest And haue not we the former yeere in the Sea of this world beene most playing reioycing tryumphing erecting our Arches and some of the workes like BABELL when the tempest of the Pestilence was neerest and when we least expected it the suddaine alteration which ensued preacheth it to the whole Land And as the Lord hath bestowed the former yeere vpon this Kingdome the greatest benefite which she euer receiued so hath he also in the same yeere sent the greatest Pestilence in our memorie which she euer felt And note this with me that as the Prophet DANIEL in the first yeere of the reigne of King DARIVS who was made King ouer the Realme of the Caldeans Dan. 9. vnderstoode the desolation of Ierusalem the royall Mother-citie of Iewrie which moued him to turne his face vnto the Lord by Prayer and supplications with fasting and sack-cloth So likewise euen in the first yeere of the reigne of King IAMES who was made King ouer the Realme of England We vnderstood and also saw the desolations of the English Ierusalem the Mother-citie and imperiall Chamber of this kingdome which mooued vs with DANIEL to turne our faces vnto the Lord with prayer and fasting which is the best Phisick to cure the Plague of the soule with the effect thereof the Plague of the body The Physitions against the bodily Plague haue prescribed a certaine remedie called THE KINGS MEDICINE so tearmed because a king of England vsed it in the time of Plague This hath bene the medicine of the old yeere great hath bene your diligence beloued of LONDON to follow this prescription and being ayded by nature and expeperience some of you haue taken in this Kings medicine to preuent the Plague others being alreadie preuented by the sicknesse haue taken it in to expell the venome and to be deliuered from that secrete euill and noysome Pestilence with what successe your selues haue had experience The olde yeere being past giue mee leaue to prescribe another Kings medicine fit for the New yeere so called because a king of Israell vsed it with the Elders of the people It is a medicine against the Plague of the soule fit for all times If PLATO could say Repentance that the life of a Philosopher ought to be a continual meditation of death how much the better may we christians saie that the life of a Christian ought to be a continuall repentance Although the Plague of the bodie bee ceased yet it is to bee feared that the Plague of the soule doeth yet raigne and continue in manie places both in the Citie and suburbes therefore as you haue bene diligent the old yeere to take in the kings medicine for the body so bee not negligent this New-yeere to take in the Kings medicine for the soule It is a medicine which wil cost nothing and as fitte for the poore as for the rich The Phisitions deuide their whole practise in two generall partes in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 preuenting Physicke and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 recouering Physick according to this rule The bodily kings medicine vsed the former yeere doth consist of two parts as it may be seene in the medicine it selfe which I haue annexed to this Treatise The first is for them that are not yet infected to preuent it The second is for the infected to remooue it The same medicine for both but with an addition So likewise the Spiritual kings medicine which I purpose to describe consisteth of these two parts It is a preuenting and a recouering Physicke necessary to preuent future calamities and to recouer the health of the soule All this hitherto spoken premitted as a Preface before we proceed let vs let some order in this our discourse and draw the scattered branches home to their roote I will vse the methode that Phisitions doe vse in their practise of Physicke shewing vnto you the cause of the sicknesse the medicine to heale it and the operation of the medicine And this is the methode which the Holy Ghost himselfe that wise Physition doeth follow in these two Chapters prefixed which I haue taken to be my text and the subiect of this discourse The words doe empty themselues into these foure particulars A diuision of the whole discourse The first containeth The Kings sicknesse the Plague of the soule DAVIDS sinne consisting in the numbring of the people verse 1.2.3.4 5. which I may call the Kings euill The second the effect operation and misery of the kings sicknesse the Plague of the bodie verse 14.15.16 with the outwarde cause of it The prouidence decree of

in the entrie of the New-yeere which are as it were foure Preachers to Preach vnto vs the doctrine of Repentance The olde yeere hath bene a yeere of wonders as fitly I may tearme it Witnesse the strange alterations like vnto the variable estate of the Moone As King AHASHVEROSH called to minde out of the booke of Records and the Chronicles the things fore-past Euen so call to your mindes out of the booke of your memories and the Chronicle of the former yeere the thinges which then haue hapned The Lorde hath visited vs the former yeere at diuerse times with foure visitations In the beginning in the middest in the ende Two of them are visitations of sorrow two of joye Two of them haue beene Funeralles two haue bin deliuerances and Coronations Two haue concerned a Prince two a Princely City These haue ben diuersly intermingled sorrow and joye haue followed and kissed each other Sorrow hath begunne the yeere joye hath ended it both joye and sorrow haue walked in the middest To particularize 1 A visitation of sorrowe with the