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glory_n	lord_n	name_n	praise_v	7,539	5	9.1162	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15771	A receyt to stay the plague. Deliuered in a sermon by R.W. minister of Gods Word	Wright, Robert, d. 1626.; T. R., minister.	1630 (1630)	STC 26037A; ESTC S111767	11,917	29

for it is his mercy that wee are not all consumed But if that mercy bee abused then the wrath of the Lord is no longer restrained but euen from heauen it selfe from whence commeth the influence of all good blessings to the sonnes of men euen from thence shall his wrath be sent forth and when men poyson the Ayre with sinne then God will poyson men with the Ayre and the very breath of one man shall bee the baine infection and death of another which is not onely the going out of his wrath but the execution thereof the last circumstance in the Text. The Plague is begun and therein we shall doe well to enter into consideration not so much of the nature of the Punnishment as of the second thing to bee thought of in the Iudgements of God which is the hand that smiteth Wherein howsoeuer naturall men seeke out naturall causes as I haue said yet hee that sauours of any Religion cannot but say Digitur Dei est this is the hand of God himselfe so witnessing of himselfe Esay 45 7. I am he euen I which make peace and create euill Malum paene he meaneth the euill of punnishment naturall causes being no causes but onely meanes which God vseth to chastice the sinnes of men hee being the principall and the efficient of all iudgements The Scripture is both plentifull and plaine shewing in direct words That as all punnishment comes from God so this of the plague especially and therefore the Prophet prayed Psalme 39.11 Take away thy Plague from me for I am euen consumed by meanes of thy heauy hand And King Dauid acknowledgeth in his choyse that the punnishment of the Pestilence comes from the immediate hand of God So the Scripture calles it Exod. 9.3 The Sword of the Lord 2. Chron. 21. And the Arrowes of his vengeance Psalme 91.5 Fulmen coeleste the Thunderbolts of heauen and Bellum Dei contra homines as some doe call it no ordinary iudgement The reason because the sinnes that call for it are no ordinary sins For as the sinne here was no ordinary sinne So if the sinnes of our age though they be too common are no common sinnes but equall if not transcend that of Corah and his confederates of which at large in the former part of this Chapter VVho can thinke that a common death is a sufficient punnishment and not rather looke that the earth should open her mouth and swallow vp the offenders aliue and they goe downe quicke into the pit as in the 30. verse This Generation of ours being too obdurate and hard harted to be moued with ordinary iudgements Wherevpon the Lord is forced extraordinarily to punnish and as it were immediately by his owne hands For it is he that doth cast into the bed of sicknesse Reucl. 3.12 Iob the exact patterne of patience and mirrour of Affliction looked farther and vnto higher matter then Winde and ayre storme and tempest the Sabeans or Satan himselfe and said Dominus dedit Dominus abstulit So that we must learne not like beasts to looke after the Stone but after the right arme that threw it and not so much to seeke to flye the persons and the places infected as their owne sinnes which such an infection followeth For when men haue done what they can doe either to preuent it before it come or to cure it when it s come and the careful prouision of the Magistrate is approoued good and euery seuerall mans care not without good cause yet it s the Lord that must blesse the meanes of our safeguard and that hee may blesse let men say what they will there is no such Physicke as Prayer and Penitence thereby to make an Attonement betweene God and our sinnes For as God will be knowne in his Iustice so he will be knowne in his Mercy and hee will heare them that call vpon him faithfully For it is the grace of his mercy and the mercy of his grace that farre exceedeth all the grace of Herbes and Drugges all the vertue of Simples and Compounds in the World for the cure of those Soares that Sinne doth make To the obtaining whereof Let vs quickly euery man for himselfe and all one for another flye vnto the Lord of mercy by the feruent Deuotion of our prayers Let vs desire the Lord to turne our hearts vnto him that he may turne his Plague from vs That vnto our Prayers wee may ioyne our Penitence and with our Penitence the amendment of our liues that wee may thereby enter into a serious Meditation of our owne sinnes that haue prouoked his Wrath and of his wrath that doth punnish our sinnes acknowleging and that feelingly that the things that we suffer are most iustly due to the sinnes that we haue committed seeing hee that suffers most cannot suffer so much as he doth deserue In one word let vs desire the Lord of all mercy to be mercifull vnto vs and to giue vs grace to stay the course of our sinning that he may withall stay the hand of his punnishing That albeit he haue begunne yet that he would goe no farther but say it is enough That among all the blessing and fauours bestowed vpon this Church vpon our most Noble King vpon his right worthy Counsellors the whole State and his people hee suffer not the measure of his Iustice to exceed the measure of his mercy least we bee consumed in his wrath and brought to nothing in his heauy displeasure Spare vs good Lord spare vs we beseech thee For the graue cannot confesse thee the dead cannot praise thee but the liuing yea the liuing shall glorifie thy name in the multitude of thy mercies as we doe this day yealding vnto thy glorious Maiesty all power praise glory and thankesgiuing the rest of this day and for euermore Amen FINIS