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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

hart ô god thou wilt not despise Ps 51.17 you neede not then ô sonne of ADAM saith AVSTIN to seeke without thee a beast to slaughter you haue one within thee for a sacrifice pleasing vnto God is a contrite spirite Let therefore the bountifulnesse of God leade vs to repentaunce Rom. 2.4 and mooue vs to vowe vnto his maiestie the continuall sacrifice of a better life After the sweete raine and dewe of Gods blessing receiued bring foorth good fruite and not bryars and brambles Heb. 6.6.7 London thou mayest say with DAVID Psal 116.1 I loue the lord because hee hath heard my voice and my prayers when the snares of death compassed me and therefore ô lord because thou hast deliuered my soule from death mine eyes from teares I will walke before thee in the land of the liuing London heare the voice of Christ vnto thee Ioh. 5.14 Behold thou art made whole sin no more least a worse thing come vnto thee And as the Ruler and al his houshould Ioh. 4.53 beleeued after that Christ had healed his daughter euen so ô Rulers of London politicall ecclesiasticall Oeconomicall after that Christ hath healed you beleeue and shew your faith by your workes with your whole families Frame your affections to loue him for his goodnesse to honour him for his greatnesse to reioyce in him for his mercies God to vse the words of Lactantius desireth not the sacrifice of a dumbe beast or of death but the sacrifice of man and life wherein there is no need either of garlands or of fillets of beasts but such things alone as proceede from the inward man the altar for which offerings is the heart wheron offer vnto god righteousnesse patience faith innocēcy chastity and abstinence We haue promised the former yeere in our affliction these sacrifices let vs now performe them and not be like vnto Pharaoes butler promising Ioseph when he was in his affliction that hee would remember him but beeing freed forgot him Gen 40. If you haue not make with the new yeer new vowes vow your selues I say not in the world a virgin but a virgin to Christ Vow your selues I say not in the world a pilgrim to goe with the papist from place to place but a pilgrim to Christ Vow your selues I say not as the Friar in the world a begger but a begger to Christ And so much for the first kind of sacrifice The second sort of Sacrifices to be offered this new yeere 2. Sacrifices of mercie and liberality to the poore are the sacrifices of mercie and liberality which are to be offered vnto the poore To distribute forget not for with such sacrifices god is pleased Heb. 13.16 these are excellente Sacrifices Ec. 35.2 They are an odour that smelleth sweet a sacrifice acceptable to god Phil. 4.8 Shew thereby your loue your fidelitie to god to Christ to your neighbour As Zacheus after that Christ had looked vpon him with the eye of mercy that saluation was come to his house waxed liberall to the poore Euen so ô London after that Christ hath now looked vpō thee with the eie of his mercy that saluatiō is also come to thy house be like vnto Zacheus principallie you rich mē be ready to distribute cōmunicate 1. Tim. 6.18 that the poor may say of you for your well dooing as the Licaonians said of Paule Barnabas Act 14.12 for their heauēly speaking the gods are come down to vs in the shape of mē for by mercy we com● neer vnto god The necessity doth vrge this kind of sacrifice the pestilēce with wante of doings hath eatē consumed vp that which in a long time they had gathered The former yeer the fat kine haue eaten vp the leane but now let the leane feede vpon the fat Gen. 41.4 The common saying is that after a pestilence commeth a famine surely I thinke this is verified among the poorer sorte You then that are rich take somwhat from your bellies backs sacrifice it as a new yeeres gift to your poor brethren and honor the lord with your riches with the first fruits of your encrease Pro. 3.9 The mariners cast out their corn in the tēpest to saue their ship let vs to inuert the order the tempest being past cast out our corne to saue others As that wife of the sonne of the Prophet after the death of her husbād intreated assistance of Elisha 2. King 4.1 So many after the death of their husbands without doubt doe craue assistance of you 1. Sam. 20.7 As Samuell then saide to Saul whē thou seest these signes com vpon thee do as occasion shall serue euen so I to you beloued of London seeing you see these signes come vpon you fit your ability to opportunity doe as occasiō now serueth Aske the Harts and they will teach you they helpe one another to passe the sea or the riuer helpe to carie one anothers burthen as AVGVSTINE reporteth the tempest of the plague hath made many poore weary let vs therfore helpe one another through the riuer and sea of this world as the Apostle exhorteth Bear ye one anothers burdē Gal. 6.2 As those of Athens had a Temple of mercie in their citie