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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

Harvest Shee labours and feeds while the Grashopper playes and fasts The slothfull man sleeps and does nothing or evill which is worse than nothing While his field and his vineyard is cover'd with Thornes and Nettles This is the field of the foole which Salomons wise man seeing makes a stand looks on it considers and from it receives instruction Prov. 24. 30 31 32. Poverty comes upon the slothfull man unawares and Necessity like an armed man for in this disease a man is thus dull thus stupid Before the enjoyment of any thing sweete we must sweat for the gods sell all for Labour In this Twelfth Roome see a Disease to which a meale a delicate dish or a Dinner is a bit like that morsell or mouthfull f●ll that we use to cast to a Dogge which as soone as he hath he swallows and presently gapes for another So this man he gapes swallows and gapes This man whose God is his Belly whose Temple is his Ki●chin whose Altar is his Table whose Ministers are his Cookes whose Offering is a Banquet and the smoake of that Banquet his Incense In the 13. Roome after such a gluttonous feeding see the Disease of Drinking In which you see a man without eyes without ●●ete without heart without hand without hearing or if he have the Organ he hath them not as he ought in th●●r vigor and uses And therefore to see a man thus that is with them and yet without them is not to see a man but in the place of a man a Mo●ster A moderate Raine does good makes the earth faire fresh and fruitfull but immoderate shewers deprive her of all these blessings And thus that earth Man with moderate and immoderate drinking fresh faire and fruitfull or neither fresh faire nor fruitfull in any of those things that become him Take heed lest at any time your hearts be over-burthened with surfeiting and drunkennesse Luke 21. 34. In this 14. Roome see the strange disease of strange and new fangled fashions let them be what they will adorne or deforme the fashion is the fashion and a man must be in the fashion The present fashion is a Doublet two inches too short and the Breech ten inches too long scarse halfe a legge to bee seene the wast so embraced with points and the knee with the young or spawne otherwise call'd sprigs or jinglers that old Buckle and Thong the Girdler is a thing that is seldome thought on and Timothy Tagge the principall man in the Parish I could from the Hat with the band as light as a Feather observe to the sole of the shooe and in divers places betweene them shew you other spots of the fashion but so I might stay too long and the fashion goe out before me For as if every new fashion made m● Gallant a very new man hee must weare out ten fashions before he can weare out one suite or he is not a man in fashion In this 15. Roome see that grievous Disease of Neglecting and leaving what our best Ph●sitian prescribes us and affecting and embracing what this Mountebanke World shall prepare for us Lord have mercy upon us This infection these Diseases and a multitude hard to bee thought on are still to be found in this Past house St Bernard saying Peccatum morbus est anim● Sinne is a disease of the foule And that the principall ca●se of all the Diseases of the body are those of the Soule which is Sinne take these holy places to witnesse 1. By one man sinne entred into the world and Death by sin and so Death went over all men forasmuch as all men have sinned Rom. 5. 12. 2. Behold all Soules are mine both the soule of the father and also the soule of the son The soule that sinneth shall dye Ezek. 18. 14. 3. Thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquities because thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee Ierem 30. 15. 4. Si● no more le●t a worse thing happen unto thée John 5. 14. 5. Thus saith the Lord of Hasts This City must bee visited O●pres●on is in the midst of it As the fountaine caste●●●ut her water so she casteth out her malice truelty and spoile is continually found within her ●er 6. 6 7. 6. For sin hath Fami●● mea●erly stalk'd among us Bia 〈…〉 s Mildews Catterp●●lers and the gréedily devouring Pe 〈…〉 1 Kings 8. 37. Lord have mercy upon us These and many other places doe most perspicuously demo●strate unto us the cause of these heavy Uisitations Sinne the disease y● Adam dyed of and so all the sonnes of Adam It cannot he time ill s●ent here to make a stand and a little to 〈◊〉 ●●cke to that heavy commination or threat 〈…〉 at this 〈…〉 re 5. And the better to fixe it upon our Hearts to observe it in these foure circumstances Who how what and for what Who threatens The Lord God of Hosts How As a man compell'd constrain'd and uecessitated by the multitude of Sinnes Transgressions intimated in this word Must This City must What Be punished afflicted For what Sinne Oppression is in the midst of it Oppression which was in the midst of that City is in y● midst of this even in the Centre of it and so in the Centre of this Kingdome diffusing shedding and spreading it selfe into every part of her faire and large circumference As the Fountaine casteth out her water so shee casteth out her malice c. Lord have mercy upon us For these and their spotted companions did the Pestilence that Tyrant in the yeare of that never to be forgotten number 1625. Arrest and Imprison in that Goale in which they must rot that enter so many many thousands of people sparing neither the silver head of the old man nor the golden hopes of the young man the strength of the Male nor the beauty of the Female Lord have mercy upon us For these did this Tyrant that neither feares the rich nor pitties the poore take the rich from his wealth and the poore from his want and make them in the grave companions Lord have mercy upon us For these did this Tyrant snatch the wife from the husband and the husband from the wife the parent from the childe and the childe from the parent the first be wayling the losse of halfe themselves and their beautifull Olive-branches and these branches their children the losse of that roote from which they received their being Lord have mercy upon us For these did this Tyrant make the Citizen flye the City to méete what hée fled in the mercilesse entertaine of the Countrie that undutifull hand-maid that insteed of taking to heart the heart-sicke estate of her Lady to the numberlesse number of her teares her groanes her sighes and unutterable measure of anguish added the matter of them all in the hardnesse of her heart to her miserable sonnes and daughters Lord have mercy upon us For thse did that Tyrant cast so great an Eclipse o're the