funerals of a Noble Princesse The first hath bene a visitation of sorrowe and the funeralles of a Prince in the beginning of the yeere the Lord first visiting with sicknesse and afterwardes taking away that Noble Princesse of famous memorie that worthie instrument of Gods glory by whose sacred Scepter the faithful Protestant aswel we strangers as the natural inhabitants haue found a secure and fertile nurcery At that time ô the sighes of the righteous ô the cōplaints of the godly ô the feare doubting of many Spemque metumque inter dubij some fearing some hoping 2 Chro. 35 Then as IOSIAS was mourned for by all IVDAH and Ierusalem and IEREMY mourned for IOSIAS al singing men and singing women Euen so all the cōpanies and Orders of the Realme the Princes and the prophets plentifully watered their cheekes euen from the honourable counsailor to him that grindeth at the Mill. This began a little to mooue vs as it were to taste the medicine of repentance for the death of a good Prince is one of the Lords Preachers to make many at that time to pray vnto the Lord that hee would be mindfull of Sion and not permit vs to fall againe in the superstitions of the Antichrist This part of the tragedy ended behold there followed the second alteration the visitation of ioy and mercie the proclamation of a new Prince and afterward his ioyfull Coronation At that time ô the admirable ioy euen from Dan to Bershebah 2 A visitation of ioy with the Proclamation and Coronation of a new Prince from th' one part of the land to the other for this heauenly gift of a noble renowned godly Religious vertuous wise learned Prince a man after Gods own heart and vnfeignedly I may speak a man after our owne heart long desired and wished for in the hearts of the Godly subjects true professours Sorrow in the first visitation was as it were a heauy stone vpon our hearts but in the second visitation hee hath as it were sent an Angell from heauen to speake to the whole Kingdome Feare not In the first the whole land was as it were laid down in the bed of sorrow but by the second there arose a new Sun whose beames were comfortable to the whole land This then hath bin another of the Lords Preach●rs But hath this mooued vs either to continue or to goe forward in the waies of the Lord alas wee haue not altered the colour or haire of our heads nor added one inch to our stature since all these thinges haue bin accomplished among vs our hearts haue bene as the adamant that the impiession of Gods graces haue not entred And therefore there followed the third visitation of sorrow lamentation the deluge of the Pestilence the second Funerall The funeralls of whole families and the funeralles of a Princely Cittie which was as it were going to her graue if the Lord in his mercy had not commaunded his Angel to put vp his sword into the scabberd this was an other kinde of Preacher The consideration of the second visitation 3 A newe visitation of sorrow with the funerals of a princely citie had made vs to say in our hearts with DAVID in his prosperitie Psa 30. I shall neuer be mooued The Pestilence of securitie did beginne to raigne among vs I doe appeale vnto the words speeches of the inhabitants which then were vsed in the Lande and therefore the Lord came and mingled our joy with sorrow sprinckled a little salt ouer the joy of the country and by a mortalitie hee did put vs in minde of our mortality As Christ shewed vnto PETER and the rest vpon the Mountaine when they were in the midst of their joye and that PETER said Let vs make heere three tabernacles as hee shewed I say to them MOSES and ELIAS which were dead men Euen so in the midst of our ioy and glory when wee were saying It is good to bee heere and to make our tabernacles heere euen then he shewed vnto vs MOSES and ELIAS and sent vs a mortallity It was vsuall amongst the Egiptians that in the middest of their feasts solemnities a resemblance of death all trembling and shaking was brought and carryed round about to make them remember it to learne sobrietie Euen so in the midst of our solemnities for the joye of a newe Prince death hath been carried round about the Land that we should not waxe to wanton and forget the Lord. It is storied that when the Emperours were crowned the Sepulchers of dead men were shewed vnto them to make them mindefull of death euen so when our King the former yeere was Crowned the Lord hath shewen vnto him and to vs the Sepulchers of dead men and by the continuall allarum of Bels put vs in minde of death which mindfulnesse as CASSiANVS an ancient writer speaketh is a generall restraint from euil Let this Preacher beloued of London teach you that as IOSEPH of Arimathea had a sepulchre in the midst of his beautiful garden euē so you ought in the midst your prosperity felicity to be mindful of your mortal being The fourth last visitatiō in the end of the yeere hath ben a visitation of joy a deliuerāce frō the Pestilēce as it were a second Coronation A newe visitation of ioy with a second Coronation a Coronation of your citie the Lord compassing it round about with joyful deliuerāce Ps 32. Ps 103.4 crowning it with his accustomed kindnes with mercy cōpassion But of this more at large in King DAVIDS sacrifycing To proceed I told you beloued before that the Lord by the smart-Preacher of his justice and anger hath crossed vs two maner of waies First punishing vs as it were by Retaliation for our glorying in the number and multitude with a diminution Secondly by contraries 2 The second thing where in