into the which none might enter but they which had been merciful the greatest ignominie which could be done to a citizen of Athens was to reproach him that yet he had not entred that Temple and therefore euery one did striue to enter euen so beloued of London erect this yeare among you a Temple of mercie let the poore bee that Temple enter therin by the workes of mercie esteeme it the greatest ignominie that one should reproach to a citizen of London that he hath not entred the Temple of mercie Augustus Caesar thought that day ill spent in which he had not holpen some poore person euen so esteeme the old yeare ill spent you that haue not showen workes of mercie and now begin the newe yeare well The Papistes sacrifice vnto deade and dumbe Idols but you do sacrifice to the liuely images of God to those whose wonted nimblenesse of their fingers and agilitie of their bodies life-stealing age hath taken away And as DAVID after the death of Sauls son asked if there were any left aliue of the house of Saul that I may do him good for Ionathans sake When hee called to minde the benefits which Ionathan the Kings sonne had bestowed vpon him honouring him with his bowe his loue and preseruing him from the wrath of his father hee was moued to mercie euen so beloued of London and you the Elders of the people calling to minde the mercie and loue which a Kings sonne Christ Iesus hath shewed to you preseruing you from the wrath of his father and remouing the noysome Pestilence say as DAVID did in the beginning of this yeare after the death of so many Is there any left aliue of the poorer sort that I may doe good

the spirituall Plague so hath there been a time for the Raigne of the corporall Plague Let vs now farther vnfolde the flying booke that with Ierusalem Eze. 16. wee may beare our own shame The order calleth me now to the applycation of the two l●st mēbers which will stores vs with some singular meditations obserue with me beloued of Lōndon in the entrie of this New-yeare Note the thinges following The two preacher● of the last yeere that the Lord hath vsed the former yere two kinde of Preachers to mooue vs to repentance First a Preacher of anger and justice summoning vs by his smart-Preacher Secondly a Preacher of mercie So that the old yeere hath preached both mercy and iustice hath kissed each other The first Preacher is his justice which hee hath shewen in two thinges crossing vs two manner of waies First with the rodde of DAVID Secondly with cōtraries First the Lord hath chastised vs as it were by Retaliation a like Plague for the like offence according to the rule of the wise man 1 Gods smart Preacher wherewith a man sinneth by the same also shall he bee punished hath sent a diminution of people England thou hast had the experience of DAVID thou hast gloryed in the number of the people and hast long bene busie with a vaine Arithmeticke in the numbring of thy riches prosperitie housen c and therefore the Lord hath punished thee with a diminution of people and hath teached thee another Arithmeticke Thou hast bene busie with addition multiplication and the Lorde hath bene busie with Substraction and diuision Hee hath taken away thousandes and ten thousands and hath by the weekly Bils taught vs to number three things First our sinnes for them Secondly the diminution of the people therby thirdly to number our daies Further because ordinarie magistrates had not done their duty behold he hath sent an extraordinary Magistrate frō heauen to reforme vs feare him rich poore honorable contemptible this hath bin the Lord chiefe iustice Parēts Parents you haue also had experiēce of this because some of you haue gloried in the nūber of your children louing thē too much setting your harts vpon thē the Lord hath takē them away and made whole families desolate Parēts maisters Maisters you should haue bin little magistrates to your families which you shold haue purged but for wan● of this duety he hath sent another Magistrate Magistrates which hath purged thē because you had deformed not reformed your selues he hath sē● his Reformer Leu. 26. Merchants Merchants because you haue been more busie to pay the debts of me● then to pay a debt which you owe to God which is repentance which hee hath long required by his seruants the Prophets therefore he hath sent his Sergjants and Purseuants to warne and arrest you The Lord hath among the rest three Sergjants age sicknes and death● by the second he hath warned some of you by the third he hath arrested some you that ar● not yet arrested by death pay this yeere the debts which you owe to God before you pay the debt which you owe nature Husbandmen Husbandmen because you haue been more carefull to gather your fruites and to fill your barnes and that your figge tree hath produced euill fruite and your sinnes filled the measure of iniquitie therefore your teeth haue ben iustly set on edge the Lord hath filled full the cup of his wrath and giuen vnto vs his deadly