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

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 Sicknese LORD haue mercy vpon vs. Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson 1636. To the Reader PVnishment is the Companion of Sinne and although like a man and his mate they doe not goe cheeke by joule like a man and his shadow they doe for like that shadow it is still the associate of Sinne and dogges his most private retyrements though as seldome thought on as wee thinke of our worthlesse shadow That it is thus we see though not till we see it to repent it so bedazeled we are with the beauty lustre and splendor that is spread by the World over sinne and high-handed offences While on the other side it dimmes and obfus●●tes that that were it visible Vertue in his selfe hath beauty enough to attract as the Adamant the Iron all hearts to admire and desire it That we may see this and that that is Vertue and Vice as we should doe let us in this Picture of the World presented as a Sea and a Pest-house endeavour so to see as to know them and knowing them from thence learne to love and loath as we should doe This Lesson made perfect among us we shall not so misplace our affections so follow the World the corrupt estate and condition that followed the fall of our first Parents Adam and Eve Nor do●te on he● painted visor for shee drinke● her most bitter potion to them that make her their porti●n Bu● lest I too long keepe the sight of her vanities from you desiring GOD to purge our Soules from her pl●gues and our Bodies from the stroak of this Angel I conclude Th● Brevv LORD have Mercy upon us The World A Sea A Pest-house Compared to the Sea in these many Reasons Respects and Resemblances following 1. By reason of the Motion and Instability of it 2. By reason of Ejection or Casting out 3. By reason of the Creatures that are in it and that in their hourly devouring 4. By reason of it's Tearme or bounds 5. By reason of the Multiplicity or Multitude of Eminent and Imminent dangers 6. By reason of the many and Monstrous Shapes that are in it 7. By reason of the Non-abiding or pres●nt and speedy passage 8. By reason of the uncertainty of it 9. By the reason of the Sapor Tast or Relish of it 10. By reason of the Voracity and Insatiability of it Of the First The Motion and Instability of it THe Sea is euer flowing and ebbing now Eleuated now Deprest Continually swelling and falling So the world it is neuer still ●rat qu●et now l●tting vp another while casting downe Nay many times working these con●raries that is of E●altation and Depres●●on vpon one and the same in an instant I haue seene the vngodly exalted and Flourish as a greene Bay Tree yet he passed away loe ●e was gone I sought him and her could not bee found Psalme 37. 35 36. Man shooteth forth as a Flower and is cut downe Hee vanisheth as a shadow and continueth not Iob. 14. 2. Our delights are like Io●●'s Gou●d Now spread now dead While they are they reioyce vs as that Go●●d did that good old Prophet But gone like that which suddenly was and was not the pri●ation as much torments us ●ona 4. 6 7. M●●danc prosperity is a staffe of a Cane 〈◊〉 Reed it may seeme to be solid and firme but hee that shall rest vpon it or put any trust vnto it shall find what it is when it breakes when it hurts w●●r● it seemed to helpe and pierceth through that part it supported Isa 36 6. Among the waues of this Sea thus doe wee Rise thus fall vpon this Billow we Swimme vnder the next we ●●nke Now Flourish now perish as a game that the world delights in Lord have Mercy upon us The Second Resemblance Eiection or casting out THe Sea casts out her dead to the Shore so the world those that are dead to the world that is those that delight not in her sinfull delights and pleasures That know her delights to be lightnesse and her pleasures a path to anguish Attend to that of Saint Pa●l Wee are evill spoken of we are made as the filth of the World the off-●●ow●ing of all things even unto this time 1. Co. 4 13 Thus to the world and worldings are those that neglect the world Re●roach'd Reuil'd and Slaunder'd her Language the language of Hell and with such doe such Hell●●ounds pursue them If you were of the world the world would love you but because you are not of the world the world hates you Ioh. 15. 19. How unhappy are men so Beloved How happy are men so Reproved Moreouer spirituall men are not onely cast out of the World from her Titles preferments and Glories but suffer withall many grieuous and great persecutions The Seruant is not better than his Master they haue persecuted CHRIST and the Christian must endure persecution Lord have Mercy upon us The Third Resemblance As from the Sea so from the Creatures within it and that in their hourely Devouring IN the Sea among Fishes the greater devour the lesser In the World among men the Richer de●●ur the poorer They entertaine not the poore into their houses but the houses of thepoore entertaine to their owne possessions They Cloath not the poore but vncloath them they feede not the poore but vpon them God hath giuen them that they might giue and doe good but with that they should doe good they doe euill Not knowing that in Saint Luke 16. 22. The Rich man dyed and was buried but the Poore man dyed and was carried Whither into Abrahams Bosome By whom By Angels Oh Happy and thrice happy Beggers Oh wretched and thrice wretched oppressors Lord have Mercy upon us Wherefore doest thou looke upon the transgressor and hold thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more Righteous than he and makest them as the Fishes of the Sea Habba 1. 14. Yet in this vast Sea the Righteous man shall not perish but liue though the wicked devour him Even as Ionas who though swallowed yet lived in the belly into which he was greedily swallowed As dying behold wee live as chastned and yet not killed 2 Cor. 6. 9. Lord have Mercy upon us The Fourth Resemblance And that from the Terme or Bounds of the Sea are the Sands which we know to be Barren and weighty SO the Terme or Bounds of this world the end of our mortall being is unfruitfull and weighty in the burthen of our sinnes and offences What Fruit had yee of those things of which yee ●●e now ashamed Rom. 6. 21. What hath man of all the Labour and Toyle that he suffereth under the Sunne Eccl. 1.