wine to drinke The haruest was come and because our sinnes were ripe he hath sent a sickle from heauen to cut them downe and this hath mowens many thousands Gentlemen Gentlemen some of you haue gloried in the number and multitude of our lāds but what hath this auailed for the Lord hath giuē to some of you so much measure of groūd to the length breadth of your bodies as hath onely serued to bury them in or so many handfulles of dust as your bodies go into after their consumption SOCRATES carried ALCIBIADES bragging of his lands to a Map of the world bad him demōstrat where his lād lay he could not espie it for Athens it selfe was but a small thing The Lorde hath told you the former yere and yet telleth and sheweth you this yeere where your Lande lyeth so much measure of grounde to the length breadth of your bodies as may serue to bury them in This is my earth and his earth your earth therefore if ye wil glorie glorie in the Lord For why art thou proude ô earth ashes Ruffianly Swaggerers and Caualiers you that haue contemned the Lord and spoken with Rabsacs proude and high words alas a little Carbuncle and a little spot in the skinne hath cast downe some of the proudest of you al and as MOSES smote the hard rocke with his rod so the Lord hath smitten some of your rockie hearts with the rod of his vengeance and because your damnable othes Blasphemers haue as it were whipped and tormented the patience of God they haue also receiued a scourge for which they called for Worldlings Worldlings you had not bene a long time at rest the cares of this worlde had too much molested you and as the clocke can neuer stande still from running so long as the Peases and Plummets hang thereat euen so hauing infinitē cares hanging vpon your minds as weights vpon the Clocke you haue had no rest and therefore the Lord hath sent one to make you rest for a time and hath made you MARIES insteede of MARTHA that ye might not be troubled about many things but remember that ●●e thing which is necesarie The Lord graunt that in your weekely fastings through the whole Lande you haue bene MARIES and sate at the feete of Iesus with humilitie deuotion and reuerence Schollers children of the Prophets Cleargy men and also all ye inhabitantes of this kingdome that hath bene the subject a long time of your discourses but your profite benefices pleasures the glory of this world in the beginning of the former yeere of the tryumphs of this lande euen from Dan to Bershebah from Douer to Saint Dauies From Barwicke to the Mount court citie therefore the Lord hath giuen vs justly another subject to discourse vpon a subject to speake of our sinne our creator our permanent citie our miserie and our mortalitie If hee had not offered vs this subject we should haue forgotten him O what a happy time then hath it bene for the soule who hath not discoursed of this subject prepared and ordered his house The New-yeere being come forget not this subject thinke not as the Emperour OTHO did that it is a part of dastardy to speake of death Astronomers Astronomers because you haue bene more busie to behold the Ecclipses of the Sunne and of the Moone than the Ecclypse in your owne soules the worlde like vnto the Moone

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

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

to them for Christ Iesus sake who hath deliuered vs You that haue alreadie the olde yeare sacrificed let not your goodnesse mercie goe backward like the shadow vpon Ahaz Dyall You that haue not let not your hearts bee like to the clay waxing harder harder let them be as waxe and let them melt vpon your brethren Let the benefit of your deliuerance bee as a sunne to melt them Oh how faire a thing is mercie in the time of anguish It is like a cloude of raine that commeth in the time of a drought Eccle. 35.19 And thus much for the second sort of Sacrifice The third kinde of sacrifice to bee offered this newe yeare is the sacrifice of thanksgiuing 3 The sacrifice of thanksgiuing which is to be offered vnto the Lord according to the direction of the holy Ghost Psal 50.14 Offer vnto God praise and pay thy vowes vnto the most high for hee that offereth praise shal glorifie mee These are the calues of our lips Hos 14.3 And seeing the Lord hath taken away our iniquitie and receiued vs gratiously Hos 14.3 Let vs therefore offer the sacrifice of praise to God the fruite of the lippes which confesse his name Hebr. 13.15 Let vs returne kindnesse for kindnesse DAVID Ps 170. setteth downe 4. kindes of men which are most indebted to GOD for deliuerance frō perils One of them are such that are freed from a mortall sicknesse London thou art in the cōpasse of one of these therfore you the remainders confesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse and his wonderfull workes before the sonnes of men offer the sacrifices of praise and deliuer his workes with reioycing Psalm 107.21.22 Exalt him in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of the Elders Vers 32. Wee haue tasted the neuer stinting streame of his mercies what shall wee then render vnto the Lord for all his benefits towardes vs Let vs take the cuppe of saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord pay our vowes vnto him euen now in the presence of all his people Psalm 116.12 The Leaper beeing cleansed by Christ returned with speede to giue GOD praise LONDON thou art now clensed and with HEZECHIAH hast receiued health and therefore say with the King Esd 38 20 The Lord was readie to saue mee therefore we wil sing my song al the daies of our life in the house of the lord If the Israelits haue bowed themselues and worshipped Exod. 12.27 because the Angell had spared them ought not th● remainders in all duetifull manner extol the glorious name of the Lord Israel beeing past th● red sea hath song vnto the Lord Exod. 15. an● shalt not thou ô London hauing now passed those waters which were entred euen to you● soule Psal 96 say with MOSES The Lord i● my praise and hee is become my saluation I will prepare him a Tabernacle and exalt him O that men would therefore praise the Lord fo● his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men Psal 107. Nature it selfe doth teach thee ô London this kinde o● sacrifice it hath imprinted a thankfull affection in brute beasts and impressed it in senselesse creatures One horse claweth another as it is in the Prouerbe in token of mutuall thankfulnesse The earth receiuing raine from the clouds whereby her thirst is quenched returneth vapours vnto the cloudes againe and so requireth the former benefit The streaming Fountaines and running riuers receiuing water from the Sea send their waters again into the Sea in signe of gratitude The boughes and brāches of trees in springtime sucking their sap from the roote send it againe in the fall of the leafe into the roote to nourish it in winter season If nature hath ingraffed this affection in senselesse creatures how much more ought reason guided by diuine knowledge leade thee ô London vnto the due cōsideration of this necessarie duetie A●as wee had not deserued to receiue such a benefit and speedy deliuerance wee may then say with DAVID Not vnto vs ô Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name be this honour Psal 115. To what shall we ascribe it but to his greate mercy The Lord may answere vnto vs as Alexander the great vnto a certaine poore man vnto whom he had giuen two talents the poore man astonished with the greatnes of the gift vsing these words Most princely Sir I am not worthy to receiue so much to whome Alexander replyed I doe not respect good man what thou art meete to receiue but what beseemes mee so great a Potentate for to giue euen so God hath not regarded what wee most vnworthy creatures were worthy to receiue but what did become his mercy to bestowe and giue The greatnesse of his mercie then doth require that wee should sing the praises of God in the highest measure The cunning Musitian will not onely stretch forth his strings that they may bee heard but sometimes so that they may bee heard in the highest measure Such Musitians and singers of Gods mercie wee ought to bee this is the measure we must keepe this yeare vpon the Harpe of Dauid If we consider what cloudie daies haue gone ouer our heades and in how faire sunshine wee are set againe haue we not occasion to say with Dauid Psalm 92 It is a good thing to praise the Lord to sing vnto his name and to declare his louing kindnesse O let vs then with the best members and instruments wee haue bodies and spirits which the fingers of GOD haue harmonically composed praise the name of the Lord. Let vs not take without giuing as vnprofitable ground drinketh and deuoureth seede without restoring Let vs imitate Noah after the Floode in one thing and in another leaue him As Noah Gen. 8.20 after that the floode was ceased built an Altar and offered vnto the Lord so let vs after the deluge of the Pestilence offer vnto the Lord the sacrifice of thanksgiuing that the Lord may speake vnto vs as he said to Noah Encrease now again vpon the earth and replenish it But yet let vs take heede to surfet with Noah and forget the floode let the former iudgement which hath as a sworde beene shaken at vs for our sinne terrifie the whole Land Let vs not be like to the nine Leapers who beeing cleansed forgot him that cured them Little will hee yeelde which will not yeelde thankes which makes vs nothing the poorer Wee ought then to stirre vp our selues and with Dauid to speake Awake my tongue I will praise thee O Lord among the people Psalm 57.8 And as Deborah stirred vp her selfe Vp Deborah vp arise and sing a song Iud. 5.12 euen so O London stirre vp thy selfe vp London vppe arise sing a songe vpon the Harpe of DAVID Psalm 103 My soule praise thou the Lord and all that which is within mee his holy name My soule praise thou the Lord and forget not all his benefits let vs euery where offer vp